Landlords can inspect tenants’ rooms anytime they want – Rent Control boss, Frederick Opoku

• Rent Control boss says landlords can inspect tenants’ rooms, but must give reasonable notice.

• Inspections are meant to protect property and ensure tenants maintain rental spaces properly.

• Failure to allow access or poor maintenance of property could lead to eviction under tenancy laws.

Acting Rent Commissioner Frederick Opoku has disclosed that landlords are afforded the right to inspect tenants’ rooms anytime they want.

In an interview on Adom FM, he noted that this allows landlords to ensure that their property is well kept and protected.

Mr Opoku added that in such cases, the landlord must afford the tenant enough time to prepare for the inspection.

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In the interview, he stated:

He further emphasised:

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Section 11 of PNDCL 138 gives Rent and Housing Committees the power to, at reasonable times, enter and inspect or cause to be entered and inspected a residential accommodation or premises to which the Act applies, concerning any matter before it. This is a government or committee power.

However, the law requires that a tenant gives a landlord reasonable access to the property for inspections and repairs, and failure to meet this obligation could result in eviction.

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In a well-drafted lease, there is always an express covenant requiring this.