My neighbor is the most annoying person alive and others living in the same building as well as myself have complained annonymously to the housing managers and finally got them to send her an eviction notice. However, the girl went around our building door to door, asking everyone to sign a petition stating that she was not a nuisance and had no cause for eviction. I know for a fact that some people, including myself, have signed from fear that if they didn't she'd suspect them to have reported her for eviction and damage the car or do something to them. Is this a legitimate way of obtaining a petition to avoid getting evicted???
2007-09-15 09:39:41 · 8 answers · asked by sarah 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The housing managers are saying that because of this petition, she is able to sue them if they continue on with the process of evicting her. So the B!@tch gets to stay...
2007-09-15 09:46:10 · update #1
If you signed it, you signed it. If you didn't want to, why did you? Sometimes you have to develop a little backbone and just say "no"!
2007-09-15 09:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, you all seem to have made a mess of it.
That petition is going to be entered into evidence at housing court, and unless a number of you show up and recant your signatures, that's going to leave the management with anonymous complaints versus signatures.
She's apparently annoying YOU, not the management. By signing that petition, you all let the management off the hook to give you a decent place to live, free from annoying neighbors. You asked management to fix the problem, then stood in their way.
Oh, yeah, the petition is legitimate. It'll be heard in evidence right alongside the anonymous complaints, and it's easy to guess which one will be more persuasive.
Better get used to her, she'll probably defeat the eviction if other tenants' complaints are the only basis for it.
2007-09-15 09:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just love people who complain and then decide to let "someone else" take care of it. You signed her petition so go back and sit on the couch and complain to the TV. All of you who signed her petition after going to management, deserve whatever you get.
2007-09-15 09:56:48 · answer #3 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A petition should not matter. Just tell management to delete your name from the petition. The woman used intimidation to get you to sign.
2007-09-15 09:47:06 · answer #4 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it depends on WHY she is so annoying. Loud parties and loud music is cause for eviction no matter who signs the paper on her behalf.
2007-09-15 09:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by midnitrondavu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not really a pettition it would be more of a signed statement saying she wasnt a nusiance. You signed it you'll have to live next to her. Paranoia will destroy ya.
2007-09-15 09:47:21 · answer #6 · answered by MyMysteryId 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Petitions are not legitimate or illegitimate from a legal standpoint. Erection is a legal proceeding. A petition is not.
2007-09-15 09:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think so.
2007-09-15 09:43:20 · answer #8 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋