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What is the name of your state? ny in july 2002, my family moved into a 3 bd flat. the upstairs tenants were a 28 year old lady, a 9 year old girl, and a 12 year old boy. we had 2 cars and them 1. we all parked in the driveway, on our own sides. we had no problems for 4 months. all of a sudden we started hearing pounding, loud music, etc,all at night. we called the landlord and asked if he could talk to them. we had to call the landlord 3 sep. times. all of a sudden one day in dec. we got a knock at the door. it was the landlord asking us to not do the things that we had originally called him about!!! when we started telling him that it was the people upstairs, not us, remember the phone calls, the lady upstairs came down behind the landlord and started screaming at us that she was going to beat me up, (i was pregnant), that our 4 year olds roller skated and threw basket balls at her ceiling(the don't know how to skate, and the ceilings are high!!), and that we parked too far over for her to get out!! She also said we turned on all of her light switches and used her washing machine, which we each had our own!!! the landlord told her to be quiet and go upstairs and she told him to **ck off!! then he left and came back saying he was sorry and it was all her!!! about 4 hours later, she was in the basement where we could hear her perfectly on the phone asking someone to come over to our house, put a gun in my husband's mouth, and beat the crap out of all of us!!! we called the landlord and he said call the police. we did and when they got there, they stood in the kitchen and listened to her threats for a while before going downstairs and telling her they heard it and if anything happened to us or our stuff, she would be in trouble. they also called the landlord from our house and told him what happened. we were told she has a record and if anything else happened to call again. from that point on we documented everything. there where loud noises, being blocked in the driveway, name calling, the kids rang our doorbell and ran, the landlord wouldn't call us back, when he did he told us he couldn't do anything. the police were called 4 times. we slept with our kids in our room and barricaids on our 2 doors, i was put on anxiety and depression meds because i was scared to leave my house by myself!!! i fell down the stairs while i was pregnant because the landlord wouldn't do his snow removal, the people upstairs drove all over the lawn and tried to say it was us(we had suv's, they had a neon!!)we took pictures of the lawn and the stairs. i have letters from my doctor. after conferring with an attorney friend who went over our lease, we sent a return reciept 30 day notice to move. when moving in we paid 1st, last, and security. the day before we moved, we got a court summons for eviction and rent due. we went to court and an attorney outside read it and said to leave if we were moving out the next day. we moved out the next day and 2 days later there was a 72 hour notice on our door. we went back to clean the apartment for sec. dep. and found the landlord there throwing the rest of our stuff in the trash!!! we took pictures. he left and we ended up calling the police because my husband's new shotgun was missing!!! the police never got ah old of the landlord, but he was the only one there. he refused our sec. dep., even though we were paid up!!! can we still sue? can i sue for all the distress during my pregnancy? how much? we also researched why the lady before us moved, the lady upstairs said the same exact things about her, and the landlord did nothing!!! we spoke to her. what can we do?