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Noisy neighbour upstairs
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30-09-2010 9:11am#1Not sure if this belongs here. Mods move if you need to
I live in an apartment complex, my apartment is privately owned and I rent off the owner.
I have people living above me that are hell on earth to live under. They have wooden floors and between the hours of 9pm and 2am they are shifting furniture on near a nightly basis. They dont seem to have any felt under their furniture so I would hate to see the condition the floor boards are in!
They blare their television so loud we can hear it over our own, we always make sure to keep it at a reasonable level as we have a toddler and like to keep an ear out for him when he is asleep, also if our tv was too loud it would wake him.
After about 5 months of living under these people, my housemate (my ex) decided to write them a very polite letter saying that they may not be aware of the noise they are emitting and that we have a young child so please could they not be so noisey at night. They responded by upping the noise levels!!!!
They had a party a few weeks ago, we asked them to turn down the music as our son could not sleep. They didn't! They were partying til 3am and started it up again the next day!!!!
We have contacted the management company in charge of the apartments and though they were sympathetic on the phone, the email correspondance since then have been useless, they keep saying they are attempting to contact the landlord, and that they would be contacting other occupants. Then they said the other occupants confirmed our complaints but then withdrew them again! I was talking to our next door neighbour ( the apartment above is a penthouse so it above both of ours) she stated they have it very bad too with all the noise and that the management company has NEVER contacted them regarding the noise.
Next door has had trouble with the apartment above, they too have a young child and one night (at midnight) it was crying because of teething. Upstairs came down and demanded they get the child to stop and if it was that sick why did they not bring it to the hospital. They said the child was crying judt below their bedroom and they were trying to sleep. They stated they paid for their apartment during the boom (what this has to do with the situation I will never know
) so they demand silence! I don't think they have ever gone to bed that early!
But this information clashes with what I was told by the management company, I know it is 2 women living there as I have seen both and my neighbour confirmed this, but the management company told me that they were trying to contact the man that owns it!?! But the woman said she and her housemate/partner (I don't know the situation exactly there) own it!
What can I do, we are sleep deprieved and p!ss off to the last!0
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Continue complaining to the management company. It's not your problem if they can't get a hold of the landlord.
Evidently it is her problem unfortunately - she's the one who's getting personally affected by the noise. At 5pm the people in the management company can probably go home to quiet houses/neighborhoods
The only way to proceed is to get the neighbors together and start peppering the management company with complaints - at least that will put more pressure on them.
Its a sh1tty situation OP and i feel for you, best of luck...0 -
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stiffler123 wrote: »Is it possible you might just have really thin walls?
It is an apartment complex built during the later years of the boom................... of course they are
paper thin and shodily done!!!!!
Thank you all for your replies, and for the more polite thread name
I got onto the management company again today, they said that the owners of the other apartments in my complex have written to them saying that the apartment above me are NOT making any noise. I asked did he question the tenants next door to me regarding them. He said no he had not Surely they should be questioned what with them being the only other apartment directly affected by upstairs. What good is there contacting owners, they should contact the tenants!!!
As regards my landlord, since the day I rang to view this apartment the only things I know about her is her name and bank account number, she has never dealth with me and all communications have been through the land agent, I have contacted her several times but according to her the land lady has not once contacted her back regarding this matter. Leading me to think she is friendly with our riverdancing neighbours!!!!!0 -
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That is one of the stangest statements I have ever heard. Nobody would ever write such a letter (unless put up to it).
Tape recorder, video recorder or similar the next time theres a party. Wander up to their apartment door to prove that its them. Make usre the date and time is set correctly.
Have taped the last party! from my balcony and at their door when we politely asked them to reduce the noise as our son could not sleep.
Apparently he rang all the owners in the block and asked them to put in in writing. But in one of the previous emails he told me that others had agreed with me but withdrew their statements
I smell a rat really! And I am the kind that IF I need to leave I WILL make sure they do not get away scot free!!! (in legal ways of course!!!!!)0 -
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