Apartment Neighbours...

[MoonCat]

Living in a house doesn't necessarily mean no noise. I had all kinds of noisy neighbors before I moved into my own house, and now I live next to people who can't walk upstairs without stomping so hard that MY windows shake. Their kids scream bloody murder constantly, Mama Weasel screams at Daddy Weasel, and the little bimbo downstairs screams like the proverbial banshee if we happen to look out the window while she's outside. Funny about looking out the window....my sister looks out when she hears them banging and screaming in the yard, because not long after they moved in, two guys who were visiting tried to beat up Daddy Weasel in the hallway and we had to call the cops.

I've told her she doesn't need to look outside every single time she hears a noise, but these people are assholes and she says if there's going to be another fight, she wants to know in plenty of time to get away from the windows.

[LadyAndreca]

Sheesh. And here I'm nervous about practicing my music after 8 PM and WON'T do it after 9 PM. (The upstairs neighbors have a toddler and I don't want to keep her up all night, or I'd wouldn't worry about practicing as late as quiet hours let me.)

[mikoyan29]

My upstairs neighbors used to sound like they were wrestling or something. I'd be sitting on the computer or something and all the sudden I would hear a crash. STuff would rattle even. I've had to go up there a ocuple times...

[TheTigress]

I considered it settled, even after i got a note under my door, a "if you called the cops imma kick yo' ass bitch" note from the male. (nothing ever came of that, btw)

Me being the smartass that I am, I would have sent the letter back to them with grammar and spelling corrections like you would see done by a teacher on a graded paper.

[MoonCat]

Me being the smartass that I am, I would have sent the letter back to them with grammar and spelling corrections like you would see done by a teacher on a graded paper.

Send back a photocopy with the corrections, plus a notation: "A copy of this note has been filed with my attorney and another with the local police precinct. Have a nice day!"

[Sarcastro]

Had this problem a few times but it when it happened I was usually roused from sleep and not a happy panda. Apparently I'm intimidating when I'm sleepy and annoyed so one trip downstairs is usually all it took. Although one time I crashed at a buddie's apartment in "the bad part of town" it was pretty hellish. No less than 3 fights in the halls involving the tenants of two different apartments were bad enough but as I was finally falling asleep on a beanbag chair I see something out of the corner of my eye. Apparently a crackhead decided to stare at my friend's cat that was sitting on the window. It looked like he was staring straight at me, backlit by a flickering streetlight out front. It was something out of a horror movie. So yeah, I didn't get any sleep that night.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Bagpipes... i'll be sure to take up lessons!

surely the point is that you don't take lessons...

Surely the bagpipes can be played much louder after you've had a few lessons.

[Wenchie]

And no, I can't wear earplugs, none fit my freakishly tiny ears

I have tiny ears too... I wear kid's earplugs. These ones actually: http://www.amazon.com/Plugs-EarPlugs.../dp/B0011WFOIO but I got them at Kroger and not online. And because they're silicone, if they're still too big, you can pinch off some of the silicone wax stuff to make them smaller.

*huggles*

Hope you feel better!

[Amina516]

You guys remind me of how lucky I am to no longer live in an apt...


Thanks.

[Racket_Man]

we had the "screamer" go off (yes I use that word for a reason) at 6am a lot of mornings. this chick made pron actresses jealous.

then in another building (I think I have related this story before) the 3d floor used to call the cops on US claiming we were throwing a loud party at 11pm. nope just getting a little carried away in the "romantic" dept. but not ANYTHING like the screamer

[SuperRTL]

I've called the police on my upstairs neighbors no less than 5 times. Every time I tell them it's a domestic dispute, usually because it is. It's a pattern. Unfortunately, it's one she has to break or I'm pretty sure he's going to kill her. The dude skeeves me out to the point where I refused to go out without an escort while I was pregnant if he was there. I'm pretty sure he knew I was the one who kept calling the cops. That's one of the reasons I don't go and knock on the door when it gets too loud during the day. Mostly I just deal with it or go to my mom's house and wait until my hubby gets home.

Though, I did have the opportunity to call the landlord about them the other day. The kids (teenagers) that live with them occasionally were home alone and practicing WWE moves. Parts of my ceiling started falling off. The apartment manager started giving me attitude about it until I mentioned that I had, in fact, called the police on them multiple times. Suddenly, she was all ready to be helpful. The maintenance guy showed up a few minutes later to tell them to keep it down. Now, if I could just get him to show up to fix my heater . . .

[Whiskey]

Now, if I could just get him to show up to fix my heater . . .

Isn't colorado considered cold enough to be one of those "no lack of heat" areas? I know (heard?) in places like minnesota, theyre not allowed to turn your heat off for lack of payment because people would freeze to death. I'm assuming the same would apply for fixing a broken heater?

[SuperRTL]

Pretty sure you're right, Whiskey.

The heater's a funny story. Apparently, the last apartment manager had all the heaters shut off during the summer about 2 years ago, so they wouldn't kick on if somebody ran their air conditioning too cold. They didn't bother to tell anybody this when the apartments were sold, though, so the only people who called up to complain and got an actual person to come out and fix it got theirs turned back on. We live in the middle apartments, almost directly above the laundry room. Putting the grocery bag with the butter on it on the floor would melt the butter. . . until this year.

Somebody got oil in the dryer. Anything that's run in it gets ruined. The management company doesn't want to bother fixing it so people haven't been using it. Somebody noticed there had been a lot of calls about heaters the last could winters so they sent maintenance around to check and see if they were turned on. Almost every apartment in our building had no heat because the valves were shut. Now, all of our neighbors have working heaters. We do not. The guys can't figure out why. No calls in 2 weeks and it's been getting cold at night. With a new baby, I want that heater working. Our lease is coming up end of next month, though. May have to start looking for other places.

[Sapphire Silk]

May?

I'd start looking now, if for no other reason to negotiate with your land lord when it comes time to renew your lease.

How are apartment rentals in your area. Places where I live are advertising all the time . . .if space is tight where you live, my suggestion may be off base.

[SuperRTL]

I've found other places that we could possibly move to, the only issue is applying for them while I'm on short-term disability making no money (my paperwork got screwed royally because somebody misspelled my name), though I'm trying to fix that, 2 kids and a hubby who's getting ready to start student teaching and making very little at his 2 jobs right now. Add in an acquired roomie who broke his ankle after his last successful job interview and it makes getting a new place a little chancy. The place we're in now is a guaranteed lease. The apartment manager laughed when I suggested lowering our rent.