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'Fighting' may not be a problem. Unless they are damaging your property or disturbing other tenants, you probably have no reason to act at all.

If they are damaging property or disturbing others then the reason they are doing so isn't important. You act on what they are doing instead of why they are doing it.

It is not the landlord responsibilityIt is not the landlord's responsibility to become a mediator for disputes between two tenants. This is the reason why we have courts and police. A conflict between two tenants is the same as a conflict between 2 neighbors, which is either resolved between the two tenants, through court intervention, or, in case of violence, with police.

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