For Rhonda Tunstall, a move to St. Louis this summer became a nightmare — when her landlord illegally locked her out of her home, threw her possessions in the backyard and then pointed a gun at her.
Tunstall moved here with her family from Norfolk, Virginia, in June and found her landlord through word of mouth. But her situation has been a frightening introduction to a problem that some advocates say is all too common in St. Louis: Landlords who don't know, or don't follow, the rules.
It's a problem Alderman Terry Kennedy hopes to prevent with a new bill pending at the city's Board of Aldermen.
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