'I reported her': Mom with two loud teenagers files false noise complaints to get back at neighbor, ends up evicted after tenant proves her wrong in front of management

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Isabella Penn
Jan 31, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Finding an affordable apartment that's in decent condition these days is almost as rare as winning the lottery. But when you do stumble upon one (and actually get accepted), you get the keys, envision your new life, and imagine how peaceful you'll be in your new place...only to move in and discover you're living next to the world's most obnoxious neighbors. I live in a duplex, and while my upstairs neighbors aren't intentionally loud, the house is so old that I can hear every single footstep, every toilet flush, and even their cat's midnight zoomies. All for $2,200 a month. When I first moved in, I had to sleep with headphones on just to block it all out. But eventually, I adjusted.

As for the guy in this story, there was no adjusting to the noise caused by an entitled mom and her two teens blasting music late into the night. When he finally reported them to the complex's security, the mom tried to pull an uno reverse, only to get served with a 14-day eviction notice. 

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    About 20 years ago I was living in a 2 story apartment building, and had the neighbor from h_ || move in. Single mother with 2 teenage boys. I had a few incidents over the time she lived there that would fall between petty revenge/pro revenge/FAFO. And if people want, I can put some of those stories up.
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  • The final issue was noise complaints. After school let out for the summer, she started letting her kids stay up and they played music/TV way too loud way too late into the night. And since I needed to get up early in the day, and she was not a pleasant person to talk to, I
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  • reported her to the complex security for noise problems. And then I had a business trip come up that kept me out of town for over 3 weeks. When I got back there was an eviction. notice on my door for being non-responsive to noise
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  • complaints. So I gathered my papers from my expense forms, and went to the business office to see what was going on. And the agent I spoke with told me that numerous noise complaints were made about me, and I had responded to none of them. So I
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  • asked what the dates were, since I had been out of town with documentation for most of the past month. We were going over this, and the agent was getting suspicious about the complaints. Then the other agent/property manager got a call and told the
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  • agent I was working with that the guy in my apartment was doing it again. So I asked what I was doing, and she said "your music is too loud". I told her I had nothing turned on in my place so either she was getting a bad call or someone broke into my unit
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  • while I was in the office. And the agent I was working with told her that I had hotel and restaurant receipts showing I was a few hundred miles away when all of the other complaints had been made this month. The three of us went to my apartment, and surprise! No. noise at all.
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  • So we went back to the office. They revoked the eviction. And gave the lady above me a 14 day eviction notice for filing false complaints on top of her other behaviors.
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  • I’ve read some pretty satisfying stories about entitled neighbors getting what they deserve. One guy scared off his neighbor’s constant Airbnb guests by pointing out the snakes living above the door, and another rebuilt his tree with PVC pipe after the HOA wrongfully cut it down. But all this guy had to do was be honest and let karma handle the rest, and that's the best kind of revenge. Let’s just hope those teens don’t follow in their mom’s footsteps.

  • Madame_Deadly It's awesome that you found a property where management takes complaints seriously! I feel like that's a rarity these days, even in "luxury" apartments.
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  • GoodnessSocial We were allowed adults-only apartments in the 70's. Almost all young singles. To anyone who was kept awake by me and my friends playing my antique upright piano till after one AM, cavorting with various pro soccer and baseball players, and having the time of our lives, I extend this apology and thank you for never calling the cops. Different times.
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  • mlandon 1998 Projection is a fascinating phenomenon. "I'm not the one who's loud, you are."
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  • Tough-Juggernaut-822 I was expecting you to say you disconnected your remote speakers that you were controlling from abroad, there is no revenge in this more of a reversed uno, they filed the false claims and got found out.
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  • underweasl We moved into our first bought property shortly after we got married. We had pretty quiet neighbours by and large (except for downstairs and their feral kids) and we were rarely in as we were 20-somethings with full time jobs and hectic social lives.
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  • My in-laws came to visit and took us out for dinner. We didnt get home til 10pm and i went straight to bed as i had work in the morning. About 15 mins later the police came round with a noise complaint and they'd stood outside the door for a good few minutes before knocking. When husband said we'd been out and weren't long back they agreed.
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  • Turned out the crazy kids downstairs were at it and the noise had travelled through our empty silent flat and ped off the woman upstairs
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