I was a de facto landlord/building manager for around eight years. It was actually my boss' job but he didn't want it. Neither did l but guess who won? It was an eighteen unit building. My office was just few yards from the building. I never advertised. Got the best referrals from the current tenants. No one is going to recommend someone they don't want to live near. It was trust on both sides.
I don't have the faintest idea why they did that. Yeah, from floor to ceiling was just studs- no dry wall on any interior wall. Wires hanging down. I don't know what they did with all the drywall- it seemed like they just had regular trash. My landlady's bedroom is on the second floor next to their appartment, and she never heard anything????
I wouldn't mind. I like the beat of Rick Astley songs. Back jn Belgium we lived next to a nice tavern right right up against a shared wall with my bedroom and they played the juke box. I really liked that. They were mostly American songs. We didn't have much of television there, so it was entertainment. As to Rick Astley, I can kind of understand the reaction. He probably doesn't have much of a male fan base.
I thought that was made illegal a long time ago. Housing opportunity laws.
No, it's not. Who in the rest if the world who reads a newspaper am l supposed to invite to come fill out an application for an apartment to rent? That's why l didn't advertise. You willing to be my body guard when Ted Bundy shows up? Every person referred who shows up will get the same equal consideration.
It seems to be working in reverse here.
I left that part out. They were good tenants and l had trust in them. They did the referrals and then l did the work of meeting with the applicants, doing background checks, checking with the former landlords and owners,doing credit report checking ,etc.
I have been looking but until someone moves which usually takes a passing or one way trip to a nursing home vacancies are rare. And when I have inquired the 55 plus are the slowest to respond probably because they don't have vacancies.
This is absolutely 100% happening and no one is doing anything. No politician really cares. It needs to stop. And I understand foreign investors also.
This made me think of a guy up the street.
This building is very close quartered basically a medium sized single home. It's just too small for some of the new tvs, speakers, sound bars. And I've gotten noise bass from above and below too. They say one needs the density of concrete to really reduce noise and insulate every corner not just the 4 corners of the room. Also they say corners can amplify sound. That probably means every corner even where studs meet the floor and ceiling.
Sounds like a nightmare to me... you need to MOVE !!
That I get but they tend to be background noises. Their noises are dominating the room like they are my own. I have to experience their daily life minute by minute. The noise is disruptive as is but the repetition makes it worse and disturbing.
I believe that.. about the noise..or rather the quiet..
Wondering...you must have a long lease, if you moved there before Covid and the landlord might be trying to get you to move now. Most folks just have a 2 yr lease at most from what I've heard. Hope the noisy neighbors haven't been living next to you since you moved in. My DIL wears those sleep masks - she can't stand to see any little lights at night. Sounds like those sounds are vibrating in the thinly insulated walls.
