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ImHisMrs
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I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
We have been living in our apartment for just over 2 years, we do NOT get along with the people who live in the apartment below us - we haven't had any incidents up until like a month ago, when the husband and wife practically attacked me and I called the cops on them (long story over a newspaper  ) - Well we got a phone call yesterday morning from the woman at the rental office saying that there was a complaint put in for us being loud between the hours of 8pm-10pm and waking up the kids downstairs.
Quiet hours don't start until 10pm - I don't see where the problem is - but apparently, when you live in an apartment you cannot 'impose upon anyones enjoyment - no annoying noises or smells' - I explained to the woman that we keep the second bedroom (above the kids' bedroom) closed so the cats dont run around in there - to try and keep the noise down for the kids. Well apparently, the mother downstairs works until 2-3am and the kids sleep on the living room floor starting at 8pm until she gets home from work.....
The kids are constantly crying downstairs, slamming doors, the husband and wife are always fighting, its almost unbearable. They slam doors at 2 or 3 am like you have no idea. We have let it go in the past, but now I think its becomming a problem.
We spend our time in 'the common area' the living room when we are home at night, watching TV, playing Wii, when we have people over. Well as I come to find out, that no matter what time it is, we have to be quiet because it was 'impose upon their enjoyment' to hear us walking around upstairs.
I don't know what to do to handle this, part of me wants to be that snarky wench that everytime the kids cry, to just call the cops and tell them 'they are crying alot - maybe they are beating them... - its imposing upon my enjoyment to hear them crying all the time, and the slamming of the doors in the middle of the night. I am just at a loss of what to do..
And the best part, I am switching to nights in a few weeks, 7p-7a - so they best be quiet ALL day long when I have to sleep... I would hate to have them wake me up......
Thanks for making it this far if you have....
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RocPin
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
My old neighbors had this problem and they went to the rental office and asked to move apts. They moved them with no problem. I think if you really push the issue, they will move you. I know moving probably does not sound appealing but its better than dealing with that drama.
Good Luck!
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| Posted 3/26/09 10:02 PM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by RocPin
My old neighbors had this problem and they went to the rental office and asked to move apts. They moved them with no problem. I think if you really push the issue, they will move you. I know moving probably does not sound appealing but its better than dealing with that drama.
Good Luck!
Thanks - its definitely an option. We are scheduled to move out on 10/31 - I dont think they will be that receptive - but we shouldnt spend a fortune to be unhappy..
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| Posted 3/26/09 10:05 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Aside from moving like a PP suggested - can you throw another carpet down in the LR? To absorb the noise a bit more?
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| Posted 3/27/09 9:56 AM |
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jaypac915
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Oh I feel your pain!!! We have problem neighbors as well. I wish I had some words of advice for you!!
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| Posted 3/27/09 10:30 AM |
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EmmaNick
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
I feel your pain. I had problem neighbors at the townhouse I lived in for six years. The guy moved in and was playing his music REALLY loud at all hours of the night. I complained several times to management (and called the police once) and it was *me* that ultimately received a notice stating they were terminating *my* lease for "harrassment" So I would be careful about complaining if you rent from a Fairfield property! 
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| Posted 3/27/09 2:18 PM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by EmmaNick
I feel your pain. I had problem neighbors at the townhouse I lived in for six years. The guy moved in and was playing his music REALLY loud at all hours of the night. I complained several times to management (and called the police once) and it was *me* that ultimately received a notice stating they were terminating *my* lease for "harrassment" So I would be careful about complaining if you rent from a Fairfield property!
We aren't in a fairfield property - it used to be such a nice community it seems like, although these people that live in the apartment below us have been here longer than we have (we are there 2+ years) and they havent made any noise complaints until after they almost attacked me and I called the police on them, it seems like its fair game now. We aren't anticipating extending our lease once its over in October. We had taken a 6 month extension about 2-3 weeks ago. Which will give us enough time to find a house and move into that. I dont worry about the ramifications from the rental company, I just want them to be quiet - the banging of doors, hitting our floor with a broomstick, the screaming kids, the kids crying, for us to be paying more rent monthly, and living upstairs, it should be expected that we really dont hear them downstairs, but its the opposite. I guess it will just be ugly on both our sides until we can finally move..
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| Posted 3/27/09 3:39 PM |
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Acerone
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
I will never live on the ground floor with anyone living above me ever again... Its not that they were loud it's just ever step they made and every flush of the toilet you hear it... And it was soooooooo loud...
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| Posted 3/27/09 4:10 PM |
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LINewbie
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Did you tell the LL that you think it might be to get back at you for calling the cops when they were attacknig you? Did you tell the LL that they slam doors at 3 a.m. and the kids cry all day? Doesn't that interfere with YOUR enjoyment?
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| Posted 3/27/09 7:41 PM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by LINewbie
Did you tell the LL that you think it might be to get back at you for calling the cops when they were attacknig you? Did you tell the LL that they slam doors at 3 a.m. and the kids cry all day? Doesn't that interfere with YOUR enjoyment?
yea - and it pretty much was brushed off. As far as I am concerned - it will interfere with my enjoyment ANY noise they make, esp. with going to over nights soon - I will need my sleep and summer is coming - those kids are going to be out of school all day long - Id hate them to make ANY noise while I am trying to sleep.. inside OR outside.. let them tell me I am 'harassing' them.. I am just 'going by the "gray" area in the lease'... that just irks me.. whats the point of quiet hours then?!?!?
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| Posted 3/27/09 7:42 PM |
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Cheeks24
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Do you live in the apartment on the otherside of my parent's neighbors? It's the same way. Kids are screaming at 3pm, but it's a temper tantrum. It's ridiculous! I feel your pain. The first time my mom heard it she went over and it turned out it was the child having a temper tantrum. You do not want to call the cops for this. The kids aren't being being mistreated, don't do it. There is no abuse. Unfortunately it's a case of bad parenting and not knowing how to deal with kids in situations like this.
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| Posted 3/27/09 10:30 PM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Hmm....I'd really look into moving if I were you, but I'm of the mind that the monster you know is better than the one you don't because who's to say that your new neighbors won't be worse? Ya know? I'd just call the management company and make your own complaint about noise in the middle of the night, then when you start working nights, if it's loud during the day, then you should call again.
Our last apartment, we lived in the upstairs unit, and we were SO careful about the noise we made and were lucky that hte woman below us was the same way. HOWEVER, the people diagonally below us, man oh man, they were so loud WE could hear them. I feel your pain!
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| Posted 3/27/09 10:41 PM |
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Christine
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
That's a horrible way to live My downstairs neighbors used to harrass me like that. I once dropped something in the middle of the afternoon and within seconds she was banging on the ceiling with a broom. I'll never forget how awful it felt to tip toe around the house. 
It seems like this is all stemming from the newspaper incident - is it possible to sit down and have a discussion with them about it to put it behind the both of you? Otherwise, I suggest documenting situations and contacting the board of directors or management company.
Good luck!
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| Posted 3/28/09 3:59 AM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by Christine
That's a horrible way to live My downstairs neighbors used to harrass me like that. I once dropped something in the middle of the afternoon and within seconds she was banging on the ceiling with a broom. I'll never forget how awful it felt to tip toe around the house.
It seems like this is all stemming from the newspaper incident - is it possible to sit down and have a discussion with them about it to put it behind the both of you? Otherwise, I suggest documenting situations and contacting the board of directors or management company.
Good luck!
You probably lived above these people - they MUST have a broom in every room - I moved a bag of melting chocolate last week (to make chocolate lollipops) and dropped the bag on the floor (literally was like a foot or so above the floor) and as soon as I dropped it (2PM!) they started banging on their ceiling with a broom stick. I pay too much money to tip toe over them. Talking to them is not something we are even considering with them.
When we first moved in THE FIRST DAY. There was a knock on our front door (we live in a gated private community) and I thought it was new neighbors so I went to answer the door, it was the people who lived in our apartment previous to us and 'wanted to take a tour to see what the rental company did to the apartment before we moved in'... Apparently, they were friends with the people who lived in the apartment below us and thought that was a good idea...
The FIRST and ONLY conversation we have ever had with them, was when they both (husband and wife) cursed me out because of the newspaper incident. To think that they would NEVER say hello or smile before that, I wont even approach the 'lets talk about it' angle.
As of last night, we decided, we are no longer going to tip toe around the apartment, we do not intend on extending our lease once it expires - so even if the management company refused to extend it, no problem with us. We are going to live normally, and if we make noise, they can complain all they want.
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| Posted 3/28/09 8:38 AM |
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Christine
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Oh, I misuderstood your first post. I thought the harrassing started after the newspaper incident not since you moved in.
The problem I had with my neighbors eventually worked out after phone calls in the middle of the night and calling the police. Now they are friendly, go figure?
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| Posted 3/28/09 9:28 AM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by Christine
Oh, I misuderstood your first post. I thought the harrassing started after the newspaper incident not since you moved in.
The problem I had with my neighbors eventually worked out after phone calls in the middle of the night and calling the police. Now they are friendly, go figure?
Sorry if I made it confusing - they had that first incident in the beginning and then just ignored us (which worked for us) but the harassing with actually calling the complex started this week. The banging the doors and the broom sticks to the ceiling has been for like the last 6-8 months.. I just was the bigger person and didnt call on them yet...
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| Posted 3/28/09 9:55 AM |
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Elizabeth
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Why did the LL brush off your own complaints while they were calling you to address the complaints of the neighbor? Do you have to make a formal complaint of your own? If so I would start to do that. Not that I would want to live like that bc it sounds like a tense situation already with needing to call the police already but it sounds like you have tried to be kind by trying not to be noisy over the children's room, why should you be harrassed? Then later possibly have your lease terminated bc of too many complaints against you...meanwhile they are behaving inappropriately and there will be no complaints on file for them if you try to be too nice.
I'm curious what could happen with a newspaper to end up with the police being called...but you don't have to share it if you don't want to.
Ugh! I don't miss apts. but I've been lucky for the most part with apt. neighbors.
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| Posted 3/28/09 12:09 PM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by Elizabeth
Why did the LL brush off your own complaints while they were calling you to address the complaints of the neighbor? Do you have to make a formal complaint of your own? If so I would start to do that. Not that I would want to live like that bc it sounds like a tense situation already with needing to call the police already but it sounds like you have tried to be kind by trying not to be noisy over the children's room, why should you be harrassed? Then later possibly have your lease terminated bc of too many complaints against you...meanwhile they are behaving inappropriately and there will be no complaints on file for them if you try to be too nice.
I'm curious what could happen with a newspaper to end up with the police being called...but you don't have to share it if you don't want to.
Ugh! I don't miss apts. but I've been lucky for the most part with apt. neighbors.
Here is the post that I had put on LIW when it happened...
Linky To Newspaper Problem
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Elizabeth
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
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Posted by Elizabeth
Why did the LL brush off your own complaints while they were calling you to address the complaints of the neighbor? Do you have to make a formal complaint of your own? If so I would start to do that. Not that I would want to live like that bc it sounds like a tense situation already with needing to call the police already but it sounds like you have tried to be kind by trying not to be noisy over the children's room, why should you be harrassed? Then later possibly have your lease terminated bc of too many complaints against you...meanwhile they are behaving inappropriately and there will be no complaints on file for them if you try to be too nice.
I'm curious what could happen with a newspaper to end up with the police being called...but you don't have to share it if you don't want to.
Ugh! I don't miss apts. but I've been lucky for the most part with apt. neighbors.
Here is the post that I had put on LIW when it happened...
Linky To Newspaper Problem
Holy Moly! People are freaks! Who does that? It's hard to know what to do - on one hand you shouldn't have to roll over bc they are crazy but crazy people are scary bc you never know what they will do.
I saw on the other thread that you put in a bid for a house, good luck with that.
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| Posted 3/28/09 12:35 PM |
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ImHisMrs
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Re: I need help - RE: Apartment living & Quiet Hours...VENT
Posted by Elizabeth
Posted by AlmostHisMrs
Posted by Elizabeth
Why did the LL brush off your own complaints while they were calling you to address the complaints of the neighbor? Do you have to make a formal complaint of your own? If so I would start to do that. Not that I would want to live like that bc it sounds like a tense situation already with needing to call the police already but it sounds like you have tried to be kind by trying not to be noisy over the children's room, why should you be harrassed? Then later possibly have your lease terminated bc of too many complaints against you...meanwhile they are behaving inappropriately and there will be no complaints on file for them if you try to be too nice.
I'm curious what could happen with a newspaper to end up with the police being called...but you don't have to share it if you don't want to.
Ugh! I don't miss apts. but I've been lucky for the most part with apt. neighbors.
Here is the post that I had put on LIW when it happened...
Linky To Newspaper Problem
Holy Moly! People are freaks! Who does that? It's hard to know what to do - on one hand you shouldn't have to roll over bc they are crazy but crazy people are scary bc you never know what they will do.
I saw on the other thread that you put in a bid for a house, good luck with that.
Thanks - fingers crossed we get where we need to be offer wise - our offer is going in a little after 2pm! 
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| Posted 3/28/09 12:45 PM |
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