Posted by Frazzled_tenant on 4/07/08

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We moved into a house in December of last year. When we
spoke with the landlord at the time, and it got close to us
having to move, we found out that the landlord actually
lived in the basement. Concerned about this, because we do
have 3 boys, we asked several times and confirmed that this
would not be a problem. He voiced slight concern, but
really made it sound like it shouldn't be a big deal. It
was not included in the lease agreement that we would have
to fulfill some of the expectations that were brought up
soon after we moved in. It wasn't more than a few weeks
actually when the landlord started complaining about our
kids' noise, even though he had been forewarned and knew of
this.

Since then, he has expected us to stop doing dishes past
around 9 pm or 10, laundry at night is no longer allowed and
the most recent thing has been that he's issued us a
"letter" about the continuing noise. he has brought up the
noise to us a few times, but our kids really are just being
kids in the sense that they do get loud, but no more than I
see 90% of boys in other families!! In this latest letter
he has accused us of making what he called (and this might
make you laugh) "routine living noises" between the hours of
12 and 2 am. He pointed out a specific date and we know
this is a false claim and we never do our dishes which he
accused us of in this letter, that late at night!!
Especially when he has been so ridiculous about it! I am
cursious as to what we can do. Right now he is saying that
we can start looking now for a place and reasonably, he
won't hold our deposit, (he says, but we know what he did to
the last tenants after we moved in -- kept some of their
dishes AND some of their deposit!) And then adds that he
does not see any reason he would want to extend our lease
past this year. We've only been there 4 months and he's
already saying he wants us out!

He has admitted to both my wife and I, amazingly enough,
that its actually his fault that the noise is so bad since
he didn't put in insulation between the floors when he made
the basement a living unit! Can we use that as a defense?
Is it reasonable to ask us to not walk around and move
chairs or "live" at that time of night? My wife works late
nights (sometimes til 2 am) and I stay up so we can see each
other everyday..

I have the letter and am going to make copies and post to
get as much advice as possible on this.. we need help here
as we (especially my wife) do not enjoy uprooting our kids,
and especially not for reasons such as this.

Thank you for listening..

Unreasonable expectations from Landlord..., 4/07/08, by Frazzled_tenant.

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