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My 87 year old father-in-law owns a 2 family house and lives upstairs. I live about an hour away. He is planning on moving soon and turning his reverse mortgage house back to the bank. He has rented the downstairs apartment to a series of bad tenants. He is also in frail health and exhibiting signs of dementia. The family feels that he is too old to be a landlord and he is on a waiting list for elderly housing in my town. His downstairs tenants recently installed an aboveground pool. They told him that they checked with the city and were told that they didn't need a permit for this type of pool. They referred to it as a "portable pool". It is 5' deep and 24' across with a ladder. They told him that they had adequate liability insurance although it is probably just renters insurance since the ultimate liability is with the homeowner. Renters insurance just covers the contents of their apartment. Anyway, he believed them. He thought that they were nice people and never checked their background, or required a lease or security deposit either. I was suspicious as my town does require permits for all pools except kiddy pools. They also require fencing, a lock and an alarm as well. I checked with his city Planning and Zoning Dept. as well as the Building Dept.and was told that no one from that property ever contacted them and that it sounded like it definitely needed a permit. I told them that we were concerned about liability and were afraid that a neighbor child could drown or the pool could burst and flood his neighbor's basement. It was just too much liability as well as being too close to the property line. I told the town to inspect it since we recently got durable P.O.A. They checked it out and declared it an illegal pool. I called the tenants and explained who I was and that I was acting in my father-in-law's behalf under P.O.A. and we had found out about the pool The tenant wife told me that she had spent a lot of money on the pool and that they had no intention of taking it down. I reminded her that she was on a month-to-month tenancy with no lease and that the pool had to go or she and her husband would have to leave. She said that they "were planning on pulling the permits" soon. I explained that you're supposed to do that before you put up the pool it and the pool was illegal and that she should have done her homework first. She hung up on me. I sent a certified letter demanding that the pool be removed. The next step is eviction. Do I have a right to remove the pool myself or hire a company to do it? My attorney says just evict them NOW but meanwhile, the town will be fining my father-in-law for the pool. They lied to him about not needing a permit and then lied to me about going to get the permit in the future. What a mess and what presumptious idiots!
My 87 year old father-in-law owns a 2 family house and lives upstairs. I live about an hour away. He is planning on moving soon and turning his reverse mortgage house back to the bank. He has rented the downstairs apartment to a series of bad tenants. He is also in frail health and exhibiting signs of dementia. The family feels that he is too old to be a landlord and he is on a waiting list for elderly housing in my town. His downstairs tenants recently installed an aboveground pool. They told him that they checked with the city and were told that they didn't need a permit for this type of pool. They referred to it as a "portable pool". It is 5' deep and 24' across with a ladder. They told him that they had adequate liability insurance although it is probably just renters insurance since the ultimate liability is with the homeowner. Renters insurance just covers the contents of their apartment. Anyway, he believed them. He thought that they were nice people and never checked their background, or required a lease or security deposit either. I was suspicious as my town does require permits for all pools except kiddy pools. They also require fencing, a lock and an alarm as well. I checked with his city Planning and Zoning Dept. as well as the Building Dept.and was told that no one from that property ever contacted them and that it sounded like it definitely needed a permit. I told them that we were concerned about liability and were afraid that a neighbor child could drown or the pool could burst and flood his neighbor's basement. It was just too much liability as well as being too close to the property line. I told the town to inspect it since we recently got durable P.O.A. They checked it out and declared it an illegal pool. I called the tenants and explained who I was and that I was acting in my father-in-law's behalf under P.O.A. and we had found out about the pool The tenant wife told me that she had spent a lot of money on the pool and that they had no intention of taking it down. I reminded her that she was on a month-to-month tenancy with no lease and that the pool had to go or she and her husband would have to leave. She said that they "were planning on pulling the permits" soon. I explained that you're supposed to do that before you put up the pool it and the pool was illegal and that she should have done her homework first. She hung up on me. I sent a certified letter demanding that the pool be removed. The next step is eviction. Do I have a right to remove the pool myself or hire a company to do it? My attorney says just evict them NOW but meanwhile, the town will be fining my father-in-law for the pool. They lied to him about not needing a permit and then lied to me about going to get the permit in the future. What a mess and what presumptious idiots!
