If I’ve lived in my apartment for 17 years now, what can I do about noisy neighbors?
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If I’ve lived in my apartment for 17 years now, what can I do about noisy neighbors?
My upstairs neighbor died last year leaving her 2 grandsons in the apartment. In the last seven to eight months they have began having dice parties in the apartment. They invite their friends over and they roll dice all evening well into the wee hours of the next morning. The walls, ceilings and floors are very thin. It sounds like they are in my apartment. The stomping and most offensive clank clank clanking of the dice on my ceiling is so disturbing I cannot sleep at night. I went upstairs and asked that they stop only to be told, “I live here, I can roll dice if I want to”. I have gone to on site security and management with no results. What can I do on my own to get results?
Asked on December 13, 2012 under Real Estate Law, New York
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Based upon what you have written about you need to write the landlord about the problems with the excessive noise of your neighbors and that he or she resolve the issue by a set date. If not, you then need to retain a landlord tenant attorney as to a possible nuisance action against the neigbors and an action against the landlord for failing to remedy the problem.
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