To Complain or Not to Complain...

[CrimsonTide4]

Register it as noise complaints -- loud noise during the "quiet hours (usually 10PM - 8:00AM or thereabouts). From what I remember about my lease, if enough complaints are made in a certain time period -- 3 in 3 months -- your neighbors could face eviction.

Hope this helps! I've been there before.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Register it as noise complaints -- loud noise during the "quiet hours (usually 10PM - 8:00AM or thereabouts). From what I remember about my lease, if enough complaints are made in a certain time period -- 3 in 3 months -- your neighbors could face eviction.

Hope this helps! I've been there before.

This sounds like a nice logical solution to me.

In other words, co-sign.

[unspokenone25]

Soror RD, you already know what I'm going to say.

Sleep is precious when you are in law school so I say complain. Your lease should have some restrictions regarding a noise level after a certain period of time (e.g., after 10p.m. during the work week). I know you don't want to "snitch" but this is about your livelihood, not theirs.

[RedefinedDiva]

I'm all about telling. But I don't want these crazy crackheads to try to harm. One of them accosted me at 4:30am once during finals when I was returning from studying. I almost ran over the chick! She was coming towards my car and acting all strange. She had been downstairs trying to score and must have assumed I was coming around for that reason as well. When she heard that engine revving up, she left the area.

I just called the office and complained. Hopefully something will be done. They need to shut that crackhouse down. If it happens again, I'm gonna call the police. There needs to be a raid up in there or something.

[lovelyivy84]

Call the office and the cops!

Don't eb afraid to call the cops, because if you don't you may be the one who gets hurt. I live in an apartment building, and one of my neighbors- a couple- was always reaaaal "twitchy". Kurt said they would have huge loud physical fights (I wasnt there and sleep like the dead so I never heard it). I came home one day to find that one of them and his boy had burst into an upstairs neighbors apartment and threatened to beat the hell out of one of the guys who lived there!

Come to find out they were meth heads and had actually offered meth to other neighbors!!!

Don't take your personal safety for granted on this one.

[TonyB06]

I'd also let your landlord know that you've "created a record" regarding your complaint to them.

If nothing else, if something jumps off, they know they are on record as having been told of the situation on ____ date, and could have some down-the-line liability. This alone should prompt management to take some action.

[Honeykiss1974]

I was in a VERY similar situation not that long ago, exceptinstead of crack, the nuts next door smoked weed. And they smoked so much that the smell would be in my apartment STRONG. And since my job does random drug testing, there was NO WAY I was going to let a dime bag and a few ragamuffins stand between me and my paycheck. I complained to the office manager. She told me that the next time it happened was to just call the police and in the meantime she sent them a very strong letter worded in such a way that it seemed like everyone in the building was complaining of the smell as opposed to just me. The letter worked - now I am just overcome by the strong smell of cinnamon (lol) but its better than weed.

I would tell the office manager of the situation and let them know so that she can at least do whatever they can on their end. In my complex, if the police comes out to your place for stuff like that (ie drugs, fights, etc), you will be evicted pronto so don't be afraid to call.

Good luck!

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

The letter worked - now I am just overcome by the strong smell of cinnamon (lol) but its better than weed.

I thought NUTMEG was used

[neosoul]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Register it as noise complaints -- loud noise during the "quiet hours (usually 10PM - 8:00AM or thereabouts). From what I remember about my lease, if enough complaints are made in a certain time period -- 3 in 3 months -- your neighbors could face eviction.

Hope this helps! I've been there before.

you could even call the cops, citing that as noise level as an issue, and they can come check it out w/o mentioning names