On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:05:04 +0100, Yellow put finger to keyboard and
typed:

Mark Goodge ] said:

Not as a general rule, no. But, if you're a tenant, and you report
that something is broken and needs fixing, it's not unreasonable for
the landlord to assume that the report constitutes an invitation to
enter in order to fix it. That's what normally happens, anyway.

You use the work "normal" a lot. Normal in what context?

Normal in the context of my own experience and that of other people I
know.

I'm not trying
to be difficult here, it's just that I have never come across this as
being considered normal before while I have heard complaints from
tenants before, which is why many routinely change locks when they move
in.

Changing the locks is often a breach of the tenancy agreement. It's
certainly not at all normal. If you deal mainly with people who do
that, then your experience is the untypical one.

And asking for something to be fixed constituting an invitation to
enter? Now that would be totally *unreasonable* in my opinion. Gosh,
imagine you were asleep in bed when the doorbell rings followed by
someone unlocking your door and entering your home! It doesn't bear
thinking about.

I would expect it to happen at a reasonable time. Workmen normally
work during the day; so do I. So if I phone the landlord or his agent
and report a fault with the property, the chances are that the workman
will need access to fix it at a time when I'm not at home. In that
case, it's actually beneficial for me if the agent can give him access
without needing me to sort it out for him.

Mark