We live in nevada city, CA. This is in Nevada County. My husband and I have our prescriptions to cultivate/medicate with medical marijuana. We have a written lease agreement for the house we rent. We respectfully asked our landlords for permission to grow outdoor, well below the legal limit for our 2 prescriptions and over the phone they consented. They asked the specific numbers, which we told them honestly.
We then proceeded to invest in all the supplies necessary and brought them to our place. I called with one more respectful placement question and in this conversation our landlord again asked the numbers which we told them and this time they freaked out and said they didn't remember us saying that the first time and they were not ok with it. Now they are accusing us of breaking rules in our lease agreement and they are telling us we can only have 3 (between 2 scripts) and they are trying to tell us the limited option of where we can place them (in the shade). We looked over our lease agreement again and the section of the agreement they believe we are breaking states:
RULES/REGULATIONS:
A. Tenant agrees to comply with all Landlord rules and regulations that are at any time posted on the Premises or delivered to Tenant. Tenant, shall not, and shall ensure that guests and licensees of Tenant shall not, disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors, or use the Premises for any unlawful purposes, including, but not limited to, using, manufacturing, selling, storing or transporting illicit drugs or other contraband, or violate any law or ordinance, or commit a waste or nuisance on or about the Premises.
We don't believe growing a small legal medicinal outdoor garden (well under the legal allowance for 2 scripts in this county) falls into this category. We believe our landlords are imposing their personal judgement on us and also attempting to micro-manage our lives by telling us that 3 is enough for 2 people and that we can only place them in one location (undesirable conditions) on the property.
We have asked them to look into it with the local sheriff (which they refuse to do because they don't like dealing with sheriffs) and also to check in with their lawyer friend. We told them we would also look inot our rights and speak with a lawyer to get clear on where we draw the line for our right to grow, and our right to privacy. We will be having a phone conversation later today with the landlords and we hope to hear back from some educated people on tis issue before then.
Above and beyond all of this, we believe our landlords have continually violated our right to privacy on this property as they do not technically live here, but they come around often, and stay for up to 2 weeks at a time in a small granny unit cabin on the property that they never claimed they would live out of. They claim they are here to do "maintenance" which is an endless task on a 10 acre parcel of land. They do not give 24 hour notice before coming right up close to the vicinity of our house. They just asume once they are here they can go wherever they please as long as they do not enter our front door. But this sometimes includes working just outside a bedroom window.
We are looking for advice as well as any help to references for an agency that can help us to protect our rights as respectful tenants who take good care of the house, always pay rent on time, take responsibility when something breaks or is damaged, and create small impact on the property.
In summary:
Do our landlords have a right to tell us we cannot grow, or to decide how few we need for 2 people (they are not doctors)?
Do our landlords have the right to tell us we cannot use our established fenced garden space or other desirable sunny spots to cultivate our legal garden?
Who can we call for help for minimal or no charge to help us establish legal boundaries that our landlords can't violate?
We then proceeded to invest in all the supplies necessary and brought them to our place. I called with one more respectful placement question and in this conversation our landlord again asked the numbers which we told them and this time they freaked out and said they didn't remember us saying that the first time and they were not ok with it. Now they are accusing us of breaking rules in our lease agreement and they are telling us we can only have 3 (between 2 scripts) and they are trying to tell us the limited option of where we can place them (in the shade). We looked over our lease agreement again and the section of the agreement they believe we are breaking states:
RULES/REGULATIONS:
A. Tenant agrees to comply with all Landlord rules and regulations that are at any time posted on the Premises or delivered to Tenant. Tenant, shall not, and shall ensure that guests and licensees of Tenant shall not, disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors, or use the Premises for any unlawful purposes, including, but not limited to, using, manufacturing, selling, storing or transporting illicit drugs or other contraband, or violate any law or ordinance, or commit a waste or nuisance on or about the Premises.
We don't believe growing a small legal medicinal outdoor garden (well under the legal allowance for 2 scripts in this county) falls into this category. We believe our landlords are imposing their personal judgement on us and also attempting to micro-manage our lives by telling us that 3 is enough for 2 people and that we can only place them in one location (undesirable conditions) on the property.
We have asked them to look into it with the local sheriff (which they refuse to do because they don't like dealing with sheriffs) and also to check in with their lawyer friend. We told them we would also look inot our rights and speak with a lawyer to get clear on where we draw the line for our right to grow, and our right to privacy. We will be having a phone conversation later today with the landlords and we hope to hear back from some educated people on tis issue before then.
Above and beyond all of this, we believe our landlords have continually violated our right to privacy on this property as they do not technically live here, but they come around often, and stay for up to 2 weeks at a time in a small granny unit cabin on the property that they never claimed they would live out of. They claim they are here to do "maintenance" which is an endless task on a 10 acre parcel of land. They do not give 24 hour notice before coming right up close to the vicinity of our house. They just asume once they are here they can go wherever they please as long as they do not enter our front door. But this sometimes includes working just outside a bedroom window.
We are looking for advice as well as any help to references for an agency that can help us to protect our rights as respectful tenants who take good care of the house, always pay rent on time, take responsibility when something breaks or is damaged, and create small impact on the property.
In summary:
Do our landlords have a right to tell us we cannot grow, or to decide how few we need for 2 people (they are not doctors)?
Do our landlords have the right to tell us we cannot use our established fenced garden space or other desirable sunny spots to cultivate our legal garden?
Who can we call for help for minimal or no charge to help us establish legal boundaries that our landlords can't violate?
