hailshamseagull
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- Feb 21, 2009
- 140
Please help!!
Me and my mate our both late 20’s and decided Feb this year to both chip in and rent a flat in a block of 6.
Our flat had never been lived in as the landlord used this as a town flat and mentioned to us on viewing he had spent a total of only about a dozen nights in the flat in 2 years.
All our neighbours seem very friendly apart from the ones above a mother of approx 60 and her son approx in his 40’s.
Anyway the stress and problem
Since being in the flat me and my flat mate have had 4 letters and 2 disagreements, which I will go into below.
Complaint 1
After our initial move into the flat we were welcomed by our adjacent neighbour and the neighbour below, however after day 3 of settling our furniture into the flat we received a letter from the flat above stating the noise and movement of our furniture had been an unhappy start to our arrival into the block for them.
(I will note none of our movements were done in unsociable hours and were in our minds kept to a discreet minimum)
Regretfully we didn’t think an awful lot of the note and chucked it, although a few days later my flat mate went up to their flat to introduce himself and offer an apology if anything was unjust.
Complaint 2
About a month in another letter received to us, a noise complaint about a party and inconsiderate banging and jumping around at unsociable hours.
The said party that apparently took place was dated at the weekend the letter was posted under our door.
The letter me and my flat mate received after visiting our friends down in Woking for the weekend, the letter we didn’t receive until late Sunday evening having left our flat Friday afternoon. Subsequently we were nowhere near our flat this weekend.
I happened to bump into the son a few days after and introduced myself and stated the party/noise must of come from somewhere other than us as we were both elsewhere on this weekend.
He explained his mum hears a banging of a door in the morning etc, so my flat mate who works in a tool centre brought home loads of sound proofing and buffers for every entrance door to wardrobe door etc to cut out this complaint, at this time I also requested no more letters to be posted under our door and a face to face meeting would be preferred.
Complaint 3
Having been sent home from work and curled up on the sofa I put on the TV and started to nap, until I heard banging at our door.
The lady above was going mad stating the banging and thudding of noise was beginning to hack her off! I explained did I look in any fit state to be doing any banging etc and she stated it wasn’t particularly now but all the time. She then went into a mental overload, probably because I looked so disinterested feeling poorly, and was pointing at the flat opposite ours stating we were starting to get as f*****g noisy as them.
I raised to her bite and told her I wanted no more of this myself, and told her if she had anymore problems she should go to our landlord/letting agency and stop giving us grief and letters, she started spurting off some other rubbish and I told her to piss off and slammed the door at her.
On the Monday I made my letting agent aware.
Complaint 4
We’d heard nothing for a couple of months we thought my last argument with her had possibly done the trick and the fact I was hoping my letting agent may have had a word with her.
I returned to the flat with a couple of friends to watch England v Sweden and my mate picked up a letter from them.
I not asking you I’m telling you yet again was the first line on the letter.
There complaint this time being that we apparently have been putting our washing machine on the last couple of evenings at 12.20am.
Once again false accusations which have left me fuming and wanting to do something about them now officially.
My flat mate went upstairs Sunday just gone to speak with them and he heard there TV turn down and could see the women looking through her spy glass at him, but she would not answer the door.
My concern is the fact we are younger tenants than them and having been there only 4 months may look to be the ones causing the disruption if anything is taken further by us.
I get quite stressed and anxious quickly and the above has really upset me, any advice out there would be so appreciated.
Me and my mate our both late 20’s and decided Feb this year to both chip in and rent a flat in a block of 6.
Our flat had never been lived in as the landlord used this as a town flat and mentioned to us on viewing he had spent a total of only about a dozen nights in the flat in 2 years.
All our neighbours seem very friendly apart from the ones above a mother of approx 60 and her son approx in his 40’s.
Anyway the stress and problem
Since being in the flat me and my flat mate have had 4 letters and 2 disagreements, which I will go into below.
Complaint 1
After our initial move into the flat we were welcomed by our adjacent neighbour and the neighbour below, however after day 3 of settling our furniture into the flat we received a letter from the flat above stating the noise and movement of our furniture had been an unhappy start to our arrival into the block for them.
(I will note none of our movements were done in unsociable hours and were in our minds kept to a discreet minimum)
Regretfully we didn’t think an awful lot of the note and chucked it, although a few days later my flat mate went up to their flat to introduce himself and offer an apology if anything was unjust.
Complaint 2
About a month in another letter received to us, a noise complaint about a party and inconsiderate banging and jumping around at unsociable hours.
The said party that apparently took place was dated at the weekend the letter was posted under our door.
The letter me and my flat mate received after visiting our friends down in Woking for the weekend, the letter we didn’t receive until late Sunday evening having left our flat Friday afternoon. Subsequently we were nowhere near our flat this weekend.
I happened to bump into the son a few days after and introduced myself and stated the party/noise must of come from somewhere other than us as we were both elsewhere on this weekend.
He explained his mum hears a banging of a door in the morning etc, so my flat mate who works in a tool centre brought home loads of sound proofing and buffers for every entrance door to wardrobe door etc to cut out this complaint, at this time I also requested no more letters to be posted under our door and a face to face meeting would be preferred.
Complaint 3
Having been sent home from work and curled up on the sofa I put on the TV and started to nap, until I heard banging at our door.
The lady above was going mad stating the banging and thudding of noise was beginning to hack her off! I explained did I look in any fit state to be doing any banging etc and she stated it wasn’t particularly now but all the time. She then went into a mental overload, probably because I looked so disinterested feeling poorly, and was pointing at the flat opposite ours stating we were starting to get as f*****g noisy as them.
I raised to her bite and told her I wanted no more of this myself, and told her if she had anymore problems she should go to our landlord/letting agency and stop giving us grief and letters, she started spurting off some other rubbish and I told her to piss off and slammed the door at her.
On the Monday I made my letting agent aware.
Complaint 4
We’d heard nothing for a couple of months we thought my last argument with her had possibly done the trick and the fact I was hoping my letting agent may have had a word with her.
I returned to the flat with a couple of friends to watch England v Sweden and my mate picked up a letter from them.
I not asking you I’m telling you yet again was the first line on the letter.
There complaint this time being that we apparently have been putting our washing machine on the last couple of evenings at 12.20am.
Once again false accusations which have left me fuming and wanting to do something about them now officially.
My flat mate went upstairs Sunday just gone to speak with them and he heard there TV turn down and could see the women looking through her spy glass at him, but she would not answer the door.
My concern is the fact we are younger tenants than them and having been there only 4 months may look to be the ones causing the disruption if anything is taken further by us.
I get quite stressed and anxious quickly and the above has really upset me, any advice out there would be so appreciated.
