I’m not one for making New Year’s Resolutions, but something has reached a point where we need to take action. I’m talking about the Slammers who live across the hall from us. I’ve mentioned them before, and in the past eight months, things have only gotten worse. They slam at 7:00 am, they slam at 1:00 am, they even slam at 4:00 am. They’re students, and we think one of their boyfriends lives in another apartment in the building, so they’re always going in and out. The problem is, how do we deal with it? We’ve never really developed any sort of civil relationship with them, as they’re just generally unfriendly people.
If we confront them, I’m afraid that I won’t be able to ask them to stop without sounding annoyed or angry (which I am). And I don’t want them to get their backs up, or else they’ll just keep doing it. Brooke’s mentioned it to our superintendent and asked if he would speak to them about it, but he’s older and we’re not sure he remembered. I thought of asking the other tenants on our floor (there are only about 5 or 6 other apartments, so everyone hears it) to sign a letter asking them to be more considerate. That way they can’t single us out as the complainers. It’s really starting to drive us crazy. What do you think we should do?
Maybe you could write a non-confrontational letter asking them to be more considerate about disturbing their neighbors and sign it “your neighbors”. You could slide it under their door when they’re not home. That way they won’t know who sent it and it sounds like a joint effort between everyone on the floor without naming names.
And you might include some little adhesive foam pads such as can be obtained at the hardware store for making their behavior less effective in producing noise…