I want to find out if my landlord is coming into my apartment unannounced and unwanted. Sometimes it seems as though things are not where I left them.

I would like a good-functioning nanny cam for my apartment. I would like to keep the cost down but I don’t want to sacrifice quality.

Has anyone ever tried out those bears with hidden cameras? Or have you tried any other sort of hidden camera equipment? I am interested in something with a motion sensor.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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got a note in my mail saying that my landlord will enter my apartment tomorrow for unit inspection and fire alarm testing between 8 and 6pm. i wont be home from 9 to about 4. is he allowed to go in even if im not there?

this is an apartment complex.

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I understand that you need to have a thermostat that’s compatible with your heating/cooling system. If our landlord just installed a TH3000 and we want something PROGRAMMABLE, what model(s) would work for us? The cheaper the better. We just want something we can program so that the A/C or heat come on before we arrive each weekday.

Thanks!

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I have Section 8- which they pay for the full amount of rent. Lately the inspections haven’t been passing because there’s few things the landlord need to fix. 1st- the mice infestation, and she needs to fix one of my fire alarms. That’s not counting all the other things Section 8 didn’t noticed- such as my clogged up pipe to do laundry, she had someone come to install my room door and it’s been a yr. & is still not painted. The front main door- I still have no key. There’s more to it but don’t want to mention all of it.

I have 4 toddlers of my own- 6, 4, 3 & 2 yrs. old, not to mention I sometimes do babysitting. I have an infestation with mice and roaches and I called the City of Hartford so an inspector can take a look. I spoke with the landlord a couple of days ago and threaten’ me with turning off my water if I keep putting the hose out the window when I wash clothes. She send someone to fix the pipe, and they didn’t fix it, I have the same problem with it- water goes everywhere if I use it to empty out the washer.

I tell the landlord about all these things & everytime she says she’s going to send someone, most of the time they don’t come, or if not that- she’ll send someone without a notice or a short half hour notice. She told my she cant afford a carpenter to fix the baseboard of the heaters, which is where the mices are coming from- I have mice poop everywhere….

Today a Section 8 inspector came over, but coincidentally he didn’t make it to my apartment- God knows what she told him, maybe that I wasn’t home or something, I was waiting all day and even left a message to the office about what happened and that the landlord is not doing anything… My power also had went off today while I believe the inspector came and that’s how she probably took advantage and said I wasn’t here- so I wont complain to him. I know she haven’t been receiving rent cause the apartment failed about 3 times already. I am so mad right now about the whole situation, all I wanted was for her to get rid of the mices & roaches.

What are my rights, what can I do, who else should I contact to help ME in this situation. I already called the City, and Section 8, who else can I talk to??? I can’t move right now because I need to come up with the security deposit- which I already got referred for the help with that. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP……
SORRY SO LONG….
I have done that already, the mice are in the walls… Having BABIES…. The mice are already use to the poison- I know its weird, but it just doesn’t kill them. I already spent on rat trap, it’s my job to keep up with the house & I do, that’s not the problem, the whole baseboard has an inch of space that goes to the basement which is where the mices get through. I have mice running around in groups of at least between 3-6 in just the kitchen, not to mention, they’re in every room.

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I’m currently living in a privately rented unfurnished house. My house doesn’t have a smoke alarm. Is my landlord responsible for fitting one or should it be my responsibility?

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This is for my cousin. She’s living in a rooming house in Quincy, MA and recently came home from work to find the housing manager in her room. He was sealing her window for the winter and said he had expected her to be out longer. Like she wouldn’t have noticed big pieces of plastic on her window when she got home.

She’s been living there for almost three years now and since moving in the landlord has gotten high (apparently he’s a heroin addict) and will knock on people’s doors at 2 in the morning or he’ll cook something in the community kitchen and pass out or fall asleep and set off all the fire alarms.

People have said something to the landlord (who ironically is a narcotics cop for Quincy) and have been told that the manager is a friend and until he’s physically sees him abusing drugs or tormenting the tenants, there’s nothing he can do about it.

Is it legal for the manager to just walk into the room? Or knock on doors at 2 in the morning?

I’ve told her she could move in with my wife and I SO many times (we have a finished attic that has a separate entrance, and we live in Boston, so it’s not like we’d be far from her work) but she doesn’t want to "impose".

Suggestions?
I don’t know why it suggested family – but ok.

Also it should say WITHOUT not wihout in the title. LOL.

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We just moved into a new house and our landlord is not the responsive type. They have hard-wired smoke alarms with battery backup (which I changed the first time the alarm started beeping) I also ran the test. It stopped beeping for a day and started up again this morning. Any suggestions to stop it?

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I rent a house at Ohio University and I know that our landlord has to have homeowner’s insurance. Last night some drunk guy threw a trashcan through our window. I filed a police report. Would this be covered through our landlords homeowner’s insurance?

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I am renting a house and while i was at work the hose to the washing machine broke and completely flooded the house. The house is pretty bad but none of my belongings are ruined. I was wondering if i am at all responsible for the damage. From what i understand, renters insurance is only to cover my belongings and the homeowners insurance should cover all of the damages to the house. My landlord keeps asking if i have renters insuranece, and i dont, but that only covers my belongings, right? Therefore, it shouldn’t matter if i do or don’t because the homeowners insurance will fix the damages. And she told me that the homeowners insurance has a ,000.00 deductible. Am i responsible for that too?
It was my washer

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We believe in our right to privacy. We moved in to our place 6 months ago. Our landlord sent out a letter saying that their "yearly smoke detector inspection" will be taking place next week. We wrote them stating that we have only been here for 6 months and that they detector was tested when we moved in. What right, if any do we have to keep them out of our home?

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