So we live in this nice apartment building by the Public Gardens. It’s not a cheap place to live, and has VERY specific noise rules. I’m at one end of the fourth floor, you and your college buddies are down at the end and across the hall from you seems to be an apartment full of your female friends.
Ever since you all moved in last fall, your drunken guests yell and are rowdy in the hall in front of my door, waiting for the elevator. I’ve called security and complained a few times, I’ve even confronted you guys in the hall but because I would have to get dressed and in the wheelchair to catch up with you, face-to-face doesn’t usually happen.
The other night, I got home from a job at midnight. The hallway sounded like a dance club. I went into my place to get the dog to take her out for evening pee and poop. Three of your friends were yelling in the hall and I told them they are keeping people awake. In full yell, they told me “We’re leaving now,” as if them yelling for awhile and now in the hall is okay, because they are leaving. Another group of five or so of your friends (and you) then left too. The police were called. They went to your door and were going to write you tickets for the noise. The very next time you make a peep, they have you in the computer as noisy neighbours, so it’s an automatic ticket.
It’s hard to believe you guys act like my building is your personal dormitory. A guy from 3 floors away was down in the lobby. He was the one who called the police. He was REALLY mad. I know you’re all in your early 20s and mommy and daddy are paying for your expensive apartment in Halifax, but you dicks have to learn a lesson about respecting other people and their need for quiet.
As I was talking to the police officers, your chicken wings from the double pizza place came. I got your $12 order for 3 bucks. I just finished them, and they were pretty good, for big, juicy, delicious, cheap wings. Please, PLEASE, next time you have a drunken loud party, order a donair and a couple cokes, okay? And BTW, you guys are about to be evicted. —Willy Peter
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.
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Wheelie Payback is a motherfucker >: ) And that is why we love him. SCREEEEEEE!
DUDE. HOW do these students afford to live in your building, man? (I know which one you’re talking about)
That place is expensive — do they cram like 10 of them into a unit?
Fuck security — call the cops. They’ll come and give them a citation. Enough of those and they’ll get the point.
Also, if they’re constantly violating the noise rules they can eventually be evicted. A chick who lived beside me in my old unit got kicked out because she ran a daycare out of her apartment and let the kids run all over the place and would routinely let dogs come on the property/building which is strictly forbidden.
Don’t call security — call the cops then call the super/property management.
Or call me and I’ll come and beat their faces in with a baseball bat. Across-the-hall neighbours of mine had issues with their stupid surround system up against the common wall and would play shit at 1am and shake the shit on my walls. A couple of times banging on their door and they got the hint and moved the entertainment system to the other wall. 😉
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yeah, see this is why you shouldn’t put your 20 something student kids in an expensive place to live. They’d be better off in Fenwick Towers or something where the vast majority of residents are students. Or just keep the noise down.
I wouldn’t let my friends carry on like that, and I like to have company over and party a little bit, but I don’t invite people back who disrespect the neighbors or my place. I’m in my early-mid 20s myself. No complaints from anyone in my building thus far.
OP, maybe try knocking on the person’s door during the day and have a polite but firm conversation with him.. tell them they are close to getting evicted, see if that changes anything.
My floor is known as “the party floor”. Slowly, it became more students.
Down at the far end are 3 or 4 apartments of 4 or 5 students each. During the day they are polite-ish, say hi how’s it going’, hold the elevator door etc. At night they annoy the piss out of me. What usually happens is I’m in bed and a group leaves their apartment and stands in front of the elevator yelling and shit. If I’m in my kitchen, I come out and ask them to knock it off. Usually I’m in bed, and even if I just hopped, undressed into my chair, I would miss them.
It’s been like this since last fall.
Funny thing: St Patrick’s Day there were a bunch of early 20s girls dressed in green hotpants and tight shirts come out of the elevator. I pointed them in the direction of where the party probably was, and a couple of them thought they would have fun with me. They tried to flirt with me. To them I’m some old crippled dude who has never touched a boobie. I told them I only am attracted to women, not girls and laughed at them. Young women need to be taught shaking their tits in someone’s face doesn’t get them out of a ticket or stop a pissed off neighbour from calling the police on a noise complaint.
There are two middle eastern dudes next to me who smoke dope all day and night. They’re quiet, and always say hi. I have no beef with them.
These college kids are probably from Ontario, and Mom and Dad are paying for this. My mission before they leave at the end of the months is to send them home with at least one noice bylaw ticket to explain to their folks.
Your property managers need to be pickier with who they’ll rent to.
My property management tends to keep the demographcs the same on floors and buildings. My building has no students, and the only reason they rented to me is because my mom stayed with me during the week and I was a bit older than your average 20 year old university student.
I really don’t understand why your building would allow these kids to rent from them. Especially since they’re obviously overcrowding the units.
I’ve looked into renting in that building a couple years back and the rent was pricey enough… you should expect a certain standard for the premium you pay.
That or demand to move to another unit.
ORROORRRRRR you could blast some tunes during the day when they’re studying. They’re quiet during that time because it’s not party time. And, you’d be in compliance with the by law….. nothing they could do about it. They’re probably too stupid to get the hint, but at least you’d be inconveniencing them too.
(and likely they wouldn’t be studying, they’d be recovering from a hangover so that’d piss them off even more if you blasted your tunes).
I have a similar problem in my modestly priced apartment. I live by the entrance so I have to deal with drunken idiots in the halls and in the lobby. I confronted one group on a Thursday night and they actually told me to go back in my apartment before something bad happened…then they called me an old man. I’m in my mid-20s… I did have a grizzly Adams beard thing going on, but still, old man? I got retribution though….I stole the welcome mats from both of the noisy apartments. If/when they replace the mats I’ll steal them again.
Play bass with the amp turned up to 11. 😛
lol go back in your apt or they’ll be a problem? Damn Mino.. Good on you for keeping your cool. I wish someone would tell me something like that.
I used to have a psycho neighbour below my unit that was convinced we were making noise that woke her up and would bang on the ceiling when I was in bed. She claimed she could also hear my [then] kittens walking around and it disturbed her sleep. They were 1 and 2 pounds, respectively.
One night I got up to pee and she banged on the ceiling. My parents were visiting and it woke my dad up and he was SO mad he was gonna march down there in his tighty whities and settle the matter. LOL.
Well as much as I want to think of myself as a tough guy, I’m not going to jail for kicking the shit out of someone that is drunk. You might throw one clean punch and hurt someone seriously. Fighting isn’t worth it these days with strict laws and the ability to sue someone for something small like a paper cut. If there is any more problems I’ll start stealing holiday decorations from those idiots.
Yeah, I’m with you PK, when people bang on my walls or floor, or ceiling, before I lived on the top floor, it just made me want to make more noise. It was always during the day, when I have every right to make all the noise I want, but if people would have come to my door and politely asked me to turn my music down I would have been more than happy to oblige. But don’t bang on my wall or my floor, or I might have to knock on your door and I’ll be far from polite. If it’s after 11, I’ll turn my music down. Until then feel free to fuck yourself.
In your case I hope you complained to your building manager.
You’re right Mino, when you hit someone you’re basically hoping that they don’t decide to press charges. It’s not a good chance to take. Anyone who does is definitely what I would consider the definition of a pure bred fucking bitch. You piss someone off, they hit you, you guys fight, it’s over. Unless serious injury is inflicted, fuck getting the law involved.
I’m not saying you should have kicked the shit out of them but let’s just say I wouldn’t have gone back in my apartment, I would have basically shouted at the top of my lungs and gotten as close as physically possible to that guys eyeballs and either shook the fear of god into him or waited until he decided to start somethin. Or maybe I’d just take the “cool” toughguy route and quietly walked up to him and stood there with my arms folded, looking at him right in his eyes, as if to say “go ahead, make my day” (lol) Then I’d be in a position to press charges, not him. I can be pretty gosh darn scary when I wanna be.
I mean he threatened you so I don’t know if any charges that he laid would hold up. I think you have the right to defend yourself and your home when you feel threatened. I’m no lawyer though.
Fuck anyone who starts some shit with somebody and then runs to the police. Scum of the fucking earth.
Oh this bitch used to call the super crying because she had to go to bed at 8pm to be up for 5am and would say there was all kinds of noise when i wasn’t even home.
It got to a point where the super TOLD me I couldn’t go into my room after 8pm unless it was to go to bed because she was getting disturbed.
I told them to suck it and that I got home at 10pm after class and work most nights and if I want to go into a room I pay rent to go into, I will. i didn’t even DO anything in my room but put pajamas on after work/class and brush my teeth in my bathroom!
It was funny too because apparently she had issues with the noise with the people below her and when she went down to ask them to stfu the lady who lived there told her that if she ever came to her apartment again she’d kill her. heh.
I mean, expecting total silence in a shittily built apartment building where you can hear people above you peeing when you’re not even in the bathroom is a little unreasonable.
Thank GOD I moved to a concrete building.
you had me at grizzly adam’s beard mino^^stealing welcome mats is funny. arms clasped behind your back is more threatening thomas
Next summit is at wheeliep’s, that was Tommy & I can be tough guys for the noisy neighbours. Hugo likes being a bad ass 🙂
While I do miss the action, I kinda enjoy being in a surprisingly troublefree and pretty quiet building. Granted I’m in Dartmouth, not Halifax, so there aren’t as many students around I guess.
Then again, I’m a 10-minute walk away from the ferry so I thought there would be more of said students.
Another method with unpleasant neighbours would be to find their phone number and register them with every single telemarketer and/or fundraising agency you can think of. They’ll never again have a minute of peace.
frozen urine on a tray works well, but you need a gap under the door to slide it through
hahaha I like it Maes, I like it a lot. And PG, I think that only works if you’re tall enough to look down at them, at my height, 5’11”, I like to look at them face to face with arms crossed, not even necessarily with a scowl, maybe even a look of slight amusement. If they’re taller than me or my height, I would think that the hands behind the back would make it look like I’M scared of THEM. I just stand and look. Sooner or later something’s going down or they’ll fuck off. lol I don’t need any tips on how to be threatening, believe me, but thanks anyway!
I’m with Hugo, show him the kind of crazy friends you have and maybe they’ll be a bit more understanding. For the record though, I did suggest going and having a civilized conversation before resorting to any of this!! You should definitely pick your battles wisely, like Mino. With students it’s safe to say you can probably punk them off, but some other people who may be living in low priced housing.. not so much.
i am the same height and have shoulders that a klingon would be proud of, plus i can be loud and have large canines. the at ease position is beneficial to all
tommy, if you can’t find the phone numbers you can do the same thing with snailmail spam, reader’s digest and others since you already have their address but it’s damn cruel to the poor mailman who has to lug an extra ton of crap around.
I also live on that floor, in the same building,Just moved in this month, actually. I’m young but I pay for it myself as I’m a full time worker (no school) I’m at the opposite end of the noisey hallway, I have heard the noise and I have seen some remnants(garbage by the elevator)If we are ever too loud Wheeliep, please let us know.We don’t party every weekend but we do enjoy the odd get-together much like anyone else. More then happy to comply with the rules, I like this building and would like to remain in it. I think we met in the elevator a few days ago on my way to work!
Dude!
Say hi next time you see me, cool?
I DON’T want to be “that guy”, who poops everyone’s party. But you’re my witness for Friday night. It was like a dance club. The garbage sucks too. I find chip bags and assorted garbage on the table by the elevator.
Your end of the hall has never been an issue. I don’t want to say “don’t rent to students” just because these guys have no clue how to act around other people.
You’re cool with me. I appreciate the message. Thanks!
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get a nice baseball bat, knock on their door, politely ask them to tone it down.if they fail to or refuse to, use bat, to tone it down for them. fuck the super.
Wheelie you fucking douche. All those delectible wings and you didn’t invite your fellow bitchers over to share. LOL.
Wheelie makes sure they’re gone before blasting Jenny From the Block.
Bro Tim, I had played a gig and just got home.
I. Was. Hongry.
I waited around for the cops. When the Pizza2 guy showed up, I had a funny feeling. When he came downstairs I asked him if his csll was a no show, and could I buy whatever it was.
I got their $10 wing order for 3 bucks.
They were so freaking good. I almost left the box in front of their door with a note, but I was afraid a dog from the floor would eat them and choke.
Next time I hear a peep, the cops are being called.
I had an old lady for an upstairs neighbor back in North End Dartmouth. She was nice and all but damn was she a stomper. And clumsy too. I was convinced she had a cat with wheels for back legs.
Daycare in an apartment!? Really? My wife (an ECE) would call that “TV and KD level care”.
But but but wheelie, I’m always hongry for wings…sob.
Tim-
Go look on your front stoop, next to the rocking chair.
I’ll wait…
You’re welcome, Bro. I wasn’t sure what wings you wanted, so I made you a sampler’s plate with 12 different sauces, 4 wings per sauce.
Have a great night, Bro Tim.
WP
p.s. be sure to wash your hands well after eating the suicide wings. The sauce will burn your eyes if you rub them while daubbing sweat off your brow.
🙂
Dude! Only if this could be true! lols
Buy a condo and move. Apartments attract mindless, poor sloths.
I’ve thought about buying a condo, Bastian.
1- cost A LOT
2- really hard to unload
3- “Condo Fees” are just another form of Rent.
-mindless sloth
No dissin’ the sloths boyos. Aside from being one of my 3 favorite Deadly Sins, they can surprise you….
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PDG: more like KD/TV/black lung care (woman smoked SO much inside her unit the walls had soot on them and she complained to the super all the time and they told her it was the smokes and she was all “nuh uuuhhhh.” Ugh. plus her kids would go around selling stuff in the building for school when there was a no soliciting policy in the building).
PS: have the drivers’ schedules changed yet or is that next week? I’ve been seeing some new faces on my routes (most ok, but one… maaaaan that guy is angry at the world).
Sebastard, you are an IDIOT and obviously have no idea about shifting demographics (because you are a one-dimensional-thinking idiot). A HUGE trend currently are baby boomers selling their houses and moving into luxury apartments because they just don’t want the care and upkeep of a house. My parents sold their house, made a shitload (sold it for three times what they paid for it), banked it and now they have absolutely no debt. All they pay is their rent, internet/phone, food and car insurance. And guess what? My dad’s CPP and Old Age pension pays for all that — my mom’s rather large salary is completely free and clear disposable income. She banks two thirds and uses the rest for whatever the fuck she wants.
Oh and HAY! when something breaks in their unit, they call up mr super and they arrange for someone to come over and fix it with no expense on my parents’ part. If your oil tank or furnace goes on the fritz, sebastard, you gotta pay for it out of pocket, no? I know you likely try to barter with a free blow job or free butt secks, but I’m sure you haven’t been all that successful. If you can’t get none on citadel hill, I doubt your local furnace guy’ll be game.
And their unit itself? Gorgeous. Just as nice, if not nicer than their pretty fricking awesome house they sold.
And most of the people in their building are of the same demographic — people who just don’t want the responsiblity (financial and maintenance) of a house.
With the amount of cash my parents have each month and have in the bank, I’m sure they could buy your shitbox of a house three times over mortgage-free and your 92 rusted ass suburban. And oh GEE they’re renters! WOW.
You fucking ‘tard.
The word “Rent” gives Sebastabitch PTSD. Reminds him of how he earned the money for his suburban^^^
PK: Schedules change next week starting on Victoria Day. 41/42 goes away for the summer and there’s a 6:30 185 trip re-added, otherwise not much happening. Lately the big changes happen in August (8/29 this year).
I’m sure sebasgin rents his SUV still.
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Do you think he writes it off as his “place of business”?
Heh, heh, and giving middle managers $20.00 hand waxes in the toilets at Turdy’s Wharf qualifies as a career in financial planning.^^^
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Then how come, PDG i haven’t had any of my regular drivers this week? 🙁 *sniff*
The guy i had this morning on the 10 seemed like he was really rather angry at life 🙁
I think you should have taken more advantage of the situation with the early 20s girls and their boobies. Free boobies is free boobies
That they are, Mouthy. That they are.