Comments on: My landlord IS the noisy neighbor! https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-landlord-is-the-noisy-neighbor-0 Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Rio https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-landlord-is-the-noisy-neighbor-0#comment-31969 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:32 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/renter?p=1564#comment-31969 Suffering from the same problem. I believe my landlord’s son has a slight mental problem due to him walking back and forth across the floor. He is a smart kid who finally gave me some relief when he went away to college but he is home for Christmas break and thr noise has started again. He stomps across the floor like a mad man. I turned the volume up on my tv but this encouraged more bad behavior. I have never complained about this noise because the end result will mean I must move and the behavior(loud noise) will escalate. This being NY, I pay relatively cheap rent for living in a ground floor studio in a private house with good security therefore I’m trying to stick it out one more year and then I’m out. My advice to renters in a similar situation is to move and put the word out to local real estate people where this home owner may list a vacant apartment that a noise problem exists at this location.

]]> By: kiana https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-landlord-is-the-noisy-neighbor-0#comment-31725 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:07:44 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/renter?p=1564#comment-31725 I’m going through the same problem: Noisy neighbours are the landlords, lack of repares, and they’re seemingly unwilling to cooporate. I’ve come to the conclusion that noisy neighbours suck, but noisy landlords suck epically.
I’m a teen and I live with my mom and sister and we’ve lived in this split level house for years as it’s quite a nice neighbourhood and such and I truly don’t like the idea of moving because I love it here so much. Recently, a year perhaps, the house was sold and the new landlord moved in -the previous one rented both levels. Well, I don’t know what changed between my years of living here and them moving in but all of a sudden I can hear every footstep upstairs. They sound like giants and I honestly can’t explain why because none -absolutely none- of the previous tenants made a peep, save for the odd arguement. But I never heard them walking.

From my knowledge, the upstairs floors have always been wood (I have been friendly enough with previous tenants to go inside) and hasn’t been covered by any sort of carpeting yet the noise never got through, even when some older kids were living upstairs I didn’t here them. So imagine my confusion at why this particular family is so loud. They have two babies running around now, who bang shit on the floors while they’re playing, the adults fee-fi-fo around, and they have a huge great dane that while I don’t hear walking, barks everytime he hears someone go by. We’ve talked to them about the noise and they seem to have a deal with it attitude.

Even still, they’ve been making repairs since theyve been here which is added noise and all seem to be upstairs. By the age of the house, they need to be made everywhere. And get this, the tossers raised the rent to make the repairs. My mom obviously signed it thinking thats fair enough but they havent fixed anything down here, just made plans to. They’re absolutely useless, they are. We had some water damage in the kitchen because of them as the upstairs porch is over the kitchen and they stupidly blocked the run-off pipes with planting boxes during a hurricane. I apologize if I start raving but the levels of stupidity… just.. yeah so during the hurrican I ran upstairs just to check it out, and ended up unblocking them myself to drain the huge puddle up there. Since then, they’ve cut out the damaged part of the kitchen ceiling and replaced it but theye didn’t face it so it’s just this patchwrok eyesore. Everythings just half-assed with them, you’d think when you buy a home you’d want it to look nice and want everything to be proper. They also retiled our floors to something a little more modern but the problem is the guy who did it wasn’t trained to. He was a very nice man, yes, but from what I found out from talking to him is that it was his first time doing it and he only took the project on as a favour. And from what I’ve seen of all the DIY Network and HGTV I watch, I could tell he was being honest. Now we’ve got a cracked tile from simply walking on it.

My mom doesn’t with-hold the rent like you did, and good on you for that, but when the water pump was broken she had it fixed herself and then took it out of the rent. As the child, I don’t really like having to see my mom do stuff like that, I’d rather the landlord just do their jobs but I got a right laugh out of that when she did. The rent is too high for this house anyway (but since my mom signed it, nothing can be done about it until its time to resign and by then, we’ll probably have moved)

For now since they’re so uncoorporative about the noise and such, I’ve found myself to be uncooporative about the sound level on my ipod dock. I don’t mean to be petty but sometimes you get what you give.

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