Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Cmty., LLC, 901 F.3d 856 (2018)
- Citation
- Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Cmty., LLC, 901 F.3d 856 (2018)
- Parent Document
- Wetzel v. Glen St. Andrew Living Cmty., LLC, 901 F.3d 856 (2018)
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal)
- Effective Date
- 2018-08-27
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Full Text
1,721 charsIf liability is possible here, St. Andrew warns, then landlords may just renounce control of the premises altogether. But unless the rental unit is a detached, single-family dwelling, such total abandonment is not a practical possibility. St. Andrew itself had a common living area, a common dining area, common laundry facilities, and hallways. It is hard to believe that a total disclaimer of liability would be in its own best interest. In addition, contract law is not the exclusive source of a landlord's duties or powers. Property law governs landlord-tenant relations as well. A landlord typically must provide its tenants a residence that is free from "interfer[ence] with a permissible use of the leased property by the tenant." RESTATEMENT ( SECOND ) OF PROP .: LAND . & TEN . § 6.1. The obligation is breached even if a third party causes the interference, so long as the disturbance was "performed on property in which the landlord has an interest" and the "conduct could be legally controlled by [the landlord]." Id. § 6.1 cmt. d. Inherent powers spring from that obligation. Cf. id. § 6.1 cmt. d, illus. 10-11 (illustrating that a landlord breaches its obligation to a tenant if the landlord fails to act after learning that conduct performed on the owned property interferes with the tenant's permissible use of the leased property). And if need be, there is always the right of exclusion, which is *866"[o]ne of the main rights attaching to property." Byrd v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 138 S.Ct. 1518, 1527, 200 L.Ed.2d 805 (2018) (citing 2 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ch. 1). The same kinds of steps we already mentioned could have been justified as a matter of property law.