Rental Photos

amy104

Are LA's allowed to take photos of the property I am renting showing all my furniture and belongings without my permission? Is that not an invasion of privacy?

chris_m

Only if you let them in to do so.

amy104

I've not let them in.

Either they've gone in without permission or done it under the guise of a viewing. I don't supervise their viewings as I am at work.

dimbo61

Did they not take pictures before you moved in ? Inventory check list ?
Is your tenancy near the end and you are moving on ?
How well do you get on with your landlord?
What do you want from this ?

amy104

We are leaving, or rather evicted because we ask them to fix things so understandably relationship is bad.

I felt I was playing fair by allowing viewing etc, now I feel I've been taking advantage of.

We have an inventory checklist from when we moved in but its unfurnished. All the furniture in the pictures is mine.

I feel it is now an advertisement for burglars.

aliasojo

I have no idea about the legalities of this but for what it's worth I agree with you. I'm presently renting and if my LL came in to take photos when I wasn't there, and my stuff was in the pictures, I'd be very annoyed.

I'd be pushing for them to be deleted.

googler

amy104 wrote: »

I feel it is now an advertisement for burglars.

I'm sorry, but how does your situation differ from every other home in the country where owners allow their agents into their homes to photograph them with all the furniture that isn't included in the sale?

Why would any burglar feel more inclined to rob you as opposed to any other house featured in a For Sale advert?

chewmylegoff

and what if they take the photos down, and then put up old photos from a time when the property was rented to someone with a better telly than you?

Yorkie1

googler wrote: »

I'm sorry, but how does your situation differ from every other home in the country where owners allow their agents into their homes to photograph them with all the furniture that isn't included in the sale?

Why would any burglar feel more inclined to rob you as opposed to any other house featured in a For Sale advert?

It differs because, as you say, owners allow agents into their homes and grant permission for photos a) to be taken and b) then displayed.

OP had no knowledge that photos were going to be taken or displayed. Therefore had no choice regarding whether to a) allow the agent in, b) remove anything sensitive or valuable before photos were taken, or c) veto subsequent photos which may show things they don't want to be seen.

There is also the further point that OP has, to now, allowed the agent to show people round the viewings without OP being present - so OP has no control over what the viewers might do whilst in the property.

googler

Yes, but assuming the OP's TV, armchair, coffee table, settee, etc. to be of a standard commensurate with all the other properties displayed on Rightmove, or wherever it's advertised, I don't see that it's any more of an invite to a burglar than any other house displayed for sale in the same place.

If the OP has a gold-plated TV, or has left their silver bullion on display on top of the sideboard, then fair enough, but somehow I doubt that will be the case....

Strapped

Check your rental agreement to see what you may have inadvertently agreed to when you signed it. If it's not mentioned (which is almost certainly isn't), then yes, I'd complain.