jacques001
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Massachusetts
We recently received a noise complaint letter from the apartment management, claiming that one of our neighbors had reported us talking very both very loud at night and very loud in the early morning.
We are very confused about these accusations, we keep a very quiet apartment, and as roommates we generally keep to ourselves in the evenings and are asleep in the early morning. We each work 9 to 5 jobs, so I find it absurd that we could also find time to talk very loudly in specifically both evening and early morning (i.e. we somehow don't sleep).
We would be happy to apologize if somehow we did make this amount of noise.
The letter sent has language that seems to indicate we are indeed responsible for the noises and has warned us about future complaints. My understanding is simply a neighbor complained to management, and they assumed the neighbor was correct (we have never had any complaints living here for several years!).
Should we respond to the letter (the neighbors did not identify themselves)? Perhaps the neighbor misattributed the noise to us?
At what point would we need to talk to a lawyer if the we received more complaints to noise that we aren't making? Would this be harassment?
We recently received a noise complaint letter from the apartment management, claiming that one of our neighbors had reported us talking very both very loud at night and very loud in the early morning.
We are very confused about these accusations, we keep a very quiet apartment, and as roommates we generally keep to ourselves in the evenings and are asleep in the early morning. We each work 9 to 5 jobs, so I find it absurd that we could also find time to talk very loudly in specifically both evening and early morning (i.e. we somehow don't sleep).
We would be happy to apologize if somehow we did make this amount of noise.
The letter sent has language that seems to indicate we are indeed responsible for the noises and has warned us about future complaints. My understanding is simply a neighbor complained to management, and they assumed the neighbor was correct (we have never had any complaints living here for several years!).
Should we respond to the letter (the neighbors did not identify themselves)? Perhaps the neighbor misattributed the noise to us?
At what point would we need to talk to a lawyer if the we received more complaints to noise that we aren't making? Would this be harassment?