#72741
andyj
Flatchatter
Chat-starter

    What would you do in my case?
    As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread I had the double whammy of the upstairs owner installing timber flooring followed immediately by an extremely noisy and active family taking up residence. The owner was ordered to treat the floor so as to not transmit noise likely to disturb my peaceful enjoyment. He did install carpet but very cheap carpet. We eventually got rid of the noisy tenants. I have had new noisy tenants above for 3 years now.  I have been advised by our strata manager that taking the owner for an excessively nosy floor would likely fail. He has instead issued the tenants with a notice to comply with by-law 1. His wording was shocking, but he assures me that it will stick in a Tribunal.
    The tenants have taken the notice to comply as an act of war and have seriously upped the ante. The slamming of doors and stomping about are appealing.  Unfortunately my other neighbor who is also on the strata committee is not overly interested and thinks I am over reacting. She is mostly deaf and cant hear the noise, and also struggles to hear me when I am talking to her.
    With little support in the building I have been advised that a tribunal hearing would likely be unsuccessful and I would simply make enemies of my neighbors. My friends say let it go, sell up and move out.
    Not withstanding the expense of selling and repurchasing into what I fear may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire, I live in a nice area close to all the shops etc and all my friends are in the same area.
    What would you do in this dilemma??