I’ve got some new neighbors. I don’t know who all lives in that apartment, just one old woman I know for sure. Maybe it’s her daughter that visits her, I don’t know but there’s more than one person there.
They are in and out at all hours of the day and night. I hear the front door buzzer going off all the time in the wee hours of the morning. People have rung my buzzer too in an effort to get to them.
They also seem to like to hang out in the hallway outside my apartment. They carry on like it’s a lounge or something. They also brought a dog into the no pets allowed building late last night and it was barking its head off. I don’t know if it’s still here or not.
All these things I could ignore, but there’s something that is driving me up a wall. The old woman has an oxygen machine that makes an incredibly loud, high pitched squeal. It’s so loud that I can’t imagine she’s keeping her door closed. It was going off for hours last night and now it’s started again.
The sound goes straight through my ears and into my brain like an ice pick. My apartment is small and I can’t escape that sound. The only thing I can do is blast music until I can’t hear the squeal anymore. Of course that is a lousy solution as I can’t Skype with my girlfriend or friends with the loud music and I worry the cops will be called because of the noise I’m making. I don’t want to wear headphones for hours on end so that won’t work either.
I try to be understanding, I have an oxygen machine myself but that thing she has needs serviced or shut off. Hours of this crap ringing in my ears is eroding my civility, and I’ve never had much civility to begin with.
I don’t want to get our neighbor relationship off to a bad start. I’ve met the old woman in the hallway once or twice and we didn’t really hit it off. I also don’t want to go to the landlord about it. Still, it gets to a point where I want to smash anything in reach. I’m talking wanton destruction.
This is going to come to a head soon. I can’t put up with this much longer. I’m currently weighing my non-violent options.
It’s hard dealing with neighbors… It’s the hardest thing to tackle… No one WANTS a situation to get worst, no one wants things to escalate. It does get under the skin quick and it’s super awkward at the same time… good luck.
You might have to try striking up a conversation again and then mention that you have some experience with oxygen and see if you can’t help that machine.
Your building has seen a lot of action this past year… what ever happened to that poor lady who’s son didn’t even come out in to the hall to help her?
I’m trying to figure out an upstairs neighbor problem as well. The guy and his girl are very amorous (Ok, they are at it like bunnies) but they are both SO LOUD. Even the people across the street have wondered what in the world.
She never returned after she was taken away by the crisis team and the police. Her son left the building around that time too. The new neighbors are living in her old apartment across the hall.
Living in apartment buildings is fun sometimes, you see all kinds of different people, my building is quiet and I know much what is going on, for example one young couple separated some time ago. However, my apartment bulding is located in not so good area of the town and I may hear yelling at night from a bar near me. But it is fun to have people around. I know things, for example my neighbour woman drinks too much beer.
I’m currently going through similar with my neighbor across the hall. He used to have a lot of people coming in and out. Now it’s his base from his stereo. Not loud music just the bleeping base… It vibrates along the floor and since we share a floor lol I get to listen to it for hours. It puts me in a negative, irritated mood. I’m hesitant to do a formal complaint because he is my neighbor and our son’s are friends. Still I’m pretty close lol.
Tougher that it is an older lady and it’s her oxygen machine. Maybe put a note on her door stating that it can be heard in your apartment could she look into getting it serviced?
