B treats us like her little kids...grrr

It is your home. You pay rent for it. It is none of her business where you eat or drink. I would never rent from someone who did inspections or tried to meddle in my daily life. If I accidentally did rent from someone like that, the lease would be broken pdq, and I would be relocating to somewhere else.

I don't want to add fuel to the flame, but if a landlord told me I couldn't take my cup of tea in the living room, I'd tell the landlord to go fly a kite. This is super controlling. This is your son in law's mother? Doesn't sound like a healthy relationship to me.

That is extremely ver board. The only place we have ever rented that had rules, those rules only applied to things like number & type of pets, noise after X time...mostly curtosey issues. I would never ren from a place so controlling.

I have not rented in years. Again, I will talk about my clients. The ones I work with now are in commercial properties, but some I have worked with have been in company owned properties. In company owned properties they cannot even take water out of the kitchen and dining area. It keeps the house cleaner, but. . . these are adults who have mental disabilities, not fully responsible adults. You guys should be able to eat where you need to but clean up after yourselves.

Um...no! I do get inspections but she sure as heck does not tell me how to live or where I can eat. I pay rent so that I can have my OWN living space. If I were to eat in the living room and spill something that damaged the carpet then that would be on me to pay for it and that is only fair. Regular maintanence such as the calking you mentioned in your other discussion would be on the landlord to have fixed. I think your landlady is carrying things a bit too far.

She's definitely going way overboard with the controlling thing! In my younger days, I rented a few places but not one landlord EVER told me I couldn't eat or drink whatever I wanted wherever I wanted! The most I was told was that I couldn't paint the place with different colors than what was already on the walls and that was in the lease. Does your lease specify this about eating and drinking? Honestly, she sounds like my paternal grandmother whom the entire family called "The General" behind her back. She had to control everything in everyone's life. I wouldn't put it past her to be that controlling with anyone who leased a property from her. I think it's insane. I mean, I think your landlady has a screw or two loose... or missing altogether. Okay, maybe she wants to make sure the carpet doesn't get stained but she should specify in the lease that "tenants must professionally clean or have replaced any carpet that has been stained by food or drink upon termination of the lease" or something like that. Her controlling your lives that way is insane!!! You can tell her I said that, too! No, this is way overboard for any landlady. She sounds like an extremely anal and insecure person. Sad, very sad.

No landlord has the right to say that to anyone here in Montreal. People will eat where ever they want to they are living in the house. They just have to make sure they clean up after themselves.

hi P ointless Questions how can she go around following all of you to control where you eat and drink and what you eat and d rink? as long as you pay the rent and do not destroy her property what the heck right has she to tell you where to eat and drink? what an odd arrogant controlling b.i.t.ch.No landlord has ever dictated that crap to us,my hubby and later my son would have punched them out for that kind of controlling. how dreadful.the woman must have some mental issues of some kind.

Well, I have seen the outcome of spills and food on the rugs. I am the one that has to pay for the rugs to be cleaned so I do get alittle frustrated when the kids mess it up. It looks so nice when it is all clean and nice. I live in an apartment that is one of the Housing complexes in my home town here. We have alot of rules we have to live by and we a annual inspection too. It gets so tiresome but to keep our voucher we have to do it. We can only have visitors stay for like two days in a month. No, we don't have rules about eating and drinking in the living room but I think if I could I would make it a rule. Its just too easy to spill drinks and they are hard to clean up. Cleaning of the rugs is expensive too. I think if you want a nice place to live in and want it to stay nice you have to set down some stringent rules. And it is her house. She wants to keep it nice. I hope I haven't offended you but I can see her point and the reasons behind it.

I cannot say this has ever happened to me.How awful.Surely if you pay rent it is up to you.Just play along when she is inspecting the house.Do what you want the rest of the time.Your right she is treating you like kids.How on earth will she ever find out if you don't tell her.In one ear and out the other.Find another house to rent.As long as you keep the house clean and in good order the rest is none of her business.Good luck with that one

dear PQ I remember you mentioning some of this stuff before you moved into that house. This house is not a museum but its a place where people LIVE so there will be a little dust here and there there sometimes will be a bit of disorder etc. We have the shoes off rule in our apartment as I may have mentioned here and there but thats about all. It just serves to no real dirt getting in here only the usual bit of dust and thats manageable with a swiffer most of the time. Its also not spotless all the time. Living room in good condition so when company comes I just put some stuff from table to cabinet and thats it. thats all that matters. If any landlord had tried to put such restrictions on me I would have ignored them. I mean come on, here in Germany they have to announce their visit well before they come into the apartment so thats enough to just scrub the stains if there are any. I drink my coffee where I want. Allright I am careful about eating and drinking here in the computer room as I dont want crumbs and spills in the keyboard but thats all.

Hi friend, sad to hear about your landlord, why she is giving this much of restrictions to you? we are living in a rented house, but we don't have this kind of restrictions. We too have some strict conditions from our land lord, but she don't restrict about the eating and drinking activities. I think most of the land lords are interested in dominating their tenants.