Do you allow tenants to hang stuff outside your properties?

[Sam Leon]

Do you have a rule in your lease to allow/disallow certain things to be hung outside your rental properties?

I know this is a vague question, so here are some specific examples:

(1) After washing clothes, tenant hangs clothes out to dry, so you have towels, panties, colored bras flapping in the wind.  Would you allow this in the front yard where people walking by or driving by can see?  If not would you allow it to in a fenced back yard?

(2) What about meat?  Yes I have a friend who rented to someone who has a rack outside on a sunny day hanging meat, apparently to make jerky.  He said it smell "funky", and had flies buzzing around the meat.  I have heard of folks doing the same to make preserved fish.

(3) How about a string light?  You know the ones with a cord  and a bulb every 12" or so.  If tenants were to hang one in the yard from one side of the house to a fence, and during a storm or hurricane can easily get shattered glass when these bulbs are slammed against the structures.

Does this depend on property's class?  That this is more common in a class D than a class A?

Do you have any language in your lease agreement or tenant rule book to address this?  If so please do share.

[Billy Daniel]

I would let them make the home their home.  As long as they aren't damaging the property or upsetting neighbors, it should be fine.