How can I make the best out of an upcoming meeting between myself, my landlord, and my noisy downstairs neighbors?
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posted by valkyryn
on Feb 4, 2011 -
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What are my obligations as a neighbor with a shared driveway? I really don't want to be a special snowflake.
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posted by mearls
on Feb 4, 2011 -
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I feel like a dick asking this, but is there any way to tell if my neighbors are throttling our shared internet connection with downloads? And if they are, is there any way to partition the connection so my connection's not affected?
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posted by schroedinger
on Feb 3, 2011 -
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My boyfriend is working the night shift for several months, and our neighbor's dog's barking is waking him up in the morning. We are looking for suggestions on how to handle this.
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posted by odayoday
on Jan 19, 2011 -
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How can I reduce/eliminate interference from other wireless routers in my apartment building? I have a Belkin Wireless N+ router connected to a Linksys modem with Comcast cable internet.
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posted by DiscourseMarker
on Oct 29, 2010 -
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Please help me figure out if I'm being unreasonable to want more than a "handshake agreement" between my condo association and our neighbor to have that neighbor a) build a fence that b) straddles our two properties and c) wants us to pay 1/2 of the construction costs for, and that d) we'd "co-own and maintain." Condo drama inside.
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posted by tristeza
on Oct 5, 2010 -
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What are our legal options for relief from a neighbor's constant, extreme cologne when we have a severe, documented medical response?
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posted by tangram1
on Aug 19, 2010 -
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I was nasty and petty to an unpleasant neighbor, and now I feel terrible about it. How do I improve my confrontation skills, apologize to my neighbor and stop beating myself up? Painfully self-conscious guilt fest below the fold.
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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I'm living overseas, and recently moved into a new neighborhood. My neighbors have the obnoxious habit of congregating outside on the footpath and talking smack about the local foreigner-me. The things I hear are always heart sinking, and sometimes mindbendingly scary. What should I do - if anything, and how can I stop it from getting me down?
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posted by anonymous
on May 26, 2010 -
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Loud, annoying neighbors: what to do? Our next door neighbor's (19ish? maybe 20?)-year-old spends all summer out in the Party Garage with ALL his friends, making noise til all hours of the night.
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posted by bitter-girl.com
on May 14, 2010 -
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What kind of crazy is my neighbor and can my landlord do anything about it?
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posted by fries
on Apr 26, 2010 -
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I moved into a new apartment where my back windows now face other neighbors, not too close, but not very far either. This exchange of views is a new thing to me. My question is: how dressed up do you have to be in order to avoid offending the neighborhood? Anyone with "rear window" experiences?
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 18, 2010 -
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A group of young men are always hanging out in front of my building, drinking beer and smoking weed. Recently, there was some sort of fight that left my neighbor's window broken, and it's gone unrepaired for weeks. From what I gather, this fight has something to do with my neighbor's apartment being burglarized. Right now, I'm feeling intimidated by my neighbors and don't know how to handle the situation.
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posted by coelacanth!
on Mar 2, 2010 -
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What could my neighbors be doing that would cause explosions that shake our house (across the street and set back a ways from the road, in a rural subdivision)?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 25, 2010 -
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Mefites I would like to solicit advice in penning a polite yet firm grievance letter to an unknown person (or parties) in my apartment building.
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posted by sequin
on Jan 24, 2010 -
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I received a not very nice letter from my neighbor. Is it worth explaining to this neighbor that I did not actually litter? What happens when someone reports you for littering?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 20, 2010 -
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It's always been a quiet apartment building, but now we have a new downstairs neighbor that makes noise until 5AM and makes the common-use hallway smell like marijuana and cigarettes.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 13, 2010 -
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A new neighbor moved in and now the hallway and my entire apartment reek of second-hand smoke 24/7. I live in Pennsylvania.
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posted by zeek321
on Jan 12, 2010 -
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Right or wrong: throwing away a tied-up plastic bag filled with your dog's feces into another person's trash can (
with trash already in it) at the curb.
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posted by c:\awesome
on Dec 15, 2009 -
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Dealing with a neighbor's loud audio 'animal-repellent' that you can hear, even though you aren't supposed to be able to.
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posted by empath
on Nov 24, 2009 -
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I called the police after watching my neighbor chase a family member across the street, yelling and screaming. I requested that I remain anonymous, but I'm worried that I won't be, is there a law about this? (state of Oregon).
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posted by thankyouforyourconsideration
on Nov 3, 2009 -
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Teenager next door had a party that spilled over into the field behind my house. My cat shows up severely injured. How do I get to the bottom of this?
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posted by Zebtron
on Oct 26, 2009 -
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I'm looking to buy a Manhattan apartment (most likely co-op, not condo). What should I be looking for (or avoiding) to minimize my chances of hearing a lot of noise from my neighbors?
posted by sunflower16
on Oct 13, 2009 -
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My fiance and I are in the midst of buying a condo. Offer accepted, inspection went great, still collecting all the documents related to the condo association. Yesterday, we got a three page document that is the "noise abatement policy." We are not happy. But should we suck it up and still buy the place?
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posted by bibbit
on Oct 13, 2009 -
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So I just moved into an apartment, and found out that I have a psycho neighbor.
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posted by milinar
on Sep 10, 2009 -
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I recently moved into a 4 unit apartment building. Across the hall lives a single older woman who is proving to be quite the busy body. The girl downstairs from her and she are friends. The young woman that lives down stairs works for some sort of cash advance operation and when my Daughter got a ride home from a co-worker tonight, this neighbor of mine saw and recognized the driver as someone who borrowed from the cash advance agency, but never paid back, and verbally accosted her in the driveway of the apt. building. It was 8:30 at night and she was wearing a nightgown. I found this very unprofessional, and honestly irritating. What I want to know is how can I handle this without it becoming a building war. I've only lived here a month, but her bulldog approach was very insulting to my guest and very inappropriate. The situation could get sticky since the neighbors are pals. Ugh...what to do!
posted by gypseefire
on Aug 31, 2009 -
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What kind of bird is making this annoying noise (mp3 file; alternate link
here) behind my Manhattan apartment building? And what can I do about it?
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posted by Tin Man
on Aug 7, 2009 -
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How should I interpret these recent interactions with my new, very-LDS neighbors in Sandy, UT? Will a housewarming party be more awkward than it's worth?
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posted by lbo
on Jun 19, 2009 -
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What can I do about young people in our condo/townhouse complex?
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posted by k8t
on Jun 7, 2009 -
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Advice on noisy neighbors. My family just moved. Our immediate neighbors are elderly and hard of hearing, and so the TV volume is quite blaring in the evening, grating for us, but hard on our 2 year old. They seem like nice people though cant understand why our 2 year old needs to go to bed at 8.
Wondering the best approach to this?
Buy them so wireless headsets? They might not like the gesture nor be able to adapt to the intrusion of this new device.
On our end we have tried white noise, but the windows need to stay open with the heat.
posted by dougiedd
on Jun 2, 2009 -
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Any good solutions for canceling out my neighbor's bass from their stereo without headphones? Headphones aren't an option all the time if I need to sleep. Are their nose canceling stereos? How well do they work? What else could I try?
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posted by gilsonal
on May 25, 2009 -
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How do I get rid of really bad neighbors? Are there any legal issues with giving out their landlord's cell phone number? Are there any Philadelphia-specific ways to get them to move?
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posted by Brachiosaurus
on Apr 28, 2009 -
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Please help us figure out what to do about our nasty neighbor. We have a chain link fence between our yards. Because we were on great terms with the people who used to live there before her, their detached garage forms part of the fence that keep our two Labrador dogs in our yard.
Two short sections of fence on her property connect their garage to the rest of OUR fence. She
just told us that she is going to take those sections down tomorrow, which means our dogs will be able get out of our yard. That is what I need advice about ASAP.
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posted by 14580
on Apr 24, 2009 -
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In honor of Earth Day, help me find a creative way to encourage my my neighbor to recycle. We have curbside recycling once a week and they never recycle anything. Their trash is an amazing collection of plastic water bottles, aluminum cans and lots and lots of paper. I hate to see all of this stuff go into a landfill when we have recycling and they have so much to be recycled. Can I do anything to gently prod them into maybe recycling? Is it even my business?
posted by Leezie
on Apr 22, 2009 -
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My upstairs neighbors and I have had small battles throughout the course of the year, but it's been getting worse as of late. Recently they've taken to stomping around at odd hours of the night, and it's driving us crazy. What's the best way to defuse the situation with them?
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posted by gchucky
on Apr 15, 2009 -
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Please help me remember this little zen-like "life-is-what-you-make-it" story about moving to a new neighborhood.
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posted by headnsouth
on Mar 17, 2009 -
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