Ahhhhhhhh the joys of renting.
So this was this morning. Keep in mind, this has been a continual thing pretty much since she moved in. Not every night, but a lot of nights she'll start getting ready to go to sleep or something between 12:30 and one, and won't stop effing pacing around for about an hour. Or so.
I, for the life of me, can't figure out what you're doing in your room moving around. I go to my room, get my clothes, and then lay down in my bed to read or sleep or whatever. I don't go from my closet to my book shelf to my closet to my book shelf to pounding up the stairs and back down and then going from my closet to my bookshelf for an hour.
And then she gets up between six thirty and seven thirty every day.
ARGH.
This particular incident started at about 12:30 AM for me, when I was trying to get to sleep. The tenant in the room above me was moving around, pacing back and forth (I'm guessing) over the squeaky part of the floor and then up and down the stairs. It's her room, I can't expect her to not move around in her room, but by 1:30 AM I had had it. I grabbed a broom and pounded on the ceiling, yelling that it was late and just go to sleep.
Fifteen minutes later, I did the same. Unfortunately, the broom went through the ceiling and there is now a little hole. My heart stopped and my face paled... I'd just punched a hole through drywall. Like an angry drunk college kid.
*cough*
I'll need to fix that... We'll see what the landlord says.
After having punched a hole in the roof, I decided that I just needed to talk to her so we could come to some sort of understanding. I went outside to go and try to talk, only to find another of the tenants from upstairs sitting on the steps trying to get a hold of her brother so she could go and stay with him.
We chatted, she said that she was scared to be in the house because the annoying tenant had apparently stolen 250$ from the third tenant, and they figured it was to buy drugs. Or something.
By about 2AM or so, we had decided to call the police for a noise complaint, and so the guy who's money was taken could tell them about his theft.
They came, they talked to her, they told us that she was moving out. That solves the problem of the upstairs apartment, since it seems like she wasn't getting on with them. However, the next person to move into that room will still have a creaky floor. This tenant doesn't have her bed on a creaky board, but the last one did, and it was incredibly annoying.
It took them a while to get here, since it was a fairly non anxious noise complaint. By the time they got here, it was nearing three in the morning.
The good thing is that I got to hang out with my upstairs neighbours. I should invite them over for food, or something. Maybe they'd like to play Catan? (Someone play Catan with me!!) Or crib? I'd love to play more crib, so I can pose a challenge to my father when I see him over Christmas.
Aaaaanyway, I need to work. I've got a super late start, because when we all went back inside the house after chatting with the two police officers, apparently the upstairs room mate wasn't sleepy any more and paced for like... Another hour. At least.
And the ear plugs I bought?
*sigh*
I'm switching rooms soon, but it was really annoying to hear that the guy upstairs had told our landlord about the theft, and was told that they had to resolve it themselves and that it was a personal matter.
The cops said 'uh, no. It's not a personal matter, he has to do something'. I don't know if he can get rid of one girl on the lease, and not the others... But since apparently neither of them have signed a lease, where's the problem?
~~X~~
Talked to landlord, and I was trying to avoid saying 'she's crazy', because *I* don't know that. She just paces for an hour nearly every night, that's all. :S
He also seemed not too upset with the little hole in the ceiling. Apparently the girl who was going to take my room has decided not to, so I have to get all of my stuff out of there as quick as I can after my other room mate has moved out, so that he can show the room.
I also better go and grab my laundry so I can dry it, so I'll have something nice to wear at the launch party tonight! Woo!
I, for the life of me, can't figure out what you're doing in your room moving around. I go to my room, get my clothes, and then lay down in my bed to read or sleep or whatever. I don't go from my closet to my book shelf to my closet to my book shelf to pounding up the stairs and back down and then going from my closet to my bookshelf for an hour.
And then she gets up between six thirty and seven thirty every day.
ARGH.
This particular incident started at about 12:30 AM for me, when I was trying to get to sleep. The tenant in the room above me was moving around, pacing back and forth (I'm guessing) over the squeaky part of the floor and then up and down the stairs. It's her room, I can't expect her to not move around in her room, but by 1:30 AM I had had it. I grabbed a broom and pounded on the ceiling, yelling that it was late and just go to sleep.
Fifteen minutes later, I did the same. Unfortunately, the broom went through the ceiling and there is now a little hole. My heart stopped and my face paled... I'd just punched a hole through drywall. Like an angry drunk college kid.
*cough*
I'll need to fix that... We'll see what the landlord says.
After having punched a hole in the roof, I decided that I just needed to talk to her so we could come to some sort of understanding. I went outside to go and try to talk, only to find another of the tenants from upstairs sitting on the steps trying to get a hold of her brother so she could go and stay with him.
We chatted, she said that she was scared to be in the house because the annoying tenant had apparently stolen 250$ from the third tenant, and they figured it was to buy drugs. Or something.
By about 2AM or so, we had decided to call the police for a noise complaint, and so the guy who's money was taken could tell them about his theft.
They came, they talked to her, they told us that she was moving out. That solves the problem of the upstairs apartment, since it seems like she wasn't getting on with them. However, the next person to move into that room will still have a creaky floor. This tenant doesn't have her bed on a creaky board, but the last one did, and it was incredibly annoying.
It took them a while to get here, since it was a fairly non anxious noise complaint. By the time they got here, it was nearing three in the morning.
The good thing is that I got to hang out with my upstairs neighbours. I should invite them over for food, or something. Maybe they'd like to play Catan? (Someone play Catan with me!!) Or crib? I'd love to play more crib, so I can pose a challenge to my father when I see him over Christmas.
Aaaaanyway, I need to work. I've got a super late start, because when we all went back inside the house after chatting with the two police officers, apparently the upstairs room mate wasn't sleepy any more and paced for like... Another hour. At least.
And the ear plugs I bought?
*sigh*
I'm switching rooms soon, but it was really annoying to hear that the guy upstairs had told our landlord about the theft, and was told that they had to resolve it themselves and that it was a personal matter.
The cops said 'uh, no. It's not a personal matter, he has to do something'. I don't know if he can get rid of one girl on the lease, and not the others... But since apparently neither of them have signed a lease, where's the problem?
~~X~~
Talked to landlord, and I was trying to avoid saying 'she's crazy', because *I* don't know that. She just paces for an hour nearly every night, that's all. :S
He also seemed not too upset with the little hole in the ceiling. Apparently the girl who was going to take my room has decided not to, so I have to get all of my stuff out of there as quick as I can after my other room mate has moved out, so that he can show the room.
I also better go and grab my laundry so I can dry it, so I'll have something nice to wear at the launch party tonight! Woo!