Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Massachusetts

Re: Harassment because of children, threateing eviction

The landlord might even have a responsibility to

do what he did, and I have taken a case to court (for a victim of a window-breaking incident (and other incidents) by a group of really bad kids) saying the landlord had to do more than that -- in my case, the landlord should have proceeded towards eviction of the families of the bad kids, which they would never do.

In my case, the landlord just paid a lot of money to compensate my client and move her somewhere safer. The landlord may have been afraid of the kids.

Re: Harassment because of children, threateing eviction

My point: you have to keep your kid under control. Vandalism (even doing it with other kids) is good grounds for eviction, and what you call harassment, and I call threats, are really well-intentioned warnings.

I may have misunderstood your letter; if the "bad kids" were not identified in the letter, and there are other kids doing other bad things in the complex, I assume you weren't being publicly embarassed. I assume it's not what I would call harassment, and a single letter to that effect sent to all residents just isn't enough to claim harassment. Even you need more legal advice, and feel I've gotten this wrong, perhaps you should telephone a lawyer.