Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Because noise limits exist and police have the power to enforce them.
Building manglement don’t. The best they can do is say keep it down.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Your landlord has the responsibility to ensure you get quiet enjoyment of the home you live it (by hiring building management they’re delegating that responsible), it’s up to them to sort out noise issues, it’s on the landlord to sort by:
Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.
Defaulting to involving cops, waste police time and endangers everyone involved.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
In what part of the world? OP doesn’t say where they are from but it would be unreasonable for a landlord to provide that as there are too many things outside their control like other noise sources from beyond the building.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
What world do you live in, where nobody is entitled to quietness and peace? Of course there are things that can't be dealt with. You can't go outside and tell the carpet cleaning company that their equipment is too loud to stop it. That is what it is. You can't report an idiot with loud music from their car who happens to pass by.
But the problem lies when you're able to hear stupid children of a tenant through the walls directly from yours for nearly all hours of the day. When you have to actually evacuate what was once your bedroom to pile nearly everything into one living room, so now you're paying for only a third of the apartment (I pay close to $900 by the way). All because there's a couple who occasionally likes to argue around 1 in the morning and a rambling old seemingly drunk asshole rambling about shit all throughout the night at the same period of the morning.
If you're paying a landlord $900 a month, close to because RUB charges are involved (base is actually 795) and the lease agreement explicitly goes into a part of the lease agreement. Here, I've even taken a snippet from bullet point 9:
"No noise or disturbance allowed: Lessee, Lessee’s guests, occupants and invitees shall not become intoxicated, disorderly, harass or solicit
residents, their guests or others, create or cause any odors or create or permit any unnecessary, unreasonable or improper noise or disturbance
in or about the Premises or the building of which the Premises are a part, including and not by way of limitation, the operation of a stereo,
radio or television set or playing of a musical instrument or singing in a manner or at times which might be objectionable to other tenants."
The fact that it explicitly says 'No noise' and goes a little more into it, implies my problem. Considering how much of that goes on and calling the police is my management's source of resolving things, they should be hiring an on-site residential officer or something because it'd be almost 24/7 with the rate the police would have to be called.
If your landlord is going to tell you to your face that you're entitled to your peace, they should be the ones doing anything possible to ensure your apartment is as peaceful as possible with problems they can actually deal with.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Anywhere where housing law is derived from English law, so pretty much anywhere that’s English speaking.
For 1/2 my paycheck, dealing with noise complaints is pretty reasonable.