If someone with legal understanding (DR LAW please!) could please confirm, address or correct point 1,2 and 3:
The making of:
The main entry door of my newly rented condo, had a flimsy "bedroom-style" door lock "llavin" and I was given ONE key to it. Since the apartment had been rented before, I replaced the lock with finger-print lock suggesting somewhat better safety/security (no keys floating around/can't be picked by a 6 year old) and promising to give me the privacy I feel entitled to expect in my HOME.
The landlords showed themselves as "surprised" (to put it mildly) and asked by e-mail for a written explanation on why I did what I did without having had permission to do so.
I sent them a friendly e-mail reminding them that I am a long term tenant - making the dwelling my HOME, that I have a right to privacy and security and that the lock change will not affect the integrity of the door and that, once I'd move out, can and WILL be retrofitted with the original lock I am keeping in storage in good operating condition and thank you very much.
Thanks! ... J-D.
- Does a long term tenant (not a hotel guest) have the right to change his rented dwelling's door lock(s), as long as he does it in a fashion which allows for the original lock to be retrofitted (put back after the tenants returns the dwelling to the landlord at the end of the lease) without asking for the landlord's permission to do so?
- If yes, can the landlord demand to have keys to the new lock during the time of lease?
- I believe to understand, that the landlord has the right to inspect his property upon appointment with the tenant in acceptable intervals (what, every couple of months?). (right?) And that the landlord also has the right to SCHEDULE showings of the property to potential new tenants (towards the end of the lease, if not renewed) and potential buyers. (right?).
The making of:
The main entry door of my newly rented condo, had a flimsy "bedroom-style" door lock "llavin" and I was given ONE key to it. Since the apartment had been rented before, I replaced the lock with finger-print lock suggesting somewhat better safety/security (no keys floating around/can't be picked by a 6 year old) and promising to give me the privacy I feel entitled to expect in my HOME.
The landlords showed themselves as "surprised" (to put it mildly) and asked by e-mail for a written explanation on why I did what I did without having had permission to do so.
I sent them a friendly e-mail reminding them that I am a long term tenant - making the dwelling my HOME, that I have a right to privacy and security and that the lock change will not affect the integrity of the door and that, once I'd move out, can and WILL be retrofitted with the original lock I am keeping in storage in good operating condition and thank you very much.
Thanks! ... J-D.