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Completely off topic, but in the article they say some apartment complexes are offering "private liquor lockups." Wtf?
Anecdotal, but when I was looking for my first apartment about ten years ago I toured a building that didn't allow residents to keep alcohol. Unsure if it's even legal (or enforced), but the landlord and property manager were a local pastor and his wife.
I see. religious scumbags. fuck them
I first read this as 'religiois scumbrage' as if you misspelt umbrage. Not only was I wrong once, but twice as well.
But goddamn, scumbrage feels like a word I can get behind.
Yes, that's illegal. I would have been kegging in everyday the first week of my residency just to fuck with them.
How is it illegal? If the terms are on the lease, and you agreed to them, then it's no different than any other business contract. What law prevents a landlord from making that one of the terms?
Unless it is a shared dwelling where you sign the agreement in statement that you cannot drink alcohol due to some underlying mutually agreed reason, no tenant can be prohibited from consuming alcohol in their OWN dwelling space. What you do in your home is your business and no landlord can prohibit anyone from drinking alcohol, period.
Even if you sign the agreement on a lease or rental saying you will not, it would not be enforceable in a court of law and the landlord can be sued for cancellation of the contract for attempting to infringe on your personal rights (religious or otherwise).
Edit: All this assumes all parties are in the USA, are of drinking age and there are no dry-county statutes in the area. Consumption of alcohol is protected by the 21st Amendment of the Constitution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
I could possibly see it being a legal grey area in a dry county, but that's just bonkers to me.
Dry countries are a weird concept to me already
Edit: I meant counties, but I'll leave it.
No one bats an eye at this but if it was a Muslim family who prevented people from having pork in their homes people would be losing their minds
I bet that it had a free pedo-cell in the basement, thou.