Q: Can a landlord enter any communal areas inside a house that has room renters without giving any notice?
I own and rent out 4 bedrooms with individual month to month leases of a house that I do not live in. I occasionally need to go inside to collect rent from the tenants or do basic maintenance. I have never entered any of the tenants bedrooms with out proper 24 hr notice. Can i enter the communal areas such as living room, kitchen, shared bathrooms and laundry room without giving any kind of notice to the tenants? Also because of it being communal areas am I responsible for cleaning the said areas?
A: Generally I believe no advanced notice is required for a landlord to enter common areas so long as they can do so without entering or going through an area under a specific tenant's exclusive control. As for cleaning, that likely depends upon what obligations the lease specifies for the tenants.
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