Saturday May 28th...

No Surprise that with Memorial Day weekend here Upstairs Tenant was going to be having a party and did he party!!

As usually 7 pm rolls around and BOOM Music and bass are in full force. Now he is playing both louder than he ever has before. We decided to give it a little bit hoping he’d lower it. By 9pm we had had enough. The volume/bass had increased over the 2 hours. Our walls and windows vibrated, our TV mounted on the wall was shaking, and now I had a headache & our kids were complaining. We decided our only option was the police.

The officer showed up about 10 mins after we called. She came on to the property with her lights and since our windows face the parking lot you can see Police were on site. Funny the volume/bass lowered. The officer speaks to us and in the middle of explaining the situation the music blasts up again, but still lower than he has been playing it. The officer understands our frustration especially when we explain this is lower than it has been. She takes a report and says she swill speak to the tenant upstairs. She is up there about 15 mins then leaves. As soon as her car pulls off the property, he raises the volume/bass even louder. We could not believe what a jerk he was being. 

 

I emailed Birchwood Park Apartment management as well as Garden Communities but of course everything is closed. Finally, at 10:15pm (after quiet hours) he lowered the bass, but the music was still very audible. Him and his quests were now stomping around I’m guessing as retaliation. This kept up until 2 am. The next day we reached out to everyone we could think from Birchwood Park Apartments and Garden Communities via Facebook, email, twitter, google, etc. and here is it almost a week later and not a single response from anyone.

In the interest of full disclosure, a while back we made a mistake. We misinterpreted something in the lease and when Birchwood Park management found out they sent us a cease and desist letter which we complied with. This was a very minor infraction...there was no property damage, it did not affect any of the other tenants, it did not alter or damage our unit yet we got a very aggressive response (even after explaining our confusion on that part of the lease). Yet upstairs tenant can be disruptive, break rules outlined in the lease, cause property damage and he gets to continue on his behavior with no repercussions. 

Now you probably understand better why I felt compelled to write a whole blog on my living situation. Had the complex ever approached me to resolve these issues I would have been more than happy to amend my reviews instead I was being silenced and recently was told by a mutual 3rd party Birchwood Park and their lawyers were making derogatory comments about me and my family. So here we are. I will continue to update this blog as new developments happen.