A letter from my neighbor
Is he for reals? Typos are from the original letter. Any advice from lawyers out there? read on, this is ridiculous:
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To Unit xxx:
Last night late and today. A lot of noise seems to be coming from some kind of excerise or excercise machine.
It seems to be coming through your cement flooring and amplifying though my floor and wall. The noise is annoying and disturbing. This such noise is making me ill.
I’m now under doctors care, with diagnosis with hearth palpitations, hypertension, anxiety, insomnia and stress and it is very expensive and unhealthy.
I do exactly every thing in a matter so that I do not disturb you. i know that you do not hear me at all, because I respect my neighbors.
I have a very large stero speakers and a theater vision unit thats in my storage bin. I do not use these parts because they are noisy and will disturb my neighbors.
I tried expensive sound proff installations and it is not working. When you do not have regulation hard wood flooring or carpeting as by designed. all noise such as loud music, dropping and dragging. there is nothing to absorb the sounds, that will disturb other neighbors.
I was advised to turn this over to management and a attorney, but I thought we could talk this out without going thru these channels
Thanks,
#3xxx
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So i got my Dance Dance revolution and apparently it is the straw the broke the camels back. the hand delivered photo-copied letter came in an envelope with a photocopy of medical bills and the section of the condo by-laws about flooring.
October 19th, 2005 at 6:09 am
I went to bed thinking about your dilemma and had this dream: I’m in your apartment playing DDR and slowly I become aware that every time my feet hit the pad, there’s a deep reverberation in the floor, like a medium-sized earthquake. I look at the clock (in the dream): 5am. I feel terrible… So now when you counter-sue, you can throw my medical bills in the mix b/c now he’s even stressing _me_ out.
October 19th, 2005 at 3:20 pm
Anyone who reacts to anything so psychotically should be shot. I have experienced a similar situation with a former neighbor. In my case, my neighbor posted a threatening note on my front door complaining that his 86-year-old mother was inconvenienced by some noise coming from my house. [I'm convinced he was a Norman Bates]. I tried to rectify the matter by giving them a huge bouquet of flowers that same evening with a nice note promising that the problem would not repeat. Unfortunately, my psycho neighbor took the flowers and threw them in front of my door the next day with a bigger threat telling me to stay off his property or else. Psychos obviously can’t tell the difference between good and bad. The good thing is that, ever since he’s moved out, I’ve discovered that the whole street thought he was creepy. Thank god he’s gone. In your case, the best thing to do is to not piss him off. You never know what he’ll do. Instead, talk to the building people.
October 20th, 2005 at 8:56 am
Good advice. You are the third who told me to take it to the management company!
Thanks a bunch!
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:59 am
I stumbled on to your blog, and I have to say I have been in the same situation myself. If that person doesnt want people to live above them, they should NOT live in an apartment. If its Late night (after 10pm), I understand his misery, but he can’t expect zero noise during the day. You’re a living person.
I agree with the rest, talk to management if the situation is becoming intolerable.
DDR Rocks.
October 24th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
I’m just thinking that “regulation” flooring sounds awesome, where could I pick me up some of that?
October 25th, 2005 at 8:52 am
I ended up chewing him out in front of another neighbor. I also agreed to carpet the perimeter of the floor next to the wall by his unit. What a crazy old man. He should work for the CIA with his sharp hearing… I wouldn’t be morally opposed to sending him to Iraq to spy on Al Queda… come on Bush… we’ve got a secret weapon with his bat-like hearing!
October 26th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
woooww. .
good…
October 27th, 2005 at 8:40 am
yes, but Bush using someone even remotely competent in his or her job is merely a pipe dream. And, you never know, perhaps he does already work for the CIA and completely heard about your conversation of “coming out to your mother” and just thinks you’re a bad person know and has a moral vendetta against you.
I say move.
October 27th, 2005 at 9:18 am
I absolutely, positively, totally and completely will NOT move. Not until I my apt appraises for 275k! ;0
October 27th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
Tout it as a world-famous landmark for living next door to the world’s best hearing human. That should knock up the price by at least 150 G’s. Or, you could start offring sacrifices of small woodland creatures on his doorstep until he leaves. Maybe you could practice voodoo and put him on ice all the time until he moves somewhere colder. A combination of 2 of the three of those worked for me during my last residency fight with a neighbor.