can my landlord take pictures without my consent?

24 hours notice is adequate.

You are right. While she can request that you leave she can not require it. Refuse.

She does not need your permission to photograph HER property. Whiel the dog poop is your property, the floor it is on is hers, so she can in fact take as many pictures as she wants.

You have no grounds for a lawsuit. You are month to month. They have given you notice to vacate, it really does not matter why, They do not have to justify the notice, although dog poop and refusing to pay the water bill are certainly justifable grounds.

It is time for you to move.

24 hour notice is legal. You have the right to be present, but they are not required to work with your schedule once notice is given. It is reasonable to request the dogs be put out of the way. Not everyone is comfortable around strange animals. Why can't you call the water company each month after they read the meter to find out the amount due? Write it on your calendar then call and pay it. That's not complicated. The reason you can't find a free attorney for that kind of case is because usually the tenant loses.

The only thing that applies is what's on paper and signed by both parties, it appears that is "reasonable scheduling to show the house to possible buyers shall be made in agreement between both parties" and anything else in the original lease. Basically when you lease a place it becomes your residence and the landlord/property manager has to abide by YOUR rules or you can have them arrested for trespassing if you didn't tell them they could come in. Call the police and do it to them a couple of times.

The trouble with trying to find a lawyer is the tightwads don't want to do any work if they can't make a bunch of money. There's not much of a $ value in a breech of a lease contract.

Your landlord is required to give you notice of when they're entering the property. They do NOT need to work around your schedule at all. They do NOT need your permission. They just need to tell you that they're going to enter their property in advance. She's always welcome to ask you to leave though it's not required that you do. She does not need your express permission to take pictures of HER property.

So it all boils down to the fact you have dogs who aren't properly housebroken that they can go a few hours without sh*tting all over the place which is absolutely a health problem not to mention going to make it impossible to sell the house, and your mistaken entitlement to a bunch of rights you do not legally have.

Don't bother with an attorney. Start looking for a new place. You're in the wrong here and with your attitude and dogs who defecate indoors it's no wonder she wants you out and wants you out now.

I'm sorry but the previous answers could not have been more wrong. As a Paralegal and one who has gone through some similar circumstances, I would direct you not to ask legal questions on such a broad platform as Yahoo, but on Avvo.com which "sometimes" is very useful. I can only speak for California law which gives absolutely no general right to "inspection". If it was the landlord's home, then you would not giving them rent. Your rent is your right to exclusive possession to the property and your right to privacy and quiet enjoyment are part and parcel of that protection. I wish you the best! You chose "landlords" answer but it is incorrect.

Contact your local landlord/tenant association in your area and find out what the rules are in your area to enter premise etc. If they have terminated (notice) your lease it would be best to find a new place and move. Don't waste your time. As far as taking picture of your personal property and showing it on the MLS for the public to view is questionable. Most realtor ask you to remove any items of value before they take pictures.

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RE :Can my landlord take pictures without my consent?

In November my family and I moved into this house. My landlord is trying to sell the house, and indicated this when we moved in. She stated in the lease that reasonable scheduling to show the house to possible buyers shall be made in agreement between both parties. This is the first thing she has not kept her end on. She would send me a text message 24 hours before SHE scheduled all the showings and told us we have to accommodate that schedule- that we had no choice in when the showings would be scheduled. She not only did not try to work around my schedule she also told me that I had to leave the premises during the showings, and put all my dogs into the bathroom during the showings. I later found out that requiring us to leave is against the law. So that is the second thing that she did wrong. Because we were only given 24 hours’ notice, without the ability to adjust the schedule to work around my own or enough time to rearrange my prior schedules I was unable to have adequate time to clean the home properly for the showings, including removing clutter. In addition, because she required this scheduling, and the dogs to be put into the bathroom during showings my dogs had pooped in the bathroom. Each time they did this, I would clean it up after I returned home once the showings were over. However, because my dogs pooped the bathroom during the showings, and I was unable to be there to clean it within a reasonable time frame she then took pictures of my dogs, and the house including the bathroom with the feces in it without my consent, and without giving me notice for two days. She never told me on paper, text message, email, or by phone that she would ever need pictures. The day she had the pictures taken she also highered a rental management company and signed all her rights to the property management to them. Two days later the management company sent out a 30 day non-renewal of lease notice, and a letter explaining that the house was not kept in order, the animal feces in the bathroom was a health hazard and that they are refusing to continue renting to us. (we are on a month to month lease). Along with that she sent out a 3 day pay or quit notice, which indicated that we were required to clean the bathroom within 3 days or vacate the premises. On the last day of the 3 days given we tried to schedule with the management company a time for them to come inspect the bathroom so we can prove we had cleaned, and so they could end the eviction process. The management company sent the realtor over to take pictures. The realtor never asked or stated the need to take pictures of the whole house, they only took pictures of the bathroom and left. I then received an email stating that because we did not allow them to take pictures of the whole house they are now requiring a weekly inspection of the entire property until we vacate or we will be facing eviction again. Can I sue my landlord? Can I sue the management company? I cannot find an attorney that does free consultations for landlord/ tenant cases.

Update: I just recieved a notice that states we have violated the lease by restricting access to an inspection (the day they only took pix of the bathroom and didn't bother with the rest of the house, they are now telling the management company that we have refused to allow them access. he said she said situation). In this notice they state that we also have not paid the water bill which will be turned off tomorrow because of non payment. The landlord required that the water bill be kept in her name, but that we pay it, which has made it increasingly hard to make payment arrangements with the water company. I definitely need an attorney, but I cannot afford one obviously. I feel they are pulling at straws and are harrassing us at this point.

Update 2: I just recieved a notice that states we have violated the lease by restricting access to an inspection (the day they only took pix of the bathroom and didn't bother with the rest of the house, they are now telling the management company that we have refused to allow them access. he said she said situation). In this notice they state that we also have not paid the water bill which will be turned off tomorrow because of non payment. The landlord required that the water bill be kept in her name, but that we pay it, which has made it increasingly hard to make payment arrangements with the water company. I definitely need an attorney, but I cannot afford one obviously. I feel they are pulling at straws and are harrassing us at this point.

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Thats a tricky one - Did it happen when u were'nt there? Personally I dont think that is allowed not sure if you can do anything about it now - see if you can get some free legal advice, sounds a bit of a cheek to me!

No, you cannot sue over this situation. You've suffered no financial loss, have you ? If not, for what would you sue ?