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Landlord Tenant issue with Roommate can I enter her room and not be sanctioned?
I own the house. I rent to 2 others. One is an RN, traveling nurse on a short stay. The RN is paranoid and accuses others of entering her room. No one is entering her room.She states that people enter her room while she is sleeping also. Again, no one is doing that. She can’t follow simple house rules even when they have been in writing (such as don’t leave hair dryer on back of toilet), 3 large drawers and a closet are provided in the bathroom. I clean after her every day so the other renter can use the bathroom without cleaning first. If we ask her to please park in a marked parking spot she yells and says we badger her. When she leaves her nurse needles in the dryer to poke us and we complain she says we are trying to frame her and they are not her needles. We think she has a monkey on her back...
Now she has her door barricaded and is leaving through a window. She took the house fan that we use in the basement and refuses to return it. She said if I go in to get it I can be sanctioned $100. That is a half truth, I could be sanctioned if I am a landlord in an apartment complex, nothing in the RCW speaks to roommate situations. Of course, the sanction does not just come in the mail, she would have to take me to court. Advice?
5 Answers
- Steve DLv 77 years ago
You can enter her room as long as you provide the proper notice (usually 24 hours). Also, she has no right to barricade the door - you are entitled to access to the entire house. Tell her that if she does not remove the barricade you will consider her in violation of the lease and file an eviction notice. As for entering the room, you need to have a reason, but if you have a reason, she cannot stop you although she can choose (not require) to be there when you enter.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
No you can not enter the room she is renting, just as a landlord can't sneak around your house without notice.
- 7 years ago
Serve her an eviction notice. if she does not leave within the 14 or 30 days you specify, have the police remove her. You own the home, it is your property, you have every right to go wherever you wish since you reside there.
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