About a year ago, they had to move to another state and a new tenant moved in. She moved in right after a snow storm, and because I was working did not meet her immediately. I had to shovel and salt the entire walkway of the house (front and back, quite large). It took 2 entire days. The last day I was outside trying to unfreeze my car door, and I kinda kicked the lock to knock the ice loose. I walked inside to take a break, and I hear her big mouth talking trash about me. I hadn’t even met her! I didn’t say anything to the jerk, and even shoveled her car out of the snow because she was pregnant. Yeah, I’m a nice person.

Constant problems began the day she moved in. The lease requires 80% carpeting, and a year later she still does not have it. I’ve asked her many, many, many times to keep rugs down. She bought a few, but admitted she takes them up. After 7 months of her stomping around without rugs and constantly slamming things on the floor, I complained to the landlords. She lied to them saying I had never confronted her about the noise issue, and even tried to tell me that. I showed her text messages from every single prior month asking her to actually obey the lease.

After I got my LLs involved, she began beating on the floors and hammering objects on the floors. She started stomping around in high heels (and she’s fat). Every single morning she throws a very heavy, loud object on the living room floor. It literally shakes the cabinets and walls. She has caused structural damage to the house from doing this; I have pieces of ceiling in a plastic bag. I measured the sound to be 79 db in my apt. Outrageous!

She incessantly beats loud objects on the floor and slams the floor at all hours of the day and night. She usually screams out a battle cry before starting to bang on the floors. Seriously. She sounds like a mentally challenged baboon. Lately, I’ve been yelling at her from my apt to stop. After a year of her insanity, I am fed up! I even flat out told her I know its on purpose, and she didn’t say anything. Because its true. Admission by omission.

About a week ago at after 2:00 am I heard her say to a guest (over my TV), “I should drop this. Its like really loud.” And within 30 seconds, a horrible crashing noise that sounded like an earthquake. This is a 40 year old with a baby. She NEVER leaves the house. I’ve had to find other accommodations on many occasions. I’ve called the cops on her, and they do nothing. They aren’t even aware of the city ordinances. Idiots. And my landlords do nothing. They have stopped returning my messages, and last month I got a notice to vacate. They claim they are going to use the apt for themselves (which is totally legal), but I am certain its retaliation for complaining. I am going to file complaints with the city and a lawsuit. This is ridiculous!

If you live in a an apartment and have children and receive a noise complaint you are most likely the problem (just the way it is most of the time) An apartment is not a playground. People do not pay rent to listen to children bouncing off the walls/running back and forth etc. It is your responsibility to take your children to a park or other areas away from people who pay rent/mortgages (not every1 thinks your children are cute and adorable) If you live in a building that is poorly constructed it isn’t every1 elses responsibility to tolerate a barrage of noise. It is your responsibility to adapt to the building. If you conduct your activities at a normal hour/decibel level (most of the time) you won’t have any issues. Sure there are some unreasonable people out there unfortunately, yet the majority of the time , it won’t be an issue. Besides that, most apartment buildings require that you have carpeting installed (not area rugs) in 80% of the place, what is referred to as “the living area” which consists of bedrooms and the living room. If you do not adhere to this and have a noise complaint against you, once again you are the problem. The majority of this is common sense. Use your brain, have basic manners and most likely none of this should ever affect you

We are actually seeking one right now just in case, if they do slap an eviction notice on us but I learned it normally takes up to three violation notices for that to happen. So far, we only have one but still we think it not fair we’re being counter accused of plainly trying to live and sleep in the middle of the night while they are having a little party after work watching soccer and conversing, etc. and using a 3 year relationship with the landlords in their favor.

Our family and friends don’t agree with how the tables turn against us like that and there are laws out there that protects tenants rights even though the landlords make it seem like there is no possible way for us to handle it yet they tell us we’re suppose to report to them, we do, but nothing gets done fairly. It’s just words against words. I am sure that the landlords are telling us this because they for one, are really not going to evict us because they know we’ll slap a law suit against them and that one lousy tenant, and two, their only solution after mediating today (in which the other tenant refuses to attend because he’s claiming harassment and threat against us) is for us to either one, relocate to another unit or two, move out their apartment complex altogether due to it being a schedule conflict otherwise if things keep up and we continue to a.k.a harass their senior tenants with complaints then we’ll surely get evicted but their senior tenant is in safe hands in favor to the landlords history or relationship to them.

It seems that they are not willing to slap a fair warning to their senior tenant because they favor him that even though we all understand that the noise can not be controlled with all tenants, it is still unfair to turn favors over another tenant and allow the senior disruptive tenant to continue to make all the loud noise he wishes in the middle of the night. This guy is from a middle eastern background and I understand that it is in their behavior to speak in a booming voice but my father is also from a culture who speaks just as loud and the only difference there is that my father is considerate of other people’s time at night to sleep. I feel just because it is in someone’s culture to stay up late and be loud shouldn’t excuse them to continue doing it. This is America and not the Middle East or where ever they are from. My parents are from a foreign country too with a loud culture but they have more common courtesy and common sense to at least let’s say – if a neighbor knocks and ask them to keep it down, they will, and for sure my parents would not continue to conduct the same activity and cause ruckus night after night.

They were lucky that their previous tenants before us have worked the same shift they work but we work different shifts and yes, we are sleeping, and yes, they are loud. So it’s all new to this guy and to the landlord that a new tenant – as a matter of fact just any tenant at all – has finally stepped up to complain about his booming voice and activities late at night. I am sure the neighbors right next door to us have many complaints with the man downstairs that goes unreported. We’ve seen our next door latin neighbor have a one-on-one verbal confrontation with him downstairs but we don’t want to get anyone else involved.

The problem is, this guy will not admit that he was very loud. His rebuttal is that he comes home at 3:00 am and he is up so there will be noise but he’s making it seem like we’re complaining about him living. Oh yeah, he’s living alright but it’s also very LOUD! Anyone who works day shift upstairs in that unit will have to deal with his LOUD late night lifestyle. So I wouldn’t be surprised if another new tenant moved in and decide to make complaints and have confrontations with him either.

To be honest, after this experience, I prefer to become a home/property owner and not have to deal with this type of nonsense and sleep in the haven of my own home.

Does anyone know any possible resources to look for a tenant attorney in the Las Vegas area? Or can I file a complaint with the RPA on this website?

Thanks in advance for any advice or comments.

“The landlords are even against the fact that we took steps into our own hands because even though we feel that the landlords have failed to assist the situation the first time and the fact that when he received his noise violation notice from them, he countered complain against us for making the same noise he makes because we wake up due to his noise and we feel he over-exaggerated his claim and falsely accuse of waking up at 5:00 am stomping on a treadmill! Who wakes up at 5:00 am to go on a treadmill?”

We have politely asked him to keep it down three times, but he still did not. When that didn’t work, we had no other option but to call what was supposed to be a 24 hour security who wasn’t available at that time so we were transferred to the metro police and we have called the metro police about the noise twice. According to the police, both times, they were up watching soccer at around 4:00 am. I understand that he’s using his time of enjoyment in his own home and that he has the right to do so but is it a justification for him to conduct in a manner where he’s extremely loud in the middle of the night via talking loud, watching TV loudly, listen to music loudly, and conducting his time at home so loudly during the hours of the wee night almost every night when most people are wanting and in need of sleep? When he got the violation notice from the landlord, he countered complained and claimed that we were making noise at 5:00 am in the morning stomping on a treadmill and we don’t even have a treadmill. If he heard footsteps upstairs it is because we are up now because he woke us up and we couldn’t get back to sleep since 2:00 am so we’re now walking around the house and trying to figure out what to do.

When we made a formal written letter complaint to the landlord, they spoke to us and said that the steps we took were wrong based on the fact that we were not suppose to verbally confront them and ask them to keep it down because us confronting them and calling the police caused him to feel scared and he feels threatened, etc. Just based on how the landlords were now making it with the counter complaint with that guy, we feel the landlord favors him mainly because he’s this old guy, he has no record of complaints or violations against him since he’s been living there for 3 years, and that he comes home late at night so there will be noise but they fail to understand how high the noise level was and that there are 3 people in his apartment causing a ruckus and the landlords are saying that they and the police can do nothing about it when they in fact can if they wanted to by telling them to pipe down a bit. It just seems like to the landlords, we’re these young couples who are sound sensitive complaining about their middle eastern loud senior tenant and that it’s in their culture to be loud so suddenly we get slammed with a noise violation and the landlords are playing in his favor now telling us to move out because their senior tenant won’t move out or do anything about the noise. Is it even legal for a landlord to favor the needs of another tenant over another tenant? The noise curfew according to the renter’s agreement is between 10:00 pm to 6:00 am and the tenants downstairs have not taken any measures to minimize the noise level whether it’s just enjoying the home, having a party, etc. It’s just not fair that there is favoritism and false accusation going on here. Now we’re being accused of harassment, threats, etc. for confronting them and calling the police because we felt we had no other choice because the landlords did not assist properly in the matter fairly. The landlords are even telling us that we were not suppose to confront them at all.

The landlords are even against the fact that we took steps into our own hands because even though we feel that the landlords have failed to assist the situation the first time and the fact that when he received his noise violation notice from us, he countered complain against us for making the same noise he makes because we wake up due to his noise and we feel he over-exaggerated his claim and falsely accuse of waking up at 5:00 am stomping on a treadmill! Who wakes up at 5:00 am to go on a treadmill? We work a 9:00 am to 5:00 pm schedule and sleep from 9:00 pm till 6:00 pm on weekdays. On weekends, we’re mostly doing chores or out of town. We are not noisy neighbors and we are very considerate of other tenants around us. We have never received any violations, evictions, or complaints on our records either. We’ve done everything to convey to him politely that we don’t care what he’s doing but just to keep the noise level down a notch. The noise is so loud that we can hear him upstairs as if he’s right next to us in the next room. Also, he leaves his balcony door open and literally going outside having loud conversations in the middle of the night with his buddies. There was a time when my fiance heard them arguing and a fight stirring up and we got concerned.

What I don’t understand is the tenant downstairs making false accusations that we’re being noisy when he was the noisy neighbor downstairs since we moved in interrupting our night sleep and that he’s using our going downstairs and politely telling him to “please keep it down” against us claiming that we’re now harassing him and using our calls to the police as threats against him. What I don’t understand is what did we do wrong here? Are we wrong for filing a complaint against a neighbor who doesn’t take any measures to minimize the noise level when he comes home downstairs? He invites other people to his house and it’s like a soccer frenzy almost every night. I am sure if my fiance and I are up that late at night, we would be talking softly, minimize volumes on TV, radio, doors slamming, and walk lightly on the floors upstairs our apartment. And we have done that! I just feel the tables turning on us because the landlords favoritism and justification for them to be as is plainly is just unfair!

And the landlord is saying that it was wrong for us to take advice from family and friends on how to deal with it ourselves because the landlords have failed to and they are taking their senior tenant side anyway. We live in Las Vegas and there are crazy people here so the law for noise violations is stated in NRS 118A. Sec.310 that protects tenants rights to enjoy the peace of their home. However, I feel that if my fiance and I get evicted for fairly complaining and being retaliated by the tenant downstairs for fairly filing a complaint is completely unfair. Who would we have to contact to build a case if we get evicted for unfairness on the fact that the landlord favors a senior tenant and allows them to make a ruckus because he comes home at 3:00 am and his record is clean since living there for 3 years?