Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota

Re: tenants drug selling

Need to know city in which property located. Also what specific knowledge of criminal activity is in the hands of property owner.

I should also review the written lease.

I have been a landlord 25 years.

Re: tenants drug selling

Your friend is right to be concerned. Minn. Stat. 609.5317 authorizes the seizure of property if the landlord does not take affirmative legal action to evict a drug using tenant. She should review that statute and Minn. Stat. 504B.171. 609.5317 says, in part:

(c) Upon notice of a second occurrence on any residential rental property owned by the same

landlord in the same county and involving the same tenant, and within one year after notice of the

first occurrence, the property is subject to Previous MatchforfeitureNext Match under sections 609.531, 609.5311, 609.5313,

and 609.5315, unless an eviction action has been commenced as provided in paragraph (b) or the

right to bring an eviction action was assigned to the county attorney as provided in paragraph (b).

If the right has been assigned and not previously exercised, or if the county attorney requests an

assignment and the landlord makes an assignment, the county attorney may bring an eviction

action....