Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania
Landlord Entry Rights
We believe that our landlord has been entering our house with no legitimate reason. We have given our 30 days notice to move, and she seems to go searching for things that we may have destroyed. While we believe she will not find anything, she continues to enter when we are not home. Does she have this right??
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Re: Landlord Entry Rights
A rental unit, once rented, becomes the property of the tenant, pursuant to the terms of the lease. Accordingly, the landlord has no right to enter the unit without the permission of the tenant, and particularly not when a tenant is not home. The landlord breaches his warrenty of quiet enjoyment, to say nothing of an invasion of privacy. He can and should be sued for this. Criminally, he commits a felony trespass. All this is said and true unless the lease has something to the contrary.
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