A rooming-house operator who wants to oust a tenant for violating house rules must comply with the Anti-Eviction Act, even if the tenant has agreed to leave, a state appeals court says.
Thursday’s ruling, in Powell v. Taylor , A-0117-08T3, was an expensive lesson for a Millville landlord, who must pay $8,400 in damages and legal fees to a tenant he summarily evicted for drinking on the premises and having a guest in his room after 11 p.m.
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