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Quiet enjoyment

Your right to live in the home undisturbed - by the landlord most of all.

The covenant of quiet enjoyment is your right to reasonably undisturbed use of the home: no surprise entries, no harassment, no landlord-caused disruptions that make living there miserable. Like habitability, it's implied in every lease.

Serious, ongoing violations - repeated unannounced entries, cutting utilities to push you out - can amount to constructive eviction.

Watch out

Keep a dated log of every unannounced entry or disturbance. A pattern, documented, is what turns 'annoying' into 'actionable.'

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