Upon refusal to pay rent due to my home being unliveable, can my landlord come into my home and take my belongings?
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Upon refusal to pay rent due to my home being unliveable, can my landlord come into my home and take my belongings?
Asked on May 12, 2012 under Real Estate Law, North Carolina
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
No, the landlord can not enter your apartment ever to take your belongings. But here is the thing: you can not necessarily with hold rent if an apartment is "uninhabitable." You can not make that call. You need to go down to corut and to start a proceeding against the landlord for a breach of the warranty of habitability, to ask the court to abate (reduce the rent) and to ask to pay the rent in to court until the situation is fixed. Good luck.
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