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I live in an apartment building in Michigan. A couple with a 2 year old girl moved into the 1 bedroom apartment across the hallway from me about 5 months ago. They just moved here to the US from India. My problem is that they're very noisy and disruptive. I've talked to my apt managers, and they've sent 2 letters over the last few months. The letters have seemed to cut down a little on the constant shouting and the screaming child, but there are still loud sounds coming from their apartment. I don't think they mean to be rude or loud - I think they just don't realize how quiet the rest of the building is compared to their loud family and frequent loud visitors. None of them seem able to talk to each other in a normal tone of voice. They prefer to shout instead. And they often do it in our common hallway. They tend to leave their front door open and use the hallway as if it were theirs.
Now, a new thing has been added to the mix. Three times now, I have come home to find them with their apartment door propped wide open, a very visible, pungent cloud of incense in the hall, and small plates of fire sitting on the carpet outside of their doorway. I asked my best friend about this (she happens to be a Hindu Indian), and she said it's part of a Hindu ritual. She said she's never heard of it happening outside the front door, though. There's also a loud bell that they ring during this ritual, for several minutes at a time. I also hear that bell from inside my apartment, several times a week, when both front doors are closed.
My question is: Since this is a religous ceremony, can they be asked by the apartment managers not to do it? They obviously disabled their smoke detector - is there anything I can do about that? The smoke from the incense makes my whole apartment smell - do I have to put up with that? The apartment managers are not very professional - just young people who come and go every 6 months or so. They don't seem to be willing to communicate with my neighbors unless there's a form letter in their files they can use to do it.
I'd really appreciate any advice you can give me!
Megan Page
[Edited by mjpage on 11-24-2000 at 02:25 PM]
Now, a new thing has been added to the mix. Three times now, I have come home to find them with their apartment door propped wide open, a very visible, pungent cloud of incense in the hall, and small plates of fire sitting on the carpet outside of their doorway. I asked my best friend about this (she happens to be a Hindu Indian), and she said it's part of a Hindu ritual. She said she's never heard of it happening outside the front door, though. There's also a loud bell that they ring during this ritual, for several minutes at a time. I also hear that bell from inside my apartment, several times a week, when both front doors are closed.
My question is: Since this is a religous ceremony, can they be asked by the apartment managers not to do it? They obviously disabled their smoke detector - is there anything I can do about that? The smoke from the incense makes my whole apartment smell - do I have to put up with that? The apartment managers are not very professional - just young people who come and go every 6 months or so. They don't seem to be willing to communicate with my neighbors unless there's a form letter in their files they can use to do it.
I'd really appreciate any advice you can give me!
Megan Page
[Edited by mjpage on 11-24-2000 at 02:25 PM]