My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Maryland
Here is the story. We have lived in our place for several years without issue. It is two houses owned by an oldish couple who live on the property with multiple tenants in one house. Up till now there has been no incidents and they have been good landlords. However, this week one of our landlords started acting weird for lack of a better word. Then I get a call from my wife on a saturday night when I was out that she gets home and there are police and firetrucks in front of the house. She gets out of the car and sees one of our landlords being led away in handcuffs by the police. The then talks to one of the other tenants who says the landlord came to the door hysterical saying the electrical panel in the basement was on fire. The tenant said they didn't smell anything and the landlord was obviously not in the right frame of mind. They called 911 and that is what led to the police coming. I don't know what happened other than our landlord was taken away and there was no fire. The next day we called the police and all they would tell us is that there was a false alarm for a fire and an individual was taken to the hospital. It seems clear our landlord has some sort of mental problem as he had been acting weird that week. My wife was quite upset and neither of use feel particularly comfortable with a person with mental illness having access to our apartment. Do we have any legal recourse to get out of the lease. Unfortunately we are early in our lease so just moving and biting the rent would not be ideal at all but the police were called based on an action of the landlord.
Here is the story. We have lived in our place for several years without issue. It is two houses owned by an oldish couple who live on the property with multiple tenants in one house. Up till now there has been no incidents and they have been good landlords. However, this week one of our landlords started acting weird for lack of a better word. Then I get a call from my wife on a saturday night when I was out that she gets home and there are police and firetrucks in front of the house. She gets out of the car and sees one of our landlords being led away in handcuffs by the police. The then talks to one of the other tenants who says the landlord came to the door hysterical saying the electrical panel in the basement was on fire. The tenant said they didn't smell anything and the landlord was obviously not in the right frame of mind. They called 911 and that is what led to the police coming. I don't know what happened other than our landlord was taken away and there was no fire. The next day we called the police and all they would tell us is that there was a false alarm for a fire and an individual was taken to the hospital. It seems clear our landlord has some sort of mental problem as he had been acting weird that week. My wife was quite upset and neither of use feel particularly comfortable with a person with mental illness having access to our apartment. Do we have any legal recourse to get out of the lease. Unfortunately we are early in our lease so just moving and biting the rent would not be ideal at all but the police were called based on an action of the landlord.