[morganburton05]

I live in a small complex in Austin, TX a few blocks north of UT campus. My landlord is VERY adamant about maintaining a "very quiet" complex that never has any problems with noise. Within this complex we have a whole bunch of people--college students and young professionals--that enjoy hanging out outside and having a few drinks with each other.

About 6 months ago, I left town to visit a friend, and allowed some of my friends at the complex to use my house because I was the only one at the time with a TV. Unfortunately, they got pretty rowdy that night, and walked on the roof of the complex, and one of my neighbors called my landlord on me. At that point, I received a note on my door explaining that I had a noise complaint, and if I received two more, he would ask me to move out of the complex.

Fast forward a few months--and we had someone else call the landlord complaining about us being too loud, and I got a second notice with a warning. At this point I went and talked to the landlord because the night that he cited on the notice, I was not even in the complex that night at the time the complaint was called in. I told him that I felt that he was being unfairly accusative and that *maybe* just *maybe* the person who called him about the complaint was being unreasonable. He then told me to just hang out at other people's apartments instead, and let them get in trouble.

At this point, he also instructed all the tenants to call the police for a noise complaint, rather than him.

Since that point, I have *never* had the police called on me for a noise complaint. However, I was at a neighbor's place last Friday, and someone called in a noise complaint on them at 9:30 in the evening, then again at 10:30. Yesterday, I received a note on my door telling me that I was causing too much trouble in the complex and that he would like me to move out before he gives me an official vacate notice. When I went to talk to him at that point, he told me that from now on, any noise complaint that is called in, if I am present at the time, is my fault and will count as my final warning.

Is he allowed to do this to me? Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

[ballengerb1]

You need to read your lease very carefully. Many leases have clauses that address noise and conduct. You might very well be in jeopardy and he doesn't have to prove that complaints are valid. You'd have to sue him and prove they were false.