What can I do about this problemI am having with someone entering my apartment when I am not at home?
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What can I do about this problemI am having with someone entering my apartment when I am not at home?
Lately I have noticed something at my apartment complex that is starting to worry me. I had 2 beers in my apartment when I left to go work out with my family. When I got back my door was unlocked and the beers where gone. Yesterday I left to go to a friend’s house and was gone for a couple of hours. When I returned my apartment was again unlocked but nothing looked like it was missing this time. I am a single mom with 2 children and I fear that whom ever is coming and going out of my apartment may do it when we are at home. I want to move out of the apartment but I am afraid they will charge me.
Asked on August 6, 2011 Oklahoma
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
You first need to make a report about what has happened with law enforcement. Second, immediately contact your landlord about what has happened where your apartment has been invaded by an unknown person and let the landlord know you are immediately changing the locks and you will give him or her a copy of the new key.
Make sure you let the landlord know you have made a police report about what happened and that you desire reimbursement for the new locks. Let the landlord know that you are fearful for the safety of your children and yourself and ask him or her what they can do to make the complex safer.
If you are a new tenant to this unit, possibly a previous tenant is entering it while you are not there.
Good luck.
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