xanis
Lifer
After another incident last night, I figured that I'd share some stories about my upstairs neighbor for shits-and-giggles. FYI, I'm moving in 4 weeks to a much, much better place, so at this point I'm finding it hard to get too riled up.
I live in a small apartment complex that's divided into two buildings with two floors each and 10 units per building. I live in the end unit of the "first" building, on the bottom floor.
I've met most of my neighbors at some point and they're all cool people; they all have jobs, they're all respectful of noise, keeping the property clean, and being friendly. No complaints with any of them... except for the one above me.
Best I can tell, the guy that lives above me is on welfare or disability. He does not work at all (confirmed by the numerous times I've worked from home or my girlfriend has been home during the day). He was never really a problem up until a few months ago; the worst he thing he did was leave some Pink Floyd/Zeppelin going a little too loud late into the night. Nothing that couldn't be fixed some white noise in my place, and it was a fairly rare occurrence. I occasionally heard him argue with a man and woman, but again, it wasn't bad and it wasn't that frequent.
A few months back he fell asleep smoking a cigarette and lit his sheets and mattress on fire (I posted a thread about this). My girlfriend and I luckily woke up when his smoke detector started going off and we were able to call 911 and get the PD and FD there to save the guy and put the fire out. We never got any sort of thank you or even acknowledgement from the guy.
Since then, there have been numerous incidents involving the police. Roughly two weeks ago, the police were at his apartment no less than 5 times in the span of 4 days responding to domestic disturbance calls. My girlfriend and I called the police two of those times after hearing screaming and "get off me".
The police have shown up a few other times as well for similar things. One of the times, two guys came into the apartment (the idiot leaves his door unlocked) and roughed the guy upstairs up. The cops came and one guy bolted. I think they managed to arrest one of the two.
Last night the police and medics both arrived, because the idiot's severely drunk brother fell down the stairs and busted his head open on the concrete and accused some woman of pushing him. There was a nice pool of blood outside when I went to take the dog out. I gave the police a statement and told them what I heard: The woman was talking about "that loser drug dealer" and "your fucking brother" and how he "got pushed". Hopefully this time something will actually be done, but I don't know what. There's no law that I'm aware of that prevents people from keeping terrible company.
The police and landlord are very aware; I've called them both several times myself. Not sure why the guy hasn't been evicted yet... maybe I'm missing something in the tenant laws that's preventing him from getting kicked out because he won't press charges or something? At any rate, I'll be calling the landlord yet again on my lunch break to tell them what happened.
I'm sort of numb to it at this point because I'm moving, but I hope that his ass gets thrown out on the street so the next tenants don't have to suffer from this.
tl;dr
- Nightmare neighbor almost burns the apartment down
- Nightmare neighbor keeps company with an apparent drug dealer and severely-drunk brother
- Neighbor regularly gets in hours-long screaming matches with whoever is there
- Idiot neighbor doesn't lock door, got attacked one night
- Idiot neighbor's idot drunk brother falls down stairs and busts head open
- Police have been to my apartment probably 10+ times at this point
I live in a small apartment complex that's divided into two buildings with two floors each and 10 units per building. I live in the end unit of the "first" building, on the bottom floor.
I've met most of my neighbors at some point and they're all cool people; they all have jobs, they're all respectful of noise, keeping the property clean, and being friendly. No complaints with any of them... except for the one above me.
Best I can tell, the guy that lives above me is on welfare or disability. He does not work at all (confirmed by the numerous times I've worked from home or my girlfriend has been home during the day). He was never really a problem up until a few months ago; the worst he thing he did was leave some Pink Floyd/Zeppelin going a little too loud late into the night. Nothing that couldn't be fixed some white noise in my place, and it was a fairly rare occurrence. I occasionally heard him argue with a man and woman, but again, it wasn't bad and it wasn't that frequent.
A few months back he fell asleep smoking a cigarette and lit his sheets and mattress on fire (I posted a thread about this). My girlfriend and I luckily woke up when his smoke detector started going off and we were able to call 911 and get the PD and FD there to save the guy and put the fire out. We never got any sort of thank you or even acknowledgement from the guy.
Since then, there have been numerous incidents involving the police. Roughly two weeks ago, the police were at his apartment no less than 5 times in the span of 4 days responding to domestic disturbance calls. My girlfriend and I called the police two of those times after hearing screaming and "get off me".
The police have shown up a few other times as well for similar things. One of the times, two guys came into the apartment (the idiot leaves his door unlocked) and roughed the guy upstairs up. The cops came and one guy bolted. I think they managed to arrest one of the two.
Last night the police and medics both arrived, because the idiot's severely drunk brother fell down the stairs and busted his head open on the concrete and accused some woman of pushing him. There was a nice pool of blood outside when I went to take the dog out. I gave the police a statement and told them what I heard: The woman was talking about "that loser drug dealer" and "your fucking brother" and how he "got pushed". Hopefully this time something will actually be done, but I don't know what. There's no law that I'm aware of that prevents people from keeping terrible company.
The police and landlord are very aware; I've called them both several times myself. Not sure why the guy hasn't been evicted yet... maybe I'm missing something in the tenant laws that's preventing him from getting kicked out because he won't press charges or something? At any rate, I'll be calling the landlord yet again on my lunch break to tell them what happened.
I'm sort of numb to it at this point because I'm moving, but I hope that his ass gets thrown out on the street so the next tenants don't have to suffer from this.
tl;dr
- Nightmare neighbor almost burns the apartment down
- Nightmare neighbor keeps company with an apparent drug dealer and severely-drunk brother
- Neighbor regularly gets in hours-long screaming matches with whoever is there
- Idiot neighbor doesn't lock door, got attacked one night
- Idiot neighbor's idot drunk brother falls down stairs and busts head open
- Police have been to my apartment probably 10+ times at this point
