Hi,
I am sharing a house with two other people in a house that has two large rooms(one person stays in each) and 2 small rooms(belongs to one person). I moved in on January and since then myself and the person whose name is on the lease agreed to a rent of $500 each month (total rent $1500) and a security deposit of $500 initially. During the course of stay, I found out that the person who hold the lease 'X' keeps entering into my room without my permission. Since I am a foreign national, I thought it would be better to lock my room because of my sensitive documents, so I started locking it. The 'X' started calling me and asking for access to my room since my room has wifi router. Although wifi works perfectly for me and the other guy in the house, 'X' claims its wifi is not working and asks me to keep the door open for the technician to come and check. I agreed and left it unlocked for a week and then locked it again. Now 'X' calls me and I didn't pick up and so X leaves a voicemail asking me for a permanent access to my room so that X can get air whenever 'X' wants and also access the wifi router.
When I met 'X' in person later that day, 'X' started yelling at me for locking it, asked me for a copy of the key and I denied to give 'X' the copy of the key. Next day 'X' sends me a mail asking me to move out of the house on July. I asked time till August, initially 'X' agreed and now is asking me for $650 rent.
Is it legal? Please advice what I have to do.
Also the other guy moves out this month and 'X' claims it is going to increase the rent for the room I am staying right now and if I want to stay till august I need to move to the smaller rooms which will have the same rent. I can't do that because I have lot of things that will not fit in and also I cannot lock those rooms from outside.
I have a proof that X rented that particular room to me on email conversation and all the rents I paid were bank transfers.
P.S: Owner has an office downstairs who has the key for emergency.