I'm going to cry

[TNT]

I have new upstairs neighbors. Suddenly I miss my old neighbors, as psycho, roach-infested and obnoxious as they were.

The new neighbors are the two most annoying people I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Nobody can be that naturally annoying... they had to study at it. They lack even the remotest notion that there are other people in the universe besides them.

How can two people be so loud? How can they stomp around constantly? Don't they have to sit down sometime? Why do they have to talk at the top of their voices all the time (fortunately -- I think -- they do it in a language with which I'm completely unfamiliar)?

They live in a one f*****g room efficiency... the place is so small, there's no reason to even talk at all... they can hear each other think.

They're not content with being annoying... they have to make life dangerous. They always turn off the lights in the hallway. Because the first light switch is 15 feet from my door, I have to fumble about in pitch black. You'd think that even with the language barrier, they'd have enough natural good sense to puzzle out that if they need light to navigate the steps, I probably do, too.

I've been thinking about moving... now it seems like I'm going to have to move to a hotel until I find another place.

[TNT]

Let's buy a double house... you get one half, I get the other.

[Knightmare]

I got new neighbors too..

They like porn..

very loudly...

at all hours..

Sorry. I'll turn the sound down. :D

[blas]

You're not alone.

I wonder that about my next door neighbors (unfortunately, I live in an apartment with walls made out of paper it seems). I used to think that the bitch next door just had an anger problem...

I cannot fathom how people can ALWAYS tromp, ALWAYS slam doors, ALWAYS slam cupboards, and instead of setting something down, hurdling things.

What's even worse is every time the elephant next door stomps around, things in my kitchen shake. When her two baby elephant children........well.....we don't really need to go there. They have some powerful legs, they RUN AROUND tromping like their elephant mother all damn day and night. This apartment is TOO small to be able run around, even if you are a child.

I also cannot fathom how someone can be so damn rude like that. She and her babies are NOT the only people who live in this building, there are like 10 apartments in the whole complex, of which all but two are occupied.

The reason she barely ever leaves is because she doesn't work. She and the babies are home all day, and if they go anywhere, it's only for a half hour or so here and there. Not only that, they ALWAYS have even louder company over.

[Rapscallion]

I was vaguely thinking about buying an apartment, what with prices and there being not much on the market, but I think you've put me straight about that. Fortunately, most houses over here are solidly constructed with stone walls - yay! That said, there's bugger all about...

Rapscallion

[Becks]

I got new neighbors too..

They like porn..

very loudly...

at all hours..


Are you sure that they don't have orgies or swinger's conventions there?

[Jpurple]

There is one good thing about the climate and building techniques in Thailand: It's warm enough that you can make apartement buildings out of foot-thick reinforced concrete. I would never know if my neighbours were noisy. The only thing I know for sure is that someone on our floor keeps forgetting to prop their door open or close it completely when they have the outside door open- we keep hearing 'squeak...SLAM!' Concrete hallways reverberate very nicely.:rolleyes:

[BlaqueKatt]

How can two people be so loud? How can they stomp around constantly? Don't they have to sit down sometime?

Hey we used to affectionately refer to those as "the boot people", apartment with hardwood floors+stomping=loud-so Boot People, we swore they and their kids wore huge clunky workboots all day and night-it makes for an amusing mental picture if nothing else(imagine a toddler in workboots-:D )

[AFpheonix]

The apartments I'm in must have space age insulation or something, because it's hard to hear much of anything from the surrounding units or the outside, unless of course they're leafblowing.


Although I must add, my upstairs neighbors need a new boxspring. Badly. I'm glad they're a happy couple, but come on.

[TNT]

This story actually has a happy ending.

Turns out, my new neighbor is a very cool young Italian guy... a fact I mention only because he has an almost stereotypical big happy Italian family. His returning to town after graduating college is a Big Event, and every member of that family had some part in his move. So, if it seemed like there was a huge crowd of people stomping around up there speaking various languages, it's because there was a huge crowd of people stomping around up there speaking various languages.

Now I wonder if I want to move at all... I like both my neighbors, and that may be worth more than moving to a better neighborhood and possibly winding up with sucky neighbors.

What to do, what to do?

[blas]

Well that's a good thing he turned out to be an okay guy. However, if you still want to move, you might risk breaking a lease, and that can look bad on your record. That's the only thing that keeps me from packing all my shit up and going back to my parents' house. That...and I'd rather suffer loud disturbances than have a midnight curfew at my age again. I shouldn't have to put up with what I'm putting up with, but I can't break the lease and risk not getting another apartment to live in after this one. I'm not as gutsy and risky as my roomate, by taking up a new residence and not informing the landlord.

[TNT]

However, if you still want to move, you might risk breaking a lease, and that can look bad on your record.

Leases are odd things... on the one hand, they're binding legal documents. On the other hand, people have to move for all sorts of legitimate reasons. So there's usually an early termination clause in there somewhere. In my corner of the world, it's generally losing the security deposit. Since moving out in the middle of the night will also forfeit the security deposit, tenants don't gain very much by sneaking away unless they owe a bunch of back rent or they've totally destroyed the place.

At any rate, if you follow the lease when it comes to early termination, it really doesn't affect a person's record. Again, there are plenty of legitimate reasons why people have to move before the end of the year.

It's also common (around here, at least) to sign an initial one-year lease, that turns into a month to month agreement after that. I can leave here on 30 days notice... and my landlord can ask me to move on 30 days notice.

PS About roommates -- on my first day of college way back when, I met my roommate. On that day, I decided I'd rather in live in a cardboard box under a bridge before ever having another one.

[blas]

Well I wish I would have known that....lol........I've wanted to break this lease and get the hell out before but my parents kept warning me that it would make me look bad. I guess "I hate my roomate" really isn't a reason, is it? I should really stop listening to my parents.

I'm just waiting for my arsehole roomate to pull the 30 days on me and take off.....then I'll get him right back and he'll be SOL for quite a bit and in a ton of legal trouble for what he's been doing.

[TNT]

I guess "I hate my roomate" really isn't a reason, is it?



It's as good a reason as any if you ask me. Bad neighbors are one thing... sharing living space with someone you can't tolerate is a whole new level of misery.

[blas]

It's an even mixture of both hating my roomate and hating my neighbor, but I'm just going to stick it out. I've done it for 6 months so far, I can keep going. You can rest assured I can hold my own and if anything happens, you'll all be the first to know.

[Cia]

When I lived in Louisiana we had a year's lease and then it went to month to month. They also wanted a 30 day notice for moving. So we told them here's your 30 day notice we are gone in 2 weeks. Hell, we only had a 2 week notice that the entire battalion was moving from Ft. Polk to Ft. Hood, Texas. Fun times for all.