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
Because they want the cash and not the responsibility of having as many tenants crammed together as possible.
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.
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.
In my area they would get fined as a nusiance property and the fines involved are not cheap.
Another day at No Stupid Questions, another bait account.
Another day of someone who thinks they know everything by their armchair.
What do you expect a building manager to do and why do you think boise complaints are their responsibility?
- 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.
Wow, that’s uhhhh, an interesting take. If one tenant is too noisy, you want the building manager to install noise dampening somethings? And who determines if it’s too noisy, the landlord who’d have to pay for the renovations?
Edit: Is this actually a standard procedure where you live? Can I ask where that is? That’d just be such a wild way of doing things, I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.
That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.
Sadly it is not common practice anywhere as your landlord violating your lease in such a way, it is difficult to get anything done about it, because ultimately you still need somewhere to live and getting out of your contract isn’t a win, in the way that your landlord getting out of his and rendering you homeless if you don’t agree to his terms is.
I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.
You can’t imagine, the guy taking 1/2 your paycheck having to actually earn that money?
That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.
Please feel free to share an example, because this seems like absolute nonsense.
The landlord’s duty to adhere to quiet enjoyment means the landlord must:-
- Ensure the tenant’s actual possession of the property is not interfered with by the landlord or the landlord’s agent
- Prevent any interference with the tenant’s enjoyment of the property. Interference may arise because of an omission or failure to act.
The right is usually used to protect against harassment from landlord, but it extends much further.
Neat, our tenancy laws pretty much borrow that word for word!
In this case, loud neighbouts, failure to act would mean not calling law enforcement.
Or letting the place deteriorate would generally count. But, most buildings are up to code etc and the landlord isn’t expected to install extra sound proofing above and beyond code.
You sound like a landlord.
Um, to do something?
Because I’m paying them fucking rent money and shit for a spot? Duh!
To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.
In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”
Landlord shit.
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?
