Neighbor Pushed To The Edge, Threating Violence
I recently bought a duplex, I live in one side, three college aged men live in the other.
The neighbor next door, has complained about the noise they have been making. The various complains come every couple of months. One time my tenants were recording using amplified instruments, which was way too loud. I told them to stop, they stopped. Other times it has been various things like yelling outside late at night, blocked his drive way or tonight he said they slammed their side entrance door and woke him up. I talk to them when he makes a complaint about a particular situation and they know that the neighbor complains about the noise.
I am at a loss what to do. I want my neighbor to be happy. He is a nice older man with health problems that cause him constant pain. The tenants make loud noise so intermittently, every couple months based on my neighbors complains, that it does not seem like an a huge problem to me. But from my neighbors perspective (from my observations) it is like chinese water torture and he is just waiting for the next drop to come. And it has pushed him to the point where tonight he told me if they bother him again he will psychically harm them.
Can you offer advice to what my course of action should be?
Since you live next door (and closer to these guys than the neighbor) it seems unlikely that these tenants are actually very loud. More likely the neighbor complains when his health problems make him particularly susceptible to disturbance.
Have you thought about trading apartments with the tenants. You move into their unit, they move into yours. This puts a little more space between the problem tenant and the neighbor.
Thanks for all the feedback!
The noise the tenants are making is in now way violating the noise ordinance. The neighbor has called the police a couple of times with no outcome to his satisfaction. The tenants and neighbor talked it out a few months back and the neighbor was happy...until the tenants made noise again. Then the neighbor was POed again.
Nothing is going to solve this situation, but I have decided that I am not going to worry about it until the neighbor makes good on his promise on violent action.
That is a great idea commercialking...very compassionate too.
No, I would go talk to the tenants to see if they are becoming antagonistic. I would review the local laws and lease with them in case they think they have the right to violate the neighbor.
Yeah, I guess that would be too easy.
I talked to the tenants last night and they said that the neighbor has threatened two of them with bodily harm. He told one of them that he had a gun that would solve the problem. The other he wanted to fight in the street. They are doing nothing that would be violation of the noise ordinance.
This is sounding serious; I would contact any authority that I could to find out who can sit them down to resolve BEFORE there is harm done.
Threatening with a gun is serious.
The wife agreed, so somebody is not telling the truth.
A Peace Order? Make some calls.
I had 2 young roommate tenants in my 9 unit building who worked in the restaurant business. They slept late, went to work, then wanted to have social hour at 1am. Problem for everybody else. GONE!
Any thoughts on this from others?
Thx, CS
they should use an encrypted ssn..
If the website url begins with https: or if the site directs you to a page with a https: in the url, then the site is a secure site with heavy duty encryption.
No need to worry about compromising someones identity if you use the site.
Thank you both.
I guess I cannot say anything if the courts are requiring this. It makes me feel vulnerable to use my tenants personal information in research.
Oh, well.
Yes, you are right.
The website might be secure, but all the written or verbal communications of the SSN are not.
CA passed a law that your medical ID CAN NOt be your ssn for privacy reasons.
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On 2009-04-01 14:38, NewKidInTown3 wrote:
If the website url begins with https: or if the site directs you to a page with a https: in the url, then the site is a secure site with heavy duty encryption.
No need to worry about compromising someones identity if you use the site.