Does the landlord have the right to take pictures of my personal belongings inside the home that I’m leasing?
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Does the landlord have the right to take pictures of my personal belongings inside the home that I’m leasing?
She wants to post them on the internet. She has decided to put it on the market and is demanding inside pictures.
Asked on January 21, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Wyoming
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Whether or not your landlord is contractually entitled to have photographs of the inside of the rental that you are occupying depicting your belongings for marketing purposes depends upon what the presumed written lease you have states or does not state. As such, you need to carefully read it in that its terms control the obligations owed to you by the landlord and vice versa in the absence of conflicting state law.
If the lease does not mention the landlord's inability to photograph the unit inside for marketing purposes, then the landlord can do so. Most likely there is a provision in the lease requiring the tenant's cooperation the the sale of the rental. Allowing the photographs could be deemed part of the cooperation clause.
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