Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Washington
Suing my landlord or mental health place??
A person living in my apartment building tried to burn the place down and they told us our safety is important to them but they have not removed the mental person from the building at all.
My attempt's to find out what is happening about this, the mental health people and the landlord says they can not talk to me about this due to patient privacy information crap.
It is going on 7 weeks and nothing has happened. We the tenants live in fear of this person trying to do this again!
1 Answer from Attorneys
From your posting, your only solution that I can suggest is to file for a restraining order that keeps the allegedly dangerous and mentally ill person away from the building. In such court proceedings, you may also be able to learn more of the details of the person's mental health condition and whether they are in fact a danger to themselves or others.
Probably a good way to handle this is for you and the other tenants to get together, chip in, and hire an attorney to handle this for you. If there are let's say ten of you, that makes an attorney very cheap for each of you, if you split it ten ways. The more the cheaper per tenant.
Best of luck to you.
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