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How much notice do you give a tenant before doing a rental inspection?

We are currently renting and our landlord is trying to sell our house. The real estate agent she is using keeps giving us less then 24 hrs notice before a rental inspection. We have asked him to give us a bit more notice but he has told that 24hrs is the industry standard for rental inspections. Is he correct or is he just bullying us?

Public Comments

1. to do a routine inspection they must give 7-14 days notice but for selling the house i think its 48 hours
2. What does your lease say?
3. If you are in Australia, it depends on which state you are in. Rental Law varies from state to state. There are tenancy rights centres in most states which usually have a website, you could try a google search for one of these. If you're elsewhere, then I don't know.
4. i CAN honestly tell you it averages from 24 / 48hours, but read your lease agreenment it will say it there. but in this situation , it is no win, win , for you ! The agent will be rubbing it's grubby greedy hands at the prospect of making a sale ! So they will pretend to apologise and so on but at the end of the day they don't give a S----t ! . If i was you , suprise them and find yourself something else in the mean time, and move fast out of there. People don't deserve to be treated this way, it is stressful enough to have to be in a position not to afford something of your own, because the Government in Australia is not doing enough to get young people to afford their own home. (Yes i am aware of the first home owners grant, which is not enough as i believe , young people need help all the way, for the first 10 years of owing a morgage, so as to not get themselves in dire straights for the beggining of their lives!) When i was first married and pregnant with my first child i was very sick and i had to put up with a pig of a Real Estate who did this to me all the time, even though i complained it was the worst.
5. I worked within the real estate industry in australia for over 14 years. 24 hours in the min notice you are required to be given.
6. Technically the landlord should give you 7 days notice of any inspection. This is meant to be written but the act does not specify whether you need to give the 4 days postage as you do with a termination notice. In relation to providing access to a property that is up for sale, the term in most Australian leases is "reasonable notice". Really helpful I know. Reasonable is deamed by the CTTT to be whatever is agreed upon between the landlord and tenant. No idea what happens if a tenant and an owner cannot agree as luckily I haven't been in that situation yet. I would recommend that you request a rental reduction for the period the property is on the market. This is a standard and common practice to encourage tenants to make the property available, have the place looking nice etc. It's an incentive so if you don't provide access then you don't get the reduction. Perhaps see if your agent is willing to have a set time for opens on a weekend. They can't come through without your permission unless it is to attend to an emergency repair or if they believe the premises to be abandoned. If you refuse access they CAN NOT enter the premises. If they do then it's trespass. Good luck and remember if you have any other questions to discuss them with the Office of Fair Trading tenancy advice line (or whatever your local rental assistance contact is).
7. Gawd, what a load of answers. Knowing what country you are in would help. In the US you get 24 hours notice. It is not "industry standard", it is the law.
8. why not buy the house from the landlord? make some kind of agreement...... or move.. good luck
9. Some states have laws covering this. Check yours.
10. Be a little realistic. If you were looking to buy something like a house you would want to view it today. Not in 24 hours or in 7 days. Yet if the agent is just inspecting (not with a buyer) for no good reason then you could try telling them you have had enough of his trouble, it stops or its time to find a new place. Let it sit for months (who knows maybe even years) with out tenants. Better to move out now, when it suits you rather then later when it suites the new owner. Remember that it’s a reasonable good chance that the new owner is going to want to live in it.
11. 24 hours is standard.
12. For a inspection for people (buyers) to look through the property they must give atleast 14 days notice in either writing or verbal. For a inspection to inspect the place (they do this every 6 months) they must give atleast 14 days written notice. This is also happening to my mum at the moment & you realy need to put your foot down. Also you can ask for money off the rent for having people through your home & the cleaning of the home.