Apartment Question

[Wesley]

Put up a sign on your door, "Let me parties go loud."

 

[kilgore_trout]

Since when can/do landlords levy such fines?

 

[Cytom5]

live in west ames

 

[CarolinaCy]

Hmmm, Velo I don't want to be critical of you here so please don't take offense. OK? You seem like a reasonable person and that you tried to be reasonable and what did it get you? Nothing, that's what. Here is my analysis of your situation.

First, you tried to knock on the door but they didn't hear you? Right. My opinion is that they did hear you and ignored you. And they didn't turn it down either, did they?

Actually, you are lucky they didn't answer because if it was as loud as you say when they did answer and you YELLED AT THEM TO TURN IT DOWN (yelled because you had to in order to be heard mind you) they would take offense at your yelling and would tell you to go to hell and if you attempted to argue your point they would have beaten the crap out of you. Yes, I am saying you would have likely been jumped by 3-4 drunken ******** asserting their right to invade your privacy. Then you would have called the cops wanting to have them arrested for assault. The cops would show up and you'd be very angry at having your teeth knocked down your throat for asserting your rights and the cops would then accuse YOU of starting it. If you argued with them they'd beat you up too and then accuse you of resisting arrest, public intoxication, being drunk and disorderly, and about 8 other things. In fact, they'd file police reports saying they witnessed you at the party and were kicked out by the party goers themselves because you were causing trouble there. The party goers would file witness statements attesting to this fact because of course they wouldn't contradict the story the police made up because they're friends might face going to jail for the original assault. This is the way the world REALLY works my friend.

You were very lucky they didn't answer the door.

So you left a nasty voicemail message instead. That does a lot of good. The man never spoke to you again; you are lucky he didn't vandalize your car or have his friends jump you or since he now had your phone number that he didn't start calling you 100 times a day. You are lucky the woman was "honestly sorry" and that is probably the only reason the guy didn't come after you. In my experience women are "usually" more reasonable than men in these situations but not always.

The reason that I said this is probably an "age thing" is because younger people usually are naive and believe how things "should" work and deny the reality of how things "really" work. And the reality is that by confronting the situation as you described it had a very small chance of success and could have turned out very, very badly for you. Why take the chance? That's what the cops are for.

Holy crap dude, please tell me what part of the country you live in so I remember to never go there for any reason. :wideeyed:

By the way, if anyone ever reacted in any of the ways you have described, they should probably be admitted to the nearest psych ward for long-term evaluation.

 

[RayShimley]

Holy crap dude, please tell me what part of the country you live in so I remember to never go there for any reason. :wideeyed:

By the way, if anyone ever reacted in any of the ways you have described, they should probably be admitted to the nearest psych ward for long-term evaluation.

No kidding. To the OP, Rickybaby is clearly the person who called in the noise complaint. Try sending him a PM.

 

[Trainer]

Hmmm, Velo I don't want to be critical of you here so please don't take offense. OK? You seem like a reasonable person and that you tried to be reasonable and what did it get you? Nothing, that's what. Here is my analysis of your situation.

First, you tried to knock on the door but they didn't hear you? Right. My opinion is that they did hear you and ignored you. And they didn't turn it down either, did they?

Actually, you are lucky they didn't answer because if it was as loud as you say when they did answer and you YELLED AT THEM TO TURN IT DOWN (yelled because you had to in order to be heard mind you) they would take offense at your yelling and would tell you to go to hell and if you attempted to argue your point they would have beaten the crap out of you. Yes, I am saying you would have likely been jumped by 3-4 drunken ******** asserting their right to invade your privacy. Then you would have called the cops wanting to have them arrested for assault. The cops would show up and you'd be very angry at having your teeth knocked down your throat for asserting your rights and the cops would then accuse YOU of starting it. If you argued with them they'd beat you up too and then accuse you of resisting arrest, public intoxication, being drunk and disorderly, and about 8 other things. In fact, they'd file police reports saying they witnessed you at the party and were kicked out by the party goers themselves because you were causing trouble there. The party goers would file witness statements attesting to this fact because of course they wouldn't contradict the story the police made up because they're friends might face going to jail for the original assault. This is the way the world REALLY works my friend.

You were very lucky they didn't answer the door.

So you left a nasty voicemail message instead. That does a lot of good. The man never spoke to you again; you are lucky he didn't vandalize your car or have his friends jump you or since he now had your phone number that he didn't start calling you 100 times a day. You are lucky the woman was "honestly sorry" and that is probably the only reason the guy didn't come after you. In my experience women are "usually" more reasonable than men in these situations but not always.

The reason that I said this is probably an "age thing" is because younger people usually are naive and believe how things "should" work and deny the reality of how things "really" work. And the reality is that by confronting the situation as you described it had a very small chance of success and could have turned out very, very badly for you. Why take the chance? That's what the cops are for.

What world do you live in? Trying to handle the situation by yourself is usually the way to go, if this is ignored then you call the police for them being negligent. Some of the things you have said are ludicrous.
-getting a hundred calls
/Save the messages and calls for evidence for the police
-Getting jumped by someone,
/call the cops if they are on foot, if they do some sort of drive by fighting, cudos to them lol, but still tell the cops the make and model of the car
- vandalizing the car
/tell the cops your reasonable suspicion it was the neighbors because of the hundred calls you got... its all pretty simple

You act like we live in mad max's post apocalyptic world, that or you are an old dude afraid of the world and too pessimistic to give humanity a chance.

Either way don't call the cops unless you tried reasoning with them yourself.

 

[RayShimley]

Hey fanatics got a question or maybe just some advice. Recently, moved into an apartment in ames, right across the hall from kelsey bolte to be exact haha.. Anyways we've lived here a month had people over one night. Last weekend it was my 2 roomates and I plus couple high school friends and our neighbor called the cops on us for noise. When the cops showed up they were almost laughin because there was no point for them to be there. Well we just received a fifty dollar noise complaint fine in our mail, because our next door neighbor is insane and keeps calling us in on very little noise if any at all. My question is what should i do about my neighbor and the fine? Kind of new to this aparment thing so i was just wondering if there was any thing we could do about it

Also, in what crazy world do you live in where 5 (?) dudes is a raucous party?

 

[VeloClone]

Hmmm, Velo I don't want to be critical of you here so please don't take offense. OK? You seem like a reasonable person and that you tried to be reasonable and what did it get you? Nothing, that's what. Here is my analysis of your situation.

First, you tried to knock on the door but they didn't hear you? Right. My opinion is that they did hear you and ignored you. And they didn't turn it down either, did they?

Actually, you are lucky they didn't answer because if it was as loud as you say when they did answer and you YELLED AT THEM TO TURN IT DOWN (yelled because you had to in order to be heard mind you) they would take offense at your yelling and would tell you to go to hell and if you attempted to argue your point they would have beaten the crap out of you. Yes, I am saying you would have likely been jumped by 3-4 drunken ******** asserting their right to invade your privacy. Then you would have called the cops wanting to have them arrested for assault. The cops would show up and you'd be very angry at having your teeth knocked down your throat for asserting your rights and the cops would then accuse YOU of starting it. If you argued with them they'd beat you up too and then accuse you of resisting arrest, public intoxication, being drunk and disorderly, and about 8 other things. In fact, they'd file police reports saying they witnessed you at the party and were kicked out by the party goers themselves because you were causing trouble there. The party goers would file witness statements attesting to this fact because of course they wouldn't contradict the story the police made up because they're friends might face going to jail for the original assault. This is the way the world REALLY works my friend.

You were very lucky they didn't answer the door.

So you left a nasty voicemail message instead. That does a lot of good. The man never spoke to you again; you are lucky he didn't vandalize your car or have his friends jump you or since he now had your phone number that he didn't start calling you 100 times a day. You are lucky the woman was "honestly sorry" and that is probably the only reason the guy didn't come after you. In my experience women are "usually" more reasonable than men in these situations but not always.

The reason that I said this is probably an "age thing" is because younger people usually are naive and believe how things "should" work and deny the reality of how things "really" work. And the reality is that by confronting the situation as you described it had a very small chance of success and could have turned out very, very badly for you. Why take the chance? That's what the cops are for.

I'm glad I haven't developed your jaded view of the world in my 40 some years. I guess I will when I am no longer young. :skeptical:

Perhaps you are experiencing self-fulfilling prophecy. You expect the worst out of people so you deal with them as if you are going to get the worst out of them. Since you deal with them as if they are terrible pond scum, you get a scum-like response. Try lightening up. If you treat people well you will get a better response from people most of the time.

 

[RayShimley]

I'm glad I haven't developed your jaded view of the world in my 40 some years. I guess I will when I am no longer young. :skeptical:

Perhaps you are experiencing self-fulfilling prophecy. You expect the worst out of people so you deal with them as if you are going to get the worst out of them. Since you deal with them as if they are terrible pond scum, you get a scum-like response. Try lightening up. If you treat people well you will get a better response from people most of the time.

This. I lived in a huge party house in college (the big blue house on Lincoln Way and Hazel) with 5 roomates and we were probably as loud and unruly as you could get and threw large house parties on a semi-weekly basis. Our neighbor was an older (mid-30's couple) and the husband only had to come over one time and ask us nicely to keep it down (I believe we were playing a round of beer-can golf in our yard around 2am) and we toned it down considerably from then on. When you're just a faceless door or house, it's easier for people to be loud and discourteous, but when you actually meet a person face to face, it really changes how you feel and act.