Nexus Real Estate v. Erickson, J., Appeal of: JLB

OPINION BY

BOWES, J.:

JLB Retasa Shady, LLC (“JLB”), property owner, and Nexus Real Estafe, LLC (“Nexus”), property manager, (collectively “Landlord”), appeal from the June 28, 2016 judgment entered in favor of tenant John Erickson. We affirm.

In July 2002, Mr. Erickson entered into a lease with the Reddy Family for an apartment in their forty-seven unit building located on Shady Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Initially, he paid $550 per month in rent, but that sum increased gradually to $700 per month over the twelve years he resided there under the Reddys’ ownership.…