Landlord wants to 'pop in'

drc

What happened?

franklee

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

if you get home and the stuff has gone then make a complaint through the agency and (this is what i would do, in fact we have added an extra lock to our front door and the landlord hasn't got a key for it and they said that it is fine as it has added extra security to the property at no cost to them.) state that for your own security and so that your insurance is not invalidated you believe you have no other recourse but to change the locks, that you will provide a set of keys for them when you move out.

Generally in this type of case I would change the barrels and restore them at the end of the tenancy. That way the landlord cannot complain of a being left with a less secure lock, damage to the door, or about the number of keys. Also it gives the tenant his own barrels to take away and use again.

Also if the landlord has gone in without telling the tenant then the tenant has lost track of the goods stored. Therefore there could be an argument at the end that items are missing and the tenant may get charged. Really it's best to have everything on the inventory or removed from the property. Especially if the tenant doesn't know what was stored and what the landlord removed, he is leaving himself wide open to accusations of theft should the landlord lose track himself and think something has gone missing.