[unsupp0rted]

> I don’t know why people expect privacy in Vegas

I expect privacy in any home where I live, whether it's for a decade or for a day.

When the door closes, it's "my personal space" for the duration I paid for.

Of course, now Vegas begs to differ.

[devinegan]

I feel I have privacy in my home here in the Las Vegas suburbs. Surveillance stops at the strip for the most part. But the strip is not “home” for anyone I know and I would never call a hotel * stay at anywhere home. Strangers have access to your room at all times, that is why they provide safes.

[kelnos]

Strangers have access to hotel rooms at all times, but the expectation is that they'll only enter for agreed-upon reasons (like daily housekeeping, if you don't put up the do-not-disturb sign), and emergencies.

The safe is there because they acknowledge that quite a few people have access to the room and they can't be 100% sure that all their employees are good people who wouldn't steal, even if they expect them not to. Not because they intend to send randos into your room at all hours of the day.

(And it's not clear how many employees have access to override the locks on the in-room safes... I've always thought of those safes as borderline security theater.)

I wouldn't call a hotel stay "home" either, but I expect the privacy situation to be only slightly weaker than an apartment rental.

Hell, I own a unit in a condo building, and our building insurance requires annual inspections of the sprinklers and fire alarm horns. I know someone who owns a condo in another city, and the building does (required) quarterly spraying for cockroaches, and replacements of the air conditioning filters. None of us feel like we don't own these spaces.

[jhbadger]

Then you must not rent your home. I've lived in rented apartments my entire adult life and while not daily inspections, everywhere I've lived the management has mandatory inspections every few months to check on fire alarms and other maintenance issues as well as making sure residents aren't violating policy by having more than two pets, trashing the apartment, allowing roaches and other pests to fester, etc. It can be annoying, but if I don't own it, it's not really "my" home.

[unsupp0rted]

Landlords are legally obligated to give 24 hours of notice, if not multiple days of notice, depending on jurisdiction.

And they can’t come do inspections day after day.

[FickleRaptor]

These aren’t landlords and notice is typically given as part of the room registration process. That’s not the behavior in question.

[egypturnash]

I’ve been a renter my whole adult life and never had an inspection like that.

[graemep]

I have had one. Just one over several years though.

In the UK. The law requires notice.

[unsupp0rted]

Same here. Landlords do inspections when moving out. Maybe they come, with notice, once or twice a year to repair something or show the place to potential buyers.

[kelnos]

That's not even remotely the same thing at all. In the US, a landlord (or their agent) cannot legally enter a tenant's unit without 24 hours notice (or more, depending on local laws), unless there is an emergency. And for the non-emergency visits, the tenant has the option to be present for the visit. That is completely unlike a hotel doing random daily room inspections without your knowledge or presence.

Yes, a property you rent is your home. It's not your property, though.