I recieved a complaint just the other day!
How relevant this subject is!

Me and 3 friends have recently rented a flat in London, it's a 4 story building with 4 flats on each floor. The flat itself is very nice (Although a bit expensive!) and I think we are going to have a very good time together student-ing it up.

We went to the flat a couple of Mondays ago (23rd) to pick up the keys, signed on the dotted line, saw a few of the buildings other tenants on our way up the stairs, said hello etc and all seemed well. The agency said they would keep in touch via email about any matters (Scheduled work, delivery date of a new sofa, etc)

Unfortunately we got an email on Tuesday (31st) to say that the tenant in flat 5 (The one directly underneath us) has been in contact to say that they have been kept awake for the past several nights due to "loud noise, laughing and shouting and people stomping around" and could we please try to keep the noise down between 11pm and 7am for the benefit of other tenants, parties to a minimum and let other tenants know in advance if we plan to have one.

Of course, ordinarily we would have been very apologetic and assured that we would indeed keep the noise to a minimum, after all, we wouldn't want to annoy our new neighbours......

....except we were left slightly confused by the fact after we signed the documents on the 23rd, none of us have been back to the flat since, are currently each staying a minimum of 30 miles away in various directions and will continue to do so for the next week before actually moving in......

If the noise of an empty flat is bothering them now then I dread to think how unbearable it will be once people actually are living there! I foresee a fun year ahead!
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 15:48, 13 replies)

You might want to document that fact ASAP
to demonstrate that the people below you are either a) totally unreasonable or b) fucking liars.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 15:51, closed)

yes
And get new keys cut.
( rofl harris, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:54, closed)

Agreed.
if you haven't already then write to the letting agents and let them know. Sounds like the neighbours are trying to get a rent discount at your expense.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 18:11, closed)

So is someone staying in your flat while you aren't in it?!

( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 15:52, closed)

We did think about that....
and one of us went by the place yesterday (in the day!!... don't want to risk keeping them awake) as they were in London for some other reason, and the build-up of post behind the door would indicate that nobody has been there since we left on the 23rd.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 15:58, closed)

Ghosts!

( Pretender, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:00, closed)

We lived next door to people like this
"We've had complaints that you were up late last night partying and causing noise."
"Er, last night we watched a documentary about AIDS and we were all in bed by 10pm"
In the end the letting agency moved us free of charge to another property, without batshit insane neighbours.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:02, closed)

Have a sympathy click.
My downstairs neighbour is also a major twat. A control freak who's absolutely paranoid about real and imagined noise, she once (and I'm not making this up) complained in writing about a couple who used to live on the 4th floor (she lives on the 2nd) boinking too loudly. Yes, boinking too loudly - in their own home. Christ on a bike. You have my sympathies.
(lanternchikk hat eine schwere Bohlenallergie, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:06, closed)

When I lived in flats...
The couple diagonally and below us also boinked too loudly. In the shower. With the window open. In plain sight. Weekly.

"When are you going to complain, then?" asked the wife.

"Never"
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:23, closed)

A neighbour of mine once complained that my kids were pulling up her garden plants.
A bit puzzling as one was 15 months old and unable to leave the house alone for vandalising sprees and the other was newborn.

Bitch neighbour knew this but didn't dare pick a fight with the parents of the real culprits!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:38, closed)

They're probably just cunts
That'll be the most likely explanation
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:49, closed)

Oh Jesus
We had a nutter downstairs in our first flat. If we moved during the evening he would bang on the ceiling and scream. It came to a head when he kicked open our door while MrsScars was in bed after a night shift. She called the law, who arrested him, but they wouldn't press charges as they said his trainer footprint wouldn't stand up in court (who kicks their door open 3 feet off the floor?).

Some days later I waited until I was sure he was in, and then poured water onto the bathroom floor. He came up, and I opened the door holding a hammer and a carving knife.

"Hello mate. Five, four, three..." And that was the last we saw or heard for 2 years until we moved out.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 13:36, closed)

I love this.
Did you grin at him as well?
(Big D, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 12:55, closed)