wtf, water company coming into house!

Yeah so i just rented out new property an i setup 2 - 12x19 rooms. One is empty and other one has 12 plants in it flowering with 6 lights. Behind my room is the water meter with all my ballasts and electrical.

Landlord called me and set up an appt for water company to swap out meter. My rooms are made of mylar so when you go in basement it is completely obvious what is going on. Smells like plants already down there.

Any suggestions? I could move plants but no point cause lights cannot be unhung an electrical cannt just be removed. Ballast are hung on wall and my resivoir is full ect... also, YES ITS LEGAL. But still dont want them contacting landlord or calling cops. Is this policy for them?

ricky6991 said:

Yeah so i just rented out new property an i setup 2 - 12x19 rooms. One is empty and other one has 12 plants in it flowering with 6 lights. Behind my room is the water meter with all my ballasts and electrical.

Landlord called me and set up an appt for water company to swap out meter. My rooms are made of mylar so when you go in basement it is completely obvious what is going on. Smells like plants already down there.

Any suggestions? I could move plants but no point cause lights cannot be unhung an electrical cannt just be removed. Ballast are hung on wall and my resivoir is full ect... also, YES ITS LEGAL. But still dont want them contacting landlord or calling cops. Is this policy for them?

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Get your shit out of there, get renters insurance and 'accidentally' burn the place down. Use the insurance money as a down payment on a house.

If you're legal it shouldn't be an issue, though if your landlord doesn't know what you are doing you may be in the crapper. It all depends on the person coming into your place of residence. If your meter is where you say it is and you can't get rid of the smell you are correct they will know something is up. If you have your license the best thing I could suggest when he is entering the house is to show it to him and to make him aware, thus you wont throw him off guard and make him want to call the police. THOUGH if you can move your plants out for the day and vent the downstairs so it doesn't smell and want to do it stealthily I'd take that approach. He doesn't have the right to go pondering through your place of residence he is only there for the meter so do not fret on that. I say that since if you can only grow x number of plants (This is canadian law) you really want to keep him in the blue without freaking him out thinking you are a grow op. Don't offer your supply don't talk about anything more then you have to this is for security reasons (never trust anybody). If he does call the police they will only contact your landlord IF they have reason to do so, cops wont waste their time if everything is legit.

Hope this helps!

even if you're legal, i'd bet it's not legal to be growing in a place you rent... look at your lease for a drug clause.. if there is anything in it that mentions the use of drugs in any form, get ride of the grow imo..
just move the plants upstairs if you can and put some normal house plants under the lights for now imo..

real estate follows federal laws. Also, my buddy would keep an enclosed trailer next to his grow as an "oh-shit,' measure. Maybe, you could buy a few fruit/berry giving plants and use them as Racerboy suggested

Hopefully this teaches you to not put your plants anywhere near a maintainance item. Furnace, water meter, electric meter, etc.

In RI your landlord cannot evict you for being an MMP

racerboy71 said:

even if you're legal, i'd bet it's not legal to be growing in a place you rent... look at your lease for a drug clause.. if there is anything in it that mentions the use of drugs in any form, get ride of the grow imo..
just move the plants upstairs if you can and put some normal house plants under the lights for now imo..

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I know that no lease I have ever signed had any kind of "drug clause" in it. If you're in a legal state can't you just tell your landlord they are effectively houseplants like any other and to fuck off?
If you're not in a legal state, theeeen if the meters are not IN the rooms - maybe you can try Locks on the doors, and packed boxes in front of them like you haven't finished unpacking.
And for god's sakes get those rooms properly ventilated!
Are you asking to get caught?

Reminds me of one summer at the beach while sitting in an appt complex parking lot waiting for a girl, laughing my ass off as some guy struggled to carry what were obviously 5 gallon pots with trash bags over them from the 3rd floor, down, up, down, up, down, sweatin' like a mofo in broad daylight.
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You might wanna rent a uhaul truck($50?) and throw the plants in there during the visit and dismantle what you can(not the mylar but everything else, maybe throw blankets over the mylar so it just looks like a mountain of shit being stored or stacks of boxes[dunno what you're working with though tbh]). Also I'd move the plants a couple hours before sunrise when people are sleeping, the day of your water meter. Meaning get the truck the day before.

If anyone asks you about the uhaul say you just picked up your couch from storage.

Any apartment you live in, the maintanence can come in as long as they give you prior warning. They have keys. If I lived in an apartment still I wouldn't be growing. too stressful.

Maintenance? Like a superintendent? Not without signed consent... In Canada, it's against the law for the landlord to even ask for a copy of the key. IF they already have made copies when the apt was empty - THAT is a different story. Then they don't even need to inform you that they have those copies...

You can change your locks AND do renovations without written consent from the landlord unless you specifically sign a lease saying that you will not do work. Evey new apartment I move into, I change the locks. You don't know how boundary-less a person can be, sort of "Kramer-like" from Seinfeld or even if the keys from the previous tenant have been returned (which happened to me once).
The landlord is usually as much a stranger as the person who sells me cigarettes at the corner store.

Maybe I have trust issues or maybe I'm paranoid - but I don't trust random people I hardly know or acquaintances with personal things such as MY space.
That includes: Doctors, teachers, cops, judges, government, ect.... Yes the Gov't, I'm not personally involve with anyone in the gov't, they aren't my "friends" so therefore I do not trust them, no matter who is in power.

I may trust them to answer certain questions in their areas of expertise however to reiterate, a landlord's area of expertise is to overcharge clients for space they rent and that's about it. None have been very trustworthy in my experience and am glad for one that I NEVER handed my trust out o begin with.

In the US it is perfectly legal. They have done it at every apartment i have ever lived in. They give you a written notice.

Something similar that is built into every legal lease here is that IF you are leaving (moving out), the landlord can call you up and make an appointment to show the apt to new people WHEN YOU ARE HOME and you cannot just say "No". Either you have a reason for not being home or you let them in. And they can begin this once you give the obligatory 3 months notice of moving.

If you simply refuse, there can be sanctions brought against you of sorts. But they then need to prove you're really just trying to be difficult lol

In just about every state the landlord can enter the premises with 24 hour notice. BUT they can also enter without notice for emergencies, and some landlords consider checking smoke detectors an emergency if they don't like you/are suspicious/whatever reason.

With 24 hour notice they can enter without you being there. You may have some other clause in the lease specifying the rules for showing the unit, etc.

I dont have the ability to like previous posts. BUT, in the United States, real-estate follows federal laws- maybe your landlord doesn't- want to find out?