Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota

Retaliation? or Not?
My landlord and I ended up in court on March 15th over an escrow account that I had filed. I had filed the account to try and get my landlord to make repairs to the property, that he was notified of in January. We had a fact hearing on March 22nd, right after the fact hearing, my roommate and I were served with papers of ''Intent of non-renewal of the lease.'' Our lease is up at the end of April, in our lease it states that he may give a 30-day notice to us to leave. Ever since I have filed for court I have gotten several phone calls from my landlords office, saying if we don't drop the court case that they will not renew our lease. A few of those conversations were recorded as that was what I was advised to do. Is this retaliation? How do I go about fighting it?

Asked on 3/24/05, 12:14 pm

David Anderson Anderson Business Law LLC

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Re: Retaliation? or Not?

You can take 2 approaches:

1) Stay and wait for the UD, then raise retaliation as a defense./

2) Bring an action for declaratory relief, or in advance threaten it by letter.

I guess the main idea is, what is your goal?

To stay or have the repairs made?

I would be happy to discuss further with you.

I have been a landlord for 25 years, and was co-author of the MN Multi-Housing Assn landlord handbook.

Answered on 3/24/05, 5:49 pm

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