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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
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uberwaltz
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Ah Rorschach....
Now going to have to drag out The Watchmen and watch it again.
Thank you!
inna
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I'll think of something, Elizabeth. One approach is to divert their attention to them. Where I live probably half of people are not quite legal migrants. In fact, they will not call the police on me, they understand the Newtonian truism. What they might do, theoretically, is to complain to the management, still unlikely unless I get totally out of control. I don't play loud music at night, and even in the daytime or in the evening if I do it is for an hour or so, no longer. So, it is also a question of how much, for how long. One of my neighbor sometimes does it in the middle of the night, but very rarely, perhaps ones every two months. I pay no attention, no complains from me. It also kind of gives me rights to do the same, which I don't.
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gawdbless
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The basic issue condo's is apartments etc here is that they are made of crappy 4 x 2 timber, no sound insulation, so if somebody lets of wind three apartments down, you hear it. My buddy lives in an apartment and he gets cigarettes smells through the vents from the people upstairs apartment, not sure how the apartment block were designed, probably by a babboon. My garage is made out of sinder block and the house out of wood. My neighour on the other side of the street in the summer plays loud mariachi type music for about 30 minutes each day in his garage with the doors open. This year the tide will be turned, my Klipschorns will be placed on the edge of my property and he will be blasted out. Now, only if i were not respectful of my other neighbours. lol 
n80
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Interesting question. Easy answer. Be polite. Don't bother other people. As my parents always told me "Its not about you".

But this brings up another interesting issue. We often tell people to ditch their spouse who doesn't like giant speakers and sound deadening panels on the walls of their shared home....if they really want to hear all that pent up SQ just waiting to get out if the room and domestic situation can be rectified.

Maybe the advice to apartment/condo dwellers would be to sell the $50,000 hi-fi system than can't be unleashed in that environment, buy a house and a $10,000 system you can actually listen to.

All of this in jest..............right?
pops
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+1 Gawdbless my daughter lives in a secured apartment complex with her 5 year old and it never ceases to amaze me how cheaply built and poorly insulated these buildings are and for what she pays!!!

She has lived in her apartment for 4 years and had a new neighbor move in under her and the very day he moved in came up and knocked on her door and complained about noise. She has trained herself and her son to be courteous and above all quiet.

When living around other people you have to exercise some tolerance and realize if you want to live in a morgue buy some F&*^# acreage.
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