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As others have noted, check your lease and your locality's regs about yard sales and collecting sales tax. At the very least, not giving you notice and blocking access to your driveway do not seem right.
Ordinarily, a renter is entitled to the "quiet enjoyment" of the premises. But you have to ask yourself whether getting in a fight with your LL, even if you are in the right, is worth it to you. You could win the fight and still lose the place where you are living.
1st READ your lease see IF the Yard is included. Does LL Maintain the yard or You. IF he does LL don't need your permission to enter nor give you notice.
Yeah ok to enter and do maintenance sure. Blocking driveways and having a garage sale isn't maintenance.
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Originally Posted by greyhorsewoman
You normally do not collect sales tax on used items.
Of course you can sometimes collect tax on used items. Depends if you're reselling as a business or your state or county demands tax to be paid on certain items. If you're a business liquidating you have to declare the sold item income
I moved into my home 6 months ago. I was told that there was a building on the property that I would not have access to. Soon after I moved in the landlord put a large storage building on the property without warning. I didn't like it but I did not say anything. Last week, another building was put on the property. He didn't tell me it was coming either.
This past weekend he had a yard sale Saturday and Sunday that lasted until the night. I did not know that he was doing this until Saturday when he showed up with about 8 of his friends. They had my driveway blocked for 2 days. I am furious. What rights do I have? Keep in mind that he doesn't live on my property. Can he keep putting buildings on the property and have yard sales here?
First it is not your property.
After that read your lease.
Read here, then take the steps necessary to get your questions answered: State Landlord Tenant Laws
1st READ your lease see IF the Yard is included. Does LL Maintain the yard or You. IF he does LL don't need your permission to enter nor give you notice.
Actually, in most states, the leasing of residential property includes all the property unless excluded. The landlord would need to listed specifically what is excluded from the entire property or what is included from the entire property. If it's vague, non specific, or omitted, the default is the tenant has quiet enjoyment use of the entire property.
......... I was told that there was a building on the property that I would not have access to.....
You need to check and see just exactly what your lease says. You were told right there, before you decided to take the house, that you did not get possession of the entire property. I suspect that your lease only includes the house and not all of the property. If there was already a building that didn't go with the lease and there was additional room for building more storage buildings, then it is a relatively large property. You didn't lease all of the property, just the house.
You might, politely, mention to the landlord that you didn't like having your driveway blocked. I assume that the driveway is the only access to your house, because how the property is laid out and where the driveway is located will say whether or not you get exclusive use to it, or even whether or not it is included with the house.
Because you appear to be unhappy with the place, I suggest that you consider moving to a different house, with a smaller yard, where you get the yard included with the house.
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