The issue is, we're a bit worried to speak up about it because they might give us a bad exit report or make it harder for us to get our bond back.

Get the ball out of your court and contact the RTA with any concerns you've had to date and concerns you still have going forward. They will give you free legal counsel and in my experience are always happy to help tenants who are being exploited by dodgy landlords.

I lived in a sharehouse when I was a teenager with one friend. It was a four bedroom house and we were individually renting a room each. When we moved in, the other two rooms were empty. We had a similair situation where our landlord (who lived around the corner) and his family would drop in several times a week, without informing us beforehand or even knocking on the door. After a month or so, we bought this up with him. His defence was "you're renting a room, not the whole house - so I don't need to provide an entry notice." This was despite the fact that the doors to our rooms didn't even have individual locks, so there was nothing stopping them from going through our stuff when we weren't home.

I went to my local community center and told them about what was going on - I hadn't been the first person in the area with complaints about the landlord. Them and the RTA ended up helping me get my entire bond back (even though it wasn't registered with the RTA initially - this is the biggest black flag you can find) and even helped me by paying for half the bond at my next house.

Don't wait until its too late to get the RTA involved. They're pretty big on tenants rights and ensuring landlords aren't breaking the states rental laws.