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Landlord allows people to get into the flat not notifying me about it.

Started by Gdrom, June 26, 2019, 09:44:44 AM

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Gdrom

Hello to everybody.

I am having some concerns with my Landlord in regards to visiting the flat without any notification. I am living in two bedrooms flat, which one of them is the one I am in. Now I am alone in the flat and as the other room is empty, the Landlord wants to come to check it which it is totally normal, so I asked him to notify me 24h before he comes to the flat in writing, as he is used to turning up in the flat whenever he wants. So one day I came back from work and I thought that the landlord came to the flat as few things in the flat were moved and the other bedroom was locked. I did send an email complaining about no notifying me of this visit and I have not received any explanation about it. 2 days later I see a woman getting into the flat and I asked her who she is, she said that she is a friend of the landlord's sister and she is going to stay in the flat for few days. Can the Landlord give the keys of the flat to any person and allow any person to get into the flat not even notifying me about it? I have sent an email expecting an explanation but not answer received, What should I do next? As I understand even I renting just a room and share the other areas with another tenant, the Landlord must follow some rules, like notifying in advance any visits, am I right?

Sorry for my bad English and thanks for reading

Hippogriff

The rules may matter. They may not. In practice, I mean. You've already sent an email or two and had no response and no change in behaviour - there's two distinct possibilities - 1) that the Landlord hasn't seen the emails, but once they do they'll be profusely sorry and apologetic and make sure this never happens again... or 2) the Landlord has read the emails and doesn't care one jot, intend to fully ignore you and do whatever they like.

You probably need to find out. You sending another email quoting some rule or regulation is only probably going to escalate the situation before you've found out the stance of the Landlord.

Do you have a phone number? A better approach is to relay that you're really uncomfortable with this for privacy / security purposes etc. and ask them to be more considerate towards you because you'd really appreciate that and be very grateful, not quote some piece of legislation you've found, threatening them with consequences if they do not comply.