All Forum Posts by: Aryan Strauss

I didn’t smoke or vape when I rented from my landlord who has a no smoking policy for his units and property. No problem, I go out to the city owned sidewalk and sit on the curb, off property. I always pick up my butts so their aren’t complaints or anything for my landlord to get upset about. I’ve been honest with him the whole time and told him I was smoking (bc I didn’t want him to hear it from anyone else) I assured him I don’t do it on property or in the unit and cameras in and out of my apartment can confirm that. Tonight he told me I needed to quit because it’s a non smoking unit and he doesn’t want to have to pursue anything bc he would have to drive 70 miles each way to attend court. What? I told him again I’m not smoking on the property or in his unit and he said it doesn’t matter, he can evict me for being a smoker. So my question is that, can he evict me, can he dictate what I do off property and evict me for smoking? He was pretty confident he can until I reminded him about my cameras. Then when I said if this needs to go to court(since he threatened it first) then that’s what we will do, he then nervously said “well hopefully we don’t have to.” Can I be evicted for smoking off of his property and at least 30 feet from anyones door?