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Quiet Enjoyment: right of audiophiles neighbors to NOT be annoyed

Quiet enjoyment: "A landlord must ensure the tenants’ rights to peacefully use and enjoy the rental property. "Quiet enjoyment" The right to not be annoyed by music being played loudly. A problem for folks who may be neighbors of audiophiles and other folks who play loud music. Run table saws and loud lawn mowers at 5AM. etc...
So for audiophiles, this raises some folks hackles.. They believe their right to blast music as loud as they want over-rules a neighbors right to peace and quiet. What say you?
Naturally this does not apply to folks out in the wilds, who can only annoy the bears and deer.
For me, the fact I live in an ’Over 55" (age 55 and up, mainly like 75 and up) complex, means lots of old ladies ready to pounce on any tiny problem so they can gossip over it endlessly, and stir up as much trouble as possible, since they have nothing else to do, so I have to be cautious about playing my stereo too loud.Now back in my youth, my Mother yelling TURN THAT $&#*@$ MUSIC DOWN!! over and over... Then later, say the 1980’s.. I still played music at Rock concert levels.. In a building full of young people, no one cared... I lived directly below the manager, whom I once awoke, and she thought a truck had hit he building.. THAT LOUD.. We laughed about it. All good. As I ’grew up" I started to stop being a jerk about blasting music. And now can say even the manager here, after my being here over eleven years, when asked, has said he never heard any music from my apartment, nor any complaints. Even though I play music all day every day.
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So for folks in multiple unit dwellings.. Apartments, condos.. even close together homes..Even family..Do you think you can annoy others to have an enjoyable listening session?
elizabeth
elizabeth OP
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I read the 'turn it up a little bit more' and think of the people playing music, involved in running disputes with neighbors... who get shot for refusing to stop playing loud music.
Plus the 'quiet enjoyment' laws are not negated from 9AM to 10PM.If I were in a situation where it was either total quiet, or all sorts of noise not of my making.. I would opt for total quiet. My idea of treating others as I want to be treated. I do not want to hear their noise, And so I never want to make noise that could bother them either. One of the basic rules of apartment dwelling is be considerate of your neighbors. In good buildings, the management evicts a holes, in bad buildings, good folks just move out and some fool will move in soon enough.
elizabeth OP
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For the wood chipper at 7AM.. A one time annoyance is a different animal than if the company moved in across the street and began chipping EVERY MORNING at 7AM. This is the same sort of thing as a music in the park sort, It is one time.
Though there are big problems like smell, from companies that start up and promise no smell, but fail to control the stink wafting across for a mile plus.. Usually going to court to try to stop it,
So on the other hand, for the Devilish sort... Making big noise for a few minutes... not too often.. Who is gonna be able to control it? On the other hand if the manager is really sympathetic to the quiet enjoyment, he/she may hand you a stop or eviction notice anyway.
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gawdbless
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I have to play my music loud to mask the police sirens as they (always) drive past my place, followed by the Fire brigade and Abulances. Its a war zone near me......not forgetting the occasional gun shot......Another reason why wooden houses/apartments/condo's are a POS. 
elizabeth OP
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Used to be a LOT of ambulances blaring by the main avenue nearby. Sometimes several a day. Then, magically that all stopped. Some sort of ordinance was passed and ambulances could not run the siren to the victim.. And only from patient pick up if dire life threat. Stopped 95% of the ambulance sirens. Since most of the time the patient is not in immediate threat of death, but stabilized.. So for the past few years... Maybe one siren a WEEK going by. Major improvement.
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