Does the Virginia law requiring 24 hours' notice from a landlord before entry to show a rental property apply to individual rooms in a shared house? I rent a room directly from the owner of a house who also lives on the premises—i.e., he's both my landlord and my roommate.

I rent month-to-month without a lease because when I moved in, I knew I'd be moving overseas but didn't have an exact departure date. I'll be moving out at the end of this month (February). This month's rent is paid in full and I've never been late. When I first moved in, my landlord requested a month's notice before leaving; I gave 2+, notifying at the end of December. I also told him that I assumed he'd want to show the room to prospective tenants at some point while I was still in residence; I asked him to just let me know the night before so that I could be sure to clean and have highly personal items out of sight. At that point, he said he didn't intend to show the room until after I'd left.

Last week, as I was leaving for work early in the morning, he told me that he'd be showing the room later that day. Since the space was in no fit state (not damaged or dirty, but with some very private things visible), I reminded him that I needed notice the night before in order to clean up a bit; he said he didn't care what the room looked like (or, apparently, how I felt about it) and intended to show it regardless. I more or less begged him not to do it, both because I'd be embarrassed and because it wouldn't make a good impression on the prospective tenant. He relented. I thought he'd give me more notice in the future, but yesterday he texted me at 5:30 p.m. to say he'd be showing the room--in half an hour. Fortunately I was home, and had already decided to store everything I care about in my car to be on the safe side, but not knowing when or if I'm going to have to vacate the private space I pay for is getting on my last nerve. My landlord/roommate never even turned up with the prospective tenant--nor did he call to notify me they wouldn't be coming, after all.

There have been minor issues—with plumbing; timely access to mail (he won't share the key, but he also won't check it more than 2-3 times a month); a window he outright declined to fix even after it fell into my room, frame and all, and destroyed some of my belongings (it's currently propped in the frame and unopenable); cold showers; his refusing to let anyone put salt on the icy walk or drive because it might damage the paint on his Mercedes; objects hurled against the wall because I once dropped a bottle of shampoo in the shower and the thump woke him up—but I let them all slide because if he'd decided to toss me out as a trouble-maker, I really had nowhere else to go. Effectively not having predictable access to or privacy in the space I pay for, however, is the last straw.

Does the VRLTA's requirement for 24 hours' notice of entry apply in my case? Or is he legally allowed to do with the room as he pleases?

Addendum: more digging suggests that I don't qualify as a tenant, but as a lodger. However, most all the info I can turn up about notice of entry for lodgers is for single lodgers in California, whereas I'm in Virginia and there are two other roommates (nominally; practically speaking, they're almost never physically there. Landlord has more or less dropped hints that he dislikes the amount of time I spend at home, though nothing was said of any expectations in that direction when I moved in).