Should landlords be allowed to evict tenants for installing security cameras?

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I know that some people have very strong opinions about People of Land, so I'm referring back to a very negative experience me and my mom had with some pretty damn uppity ones about eight or nine years ago where break-ins and other criminal activity was ignored but taking it upon one's self to actually do anything that might draw attention to the problems in their drug dens lovely apartments in northern Virginia Beach would result in harassment and eventually escalate to an eviction.

This was... an extremely unpleasant chapter of my life that I don't really want to revisit, so I'm not going into further detail.

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Bumping this because I'd like to get John Dule, lfromnj, or another yellow avatar's take.

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Bumping this because I'd like to get John Dule, lfromnj, or another yellow avatar's take.

Probably should be implicitly allowed by default but not sure why it couldn’t be included in a contract that disallows cameras .

In my case, there was no contractual rule against security systems. But that doesn't stop landlords from harassing you or making your life harder because you did something they don't like, which in this case would be protecting yourself from bad actors when the landlord/s failed in what ought to be their responsibility, for all circumstances. The consequence of that should at least be having the landlord forfeit some of their protections in eviction cases when they fail to protect their tenants, especially in high-crime areas.

(And that could include not evicting tenants who are using their property as drug dens.)

[Freshly-touched grass]

It depends on a lot of factors, so I voted depends. While I rarely rent out myself and if I do only on short term basis, my parents do rent out some minor properties, mostly on short short term basis but sometimes on longer term and I have had to deal with them, and I must admit a significant percent of the tenants have been terrible, and I could just imagine a tenant who grew antagonistic enough to set up cameras. My view is that a lot of landlords and tenants are horrible people, and you can’t really find one rule which fit all.

If some of your tenants were engaged in criminal activity or did anything that made the other tenants feel unsafe, why would you blame the non-criminal tenants for installing security cameras with their own safety in mind? I'm curious to know why you consider this "antagonistic."