Neighbors may ask you for a favor once in a while, but when they do, it’s typically something within public access. It doesn’t involve getting inside your house. Well, this neighbor needed access to the roof and felt entitled to ask the apartment’s top-floor resident to enter her house to look for his lost drone.
Residential privacy matters more than recovering a birthday drone, don’t you think? Especially when the resident has already tried to help. The woman looked for the drone, didn’t see anything, and that’s the end of the story. Neighbors can’t keep insisting on letting them into the flat to look for the drone.Â
It all began when the neighbor’s son crashed his new birthday drone onto an apartment building’s roof, but nobody could see exactly where it landed. Then, his parents approached the woman living in the upstairs flat and asked whether they could access the roof through her apartment. That’s a big no-no. You don’t know who these people are, so why would you let them inside your flat and inside your house? Reasonably, she refused to let strangers in her house.
What’s more, the resident had already checked several windows on multiple days and could not see the drone. She explained that to the neighbors, only to be chased down by them on the street almost two weeks later. This time, rather than accepting her answer, neighbors attempted to negotiate. They insisted that the search would only take two minutes… As if a shorter invasion of privacy would be any less invasive.Â
The woman stood her ground. She was protecting her privacy and her safety. The neighbors have other ways to solve the problem. They can contact building management, hire an appropriate professional, or at least approach the other top-floor resident if they want to have another try. What they can’t do is pressure a woman into surrendering access to her home because their son lost a drone.Â
Author: Kayitsi.com
