I think the answer is - because they’re lazy and want you to do their dirty work for them. I quite frankly, am not going to call the police over noise complaints because I think management should do something about that. Police should only be called when violence or tenants who get aggressive.
Not because of noise, I just think it’s management dumping responsibility onto you when they’re the ones with the power to evict people.
Wait, so you think the building manager is being lazy by dumping the work on you to contact the people who can solve YOUR problem?
Laziness
Laziness, but if your landlord is failing to provide you with quiet enjoyment of your home, in many jurisdictions that’s a breach of your tenancy agreement, speak to your local tenant union.
Not sure why landlord simps are out here defending them
Another day at No Stupid Questions, another bait account.
Because they want the cash and not the responsibility of having as many tenants crammed together as possible.
Because noise limits exist and police have the power to enforce them.
Building manglement don’t. The best they can do is say keep it down.
Your landlord has the responsibility to ensure you get quiet enjoyment of the home you live it (by hiring building management they’re delegating that responsible), it’s up to them to sort out noise issues, it’s on the landlord to sort by:
- Installing noise dampening
- Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
- Contacting the police
- Some other way
Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.
Defaulting to involving cops, waste police time and endangers everyone involved.
Depends on what type of incident; if it’s something like noise in the hall or smoking, my apartment management handles it and lets people know (assuming it’s warning territory).
I’d imagine for anything else, it’s a matter of not wanting to endanger people through escalation of non authority figures. I think you would have to have just cause to evict people, so having an official investigation would be imperitive.
What do you expect a building manager to do and why do you think boise complaints are their responsibility?
- Installing noise dampening
- Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
- Contacting the police
- Some other way
Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.
Um, to do something?
Because I’m paying them fucking rent money and shit for a spot? Duh!
Building manager isn’t your parents. If you have a problem with the building, that’s their issue, if you have a problem with your neighbour, you’re expected to deal with it like any other adult; talk to the person, if that doesn’t work, police.
To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.
In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”
While the details depend on the jurisdiction, in most of the saner places landlords can’t evict over something like noise. Your anger is misplaced.
Have you tried being an adult and camly talking to your neighbour? Let them know what you hear, how its impacting you and some respectful suggestions on how things can be made better.
Also what kind of noise are we talking about and when? Life makes noise, and you chose to live in an appt with thin walls. Some noise is to be expected.
