Articles — landlords

In my very first post on this site, found here, I wrote about the 2012 case of Benningfield v. Zinsmeister in which the Kentucky Supreme Court interpreted the state’s dog-bite statutes in such a way as to hold landlords liable for injuries caused by dogs that they permit to be cared for or housed on their property if the dog causes damage on the property or within immediate physical reach of the property. The relevant liability statute, found here, holds owners liable for injuries and damages caused by their dog, and the Court interpreted the definition of “owner” to include...

As Billy Currington so aptly noted a few years ago, "God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy". Few groups of people know this last item to be true better than landlords. For those of you who follow my Facebook page (Kentucky Landlord Law, found here) or subscribe to my e-mail list, you are familiar with an article I posted a few weeks ago about the criminal ingenuity of an evicted tenant in Spokane, Washington. For the rest of you, here’s the direct link to the article. The news wasn’t that a tenant was being evicted. That happens...

          The lesson from my last post was to make sure to name every adult occupying the rental unit in your eviction complaint. Today, I have a short follow up: make sure you take the names of the occupants directly from the lease agreement, and use the same spelling as is used in the lease agreement. Close may count in horseshoes (should this reference be updated to “cornhole”?) and hand grenades, but not usually in legal matters.              As noted in the last post, winning evictions is about attention to detail....