Q: Can a landlord show property while we are packing and moving?
Date the house is being shown is not convienent and exposes a great many belongings of ours exposed to someone we don't even know. Do we have any privacy rights?
A: Of course they can as long as they give at least 24 hours advanced notice AND so long as you do not tell them not to. A tenant cannot legally refuse to allow the landlord to enter unreasonably. But if you have a reasonable reason (which it sounds as if you do), you are free to tell the landlord no. If they enter anyway (and you can prove it), it likely is worth a month's rent to you, plus your court costs and attorney's fees.
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