Can a landlord tell you where to put your furniture

[needhelp0101]

In the state of Mississippi, can a landlord tell you where you can and cannot put certain furniture in the rental house? My landlord is saying that I am not allowed to have my extra bed in the dining room? There is nothing in my lease that says anything about this, so is this legal and do I have to move the bed?

 

[eerelations]

In the state of Mississippi, can a landlord tell you where you can and cannot put certain furniture in the rental house? My landlord is saying that I am not allowed to have my extra bed in the dining room? There is nothing in my lease that says anything about this, so is this legal and do I have to move the bed?

Just curious, what reason has your landlord given for not wanting the spare bed to be in the dining room?

 

[needhelp0101]

No reason was given, just that it can't be in there.

 

[zddoodah]

Are you renting the entire house or just a room in the house?

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Check and see if your lease has a restriction on the number of people that may live there.

There may also be local laws restricting what is considered a legal bedroom in an apartment.

 

[needhelp0101]

Are you renting the entire house or just a room in the house?

I ma renting the entire house.

 

[adjusterjack]

I ma renting the entire house.

Then you are free to tell your landlord to pound sand.

 

[zddoodah]

I ma renting the entire house.

Then, in the absence of something to the contrary in the lease, the landlord has no right to dictate how you furnish any given room.

That said, if you're on a month-to-month lease, it would not be illegal for the landlord to terminate the tenancy for this reason.

 

[quincy]

In the state of Mississippi, can a landlord tell you where you can and cannot put certain furniture in the rental house? My landlord is saying that I am not allowed to have my extra bed in the dining room? There is nothing in my lease that says anything about this, so is this legal and do I have to move the bed?

Is the bed blocking a window or door?

 

[FarmerJ]

Alot of landlords are not thrilled when tenants use rooms that legally are not bedrooms as bedrooms. ( I have known some single tenants who put children in the bedrooms and the parent them self slept in living room, OR like years ago one I knew of who used dining room as living room , living room as bedroom for her boys and her daughter and she shared the one actual bedroom) But anyway where im going with this is if a city does not spell out a occupancy code dictating how rooms are to be used OR a code that limits how many bodies may live somewhere and a landlord didnt write into a lease restrictions as to how a bedroom could be used then the LL may try to tell a tenant ` you cant do that ` but could not truly enforce it until a lease is up for renewal and change the lease to address that. AND last but not least if it wasnt a actual bed what would the difference be if it was a fold down or regular couch in a dining room ?

 

[Litigator22]

Alot of landlords are not thrilled when tenants use rooms that legally (?) are not bedrooms as bedrooms . . . .

Just "roominating" here FJ, but suppose the tenant cleared the room in question of all furniture except his spare bed. Would the room become a legal bedroom or an illegal dining room?

 

[Gail in Georgia]

Since it's doubtful the dining room has a closet it would likely still be considered a dining room and not a bedroom.

Why the need to move a bed into a dining room in the first place? Curious.

Gail

 

[eerelations]

Why the need to move a bed into a dining room in the first place? Curious.

Maybe because the OP has an extra bed with no other place to put it? Or that the OP plans to have the occasional overnight guest and the dining room is the only place he can fit the guest bed? (My aunt used to have a cot-like bed in her dining room and that's where I slept when I visited her on weekends now and then.)

I'm more curious about the landlord's reasoning for not wanting the spare bed in the dining room. And also why the OP never asked the landlord for his/her reasoning. (Personally, if my landlord told me I couldn't put a certain piece of my own furniture in an abode I was renting, the first thing outta my mouth would have been "Why not?")

 

[quincy]

It might be a safety hazard of some sort - unless the landlord fears a greater-than-permitted occupancy of the unit. There are occupancy limits that are generally based on the number of bedrooms (e.g., 2/bedroom).

 

[eerelations]

It might be a safety hazard of some sort - unless the landlord fears a greater-than-permitted occupancy of the unit. There are occupancy limits that are generally based on the number of bedrooms (e.g., 2/bedroom).

Well, OP will never know unless he asks...and we won't be able to advise him unless he asks.