Can an apartment manger ask me to leave if I have lived there for 6 months for a crime that I committed 4 ago?

Question

I plead no contest to a drug charge almost 5 years ago. Well they asked on the app. have you ever been convicted of a drug offense. Well I wasn't I pead no contest. Someone went and ran their moth to the manger and told her that I had that on my record and now after living there 6 months and not causing any problems she is telling me that I have 30 days to leave. Is she allowed to do that She had already done a backround check and it did not come up the first time.

Answer 1

Was the crime disclosed on the original lease application? If he knew about it before renting to you, then no, he can not.

If it's something that he found out about after the fact, and if it falls under certain laws, then yes, he can.

Answer 2

Yes. Basically, just because you did not contest the charges and go to trial does not mean that the charge was dropped. It is still part of your record and you should have disclosed it. Drug charges especially are off great interest to landlorsd and rightly so, since a landlord can be in trouble for allwoing his premises to be used for illegal acitivities.

Your best bet is to try and explain the circumstances to the landlord and see if he will be understanding.

Answer 3

If you lie on an application, the landlord can kick you out later. From what you say, you did not lie. A plea of "no contest" is NOT a conviction. Read your lease carefully, and explain this stance to the landlord.

If landlords kicked out every person who ever commited a crime, regardless of whether or not they were convicted, the world would be full of homeless people.

If the landlord's stance is that they're kicking you out for lying on the application - they don't have a leg to stand on.

Answer 4

you'd have to look at your lease, if you failed to disclose you had a criminal record on the application ( if asked) then yes,...

Check the covenants in the lease, reasons for eviction should all be there.

If you have no lease? Then you live there by the owners good will and can be asked to leave at anytime.

You may want to run this a lawyer being various states have different terms and conditions for mtters such as these.

Good luck

Answer 5

If it was a question on your application and you did not disclose yor conviction then you lied and yes, he can definately ask you to move. If he knew before you moved in then that is another story. He may be getting pressure from the other tenents to move you out. People don't want drug dealers or sexual offenders around their children

Answer 6

it depends on the crime. if its something that could affect the immediate property and tenants then yes, he has a right to get you out. HOWEVER. if it doesn't affect the building or its tenants, then no. he cant touch you.

say you purposely destroyed trash cans by fire, then he's gonna have you evicted easily. but if you set a car on fire in a parking lot 300 miles away, then no he can't really do anything to you. you may be a criminal but you're still a good tenant. if it was another tenants car then yeah he'd have grounds to get rid of you.

Answer 7

Pleading "no contest" means that you are NOT arguing the charge. In other words, you are guilty. If you did not disclose it on the application, its concidered fraud, and your landlord can indeed evict you from the apartment.

Answer 8

Yes if you did not let the apt. Mangier know about that crime if it is part of the intake lease information in your Lease.Where I live no one with a criminal background can live here.

Answer 9

Did you disclose your crime on the rental application? If not, s/he has every right to make you leave.

Answer 10

yes he can