Mark Goodge wrote in
house.net:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:00:14 +0100, judith put finger to keyboard
and typed:

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:10:07 +0100, Mark Goodge
wrote:

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 will be surprised if anyone else admits to this "normal"
behaviour of allowing unknown people to enter their house whilst
they are not there for whatever purpose.

I'd be surprised, too, since that's nothing like what I've
described as normal. Please go back and read the thread properly.

Mark



I suspect there is a gender difference here, or possibly only
partially, as I share the strong, emotional objection to a landlord
or his agent wandering in to fix something while I am out which all
the female persons I have ever gathered the opinions of would hold.
We would be both morally and personally outraged by the idea that
anyone could do that. I don't doubt there are a subset of tenants
like Mark who have no difficulty with the idea: perhaps they had a
public school upbringing which prepared them for communal living. I
think with many tenants such conduct would be highly dangerous for
said handyman should the tenant come home and find him at work.

Perhaps this is an issue of principle which landlords or their
agents should sort out at the beginning of every tenancy - and a
practical point with heterosexual couples: ask the female one!


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Percy Picacity