We’ve been renting this apartment for nearly 10 months now. We’ve done our best to work around this closet, but it has gotten to a point that we really need the space. It is not attached to the room at all and is very large. We asked the landlord to please remove it, however they said they will not. I looked at our lease and “The Tenancy Act”, however cannot find any information about this. Attached is the link I read and a copy of our lease. Can someone please tell me if the landlord is allowed to keep this closet here, despite us not wanting it? From our perspective, they’re using our apartment as storage. From their perspective (they told us), it is part of the furniture that the apartment is rented out with.
Additionally, since we have an indefinite lease, would it be easy for our landlord to evict us if we press them on this issue? I feel they might be spiteful enough to, though from what I read in The Tenancy Act, it may be hard. Since our apartment is attached to their home via a small storage room, I feel they may just say they’re going to open up the storage room and simply include our apartment as part of their house (aka live in it, which would allow them to evict).
Thanks in advance for any advice!
[https://imgur.com/a/jbUDaZa](https://imgur.com/a/jbUDaZa)
[https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/the-tenancy-act/id270390/](https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/the-tenancy-act/id270390/)
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They are kinda expected part of the apartment – so the next person renting might need it. Maybe you could offer to pay for a new closet and installation when you move?
Or just throw it away and then ask the landlord to deduct it from you deposit?
An alternative would be to offer to pay for storage of the closet – but this sounds more expensive than buying a new one.
It’s a bit like saying I don’t need a kitchen – could you please remove it.
>From our perspective, they’re using our apartment as storage.
It is 100% at your disposal though isn’t it? If not it would be some weird situation and idiotic. If it’s for your use though, then I can understand the landlord.
It’s common to provide a closet when renting out apartments. They probably want to have it for potentially future renters as well, and possibly don’t have storage space for it elsewhere (whilst you rent it).
Should say in your contract about how long time it goes between landlord telling you to move and you actually having to move (usually 1-3 months).
Do you mean the closet is storing their stuff? Otherwise in my perspective, your perspective is heavily distorted. Didn’t you see the closet when you rented the place?
Should have brought up the issue day 1 not month 10 see if you can dismantle it and store it flat at least that way you will have the space back … or say you got robbed and the only thing they took was the closet 😂
Take it apart. Carefully. Store it. Put it back together when you leave.
If it is not permanently attached to the walls you can probably just disassemble the walls and stack them up somewhere. We did this back in college…had a closet we didn’t need that was haphazardly attached to the walls. Took it down at the beginning of each semester and when the notice came the the RA was coming around for inspection cobbled it back up. Once they left it was back down in about ten minutes. Worked for the whole two years we resided there.
I’m so happy I’ll never buy something to rent out to ppl. So many crazy people out there. Ive never rented an apartment without a closet and would find it strange if i ever stumbled upon such s place
What part of “the property is rented as is” did you net get?
Read Nr 14, Termination. It says you need to give the appartement back in the same state. Which means if you remove it, you need to put it back in the future.