EOC - Week 7 - What are the Landlords' Rights?

Although the land lords in the film was very restricted on what they could do to remove the trespasser, in real life circumstances, there are several steps they could have done to remedy their problem. For one instance, Carter Hayes enter the building without permission making him a trespasser and because he wasn not the real owner and was not properly leased, Drake Goodman could have easily removed him from the the property and even sue him for damaging his property. But for the movie and Hollywood sake, the story had ben embelished a bit. Never the less, another problem occurred the building was getting infested with pest. Because Goodman didn’t take action to effectively remove the pest problem at the source, making the building a danger to public health and safety and putting his tenants at risk which they could ultimately sue him for not doing his duty as land lord. In the beginning of the movie when they were filling out the paper works to purchase the house, they both embelished on several things like their income and Drake Goodman said that, “Everyone embelished a little. It is expected.”(Pacific Heights 1990). He could be sued for fraud for lying about his income and other information he made up. I think if he new his rights more and it was in a real life situation, he would have had an easier time removing Cater Hayes off his property. I thought it was pretty stupid that they could not do anything because possession is nine tenths of the law and Hayes was defending his possession. Ha! If they took the time to find out the duties and rights of being a home owner, they would not be in the situation they were in when decided to take the risky opportunity.