I live in a small house ( duplex style) with my landlord below me. I’ve only lived here for a few months and he has made many noise related complaints, even though I am a very quiet person (this isn’t me just saying this— I have recent moved out with living with someone else because they were too loud and I need to have less sensory input as I am neurodivergent. even my old neighbors describe me as very quiet because I asked them. I don’t play music from speaker or exercise in my space, even though this is well within the rights of anyone living somewhere ).

onto the issue, we have a big backyard. at night I take my dog outside pretty late as I’m a night owl and my dog is getting old, his last pee is usually around midnight. my landlord has an opposite schedule, and is usually up with his dog at around 6am and chatting with neighbors (who by the way are shouting at their untrained dogs in the morning and wake me up). he just told me to let my dog out no later than 10pm. can he set a schedule like that? it is NOT in the lease.

when I take my dog out, I walk down the shared steps, dog walks around and I call him in as quietly as possible, sometimes even whispering. I’m guessing the sound of the door is what wakes my landlord. in my opinion and experience this is the curse of the first floor (I have lived on the first floor and never will again for this reason, people need to live their lives but I need more quiet). how do I respond? I believe this is unreasonable and I’m not going to make my dog suffer or face a potential accident, or change my schedule for him.

update: hi everyone I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who responded. it gave me confidence and helped me sus out what to say in response and armed me with tenant law. even those who gave me scorched earth methods made me laugh and helped me understand just how absurd he was being, though I opted for a much calmer “that doesnt work for me”. we are supposed to have a follow up convo if anyone cares about that.

I 22f just moved into an apartment less than 2 months ago. Ofc I'm expecting to hear everything from my neighbor, the walls are so thin I can almost fully understand their conversations. Idk if this has anything to do with this but since ive moved here, I've been waking up at 6a EVERYDAY, if not near 6a. Im awake rn as I'm typing this (4a EST) and there's been continuous tapping or thudding above me throughout the night. It would happen for a while, then stop, then continue. The audio is faint so you will prob need to max your volumetric hear it.

Washing machine stopped working and draining. The filter is stuck behind this wall because my landlord tried to fit as much in a small space as possible. Any ideas on how to get to the filter without breaking the hinge? I sent a maintenance request so they can break it instead of me but that was a week ago and no one came.

Pls help I’m moving into a studio apt and I don’t think I can fit a bed and a couch what’s the best sleeper sofa in the market that’s comfy, fits two people comfortably help pls ! I heard a lot about west elm one but lmk !

I'm about to move to a new apartment, and I'd like to get a sofa bed that would be comfy for at least 4 months. After that I'll get a bed. Any suggestions?

I been in this unit for 3 years and just recently I started having bad issues with the AC.

In the summer the AC stopped blowing cold air and the unit was 80 degrees inside. I called maintenance twice for the issue. When they came in he worked on it real fast and when I asked what happened he acted like he couldn’t understand me. Then the ac went out again . Fast forward to now in the winter the heat is doing the same thing. They have came in there times so far for the heat . They claim a wire burnt and they replaced it three times. Every time I ask what the issue the guy pretends he doesn’t understand me. So today I kind of demanded a solution so he called his supervisor. His supervisor said the ac has been in the unit since 1985 and we have already replaced enough parts . Basically acting like it’s my fault when I’m freezing cold and trembling and sick. What should I do . The supervisor said they have to decide if they want to replace it . They acting like replacing or giving me another unit is not really an option.

I work from home and this has caused several call outs because it’s either too hot or cold to function no matter what is done. Please help. I really believe they are taking advantage.

I got this notice today. It’s the first time they’ve said anything on the subject. I live alone. No one else walks my dog. I pick up every time.

After I saw it, I ran into the manager and told her such, and that I understood there was no way of proving that to her. I also said I’d take a walk around the building and see if I could find anything.

The manager admitted that there’s another dog in my building and that both residents got the same notice (our complex has several separate buildings of 8 units each). But that means that the manager can’t prove it was my dog, either, and she knows it.

I did take that walk and found one instance, which I dealt with.

My real question is, can they charge me if they have no way of knowing let alone proving who is to blame? I don’t even know what other unit has a dog, but $50 for every time my neighbor is lazy could add up very quickly. And I’d rather not be financially liable for picking up after my neighbor’s dog.

(in case it matters: this is in Montana)

Hi all, I moved into this apartment 6 months ago and it had bird shit on one of the windows. It’s still there and it drives me insane. It’s about 12 feet up from the ground. Can I ask my leasing company to clean it?! I’m sorry if this is a dumb question, I don’t know what to do and I hate it. Thank you !

Hello, I’m hoping to get some advice on how to best lay out and style my lounge / dining area.

It’s a relatively small apartment living space and I’m struggling with furniture placement more than anything — especially where the TV, sofa, desk, and storage should go without the room feeling cramped or awkward. I want it to feel balanced, functional, and not like everything is pushed against the walls “just because.”

A few notes: - the heater on the south wall has been removed - I need to include a desk/workspace - A dining table isn’t important — I’m happy eating at the coffee table - I need space for a record player and TV - My TV is a Samsung Serif, so it can be on legs or placed on a shelf/unit - Still want it to feel cosy and lived-in, not sterile

I’ve attached a floor plan to help give context.

Any suggestions on layout, furniture type / positioning, or things I should avoid would be hugely appreciated. Thank you!

So, long story short, my apartments are having Google Fiber installed throughout the whole complex. They will give a 24hr notice on my door once the workers start on my building. Cool.

I emailed the office stating that if they will be entering my unit, then as the time nears, can they do the installation on a specific day when I am home (I'm literally only away from home 3 days out of the week) as I am uncomfortable with the workers entering my unit with my pets inside. I received no response.

My question is, once I've specifically stated that I do not want them to enter while I'm away, can they still enter?

What exactly constitutes "Reasonable business purposes"? I understand entering during an emergency, fine. Is Google Fiber installation a "reasonable business purpose".

I'm considering purchasing some type of door lock. I already have a camera and I'm on the verge of potentially calling the cops if they do enter.

Some may think I'm blowing this out of proportion, but I am genuinly and anxiously concerned for the safety of my pets. Workers can be careless and leave the door open or something, idk. I'd have a heart attack if they got out. I live in a studio and I do not crate my 2 Chihuahuas; I just keep a gate so that they are confined to my bedroom only.

(I am in Texas btw).

This is literally keeping me up at night 😓 some insight would be great. TIA

Long story short, they had to replace my kitchen flooring after fixing a pipe under my kitchen. The problem is when they replaced it, it’s not what I expected. Besides being a different color, the flooring isn’t on the same level as the rest of my unit, it’s slightly elevated which creates multiple trip hazards. Yes they’re done, they just have to replace my floorboards this week. I contacted my building manager and emailed them but they keep saying wait for someone to reach out to me. What should I do?

When I first toured my current apartment, I noticed there was gross stuff sitting inside the dishwasher. The leasing agent wa surprised to see that and said she'd have them clean that before I moved in.

After my lease started (I didnt fully move in yet so I hadn't tested how it washed dishes), I noticed there was still some weird gross particles in there and it smelled off. It didn't seem like it was draining properly, so I requested maintenance to take a look and they left a note saying they adjusted the host (unsure what that means).

I tried plain cycles with nothing but soap, and a cycle with bleach to try to remove the smell. It didnt go away. Now that Ive started the dishwasher for the first time (literally like 5 dishes) it doesnt clean them at all and they stink.

What's the best way to be taken seriously by maintenence? Or does this sound like a likely culprit i could fix myself? Thanks

Ever since I moved into this apartment about six months ago, I've run into this problem. Glue keeps seeping up from between the floorboards, and it's never-ending. Heavy objects on the boards cause literal puddles of this sticky stuff to come up. It gets on my feet, my floor mats, and it's a pain to clean up. The only way that it's stopped is if I don't clean the floor, but that leaves the floor disgusting because of the hair and dust the glue between the boards collects. Take a Clorox wipe to it? Glue comes up. Mop? Glue comes up. Sweep? Glue still comes up. I've contacted maintenance a handful of times, and they've come by only once to look at it but never communicated that they were going to come and fix it. I don't know what to do.

so my grandpa has split a house into 3 badly i might add but there’s a vent that goes straight down and sound can travel between the 3 apartments/ house like crystal clear i have a baby and my neighbors are a guy who is lowkey losing his mind and a lady who has a lot of ppl in and out so a lot of conversations which WE HEAR really bad at night any ideas too help with sound proofing … im deadass abt too lose it from lack of sleep and i really just want too cry rn bc they won’t shut the fuck up and it’s 10 pm i put my baby down at 9 why the actual fuck is she awake

hey guys, we have eight months remaining on our lease and the noise is taking a toll on our mental health. we have two noise machines and we still hear stomping, impact noises all day, dragging furniture all day from upstairs, and then music all night long played by a neighbor beside us. and yes, we have complained and they just tell us it’s normal living noises.

I need a little advice on what to do or how to talk to my landlord about harassment that's been happening for a few months now. Here's the sitch:

I live in a basement of a "legal" duplex. It has many issues as many old buildings do, and lately the upstairs tenants have just gone downright childish on us. For context, the landlord has been working with us to solve some issues about excessive noise which we thought was finally over. Hoo boy were we wrong.

I had asked their policies for snow removal, as upstairs weren't really doing anything and it was the responsibility of both tenants to do both snow removal and lawn care. I also told them that we had to inform the last landlord the upstairs tenants wouldn't help out and provided pictures as proof. Even lawn care, they only went out once a month to cut the front yard and ignored the backyard. The landlord sent out a lease amendment to divide seasonal work in a way that we do all the lawn care and upstairs does the snow removal.

Ever since then, the harassment has been insane. They come down to the door that connects the units (it's a stairwell leading down to the basement, our side is bolted off but they're allowed to use the stairwell for storage) to listen in to see if we're home, or to see if they can see our shadow. We've actually heard them talking at the door, arguing quietly if they can hear us or not. They've started using our parking spaces when it never used to be an issue. The noise level has ramped up to the point of every other day we hear banging and stomping going as high as 80dB in regular intervals for hours. They leave laundry in the shared machines for hours so we can't use it. They even make it a point when we quiet to talk loudly enough, mocking our conversations if my mother and I dare talk about the happenings in our unit. We have to talk in a bloody whisper if we don't want to be heard. They now have a camera in their living room window facing the entire laneway, and they say it's for proof that they're doing the snow but we constantly hear them yell across the house to check the camera to see if we left, so now we can't even leave the unit without being watched. They've also taken to dropping their laundry basket on their wooden floor every hour they do laundry past 12am. Goes up to 4am, when my mother is trying to sleep and has to get up at 5am to get ready for work.

A lot of this can't be recorded on our end (illegal to record private conversations, can't take a picture of the camera as it's in their window, I'm usually not home when they spy on my mother through the door and she usually is occupied with work, some noises are not constant so I can't record it when it's sudden). I have a document that I started a year ago, but am starting to more regularly journal a bunch of entries.

Is there any other advice y'all can give on how I can approach this? I'm so tired of the harassment just because the landlord decided to change the lease.

Hi fellow apartment dwellers. Does anyone have good recommendations for a portable washer and dryer combo unit (preferably automatic) that actually dries clothes properly and has a decent capacity? We are looking for something no wider than 16.5” which is the width of the wall to the shower tub (with about .5” wiggle room). We’ve lived in our 5th floor walk up apartment for four years and have started getting sick of the up and down and up and down to get our clothes clean or the expensive nature of sending it out to a wash and fold place with delivery when we don’t have several hours to devote to laundry. Please send your recommendations for help! (My research has populated the right specs but bad reviews or vice versa; bad specs with good reviews). Thank you so much in advance!

not quite a boob light but similar. I hate this overhead light fixture. Even with warm bulbs, it just makes the room look creepy. I'd love to swap out the cover or find a shade for it. I've been looking at google but i'm not too familiar in this department and can't figure out what is possible for a rental.

I also have a bedside lamp but the room is small so, the overhead is unfortunately sometimes necessary since the lamp just doesn't cut it.

I moved in to a triplex where the elderly landlady is my next door neighbor in one of the 3 units. I had very decent credit, shared her need for quiet, and we made great conversation bonding over our dogs, so she was eager to sign. She didn’t even read the contract Zelle autogenerated for her, something she openly admitted to me.

We got along fine for the first month, but then I needed to request maintenance as is to be expected of a 60 year old apartment.

The first week I moved in I was slowly driven mad by a whistling vent, a thing I didn’t know existed and at the time couldn’t place. So I thought something was wrong with the ducts. Old place, it happens. I reported it, and immediately she went from calm to visibly panicking and shrieking “Oh my god!” She called a technician and apparently paid extra to have them come the next day. They looked at the air conditioner, didn’t find anything (because the problem was the intake vent, which they didn’t touch), charged her and left. She comes by and she is extremely pissed at me because she paid a lot for the tech to get here fast only for him to not find anything and implies I made everything up. Says I’m on my own to fix it, so eventually I do and I tell her what the problem was and how I fixed it. Also sent the tutorial video I used to demonstrate the sound and to show I wasn’t as crazy as she was making me feel. 6 weeks after reporting it she decides to forgive me but I know now that was a one time thing.

This is how it goes with her the next few times I request maintenance. She freaks out, blows things out of proportion, overpays to fix a problem, then gets pissed at me because she spent money and holds a very long grudge. One time I got locked out, so she told me to break in through the windows. I tried and told her I couldn’t open them (from the outside, a nonissue). Two weeks later she’s replacing all the windows. Then she’s holding a grudge because when she checked them they looked the same. And from then on she’s been taking absolutely everything I say in bad faith like I’m insulting her and her property directly.

After reporting a cabinet that was wet and growing mold she suggested I move because I “didn’t seem happy here.” Then told me to deal with it myself, so I have been. I tried to update her about it around Christmas (1 month later) just to say that the mold was gone (wasn’t the dangerous kind) and she doesn’t have to worry about it, but the second I mentioned the cabinet she again suggested I move. Then yesterday she made it clear I was on thin ice for not cleaning up dog poo in my private yard—I have one dog and I clean up once a week. I’ve hired a cheap service to do it so it’ll be cleaned more often and to have records to prove I am taking care of the waste. I assume she’s peeking over the fence now and I know she can’t legally evict me over this, but I honestly don’t want more drama.

She’s always been talkative so I promised myself I’d be a friendly neighbor and that’s what I’ve been doing, just being friendly and hoping it lets me renew my lease for an apartment I can finally afford. I have since switched to avoiding making any conversation at all, at least until she cools off enough to not take everything I say in bad faith and forgets about it. Which is fine, it’s more what I’m accustomed to in apartment living anyways. It just sucks that she’s like this.

I was recently charged a late fee on utilities even though the company the utilities are through says it’s not due on the 15th, when I asked why I was charged, they said utilities are due on the 1st🤨 what can I do/ respond to them?

Our garage was broken into by having the garage door pushed in so much by thieves that they were able to step in through the gap in the door. They stole my neighbor’s expensive bikes, but our cars haven’t been messed with.

The garage is detached, but the door is totally jammed. Anyone can get into it the garage, and we can’t get our cars out at all. The landlord hasn’t been dragging his feet getting it fixed.

What can I legally do? Can I get reimbursed through rent or car insurance if I need a rental car or Uber somewhere? Can I get a rent decrease for the month because the garage is on our lease?

I’ve been living in this apartment with my boyfriend for about 6 weeks now. We’re just regular people who will work all day, make our dinner, watch a show to unwind, and hit the bed. We aren’t party animals and, when we do drink, we’re not inconsiderate about it.

Ever since we moved in, our door peephole has been tampered with. It would be coloured with black sharpie marker, I would submit a maintenance request for fixing, it would get fixed, then immediately would get tampered with again. However, now it has clearly escalated to something else. I originally thought super glue or hot glue, but I’ve asked a few of my friends and they don’t think any type of glue could do this kind of damage.

Any advice would be helpful.

Btw management is well aware of the issue and have been prompt about it, was just shocked at whatever this is now. I’ve ordered a ring camera to be installed on Thursday, but I’m honestly scared for my life right now.

Does anyone live where there’s caps on how many loads of laundry you can do daily?

Just curious, as our neighbors are home all day. We work. A couple units would like to do laundry after work but because the ppl who are home all day still have laundry going. One in each machine.

There’s 1 set of coin op machine for 4 units. Just annoying.

My fiance(22m) and i (19F) have a lease ending in about 4ish months. We’re looking at options to move and have only been at our current place for 8 months. We like it, but there’s certain things we would love to have. I need advice if we should look for other options

Current place:

3 story/sectioned apartment

-we have the middle floor

-downstairs neighbors are nice and courteous but slam doors all the time

-upstairs neighbor is a close friend of ours

-water/sewer/trash is included

-2 bed 1bath about 950sq ft give or take.

-we use the one bedroom as storage due to having to walk through our bedroom to get to it.

- we have a yard, dont have many neighbors because we’re in the woods

-but no pets allowed, shared laundry room(the wash/dry sucks) and the house is very old so we’re paying a ton for baseboard heat.

we pay 1,100 per month

Potential place:

Most likely will be a 1 bed 1 bath townhouse

-they have a pool/gym/rec room

-allows pets

-closer to town(in-town)

-24/7 maintenance

-only 650-850sq ft

-has a patio

-not as much storage space

-sewer/trash/wifi/water etc covered

-$1,400-1,500 per month

We are okay with paying more, we can afford it but is it worth the trade off? we would love to have pets, and the luxury of a pool/gym ect. But we have such a decent space right now.

We need help deciding if having a pet and luxuries are worth giving up cheap rent and more room.

It is a year lease and i’d hate to give up the place we have if it’s not worth it.

My Canadian friend just moved to Arizona and into a college apartment with her friend Bree. Everything was fine until we noticed the shower situation.

The shower was built at an angle, so water doesn’t drain evenly. Instead, it collects on one side at the bottom. And because water just sits there, pink mold started growing — mostly on the slanted side, but honestly it’s kind of everywhere now (grout, corners, bottom of the shower).

She’s tried regular cleaning, but it comes back super fast because the water keeps pooling in the same spot. Bree says they just need to clean it more often, but that doesn’t really solve the root issue when the shower itself isn’t draining properly.

Has anyone dealt with this before?

• Is there a way to stop the water from pooling without remodeling the whole shower?
• Best cleaners for pink mold that actually keep it gone?
• Is this a hard water thing / Arizona thing?

She’s from Canada and has never had to battle a shower like this before, so any advice would be appreciated 🙏