On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:30:07 +0100, Percy Picacity
wrote:

Mark Goodge wrote in
shouse.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,

Why?

Just because Mark is male, that does not mean any other males share
his views.

I certainly don't.

If I was renting accommodation and came home to find a stranger in the
house without any warning, I would be holding him until the police
arrived, when I would expect him to be arrested and removed by them.

While the landlord certainly has a right (and duty) to maintain and
repair the property, he does NOT have any right to just send somebody
in without prior arrangement, except in an emergency situation.
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