I think the answer is - because they’re lazy and want you to do their dirty work for them. I quite frankly, am not going to call the police over noise complaints because I think management should do something about that. Police should only be called when violence or tenants who get aggressive.
Not because of noise, I just think it’s management dumping responsibility onto you when they’re the ones with the power to evict people.
Laziness, but if your landlord is failing to provide you with quiet enjoyment of your home, in many jurisdictions that’s a breach of your tenancy agreement, speak to your local tenant union.
Not sure why landlord simps are out here defending them
Laziness
Because they want the cash and not the responsibility of having as many tenants crammed together as possible.
Not sure where you live, but that hasn’t been my experience at all.
There could be regional variations based on things like tenant laws, local law enforcement policies, and even local culture.
Depends on what type of incident; if it’s something like noise in the hall or smoking, my apartment management handles it and lets people know (assuming it’s warning territory).
I’d imagine for anything else, it’s a matter of not wanting to endanger people through escalation of non authority figures. I think you would have to have just cause to evict people, so having an official investigation would be imperitive.
In my area they would get fined as a nusiance property and the fines involved are not cheap.
Because noise limits exist and police have the power to enforce them.
Building manglement don’t. The best they can do is say keep it down.
Your landlord has the responsibility to ensure you get quiet enjoyment of the home you live it (by hiring building management they’re delegating that responsible), it’s up to them to sort out noise issues, it’s on the landlord to sort by:
- Installing noise dampening
- Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
- Contacting the police
- Some other way
Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.
Defaulting to involving cops, waste police time and endangers everyone involved.
Your landlord has the responsibility to ensure you get quiet enjoyment of the home you live it
In what part of the world? OP doesn’t say where they are from but it would be unreasonable for a landlord to provide that as there are too many things outside their control like other noise sources from beyond the building.
In what part of the world?
Anywhere where housing law is derived from English law, so pretty much anywhere that’s English speaking.
it would be unreasonable for a landlord to provide that
For 1/2 my paycheck, dealing with noise complaints is pretty reasonable.
What world do you live in, where nobody is entitled to quietness and peace? Of course there are things that can’t be dealt with. You can’t go outside and tell the carpet cleaning company that their equipment is too loud to stop it. That is what it is. You can’t report an idiot with loud music from their car who happens to pass by.
But the problem lies when you’re able to hear stupid children of a tenant through the walls directly from yours for nearly all hours of the day. When you have to actually evacuate what was once your bedroom to pile nearly everything into one living room, so now you’re paying for only a third of the apartment (I pay close to $900 by the way). All because there’s a couple who occasionally likes to argue around 1 in the morning and a rambling old seemingly drunk asshole rambling about shit all throughout the night at the same period of the morning.
If you’re paying a landlord $900 a month, close to because RUB charges are involved (base is actually 795) and the lease agreement explicitly goes into a part of the lease agreement. Here, I’ve even taken a snippet from bullet point 9:
“No noise or disturbance allowed: Lessee, Lessee’s guests, occupants and invitees shall not become intoxicated, disorderly, harass or solicit residents, their guests or others, create or cause any odors or create or permit any unnecessary, unreasonable or improper noise or disturbance in or about the Premises or the building of which the Premises are a part, including and not by way of limitation, the operation of a stereo, radio or television set or playing of a musical instrument or singing in a manner or at times which might be objectionable to other tenants.”
The fact that it explicitly says ‘No noise’ and goes a little more into it, implies my problem. Considering how much of that goes on and calling the police is my management’s source of resolving things, they should be hiring an on-site residential officer or something because it’d be almost 24/7 with the rate the police would have to be called.
If your landlord is going to tell you to your face that you’re entitled to your peace, they should be the ones doing anything possible to ensure your apartment is as peaceful as possible with problems they can actually deal with.
Can you explain what’s unreasonable about that? External noise may be outside of their control but that doesnt mean they don’t bear some responsibility to ensure that residents have peace and quiet in the place they’re being charged to live. In that scenario, you would typically have the right to break your lease and move out without penalty. With internal noise, they have the responsibility to penalize the noisemaker with fines or eviction.
I’d be willing to bet that nearly 100% of apartment leases have some language in them about noise meaning apartment managers absolutely do have the power to enforce these limits. Even HOAs, where you buy the property with your own money can enforce their own rules because you agreed to that when you signed the paperwork.
Another day at No Stupid Questions, another bait account.
Another day of someone who thinks they know everything by their armchair.
Wait, so you think the building manager is being lazy by dumping the work on you to contact the people who can solve YOUR problem?
