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dellmiss
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we have been renting a trailer in ohio for almost two years. i looked in the contract and found nothing about when/if the landlord can enter the home without prior permission. we had a widstorm the other day that knocked out the power from saturday til monday. in the mean time, the water pipes froze, so my husband turned the water on in the bathroom sink so if the water began to thaw, it would begin running. he said he thought he only turned it on to drip, but the landlord said he didn't....that he turned it on full power.
any way...first question is.....we live in town so the landlord has agreed to pay the water bill. he put a meter on our water usage, so he knows exactly how much water we use in a day. is that legal? he has called a few times, usually on days i have done several loads of laundry ,and wanted to know why we used so much water that day.
second.....the day the pipes froze, the landlord came over the morning that the electric was restored, and we were not home b/c i had stayed with my children at a friend's house b/c of having no heat. The landlord looked at the water meter and said it was "running like crazy" so he got his key and came in to the house to see why there was water running. he said the water in the bathroom, that my husband said turned on very low, was running full force, and the time between when the water thawed and he came in to the house, we use almost 500 gallons of water. my question is.....is he allowed to just enter the premises without first getting a hold of us and letting us know...and IF we did use that amount of water b/c my husband made a mistake by turning on the water to get it to thaw more quickly, are we liable for the cost of that water?
any way...first question is.....we live in town so the landlord has agreed to pay the water bill. he put a meter on our water usage, so he knows exactly how much water we use in a day. is that legal? he has called a few times, usually on days i have done several loads of laundry ,and wanted to know why we used so much water that day.
second.....the day the pipes froze, the landlord came over the morning that the electric was restored, and we were not home b/c i had stayed with my children at a friend's house b/c of having no heat. The landlord looked at the water meter and said it was "running like crazy" so he got his key and came in to the house to see why there was water running. he said the water in the bathroom, that my husband said turned on very low, was running full force, and the time between when the water thawed and he came in to the house, we use almost 500 gallons of water. my question is.....is he allowed to just enter the premises without first getting a hold of us and letting us know...and IF we did use that amount of water b/c my husband made a mistake by turning on the water to get it to thaw more quickly, are we liable for the cost of that water?