Tenant Falls Through The Ceiling After Landlord Ignores His Neighbor's Noise Complaints

"Understood, sir. Please be advised this will be my last communication and action to help you in that regard."

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• April 25, 2022

Moving to a new place is exhausting. Hauling boxes and unpacking is tedious, especially not knowing where to put things temporarily.

It's even harder when you think about getting along with new people otherwise known as your new neighbors. But if you're not that type of person, you might ignore the welcoming feeling altogether.

Although the hard work is worth it if you really like the place you're moving into. It would just be unfortunate if pesky neighbors would make the environment frustrating.

Adding to that, everything would be worse if the person you'd trust to resolve the problems, A.K.A. your landlord, wouldn't do anything to help. It's like the situation of OP in this subreddit post.

OP and her roommate found an apartment they liked after deciding to rent out a place together. They found out that the place is soundproof but they still tried to be polite to other tenants and kept the noise to a minimum.

The soundproof thing turned out to be largely false and they found out when a noisy neighbor moved into the room above OP. The noise was relentless and OP was only ignored by the tenant, the landlord, and the other neighbors when she wanted to raise a concern regarding the situation.

OP then kept shut and didn't push anymore. Then after a few days, everyone, especially the tenant and the landlord regretted that decision.

Here's how the dilemma started

It's as sweet as revenge

OP and her roomate agreed on an apartment and they tried hard to be cautious with their noise despite knowing that the rooms are soundproof

But then they found out the situation about how soundprrof the rooms really are, and then the noisy new neighbor moved upstairs

The noise were relentless and OP couldn't take it so she went to the neighbor and asked them to keep it down at night

OP gave a heads up to the landlord when her plea was ignored

OP recorded prrof of how loud the neighbor really is and even notified the other tenants but it only fell on deaf ears

The landlord have had enough of her complaints and asked her to stop. OP respected the request and told the landlord that she wouldn't be bothering him anymore

Very soon everyone found out why what the loud noise from the upstairs neighbor really was through an ufortunate event

They called for help after seeing the accident

The andlord was livid but OP pointed out that they were the one who tried to shut her up about the issue

It was a good thing that neither OP nor her roomate was hurt

Now OP and the other tenants are accomodated in a hotel while the landlord is fixing things up

People were asking for proof but OP explained that there isn't any pictures that she could disclose

Others are also doubting the authenticity of the story

OP has no idea how the collapsing of ceiling could happen either

And maybe those who have questions can figure that out themselves

They're looking into filing a small case

The landlord will continue to look into why the incident happened for the safety of tenants in the future

They are negotiating what they could get in return for not pressing charges

THe offer would help them out a lot if it pushes through

OP is asking for Redditors' opinion

The decided to take up the offer of the landlord with some conditions

the conditions included financial reimbursments

Instead of being relocated, OP and her roommate would stay in their current building after renovations

This might be the main reason why that neighbor managed to crack the foundation

There's a reason why companies pay big money to make their buildings long lasting

Here's a Redditor who also had a problem with noisy neighbors but got resolved by authorities

They probably know what's illegal but it's their ignorance that keeps them going

OP tried to take the high road but no one listened

There will always be stories about landlords who didn't hold up their end of the bargain. This usually leads to incidents that could have been prevented.

In OP's case, her tenacity in raising the concern was for good reason. It's just unfortunate that they all had to go through that before anyone actually believed her.

Chelsi