What personal financial information is a landlord legallyentitled to?
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What personal financial information is a landlord legallyentitled to?
And is there anything that they don’t have the right to ask for (i.e. bank statements?
Asked on June 27, 2011 under Real Estate Law, Indiana
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
A landlord is legally entitled to *any* and *all* financial information, and may ask for any documentation or information he or she wants. Consider: a landlord does not have to rent apartments--it is a business, that a landlord chooses to enter. Since it's voluntary on the part of the landlord, he or she is entitled to ask for anything he or she wants...and if a prospective tenant doesnt' want to provide it, he or she doesn't have to rent there.
Two caveats:
1) If the tenant has already rented, the landlord cannot, during the middle of a lease term, ask for more informamtion (or rather: the landlord can *ask* but the tenant doesn't have to provide anything that he or she is obligated to do so by the lease). When the term is up, the landlord may ask for additional information as a condition to renew.
2) If it's publically subsidized housing, then the statutes and regulations govering public housing may limit what the landlord may request.
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