The "friend" above me is a very loud heal walker who disrespects the peace from 21 - 37 hours out of every week. My two taps with a mop handle after his WEEKS of stomping is like a slight beep of the horn. However, he flies off the handle about this and has slammed the door in my face and my significant others. Out of my 20 plus years of apartment living nothing has been this disrupting. I can't have my friends of family over with sleeping babies because he wakes them up! I can't turn my TV up loud enough to cover the stomping either. No one at the complex cares but there is always the media.

My apartment is not one of the newly renovated ones(which is not worth the extra expense they cost). I was amazed at the peach-pink walls, which with the prior management they painted and replaced the carpet and linolium. But the old rusty bathroom facets are just gross! Most of the residents I lived with for the last 3 years have moved out and I don't blame them. There is a lot of tension between some tenents and the management. I have anxiety and stress from the disrespect and is affecting every area of my life...health, work, relationships.

My car was almost stolen twice in the last 3 years. Forget the 3 calls to have the lights on the garages that shine into some of the parking spots replaces, it took my car almost getting stolen for the lights to replaced the next day and new flood lights installed at the end of a row of carports where it was very dark. It is still pitch black walking to the enclosed garbage and recycle area.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/18/2009
"there is always the media" ?!?! Yeah right, like they would care about your noise complaints! How'd that work out for you? Seems like there's not much you can do really. The law protects tenants from just getting randomly evicted. A landlord can't just evict someone based on complaints - they need to go through a notice process, wait for further violations and THEN they need a judgment from a court. Unfortunately that means that it's tough for landlords to get rid of people for noise, especially if it's not something that's plainly obvious like music that can be heard from the street. They would rather have you move and re-rent YOUR apartment, (even though the new person would still have the noise problem,) than pay the legal fees to go to court and TRY to get a judgment against heavy-heel guy. Even if they succeed, they're out the legal fees, possibly some lost rent and they STILL have an apartment to re-rent. I'm not saying the managers at Aspen don't want you to stay and be comfortable in your apartment, but for them just "getting rid" of the guy is not necessarily an option. Look on the bright side however - you CAN move. At least you don't own a condo. My co-worker has neighbor trouble and she's stuck because she can't sell in this housing market! Plus an HOA is probably more powerless than a landlord in resolving this kind of thing. This is why I will only rent top floor. Some people might not care about this guy thumping around, but YOU do. It's not your fault he's loud. You should HAVE to move. But it's probably what's best for you. Go get a top floor some place, either at Aspen or some place with an elevator if you don't do stairs. It sucks, you shouldn't have to do it, but you'll be MUCH happier! Oh, and personally, I would just replace bathroom hardware myself if the management didn't want to. It's cheap anyway and you're the one who has to live there. The problem with apartments is they rarely get upgraded stuff while you're living there. You gotta move if you want new stuff.
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/19/2009
Things have gotten better. My fiance who spends just as much time at the apartment as me has said it is a bit better too. Family and friends are still like "what the heck was/is that?" Or "what are they doing up there?". What comes around goes around and I am not worried about it. It is all meaningless in the end.

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