Landlords Enforce Noise Ordinances in Apartments

If you have a noisy neighbor and you live in an apartment complex with a landlord or management company, you can lean on them to quiet down your neighbor. Sometimes it’s faster for you to just ask them politely and sometimes it’s easier to have the landlord handle it because those are “official” channels and you may be more comfortable with doing that.

In your lease you should have a clause called “Quiet Enjoyment,” of which has two parts that apply to you. The first part is that you have to be quiet in the first place, that’s the piece that the landlord should enforce for you. The second part is that you should be able to enjoy your apartment and live there in peace, that’s the part you’re trying to reclaim! So, even if you don’t have something as specific as “Quiet Enjoyment,” you should have something about noise.

You should contact your landlord every single time you have a complaint because eventually the landlord will have to evict that person. It’s important you do this so they can establish a frequency and so that they can use it as a way to confirm that the neighbor complied. Just because you said it once doesn’t mean that the landlord has completed their job, just keep contacting your landlord and your, the squeaky wheel, will get your results.