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I once discovered by looking through a court docket and corresponding case files that an individual had filed several lawsuits against me, that had never been served.The suits were eviction suits for failure to pay rent. There were several issues:I had always paid rent in a timely manner directly to the owner of the property.The individual filing the suits was not the owner of the property.The judge rejected the suits before they were served because he/she didn’t accept the power of attorney as valid. The individual who was filing the suits, claimed to have a power of attorney from the owner of the property.In response, I filed a suit against the actual owner of the property, requesting that I pay the rent to the Court, and thereby avoid any questions over whether the rent was paid. An order to that effect was issue by the Court.For me, that was a very odd concept. A suit against your landlord so you could pay your rent! What was even more surprising, is that the Court had a special bank account for those kinds of payments. The bank had a special line for people making those kinds of payments. That was always a very long line! It would always be a minimum of an hour wait!Quite some time later (maybe upwards of a year), I found out that the property had been sold by the same individual who had tried to evict me, using a “power of attorney”.Edit: I should add that was in Costa Rica, and harassment from that individual is what led me to be looking through the court docket.

This happened about 13 years ago.I was about 6 months into a 12 month lease when the real estate agency (who managed the property for the owner) informed me the flat I lived in was going up for sale. The owner wanted as many open houses as possible.No problem, so for about 6 weeks, every Saturday for an hour I’d leave the flat so the agent could show potential buyers through. Sometimes I’d even get a call during the week asking if he could bring someone around (legally I only had to give a reasonable amount of access and he had to get my permission in writing 24 hours prior from memory).Every time I got home after a hone open, every light in the place would be on.After 6 weeks I spoke to the agent and said I was giving well above the access required and I thought there should be a bit of thanks, maybe $10 a week less in rent perhaps while this was going on, to make up for increased electric use and the inconvenience to me.The agent agreed but the owner didn’t.So, I told them they could have 30 minutes every other weekend and I took the fuse out of the electrical box so they couldn’t turn the lights on (petty but satisfying).About a month later the flat sold. I still had something like 3 months on my lease but the new owner wanted me out. So she offered to ‘let’ me break my lease. Nah I’m good thanks.So I was asked what I would be willing to accept to leave early. I really didn’t want to leave early tho, as it would be super inconvenient to me. So I said I wanted the bond and first month rent for a new place plus the new owner to pay for my removal cost. She completely refused (shock, horror, lol), her only offer in return…$100.The real estate agent and I just about wet ourselves laughing.So I stayed until my lease was up.As an added insult within a few days of the sale the new owner changed her address so all her mail was coming to my place. As the real estate agent was only in the next street from work I dropped in it to them for 2 weeks and asked the agent to tell her it wasn’t acceptable. For the 2 weeks after that I left her mail on top of the letterbox. After that I put return to sender not at this address.Oh and the agent agreed with me and gave me a fabulous referral for the next property I rented.

Your question proceeds from an incorrect premise. Growing marijuana is illegal everywhere in the United States. The possession of marijuana is illegal everywhere in the United States. It’s a federal crime. The fact that the state where you live may have decriminalized marijuana possession does not affect its status under federal law one whit.Even if the possession of marijuana were legal where you live — which it isn’t — your landlord would still be able to prohibit you from growing it in your apartment. Just because something’s legal doesn’t mean your landlord has to permit it. Landlords have the legal right to place reasonable restrictions on the use of their property. If you will take a minute to read your lease, I have no doubt that you will find language in it that prohibits you from engaging in at least a dozen otherwise lawful activities while you are a tenant in that apartment. These restrictions probably include things like:Restrictions on the number of pets you can haveNo pets larger than a certain sizeRules about the kind of things you can store on your balconyRestrictions on the volume you can play your music after 10:00 pmNo subletting the apartment without the landlord’s written permissionRestrictions on the number and frequency of overnight guests you can haveNo painting the apartmentNo changing the carpetNo knocking holes in the walls or making other structural changesNo running a business out of your apartmentYou’re not the one who gets to decide whether your marijuana plants are causing no harm to the owner of the property. The owner of the property gets to make that decision.Your landlord could reasonably believe the fact that its property could be seized by the federal government if marijuana is being grown on the premises constitutes harm to the property owner.Your landlord could reasonably believe the fact that growing marijuana on the premises significantly increases the statistical likelihood your apartment will be the target of a break-in or other criminal activity constitutes harm to the property owner.Your landlord could reasonably believe the fact that transporting marijuana plants to and from your apartment necessarily means that you will be carrying them through the apartment’s common areas will make it more difficult to rent other apartments in the complex to desirable tenants, and thus constitutes harm to the property owner.You don’t have the legal right to impose these risks on an unwilling property owner. The landlord absolutely has the right to prohibit you from possessing marijuana in the apartment you rent.