I live in a hud apt. in KY I have lived in one apt. or another for around 10 years now so I know what to expect from living in one. For the last 2 1/2 - 3 years my wife and I have been living our own private hell. Let me start from the beginning though.
As stated above I have lived in an apt. for years and sometimes when a tenant moves in they don't realize they live in apt. now so they have to watch how much noise they make. Usually it is resolved by telling the manager to just inform them of the noise issue. That worked in the past but this case is different.
When I say noise I am not talking about someone walking, dropping something or even watching tv or listening to the stereo. What I do mean is blasting music, banging on the walls and floor and to top it off stomping and jumping on the floor. In one case a child was taking a riding toy and picking it up over his head and hitting the floor with it. Now this would be bad enough normally but to top it off it goes on for hours. Sometimes all day and into the night. I have made written complaints, verbal complaints, and even had mediated meetings with them and management. Does no good. Now here is the kicker though. For most of the time they even admitted to the noise yet management does nothing. That is not all.
My wife is disabled and one of her problems is nerves. ( imaging what this has done to her in this amount of time.) The management says the same thing everytime I complain. " They have children you must expect some noise." That is when I reply with the same thing everytime. " I do expect some noise but I also expect some piece. Some noise I could handle but enough noise to run me out of my apt. is not right." Nothing still gets done. Then it got worse.
At one of these meetings we had the woman admitted alot of noise ( she couldn't deny it because I recorded it with me talking at the same time) but blamed it on the woman next doors child that visits. Well the noise continued so I asked the woman next to her if her child was there all hours of the day or night. She replied no.
The next day ( my wife just had another one of yet a list of sugerys) the woman upstairs knocks on my door and starts screaming at me saying I was telling lies on her. I stepped outside and told her I never lied on her I asked because that is what she stated in the meeting. I also informed her I am aware of the lies she has been spreading on my wife and I. She even confermed those lies by saying that is what she heard.
My wife steps outside ( all 80+ pounds of her at that time) and the woman upstairs started threatening her. At no time did my wife and I threaten her. Most of the time she was saying I hated children and telling everyone I don't like kids. ( I do like kids but I love parents that control them more)
I took this to my management and the woman admitted she threatened my wife and we had many people that heard her so she couldn't deny it.
Now here is the problem. Nothing is being done. Mine and my wifes health has declined because of this and we couldn't afford to move. I am finally going to move ( to a place I really can't afford) just to get away from this. The last staw was yet another complaint and hearing about the child thing. On top of that my management will not take a written complaint on noise that is before 10:00PM.
My lease does have a Quiet Enjoyment it states no loud noise, stereos,... And it states no time on that part of the lease ( I have stated this to management but it goes in one ear and out someplace else I think). The only part that states anything about 10:00PM is were it talks about it getting quieter at that time. The sad part is in the lease it also states if a tenant threatens another tenant it is automatic eviction ( that didn't happen because this woman got yet another in the long list of chances). Lawyers won't even talk to me or if they do they want 1000's of dollars as a retainer. This sounds bad of me but they owe me something for what we have been through. Just the medical bill from the stress to my wife has cost me alot of the years.
What can I do when I can't get a lawyer to talk to me ( some even tried that you have to expect some noise from kids with me also) and we have went through our own private hell? If you said $20 a day for what we have been through that would be well over $14,000 so small claims would be out. My wifes nerves are so bad now she is completely disabled. I can't leave her without her having a panic attack. My dog is even stressed out over this. So on top of the stress I can't work. This has changes our life in a negative way but no one seems to care.
Forgot to tell you this. The woman upstairs and I both have asked that one of us be moved to another apt. The manager told us she will not move a person over issues like this.

