Property Owner Retaliation against Tenant

Retaliation by a Property Owner occurs when a Tenant (‘s), seeking improved housing conditions through enforcement of housing and building and safety codes, is treated unfairly by their Property Owner, and wrongly served with an eviction notice. Naturally, retaliatory acts are motivated by a desire for retaliation, or other unknown or suppressed reason only known by Property Owner. 

Reality is, by law, Tenant (‘s) have protected rights, and are enforced and upheld by local housing authority and local housing department. And it is unlawful for a Property Owner to retaliate or otherwise, as a result of Tenant (‘s) asserting, utilizing or attempting to assert and / or utilize any of their protected rights. 

Examples of tenant rights include:

•	The right to demand required or promised repairs;

•	The right to call and file report with the local building and safety or housing department inspector; 

•	The right to refuse entry to your landlord without proper notice;

•	The right to file a complaint against Property Owner with Consumer Protection agency, local city council, mayor’s office, local legal organization (‘s), etc. 

•	The right to assert or exercise any right in your lease agreement or in a local city statute, city ordinance, city code or court decision; 

•	The right to refuse to allow your Property Owner to make any material (or otherwise related or similar) changes to the terms of your lease agreement while the lease is in effect. 

•	In California, it is unlawful for a Property Owner to retaliate against the Tenant because the Tenant has exercised his rights, or because of a complaint to an appropriate local agency, organization, or local city government office or local housing authority or housing department and / or building and safety, as long as the Tenant is not in default as to the payment of rent. The Property Owner may not recover possession, or pressure or force, etc. the tenant to quit tenancy involuntarily within (180) days of the Tenant exercising his rights. 

Courts may even require that Property Owner to pay resulting damages, as well as court costs and attorney fees. The law is to protect Tenant’s from Property Owner retaliation.
Property Owner cannot issue an eviction notice "based upon untrue, and unproven facts which the Property Owner has no concrete, solid evidence, nor real, honest cause or belief to be true or misleading", with conflicts with Tenant protection rights that are granted in the State of California constitution, as the tenant has the legal right to sue Property Owner, etc, misc. for malicious prosecution, and therefore the court in turn can order and require that Property Owner pay’s resulting damages, as well as court costs and attorney fees.
Respectfully, Jeffrey Morris