Audible guests?

RCFP has a very helpful summary of each State’s eavesdropping and wiretapping laws.

Maine

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Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 15, § 709: Interception of wire and oral communications is a "Class C" crime under the state criminal code, and an interceptor is someone other than the sender or receiver of a communication who is not in the range of "normal unaided hearing" and has not been given the authority to hear or record the communication by a sender or receiver.

Disclosure of the contents of intercepted communications, knowing the information was obtained by interception, is a violation of the criminal code as well. Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 15, § 710.

Anyone whose communications have been intercepted can sue for civil damages and recover the greater of $100 a day for each day of violation or actual damages, and also attorney fees and litigation costs. Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 15, § 711

We have private quarters on the main level and can hear guests in the public areas but we like that.  We know when everyone is in and when people leave!  We sometimes run a fan too, if they decide to stay up late.

Boy oh boy...where has this conversation gone?

I can't hear anything since my quaters are attache, yet seperate. I only can herar people taking showers ( actually, I can only hear water running) when I am in the hallway downstairs. Our rooms are seperated by bathrooms, so the guests should not be able to hear each other either.

As of the monitors, as a guest, if the Innkeeper lets me know of the existence of a monitor, I would be fine.

As an Innkeeper, I don't want to know my guests coming and going so I can catch up wit them since it would make me feel like i am snooping on them.If my guests need anything, they come and find me.

I too have an wireless doorbell in my quaters, they can call me for help.

I do it the old-fashioned way! Madame LaFarge sits at her computer next to the door & foyer!

I would also be creeped out if I thought there was a monitor no matter where I was staying.....!  And if I found out there was one later on I would feel like I was violated, just too weird.

Made me laugh again...I have baby monitor cameras with sound...where this topic went made me think of them and if the sound monitor was shocking, how about cameras???  LOL  OK, OK, confession, I don't have them in guest rooms (eeeww!) or common areas, but do have them in the engine rooms.  When underway, we like to be able to see what's going on in there (i.e. water, fire, smoke, etc. just as an extra precaution and extra set of eyes since we are usually on the "third floor" up when the engines are roaring). 

And best of all...when I have a technician there working on the boat when I'm not there, I can watch what they are doing via the internet.  Works out great...I am able to nip all the fudging of their time on their bills.  Just caught one late last week overcharging me by 3 hours.  I could see that he was working on another boat for 2 hours before he set foot on mine, and then I saw that he left for an hour, yet I was still billed for his time.  I guess he never noticed the camera in the engine room.  And I suppose he didn't understand the sophistication of the camera surveillance system on the dock.  They just cannot rip me off anymore! 

STOP!

Are y'all all serious? A baby monitor is a simple word for eaves dropping. Are you kidding? If you want to eaves drop go high tech, I am sure SMARTHOME.COM has some sort or surveillance device you can install to look like a plant or something.

This really bothers me.  Really.

Get a wireless doorbell and stick it on the wall for them to push the button and you can hear them when they need you.

I would take this off of here if you do this and people can read do you this. 

I can guarantee a guest would not be pleased to find this out!!!! I am disgusted right now.

I know it is not in their room, it is THERE, LISTENING TO PRIVATE conversation.

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Yes we can hear guests from our personal space. Like you I sleep with a fan on so that I don't hear anything. It's the only way I can get a good nights sleep. I don't feel I have to be aware of what's going on in the house. If guests are making too much noise (very, very seldom happens) I figure the other guests can handle the noisemakers! LOL!!

We can't hear anything from our quarters (den/bedroom) which are on the back of the first floor of the house.  We have part of a guest room above our den & I thought for sure we'd hear them but we don't.  We can't hear folks coming in the house when we're in the kitchen or laundry room either (also the back of the house).  This bugs my dh - he seems to think that he needs to keep track of the guests.  I hear, "Did they go for a walk?"  "Are they back yet?" He worries about them.  I keep telling him that we're not their parents!  I was upstairs this evening putting something away in a guest room & I did hear my dh slamming a door downstairs to our quarters.  I had to remind him that he needs to keep in the habit of closing the doors quietly.  "Why do i have to do that?  There's no one but us here tonight!!"  Yeesch...

I do worry about sound traveling & disturbing the guests, but this is a very quiet house & there's only one bathroom wall that is shared with 2 guestrooms.  i did just notice that in our house next door, you could hear the tub being filling in one guestroom when you were in the hallway.  The noise is traveling through a transom.  I need to fix that.  Other than that, that house is also very quiet.  

I'm so tired when I finally get to bed that I don't hear a thing!!

I can't hear them (benefit to cabins)  but they have to walk right past our bedroom to get to the beach and the path is crushed stone, so we can hear them when they walk by.  Sometimes wakes us up, mainly because it wakes our dog, and he wakes us up.  By the end of the summer season he is completely used to it, but we are at the mid-way point right now and he still stirs at the sound of crunching rocks.

LOL...you folks crack me up sometimes. Fortunately, I’ve never heard others' conversations coming from a stateroom, or anything else for that matter. And I’m very happy that this yacht is MUCH heavier (at 46 tons without the weight of fuel and water) than the last one on which no one could get away with anything. Every movement was felt throughout the vessel, "Honey, why is the boat shaking?" Use your imagination...

My biggest sound nuisance is the TV in the salon which is directly over the master stateroom. I do remind folks who may be watching a movie or something in the salon that the volume needs to be on low if the folks in the master have retired for the evening. We like it when we have one party booking the whole yacht - they can yell shut up at each other at will if they want and I don’t have to keep an eye out for one set of guests annoying another. 

I’m a light sleeper - everything keeps me up and I use a fan to sleep, too. 

I'm the mom.  I hear everything.

But when I'm tired enough, I sleep through it anyway.

There's only one wall that shares two beds, and that's ours with one guest room.  Our long term guest practices her viola... dh can't hear it (but then, he's hard of hearing), I can.  I always think it's interesting, if breakfast has been scheduled for 9 then at 8 I can hear alarm clocks going off in multiple rooms.  But when I'm on the third floor I can't hear the doorbell, the back of the house, or the basement... it's great up there!

So far no one's been so loud that I've had to ask them to be considerate of other guests.  In general, although the floors creak and the walls allow some passage of noise, it's not as bad as I feared it would be.  That is, many times I hear voices, but usually not so distinct I can understand what they're saying (unless, as mentioned, they're on a cell phone...)

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Kk.

I can hear walking - this old house creaks - and if they have the TV set for an 80 year old we definitely hear that (surprising how many young people have it that loud or is it considering the volume on the stereos). However, once I finally get to bed and get to sleep, only a phone ringing or DH mumbling, grumbling, and flinging things as HE comes to bed will wake me up until the alarm goes off. It has to be a raging rainstorm to wake me up. DH will ask, "did you hear that rain last night?" No.

We generally do not hear our guests when they are in their rooms other than the occasional foot steps unless they are VERY noisey.  This subject always brings to mind a certain couple ....  I think they needed a cabin in the woods and then the bears would be blushing!

YES YES and YES.  I am a light sleeper, footstep noises wakes me up.  I am always thinking they need something and will be banging on the door.  Sometimes they do.

Talking on a cell phone is always louder than a person to person.  One person alone in a room is louder than a couple.