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Door Slamming Help
Hi everyone!
Just been googling for some advice and stumbled across this forum, so hopefully you can help.
The wife and I arrived in NZ in December from the UK and we love it here. We initially thought we'd had a long wait for our visa to come through so when we looked for rentals we were more than happy to take a 12 month fixed term on a lovely apartment in Takapuna, North Shore City which we are currently 6 months into.
Now, we love the apartment and the complex we are in, its perfect for our needs until we decide to buy, however we have a nightmare with the next door unit.
About a month after we moved in we noticed the next door unit would slam there front door extreamly loud whenever they opened it. There are 3 people living in the 2 bed next door and what started as a few loud slams a day/night, has over the last few months escalated into slamming every 30mins from 7pm onwards, all the way until after midnight, and at weekend around 4am as well.
Initially we complained the building managers, both about the noise and also that they were leaving bags of rubbish outside there front door (and next to ours) for days on end. The building manager told us they have had problems with them in the past regarding noise and rubbish, and that the tenant has an anger problem but she'd speak to them. Anyway, she has a couple of times and although the rubbish has stopped, the door slamming gets worse. We complained again and she told us to speak to our landlord, who turns out to be there landlord too.
Now, we spoke to our landlord and he said he's warned the neighbours before about it so would do it again. Still no change in the noise so we complain again and he issues them with a 48hr notice to stop it. In fairness it did stop and we told the landlord this, but then a couple of days later it starts up again even louder. We have complained twice more to the landlord and he says hes warned them, but last night we had enough. We are barely sleeping now because the slamming is so loud and at such weird hours that its taking a toll on us, and we are at the point we want out. We told the landlord and all he said was "he is bound by the tenancies act".
What are we supposed to do? We can't sleep, and the apartment/complex we loved when we moved in, is now a nightmare because of the noise.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy
Just been googling for some advice and stumbled across this forum, so hopefully you can help.
The wife and I arrived in NZ in December from the UK and we love it here. We initially thought we'd had a long wait for our visa to come through so when we looked for rentals we were more than happy to take a 12 month fixed term on a lovely apartment in Takapuna, North Shore City which we are currently 6 months into.
Now, we love the apartment and the complex we are in, its perfect for our needs until we decide to buy, however we have a nightmare with the next door unit.
About a month after we moved in we noticed the next door unit would slam there front door extreamly loud whenever they opened it. There are 3 people living in the 2 bed next door and what started as a few loud slams a day/night, has over the last few months escalated into slamming every 30mins from 7pm onwards, all the way until after midnight, and at weekend around 4am as well.
Initially we complained the building managers, both about the noise and also that they were leaving bags of rubbish outside there front door (and next to ours) for days on end. The building manager told us they have had problems with them in the past regarding noise and rubbish, and that the tenant has an anger problem but she'd speak to them. Anyway, she has a couple of times and although the rubbish has stopped, the door slamming gets worse. We complained again and she told us to speak to our landlord, who turns out to be there landlord too.
Now, we spoke to our landlord and he said he's warned the neighbours before about it so would do it again. Still no change in the noise so we complain again and he issues them with a 48hr notice to stop it. In fairness it did stop and we told the landlord this, but then a couple of days later it starts up again even louder. We have complained twice more to the landlord and he says hes warned them, but last night we had enough. We are barely sleeping now because the slamming is so loud and at such weird hours that its taking a toll on us, and we are at the point we want out. We told the landlord and all he said was "he is bound by the tenancies act".
What are we supposed to do? We can't sleep, and the apartment/complex we loved when we moved in, is now a nightmare because of the noise.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy
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