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  • 09-07-2010 11:00am
    #1
    CaptainOats
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭


    Hi all,

    Have been renting a lovely apartment for almost the last year with my OH. We're really happy here and hoped to stay for another year once our lease comes up for renewal...

    We just have two small problems that have a potentially big impact though so just wondering if anybody has any advice?..

    The first is that when we moved in we noticed that our neighbours were leaving their rubbish (incl. dirty nappies) outside their apartment door sometimes for days at a time instead of just bringing it down to the communal area in the basement. We didn't want to insult them so called the property management company who sent a letter to every apartment asking everybody not to do this.... no change. Around Christmas time I came home and just got so annoyed that I put a note under their door asking them nicely to stop...and they did! But now they have started again and as it is summer and the hallway has no openable window the place stinks. When we walk past our front door the smell is just wafting in. It's really unhygienic and i'm kind of afraid that it will attract rats or mice which is not a nice thought!

    The second problem is that new tenants have just moved into the apartment above us and are serious night owls. I don't want to sound realllly boring but I work very long hours, as does my OH and so I do tend to go to bed at about 11 during the week as I am up for work before 7. It's been about three weeks now and every night I have been lying awake at about 4:30 listening to the person moving furniture, doing what sounds like exercise and generally running around. I don't know what to do.... or if we can even actually do anything. Other tenants lived there before and we never heard any noise...especially not at 4:30 in the morning...so just wondering if anybody has any advice...

    Thanks a million :eek:


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    #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Have your neighbours got a letterbox in their door?
    I wouldn't like a nappy shoved through my letterbox ;)
    Try talking to them, see how you get on.
    Realy, it's just laziness at the moment, easily rectified

    I'm more concerned with the other neighbours and I can't see them changing.
    Most working people have the same bedtime and rising hours as you.
    Maybe the tenants works shifts but it's unacceptable either way to be kept awake until 04:30.
    When I worked night shift I struggled in the mornings with the noise but dealt with it but you don't have to.
    Try the management company again since they send letters.
    If there is no improvement, try talking to them but realy you may have to move


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