Need some help from my TVDU experts here (looking at you, @persevereforahappyending and @vervaincircle) for a tiny little piece of plot: do hotel/motel rooms require vampires to be invited in? 🙏
I went through the TVDU wiki, and it was only talking about houses, but IIRC when Elena and Caroline went to college and ended up with a non-Bonnie roommate, said roommate had to invite them in to their dorm room initially. And when Kai comes back from the Prison World in S2 of Legacies, he has to be invited in to the school (because people live there, in the dorms?).
I presume owned apartments are like houses, but what about leased apartments? They’re like dorm rooms, in a sense. And if dorm rooms require invites…they are then in a sense leased places of residence (pay a room fee to the school aka the owner, get to live in said room), so do hotel/motel rooms follow the same pattern, being short-term leased places of residence (pay for a room, get to stay there as long as the fee covers)?
These are the tiny details that drive my mind batty.
