“My guy and I have been living in a triplex (built in 1946) for about 2 months and we absolutely love it. After we signed the lease, the landlady told us she was thinking about converting the bat (directly below us) into a 4th unit. It didn’t bug us too much because we thought being upstairs, we wouldn’t hear anything.
Well… she ends up renting it out and things weren’t an issue… until we learned our new downstairs neighbor is a music producer. He told us that he had a guitar, sitar, Cajon, and 6 synths and he’s planning on recording an album. So he turns his apartment into a recording studio. We can hear EVERYTHING, and the sound/vibrations shakes our walls.
We’ve kindly told him to use headphones at night and to be mindful of having jam sessions too late into the night. We’ve told him to quiet down about 5 times so far. He’s obliged but kept on playing late into the night each subsequent time. We’re on the fence about telling the landlady because he will probably know we reported him and it’ll be awkward whenever we see him.
Thankfully he was quiet all week and we thought another neighbor finally complained. However, tonight he decides to have a recording session (that started at 10:30 pm) and invited 4 friends over too. We were trying to watch a movie but couldn’t with the noise.
We told him to turn it down, which he did, but we could still hear it. We followed up again and he said, “The best I can do is 1/4 volume because we’re recording.”
The reason I’m so upset is that before we signed the lease, the landlady questioned us about how quiet we are because the whole building is a quiet community. It’s unfair that he turns his apartment into literally the most unquiet thing.
We are working from home due to the “world pause,” and if he produces during the day, I just throw on noise-canceling headphones.
What would you do in this situation? I’ve about had it with this guy…”
Another User Comments:
“There may be a section of your lease that addresses running a business out of a residential apartment. If your landlord doesn’t enforce the rules of your lease you have grounds to sue the landlord. A friendly letter from your attorney will get this straightened out. Also, there are noise ordinances in every city/town. Look them up. If he’s out of bounds, call the cops.” 1ukeskywa1ker
