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My new neighbor is shitty too

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Shahadan

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So my previous neighbors from above finally left some time ago and I thought I'd be able to live in peace.
Guess not. New one took over and he's the son of the landlord. Apparently in his mid 40s, guy is somehow even worse, yet different. He lives alone with some sort of little dog that can't stop barking at the first sound (he barks even when I plug/unplug something from the wall, I let you imagine the frequency of the barking) but whatever, dogs will be dogs.

Guy is apparently unemployed and is staying at home all day and only goes out during some nights to at least drink and probably much more but I can't say for sure, in any case he always comes back drunk and/or high and yells in the building stairs at weird hours.

What's fun is this: sometimes, at irregulars intervals, he will open his window and yell something like (roughly translated) "HEY OH! WHEN ARE THE PUBLIC WORKS STARTING??". In fact these days it's always the same sentence. In plain day, plain night, it doesn't matter.
Before that it was "SARKOZY, GET FUCKED!" or just "GET FUUUCKED!". He also has another window on the other side of the appartment and sometimes he just switches windows. Same routine.

My personal favorite was last sunday morning. He came back very early (probably after a wild saturday night), opened up the building door, started to climb the stairs and yelled in a woman voice "Oh god I took the wrong stairs! I took the wrooooong staaaairs. Help meee! Oh god!" and proceeded to enter his own apartment. There is only one stairs in the building.
Of course once inside he conitnued yelling using the same voice. Also opened the window and yelled at soem imaginary dude "You there! Yeah you! You're a faaaag!" and closed the window.

I was laughing so hard I thought I might break something, because fortunatley I was awake. Otherwise I'd probably have been very angry but well, I'm kinda glad I was here to hear that.

Dude also listens to music at weird hours but boy has he ecclectic tastes. It ranges form 80s music to modern Celine Dion to dubstep, techno, or some sort of r'n'b.
He also sometimes randomly punches my door very hard when he goes out, which is something I really don't like.

Bottom line is, dude is a shitty neighbor, probably has issues, and never answers his door, even when he has visit. I tried to knock to talk about it but he never answered despite being obviously here. Sometimes I hear him cry or throwing things in his apartment so I guess he's not a happy dude.
Other neighbors are also fed up about it but no one apparently managed to have a chat. That said, if he has mental issues, I don't know how to bring it up without being rude (and I don't really care about being rude, but it might not help)

I don't know what to do. This time it's worse since he'll probably never move out, being the son of the old landlord lady. And the guy is creepy as fuck. He's also clearly using drugs (as well as growing his own weed) and drinking a lot, which I guess coupled with his quirks is not a good cocktail.
How should I approach him? My only idea is a letter in his mailbox, I'll probably ask the other nieghbors to join me.

tldr;" What the fuck is wrong with people : yet another thread"

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x-Lundz-x

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I don't think "IF" is a question here. The guy sounds nuts. If it was me I would be out of that place in a heartbeat.
 

aku:jiki

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Sounds like you have a sweet new weed connect. Nothing better than not even having to leave the house to get an ounce.
 

Piccoro

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The only "mental issues" I see there are the drugs and alcohol.

Reading both of your threads, I can assuredly say that I would move out of there in an instant. Or is it hard to find a new place in France?...
 

Shahadan

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Can you move? Because you're never going to see improvement if he's the son of the person who owns the building.

That's what I'm thinking too :s
I don't like to move just because the neighbor is annoying, but I don't see myself dealing with it for years. Guess I'll move earlier than I thought.

there's just no pleasing you is there Shahadan

I laughed. That's probably what I would tell people in my situation.

Reading both of your threads, I can assuredly say that I would move out of there in an instant. Or is it hard to find a new place in France?...

Well money is short (still a student) and my current apartment is both cheap and well located. And I had to move it would be in another city, as I planned to do in the future, I can't see myself just moving somewhere else in the same city just for a year or so. That said in the meantime I don't know how talking to him would fix the problems but I have to try at least.
 

bidguy

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he punches your door ? why dont you punch his face pretty hard and ask how he likes that ?

either hes really crazy or the landlord makes him do that to scare you away
 

ZaCH3000

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If he's growing weed, just call the cops. Fuck him. A normal person growing pot isn't a problem, but a looney bin mothafucka that yells in strange voices at weird hours at imaginary people is enough cause for me to leave an anon tip about his illegal activities to get him outta my life.
 

Ri'Orius

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So you've tried knocking on his door, and that's not working. So you escalate. Go to the landlord.

If that doesn't work (which we suspect it won't, but who knows: she raised the dude, presumably she knows what he's like), then call the cops for a noise complaint. If you're lucky, they'll notice the drugs and he'll be out of your hair immediately. If not, I expect a few noise complaints have some form of repercussion. No idea what.

And if that doesn't work, then yeah, move out. Or if you don't want to bother with all that, move out.
 

No Love

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Call the police and report that the man above you is using drugs and also selling them. Bam. War on drugs will take care of the rest. Also, can you ask your other neighbors to complain too?
 
I never hear or, god forbid, see see my neighbors.

I saw a guy taking trash out once, a pretty girl when I moved in and once I said hi to an old person in elevator. At least there's life happening around you.
 
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