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Keep getting "loud music" complaints from the apartment...no music though?!
My girlfriend recently moved into a new apartment and people have been complaining about loud music noises coming from her place. She kept telling me about the building manager coming down and telling her that she needed to quieten things down with the music. She has explained to him that she doesn't even own a sound system or anything of the sort to make such noises. The woman doesn't even have a television!
I helped her "apologize" to the neighbors and we bought flowers and went around to them, letting them know who she was and that the noises were probably from us moving her things around the first few nights. They keep complaining though and I'm afraid she's going to be asked to leave when she has done NOTHING wrong.
What else should we do? I don't think the building manager believes her over the older tenants there...
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Try showing the manager that it can't be coming from her apartment, if he still complains, get a video recorder with sound, keep it on all (night/day whenever the complaints are being made) next time there are noise complaints, play back the tape for the manager. (Just make sure you say something a few times during the recording so you can prove the sound was being recorded. (also make sure the time/date stamps are present.) If the complaints continue, and your girlfriend is asked to leave take the lease, the tape, and any supporting documentation to a lawyer or free law clinic. Look over the lease carefully. What you DON'T want to find in tiny print is that the manager/landlord can break the lease at any time for any reason. That clause will leave you with nothing to do but move. Which your girlfriend may want to do anyway. The people there sound like asses. One last thing...if the building manager is a guy you might should consider the possibility that he's hassling your girlfriend, just to hassle trying to get involved in her life with any excuse. Just a thought, I'm naturally suspicious. If there is no way your girlfriend is making the noise, it could all be bull for whatever reason.
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You guys should go talk to the manager and explain to him that you do not have anything in the apartment that could make such noises. I would even invite him up to see. Other than that I don't think there is much you can do. Good luck!
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