Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?

MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Um, to do something?

  Because I'm paying them fucking rent money and shit for a spot? Duh!

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  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Building manager isn’t your parents. If you have a problem with the building, that’s their issue, if you have a problem with your neighbour, you’re expected to deal with it like any other adult; talk to the person, if that doesn’t work, police.

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  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.

    In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While the details depend on the jurisdiction, in most of the saner places landlords can’t evict over something like noise. Your anger is misplaced.

    Have you tried being an adult and camly talking to your neighbour? Let them know what you hear, how its impacting you and some respectful suggestions on how things can be made better.

    Also what kind of noise are we talking about and when? Life makes noise, and you chose to live in an appt with thin walls. Some noise is to be expected.

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• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • Installing noise dampening
  • Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
  • Contacting the police
  • Some other way

  Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.

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  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s uhhhh, an interesting take. If one tenant is too noisy, you want the building manager to install noise dampening somethings? And who determines if it’s too noisy, the landlord who’d have to pay for the renovations?

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    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.

      Sadly it is not common practice anywhere as you’re landlord violating your lease in such a way, it is difficult to get anything done about it, because ultimately you still need somewhere to live and getting out of your contract isn’t a win, in the way that your landlord getting out of his and rendering you homeless if you don’t agree to his terms is.

      I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.

      You can’t imagine, the guy taking 1/2 your paycheck having to actually earn that money?

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