Well that's odd

[sasha_feather]

Something slightly creepy happened today and I just want to document it. Related to our landlords / property managers.

Content note: snake



Email from property managers:
Hello,

Do you still have the snake in your unit? If so, have you completed a pet agreement for it? (photo attached)

Olivia

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The message is not the issue-- we simply forgot to do a pet agreement, and my roommate has told them so.

What's creepy in this situation is the photo. It's an older photo of our snake in his tank. I can tell it's older by context clues. Doing a reverse image search on the photo gets me no results, so it's likely not an image gleaned from any of my social media accounts. That means, it was probably taken by someone on their staff. The only people who have been in the apartment are maintenance workers, and having met several of those guys, it's hard to imagine they would, essentially, tattle on us, though anything is possible. It's creepy to think about someone coming into our place and taking a photo, and then the managers sending that photo back to us without any kind of explanation.

Will update on the situation later.

Let's see if I can insert the image, which is of our orange corn snake inside his tank:

Comments

[cynthia1960]

Snek stalkers.

[emceeaich]

Madison landlords... *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

[sovay]

so it's likely not an image gleaned from any of my social media accounts. That means, it was probably taken by someone on their staff.

It's a very nice snake, but that's not cool.

[bibliofile]

I suppose you could ask where/when the photo came from, since you don't remember taking it yourself. And would they like a better pic for their records?

(How odd.)

[worlds_of_smoke]

Yeeeah, that's creepy as fuck.

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Uggggghhhhhhhh that's creepy as fuck (the idea of property staff having somehow obtained a picture from within your home). This might not ease anxiety, but I know that the lease for my apartment has a clause that the property managers can, at any time, enter the property to do showings???? Which is like. Um. I mean if you give a heads-up, I can at least clean first so the place looks more attractive for prospective tenants but fuck off? I could imagine some especially horrible landlords checking in and doing secret "inspections" when nobody's home, but I'm almost certain there are laws about that which say they have to give a certain amount of notice first, etc. But those are worst case scenarios, and hopefully your situation is just something relatively innocuous.

[jesse_the_k]

totally crap.


In our fair city, landlords must give 24 hour notice before entering.

Wisconsin landlords cannot enter an apartment unless they give at least 12 hours notice to the tenant. Notice may be verbal (including leaving a message) or in writing. The new laws specifically say that landlords can do this by e-mail or text. Wis. Stat. 704.10(4), 2017 Wis. Act 317, Sec. 42, Eff. 4/18/18. There is no requirement that the tenant actually receive the notice (for example, during an extended absence). ATCP 134.09(2)

In the Cities of Madison and Fitchburg, landlords must give at least a 24-hour notice to enter the tenant's premises to inspect or make repairs. To show the apartment for sale or rental only requires a 12-hour notice. MGO 32.05(1)(d), FO-29(4), Wis. Stat. 66.0104(2)(d)1, 2013 Wis. Act 76, Sec. 2 Eff. 3/1/12.

http://www.tenantresourcecenter.org/landlord_entry