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In article <3j7bbr$50b@fohnix.metronet.com>, bounty@fohnix.metronet.com
(Ed Bullard) wrote:

> In article <3j4vm1$9pl@larry.rice.edu>,
> Catherine Anne Foulston <cathyf@is.rice.edu> wrote:
> >Hey, at my apartment they don't even have to leave a note.
> >However, they don't enforce the lease provision about having
> >locks they can't open, so I (and many tenants) have locks they
> >can't open.  If they get tough on this rule I may move.
> 
> If they cannot get into your apt. what happens if there is a fire, a 
> water leak, a gas leak. By law the owner or rep. for the owner has the 
> right to have access to their property if you are not their in case of 
> emergancy. If an electrical fire broke out in your apt and destroyed the 
> building because they could not get in to stop it you could be liable for 
> the losses of the other tenets.
 
Unless there are apartment complexes here with some kind of inpenetrable
lead/steel doors and no windows, I'd say my combat boots would do just
fine in remedying that situation, not to mention those things they call
axes that firemen(women) carry around. In fact, most apartments I've been
in in Austin have walls so thin, I could probably get through those, too.
IOW, I don't believe that concern to be as serious, considering it can be
remedied fairly easily.

>No I am not against privacy and I guard mine closely because I know I 
>cannot depend on any one to guard it for me. 

Hence your previous statement regarding privacy was meant to be ironic,
right? For those of you who don't remember, ol' Ed said: "Makes me wonder
what you are hiding that you need such privacy? Running a drug lab, or
stock-piling weapons 
perhaps?" Yeah, I know that's why I don't want my landlord rummaging
through my house - he might find that rocket launcher that's been under my
bead for all these years, not to mention that stash-hiding robotic cat
that Catherine sold me the other day.


> To the original poster: It is never safe to assume the laws of one state 
> are the same in another state. I hate to say it but you should have read 
> the lease thoroughly before you signed it. If you sign a legal document 
> without reading it first you have no one to blame but yourself if it 
> turns around and bites you.

On this point, the bear is most definitely correct. I've heard others say,
"well the law shouldn't be that way, it needs to be changed, etc." whine,
whine, whine. How do you think laws get changed? From people getting
pissed and refusing to swallow the laws on hand, and doing something about
it. If everyone refused to accept these conditions in the leases, I doubt
you'd even need to change a law - the apartment complexes would change the
leases themselves. You can't bitch when you VOLUNTARILY sign away your
rights and/or priviledges. Call the Austin Tenants' Council if you don't
know how to interpret a lease.

Cheers!

-- 
Jewel (J. Weaver)
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