Slims

Tonight I was sitting out on the front porch of my apartment with a couple of friends who were having a cigarette when somebody above us started to pee off their balcony and onto my roomates car.

I told my roomate about this and we went upstairs to have words with whoever was responsible. When we walk up, there are a bunch of people outside and the guy who lives there starts going off on us with comments like "nobody pissed on your car, oh wait, maybe she did" and "We will piss on any cars we want to." So I get stuck trying to tell this guy to shut the fuck up, while trying to keep my 260 lb roomate from throwing this guy off the balcony. When my roomate told him that all he wanted was an apology from whomever was responsible and a promise not to do it again, the guy starts cursing and refuses to apologize for anything.

After a couple minutes of this, a guy walks up and says that he was the one who peed off the balcony, and he apologized and promised not to do it again. After a couple more minutes dealing with the first guys bravado, we extricate ourselves and go back downstairs to our place.

A little while later, I went to the supermarket to get something for dinner. When I got back, I found out that they had once again pissed on my roomates car, and my roomate had called the police.

Oh, he had to clean 'sticky' stuff off of his car a couple weeks ago too.

I guess what botheres me the most was the complete lack of respect for anybody else shown by these people tonight.

How do you guys deal with situations like this? I mean, situations where you have to choose between pummeling the snot out of someone, calling the police, or instead trying to avoid a confrontation all together?

Oh, and they also got the car belonging to the guy who lives below us and just moved in a couple days ago.

Ashton

homerhop

Well the last time my neighbours pissed me off, I ended up with broken fingers and an assault charge

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JadziaDax

Because most apartment and condo complexes have assigned parking, or the lot is too full to park anywhere else.... not always the easiest solution.

I know all too well about annoying neighbors. I live below a family that is a mother, her 2 daughters, and he grand-daughter. It wouldn't have been too bad if the daughter with children hadn't moved back in. She has little to no control over her child (and she leaves the child unattended constantly).

This child likes to run (like a 2 ton elephant) back and forth from one end of their condo, to the other (in other words, my office to my master bedroom). And she also likes to jump up and down in their livingroom (in otherwords, over my master bedroom). She does this from dawn till dusk and beyond. I have been woken up at 11 o'clock in the evening to the sound of my door shifting from the bouncing.

My bedroom door can no longer be closed properly since the doorframe has been warped from someone (ahem) jumping on it.

Have I complained? Numerous times. Has anything been done about it? Only temporarily. It seems after a period of time, the people upstairs forget I live down here and it starts all over again.

The worst was when they had a party upstairs during the middle of the week. They kept me up until 3 in the morning... I get up for work at 5. I was a wonderful person to be around that day

Neighbors in an apartment or condo complex suck. I can't wait until I have my house. Should be about a year and a half now...

HeyAgain

Just curious, your upstair neighbour doesn't have a fully functional toilet by any chance?

I think some neighbours in apartment buildings and townhouses don't have a lot of common sense. They don't know that between the hours 11 pm and 7 am, one should try to keep the noise as minimal as possible because their more intelligent neighbours need that precious time to get some much needed sleep.

Living in apartment-type residence sucks.

Fly

don't even get me started.


*leaves for fear of major rant and possible deletion*

fuckin' nieghbours

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crewsor

You showed remarkable restraint, someones pissing on my car then getting in my face theres going to be hospital bills. Either theirs or mine ,but someones gonna be riding in an ambulance guaranteed.

I know that wouldn't actually solve anything, but I also know me and I wouldn't be able to restrain myself in that situation.

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Magpie0001

My father has to this date, because of a motherfucker neighbour.
1) Built a ten foot wall.
2) Put one way glass on one side of his house.
3) Gone to court (many times).
4) Set up a network of CCTV cameras.
5) Moved a well.
6) Moved the driveway to his house.
7) Walled off his back garden (backyard for americans).
8) Complained to the authoroties, police, council etc etc.

You, my friend, have it easy.

gibber71

When someone goes so far out of their way to be an asshole to me,I simply ask them if they want to sleep in their bed tonight or if they want to sleep in a hospital bed.Amazingly,98% of people choose the former, but there is always the 2% that think I'm joking.When I start to feel like I'm floating,you're on your way to the hospital.Piss me off and I'll crawl up your ass and start eating my way out from the inside.

JadziaDax

I haven't been in their place... but I will tell you that the screen from off their back window has landed in my back patio numerous times, and they come downstairs and ring my doorbell to get it for them (I ignore the bell now). They have also backed up their toilet once to the point were I had water dripping into my other bathroom through the light fixture (nice, huh?). And right now I feel like going upstairs and ripping the legs of the little brat...

I think I'm going to go out for a while... I need a vacation.

denim

If you can't speak to them directly, that's the time to call the cops. Really.

Drider_it

Record them doing this.. stand outside where you can get a view of them across the street????

then let the complex owner view it then tell him you signed a lease??? agreement stating (somewhere in it it has to be) that the living conditions are to be maintained by his staff and a safe environemnt.

This is bordering upon harrasment and that you will be taking the tenants and his establishment to court.. furthurmore.. you will sue him for damages dealt, emotional strain, and will sue for the rest of the lease agrement in full....

you wont have to go to court.. once he sees the evidence and that you will next go to a lawyer.. he will do something.. why? you are threatening him with the loss of the allmighty dollar.

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Drider_it

ok but if that dosent get anywhere.. have a friend scale to thier balcony.. and super glue their window shut.. they cant get out they can wizz on your car.. and most landlords are slow to fix things..

never dmg their personal property though.. cuz that can come back on ya.. but if you think you can get away with it...

personally im evil to the core.. i just seem like a nice guy.. untill i get rubbed the wrong way...

me, I'd rewire his brake lines to his gas tank and cause 2k dmg to his car.. then i move on to other things.. like the internet and ruin his and all his friends names.. but hey thats just me

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Slims

yeah, it was my roomates car, not mine, so it was up to him to choose how to handle the situation. But neither of us can afford to get arrested, so I think we both had a little mantra running through our heads "be good, it's not worth it."

Oh, and apparently when the police officer arrived, he busted a bunch of the asshats for underage drinking.

juanvaldes

I live in a gheto apt complex in a gehto city in the middle of nowhere.

We have two drug dealers below us who love to just lock there kids in a bed room or outside and all sorts of shit.

...only seven more days....

krwlz

i hate to gloat (well not really but you know) but i love living on 124 acres...closest neighbors is 1/4 mile away...


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juanvaldes

I'm from a town of ~1000 (no one knows the real pop a drunk ran down our sign ) so I know what you mean. I used to stand on the edge of our hill and yell down the canyon to my friend outside his house.

now I'm in a shit hole.

MSD

The bad neighbors moved out. They were fun, lived two houses down from us, and the property lines in the woods behind our houses touched. There was the Doberman, the German Shepard, both trained to be attack (not guard) dogs, the pit bull, all of who were allowed to roam freely. There was the time that one of them, I'll call him "R." got drunk and angry and emptied three pistol clips into the side of his truck; the next day he spray-painted "OUCH" on it. Then there was the time that we came home and a SWAT team and FBI cars were parked on the stret searching for R. in the woods. Throw in the drugs, illegal business that involved welding, and the junk in the yard, and you have the neighbors from hell. Did I mention that none of them worked, and the kids were in their mid 20's and they were living on money from a lawsuit?

They moved out and a young couple moved in. The worst the other neighbors do is launch ilegal fireworks, and that's only occasionally.

Ashton

Melwas

Less than six foot from the house here, my neighbour has 3 trees. All at least double the size of the house.
They refuse to cut them down!

Hopefully a law will be passed soon which would make them have to cut it down.

KeyserSoze

Heres a couple of payback options for your neighbors.

1. Get some crystal drano and shove it down their gas tank. MAKE SURE you tighten up the gas cap after your done, and run like hell!!

2. When they leave their apt. shoot a little crazy glue in all the keyholes to their apt.

3. Next time the guys whips it out and pisses, call the police and file a indecent exposure charge on him.

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myMHz

Keep calling the Cops and get a report everytime. Then when have enough go to the management and have them evicted.
Also if you can set up a video camera (maybe in the car?) and get them on tape doing it.
I feel your pain I've had trouble with these types of people in apartments it's tough not to just go up there a beat the shit out of them.

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raeanna74

Sorry for that hassle. I know how it is. 1. Complain to your landlord. Some lease contracts include rules such as no late night parties or vandalism or unusual or unnessessary noise. Record the noise for if you ever end up in court and make copies to give to your landlord and for backup. Also 2. Report to the police. Make yourself a nusiance. The squeaky wheel get the oil. The more you hollar the more they will respond. With my landlord - they never check on things around here and stuff will go on indefinately. I just decided to call and leave messages (since she never answers the phone either) EVERY time something happens. If someone is treating you like trash more than likely they are causing other problems or not even paying rent on time. The landlord could potentially ask them to leave or even evict them. It's not in the landlords interest to have cops showing up all the time either. They are making your life a living hell - treat them to the same LEGALLY. Complain so loudly that no one can ignore it. Report disturbances EVERY time and you'll get through their thick skulls. You teach people how to treat you. They will eventually only do what you allow them to.

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WhoaitsZ

damn laws, not letting us kill losers like these.

if i were you I'd call the cops, contact the land lord and file the complaint.

if the guys continue... i'm not sure how legal it is, but get something electric. let him piss on it, he won't do it again. probably hospitalize him but oh well. there's no excuse for that kind of behavoire.

and you should be able to get them for indecent exposure.

i'm serious, though. an electric fence like mechanism...... i promise he'll not do it again.

WhoaitsZ

bones, if a guy is pissing, you shouldn't move ANYTHING unless it is in his bathroom

never ever let people push around

denim

Why would you want the trees cut down??

GoldenOuroboros

Wish I had one...

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clavus

Not that I'd know anything about this, but stick a toothpick in the lock first. It gives the glue something to grab. The insides of locks are oily, and sometimes the superglue doesn't stick well...or so I am told.

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Lebell

After being exceedingly rude to my 65 year old mother, I had to tell ours that the next time he did this we would have to settle it the old fashoned way.

When he didn't believe me, I showed up on his door step and invited him outside.

He refused, but hasn't said another word.

Now he likes to play loud music, but not during hours where I can have something done about it.

/shrug

Some people are simply assholes because they can be.

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rockogre

Yet another example of why I live in the forest and have no neighbors closer than a quarter mile. Sorry you folks have to live with people like that.

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em1014

Why should they have to move their car away from their apt. just because of an asshole?

You also have to factor in the fact, unless you murder someone in Boone.. you'll probably get away with it. I mean if they charged everyone who does something stupid in a college town nothing would ever get done. Sometimes life works for ya (verbal warnings for you ), sometimes it doesn't (verbal warnings for them)!!

jujueye

My 2 cents....

I am happily out of apartment life now. Yes, I did it for nearly ten years. In fact, we even got kicked out of one complex because: neighbors upstairs were so rude all hours of the day. Eventually the mgt got fed up, kicked us out for "not getting along."

So, all the examples above are good. Your best bet, and I really mean this, is to GET OUT. Move. Summer time is coming up, and unless youre gonna lose mega cash getting out, just do it. Find another place to live, on the TOP floor. If you hvae to pay more, just remember that other people are, too, and the higher the price of a unit, the less likely you will be to find the same kind of shit you are dealing with. Professional and mature people respect their stuff and your stuff and will not piss off a balcony because it is funny.

Then...once youre out....come back for some pay back. Check online for dirty tricks. You could easily: put super glue in their door lock (yes, the whole tube); caulk their front door shut; spray paint the windows on their car; steal a front wheel off their car; cut the cable to their unit; throw molotv cocktails into their unit during a party (make them out of lightbulbs....yeah, I know its dangerous); bb-gun them during a party; throw rocks at them like Palestinians.

Seriously, payback is fun when you can get away with it.

Midnight_Son

get yourself a shit load of tattoos, grow a goate, and start working out every now and then. thats what I did and nobody fucks with me at all granted I'm a 6'3 250lb teddy bear with a big heart.....but I look mean as fuck, and it works.

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Boner

We dealt with a similar situation when we were in an apartment. A local fraternity got shutdown, so all of the members ended up moving into local apartment complexes.

We put up with parties going on every other day. About 5 or 6 of the surrounding tenants (including myself) just started flooding the management with complaints everytime it happened. We also filed complaints with the police. When I'd call, they'd usually tell me that they were already on their way.

When their lease was up, they were NOT given the option to renew, and were getting really close to being thrown out anyway.

krwlz

get a psitol permit, and carry it at all times...practice pulling and aiming it randomy at him....

meembo

Police reports -- get it documented

If the landlord won't do anything, you can go to court with your next rent check and give it to the court -- perfectly legal -- and the landlord will have to tell a judge or arbitrator what is being done about the situation, before he/she gets the rent.

Just make sure there is documentation that does all the talking for you

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Slims

I am dragging this thread back from the dead because I think it is time for an update.

After the police had to come by my apartment building four nights in a row to deal with these guys (more peeing, spitting chewed up granola bars on cars, trying to pick a fight with a petite female neighbor, refusing to turn down loud music, etc.) they have given this guy a half dozen tickets, busted under age drinkers at his place, and given him probably a half dozen tickets. They are also talking with my landlord to get him evicted.

Apparently everybody in my half of the apartment complex has had a serious problem with this guy, and have spoken with the police about him.

It feels good to win.

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Overlord

Make him fall of the balcony when he does it "by accident" of course