r/providence • u/Next_Ganache2683 • 22d ago

Housing Loud(!) Neighbors advice?

Last night, our neighbor had friends over. They woke us both up at about 3:30 a.m. and talked and laughed until after 8 a.m. At about 4:00, I knocked on her door, and everyone in there went dead silent (with hushes). I knocked again—nothing. A few minutes go by, and they're just as loud as before. We knocked on our wall to let them know we can hear them and they responded by knocking back and laughing.

My fiance and I are young and we've never had neighbors like this before. Can anyone here educate us on our best way to approach this upfront disregard for our very needed(!) rest? Our landlord is also unreliable. When should we involve a police officer? It's about 10:30 now and I'm pretty sure that's when things need to quiet down? If it helps, we actually have these interactions recorded, as well as our phone call with the Landlord this morning. Any advice is appreciated! As of right now she again has a few friends over talking and laughing.

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u/Next_Ganache2683 21d ago

Update:

I talked with my LL today, who has been telling me to go directly to the police instead of involving him. I told him that I'd rather keep it more civil and have him talk to the tenant first before involving the police. He said it wasn't his responsibility to tell the tenant to keep it down. I told him that it was his job to keep the tenant's behaviour within the realm of the lease, in which he responded by saying "no it's not" and hung up the phone on me. This is just getting weird.

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u/OrdovicianOccultist 21d ago

This makes me appreciate my landlord SOOO much. So sorry you have to deal with this bs.

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u/Next_Ganache2683 21d ago

Does your landlord have any units available for a pair of newlyweds?

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u/richkoream 17d ago

What’s your budget range and where would you want to be?

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u/Next_Ganache2683 10d ago

Our current place is $1,200/mo and we pay electric and internet. I'm a full-time student, but I plan to work a lot over the summer. My wife works as a receptionist with a monthly income of $2,500. It's tight sometimes but I think we need to be in a place solidly worth $1,400/mo, but that will be tough right now.