What would you do?

[SilverT]

So my gf and I rented a place about 2 months ago. We signed a 6 months lease agreement but plan to live there for a year before buying. About a month ago, my landlord rented the second suite beside ours to 2 girls, 2 babies, and a dog. In addition, they have 2 pups that they keep in a cage by the side of the house on certain days. One of their bf is also there most days and is quite loud. So with all these people/pet in a small suite you can just imagine how loud it can get.

Besides all of this, we have to share the laundry/drying machine with these girls. Anyhow, they would even do their laundry on our days even though in the tenant's agreement we are clearly assigned certain days to do laundry. Now, I want to bring this up to the landlord, girls, or break the lease agreement. My gf told me not to complain as she is afraid our neighbors will break into our suite and damage our things as we both work till 5 on weekdays and no one is at home during these times if they were to break in.

The other thing is that I'm concerned about is my landlord does not really speak English so he may not communicate it to them properly so if I did bring it up to him nothing will be done. My gf mentioned that one time the landlord told my neighbors to move their bikes but they were acting all rude to him and was telling him how they don't understand what he is saying.

Lastly, they already broke the tenants agreement as when my gf and I signed our lease agreement it clearly stated no pets but I don't know why the landlord made an exception for them. If I broke the lease agreement, which I don't really want to do, will I have to pay a penalty and what will you do if you were in my shoes?

[Meowjin]

lease agreements mean nothing.

[palepilsenpin0y]

I would confront those 2 bitches. Tell them to show some respect to both their landlords and you as their neighbor.

Otherwise, tell the landlord that you didn't sign up for this shit. If your place is being made a living hell, then it's your right to do something about it.

If the same landlord made some bullshit exception to allow pets (and for them to do their laundry on days not agreed on), them tell him that either they go, or you go with no penalties because frankly, that shit's just down right unfair. Like Majin said, lease agreements don't really mean anything.

+ I wouldn't worry too much about the whole "breaking in" thing. I don't think they (or their bfs) would really want to commit a felony just to settle some sort of "score" IMO.

Good luck.

[shantz]

Ask the tennancy board.
The Tennancy Act works in favour of the tennants - Not the landlord.
If the conrtact has been voided (pets) then your portion of the contract can also be considered null and void and you would be free to leave at your own request.

[Gridlock]

95% of all these things can be solved with one thing...ask.

You made a decision to move in. He made a decision to rent to these people next door.

If you go to him and say you want to avoid dealing with the branch, but this is re-donk,he'll either cheap out and say no, deal with the people next door or let you go.

Trust me, no one wants to deal with the branch. Always better to go it alone and come to an arrangment.

If you wanted out, and he forced you to stay out your lease, you make your claim based on safe enjoyment of your rental unit.

[DragonChi]

Originally Posted by Gridlock

95% of all these things can be solved with one thing...ask.

You made a decision to move in. He made a decision to rent to these people next door.

If you go to him and say you want to avoid dealing with the branch, but this is re-donk,he'll either cheap out and say no, deal with the people next door or let you go.

Trust me, no one wants to deal with the branch. Always better to go it alone and come to an arrangment.

If you wanted out, and he forced you to stay out your lease, you make your claim based on safe enjoyment of your rental unit.

QFT

If that doesn't work, goto the tenancy board.

[Culverin]

First off, I hope you didn't sign a totally lopsided contract. Something that would only protect the landlord would be idiotic to sign. Usually, it's the landlord will ensure hot water, property maintenance, services, both parties will uphold noise curfew between hours of something and blah blah blah.

The laundry thing, I'd definitely bring that up with the landlord. If your landlord can't hold them to it, then we might have problems. But your landlord would be in pretty rough shape anyways if he doesn't have a translator.

Originally Posted by SilverT

My gf told me not to complain as she is afraid our neighbors will break into our suite and damage our things as we both work till 5 on weekdays and no one is at home during these times if they were to break in.

Why would they be able to break in? Is your GF just that paranoid or are your neighbors just that sketchy? If you're really worried about that, just set up a webcam on your door or something.

Originally Posted by SilverT

Lastly, they already broke the tenants agreement as when my gf and I signed our lease agreement it clearly stated no pets but I don't know why the landlord made an exception for them. If I broke the lease agreement, which I don't really want to do, will I have to pay a penalty and what will you do if you were in my shoes?

If you don't know why landlord made an exception for them, then it's not really yours to question. Maybe they pay him more rent? Maybe a pet fee? Maybe their lease agreement is different. You can't accuse them of breaking the lease agreement just on the assumption that it is the same as yours.



I'd ignore your paranoid girl. Talk to the landlord, and see what he says. Then if you get it through to him that the other tenants are totally bothering you, then maybe we'll be nice and let you out of your lease agreement. He'd have to be a dick not to, and if he was a dick, then I'd escalate it by taking it to the tenancy board.