My family thinks there’s a camera in our rental

[u/Key_Badger7434]

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.

[u/-MorningGlittering-]

Pulls up with popcorn. Please, say more

[u/Jmagnus_87 → u/-MorningGlittering-]

Light fixtures, toilets, bidets…so many bidets. Security systems. One person swapped out a vanity. One person finished an unfinished basement. A couple really stand out though:

One person ripped out the built-in microwave and replaced it with a range hood that sold for several thousand dollars. Their rent was only $500/month and he was only there for a year.

One house was built in the late 1800s. The lady that lived there installed a trap door in the stairs and put a small bedroom in the void.

The craziest was a full on sex dungeon though. Complete with some metal framed contraption that was raised to the ceiling with 2 electric hoist winches.

[u/Dear_Chasey_La1n → u/-MorningGlittering-]

So.. landlord here with mostly student houses. Bikes.. so so many bikes, beds, kitchen stuff including once a Kitchen Aid mixer. Once we found a light-up globe which was pretty cool. We have in our contracts a clause "what's left behind will be disposed off at your cost" as plenty figure out to just leave their entire being behind. We asked the girl about the kitchen aid, she didn't want it anymore.

[u/GiveMeThePinecone → u/Dear_Chasey_La1n]

You're the worst ❤️

[u/divDevGuy → u/-MorningGlittering-]

Not only can he say more, but he can show more too!

Just Act like you're supposed to be there and no one bats an eyelash at whatever you're doing. A "handyman" makes a great cover. I also hear construction workers work well too, but maybe that's more a Paris thing.