Question: Hank rents an apartment in a rental housing community called Mountain Garden, a middle-class development...

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Question: Hank rents an apartment in a rental housing community called Mountain Garden, a middle-class development of five buildings. Crime on the estate is about 15 percent lower than in the surrounding community, and violent crime is 25 percent lower. A guard at the entry booth monitors who is allowed to enter. The parking lots are poorly lit. Hank invites his friend Sheila for dinner. They get into an argument, first about whether Hank put marijuana in the chicken pasta, and second about Hank's relation- ship with another woman. The row grows violent, Hank rushes at Sheila, and she stabs him with a kitchen knife. Hank dies, and his estate sues Mountain Garden for negligence. Who is likely to win? Strategy: The court will apply four factors to its analysis: the nature of the crime, the reasonable person standard, foreseeability, and prevalence of crime in the area.