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LeafOfFaith
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I've been on top of all that. Unfortunately they are pretty much no help and just leaving me to fend for myself while we wait for some mystery contractor/engineer who they've called out for other things to show up and look at this too (for weeks they've been saying he'll be here in a week). There is this loud rumbling consistent with the sounds I hear coming from just outside the door of an elderly couple's unit on the floor above, just down the hall. Like some heavy equipment (medical) they have on that is shaking the walls and ground. In my place, it sounds like just a duller version of what's going on up there.
I've called the HOA's attention to it for a month without them lifting a finger. Finally today they called their daughter and I've been in contact with her and supposed to meet her there tomorrow night to show her. She says her parents say they don't hear anything and there's nothing on in their unit. It's like the fucking twilight zone, where it's so obviously making a loud rumbling sound outside their door in comparison to the other floors, but I'm the only one who notices it and is drawing attention to the problem. A few of the other residents hear it (building is only 16 units), but I'm most bothered by it for some reason. If you were in my unit, you can hear it but you might shrug it off, like no big deal. But it's happening at some pitch and with some repetition that I think it's tantamount to chinese water torture - like big deal, what's a drop of water on your forehead? This has honestly been one of the worst two week stretches in my life. My head, my focus, my insides, all scrambled.
I've called the HOA's attention to it for a month without them lifting a finger. Finally today they called their daughter and I've been in contact with her and supposed to meet her there tomorrow night to show her. She says her parents say they don't hear anything and there's nothing on in their unit. It's like the fucking twilight zone, where it's so obviously making a loud rumbling sound outside their door in comparison to the other floors, but I'm the only one who notices it and is drawing attention to the problem. A few of the other residents hear it (building is only 16 units), but I'm most bothered by it for some reason. If you were in my unit, you can hear it but you might shrug it off, like no big deal. But it's happening at some pitch and with some repetition that I think it's tantamount to chinese water torture - like big deal, what's a drop of water on your forehead? This has honestly been one of the worst two week stretches in my life. My head, my focus, my insides, all scrambled.
LeafOfFaith
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It is the worst thing ever. I've completely soured on it.
LeafOfFaith
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If I was just renting the place, I'd be at the point right now where I'd say, I don't care, I'm out. I'd give notice and be gone as soon as I found a new place. One of the disadvantages of owning. You're stuck without undertaking significant headache to leave.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
A week before Christmas I was having my morning coffee when I started hearing this hammering sound. I live in a condo; it's very soundproof, but sometimes you hear a neighbour using a drill or whatever; no big deal. But after the coffee kicked in, I realized the sound was too rhythmic to be human. Turns out it was the HVAC unit. And then the sound just got louder.....
The companies who service the building were fully booked (common during Covid) until the next day...so kiss that night's sleep goodbye. I would have sprung for a hotel, but Covid made me think twice. It was a nightmare; but the point I'm trying to make is that the sound also reverberated to other units...as far as 5 stories higher than mine, just not anything nearly as loud.
So, is it possible, that the noise you're hearing is coming from another unit, one that is currently unoccupied (and thus neglected) at the moment?
The companies who service the building were fully booked (common during Covid) until the next day...so kiss that night's sleep goodbye. I would have sprung for a hotel, but Covid made me think twice. It was a nightmare; but the point I'm trying to make is that the sound also reverberated to other units...as far as 5 stories higher than mine, just not anything nearly as loud.
So, is it possible, that the noise you're hearing is coming from another unit, one that is currently unoccupied (and thus neglected) at the moment?
LeafOfFaith
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It could be anything. I only know one thing for sure, and that is that the noise coming from the one unit I've identified is loud and abnormal and consistent with what I'm feeling in my unit. I've checked every other thing I can think of. The AC units up on the roof, nothing. All have been off while the noise was happening. I found the water heater on the roof rattling (there are two), and they came and fixed the broken one, but made no difference. My fridge was making a bad sound a month ago, and now has more noise than it should, but I switch the fuse off to kill it, and the noise is still coming from wherever it's coming from. The only thing it could be is whatever is going on upstairs. One of the worst parts of this is that not knowing what it is is giving me unbelievable anxiety. As I try to sleep, all I can think about is whether I'll ever get this fixed, what I'm going to do. I feel like I haven't slept in a month, and it's catching up to me.
There is an unoccupied unit below me, but presumably nothing going on in there and I don't hear anything as I walk past the door. Unlike the one above me, which is making noise all day and all night long. It's honestly been an absolute nightmare.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
I feel your pain...a week before the HVAC nightmare, the Intercom/security thing (that nobody ever uses since the intercom is now connected to your mobile) went off in the middle of the night. Intermittent beeping all night long. And because it's a security apparatus, it has it's own independent power source, so killing the fuse provided zero relief. Bright and early in the morning, after an hour of watching Youtube vids, I manually disconnected a bunch of wires from its big ass battery.
Problem solved, I thought.
Later that night at 3am, more intermittent beeping. It turns out that this security things also feeds various smoke and carbon detectors with some type of re-assuring signal. That one I could kill by switching the fuse on/off but that only worked for 20 mins or so. Finally I disabled it (don't remember how) but later discovered there's one of these little buggers in every room. The ceilings are high, so I hadn't really noticed them. Now, every so often I catch a glimpse of them, and they strike fear in my heart.
Problem solved, I thought.
Later that night at 3am, more intermittent beeping. It turns out that this security things also feeds various smoke and carbon detectors with some type of re-assuring signal. That one I could kill by switching the fuse on/off but that only worked for 20 mins or so. Finally I disabled it (don't remember how) but later discovered there's one of these little buggers in every room. The ceilings are high, so I hadn't really noticed them. Now, every so often I catch a glimpse of them, and they strike fear in my heart.
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LeafOfFaith
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I totally get it. I have anxiety just from the thought of going home now.
Oh, and your story reminded me - when all of this started, it coincided with that unoccupied unit's (below me) smoke detectors batteries dying out. So it was chirping on their ceiling, and coming through my floor. And the owner of the unit was away on holidays for a week, so I had a good five days of that beeping every 33 seconds (I timed it), while this other thing was going on too. I've been in such a state I totally forgot that happened until just now.
Oh, and your story reminded me - when all of this started, it coincided with that unoccupied unit's (below me) smoke detectors batteries dying out. So it was chirping on their ceiling, and coming through my floor. And the owner of the unit was away on holidays for a week, so I had a good five days of that beeping every 33 seconds (I timed it), while this other thing was going on too. I've been in such a state I totally forgot that happened until just now.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
I think you should try being a little more assertive with your building person. Ask them "How am I supposed to sleep at night?"
LeafOfFaith
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The HOA is comprised of three fellow residents and one contracted building manager. So I live with these people and can't start a blood feud with them. But I've sent maybe a dozen long emails to them since this started, been talking to the HOA president almost daily, and trying to push. Today was the first time I had to tell them in writing that if there's any damages that come out of this, I'm holding them responsible because they're failing to take action in a timely fashion (basically a threat to sue without expressly saying it). That prompted them to reach out the daughter of the unit above finally, but my subsequent notes telling them we need an engineer to come out because she's already telling us they don't have anything going on in there? Ignored. Fucking unbelievable.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Not with that attitude you can't.
LeafOfFaith
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Looks interesting. I figure I've spent half my life living it, but I'm intrigued.
Thing is, I don't know if it addresses it, but you can't apply the same negotiation tactics generally in all cases - family, friends, and in this case co-residents. Basically the don't shit where you eat rule, which is what I have to deal with here. If I go guns blazing against the HOA president, she'll turn a deaf ear to this thing and I won't even get the sliver of help I'm currently getting. It's so bad to be in a situation of needing someone for anything.
Thing is, I don't know if it addresses it, but you can't apply the same negotiation tactics generally in all cases - family, friends, and in this case co-residents. Basically the don't shit where you eat rule, which is what I have to deal with here. If I go guns blazing against the HOA president, she'll turn a deaf ear to this thing and I won't even get the sliver of help I'm currently getting. It's so bad to be in a situation of needing someone for anything.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
yeah...I wouldn't call those classic negotiations as much as 'difficult conversations'. I found Chris Voss pretty helpful with those...he's been a guest on a ton of podcasts, so definitely worth a listen.
