Would You Report People Violating Tenancy Limits? (apartment complex, lease, noise)
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I live in a CA apartment complex and I'm pretty sure 6-7 people are living in an adjacent 2BR unit. My assumption is that they are violating their lease by having so many people staying there. My only reservation about reporting this is that the parents have two children in grade school. On the flip side there are a couple of teenagers living there that are rather loud and obnoxious and it would almost certainly quiet down if they were gone. Am I out of line to think that I pay good money for my apartment which entitles me to live in relative peace?
You follow the rules, why shouldn't everyone else have to? If the extra people are making it noisy as you say, the quality of life there would be improved if they left.
Within the limits of a quality-of-life issue, I don't see the problem. Your complaint is about excessive noise coming from the apartment, not the high number of people living there.
I reported someone like this years ago, but only because they were loud, always having knock down drag out fights that spilled over into the breezeway, had tons of cars filling th elot so the rest of us had a hard time parking, etc. This was also several adults living in the apartment, not a family with kids. In this case, the property restrictiosn dealt with the number of unrelated adults living there anyway, so having a ton of kids might not have even been an issue.
I live in a CA apartment complex and I'm pretty sure 6-7 people are living in an adjacent 2BR unit. My assumption is that they are violating their lease by having so many people staying there. My only reservation about reporting this is that the parents have two children in grade school. On the flip side there are a couple of teenagers living there that are rather loud and obnoxious and it would almost certainly quiet down if they were gone. Am I out of line to think that I pay good money for my apartment which entitles me to live in relative peace?
If the noise is seriously bothering you then of course put that in writing to the LL and ask that steps be taken to to ensure that the noise level is reduced. If the noise is extremely loud and the LL does nothing then you can always call the local PD but, if doing that, make sure you know the noise ordinances applicable in your state as most are adjudged on hours of day/night.
As far as an assumption of over-occupancy, leave that one alone. The LL will need to investigate your noise complaint and then they can figure out if something is amiss where occupancy is concerned.
In my complex, water bills are determined by the number of buildings on the property, the number of units in each building, and then the number of people in each unit. We don't have individual meters, it is all divided out by the number of people on the lease.
My apartment has 4 people: me, my husband, and our two young children. We are paying for water based on a residency of 4 people. If someone else on the property has 10 people in the unit, but the lease says they have 4, then they are paying for water for only 4 people.
Everyone else would have to pay a slightly higher cost because of their increased water use.
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