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Harassment by Landlord/or Landlord’s Agents
Harassment by Landlord/or Landlord’s Agents
Harassment is action taken by your landlord or an agent for them to deliberately disrupt your home life or make you leave. If they are aware their actions will result in you giving up your occupations right this will be a criminal offence.
If they are doing this persistently or do so in a threatening or alarming way you may be the victim of harassment.
It may seem incredibly difficult to stand up to your landlord when you feel they are harassing you but there are remedies available through the courts which can prevent them from abusing their position and harassing you. Harassment may be tantamount to an illegal eviction.
Examples of landlord harassment include;
- Allowing the property to fall into disrepair
- Allowing entry to or entering the property without notice
- Harassing you because of your race, gender or sexuality
- Reading or interfering with your post
- Shutting off utilities such as electric, gas or water
- Threatening you
- Withholding keys or changing the locks
Get in Touch
If your landlord is continuing to harass you after attempts to get them to stop you should get in touch with a member of our Housing Team at Duncan Lewis Solicitors as soon as possible in order to discuss the matter and enable us to take action to protect you from further harassment and resolve the problem for good.
We regularly advise clients on taking action against landlord harassment – and can also advise if the police need to be involved if physical violence has been threatened or the perpetrators have been verbally abusive or threatening.
If your landlord has been harassing you in any way – for example; your landlord is threatening you, your landlord is stopping you from accessing your home, your landlord continuously enters the property without notifying you or any other landlord harassment issue - do not hesitate to contact one of our dedicated Landlord Harassment solicitors in our expert Housing Department at Duncan Lewis as soon as possible on 033 3772 0409