So here's the problem: You have tenants in apartments. Some of them play loud music all night long. Now this new tenant complains about the noise. The rest are either used to it or don't mind listening to the music or they too play loud music to drown out what the others are playing. The tenant demands that the landlord should take action or else . . . What should the landlord do? Get out there and demand that no one plays music? Supposing they all threaten to leave? Would it be better to lose one tenant in such a case?
There is a law about the sound, so after a certain hours they need to keep quiet. This is just about the law, I think tenants should be respectful, if this doesn't happen the police should come and solve it.
Hmm! {rubbing chin here}...a catch 22 situation huh?!..i believe some sort of subtle sit-down intervention in this regard between the tenants concerned and the landlord should be held...a fair agreement ought to come out of that...failure to which, some tenants will have to move, i wish the landlord had put up some rules in his agreement before letting them stay...so that they abide by the rules in place
That could work as well diane, if it's our property we can sit down with them and try to make some sense out of it, but if it doesn't work I would not bother. On the other hand, if someone is breaking the rules, the situation is clear.
This might solve the problem but it's an ephemeral fix. Say the tenants agree they won't play loud music at night, they could play loud music at any other time of the day. So either these tenant complaining about the noise comes home late each day which would be inconvenient for him or he just must live with the noise during the day. It's pretty hard. I guess it's best to avoid situations like these in the first place. Make it a rule that no one should do A, B, C and it would be easy to solve such problems.
Why as a landlord do you even have to police this? There are sound ordinances that's the bottom line, if the one tenant feels like the other one is to loud tell them to call the police and pursue it that way. I don't know why but it seems like renters (and people in Condo's) always feel like the owner has to take care of any problems like this, and they really don't have to. It is really no different then if you are a owner and it is your neighbor. The owner that rents is not a police force and should no step in unless something illegal is no being done. Or perhaps property damage is happening. You can not in the United States set rules that govern a way that or what a person can or cannot do in a unit they rent, outside of what is the accepted norm. It is a discriminatory practice to even try too and you will just eventually get sued. Now as a landlord you run the risk of one difficult tenant making other good tenants move out because they are or do stupid things. In that case when the lease is up tell them they will not be renewed and get them out. You have to know when to get involved, and noise is usually not a reason. I have one old lady that calls and complains because the woman upstairs does the laundry and she don't like it. This is during the day, and although I feel bad for the old woman, the other tenant has a right to do her laundry! If it is to much of an annoyance maybe the old woman needs a new place, she should know she shares walls with three other units, you should expect day to day normal sounds like laundry and vacuums. One guy started a fight with another tenant because he could not stand the sound that the other tenants security system made when they came and went. It wasn't going off, it was the beep beep beep the keypad makes when it arms. A fight over that? People are weird sometimes.
My401K is absolutely right, the landlord is not there to police the tenants. If the sound is a problem then your tenants should call the non-emergency number for the local police and have them deal with it. The police will likely tell them that there is nothing they can do until some point in the evening, but you never know the police may politely knock on the other tenants door and ask them to keep it down.
First check your local laws and how they pertain to your situation. Check your contract to see if there is rules to loud music. Give them their warnings and if they continue slap them with a eviction notice. Done.
Welcome to my kind of woods; I live next to someone who puts their TV so loud that it drowns my music. I learn very quickly how to adjust my radio to accommodate that. The landlord has no power to supervise how the tenants live. This tenant will have to learn how to live with these inconsiderate neighbors. Life is unfair in so many ways, we do the best that we can and be happy in the process.
I agree with this, first we must be aware of the local laws and the contract we have and based on that we should start a friendly negotiation, only after that we should take harsher measures.
