Questão jurídica principal
Whether the landlord proved that the stated personal need was the real reason for the termination
Decisão extraída
The landlord did not prove that the asserted personal need was genuine; the termination was found to be without a permissible ground.
Fundamentação extraída
Outside a blocking period, the tenant bears the burden to show bad faith termination, but the landlord must still contribute to fact-finding and make the stated reason plausible. The appellate court was entitled to infer from the landlord's unexplained, unsubstantiated alleged decline in orders and the timing after the failed bar project that the stated ground was merely pretextual.