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I actually know my neighbor doesn't like me and I was told "Better get use to it" Thats when the emails to management and calls to 311 started. I use the calls to 311 for document purposes as well. Which is why I now only email management for proof. I've sent them video's of the noise and have copied what the quiet hours in our lease states, this just don't reply.
I also complain about other unsafe issues in the building frequently, management know I'm not one to sit quiet. I pay my rent...I'd like a safe and civil place to live.
I'm by no means a an old cranky lady I go out and have fun but I don't bring the party home. If I'm getting home at 3-4am from a night out I expect to be able to go to bed now be up till 6-7am when the neighbors get-together ends. I should not have to plan my sleeping schedule around the one person.
I live in NNJ, 20 min from lower Manhattan, and the people are predictably rude as well with noise. Predictably, management is unresponsive, even when you have proof. I managed to get my neighbor fined, but he bullied them until they reversed it. Their argument? It's my word against his. I had proof from other incidents, just not the one that got him fined, so apparently, he's allowed to get off on a technicality. Since then, he's been confrontational and not any better with the noise, so you'll unfortuanatly be facing that if you persist.
I'm not one to sit quietly either by the way. Even today, after 5 hours of non-stop thumping bass, I went down and asked if he would be much longer with the music. He got in my face about how he has a right to hear music. I spat right back and I have a right to not hear and feel thumping bass for 5 hours. His rights don't trump mine at any point, ever. But I have endless drama with this a**hole, so I can't even say it's worth it. People like what you've got next door are usually sociopaths with no ability to be courteous, so doing something tends to make things worse
Yeah. They can't be shamed or made to feel guilty like normal people. Course if they were normal, they wouldn't be so loud 24/7 in the first place.
Indeed, it's the same vicious circle. Me: I have a right not to have hear your music, video games, movies, closet slamming, etc, each and every day. Him: I pay rent so I have a right to do things in my apartment. See -- that's a sociopath. He also quotes city laws and lease technicalities, meaning like a good defense lawyer, he knows he's guilty but technicalities make him "not guilty". Whereas a normal human would be like "Oh, that must be awful for you. I'll just turn down my bass". It's really a lose/lose.
I actually think the new affordable 60% and below buildings are WORSE than the projects cuz people won the luxury lottery. of COURSE all their scrubby friends are gonna come around like dirty pigeons. duh
Haha, this is so true. I've yet to find a building where management actually had a spine!
The path of least resistance is to not enforce the rules, and it is a landlord's market, so they can always find another tenant who will pay the same or more if someone leaves the building. Our current culture also eschews any sort of standards or norms, so anything goes, and if you complain, then you are just being intolerant.
The path of least resistance is to not enforce the rules, and it is a landlord's market, so they can always find another tenant who will pay the same or more if someone leaves the building. Our current culture also eschews any sort of standards or norms, so anything goes, and if you complain, then you are just being intolerant.
Agree w/ you 100%! It's a apathetic, greedy culture where no one has values, common sense or morals. In this building for ex, it's no wonder there's been so much turnover right on my side of the building- the a**hole who lives right in the middle apt on our end defends his right to floor rumbling bass, since it's technically below the city ordinance decibel level (not always true, but cops never get here on time). So management refuses to step in, knowing we'll eventually move. I will too, once I can find something comparable. We always lose, don't we
Haha, this is so true. I've yet to find a building where management actually had a spine!
Yeah. It doesn't only occur in NYCHA. My friend had problems with "loud 3 AM TV people" in her co-op on the UES. Everybody in the whole bldg hated them but no one could do anything about it.
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