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Deadend
11-15-2006, 02:18 AM
Ok so I'm dealing with a bit of a neighbour dispute. I rent a Condo from the cousin of my roomate. Next door to us there is a middle aged woman who has made several noise complaints against us.

Now first of all take my word for it that neither I, nor my roomate has EVER "cranked" the stereo. On top of it neither do we even own a TV. The following letter occured on a day when I had the stereo all the way up to "2", and really was not even as loud as my mother watches TV at back home.



Dear Board of Directors

Re: Renters in unit #####

Earlier this evening, I heard a thud-thud comming from the unit next to mine through the common living room wall, the stereo base and a sound I have heard before.

I went next door and knocked and before the door opened, I heard "here comes a complaint" from inside. When D (the owners cousin) answered I askid him to turn down his stereo (which he obviously knew was too loud), to which he replied "chill out", before closing the door in my face.

I have asked D nicely at least four times now to turn down his music, but he doesn't seem to care that it is disturbing at least one neighbour. You would think that with the low vacancy rate of rental accommodations in this city renters would be more respectful.

I am bringing this issue to the Board because I am tired of having to deal with D's flippant comments. If the music from #### is dissurptive again, I will let you know and will formally request that this be persued with the owner.



Alright.... here's why I'm pissed

1- "Here comes the complaint" was not because the music was loud, but because she has complained about regular-to-quiet volumes in the past, NOT because we knew it was loud. So that we "obviously knew" is flat out conjecture. Nevermind, if the music was so loud, how was she listening to our conversation though our front door?

2- Renters this owners that. Why the hell is this relavent? It's blatently obvious this asshole thinks that she has more rights then me as an occupant because I rent and she owns. I'd go even so far as to say it sounds like we should be aware that we're at her mercy.

Nevermind she completely misrepresents what transpired at our door. Before he shut the door she said to him "Turn it down or be evicted". I mean, what exactly is the appropriate response to someone barking orders and threats at you in your own home? She makes it sound like she was disrupted and then ignored, which was NOT what happened at all.

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I mean this whole thing is such BS I don't even know where to start. 6 Days a week I'm usually out of the house anyways, and 9/10 of the days I'm actually home it's like a monestary anyways because the both of us just usually sit around on our computers if we're home. but appherently the woman next door thinks she owns our unit just because we don't.

Please comment/ Comsserate / Throw poo

winneythepooh7
11-15-2006, 09:31 AM
I see stuff like this happen a lot. I live in a building that is all condos and some are rentals. My philosophy is if you can't live with some noise and such, get a house in the woods all alone. There's an issue with a dog that barks in our building and some of the owners have complained about the couple that owns the dog. I was talking to my landlord about it and she suprisingly is on the couple's side. She said that everyone knows this is a building that allows pets. If you can't deal with it, move elsewhere! I mean, if you can afford to buy a condo where I live, you certainly can afford options without pets. I understand where you are coming from though.

cache
11-15-2006, 10:57 AM
File a complaint against this lady for:
-Making unreasonable requests for absurd things
-Disturbing the privacy of your condo
-Filing false and misleading complaints against you

mishl982
11-15-2006, 11:41 AM
File a complaint against this lady for:
-Making unreasonable requests for absurd things
-Disturbing the privacy of your condo
-Filing false and misleading complaints against you
And for being a biaaaatch!

Skyblade
11-15-2006, 12:19 PM
I totally know how you feel. The last apartment I lived in I lived next door to this eurotrash woman who the apartment manager herself called "Princess Paulina" because she constantly complained about anything and everything. One time she complained about the noise we were making when we weren't even in the state (we were away visiting my bf's parents in Philadelphia). The way she dealt with everything was to call the apartment manager instead of confront us about the noise, which really pissed me off.

Deadend
11-17-2006, 03:21 AM
Thanks everybody. It's pretty much the response I got so far from everybody I talked to.

My big issue is that this condo board seems to be a troop of tin-pot dictators that haven't a clue what they're doing.

In fact there's another issue that's almost comical. They're re-doing the fence around the parking lot. For this we've all been forced to move our cars during the day (I don't mind because there's tons of street parking). However... the workmen haven't shown up in 2 weeks at least and these old ninnies keep nattering at people over this anyways!! The signs on the doors have the date scratched out an re-written several times already (and incidently is written in less the polite language to begin with). I'd be laughing my ass off over it, if it wasn't freakishly scarey what a power trip these people are on. This old hag was at my door at 9 am this morning to ask me (neh, she told me with the words "asap") to move my car. I bother arguing - I was leaving anyways and in fact had answered it with my jacket, but I had to absolutely roll my eyes when I got home about 3 hours later to absolutely no sign whatsoever of any sort of workmen.

So ya, to say the least I'm not too confident in "fair treatment" from this so-called "condo board", which incidently the biz-snatch next door sits at the head of I'm told. Mainly my efforts have been focussed on trying to calm down my roomate, who somehow seems to think these power-trippers might actually have the power to evict him with a vote just because it's a condo. I'm pretty sure that's beyond their power, which is why I won't be bothering with them much beyond bearing my own witness of the account. Rather I'll be talking to the noise bylaw officer and after that going straight to the police.

I tell you this whole incident feels surreal. My roomate tells me that the bitch next door harrassed him with "you better be quiet, because I don't like noise"... when he was still moving his stuff in the day he got here! It's insane how much power these people *think* they have, and how blatently rude they are because of it.

I'll be getting the straight goods on the letter of the law tomorrow when I have time (today was too much business). It's been quite a while since I've been aware of somone that so despirately needed to be put on their place.

J-girl
11-17-2006, 03:02 PM
Deadend- did you give her the "OH NO YOU DID-NT" look?

Deadend
11-20-2006, 04:26 AM
Hey lady J.

I was actually in the next room at the time. But I'd love to....

wanderer9
11-20-2006, 06:17 AM
if i was you i'd fight dirty....

turn the stereo right up, slam the door shut behind you etc. if you're going to get blamed for it, you may as well do it!!

revenge can be so sweet!

DaedalusX
02-04-2007, 05:09 PM
Well, Deadend, what was the end result? Left on a cliffhanger! ;):

Deadend
02-09-2007, 03:10 AM
Well.. we didn't change anything, and she stopped bothering us.

My extremely stark apartment has a few more things in it now. Either nobody listened to her complaints or the throw rugs we've got made all the differance.

It's funny, me and my room mate adapoted a "lets ignore this" policy, and it really did go away. It kind of slipped my mind for the longest time until I brought it up with him again weeks later.

winneythepooh7
02-09-2007, 08:17 AM
Glad it worked out! A little noise here and there is gonna happen in apartment-style living. People just need to realize that and chill a little. It's one thing if you actually were blasting the stereo at all hours of the day and night. It's quite another if it's 2PM for a half hour.

coll214
02-09-2007, 10:57 AM
Glad it worked out!

I had one of my neighbors after I moved in actually tell me she was nervous b/c two young girls were moving in; though now she says she NEVER hears us. But i'm usually so wiped by the time I get home, that all i'm doing is watching TV! The other neighbor tries to bribe us with coffee and alchohol since her grandkids and grandogs are the loudest pets/kids on the planet... people 3 doors down can sometimes hear them :rolleyes:.

Deadend
02-11-2007, 09:23 PM
Well didn't I get a complaint like friday night while I've got the stereo on getting ready to go out.

Man I don't even know where to begin. To say the least I was fed up of tiptoeing around this woman so I went over to her door to talk to her. Wound up having an actually pleasant conversation that lasted about 45 minutes and actually got me kind of late. Really, I was just trying to make peace though.

It was actually like the next day that it occured to me that this woman actually IS very uncomprimising and was in fact not listening to me at all, despite the fact that I was listening to her and that's why it was easy to converse.

I dunno, I've already been talking to a friend that's having trouble filling his extra bedroom. I'll see what I can do to find a place more "suitable to my lifestyle" (turning the stereo on once a week while I'm getting ready for the bar for an hour and having my friends over for dinner once a month - omg who wouldn't feel sorry for this old hen that has the horrible party animals next door!)