Entering Property - External Premises

[Friend In Court]

When one rents a house, they rent the entire property, house AND yard. Your landlord is no more than a trespasser if he continues to come onto the property. And he needs to be told that. If you are under lease, his continual trespassing onto the property might be considered grounds for breach of your quiet enjoyment of the EXCLUSIVE use of the property. I would see a solicitor to send him a letter to apprise him of the consequences of his continual trespassing if it were me.

[Friend In Court]

One might check the trespass laws of your province as well and mail them to the landlord.

Originally Posted by Yard Work To the NASTY responder who didn't like my posts... Why did I respond? Trying to eliminate the possibility that the yard word was not being done AND even though I don't know Canadian laws, trying to brainstorm ideas for the original poster. I don't see your nastyself coming up with anything.

If you were to take the time to read the OP's original post, you would see that she clearly stated that she does keep up on yard work and was pretty emphatic about it. Yet you chimed in with "apparently you're not keeping up on the yard work", which indicates you did not bother to take the time to read the OP's post in its entirety.

Pardon me for stating the obvious but you opened the "nasty" door in your first response to the OP. You were nasty to the OP right off the bat and now you're backpedaling.

Besides which, even if the tenant were not "keeping up on yard work" that is still not a viable excuse for the landlord to drop by anytime and do i without first informing the tenant. When renting a property, one is entitled to what's called "privacy" and "quiet enjoyment" The landlord cannot treat his/her rented property like it's his/her own anymore. It's a business and he/she must treat it as such.

Therefore, the landlord cannot show up on the property in the manner in which the OP describes without alerting the tenant, and must give 24 hour notice before entering or coming onto the property.

Oh puleeze.

Upkeep is in the eye of the individual, just like leaving an apartment in sparkling clean condition according to the tenant may not mean it's sparkling clean to the landlord when they inspect it on move out.

It's a matter of perception. Apparently you don't understand that.

We don't KNOW that the tenant keeps things up, we only know what the tenant writes on this forum. Go bully someone else.

Originally Posted by Unregistered Oh puleeze. Upkeep is in the eye of the individual, just like leaving an apartment in sparkling clean condition according to the tenant may not mean it's sparkling clean to the landlord when they inspect it on move out. It's a matter of perception. Apparently you don't understand that. We don't KNOW that the tenant keeps things up, we only know what the tenant writes on this forum. Go bully someone else.

If you feel "bullied" then perhaps you would be better off somewhere else. We're total strangers here. If you're getting that upset over what total strangers are writing then perhaps refraining from coming here and reading these threads would be the smartest solution for your fragile emotions.

You don't seem to be comprehending. It really does not matter whether the outside is spotless or if ten foot tall weeds are growing up. When a landlord leases property, it legally - for the period of time agreed upon in the legal lease agreement - belongs to the tenant. Period. This means that - regardless of your own desperate rationalizations - the tenant still reserves that right to privacy and quiet enjoyment.

Perhaps before you continue responding you might want to brush up on Landlord/Tenant law.

It's pretty apparent who understands Landlord/Tenant law here and who doesn't.