Please let me know if there is a more appropriate sub to post this in. Disclaimer: long.My boyfriend and myself have lived in our apartment for over 3 years now. We have been dealing with the bucket of crazy next door since the month we moved in.Some history: We moved in our apartment Dec 2016. We rent and crazy neighbour (CN) owns, in case that matters. We had a small housewarming/New Years party the month we moved in. Us and 3 other couples (8 total). It basically consisted of us playing board games, drinking, and watching YouTube videos. For the countdown we went out on our balcony and did the normal 3,2,1, Happy New Year thing. This is where the crazy all began. We come back in and it’s 12:03 and the neighbour starts banging on the door. Up to this point we had not met her. BF answers the door and this lady just starts going off on how we are being so loud, we’re so rude, she has to work in the morning, we are bumping music (watching YouTube??), etc. Now while I think it’s stupid to complain about noise on NYE right after midnight, I get it, living in an apartment you have to be respectful and keep noise to a minimum at night. But just the way this lady handled it so rudely just immediately yelling at my boyfriend upon him opening the door, I lost it. Keep in mind we’d never interacted yet alone met her and she didn’t just simply ask us to keep it down, she went off yelling from the get go. Drunk me went off on her, called her a cunt, bad judgement on my part. But we were not being loud to begin with and I will stand by that to my dying day. I did call the police non emergency line to see what we could do about her banging on our door and harassing us for noise we don’t believe exists but they basically said unless she threatens us, they wouldn’t do anything.Moving forward she keeps harassing us pretty regularly. Banging on our door, telling us she’s going to call the cops, every time there’s “noise” (aka none at all) or normal living noise - nothing excessive worth actually complaining about. We encourage her to call the cops instead of bang on our door because we are confident that we are not making the noise she claims and would rather deal with them than her psycho ass.From the first incident out it started a “war” if you will, with CN. Any little noise and she’d be at our door banging and yelling. I drop a dish, she’s at our door, movie on the tv has a crash in it, she’s at our door. You get the picture. It doesn’t help that her bedroom and our living room share a wall.I work evenings most weekends so usually I’m not around to deal with her and my boyfriend gets the pleasure.Fast forward to Dec 2017. We receive a letter from strata that someone complained about noise from our unit on a specific night at a specific time. We of course, assume it was her since we have had no other noise issues, or any issues at all really, with any other neighbours. We tell our landlord, who is already up to date on the CN situation, that this could not possibly have been us creating noise because we were both out at a Christmas party that night and did not return until 2:30am (letter stated noise was made at 12am). Landlord tells strata and nothing else happens although they do threaten to fine us if someone complains again.Now fast forward to present day.There’s been multiple incidents in between then and now but they all haven been her banging on our door claiming we are making “noise” that we just simply aren’t making. A couple weeks to a couple months ago, can’t remember exact timeline, she did her normal bang on our door to complain about noise late at night routine, and this time she told my boyfriend she was going to send her boyfriend to “beat him up”. This triggered me and I told her I was going to “fucking kill her”. Not my smartest move. I did not call the police to report the incident since I threatened her back and didn’t feel like dealing with it.Last weekend she called the cops on us (we assume it was her) for more “noise”. Cops show up and my boyfriend is alone playing video games on the couch with the cat, I’m at work. BF opens the door and the cops are immediately surprised because it’s just him standing in his sweatpants, cat between his legs, probably looked stoned af lol. They can tell right away he’s alone and no noise is coming from our apartment (he even wears a headset for video games). While they’re talking to him they hear the neighbour directly above us banging around and bf confirms neighbours upstairs have been making noise most of the night. He admits he did bang on the ceiling a couple times in response to the banging. Cops tell him maybe someone got confused and reported our apartment number instead of the upstairs people because our unit numbers are similar and leave to go check out upstairs. I think it was CN who complained about us making “noise” again, and don’t think it was confusion of someone trying to report the neighbour upstairs.Fast fast forward to tonight. There was a huge crash and flash of light on the street perpendicular to ours, so us being overly curious cats went for a little walk to check out the commotion. Our building has multiple entrances and we opted for the garage door nearest our unit to come back into our building. Well as soon as we walk through the doors from the stairwell onto our floor neighbour rips open her door (she literally stands there looking through her peephole waiting for us to walk by) and starts accusing us of “opening the garage door multiple times”. We opened it once to come in (used a different door to leave) but maybe someone else opened it recently before us? Anyways she’s going off, and like, this lady does not just start complaining she goes off, I’ve never heard her talk without yelling. At this point I’m so fucking sick of her shit I start yelling back immediately as well (my boyfriend always tries to talk camly with her to no avail) and start approaching her telling her I’m going to knock her the fuck out. I take complete responsibility that I SHOULD NOT have done this. I wasn’t actually going to punch her but I was trying to intimidate her by approaching so she would go back in her apartment... didn’t work. Bf pulls me back in our apartment.Now here we are... and I need advice. I am not going to threaten or approach her again. We want to move into a new place but prices have gone up in our area and our budget really doesn’t permit anything equivalent to what we have (we would have to downgrade). So we feel kind of stuck where we are. I may call/email the landlord tmr to update him although because I acted so out of line as well I’m not to keen on having to tell people such as police, landlord, etc about my actions as well as hers but I know we can’t keep living like this. Like seriously she got mad at us for opening the garage door?Any advice is appriciated. Has anyone ever dealt with something similar? I do not feel safe simply because of how irrational she is even though I understand I’m the one who has made most of the threats.Almost forgot to mention, she’s no angel either and I’ve been documenting some of our issues with her. She has a dog that we often hear whining in the middle of the night excessively and she leaves her personal items in the “common area” which is the hallway both of our apartments open into such as umbrella (wide open), shoes, etc.Thanks for reading!
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