'Mum ignored my boundaries and used emergency key to enter my house - I'm livid'
A landlady has told how her holiday celebrating a friend’s wedding turned into a family fiasco that she was able to witness from her phone. After sharing how she rented a basement suite to her mum’s best friend’s daughter, she said that the rental accommodation had been created with privacy in mind, ensuring her friend had her own entrance and never had to access the woman’s own living space to get into her own.
After going on holiday and securely locking the door, she was shocked when, three days into her vacation, she received an alert on her phone saying there was an ‘unauthorised event’ at her house.
She said: “I look at the video. It's my mum opening the door for Sally's mum. They freak out when the alarm goes off. Usually, if I need my mum to get into my apartment I will give her a temporary code. It is always the same one because she gets confused by tech. But I have to activate it beforehand. I cannot do it retrospectively.”
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And while she admitted that she could have easily called her mum to give her the code, she did a quick check of the house cameras first to assess the situation: “Strangely enough my house is not on fire. I didn't leave the faucet running. There is no emergency,” she said, before admitting that instead of helping them out, she decided to put her phone on airplane mode and pop back to the party.
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However, 90 minutes later, she told how the hotel concierge found her to tell her she was needed urgently on the phone: “I asked my mum what the emergency was, why was she getting me out of my friend's wedding reception, was my house okay, was my dad okay. She very brusquely told me to shut up and talk to the police and security company.”
After the woman apologised to the police for wasting their time she asked them what the emergency was: “They gave my mum back the phone and let her tell me that her friend did not want to sit in the basement while she was visiting her daughter, so my mum agreed to let them use my area and it would be a secret.”
After hearing this, she admitted she asked the security company to lock her house back up and take the key back from her mum, so she could go back to enjoying the rest of her trip.
With her dad agreeing to pay any fines as a result of the ‘home invasion’, she also told how her friend’s mum was now furious and wanted her daughter to move out: "That's fine by me. I don't need a tenant and was only doing it as a favour. Sally is almost apoplectic begging me not to kick her out. She said that she didn't even know what our mums were up to until the alarm went off.”
With her own mum also annoyed that she wasn’t ‘available' to help them before the police arrived and furious she was no longer allowed a key, she said: “She thinks I did it on purpose. I'm not sure how she thinks I forced her to break into my home without permission.”
After asking Reddit what they thought of the ‘home invasion’ many were on her side: “I don't blame you for putting your phone in airplane mode while at an important event. Not your mess, not your problem,” said one, while another commented: “I'm going to guess that mum isn't going to try again. She only tried something because she thought no one would know about it. Now she knows otherwise.”
Others questioned why she didn’t up her security game, given the options available: “In this day and age, just use electronic locks and not have to bother with keys. Then you can provide temporary codes and not have to worry about copies of keys or anything.” One believed in key karma: “Your mum and friend are rude. They deserved what they got. No key for her any time soon.”
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