Your landlord may not be required to tell if your neighbor has COVID-19

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Did you know that if you rent an apartment in a complex, the landlord isn’t required to tell you if another tenant has the coronavirus?

A notice was posted at the facility the Haven Apartment Complex in Cranberry Township saying someone living there had tested positive for COVID-19.

Melissa McClain, a tenant, told Channel 11 that management slipped a letter underneath the door of each unit to let everyone know of the positive case.

Complex officials are continuing to clean shared spaces and signage has been posted around the property.

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But apartment complexes, public housing and residential communities are not legally obligated to inform tenants of a COVID-19 case.

“There are no clear-cut rules on what a landlord is to do and what is expected of the tenant,” Attorney Phil DiLucente said.

Right now, it is up to the tenant to tell their landlord.

“These are shared spaces where children, elderly people go. Not only should they clean that but the tenant has a right to know whether or not if this person in my structure is infected and I need to be on higher guard,” DiLucente said.

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