A psycho keyed my car in 17 places! (Canadian: apartment complexes, lease)

[LolaSonner]

I noticed a scratch on my car today and then another, and another and another. The scratches were on every door, the fenders, across the trunk, three on the hood etc. Just everywhere. The car was parked in my complex last night and I have not had any problems here before.

My downstairs neighbor is my only suspect because he has gone insane screaming and pounding on the ceiling when we walk or make any noise. And I mean daytime noise like regular walking around. We don't have a stereo or play music ever. We're not loud at night. We don't blast the TV.

His wife yelled at my child and her cousins when they were playing outside the apartments one time, saying they had to stay off "her" pavement.

Also my husband was putting together a desk (one of those ones from walmart) and it was 4 pm and he was hammering on the back of it when the guy downstairs started going nuts banging on the ceiling again.

My child and her cousin were running around the apartment one morning at 10 am and the both of them downstairs were screaming sooo loud I could hear them through the floor and they were banging like they were insane.

I have a mini trampoline that I got specifically so my child could jump without being a nuisance and she's always told not to jump or run, but she's a little kid and that's something kids do. Especially during the day when they're you know, awake.

Today when I was walking back from my mom's apartment, the guy downstairs came out on his patio and said, "Be careful." I didn't see if he was talking to me or on the phone or something because it was evening, but man it's creepy!

I filed a police report and I don't have proof that they did anything, but they have been excessively loud at midnight many times and I don't even call the complex to complain.

Tomorrow I'm gonna talk to the police and write a letter to my complex because I don't feel safe with these freaks.

It's funny because the family who used to live downstairs were really nice and friendly and never complained about anything and our children played together. In fact they still come by to visit! The new neighbors have only been there maybe 3 months or so.

[Matadora]

Sounds like the new neighbors need to learn the hard way not live below anyone.

That is so wrong about your car and I would also be suspect of your neighbor.

[Charles22]

I'm sure your neighbors love the trampoline.

[LolaSonner]

Seriously it's a wee tiny little trampoline that she barely ever uses, meant for 1 person to exercise on. It's way better than her jumping on the floor, trust me. She's a child, I could either get the trampoline and say have at it when you need to during the day, or let her jump around like a kid will. It's part of living in an apartment. I have had to listen to the bass of all kinds of music in apartments and one upstairs neighbor played his acoustic guitar every afternoon. I really didn't mind him, he was good But still, you never know what you're gonna hear during the day. I had downstairs neighbors once I could hear having sex when I went into my closet for something. The trampoline doesn't squeak more than bedsprings would if you KWIM I had neighbors I could literally hear peeing when I was in my bathroom. I don't run and report that stuff, I don't start screeching my head off like a banshee and pounding on things, either.

People in apartments have to deal if it's daytime hours. After 10 pm I think there's a noise ordnance and the lease mentions noise etc.

The neighbors actually just pulled up. How could I tell they were home? I could hear them talking from a half block away. And it's midnight here.

The kind of funny thing is my car is such a piece of crap it's like a joke keying it. It got backed into by someone in a parking lot last month so there's a big dent in the front. The tail light is broken and put back on with clear tape. The ornaments for it aren't on the front anymore, they slowly but surely cracked off. It's rusted all to heck because it's a Canadian car and had been my father in law's and he drove it like mad and it's all rusted. The AC doesn't work. The CD player doesn't work. The GPS is from 2004 so it gets you more lost than anything else. It's all scuffed and dented in the back. And once at a mall when my hubby was parking the whole "running board" area on one side fell off. Seriously fell right off kerplop. I was laughing like crazy because it was just too absurd. And once going into a parking lot something else fell off the car from underneath. We didn't even know what but we put it in the trunk and took it to the garage and sure enough it was some piece or other we didn't really need so they left it off. My hubby also left the back windows open all night once and it rained so the whole inside was soaked and the next day was like 100 degrees so can you say "mold incubator"?

I mean this car is an Acura but it's old and ridiculously falling apart. Keying it is like don't help it out, it's doing bad enough on its own. Too bad they didn't steal the dang thing, we would have jumped for joy!

[Hedgehog_Mom]

Don't get your car fixed while you live in the complex, it will just happen again.

[LolaSonner]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog_Mom

Don't get your car fixed while you live in the complex, it will just happen again.

No worries, there's so much wrong with the car the scratches are the least of my problems. The AC is the worst. It is basically an oven on wheels.

[Deep Forest]

I've lived in several apartment complexes and I sympathize with you. Just be more aware of your surroundings in case your neighbor steps up his game. Call the office/police? Things will only escalate. Good luck...in an apartment it's only as good as your neighbors.

[TexasRedneck]

Get a cheap video monitor, attach to balcony and record.....

[LolaSonner]

Yep that's the next step, a camera. But not call the cops for fear of them escalating? They're straight out psychotic. I mean who screams at children playing outside their apartment?

My hubby said he heard the woman talking (not hard to manage) and sounded like she worked in social services from what she said.

Gonna be keeping an electronic eye on them.

[EntropyGuardian]

I had one upstairs neighbor with a kid with ADHD (they told us, unprompted by us).

This kid would run from one end of the apartment to the other. Back and forth. Over and over. All day long.

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It drove me completely insane. They moved out eventually.

I would have loved if that kid was jumping on a trampoline up there too.