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

Oh please. Stop right there. If there was a REAL emergency they could
break the zarking door down. No little deadbolt is going to stop the fire
department, I guarantee you that. The deadbolt prevents casual entry, not
emergency entry.


> 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. I have never had a problem 
> getting apt.  management to agree to any reasonable request and in some 
> cases to get them to put it in writting in the lease.

Even so, maybe some managers are not as polite or trustworthy as yours and
so long as they have a binding lease on their side, they don't have to be.
What's wrong with making it illegal for someone to enter your house at
their leisure? What's wrong with people having some kind of legal
guarantee of privacy in their own homes?


> 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.

What does it matter when he read it? He's taking exception to it now.
Obviously he can choose to break the lease or rent from a non-TAA agent
next time or he can fight the lease in court (or he can just spread
awareness like he's doing now). Are you suggesting that just because "The
Man" slipped one to him when his guard was down that he now has to lie
there and take it? 

The fact that he failed to read the lease in advance does not justify the
unacceptable conditions of the lease.

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