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I could really use a quick reply on this.

Your post is pretty thick, which could be why you haven’t received a single reply for almost 2 days now, but I’ll pop in with a response.

However, in doing this he demanded $400 in rent and $400 in security deposit on the 1st.

Landlords are well within their right to make such a demand. Often, people do not inform their landlords of someone new living in one of the bedrooms. While that can save a lot of money, it also leads to a lot of legal problems later if/when any problems of any kind occur involving the new roommate.

He acknowledged that

Did you get anything in writing? Without proper written documentation, there is nothing you can do legally to assure that any differences work out in your favor.

Document everything. Require signed, notarized, witnessed, etc. forms of written documentation. Any method that makes it legal and official.

1.) The landlord lives with us.
2.) The landlord is a 51 year old WoW player.

Irrelevant.

3.) He takes steroids and lots of muscle building drugs.

Relevant if you wish to pursue legal action against him for illegal drugs.

4.) When something doesn’t go his way, he screams and “supposedly” inadvertently threatens people being as big and built as he is.

It sounds like a civil case in the working. If you cannot stand living there, do everything in your power to move out.

5.) He constantly threatens people in evicting them illegally and makes allegations as to disrupting service to my computer/the internet/the electricity and other things.

Document everything! Ask an attorney at law to advise you on how to document everything in a fashion that can be used in court (should things have to end up leading to court).

6.) He has court fees,classes,girlfriends and other things he uses our money on besides paying bills and then after being confronted about it !!Yells!! that it is none of our business what he spends our money on.

Irrelevant. Seriously. You are overstepping your boundaries by confronting your landlord about how he spends his money. It is not your money. You gave it to him to pay rent. It is his money. He might be a jerk. But it is his money. He can do what he wants with it.

He makes us very uncomfortable in our own house and I know that by Oregon Ordinance he can not make the tenants feel unwelcome and unsafe/uncomfortable in their own home.

Is that true? Well, move out, or acquire documented evidence directly from the legitimate source of that Oregon Ordinance and take that information, along with your legally documented information about the landlord, to a lawyer.

The last thing I have to say is because of his tempter and his threats I have been forced back into the living room but im only paying $100 a month and I am ok with that but I am once again forced to turn off lights and lower almost mute volumes to suit him.

You are in a bad situation. Do everything you can to move out.

I find this very rude but I have politely dealt with it for long enough.

Really, it sounds like it’s just a bad idea living with that particular landlord. Or, maybe they could say the same of you, that it’s a bad idea living with you. I’m just a random internet person responding to your post, so I have no idea. I’m only seeing your side of the story.

What do I do guys? Is there anything I can use against him to get him out of this house?

He’s the landlord (aka owner)? It’s his house. You can do nothing. If he is not the owner, yet still the landlord, then contact the actual owner and do the same things that I mentioned above, only with the owner. If that doesn’t work, then go to a lawyer. However, I hate to say this but really, it sounds like you’re screwed. There’s probably nothing you can do about it but for you to move out.

I know this is his house but there should be a law or something that I can use?

Unless what he is doing to you is illegal or can actually stand a chance of even becoming a civil case, there is nothing you can do but move out.

It doesn’t matter what I or anybody else on this site might say in response to your concerns, if anything, the most relevant thing you can do at this point is:

Talk to a lawyer.

If you cannot afford one, do some research online for lawyers for people with low incomes.