Good afternoon, thank you for responding to my questions. I guess I was rather vague. First, I was referring to a Mass. Supreme Court ruling that when there is a "breach of the quiet enjoyment of a leased premises the tenant is entitled to the difference between rent and the actual value of the tenant's unexpired lease term". Our landlord hired us to fix a trailer next door to us in return for Oct. rent. We paid Sept rent and completed the work on Sept. 9th, he said it was great and verbally gave us relief from Oct rent in exchange. Then, the same evening when I arrived home from work there was an "evict by midnight" notice on our door which I took to the sheriff's office and he said it was bogus and explained eviction procedures. I called landlord to ask what on earth was going on and he just yelled "I want you out now!" and slammed down the phone. During Sept., we had two visits from the sheriff on bogus calls and he went to my son's jobsite and made a big scene. Then, I called him Sept. 28 to ask if we could get a receipt showing we had done work for Oct. rent and said we were willing to move peacefully (we had a lease so didn't have to) but it would be the end of Oct. He said that he wasn't giving me a receipt and don't bother trying to pay rent either because he was going to evict us on nonpayment of rent. We found a place on Oct. 15 and I called to tell him we would be out on the 31st. The next day he had our water meter yanked right out of the ground (water was included in the rent) and we had to pay $95 to have water for the rest of the month. We were out on the 25th and my son was served with an eviction notice on his jobsite on the 26th so we had to appear in court on an eviction notice on Nov. 11 even though our landlord knew we'd been out for two weeks. So, is this enough to ask for emotional distress and/or punitive damages? Thank you again for your time and any advice you could give me. Ellie Rae

