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permission to enter

Permission to enter is authorization for a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or other service person to enter a dwelling for maintenance.

In plain English

It means giving official approval for someone working for the property to come into the home. The person may be a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or other service person, and the entry is for maintenance.

In context

Here, it asks whether the landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or other service person is authorized to enter the home for that maintenance visit.

Situation
Setting up utilities and submitting maintenance, repair, and access requests
What it communicates
asks whether staff may enter the home for the visit.

Meaning limits

This term only covers authorization to enter a dwelling for maintenance, not entry for some other purpose.

Examples

“The tenant gave the maintenance worker permission to enter the flat to fix the leaking sink, but not to show it to new renters.”

Core meaning

“Before the boiler repair, the property manager checked whether permission to enter had been granted for that visit.”

In context