falsely accused by the landlord

Nikolay

New Member
Jurisdiction
Illinois
Hello.


Me and my wife falsely accused by the landlord of smoking marijuana in the apartment. They claimed they smelled strong odor by our door and issued 10 day notice to pay 500 $ fine or they null our lease. Nobody never smoke anything in the apartment plus we both were at work when they claimed strong odor was coming from and nobody else except landlord don't have keys from apartment. To top everything we don't really feel comfortable our landlord just comes to the door step and sniffs around without even calling and notifying us.

We think our landlord is trying to make us move us so he can get new tenants who will pay higher rent .

Chicago. IL

Please advise
Thanks
 
Don't be foolish enough to pay the $500.
Does your lease say anything at all about this?
You would probably be wise to start looking now for somewhere new to live. If the landlord wants you out he will have to go through the appropriate process. You have plenty of time. Don't waste it.
 
It does say in our lease about non smoking but I am not sure about 500$ fine. We won't be paying this for sure. Just wanted to see what rights we have here.
 
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