Does Your Landlord Have to Leave a Note if Staff Enters Your Apartment
My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Oklahoma
Does management or staff have to leave a note that they have been in my apartment. They left a notice on my door about an inspection but I was out of town and they knew that. I don't care they went in. I just care they didn't leave a note. See they took the notice for the inspection after they entered my apartment. Like they didn't want me to know they were in there. Then when I spoke to the manager she kind of misdirected me a bit about it. Like she was hesitant. And she actually told me the wind must have blown it off. Which is impossible based on how and where my door is INSIDE the building.. And it hasn't happened in all the time I have been here.
I know you probably think I am just paranoid, but I'm not. These people leave notes on empty apartments with the doors unlocked for up to a month after someone moves out. Just letting people know hey come on in. So I always take them and throw them away. Because they are just general announcements and no one lives there..
My question is basically this. They did leave a notice about the inspection and ordinarily that is enough. As long as they leave that there for me to find at some point. Even after the inspection. So I at least know who was there and why. But they took it. Knowing without it I'd never find out they had gone in. Don't they have to leave some kind of indication they went into my apartment?
I'm sure someone will call me petty but they have done this before. Just gone in and never left me a note and the old woman who I'd help with groceries happened to tell me.
Plus when I got home from my work trip I had no idea what had happened. If I had been robbed, or if someone was hiding in the back. I just came home and a couple things weren't how I left them. I then pieced together what had happened over the next couple of days.
Don't they have to leave some indication they were in my apartment? Can they really take the notice down? I mean the whole thing with notices are they can just post them and that's good enough. They can do whatever they want after that and say we gave you notice. But can they just take that notice down? Especially when they know for a fact in this particular case I never saw it? I mean don' they have to leave it as an indication they went in? I mean why even have to post a notice in the first place if you can just take it?
Thanks.
Re: Oklahoma - Does Staff Have to Leave a Note That They Were in My Apartment
Your didn't read the statute for your state provided in your other posting, did you.
And no, legally, management does not have to leave you a note that they've been there.
Gail
Re: Oklahoma - Does Staff Have to Leave a Note That They Were in My Apartment
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gail in georgia
Your didn't read the statute for your state provided in your other posting, did you.
And no, legally, management does not have to leave you a note that they've been there.
Gail
Link source where it says management does not have to leave a note saying they have been in your apartment if a notice they will be entering has not been posted?
Re: Oklahoma - Does Staff Have to Leave a Note That They Were in My Apartment
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fishman88
Link source where it says management does not have to leave a note saying they have been in your apartment if a notice they will be entering has not been posted?
Here it is.
Paragraph C requires the landlord to give you at least 1 day's notice. You got the notice. It was on the door. There is no requirement that the landlord leave it on the door after entry. There is no requirement that the landlord leave a note in your apartment.
Do you understand that the statute doesn't say he has to and that means he doesn't have to?
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Title 41. Landlord and Tenant
Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
Section 128 - Consent of Tenant for Landlord to Enter Dwelling Unit - Emergency Entry - Abuse of Right of Entry - Notice - Abandoned Premises - Refusal of Consent
A. A tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to the landlord, his agents and employees, to enter into the dwelling unit in order to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors.
B. A landlord, his agents and employees may enter the dwelling unit without consent of the tenant in case of emergency.
C. A landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. Except in case of emergency or unless it is impracticable to do so, the landlord shall give the tenant at least one (1) day's notice of his intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times.
D. Unless the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises, a landlord has no other right of access during a tenancy except as is provided in this act or pursuant to a court order.
E. If the tenant refuses to allow lawful access, the landlord may obtain injunctive relief to compel access or he may terminate the rental agreement.
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