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Entry Without Notice or Consent

You can enter the premises without notice and without the tenant’s permission if there are reasonable grounds to believe an emergency makes it necessary for you to enter the premises, or the tenant has abandoned the premises.

What is reasonable will depend upon all the relevant circumstances.

For example, if a tenant is away for the weekend and you enter the premises without notice or permission to repair a cupboard door, that would not be an emergency. Permission should be obtained first. However, if a tenant is away for the weekend and there is a burst pipe and flooding, that might qualify as an emergency and allow you to enter without notice or permission.

If a tenant is away for a few days it is probably not reasonable to treat the premises as abandoned. If, however, a tenant is gone for an unusually long period, mail is piling up, and no rent has been paid – then it might be more reasonable to consider the property as abandoned and enter without permission or notice.

January 2006
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