Girl Downstairs

MSA67

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble with the young female neighbour who keeps fighting with her boyfriend.

Third night after I had just moved into my new flat (above hers) they came in drunk (1 am) and started having a massive argument. It eventually calmed down but they continued to play music (not overly loud, but I still couldn’t get to sleep). So, at about 4 am I eventually decided I had had enough and started some of my own noise, turning on the washing machine. This had the effect of enraging the boyfriend and after a lot of shouting downstairs, I think the girlfriend was trying to stop him going outside and kicking my door in, so I quickly switched it off. All was quiet after that and it seemed we didn’t have any more issues. I complained to my landlord about it (a good guy) and he complained to her landlord and she was given a warning (nothing official though) – at the time it just seemed to be a one off.

A month later, last night, I had to phone the police after they had another screaming match and proceeded to wrestle and scream at each other in the middle of the drive outside her flat. I honestly thought one of them (her probably) was going to get seriously hurt. The police came and the boyfriend was given a lift somewhere (probably the cells to sleep it off). He was back again at 7 am, with a bang, the door slamming and a very brief shouting match ensued, after that it was all quiet again.

I also learned from other neighbours that the tenant who lived in my flat before me had left two months before her lease was up because she had had so much trouble from this girl. The only reason she never tried to get her evicted was because she had gone through all that at another flat and didn’t want to go through it all again – and she thought it might count against her.

It is the female who is leasing the flat and her boyfriend (a soldier) just visits. She also doesn’t take very good care of the garden, leaving the lawn to grow wild for weeks and weeks - in the nearly 2 months I’ve been there she has had the grass cut once.

Too Long Didn’t Read; The couple living downstairs have had two big fights in the last two months and I had to phone the police during the last one. What options do I have?

As far as I can see I can either:
[FONT=&quot]a) [/FONT]Complain to the landlord and hope it never happens agai[FONT=&quot]n.
b) [/FONT]Get her evicted.[FONT=&quot]
c) [/FONT]Get out of my lease and move somewhere else.
What do you think?


Thanks in advance,
James.

jamie11

MSA67 wrote: »

Hi everyone,



As far as I can see I can either:
[FONT=&quot]a) [/FONT]Complain to the landlord and hope it never happens agai[FONT=&quot]n.
b) [/FONT]Get her evicted.[FONT=&quot]
c) [/FONT]Get out of my lease and move somewhere else.
What do you think?


Thanks in advance,
James.

a) The landlord is the wrong person to complain to, you should be speaking to the noise abatement officer at your local council (Environmental Health)

b) You can't, you are not her landlord.

c) You could try, it would depend on your landlord, he would almost certainly charge you for the costs of re-letting.