Trouble with neighbors, suggestions welcome.

[psychic_serpent]

That's a possibility, but sometimes the police merely shrug about 
these things.  Even when the disturbance is at 3 am they can be 
rather blase about it.  And 'disturbing the peace' often only 
carries a token fine.  They'll be right back to arguing at top 
volume in no time.

You should definitely contact your building management to complain.  
The building next to our house (we live on a block where ours is the 
ONLY non-apartment building) is managed by a real estate company 
specializing in apartment management, and we were pestering them 
about the third-floor tenant so much (very, very loud music at all 
hours of the day and night) that they levied fines against the 
tenant and refused to renew his lease.  Even though we weren't 
tenants of the same building (and I can only assume that the other 
tenants were deaf not to have heard the racket), the management 
didn't feel like spending so much time on one troublemaker.  There's 
probably something in your lease about requiring tenants to keep 
noise down to a reasonable level.  You never know, you might even be 
able to sue the management for not making the other tenants comply 
with the terms of the lease.  Maybe if they're worried about a 
lawsuit they'll do something to shut up the shouters.


--Barb




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Chase Wildstar" 
<Chasewildstar at a...> wrote:
> call the cops and press charges for disturbing the peace.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...>
> To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:23 PM
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Trouble with neighbors, suggestions 
welcome.
> 
> 
> > Okay I've got these neighbors who seem to think their idea of a 
fun
> > time is shouting matches at all hours of the day.   They do it in
> > their apartment but they also do it on the front lawn of our 
apartment
> > building.  We live in a nice buisness district and I really don't
> > think it's polite of them to get into a screaming match on the 
front
> > lawn (let alone at three a clock in the morning and throw 
things).
> >
> > So my problem is, how do I handle this?  I can't ignore it, I've 
tried
> > but it got so bad one night I had to call the cops afraid he was
> > abusing her.   Do I have a leg to stand on to get them to stop?
> >
> > Saitaina
> > ****
> > My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, 
catch
> > on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. 
Why
> > should you?
> >
> > http://www.livejournal.com/users/saitaina
> >
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trying
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