I rent a room in the landlord’s house. Can she tell me overnight guests and no visitors without her permission?
Yes. You're living in her home. She is responsible for the rent/mortgage, homeowners insurance, etc. She doesn't know these people. They could pose a huge risk to her--financially or otherwise. It is very, very dangerous to allow people into your home you have no clue about. People have been robbed and killed for being too generous or kind.Anyone can rent out a part of their home, it doesn't mean they have to consent to entertaining unwanted strangers. Living in someone else's home would depress me. I like exercising at night, playing my music when I get ready for work and walking around naked on the weekends. I would feel very suffocated.If you want to have visitors and overnight guests, then maybe you should consider getting your own place. Then you could invite whomever you wished to visit and she would have no unwanted guests. You'd both win.
My landlord is refinancing the home that I live in and said the bank will be doing an inspection of the house.
They are not even likely to want to enter unless he is claiming it is worth more then it is.
Can my landlord rent out the dining room?!?
I'm a tenant in a 3 bedroom house. Can my landlord put a curtain around the dining room and rent it out (if this wasn't mentioned in the contract and it was originally shown to me "as" a dining room)?!
We are RENTING a home, can our landlord have an appraiser take pictures of the inside if even THEY HAVN'T seen
If you had rented this house from me I would have seen the inside of it while you were living there. Maybe only once, or maybe twice, but I would have seen it. Look at your business arrangement (that's what renting is) from your landlord's point of view. For money, he allows someone else to live in his house. He has a vested interest in making sure that you aren't doing something illegal (like a meth factory), and that you are generally taking care of the place (that you don't have 24 cats on the property, that the garbage isn't two feet deep throughout the whole house, etc.). He isn't interested in a few piles of clutter or laundry. He doesn't care that you have a picture of the canal on your walls, he just wants the walls to be intact. Appraisers look at the interior condition to get a better picture of value. Some things are worth more inside than others. A house with grand crown mouldings, granite counter tops, brazilian cherry flooring (or travertine flooring), etc., is worth more than laminate counter tops with linoleum flooring. The appraiser won't open closets (unless it's a walk in to gauge the size), they generally won't open the cabinets, but they will take pictures. They will want a picture of every room (if they are any good). It isn't a way to spy on you. If they wanted to see the inside, all they have to do is give you 24 hours notice for a landlord inspection and you'd have to let him in. The fact that he has never done this is amazing (and foolish on his part). good luck!
How can a landlord add a new roommate if I have a lease and don't want them?
That depends on the living situation and your agreement with the landlord. If you rent a house or apartment, sign a lease, and then the landlord allows a new person(roommate) to also live in the house or apartment without your permission, he has violated your agreement. But, if you are renting a room or “space” from him in building with multiple tenants, he can rent to whomever he chooses. Review your lease. Talk to the landlord. And, if it becomes unbearable, move. Otherwise, find something pleasant about your new roommate and concentrate on that until your lease is over. It may help you develop tolerance and character.
If I am out, my landlord enters my room without permission and goes through my things. I put a lock on my door, now she's asking for a key? What are my tenants rights?
If I go out, my landlord will go in my room without permission and go through my things. I put a lock on my door, now she's asking for a key? What are my tenants rights?This reminds me of when I was in college in 1971–2.When I was in my first year of college, a bunch of us were sharing rooms in so-called “approved” off-campus housing (AKA firetrap) in Towson. There simply wasn’t enough housing for all of the students who wanted it, and were desperate. The stars were so narrow, that you could have almost become intimate passing a housemate on the stairs.My roommate and I had to complain about the heat several times to our landlady before she turned on the steam radiator in our room. She said that wshe thought we didn’t want any heat because the window was open. We finally had to use a hammer to get the window unstuck—and no we d idn’t break it. Finally, our landlady had no more excuse for turning us blue.Then one day, one of the young women said, “Mrs. B. is snooping through the drawers when she cleans.” Another one said, “I know how to fix that!”She started a fake diary, and put it in one of her drawers. In one entry, she added that our landlady was snooping every time that she cleaned. The snooping became a thing of the past.Hopefully, there is at least a county Landlord-Tenant Commission. At least now, you can look these things up on the Internet. We didn’t have any recourse that we know of in the early 1970’s. I urge you to look up this information ASAP. I think in my county, they even have some people who will help if mediation is required. So look up your rights immediately. A shared house is a different situation, and can be more difficult that if you are only renting a room. But as a tenant, you have some rights. too.This also assumes that you are doing nothing illegal yourself. Good luck, and before she asks again for that key, DO YOUR RESEARCH!!
What would you do if your Landlord said you had to be vegan, while living in the rental house you are renting from them?
Bacon is a vegetable, right?The short answer is “don’t rent from them, find somewhere else to live”.The longer answer is that it depends on exactly what you are renting, and exactly what it says in the lease.If you are renting a room in a house or apartment, rather than renting the entire thing, and they are living there as well — their house, their rules.If you are renting an entire separate unit from them, then whether or not they can place that restriction on you is determined by the terms of the lease you have signed.If it’s in the lease, you have to abide by the lease while you are on the property, but there’s nothing preventing you from eating raw steak while you are driving around in your car.If it’s not in the lease, you inform them it’s not in the lease, and (assuming you have another place lined up before you do this, because expect them to accept your offer), you can offer a mutual termination of the lease, if they are insistent upon it.In the latter case, you could also just cook and eat meat anyway, and really piss them off to the point they do vindictive things; otherwise you might just negotiate that they pay your moving expenses.If you haven’t moved in yet or taken possession, the answer is easy: don’t.
As a tenant I want to rent out rooms in the house I’m renting, is this possible?
In general, “No”. A tenant can’t have tenants.Check your lease to see if it forbids subletting. Leases commonly DO include that provision. If not, the the state property code itself may forbid it except by agreement of the parties to the lease.And above all, check with your landlord.Even if it’s legal on all levels, so you can force your landlord into it, you don’t want to get on bad terms with a landlord.Nobody is the perfect tenant all the time, and even if he can’t evict you over subletting, a landlord who wants you gone can usually find a way. It’s like getting crossed up with an employer… time to start shopping for jobs, because eventually he’ll find an excuse to unload you.Being evicted will damage you, long-term, as a result of having a judgment against you for several years.The more people you have living in a property, the more “Normal Wear & Tear” occurs, even if it’s not a “Utilities Paid” situation, aside from possible problems on insurance claims.That’s why when you add “additional occupants” on the lease, or have additional tenants signing it, the rent is raised or the security deposit is higher, or both. You might not realize it, but it’s cost is added in there, just like “Free soft drink refills” at some restaurants.If you need to do this to be able to keep paying the rent, the landlord may offer to let you out of your lease, or he may allow roommates to be added.This allows the landlord to get a rental application done on them, for a tenant screening report, just as he originally did on you, then sign a lease addendum actually adding a co-tenant to the lease.Among many other things, the landlord will want to know that he isn’t renting to someone who has a history of drug dealing or child molesting, assaults, etc.The number one rule, I’ll repeat, though, is that if your landlord doesn’t want you to do it, do NOT do it against his will.
I rented a 3 bedroom house with a friend and use the extra bedroom as my office. My landlord lost his job and wants to rent the 3rd bedroom?
This is in indiana. We have a 1 year lease which we are only 3 months into. We've told him no, but he keeps showing the house to prospective renters. I turned him away one day and he went nuts about me not letting him show it saying I was violating the lease. Since I telecommute and am home when he shows it, I now am letting him show it, but I tell him and the prospectives that they won't be living there and not to sign a lease because we will fight them on trying to move in. We've read through our lease and there is nothing in it that says he is allowed to do this. Is there anything we can do to stop him in advance or do we have to let him show it and take him to court after he tries to sign a lease? If he does sign a lease with someone else will we be able to have that person removed or will we only be able to break our lease and move out?
Can a landlord legally enter my room when I am occupying it?
So the question and the comment aRe slightly different. If your question is, can the landlord enter your room (not apartment) while you are renting it, but not in the room at the time.The answer to that is, only in the case of emergency, or if he told you or if there is a clause that allows him enetering in the lease. Keep in mind if like the circuit breaker for the house is in that room, going in there to reset the breaker is ok (if he does nothing else)You should get one of those secret video cameras, find out if it is your landlord or another family member… you say it it your landlord, but you do not say how you know it is him.If it is him, show him the video, and tell him you are cancelingthe lease or going to the cops for illegal entrance