Tenant Has Excessive Amount Of Overnight Visitors. It Is A One Bedroom Apartment How Many People

I rent a room in the landlord’s house. Can she tell me overnight guests and no visitors without her permission?

Yes. You're living in her home. She is responsible for the rent/mortgage, homeowners insurance, etc. She doesn't know these people. They could pose a huge risk to her--financially or otherwise. It is very, very dangerous to allow people into your home you have no clue about. People have been robbed and killed for being too generous or kind.Anyone can rent out a part of their home, it doesn't mean they have to consent to entertaining unwanted strangers. Living in someone else's home would depress me. I like exercising at night, playing my music when I get ready for work and walking around naked on the weekends. I would feel very suffocated.If you want to have visitors and overnight guests, then maybe you should consider getting your own place. Then you could invite whomever you wished to visit and she would have no unwanted guests. You'd both win.

Is it legal for a landlord of an “in-law” apartment to forbid having overnight guests?

I spent about 20 years of my adult life renting rooms in other people’s houses, usually with the owner in residence. I also “interviewed” with many others, because that sort of rental rarely lasts more than a year or two (although one lasted almost nine years).It was uncommon for landlords to prohibit overnight guests outright. I understand the reasons why they want to do it: you might have a boyfriend or girlfriend over most of the time, effectively becoming a new tenant. (My brother, who usually lived in shared apartments until he became a homeowner, said that a common rule in those circumstances is that lovers can only come over a maximum of two nights a week — usually on weekends.) And some landlords don’t truck with extramarital sex.I always had a problem with having my freedom of association curtailed, not because I wanted to have girlfriends over for sex (I was fully committed to remaining chaste until married into my mid-40s), but because I couldn’t have my brother or other visitors crash out as desirable.So I tended to stay away from places that prohibited visitors. I even once came across a place that allowed no visitors at all — not even to chat in the living room. That was, of course, exceptional and remarkably oppressive, especially considering that it was an independent woman who had multiple male tenants. She actually seemed defensive/offended when I declined (in what I thought was a neutral tone . . . ).It was never made into any sort of written contract. Most of those situations didn’t have any sort of contract, didn’t run a credit check . . . they only went on what some landlords called the “smell test.” Since I was a well-spoken, polite, employed white male, I usually smelled OK.At any rate, even if it wasn’t in any specific covenant, any landlord could give you 30 days’ notice for any reason or no reason at all. This meant they could effectively enforce any sort of restriction on you that they wanted; most tenants wouldn’t have the means to challenge anything illegal in court.But most landlords were simply trying to make money from their home (for whatever reason) and weren’t into overly controlling others.The long and the short of it is: if you want occasional overnight guests, don’t patronize landlords who make an issue out of it.

My landlord says he’s charging me extra next month because I often bring guests over to my apartment. Could he do this if it wasn’t on the lease?

The devil is in the details, when is comes to Landlord/Tenant law.I don’t think anyone here could give a full answer without more information. There are so many questions as a lawyer that I would have. I would want to see the original lease agreement. Specifically, I would want to see its terms regarding its length and duration and guests/subletting. I would want to know what state/country you are in and then the statutes and case law in that location. Some places have strict rent control laws and boards that handle disputes, some don’t. All of them have complex rental laws.I would want to know more about these “guests” - how long they stayed, how often, how many were there, and whether anything of value been given to you in exchange for letting them stay over.I would want to know if you have violated any of the other terms of the agreement. (Exceeding occupancy, violated noise or other laws, paid rent on time, etc.)I would want to know how and when this demand was delivered. I would want to know more about the rental, including its size and whether the Landlord lives on site. (Why would this matter? Well, it can affect whether the lease itself is valid and might affect any arguments I make.) I would want to know if the Landlord has done anything that may have violated your rights. (Entered your apartment without notice, harassed you, etc.)People can give your a short answer to this, that generally no, a Landlord cannot charge extra rent outside of the agreement. But this is not gospel and without more information, any advice you get is bound to be flawed and acting on it could hurt you.Hypothetically, you could live in a studio apartment with a max residency of 3 people. Your guests are 5 friends that you’ve allow to stay for several weeks in exchange for paying for your gas and groceries and the statement from the landlord was that if they didn’t leave, he would have to serve an eviction notice or they could stay and he would charge more rent.In that scenario, a court could easily find that the Landlord’s statement was not a demand for more rent in breach of your agreement, but instead a reasonable offer of compromise for YOUR breach of the rental agreement for having an illegal sublet.In short, the facts matter. You should seek out a local attorney for advice on your situation specifically.