Reply #4: There are times when the landlord should be responsible. [View All]

Viscious dogs are one example. If a tenant has a dog and it hurts or threatens someone, and the landlord is informed, and doesn't make the tenant either get rid of the dog or leave, and somebody gets hurt, the landlord should be held responsible. In fact, here in SF there was a terrible dog mauling case. The building landlord will have to pay damages, and should. A woman was horribly killed. In the case of nuisance properties, I think the landlord should be held responsible also. Of course if somebody has an arsenal in the basement, lives quietly and nobody knows about it, that's different. But people who are interfering with other's quiet enjoyment of their homes are the landlord's problem, like it or not.