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Proof You Tried
Proves you showed up to fix it when a tenant won't let you in.
Score 6.8/10 · Worth testing
Property and renting
23 July 2026
Proof at a glance
6.8 out of 10. Score 6.8/10 · Worth testing
The problem
It's 100 degrees, the air conditioning is dead, and you send a repair guy over to save the day. Then the tenant yells 'get out' through the door — the tech leaves, you eat the trip fee, the place stays an oven, and now you look like the bad landlord. Here's the trap: if this ever reaches a judge, your only defense is paper proving you actually tried, and small landlords almost never have it — one UK housing tribunal in 2022 threw out a landlord's whole case because all they had was a pile of undated WhatsApp texts with 'no verifiable evidence' the tenant ever refused entry. A New York landlord-lawyer guide says it flat out: your defense 'depends almost entirely on this documentation,' yet most owners are stuck with vanishing text threads and a verbal 'he wouldn't let me in.' Why now: a wave of 2025-2026 cooling laws — Arizona's Attorney General ordering broken AC fixed within 5 days, Florida's 2026 House Bill 241, California's 2026 Senate Bill 655, and the Los Angeles County 82-degree mandate — now punish landlords for hot units BUT excuse them if the tenant blocked access, so for the first time 'I tried, here's the proof' is the exact thing that keeps you out of trouble.
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