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Zeus posted...

Except they're most likely are breaking an established contract, meaning that they're completely in the wrong. The entitled party would be the landlord who feels that the rules he wrote up and agreed to shouldn't apply to him. Again, assuming that this revision isn't permitted by the initial lease which it likely wouldn't be.

You can't change the terms of a written contract without the written consent of both parties. This is adulting 101, bro. It's very basic law.

The only thing about this situation that would be potentially illegal is them making him pay for it if he refuses to get the lock installed because yes that would potentially be breaking contract. Rereading parts of the original letter that TC posted, I see no evidence of these claims and it makes me wonder if TC was either dramatizing or misinformed. More than likely there are clauses in the rental contract that the landlord has to the right to kick him out with X day notice. So them saying agree to the locks or your gone in 30 days is fair game.