Who can you contact if you have bad neighbors when you are renting?
Question by Pali-girl: Who can you contact if you have bad neighbors when you are renting?
This may seem like an obvious question but it’s not. The building I live in is managed by a property management company for the owner. We have tenants in our building who repeatedly disturb the peace at all hours with music, drugs, yelling, slamming doors, standing outside other tenants windows and having loud conversations in the early hours of the morning, smoking near the other apartments, etc…Not only have I contacted the management company many times about the disturbances (they are unwilling to help and give me an attitude every time I call) but I’ve called the police too. I live in an area where there is a lot of crime (Long Beach, CA) so I’m sure the police put Disturbing the Peace at the bottom of the priority list all of the time. I’ve tried to find out who is the owner of the building so I can contact him but the property management company will not give me his name or contact information. One neighbor in particular has most of the “parties” and I’ve tried speaking to her directly but like the property management company, I have gotten no where. I do plan to move but I do not have the funds quite yet. When someone pays to live somewhere don’t you think they should get some kind of action from the property management company if something is going wrong on the property? What else can a person do? HELP!!!
Best answer:
Answer by acermill
The actions of unruly neighbors are not the responsibility of the property management firm, NOR are they the responsibility of the owner of the property. Such behavior is clearly a police matter. I’m sorry that your local police department is unwilling to intervene in the situation, but it IS their responsibility. If you call them often enough, they may eventually issue a citation to management and/or ownership. Until then, however, there’s little you can do.
Understand that, when you rent premises, your options are exactly the same as if you own the premises. To whom would you complain if this situation were occurring on or next door to property in which you lived and were the owner ? Would you call YOURSELF to resolve the situation ?
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