Where privacy is uncovered.

As a paying tenant you have your rights to your own privacy. I have a fleet of houses and rooms for rent and I never poke in these rented units. It is difficult when you exceed your friendliness towards your landlord as he will take advantage of your friendliness invading into your privacy. It is not easy to tell him off as we are bounded by our Asian politeness. So you have to live to it as long as you are renting his room.

Hiya shibs, Something to put up with there I should say so but now as I understand it you are actually in your own House now so now you should not be putting up with this Person who should not be doing this to you anyway. He should be more respectful after all you are paying and not paying to have him barge into your Rooms just when he feels like it even though he is the owner. First of all it is a great lack of respect to do such a thing. If you can´t drink and smoke when you want to it comes to something when you have to put with that kind of going on. Are you in your own House properly now? I know you said that you were moving but also things like that can get delayed for many different reasons. Hope you have been able to move on and are able to live more peacefully albeit more relaxed and not expecting him to drop in say in the middle of the Night?

Oh, you must be living in a house with rooms for rent, as I have in the past. However, I did get rooms with locks and on one occasion and I had have the lock put on the door. The landlord has no right to just enter your room since you as the tenant have your rights to the area. Request for a lock, or put one yourself if they don't agree. But honestly, if I were you I'd probably just leave the place and search for another.

Like you, I like my privacy. WhenI was at teahcers college, in my much younger days, I was in hostel and I had to share a small room. I never really liked that due to the lack of privacy. Most of the time wahen I was renting, I had my own room, but had to share the lounge, kitchen, bathroom, etc. that was usually okay. Of course, since owning my own home, I have privacy whenever I wanted. My ex husband was a bit strange though. He wanted me to knock on the door of the bathrrom when he was having a shower. I though that was odd, as we were married! When I was a child, my brother and I had our own bedrroms. for my brothers bedroom, there were tow doors. Most of my family used to walk through my bedroom to get to my brothers bedroom, whcih I absolutely hated. The houese owner where you live is completely rude walking in without kncoking. No matter how old he is, can you not speak to him about this?

I think you can talk to the landlord that you will put a lock to your room, so you will have your privacy. But why does he enters in your room, what his business there?

wow you're not lucky men! i dont know how you since i woudnt be able to keep my mouth shut about that! for me, privacy is so important! As for me, the worst moment i remember my privacy was broke..it was when i had to stay at the hotel for 2 weeks.. The room keeper had to come clean the room twice a day, and it was always at different hours, and he didnt knock at door before entering cause he said it was a law, that even if he would have knocked at the door and didnt hear anyone he haves to enter.. I told him once but he kept telling me that there's a law about them entering the roomn even if there's no answer..seriously..i dont believe him! but anyway, me 2 weeks at the hotel would have been more exciting if it wouldnt have been for this creepy guy....but i guess i cant be mad since i was there because of the work so... ps: can someone confirm me that there's really a law about that? thks -peace

i would definitely invest in a locking door knob

Hi shibham! The problem is really serious but I am not able to see any solution to your problem. Many Landlords behave oddly and could get on to your nerves. You being as a tenant could not stop them from coming to your room. Landloards put strange and ackward conditions, while renting out their premises and a tenant has to accept it unwillingly. You could change the position of your bed or table etc., if it is feasible so that if someone is entering your room, you could come to know. If he does not object to your drinking or smoking, then if at all he enters your room without notice, you should not bother. Problem could only arise, if he asked you not to drink or smoke, while letting out his premises to you. Meanwhile, could look for some alternate accommodation, if you just can not manage with his strange behaviour for a longer period. All the best.

oh..sibhie what a shame to whom do that. i have one bad experience...when i got fight with my hubby..the next door neighbor heard all the things that we had said...about divorce and all that we had fought for. next day when i came out...the neighbor just look at me with 'strange' sight...

Hi Mamu Why cant you LOCK your Room from Inside if you are doing something PRIVATE? It seems ridiculous. Dont tell me that the door doesnt have anything to lock it from inside. Next - if that is a public place.... why are you doing anything PRIVATE there? A confusing discussion for sure.

Hi shiby!! It seems to me that you rent a room from them right?? I will feel the same too if this happen to me. I used to live with my friends before and glad we know how to respect each other privacy and we always have our 'own space' even if we need to share rooms/things. Entering your room without knocking is rude indeed and you have right to lock the door from inside. There is no way you got the privacy if he can do anything he want. You pay him and he get paid for renting his room to you so he want it or not you need to talk to him about it. Or perhaps you could find other place to rent, brother??(^^)

Ohhh means your owner is danger entered the room without knocking the door. Tell them this is bad habit no sense. But why you not close the door. So they cant came without knocking. Really rental house is danger be careful my dear dever.

Hi Shibham, I can understand that; although, I am lucky enough to have saved my privacy always, but many of my friends have faced the very same situation. That's yet another privacy breach situation where man finds himself in a unwanted awkward situation and in no position to escape from it. Initially I thought the best option would be to change the room/house. But as you said to Stowyk that "its a very small town, have less accommodation and apart from it i am a paying guest and here no one keeps a paying guest. so, to some extend, i am obligated too." So, that wouldn't be a good idea... furthermore, you are living as a paying-guest and you are also very satisfied with the service and cooperation they are giving... and since the landlord's family is like your family now... and since you can't lock the room from inside... I think you can do one thing...either you start drinking when he is asleep or try to drink outside, maybe in bar or something... or you can also say him at some good time that "I feel very a bit nervous and awkward when, Uncle, YOU enter in my room and I am partying!" you can add, "I am thinking about searching another PG." Who knows if this works....-:)

oh dear bro,i know your privacy is been taken away by your neighbors and your owner.i guess you need to be a bit strict to your owner and tell him in a polite manner that you don't like to get disturbed during some hours of a day when you are quite very busy in your work.beside bro smoking is not good for your health.please avoid this habit as this addiction is hard to get over.

Thank heavens, I don’t have this problem. I have a secluded house. In that house, my room is so secluded that even my own family members do not know about my activities.[b][/b]

dear shiby, Oh well, what kind of rent house is that. I also stayed with a dormitory but we have privacy and it is our rights. I will surely look for another rent house if things happens like this. I want to have my privacy esp inside my room :p oh yeah...good thing he never caught you while you are naked

That is awfully rude of those people, Shiby. I'm fiercely protective on my privacy and won't hesitate to tell people that. No one just walk into my room, ever. I think it's time you and that old man have a serious talk about that. Imagine you getting dressed and he jusy walks in.

Wow, that's though! It's always bad when that happens! Hope they were not all at the same day! hehehe For me...that's hard I think it would be someone walk when one is on the bathroom but that never happened to me. I think for me it would be thinking someone was talking to me and realize they weren't when I'm in the middle. But we have to laugh about our own and becomes very fun.

Ohhh I will say move to another place and jut tell him You are moving, thank him for what he did for you in a nice and polite way. If he is helping You thats not good either still he is into your privacy. I have a friend to came to this country with her husband and the family s husband does the same what they do to you but , she told them to please knock the door, so, now they do it, but , still they are going through her stuf, she hates that , she is fighting with her husband , maybe soon they will be moving away from this house. Good luck to You.

Hi what a life huh i got neighbours that are the worst ever i hate all of them i got a house that has a wall full of holes and people from the outside can hear all the time what you are saying it's really frustrating i can't stand them if you were me and you had to hear their stupid and silly voices insulting me, feel them and just know that they are in the ambience , it makes me sick just go to hell & forget about me. Let's look at the positive way at least you have someone in common to hate them ME good luck Hi what a life huh i got neighbours that are the worst ever i hate all of them i got a house that has a wall full of holes and people from the outside can hear all the time what you are saying it's really frustrating i can't stand them if you were me and you had to hear their stupid and silly voices insulting me, feel them and just know that they are in the ambience , it makes me sick just go to hell & forget about me. Let's look at the positive way at least you have someone in common to hate them ME good luck