I do not have advice, but I do have an experience:
When I was in my twenties I was living with some roommates in a condo complex. We followed the rules. We would have parties sometimes that might accidentally go on to midnight on a Friday, but that's about the worst that we could do. However, our neighbors would call the cops at 10 PM if we had one person visiting who happened to laugh too much.
These same, noise-obsessed neighbors had a young child with drum lessons at full volume, three times a week, at 8 AM.
Twenty-five year-olds do not like waking up to drums at 8 AM on their days off.
I was also a musician and I understood that this probably couldn't be helped. Practice needs to happen a lot if you're serious about it. I was mostly upset that this private teacher would dare to offer a slot to a drum student that started at 8 AM!
We never complained about it because it was technically not against the rules, but it did sour us quite a bit considering that they began harassing our landlords for things as simple as a movie that was on too loud during daylight hours. It got to a point where our landlord was getting upset because they technically had to speak with us at every reported incident, but there was nothing they could do beyond that, because neither party was really breaking the rules and each condo was privately owned.
We knew better than to start making it personal by confronting them or being petty, because then it would probably get worse. Our solution was to basically ignore them. Sometimes there are no winners. Apartment situations are tough, and I know how awfully annoying it is to have your natural sleeping time consistently interrupted, whether you're a night-owl or a morning person-- or sleep during the day for night shifts!
Gassho
Sat, lah
When I was in my twenties I was living with some roommates in a condo complex. We followed the rules. We would have parties sometimes that might accidentally go on to midnight on a Friday, but that's about the worst that we could do. However, our neighbors would call the cops at 10 PM if we had one person visiting who happened to laugh too much.
These same, noise-obsessed neighbors had a young child with drum lessons at full volume, three times a week, at 8 AM.
Twenty-five year-olds do not like waking up to drums at 8 AM on their days off.
I was also a musician and I understood that this probably couldn't be helped. Practice needs to happen a lot if you're serious about it. I was mostly upset that this private teacher would dare to offer a slot to a drum student that started at 8 AM!
We never complained about it because it was technically not against the rules, but it did sour us quite a bit considering that they began harassing our landlords for things as simple as a movie that was on too loud during daylight hours. It got to a point where our landlord was getting upset because they technically had to speak with us at every reported incident, but there was nothing they could do beyond that, because neither party was really breaking the rules and each condo was privately owned.
We knew better than to start making it personal by confronting them or being petty, because then it would probably get worse. Our solution was to basically ignore them. Sometimes there are no winners. Apartment situations are tough, and I know how awfully annoying it is to have your natural sleeping time consistently interrupted, whether you're a night-owl or a morning person-- or sleep during the day for night shifts!
Gassho
Sat, lah
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