Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Pennsylvania

am a resident of Carriage Park Apartments, Chatham Park Drive, Pittsburgh, PA. I have been living here since November 2011

Currently I have an Illinois driving license and my car is registered in Illinois. Although I rent an apartment in Carriage Park Apartments, I spend almost 60% of my time in Illinois where my family and house are located.

I have been told by the Carriage Park staff that because of a recent management decision, I will need to register my car in PA. This will require me to surrender my IL driving license and obtain a PA driving license. As you can understand this will be very challenging situation for me, as I need to maintain my IL license as well, and it will be illegal to have two driving licenses.

I have tried to reason my case with the Carriage Park staff. Sadly, the staff has been very unresponsive and inconsiderate.

Question: Can a landlord deny a tenant the right to rent property and park vehicle on the property if the driving license and car registration is from another state.


Asked on 7/12/12, 3:27 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
John Davidson Law Office of John A. Davidson

I assume you're here on a long term assignment. So to keep cost down you rented an apartment rather than stay at the Hilton. I did that myself once. Assuming you are domiciled in Illinois, in plain English where you live, pay taxes are registered to vote then it would probably be illegal under Illinois law to register your car here. I say probably because you'd could also be breaking Pennsylvania law. I've seen doing things like that be charged as insurance fraud.

So tell them you heard from a real Pennsylvania Attorney and you're right they're wrong.

If they don't believe you give me a call.

{John}

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Answered on 7/12/12, 6:29 am


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