Quote Originally Posted by anicatgirl View Post
Hmmm pondering for you. Do you have your rental agreement for your apartment?

This is the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Has some helpful legal links on it too.

http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/Homeles...t_Handbook.pdf

http://real-estate-law.freeadvice.co...it_privacy.htm

I dunno how much this will help but if you get ahold maybe of some legal advice (free I hope, you might find someone sympathetic to your cause) they could advise you about the picture situation. That seems like an invasion of privacy to me. I would flip my **** if someone came to fix my appt and took pics of my home, anything in it. Could look like oh IDK, someone scoping your place for thievery, one could say. NOT OK.

Please keep us updated.
Calling a lawyer was one of the first things I did. She said I had grounds to terminate the lease for the front door fiasco, but as for the pictures, despite being wrong, it's legal. Or at least legally grey with an almost guarantee for the judge to side with the landlord. Landlords are allowed to take photographs of property damage assessment, which is how they presented this whole thing and how they'd go about it with no legal repercussion. So even if that's not the motive, they said it was and therefore it's legally okay apparently.

My lease is highly personalized. It's very specific yet very vague. It allows me to have my pets undisputedly, but is vague as in it lists no species or numbers. Simply that no one can come in and make me get rid of them or terminate my lease. It's vague in my favor.