Can my landlord come with the police to remove my dog without any complaints/ issues/ lease violations?
Question Details:
We are month-to-month tenants without a lease. We have had the dog 3+ years and at the end of last month we were given a notice that the insurance company no longer allows pets and we had until the end of this month to remove the dog or move. We had an apartment lined up only to have the landlord give us a bad reference which prevented us from getting an apartment by the deadline. Now they are threatening that if we do not get rid of the dog they will come with the police and remove him. He has never been a nuisance, and there are no complaints against him. Can they legally do this?
Landlord / Tenant Law Answers
No, they cannot come with the police to remove the dog; the police do not get involved in purely civil matters (e.g. disputes between landlords and tenants), so unless the dog has attacked someone, where is no reason for the police to intervene. However, what the landlord can do is evict you: if you are on a month-to-month lease, the landlord may give you 30 days notice terminating your tenancy, for any reason. If you do not then leave, the landlord can bring an eviction action against you for illegally holding over.
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