Posted by NikkiT2 on October 26, 2003, at 16:38:45
In reply to Nikki, posted by kara lynne on October 26, 2003, at 13:53:19
I cna understand if its coming into your apartment.. I know how much the barbeque smoke from downstairs having barbeques (below our window and about 3ft out from wall, so all smaoke sucked in our window) annoyed me in the summer.. and thats nothing like this.
I do believe that as long as what ever you get up to stays within your home, its OK to do.. but if it affects others, then its not fine. The house we live in is 4 storeys divided into 3 flats (top flat is two storey).. Its a Victorian property and really thick walls and heavy oak floors (plus soundproofing between us and upstairs flat). Neither of the other two flats are lived in by the owners of them.. we're the only owner / occupiers. No ones complained about us smoking as far as I know, and the guy thats trying to ban it doesn't even own the house, just the land (lease hold property).. *shrugs* He's also trying to enforce that we re-decorate (its been 4 years) even though we have aq damp problem on outside wall taht is in process of being fixed, so we'd have to redecorate after that anyway!!! We have £2000 worth of work to get done on outside, £2000 to get damp problem fixed, and its gonna cost us £3000 to get inside sorted out. Its gonna take alot for us to find that money (probably gonna have to increase our mortgage to get it), yet this guy thinks we have money to just throw away!! grrrrr!!!
*laughing* Sorry.. went off on a rant there!
I think your neighbours are being very inconsiderate.. but I know how scary aggresive teens can be.. People laugh at me when I say they are the people I'm most scared of.
Wish I had more advice for you.. sorry
Nikki xx
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