If your dog is perceived as a threat, it is a threat and other people will do everything in their power to protect their family and home against said perceived threat.  

You can easily just get blind to the facts based on your emotional involvement or heck, the fact/threat that your pay check may be at risk.

You also might find this interesting read...https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2008/...And lastly, the threat of eviction probably going to be a lot clearer message than the measly late fee you have no way of collecting...

Cops won't act on a threat that you can prove on a recorded voicemail?

For example, a landlord cannot use threats of violence, remove a tenant’s possessions, lock the tenant out of the apartment, or willfully discontinue essential services such as water or heat.

What are the top 3 biggest challenges & threats to your ADU projects.  

oh, please...too many lawsuit happy people. enough of the attorney threats already.

Gently speaking I think we are reaching diminishing returns.Focusing on the problem at hand the group has generated several viable options that her brother can explore.I would say that keeping it civil with the landlord and avoiding legal threats will probably help get to a solution faster assuming the landlord is a decent person.

I have a duplex I self manage where the tenants are not getting along.  There has been petty stuff for a while that I've tried to stay out of.  It sounds like it reached a boiling point on Saturday night.  Lower level...

The tenant has had to get behind and receive threat of eviction before they seem to take action.