Landlord–Tenant Law
May 27th, 2022
Suppose a tenant came to our law firm and said that she had just been locked out of her apartment by the landlord. She hadn’t paid rent in three months, so she thought it was possible that the landlord had a right to lock her out. However, she also considered it possible that the landlord couldn’t lock her out unless he first went through some kind of legal process – and she hadn’t received anything in writing that indicated that he had done that. So the situation presents a legal question: “Was the landlord legally entitled to repossess his property by locking out a tenant who failed to pay her rent for three months?” You do the legal research and find a valid statute that seems relevant and reads in part as follows:
