AIBU to feel uncomfortable in my own home?

[DertieBertie]

We've just moved house into a little ground floor flat. I was sitting in our living room with my husband watching a film, when I feel I'm being watched. I look outside and the woman who lives in the first floor flat over the road is just staring into our living room! I stared pointedly right back at her so she would know I could see her, and she left the room... to get her partner so they could both stare at us!

I have no idea why they thought this was okay, and I feel really uncomfortable and tbh a bit violated. AIBU to feel this bad about it? Maybe they're just curious?

Erm. Put up curtains. Simples.

She said the rental people won't let her!

How bizarre. Very rude!

I think you need to shag up whilst waving. You need to win the weirdo contest.

Loling at some of these suggestions! I'd just walk about naked, that would scare the life out of them! Possibly scar them for life to.

Or start taking photos of them or sitting by the window staring and writing notes. That would be freaky.

Draw lots of cocks on sheets of A4 and stick them to the window.
Add some smiley faces so they can't accuse you of being unfriendly.

Yes sit at the window , write notes. And do all of the above!

Why does being in rental stop you putting up curtains or buying a new blind?
Just do it, what's the worst that will happen, why would the LL even care?

Some landlords are nuts and will deduct from your deposit for that sort of thing, gertie. Mine doesn't give a fuck, especially as everything I've changed/replaced/added is of higher quality than what was here when I moved in and it means he doesn't have to do it himself, but some of my former landlords would've gone nuts at the suggestion that I might drill some holes in their precious, precious walls for a curtain rail.

Every landlord I've had has allowed paint, pictures, new flooring of our choice paid for by them and fitted by dh...we've had one let us build a deck instead of paying the rent for two months! I could not stand a place where they won't allow change.

Our current place had no curtain rails or blinds when we moved in. We asked and were told we could put some blinds up but we had to leave them there at the end of our tenancy . Cheeky fucker.

Are you going to Kate I hope not! Tell him they fell apart! What the hell! They're yours!

I'm LL and many a time my tenants have done brill improvements to my property's. We have let them do improvements with our knowledge and deducted from there rent. It's a two way street.

Your landlord has to replace those broken blinds. Did you not notice them when you viewed the flat?
If the landlord says you agreed to rent it broken blinds and all, just buy some new ones. Anyone that is upset over an upgrade would be welcome to take me to court over it!

Softly exactly. We had a very symbiotic relationship with our last landlord. He was excellent. He's the one who let us build a deck and deducted the 2 months rent in lieu of labour. we got the materials for next to nothing and his property got a nice deck. Win win!

musicalendorphins No, didn't notice at all! The blinds look like they're not broken, and can go up and down, but the thing that closes or opens the slats is broken.

Thanks everyone for all your brilliant (and hilarious!) advice. Will be calling up the landlord tomorrow and seeing if we can get something sorted, you guys have given me confidence! (for the record, previous landlord was a nightmare who refused to fix the ventilation system in the house, despite BLUE FURRY MOULD growing on my belongings and her curtains, because "someone built it that way, so it must be acceptable living standards". I kid you not.)