How to Be a Good Neighbor
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- Ben99
Is there a guide somewhere explaining how to be a good apartment neighbor? I would print it and give it to my stupid neighbor living over my head.
I will punch someone soon...
- Ben990
they're walking like they're weighting 8000lbs thumping their feet making glasses cling in the kitchen cupboard
- Ramanisky20
The glasses clinging part made me LOL ... Been there before.
- Ben990
and i'm living in a building made in 2009, not an old one. Concrete floors, isolated. But those dorks are thumping the floor so hard, all we hear is loud BANG and BOOM.
And they're all AIR BNBers... the owners moved out to AIRBNB their condo permanantly... we've got like 10 differents neighbors since last spring... Most of them didnt know how to walk quietly in an appartment.
One of the lady were even walking with high heels at 6 in the morning... we had to tell her she was an innocent person to make her realise her stupidity.
Sometimes i would like to live in that house:
- Do you have a condo board to complain to? Especially with the Air BnB thing.ETM
- BTW that island has a larger GDP than all of Iceland.ETM
- Some people are just thick as shit and have no awareness of there even being other humans in the world. Sometimes they simply need to be politely told...set
- They probably have no clue they're being so loud, the thick shits, and will hopefully stop once you make them aware of it...set
- yep we have a condo board, cant wait for the next meeting.
i know set. maybe i will.Ben99 - ^ there's likely something in the condo agreement that prevents the AirBNB thing from happeningGnash
- No, i dont think so.Ben99
- damn dude why you messing with other people cash flow. just go up an talk to the people instead of the passive sheit. yeah neighbor who rats on a neighbor. thatyurimon
- s nice.. nice morals there bob.yurimon
- And then do it again when the next AirBNBers come. And again... and again.ETM
- They want income from an empty flat, find a steady renter.ETM
- mrpt1
- GeorgesIV0
sometimes it's not the neighbour but the appartment who has noise insulation,
now that this has been said,
do you own a baseball bat?
- ESKEMA1
Fuck You Candy!
- digitdaily0
Good fences make good neighbors
- mekk2
Neighbors walk like no one and they're ultra loud!
- dmay1
- microkorg0
Do something that's going to get the owners some bad AirBnB reviews.
Imagine their reviews were filled with stuff like "creepy neighbour showed up at our door three times offering free naked massages"
or
"someone posted dog faeces through the letterbox"
or
"we returned to the apartment to find photos of ourselves stuck to the front door"
- detritus0
"and i'm living in a building made in 2009, not an old one. "
That's most of your problem right there, and part of the reason I want to gtfo out of London before ever investing in property.
if you see the tin-frame cum plasterboard combo that is the structure for most of the new builds going up in the city here, you'll see just how completely and utterly shit they are.
Old builds have real bricks and thicker wood dividers.
New builds for the most part allow you to spend Half a Million Quid to live in an eggbox that resonates with your neighbours fucking noises.
- 'fuckgrunts' would've been better.detritus
- Got a point here. A lot of new apartment buildings have paper thin walls and floors. Houses 4 life.section_014
- that's part of the reason there's a housing crisis in London. People only want 100+ year old houses because back then people built them properly, with windowsFax_Benson
- and gardens and features like enough fucking space to live in.Fax_Benson
- British build the worst / smallest new homes, in the smallest numbers, in western Europe.Fax_Benson
- New homes and airports = fucking clueless.Fax_Benson
- Ben99-1
@detritus
i dont know about London, but in Montreal its not the case. Its the opposite. In old appartments, you can hear your neighbors talking, their tv, etc. In the new buildings, this is super well isolated.The problem with my neighbors over me are all the low frequency noises, like a foot thumping a floor, a drawers rolling and resonating in the wood of the furniture and banging closing it not delicately.
I never hear any tv, voices, radio and stuff like that, its really well isolated.
I dont walk in my condo the same way i walk outside.. when i walk inside, the tip of my toes hit the floor first, not the heel... And i never wear shoes inside. Basic stuff my neighbors dont understand.
- autoflavour0
I often am concerned our neighbours below secret want to kill us.. we have a 5 year old, a baby and we both are pretty heavy footed.. im sure its sounds like a war zone from down there.
that said i count my blessings we are on the top floor and dont have to deal with neighbours above.. our last flat our upstairs neighbour liked to fuck, really loud, and for a very long time.. definitely a screamer. hard to stay focussed sometimes.
we then moved to the front house of the same address only to find out that she not only fucked loud, but liked to do it with the curtains and windows open. sitting there feeding my kid in my kitchen, trying to drown out the grunting and screaming, while simultaneously trying not to watch the reasonably fit women across the courtyard get fucked for 30 minutes..
- Ben990
I think i will create something like this to explain how to properly walk in an appartment and distribute it
- duckseason0
I live above a bar that recently upgraded their sound system...
- GeorgesIV0
my tests when visiting an apartment I intend to rent,
I often get weird looks, but so far it worked.• Never visit an apartment in the afternoon, either before 10AM or after 6PM (the later the better) > unless you're a freelancer you'll never experience it in the afternoon when everyone is either at school or work
• Open the living/bed room windows while you're there and leave them open during your entire visit > this will give you a good example of the outside noise level
• window or solid ventilations in the bathroom/shower > fuck mildew
• don't be scared to jump and land heavily, if it shakes like an earthquake > next because this is probably what you're going to feel when your neighbour walks
• double pane windows > less noise, less ass freezing during winter, less
• For the love of god, flush the toilet > I hate toilets that make noise while refilling
• sunlight during the day > apps like sun surveyor should do the job(if you have more tips feel free to add some)
- btw ben, the only apt I ever had that was full of cockroaches was on Cote des neiges, the most fucked up apt experience everGeorgesIV
- GeorgesIV0
ahahah that quebecism, I miss it
"we had to tell her she was an innocent person to make her realise her stupidity."
- hydro740
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