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[quote user="blue"]Can some one just clarify one thing.  If you are in a stuation where you have non-payment of rent can you legally enter your own house to do 'repair' work?[/quote]

Les

droits du propriétaire pour faire effectuer des travaux:

L'intrusion du propriétaire dans le logement est souvent vécue par

les locataires en place comme une violation de leurs droits, a fortiori

lorsqu'il s'agit de réaliser des travaux qui n'apparaissent pas urgents

et qui sont bruyants ou salissants. Pourtant, la loi du 06 juillet

1989 (nous ne parlerons pas des logements régis pas la loi de 1948,

rares aujourd'hui) donne certains droits aux propriétaires privés.

Le

locataire ne peut pas refuser l'accès des parties communes, a fortiori

du logement, au propriétaire qui veut faire des travaux. Toutefois,

si son propriétaire abuse de la situation, le locataire n'est pas

démuni.

Le

propriétaire peut librement effectuer les travaux qui visent à a
méliorer le logement en augmentant sa sécurité, son insonorisation,

son isolation thermique, son confort général ou e
ntretenir l'habitation.

Le locataire

peut estimer que les travaux que le propriétaire réalise ou qu'il

projette d'effectuer sont abusifs (ils peuvent être différés à la

fin du bail, ils ont pour but de lui nuire.). Mais il ne peut pas

s'opposer directement au propriétaire. Il doit saisir le tribunal

d'instance de son domicile pour faire reconnaître l'abus par le juge.

C'est cette décision qui interdira les travaux.

Le

locataire peut demander une indemnisation pour les travaux

abusifs qui lui ont causé un dommage (coût d'un nettoyage,

perte de temps, de salaire.). Mais aussi pour les travaux

autorisés qui ont duré plus de 40 jours (art. 1724 du

Code civil).

Quick translation[quote]
Rights of the owner to make carry out work: The intrusion of the owner is often lived by the tenants like a violation of

their rights, particularly for work which

does not appear to be urgent and which is noisy or messy. However, the law

of July 6, 1989 (
we will not speak about the governed residences not

the law of 1948, rare today
) gives certain rights to private

owners.

The tenant cannot refuse access to the communal areas, a

fortiori to the private areas, to the owner who wants to do work. However, if

the owner misuses the situation, the tenant is not without recourse.

The owner

can freely carry out work which aims to improve housing by increasing

its safety, its sound-proofing, its heat insulation, its comfort

general or to maintain the dwelling.

The tenant can estimate that work

which the owner completes or which it projects to carry out are abusive

(i.e. they could be differed to the end of the lease, they

are designed to annoy him). But the tenant cannot oppose the owner directly. He must go to the magistrates' court of his residence to have make the abuse recognised by the judge. It is this decision which will prohibit the work.

The tenant can ask for compensation for abusive work which have caused him damage (cost of cleaning, lost wages, waste of time.). But also for

authorised work which lasted more than 40 days (art 1724 of the Civil

code).[/quote]
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Thank-you for that. Interesting their rights to oppose the work - wonder how that would stand up in court if the landlord can also prove non-payment of rent??

Of course any work carried out would only be for the safety, comfort and benefit of the non rent paying tennants.

 

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[quote user="Clair"]The law in France seems to be skewed against the landlord, so I suggest the court would see any attempt by the landlord to make the tenant uncomfortable as just that, regardless of the landlord's loss...
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Go up to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and if you see a decent hardworking, honest person looking back at you, then you are going to get shafted by the law will shaft you...simple

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