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Tenant Rights - What Are My Options For Evicting A 15 Year Old In My Apartment Complex?

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Location: Oregon

I rent a unit in an apartment complex. Over the past 10 days, myself and a neighbor have had someone breaking our window screens, leaving items on our window sills, and shining flashlights in our windows. The first incident was june 20th when someone shined a flashlight in my window and pulled up the bottom of my screen. i saw them and yelled for my partner to get up. I know that whoever it was knew i saw them.

my neighbor had an incident on thursday the 25th where he left rocks on her window sill, and pulled up the bottom of her window screen.

last night, this person came back and was caught on both my and my neighbors cameras. he walked back and forth between my bedroom window and my guest bedroom for 5 minutes. he was also caught on my neighbors camera looking into her window.

the police identified him and it turns out he lives in our complex (he lives in the same building as our neighbor) the police spoke to him and said there was nothing they could do as he is 15 years old.

Both my neighbor and I spoke to our complex and they said they could move us to a different unit but we might have to pay a $500 transfer fee and our rent would be substantially more expensive in the other available unit. we just signed to renew our lease last month so it would be expensive to break.

we’re both young women and are very scared as there is some evidence that this kid might be a sexual predator or one in the making. i just say this based on what the police said to us and how they chose to word things. it also did not seem that he had any interest in our things.

He lives with his mother. is there any way I can get him evicted? maybe due to safety threats? the police said at this point there wasn’t enough to get a restraining order or stalking protection. not sure if this helps or not but my apartment complex is managed by greystar.

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