Walk It Through: The Spare Key
Two days' notice, a tenant's request as permission, and a month's rent for an unlawful entry.
A tenant comes home from work to find the landlord inside the apartment, with no notice beforehand.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One apartment and one landlord. Absence and abandonment, entries by court order, and the size of actual damages are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.