[ZTAngel]

Does your city have a noise ordinance? I wouldn't think that the contractors are allowed to be outside hammering at 7am. In my boyfriend's old apartment complex, the lawn service guys would be out at 6am tearing it up and down the lawn. After a few neighbors made some calls to the police, the lawn service people got the hint and started their day at 9am which is what our noise ordinance says is a reasonable time.

A few years ago, some construction workers were widening a road across from my apartment complex. It was a mess. They used dynamite to blow up some of the old pavement. I'd be sitting in my room when the whole building would begin to violently shake. I freaked out the first time it happened. We don't get earthquakes in Florida so I knew it wasn't that. The violent shaking happened for the first time right after 9/11 and the gov't was saying the terrorists could potentially attack apartment complexes. I thought terrorists were bombing us! But, I got use to it since it became a daily event. One time, they ended up bursting a huge water pipe. For about two days, we had no running water in the apartment. You think having no cable is bad...hah...imagine not being able to cook, use the bathroom, shower, or wash your hands. I took up residence on a couch in the ZTA house for those two days so that I could shower and do all those other hygenically necessary things.