Quiet enjoyment

You have the right to exclusive use of your rented home. This is called quiet enjoyment (your right to live in the home without your landlord disturbing you). Your landlord cannot come in whenever they want.

Alabama law says your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home. Your landlord also cannot use the right to enter to bother you on purpose.

Arizona law says your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home to bother you. This is part of your right to quiet enjoyment: living in your home without your landlord interfering or bothering you.

Your landlord must not interfere with your quiet enjoyment of your home. Entering without your permission can break this rule.

Your landlord may not abuse the right to enter or use it to bother you. But if the landlord follows the rules above, you cannot refuse the entry or pick a different time. These rules apply even if your lease says something else.

Colorado law protects quiet enjoyment: your right to use your home without unreasonable interference from your landlord. A written lease cannot take this right away. But your lease can say your landlord is not responsible if someone else, who your landlord cannot reasonably control, causes the problem.

Your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home to bother you. A request to enter that would otherwise be allowed can break the law if your landlord repeats it just to bother you.

Except in an emergency, your landlord may enter only between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. The landlord must not abuse the right of access. The landlord must not use it to harass (repeatedly bother) you.

Your landlord cannot abuse the right to enter your home or use it to bother you again and again.

In Georgia, you have the right to use, occupy, and enjoy your rental unit as your lease describes.

A Hawaii landlord must not abuse the right to enter your home. The landlord must not use it to harass (bother) you.

The Idaho Attorney General says tenants have a right to privacy in their rentals.

Every Illinois lease includes a covenant of quiet enjoyment (a promise that you can use your home without the landlord interfering). It applies even if the lease does not mention it. Courts have ruled that a landlord who substantially interferes with your use of the home breaks this promise. You can ask a court to order the landlord to stop.

Your landlord cannot abuse the right to enter your home. Your landlord also cannot use that right to bother or pressure you.

You have a right to privacy in your home. Your landlord should come at a time that works for you.

Nevada law says your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home. Your landlord cannot use entry to harass you.

Louisiana law requires your landlord to protect your peaceful use of your home for as long as your lease lasts. The law calls this your peaceful possession. If your landlord does not do this, your landlord has broken the lease.

Unless your lease says otherwise, you have the right to quiet enjoyment of your home in Maryland. Quiet enjoyment means peace and privacy while you live there.

Massachusetts law protects your right to quiet enjoyment of your home. This means you can use your home without your landlord interfering. A landlord who interferes with your quiet enjoyment is breaking the law.

Usually, your landlord cannot use force or the threat of force against you. Your landlord also cannot take, keep, or destroy your belongings. Michigan law calls this unlawful interference with your right to stay in your home.

Usually, your landlord cannot bring in noise, bad smells, or another nuisance (something that badly disturbs your ability to live in your home). Michigan law does not allow it.

Your landlord may not abuse the right to enter your home. Your landlord may not use it to harass (bother) you.

Your landlord must not abuse the right to enter. Your landlord must not use the right to enter to harass (bother) you.

Your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home or use it to bother or pressure you.

New Hampshire law bars a landlord from willfully (on purpose) violating a tenant's right to quiet enjoyment (living in your home in peace). It also bars a landlord from trying to get around the lawful steps for evicting a tenant under RSA 540.

If you have a written lease, New Jersey calls your landlord's duty not to enter the covenant of quiet enjoyment. It means you decide who may or may not enter your home.

Your landlord must not abuse the right to enter your home. New Mexico law calls this your right to quiet enjoyment: the right to live in your home without your landlord bothering you. Your landlord breaks the law by making repeated requests to enter that are each legal alone but, together, bother you more than is fair.

You have the right to privacy and quiet in your home. The law calls this quiet enjoyment. Nobody acting for the owner may get in the way of it. If someone keeps bothering you to push you out, that counts as harassment (unwanted, hostile treatment). Harassment is illegal.

Under North Dakota law, a landlord must not abuse the right of access to your home. A landlord must not use it to harass (bother) or intimidate (scare) you.

A North Dakota lease of real property binds the landlord to secure the renter's quiet possession (the right to use the home in peace). This lasts during the lease term. The duty runs against all persons lawfully claiming the same property.

Your landlord must not abuse the right to enter your home.

Your landlord cannot misuse their right to enter your home. They also cannot use that right to harass you (treat you in a way meant to pressure or upset you).

Your landlord cannot abuse the right to enter your home or use it to harass you (bother or threaten you). At the same time, you cannot refuse a visit that follows the rules without a good reason.

Every Pennsylvania lease includes the right of quiet enjoyment: you may use and enjoy your home without unreasonable interference from your landlord. Courts have applied this rule since at least 1871. It protects you even if your lease never mentions it.

Under Pennsylvania law, every lease includes the right of quiet enjoyment. You can use and enjoy your home without unreasonable interference from your landlord. In return, you must give your landlord reasonable access for maintenance or repairs, or to show the home to a future renter.

When you rent a home in Pennsylvania, you buy the right not to be bothered or disturbed by other people, including your landlord. The law calls this the covenant of quiet enjoyment (a promise that comes with your lease). It is part of your lease even if it is not written there. It also applies to oral leases (leases not in writing). If you have a written lease, read it carefully. It may make you give up all or part of this right.

Quiet enjoyment covers your guests too. In one Pennsylvania case, a landlord sent a "no trespass" letter (a letter banning someone from the property) to a tenant's boyfriend. The landlord then tried to evict her for letting him visit. Courts ruled this broke her right to quiet enjoyment and blocked the eviction. But if your guest breaks your lease, harms the home, commits a crime, or disturbs other tenants, your landlord can act. Your landlord can limit their access. If it continues, your landlord can evict you.

Your landlord must not abuse the right to enter your home. Your landlord must not use it to harass (bother or pressure) you.

Every Texas lease includes a covenant of quiet enjoyment (your right to possess the home in peace without the landlord disturbing you). No statute creates it. Courts read it into every lease. A landlord who enters more often than needed, at unreasonable times, or against the lease may be breaking it.

Your landlord cannot misuse the right to enter your home, and cannot use it to keep bothering you.

You cannot refuse, without a good reason, to let your landlord in when the notice rules are followed. Your landlord also cannot show the home so often it becomes harassment (repeated pressure that disturbs your peace).

You have the right to the exclusive use of your home until your lease ends or your renting there legally ends. You keep this right only if you are not in default under your lease, meaning behind on rent or breaking another lease term.

Even when your landlord is allowed to enter, your landlord must first announce that they are there. If you ask who it is, your landlord must tell you.