Q: Is it in my rights to have the landlord stop taking inspection pictures of my apartment every three months?
I have lived in the same apartment for a while now in Oregon and the management company recently changed. They placed a notice on the door of their impending first inspection but it makes no mention of photographic recordings. The previous management company did not photograph during inspections. I told them photographs are unacceptable when they arrived here and began snapping pictures, and was told to expect more pictures next time. I am clean and law abiding and view thier intrusion as demeaning and wrongful. I signed my name on the agreement to take care of the apartment, so having them take inspection pictures to which I did not agree in writing on top of that is truly insulting, as though my word is worth less than the ink it took to write my signatures on the lease. An abhorrent violation of my privacy and sense of security.
A: A landlord has a right to inspect their property and to photographically document its condition.
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