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Question: This property is advertised as a gated community. Little did I know, the front has NOT been locked since I moved last Jan 2018. This is caused many young homeless to walk of the street onto the property, steal, climb our fenced in pool--with their clothes on and break in to use our laundry room to sleep. (Several of the residents have complained several times!) All because the front entry foot gates are not locked.

Answer: A person’s potential legal remedies in a such situation could depend upon whether the presence (in this case) of a working gate was a material part of the contract between the landlord and the tenant (or the seller and the buyer). Sometimes it is helpful to send a formal signed and dated letter identifying the problem in detail and requesting that the problem be fixed as soon as reasonably possible.