As promised, this post is a follow up to the article ‘Can I be Evicted for Medical Marijuana’ that I wrote earlier this week. As I explained previously, letting your landlord know that you grow marijuana, even with the protection of a medical marijuana card, is not a good idea if you can avoid it. If you are a renter, it is almost inevitable that the landlord is going to want to come over at some point in time to do a ‘walk through.’ A walk through can be anything from the landlord coming in and ‘taking a look around,’ all the way to a ‘tossing the cell’ styled search – much like me and my buddy had to deal with when I helped him pass an inspection recently. Try the best weed trimming machine and for your bud washing bubble magic washing machine online.
I will give you the step by step breakdown of what happened to us, what we needed to hide from the landlord, and what steps we took in order to pull it off. It all started with the infamous ‘notice of entry’ letter that we received from the landlord. In most states, there are laws that ‘protect’ tenants from nosey landlords by requiring them to give you a 24-48 hour notice. I use quotations around the word ‘protect’ because while the law gives some protection, it doesn’t go far enough. It essentially gives landlords the right to come and harass the tenants whenever they want, so long as they mailed a very impersonal letter 24 hours before hand. If you live in a rental and grow marijuana, I suggest checking the mail EVERYDAY, otherwise you might get the notice the day of, and then you are screwed.
When my friend received the notice of entry, he had me call the landlords because I am very skilled in the art of BS. I essentially told the landlords that I would not be home the day of the walk through, and asked if there was any way to reschedule. Landlords are not required by law to be nice to their tenants, and if they want to come in after the notice, they have every right. However, landlords are humans too, and if you tug at their heart strings, they will usually make an exception. Some good excuses that I have used in the past include: being at a conference for work out of town (be prepared with company name and type of industry, always say you are in Vegas), it’s finals week and I would really prefer to wait until next week when I’m not slammed with studies and have a second to tidy up (they don’t want to come over to a pig sty), I’m currently dealing with a really bad breakup with my fiancé (this almost always works), etc. Whatever your story is, make sure to get ‘into character’ so you don’t drop the ball, and make a suspicious situation even worse!