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Has it occurred to anyone that the tenant upstairs may be hard of hearing and cannot physically HEAR the high pitched beeping?
I just had a conversation with my dad. He is unable to hear high pitched tones without his hearing aid.
So...maybe your neighbor is similar. Can't hear the tones.
This neighbor might have the potential to become your new best buddy, but you will never know because you won't have a neighborly conversation.
I wonder if I talked to your neighbors what they'd have to tell me about you......?
I cannot hear the tones of the smoke alarm even WITH my hearing aids. My husband changed the batteries every Jan 1 and once in a while, the battery would die sooner. He'd come home from work and ask me how I could listen to that all day. I usually responded with: listen to what?
I'm quite sure the LL is legally responsible to make sure all fire alarms are working, he could be in violation of the law. Jump on your computer, google it, and pass the info on the the incompetent LL...
Fire alarms and smoke detectors are two different things.
We are talking about a dead battery in a smoke detector, that is confined to one unit, to alert those in that unit and that unit only.
A fire alarm is for the whole building, a warning to all residents that there is/could be a fire.
You are right the landlord is responsible for making sure the fire alarm system is working and also responsible for making sure your hard wired smoke detector unit is getting power. The battery back up?? That's on you.
Our previous complex handed out flyers every 6 mths as a reminder to change your battery in your smoke detector.
Fire alarms and smoke detectors are two different things.
We are talking about a dead battery in a smoke detector, that is confined to one unit, to alert those in that unit and that unit only.
A fire alarm is for the whole building, a warning to all residents that there is/could be a fire.
You are right the landlord is responsible for making sure the fire alarm system is working and also responsible for making sure your hard wired smoke detector unit is getting power. The battery back up?? That's on you.
Our previous complex handed out flyers every 6 mths as a reminder to change your battery in your smoke detector.
Perhaps that's different in different states and depending on the type of rental property? I remember my apartment complexes in DE and NC doing checks every so often to be sure the smoke detectors were in working order. I don't know if they were hard-wired or not, though.
It is both. I think the suggestion that you go up and knock and communicate to the tenant about her beeping smoke alarm is what I would suggest.
Of course, if you'd rather have a long drawn out debate with the property managers, and live with the noise, that's on you.
My approach would have been to go upstairs and knock....then, if nothing was resolved, contact the managers to complain.
Your technique seems very passive aggressive.......and immature I might add.
I think the property manager made more work for herself by not just contacting the tenant about the alarm beeping, and arguing with the OP about it.
As a retired apt manager, I did not expect any tenant to have to confront another tenant in any way for any reason. That was my job.
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