The phrase “your apartment” strikes me as the heart of the issue. If you’re renting then it’s not really yours. It’s the landlord’s, and they just let you use i

The phrase “your apartment” strikes me as the heart of the issue. If you’re renting then it’s not really yours. It’s the landlord’s, and they just let you use it temporarily. And yet that is the phrase we use, because people do feel a sense of ownership about their living space even when legally they have no ownership. A lot of these policies come down to how much we want to back that feeling up with legal rights.