Wonder if anyone knows about this. Does a letting agent have the right to enter your home for quarterly inspections at whatever time they wish, without having to ask your permission, as long as they have given 24 hrs notice?
The tenancy agreement just says I agree to let them have quarterly inspections. Didn't say they can come whatever time, but the agent is telling me now that they can come whenever they like as long as they give 24 hrs notice because "I signed it off in the tenancy agreement that I agree to quarterly inspections and it is the law that they can do that." but I can't find anything in the law or otherwise saying they can come whenever they like for quarterly inspections. Plus they say that when they give written notice of inspections, they can only give a date and not a time because "they can't possibly know when they will arrive at my house on the day as they have to do several inspections on the same day at different houses." I can only find laws saying the landlord can come in for emergency repairs - i.e. some really pressing issue. An inspection to me, does not constitute a pressing issue requiring access at whatever time they like?
But basically now they are telling me that they don't have to arrange a mutually convenient time to come and inspect? Imagine them letting themselves in when someone is alone in the house, sleeping, or just coming out of the shower, or in the shower, etc.? Surely that is not legally enforceable? I'm just uncomfortable with that. I wouldn't mind them having inspections if it was agreed beforehand though, but not letting themselves in whenever they like?
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