Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Wisconsin

I rent a property that is coded with a key # and recently the landlord told me he didn't like how I was having company over. I rarely stay at my home but rather with my boyfriend, however on the days I am there, I have business associates come and go maybe 2-3 times daily but only around lunch time hours. Is it legal for them to even say anything about this? It is never noisy or disrupting. Usually no one in the 4plex is home during the day and the landlord informed me that he keeps a notification when I key in to the home. I find it to be very strange practice.


Asked on 2/22/17, 6:27 pm

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JAY Nixon nixon law offices

In the long run, you cannot truly win an argument with your landlord, since he owns the place and will find a way to get rid of you in the long run if he wants to . You, on the other hand, are also free to leave and get out of the lease by providing written notice that you are leaving prior to the next renewal date deadline in your lease. If you find this surveillance to be that big of a problem, you should therefore relocate. I doubt whether a judge would let you out of the lease early just for electronically keeping track of when you come and go. Landlords there days are justifiably afraid of having their properties potentially taken away from them if they permit illegal activities to continue, so this might motivate come to go overboard with monitoring tenants. .What you describe, however, is no worse than having security cameras covering common areas of a building, which are lawfully in common use nearly everywhere these days.

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Answered on 2/27/17, 3:43 am


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