Imagine having a neighbor so entitled he secretly builds a giant balcony across your property line the second you leave the state. When I caught him, he just smirked, cracked open a beer, and told me that he owned the airspace. He thought his spot on the Hway board made him untouchable. The first one is titled Strongarmming Me into a viewing. Fine, but you won’t get inside the apartment.
So for context, I’m renting an apartment from a company whose renting agents are somehow all unprofessional, late, and kind of slow. Had a plethora of issues with them throughout 10 months, but that is a story for another time. As I’ve told my landlord I’ll be moving out, they instructed their agents to find a new tenant for the apartment. The way it worked, the agent would email me with a proposed date and time, and I would confirm that I’ll be in at that time.
I’ve got a cat, so I insisted on being present during the viewings. The agents never had keys. I think that’s because the landlord’s office is at the other end of the city, and they cannot be bothered to drive an extra hour each time there’s a viewing to pick the keys up and then drop them off. So, they relied on me to let them in each time. Apart from a couple of unannounced showups, followed by passive aggressive emails about the messy property.
All was well until a week ago. The agent emails me saying they’ve got a viewing on the 13th. I respond by saying that I’ve got work that day and won’t be able to do 13th. She simply replies, “If you won’t be able to accommodate this request, I’ll ask the landlord for a 24-hour notice of entry, which is legally enforceable. ” Okay, do that. The day comes, I get a call. We are downstairs. Congratulations, but I’m not home.
I hope you brought keys this time. Man, I wish I could see her face then. We went back and forth a bit, and she tried to threaten me with legal action, to which I just replied that I don’t object to them entering. They are unable to enter through their own negligence and I have nothing to do with it. Naturally got an email from the landlord asking me to be more cooperative next time which was promptly ignored.
