Property Management
In West Virginia, a landlord who increases rent for all tenants in a building after one tenant files a housing code complaint is engaging in:
ALegal market-rate rent adjustment
BIllegal retaliatory rent increase under WV landlord-tenant law✓ Correct
CA fair housing violation only
DA WVREC licensing violation
Explanation
Raising rent in response to a tenant's exercise of legal rights (filing a housing code complaint) is illegal retaliation under West Virginia's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The tenant has the right to complain about code violations without facing retaliatory rent increases.
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