So not having to pay for heat and hot water is great and heck the laundry machines being in here is also great.
But omf sometimes I want to yell at the people who live above us. I swear they have a surround system in their living room cause the music is crazy loud.
They always have it turned up in the evening and just before 11pm.
I don’t think they realize that a young child lives under them.
Soon I will be complaining to the super of the building about them but I need to vent about these fucktards and their damn stereo. I can feel the bass from their stereo half the time for frig sakes!!!
I get that people make living noise but then there’s going too far with noise.
If you have a surround system do the others in the building a favour and keep it in storage till you move into a house!!! —Oh How I Wish I Could Afford a House
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.
I totally feel for you. The girl above me has at least 4 kids and teenage “parties” on weekends. The loud thumping is constant from 9am till 1am (4am on weekends). She nor kids are in school or work. The police won’t take it seriously because it’s not music, it’s “living noise”. Loud yelling, jumping and running around right above my bedroom at 3:30am is NOT ACCEPTABLE! People are so ignorant as to the fact that people LIVE BELOW THEM!
And that’s why I rent (this and my last place) a house.
If you’re hearing lots of bass, they probably have their speakers on the floor. Talk to them nicely, and maybe they’ll raise the speakers.
So glad I can afford a house. I did rent houses before though, which was also nice.
yeah, it was nice to know, that when the boy and his bandmates were wailing away in the basement, you couldn’t really hear it outside. inside was a different story *sigh* i miss the noise
sounds like the old lady living under me….
watched Thor and the volume goes from crazy highs to crazy lows.
If I want to hear half the movie, the other half is cranked.
can’t do much about that…
Yeah that’s why I don’t have a surround system. Someone may very well rob the guy. Try putting a note on their door or talking to them politely. By law they can make noise until 11, the super won’t do anything if they aren’t making a bunch of noise past that hour.
J’Yo, that’s crazy. I had upstairs neighbors like that too.. wanted to fucking fire an AK 47 thru my ceiling at times.. good thing I didn’t have one handy.
I used to live in a house divided into apartments (absolutley no sound proofing). The girl (bitch) who lived above us worked a night shift, got home every night at 2:30 AM with a croud of usually 5 to 10 people, I don’t think any of them would take off their shoes. They would stomp around and shout till about 5 or 6 am (I would have to get up around 5AM for work). I complained to the landlord and she got a warning letter, she told us that we were assholes because she didn’t complain about us because we wake her up when we have a shower in the morning. Lets see, who is the asshole? the one having a shower in the morning or the one having people over at 3 in the morning??
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that was funny “1500-pound head on the coffee table”
OB, get the sound of a crying baby, burn it onto a CD, place your speaking against the ceiling, and crank the volume. Make sure you have the CD on repeat. This works!
this would be about the time, that they found out that you had a nice 12 gauge shotgun, for vermin, of course. i don’t worry about that shit here. they know that if i can hear it over my general sounds, that it is too fucking loud.
only had one group of idiots here, 4 yeas back, that like to make noise, at 2 or 3 in the morning. tried to say it was her neice watching movies to go to sleep, said child was 2 years old. no wonder kid couldn’t sleep. it was like a drum solo at super high volumne, and old popeye here, had all he could stands.
so with a fucked up ear,from noise, i asked them to turn it down, they did, til i got back in my door. then they started agian, louder, if possible. so i called the cops, they came, it was quite then til they left.
those cops were here 7 times that morning, finally one said to deal with it. i did, gave them 24 hours to get the fuck out, or suffer the penalty. no one asked what that was.but they knew that i hunted and had shotguns and other weapons here. they moved out about 23 hours later. guess they got the hint.sometimes o.p., you have to use your balls or what have you, to get some quiet. and yes, i would have shot the stereo to pieces, and then……..
I remember my last place…
it was a couple with a kid…
who apparently liked lego or marbles or something,
because several times every evening we’d hear them spill all across the floor and plink and plunk around non-stop for hours.
SO glad to be outta there.
Now that the Ex is gone, I don’t need to keep the volume down to a faint whisper at all times too…. that helps for drowning shit out.
Yeah LS, you tell’em cap’n. I can guarantee you that if you made threats with a shotgun you would be writing this from behind bars. Oh, I guess you’re sooooo badass the cops won’t even bother you. Idiot!!! I guess the only adversary you couldn’t conquer is grade 6 grammer, why don’t you kick another sentences ass with a misplaced comma or a nice period in the middle of it.
Where I am there is a lot of kids in the building of all ages so the noise of kids is tolerated.
Now if you don’t have kids and make a lot of noise that continues for a length of time you will get told to keep it down.
The supers here have grandkids so they are quite aware of how loud young kids can be.
that sounds like my building in Sackville!!!! sooo friggen annoying and its weird because the people in my building do that too.. watch / listen to crazy movies / music SUPER loud..almost like you live next to the dome lol
Please knock on the door of your upstairs neighbours and let them know! If that’s a little awkward for you slide a polite note under their door. They may not realise the impact their actions are having on your family.
I know if I were the cause of the noise I’d rather hear from my neighbour than my super.
passive/aggressive notes can be kinda weird http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3553/334624…
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Embrace it.
In a low rental market, I’ve always found you can get really good rental value if you stay AWAY from apartments. It’s strange how some apartments always rent for a high rate, even when you can get houses and town houses at a better rate.
And you can’t go upstairs yourself and let them know? They may not know they are causing a problem. What’s wrong with people and not being able to say something to someone else.
It all depends, GV. My rental company keeps rents lower to stay competitive, and generally there’s a waiting list to get into their buildings. They RARELY ever have to post vacancies.
Meanwhile, you go to these shitholes that are charging high rent and they always have units available.
And most houses I’ve looked at in regards to renting, didn’t include utilities, which can drive the price up of your overall housing costs. Especially if it’s an old ass house with no insulation. And in a lot of cases you have to do routine maintenance like shoveling, mowing, etc… on houses.
My building is filled with seniors and baby boomers who WERE homeowners, but got tired of maintaining a house and paying out the ass for utilities and moved into a building for the very fact that utilities are built into the rental price and they don’t have to do any maintenance.
I mean, it sure is nice to get up in the morning and have your driveway shoveled, and it sure is nice to just walk to your car in the underground parking level and not have to clean the snow off your car and shovel your way out.
yeah, I guess everyone has had their own experiences. When I was in my twenties, I rented a $300 house, while 2 bedroom apartments were renting at $550, and the trailer park lot rents were going for a blistering $600 per month ( not including the trailer).
My $300 house was a shack in comparison, but it was on a full sized lot with a garage, lots of yard for my camper, boat, and motorcycle….the perfect bachelor pad.
shitHEAD, who said anything about me threatening them with said shotgun. i just let it be known that i had one, to get rid of vermin, and i did not elaborate what kind of vermin. but they got the drift, and no, cops could do nothing, but check me out, and found everything okay.
so shitty old crapper, it works, you do it, if not, then you are a pussy, and deserve the shit they will pull over on you. i used to have a doberman, fucker was nuts. put sign on front fence that said,” don’t be afraid of dog, the owner is worse”.
LS, I am going to have to agree with Harper is the Devil. When you tell someone that they have “24 hours to get the fuck out, or suffer the penalty.” that sounds like a threat to me, and also on top of that you remind them of your cool gun collection. If I had a 2 year old niece coming over to visit frequently I would move out too if I was being threatened with some unknown penelty by some psycho.
You have no balls if you need guns and a doberman for protection.
m_kegg, you might not have balls, but i certainly do. and you can suck both of them. hey, it worked and the scum is gone, and had problems with every place they moved into after that. seems they love their fucking noise, and by the way, i have never seen a kid under 15 there. just a hangout to do crack and fucking annoy people. and i guess i wasn’t the only one complaining about them.
so shove that up your smug little fucking ass, and choke on my balls too.
LS, I am just wondering how you know that they have had problems in every place they moved in after? Do you keep tabs on them? Do you spy on them? Thats kind of creepy bud.
Also, does annoucing that you have testicles boost your ego? If so, that pretty pathetic. And sorry LS, I don’t swing that way, you’ll have to find some other guy to stick your balls in.
*whistles….*
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Heh. My friend who used to live in the building I’m in now had an issue with their neighbour across the hall. When she was moving her couch in, it hit the neighbour’s door and he opened the door and pointed a shotgun in her face. She called the police after one of the superintendents said that he was “allowed to protect his property” that way. He is now in jail.