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Frankfurt judges said people would have to lean far out of window to see naked sunbathing in courtyard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/26/nude-landlord-sunbathing-germany-frankfurt-rent-withheld-court-rules

A German court has said that a landlord sunbathing naked in the courtyard of his building was not a reason for his tenants to reduce their rental payments.

The case involved a building in an upmarket residential district of Frankfurt, which included an office floor rented by a human resources company. The company withheld rent because it objected, among other things, to the landlords naked sunbathing. In response, the landlord sued.

The Frankfurt state court on Wednesday rejected the companys reasoning, finding that the usability of the rented property was not impaired by the plaintiff sunning himself naked in the courtyard.

It said in a statement that it couldnt see an inadmissible, deliberately improper effect on the property.

Judges were ruling on an appeal against a lower court decision that went in the landlords favour, and the tenant had only limited success overall. They found that the tenant had been entitled to reduce rental payments for three months only because of noisy construction work in the neighbourhood.

The court said that the spot where the landlord sunbathed could only be seen from the rented office by leaning far out of the window.

It also said the tenant failed to prove that he took the stairs to the courtyard unclothed. On the contrary, the plaintiff stated credibly that he always wore a bathrobe which he only took off just before the sun lounger, it said.

Do they do that to keep junkies and bums out of them?

We need more public nudity in the US. After all, it's closer to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, so religious wackjobs should be all for it.

Right?

All this so he could have a tanned weiner?