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My landlord came in my locked apartment without permission!

Lucky

Lifer
I've lived in this apartment for about 6 months now, on a month-to-month lease. Fairly cheap, good location, no security deposit required, and what I thought was a good landlord until now. He's fixing up the house getting ready to sell it, part of which is painting the house and installing new (storm) windows. Well, apparently the painter painted shut my (inner) windows preparing it for installation of the new (storm) windows. He'd asked me to repeatedly open and shut my windows so they wouldn't paint shut (I did) but anyhow in the end someone they got to be.

So I come home yesterday and find all my windows cracked open about 2". I was kinda miffed because I thought the painter had done this from the outside. Well, my landlord stops by today and tells me he had to go into my apartment to open them up and I wasnt there. Yet he knows where I work and knows my home telephone number, and he didn't leave a note at my apartment that he came in. I was gone for 4 hours and he came in like it was an emergency and I was out of town!

If that was it...I wouldn't be miffed, but he starts to yell that my apartment is too messy. Now understand I'm not a complete and utter slob, but I've been working overtime for the last 10 days in a row. I just haven't put the cleanliness of my apartment at the top of the list the past few days. Now last night, apparently after having coming in without permission, I started cleaning for like 3 hours. I cleaned for another hour or so this morning before enjoying the 3 days off in a row I have.

Now, he starts to make it a big point, because he told me when I moved in that he might be showing the apartment to some buyers so he wanted me to keep it clean. No problem! But that's been 6 months and he still hasn't shown the house to anyone. Am I supposed to keep my apartment in pristine condition for as long as Ashcroft is allowed to detain "terrorist"?


I'm mighty pissed right now. Not that I can do anything about it, even though there is a mandatory period of time that he must give me notice before coming in. I'm on a month-to-month lease, and he's selling the house shortly. Even if I reported him he could evict me or sell the house, then I'd be screwed with the new owner.

@#$@#$@!#! :|
 
Damn.. that sucks, man..

Just move ASAP. Asshole landlords are the worst.
 
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Damn.. that sucks, man..

Just move ASAP. Asshole landlords are the worst.


Blah, I can't just move. I'm preparing to send out portfolios for better jobs and if I have to move I dont know that I'd keep the job. But it will take me another month or two to finish my portfolio.
 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

No he can't. You're supposed to have a 24 hour warning, unless it's an "emergency".. which this clearly was not.
 
That sucks man. Like Eli says, try finding a new place where the landlord isn't going to pull that crap. You might also consider filing an anonymous complaint with whatever agency is in charge of stuff like this.
 
well, since he has violated your privacy, you are able to break your lease. Though that would mean you have to move, which you probably don't want to. So you either need to figure out a resolve this conflict or just find a new place to live or just put up with having an asshole landlord.

 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

No he can't. You're supposed to have a 24 hour warning, unless it's an "emergency".. which this clearly was not.


the info would be in his lease.
 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

No he can't. You're supposed to have a 24 hour warning, unless it's an "emergency".. which this clearly was not.


the info would be in his lease.
True, and it varies state to state also.

 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

My landlord complained about the same thing before, I told her to mind her damn business 😀

 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

No he can't. You're supposed to have a 24 hour warning, unless it's an "emergency".. which this clearly was not.


the info would be in his lease.

It should be in his lease, but it's the law that you have to give 24 hours notice before you enter the apartment, whether it says that in the lease or not.
 
listen folks, I dont have a lease. its a piece of signed memo paper. I rent month-to-month, which means I could move out whenever. I could take a picture of it and post it, its 8x8. It just says x agrees to rent from x for x amount of dollars. But I still have minimum implied rights granted by the state, which I believe he violated. But that doesnt mean I can do anything about it without screwing myself.
 
Originally posted by: Encryptic
Originally posted by: theNEOone
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: theNEOone
ok, your landlord can come in your room whenever he wants.

but he's gay for yelling at you for having a messy room.

No he can't. You're supposed to have a 24 hour warning, unless it's an "emergency".. which this clearly was not.


the info would be in his lease.

It should be in his lease, but it's the law that you have to give 24 hours notice before you enter the apartment, whether it says that in the lease or not.

"The Law" can be completely different in different states or cities.
 
Originally posted by: Lucky
listen folks, I dont have a lease. its a piece of signed memo paper. I rent month-to-month, which means I could move out whenever. I could take a picture of it and post it, its 8x8. It just says x agrees to rent from x for x amount of dollars. But I still have minimum implied rights granted by the state, which I believe he violated. But that doesnt mean I can do anything about it without screwing myself.

I think you're pretty screwed already if that's all you got in the way of a "lease" on paper. Even when I rented a room from a lady in her house (at a particularly low point in my life), she had it all set up with a paper explaining exactly what she was required to do as the landlord renting the room. At least you didn't leave a deposit, so he can't screw you out of that.
 
Originally posted by: Lucky
listen folks, I dont have a lease. its a piece of signed memo paper. I rent month-to-month, which means I could move out whenever. I could take a picture of it and post it, its 8x8. It just says x agrees to rent from x for x amount of dollars. But I still have minimum implied rights granted by the state, which I believe he violated. But that doesnt mean I can do anything about it without screwing myself.

wtf are you going to do? sue for mental anguish? look if you don't like living there, then move. You might by able to get some rent back IF he had a pattern of entering your space, not providing a quiet or safe environment, or didn't keep up with repairs. BUT he hasn't been doing this in a regular basis.
 
What state are you in?
here in CA a LL must give 24hr notice (unless its an emergency). Also if you complained and he tried to evict you could try to prove a retaliatory eviction which is probably illegal anywhere.
Do you have a tenants union you can get advice from?
 
I'm not too sure on that point, 24 hour notice is virtually standard I think. The part that comes in to play with me, I think, is that he could claim it was an emergency when I think the situation was not one.
 
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