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Entry with Notice but Without Consent

You can enter premises without a tenant’s permission but after giving notice that you will enter to do the following:

  • inspect the premises to consider repairs;
  • carry out repairs;
  • show the property to people who might buy the property or to people who need to inspect the property for the purposes of a mortgage;
  • show the property to people who might want to rent it. This can only occur in the last month of a fixed-term tenancy, or after you or the tenant have served notice of termination in a periodic tenancy;
  • take steps concerning pest control so that the property complies with public health law.

If a tenant gives permission for entry then no notice is required.

The notice you serve must state the time of entry and be in the proper form. The notice must be served in the way required by the law to be valid. If the date or time that you propose to enter is not convenient for the tenant, he can object to the notice. The objection to the proposed time should be valid and he has to suggest another day and time that you can enter. The fact that he cannot be home may not be a valid reason to object to your notice.

January 2006



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