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I'm going to apologize in advance for this very long post. So if you make it to the bottom, you'll get a cookie.

My current neighbors moved into the apartment next to mine last July. Their bedroom and my bedroom share a wall together. I've never met them, but it feels like I know their whole life story because every night around 10pm, they begin to raise their voices at each other - loud enough that I can hear every word they're saying when I'm trying to go to sleep!

This started in August and I've complained about them to the manager 7-8 times. After the 2nd time, Holly (the manager at the time) told me to call the courtesy security patrol to be a third party witness. This patrol is ridiculous, though, because it takes them 30-45 minute to respond to a call, and then if they don't hear anything from standing on the sidewalk outside, they leave!

Finally, last November, Holly gave me her pager number and told me to page her the next time it happened. Sure enough, it happened a week later at 3am in the morning (woke me from a medicated sleep!) and she came and heard them. She went over there with a patrol guy and spoke with them, and even wrote them a final warning letter the next day. They were pretty quiet after this.

In December, my apartment complex was bought and ownership changed. Holly is gone and we don't even have a current manager. We have some employee lackies that don't know anything that they're doing.

So Wednesday night, they start back up again. I try to ignore them and retreat to my couch like I usually do so I can get some sleep, hoping this is a one night thing. Not so lucky - they start yelling at each other again last night! I call the security patrol and tell them not to bother making a special trip because they won't do anything, but to please make a note in their daily report. The operator was great and very sympathetic!

I call today to make an appointment with the manager, and the gal informs me that an intern manager won't be there until Tuesday! I said that's fine, but I'd like to come down and get the dates of the complaints I made so that I can write a formal letter.

I go down there and she gets out my neighbor's file. She's in the middle of reading them and giving me the dates, when she says, "Oh.. that's weird.. the old manager told them which apartment was complaining about them in the letters..."

I was furious! Holly had been telling me that she had not been telling them who was complaining, which I appreciated because I live by myself in my apartment! I don't need retaliation incidents!

Before finding this out, I was simply going to write a letter stating that they either needed to evict these people or move me (all expenses paid) to a different apartment in the complex. Now I feel like I have to move for safety reasons! I already know they have tempers - I don't need them directed at me!

I am worried, though, that because it was the old manager's mistake, they won't do anything. The previous company that owned my complex is a big apartment company that still has a ton of complexes around San Jose so I can still contact them.. but that would be really hard to get it resolved.

I guess my question is - am I over reacting? I told both my parents and my BF, and all three think I definitely need to move. However, I got into a fight with my best friend because he thinks that because they haven't threatened me, I shouldn't worry about it!

Looking for any and all suggestions on the best way to handle this situation!

Oh, and here's your cookie:

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- Jennifer

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