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Dave
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Wisconsin: This is pretty long but I need help. Thanks for reading.
I play the drums and one of my roommates plays guitar. We don't play late at night(since our neighbor asked us not too) and we don't play loud. On numerous occations our neighbors on one side have called our landlord to complain about loud noise(not just us playing). The neighbor on the other side of us is a middle aged man that we talk with a lot. We ask him all the time if we are ever too load and he says that we have always been fine. A few times the lanlord has come over after a complaint and not heard a thing.(He told us about it) Our neighbor is a female (i think man-hating) police officer. (I think) she sent over one of her officer friends to try and scare us and i asked him our rights when it comes to noise. He said the area has a 24 hour noise ordinance. Your noise should not be heard publicly, he said that ment the sidewalk in front. You can never hear us on the sidewalk. Today our landlord stopped by unanounced to tell us that we had to get the drums out of the house in 24 hours or he would evict us. My question has 2 parts, 1.) Can he legally make me remove my drumms from the house?. Because i have nowhere to put them. Whouldn'y he only be able to take action because of noise in general, not a specific instance. This would be like telling us that we can't have a stereo. 2.) Is there anything we do to stop this harassment by our neighbors for these very minor offences? I've tried talking to her. We live upstairs and our downstairs neighbors have the same type of problems. She even called to complain one night when 7 out of the 8 total between the 2 units where out of town. This is getting ridiculous. I'm really sorry that this is so long but i had to explain the situation. Please help.
I play the drums and one of my roommates plays guitar. We don't play late at night(since our neighbor asked us not too) and we don't play loud. On numerous occations our neighbors on one side have called our landlord to complain about loud noise(not just us playing). The neighbor on the other side of us is a middle aged man that we talk with a lot. We ask him all the time if we are ever too load and he says that we have always been fine. A few times the lanlord has come over after a complaint and not heard a thing.(He told us about it) Our neighbor is a female (i think man-hating) police officer. (I think) she sent over one of her officer friends to try and scare us and i asked him our rights when it comes to noise. He said the area has a 24 hour noise ordinance. Your noise should not be heard publicly, he said that ment the sidewalk in front. You can never hear us on the sidewalk. Today our landlord stopped by unanounced to tell us that we had to get the drums out of the house in 24 hours or he would evict us. My question has 2 parts, 1.) Can he legally make me remove my drumms from the house?. Because i have nowhere to put them. Whouldn'y he only be able to take action because of noise in general, not a specific instance. This would be like telling us that we can't have a stereo. 2.) Is there anything we do to stop this harassment by our neighbors for these very minor offences? I've tried talking to her. We live upstairs and our downstairs neighbors have the same type of problems. She even called to complain one night when 7 out of the 8 total between the 2 units where out of town. This is getting ridiculous. I'm really sorry that this is so long but i had to explain the situation. Please help.