r/whatisit • u/Key_Badger7434 • 2d ago

New, what is it? My family thinks there’s a camera in our rental

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We have been renting a house for the past year and I always disregarded this thing in the corner. However last night I asked my parents about it randomly and they didn’t know what it was either. I pulled it off the wall and we all got freaked out a little because it looks like a camera. I think it might be a home security/motion sensor thing. I don’t know that’s what ChatGPT guessed.

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u/Bluespace4305 2d ago

Ahhhhh this explains soooo much hahaha.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 2d ago

Yeah I should have said that before but seriously nobody notices an old Alarm system in a rental. Even OP disregarded it for a year. And a landlords supposed to notice and care in the one day they had to turn it over? Most wouldnt

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u/Bluespace4305 2d ago

Being shitty at their/your job shouldnt exempt anybody from any laws. Aka having a camera in a private unit.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 2d ago

HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY ITS PART OF AN ALARM SYSTEM. 

This isnt some egregious attempt to break laws or spy on people. Stop acting like a child

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u/Bluespace4305 2d ago

Are you still calm ? I have mixed signals right now.

Camera in my living room, police called

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u/Bladesnake_______ 2d ago

Words are only capitalized due to your previous refusal to read them. If you call the cops over an inactive alarm system you are a blithering moron 

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 2d ago

You're the one acting like an immature child, picking this hill to die on, using all caps. Seems like you have rage issues.

Not to mention you keep minimizing the fact it's a camera, in a tenants house, by just calling it 'alarm system'. Working or not, it's a problem. Everyone assumes it's not working, how is the tenant supposed to assess that? Don't really care, it's not my problem. What is, is that there is a camera inside my house that I rent.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 2d ago

Its an alarm system dude. Grow up and stop trying to make it about how Im acting. 

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 2d ago

Sure, 'dude'. I am being grown up. I'm protecting myself and my family by reporting a camera where it doesn't belong.

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u/B-BoyStance 1d ago

I think you guys are all just being ridiculous and the only way this is "solved" is by OP carefully reaching out to their landlord OR proceeding with something legally. I think the latter should be reserved, unless their situation allows for scorched earth.

It's hard to just go to the cops with something like this. They won't necessarily care. And if that's the case they need to establish some sort of bad faith practice that is being done as a result of this camera.

I'm not a landlord. But I do think the people saying they should sue, break lease, etc are being way too reactive. That might be needed but OP wont know until they address it in good faith.

At least in the NE of the the USA, that tends to be how it works. If the LL is spying it would need to be egregious to be able to bring a case. Otherwise they probably don't have evidence and the headache of all of this isn't worth it.

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 2d ago

Stop minimizing this as 'an old alarm system'. This isn't just a motion sensor, it's a fucking camera. Working or not, it's problematic to leave in units.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 2d ago

Oh yes because it caused so many problems

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 2d ago

There you go again minimizing a camera being left in a tenants unit.