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rsandlin
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I live in Topeka, KS.
I am completely fed up with my neighbors who live in the apartments across the alley from my apartment and their landlord. The neighbors are constantly (daily) playing loud, obnoxious music, I have hookers and pimps hanging out in the alley between my apartment and their apartment, the police are constantly responding to violent assaults between my neighbors, making drug busts, etc., not to mention all of the times I have called the police myself to make noise complaints or report a disturbance. The police officers I have spoken to have told me that they have not made enough arrests in the last few months to make a case to a judge in order to force my neighbors to leave. The police officers also stated that there are no code violations on the properties, and that when the police spoke to the landlord, the landlord stated that my neighbors were "model tenants" and that the landlord refused to evict my neighbors. Additionally, many of the valid charges that the police have used to arrest the violent neighbors end up being dropped because the combatants make up and no longer wish to press charges. However, the threat of violence is perhaps the most severe "nuisance", because one of my other neighbors who lives in my building (owned by a different landlord) and is a REAL model tenant was recently attacked in the alley and nearly killed.
Basically, the police won't/can't do anything aside from occassional arrests and warnings, and the landlord is completely apathetic and won't do anything. Aside from taking my neighbors to small claims court, what can I do to address this problem? Specifically, is there anything I can do to force the landlord to evict my neighbors, or at least hold him responsible for the problems I have to deal with on a daily basis? Also, what resources are available for me to find out the name of the landlord and a contact phone #? Any information that anyone can provide to assist me with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I am completely fed up with my neighbors who live in the apartments across the alley from my apartment and their landlord. The neighbors are constantly (daily) playing loud, obnoxious music, I have hookers and pimps hanging out in the alley between my apartment and their apartment, the police are constantly responding to violent assaults between my neighbors, making drug busts, etc., not to mention all of the times I have called the police myself to make noise complaints or report a disturbance. The police officers I have spoken to have told me that they have not made enough arrests in the last few months to make a case to a judge in order to force my neighbors to leave. The police officers also stated that there are no code violations on the properties, and that when the police spoke to the landlord, the landlord stated that my neighbors were "model tenants" and that the landlord refused to evict my neighbors. Additionally, many of the valid charges that the police have used to arrest the violent neighbors end up being dropped because the combatants make up and no longer wish to press charges. However, the threat of violence is perhaps the most severe "nuisance", because one of my other neighbors who lives in my building (owned by a different landlord) and is a REAL model tenant was recently attacked in the alley and nearly killed.
Basically, the police won't/can't do anything aside from occassional arrests and warnings, and the landlord is completely apathetic and won't do anything. Aside from taking my neighbors to small claims court, what can I do to address this problem? Specifically, is there anything I can do to force the landlord to evict my neighbors, or at least hold him responsible for the problems I have to deal with on a daily basis? Also, what resources are available for me to find out the name of the landlord and a contact phone #? Any information that anyone can provide to assist me with this matter would be greatly appreciated.