I live in Oregon. I am a person that values their privacy. My apartment management team has recently made me feel that they do not. Last Friday I found a repair notice within my apartment after they entered, without notice, to make a repair of a drip under a sink to the wrong apartment. I called them and was told that they had mistakenly gone to the wrong apartment, but I was lucky because I did not have to worry about my sink leaking. I told them that I found that unacceptable and I asked they at that time to make sure they had verbal authorization from myself before entering in the future.
Monday morning I received a notice taped to my front door stating that they were having a company come in to install Fios and that they would need access to my apartment Wednesday and Thursday. I called them and stated that I was not able to be at home and they should not enter when I was not there. I stated that it needed to be rescheduled for Friday or the following week. I was told that I did not have the right to deny them entry and that in my lease it stated that they would give 48 hours notice and they had. I was then told that if I did not allow them to install the Fios the next tenant would have to pay $600 for it. I stated that the date of entry just needed to be changed and that they were not authorized to enter my apartment on Wednesday, the date listed. They refused and stated that it did not matter that I had told them not to enter. They entered my apartment while I was gone. While there they tracked mud into my carpet and obviously made themselves at home, using my restroom and looking at my catalogs.
My lease is not up for 6 months and it is $2000 to break my lease. How can I get out of lease without paying the $2000, or is that even an option? I do not wish to live there when they do not respect my privacy.
Monday morning I received a notice taped to my front door stating that they were having a company come in to install Fios and that they would need access to my apartment Wednesday and Thursday. I called them and stated that I was not able to be at home and they should not enter when I was not there. I stated that it needed to be rescheduled for Friday or the following week. I was told that I did not have the right to deny them entry and that in my lease it stated that they would give 48 hours notice and they had. I was then told that if I did not allow them to install the Fios the next tenant would have to pay $600 for it. I stated that the date of entry just needed to be changed and that they were not authorized to enter my apartment on Wednesday, the date listed. They refused and stated that it did not matter that I had told them not to enter. They entered my apartment while I was gone. While there they tracked mud into my carpet and obviously made themselves at home, using my restroom and looking at my catalogs.
My lease is not up for 6 months and it is $2000 to break my lease. How can I get out of lease without paying the $2000, or is that even an option? I do not wish to live there when they do not respect my privacy.
