My landlord has a storage closet in the house and he told his friend to come in today while I was at work. The front door has a deadbolt so rather than using the side door he jumped in through my bedroom window and went and got whatever from the storage and left.

My landlord texted me to tell me he was very disappointed that this is the second time in a row that I was not allowing access for his random friends and family to come over and check on the place (last time I actually was at the doctor’s office when apparently his mom couldn’t get in without more than 1 hours notice).

He’s sending over his mother in the morning which he messaged me at 9pm. I really want to just leave the deadbolt unlocked and just call the cops and tell them she’s trespassing when she shows up.

Also the icing on the cake of all of this is apparently the thing that his friend was coming to get was a gun that he was storing with my landlord because he is a prohibited possessor, not allowed to have guns because he has domestic violence charges.

Update: The mom did end up coming over. She started saying she’s in charge now and went back and forth about asking me to do maintenance on the outside of the property that I’m not responsible for and just talking bs I said that they can just evict me if they want and then started screaming up until I said “If there isn’t anything else can you please go”. That made her pretty irate and she said she was calling the cops.

She started tossing things around the kitchen and I went into my room locked it and called the cops. They showed up in about a minute and asked her to leave and she said that the whole reason that she had came there was for a piece of furniture or something. They took her over to a couch that was probably bigger than her car and she tried dragging it for about 3 feet then said she doesn’t need it and left.

The landlord ended up messaging me afterwards telling me I was never a tenant here and he’s going to get proof and then asked if I could be out in a few weeks.

33 points

Text him in the morning:

Hey, so, this is awkward but I just saw this text and didn’t realize your mom was going to be letting herself in. You might want to call her because I think she’s pretty upset about getting shot a few times.

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105 points

Check your local laws - this is quite likely illegal.

I’m also sure the cops would love to know about the illegal firearms.

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Province would help.

All i know you can really do is lock up and submit a LTB claim. When asked tell them to submit the proper notice. Don’t link them anything or fix their mistake, just keep notes and proof of everything

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Check your local laws. I believe it’s 48 hour notice where I live.

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Where I am it’s 24 hrs without permission, but with permission there’s no minimum. So if they knock on your door and say “hey, mind if I come in and grab something from the shed?” and you say “sure” then that’s fine. With 24 hrs notice though you legally can’t prevent access

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Likely breaking and entering as well as something on the guns. I’d call the cops and file a report.

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I would go to the police station rather than call them to your home. When they are on familiar ground, I think there is less threat that they’d feel a need for force.

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Realistically if you call them for a situation like this after the fact, they’re just going to tell you to come in anyways

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