Maybe i'm approaching this from a tenant point of view, rather than a landlord, however.
About 2 weeks ago, our neighbour over the back fence approached us, and asked whether we owned, or who the property manager was, as they wanted to arrange a new fence. (It's about 1/3rd of our total back fence)
No big deal really, appreciated the guy asking, told him who the property manager was and stuff.
We've heard nothing more about it.
This morning we were woken up by works proceeding in the back yard.
Now - this isn't a huge deal to my mind, it's the landlords house, the landlords fence, the neighbours fence, they are entitled to work on it as required.
However, should the property manager have told us this was going to happen ?
They haven't entered the yard through our property, but they ARE on our leased property, through the virtue of having knocked down the fence and crossed the boundary line, and are working from this side as well.
To me, it seems like our landlord has failed to provide us with adequate notice that there would be contractors here ?
Further to me, it doesn't seem like it's the neighbour's responsibility to tell us, he would have assumed the landlord/pm had told us.
I'm a little annoyed, because as a landlord, I would definitely have told me tenant, and I would definitely have not agreed to the work being done on a Saturday. AT the very least though, I'd give the tenants the courtesy of knowing it was going to happen...
About 2 weeks ago, our neighbour over the back fence approached us, and asked whether we owned, or who the property manager was, as they wanted to arrange a new fence. (It's about 1/3rd of our total back fence)
No big deal really, appreciated the guy asking, told him who the property manager was and stuff.
We've heard nothing more about it.
This morning we were woken up by works proceeding in the back yard.
Now - this isn't a huge deal to my mind, it's the landlords house, the landlords fence, the neighbours fence, they are entitled to work on it as required.
However, should the property manager have told us this was going to happen ?
They haven't entered the yard through our property, but they ARE on our leased property, through the virtue of having knocked down the fence and crossed the boundary line, and are working from this side as well.
To me, it seems like our landlord has failed to provide us with adequate notice that there would be contractors here ?
Further to me, it doesn't seem like it's the neighbour's responsibility to tell us, he would have assumed the landlord/pm had told us.
I'm a little annoyed, because as a landlord, I would definitely have told me tenant, and I would definitely have not agreed to the work being done on a Saturday. AT the very least though, I'd give the tenants the courtesy of knowing it was going to happen...