Posted on 12/30/2012 10:41:47 AM PST by redreno
A person’s home is his castle and thus affords certain protections and immunities—including the right to exclude unwanted visitors—that apply whether you own or rent. Unfortunately, ordinances authorizing general administrative searches of rental properties have been increasingly adopted by local authorities with little protection for property rights or privacy interests.
These inspections cover the whole of the buildings and all of the activity that occurs within, opening every aspect of people’s lives to the government: political and religious affiliations, intimate relationships, and even all those Justin Bieber posters and Fifty Shades of Gray books you hide when people come over. They take place even if both the landlord and tenant believe them not to be necessary!
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^^^ If you have a mortgage, can someone from your bank enter your house? ^^^
>> If you have a mortgage, are you really the owner?
If your real estate can be alienated from you for nonpayment of property taxes, are you really the owner?
No, you can refuse that too. I never allowed the exterminator in when I had cats.
“No, you can refuse that too. I never allowed the exterminator in when I had cats.”
Good to know that...I semi-own now (i.e., still a mortgage, and always property taxes).
Thanks.
Seem to recall a recent SCOTUS ruling that says otherwise.
Unless its a membership store where you signed that option away, you can refuse loss prevention inspections. The store can in turn ask you never to come back to that store or the entire chain.
I have seen too many buffoons in loss prevention to have much respect for them. I have cost several their jobs over time and injured a couple.
Well.. technically, thanks to the overbearing govt.. we don’t even ‘own’ the property we paid for... we still have to pay taxes on something we already own :/
they do, but when they enter into a renter’s contract, they agree to be bound to the terms of the rental agreement. there are well established reasonable standards of what can and can’t be in a rental contract and it varies state to state. further if the building owners believe there’s risk of damage to their property, or illegal activity going on, they have rights as well.
bank - no. they don’t have keys and breaking in would be illegal.
How about eminent domain action filed by anyone with more money or political connections than the property owner?
The government treats everybody like trash.
“wearying” = searching. ;(
Either one works. The government wearies me whenever its agents & employees show up; it may well weary my home, too, to have them in or about it.
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