Neighbors From Hell

To Start This Let Me Say..I Am A Overly Quiet Person..I Keep To Myself And Rarely Bother Anyone.

My Problems Started When I Moved Into A Building In The Town Of Lincoln NH It's Right On The Main Street Oddly Enough Across From The Police Department..You Would Feel Safer Right?! But Not In My Case..

We Moved Into This Building April 5, 2010
A Young Couple Seeking A Place Of Our Own.. Wanting To Start A Life Even If It Was Not The Nicest Apartment It Was However Really All We Could Afford.
The Landlord Was Nice..The Apartment Was 4 Rooms..The Livingroom So Small But We Made It Work.
A Few Weeks After Moving In We Started Hearing Stomping And It Got Worse Over The Weeks..My Upstairs Neighbor Was The Town Bully His Nickname "Iron Mike" I Was New To The State So I Only Knew My Fiance So I Thought Maybe A Conversation About The Stomping Would Be Able To Settle The Problem..I'm A Small Woman 5'3 126 Pounds This Guy Was 6ft Plus And Massive He Cut Tree's As A Living.
So I Approached Him In A Nice Manner Asked If He Had A Moment To Talk.. I Told Him How The Stomping Rattled Our Livingroom Wall To The Point That I Was Afraid It Would Knock Off My Pictures. He Didn't Really Say Much But I Asked "Could You Please Walk A Bit Lighter?" He Shook His Head In A Up & Down Motion To Agree With What I Had Asked.
So I Continued On With Where I Was Going Thinking That We Had Settle The Issue Like Adults, Well That Evening After I Return From Work Everything Was Calm..I Opened The Door..Put My Bag Down..Was About To Take A Shower..All Of A Sudden I Get The Horrible Banging On My Front Door..It Was His Girlfriend She Put Her Finger In My Face And Said "You Will Not Bully My Boyfriend, And You Better Watch Yourself Or You Won't Like What You Get" I Stepped By And Looked At This Woman Like She Had Grown A Extra Head..I Said " Are You Threatening Me?" She Laughed And Said "No I'm Making You A Promise" About That Time I Grabbed The Door To Slam It Shut Only To Have Her Put Her Hand Along The Edge And Push It Back Open.
I Screamed At Her I Would Call The Police If She Didn't Let Go Of My Door..After I Said That Her Boyfriend Who I Can Only Assume Had Been Standing There The Whole Time Out Of View Stepped Into My Doorway Blocking Her Arm From My Door.
I Grabbed The Door And With Everything I Had Slammed It As Hard And As Fast As I Could Scrambling To Lock It With One Hand While I Put All My Body Weight Against It In Fear They Would Try To Kick or Open It. Finally I Got The Lock.. I Run For The Phone.. I Call The Police And Then My Fiance Who Rushes Home. The Officer Takes His Time Getting To My House "Remember I Live Directly Across From The Police Department"
I Tell Him What Happened He Explains To Me That "Iron mike" Has A Long History Of Violence But He Cannot Do Anything To Help Me
I Said Your A Officer Why Can't You Help Me. He Told Me That Man Had Done Nothing Wrong I Was In Shock And Scared To Death.
Well I Tried To Not Let It Get To Me But Iron Mike And His Girl Friend Started Waiting For Me Outside Of My Building Getting In My Face, Yelling Horrible Things And Saying You Better Watch Yourself, Or It's Coming Soon. Every Time I Called The Police And We Called The Landlord
The Landlord Would Say "My Hands Are Tied or I Can't Help You" I Asked Him Can't You Ban Him From The Property The Officer Had Suggested This To Remedy The Situation. His Reply Is "That Wouldn't Be Fair To Her Now Would It?" I Said No But What Is Fair About Us Suffering This Type Of Abuse? He Just Threw His Hands Up.
This Type Of Thing Went On For 3 Months We Had No Money To Move No Where To Go We Where Stuck We Even Tried Town Hall For Help Only To Get Turned Away Because The Reason Wasn't Valid We Had At The Time 8 Police Reports. Which We Showed Her, The Officer Even Spoke To Her Trying To Help Us Get Some Sort Of Funding To Move But She Refused, Our Landlord Refused To Give Our Deposit Back or Terminate The Lease.
We Suffered Threw It. Little To No Sleep Trying To Maintain Jobs It Did Get To Us After A While.
One Day I Was Sitting By My Kitchen Window Watching The Cars Go By While I Waiting For My Fiance To Get Home From Work The Girlfriend Of Iron Mike Decided She Would Jump Up And Down Over My Kitchen..Which Knocked Stuff Out Of My Cabinets It Was So Bad.
I Finally Just Snapped I Grabbed The First Thing I Could Put My Hands On "Which Was A Broom" I Put Every Ounce Of Force I Had Slammed The Handle Upwards Towards The Woman Who Was Causing Me So Much Pain I Pushed A Hole Threw My Ceiling It Was Pretty Deep But She Stopped Jumping And Not Another Sound Was Heard. I Sat Back Down My Face Was Red Hot With Anger At That Point I Had Put All Fear Aside And Was Ready For A Fight.
For A Few Days Everything Seemed Quiet Except The Stomping.. Then One Day I Was Home Alone My Fiance Out With Family I Hear This Noise Along My Livingroom Wall From the Other Side "Hallway" I'm Standing At My Door Watching I Hear This Voice From The Other Side Say "I Would Watch My Back If I Where You" I Wasn't Sure What To Do I Grabbed The Handle Ready To Fight Swung The Door Open Just As I Opened It With All My Force Ready To Do Battle With This Woman. I See Her Door Quickly Closing And Hear Her Laughing.
I Shut The Door.. At That Point I Had To Think Smarter. I Searched The Net Looking For Anything I Could Use To Deal With My Situation.
I Came Across Others Some With Cases Worse than Mine..All Who Ended Up Giving Up There Homes And Moving.
One Lady Similar Case "Not As Bad" Made Her Landlord Move Her.. I Said Ok!
I Made Up Some Excuse For My Landlord To Be In My Apartment..Then I Told Him I Want A New Apartment I Wouldn't Sign A New Lease And I Wouldn't Pay More Than I Do In This Apartment He Wouldn't Even Look At Me.
I Had Printed Off Some Legal Paper Work And Handed It To Him, I Told Him " This Is The Law Either You Give Us Our Deposit And Break The Lease Or You Move Us Away From Those People"
He Couldn't Pass Up Having Someone Who Paid Rent On Time. So He Agree'd To Move Us He Didn't Want To Go To Court Over It.
So We Moved To A Different Section Of The Building.. Word In A Small Town Travels Fast Especially If You Have Had To File 14 Police Reports in 3 Months Of Living In One Place Not To Mention The Officer Was Willing To Back Us Up In Court If It Came Down To It.
So We Move To The Other Side Of The Building (July 2010).. 3 Days After We Moved Out Of That Apartment Into A New One He Evicted Her For Not Paying Her Rent For 4 Months.
So We Settle In And Everything Has Gone Great Until Last Sept 2011 Our Neighbors Below Us Are From Thailand We Never Actually Had Any Problems With Them..We Where Both Quiet People. I Rarely Spoke To Anyone Just As I Always Have..The Daughter Comes Home From College Now I'm A Southern Woman I Was Raised You Treat People How You Want To Be Treated And I Know Not Everyone Is Raised The Same Way As Me Or Go By The Same Values But Everyone Knows What "Respect" Is.
It Seemed Over Night They Started Trying To Fight With Us..Blaring Music Up Until 4 am We Put Up With It For Weeks Then Asked Them To Turn It Down A Bit So We Could Enjoy Our Movie..Nothing Major Just Enough So We Could Enjoy Our Private Time Together.
Well They Did For About 5 Minutes Then They Cranked It Up Even Louder We Dealt With It Til 4am I Had Lost My Cool.
I Called Dispatched.. Explained To Her In Detail The Issue..She Could Hear It While I Was On The Phone. The Officer Came Over..He Understood Our Problem..He Had To Yell To Talk To Us It Was So Loud. He Went Down Knocked On The Door..Told Them If They Did Not Keep It At A Reasonable Level He Would Arrest Someone .
So It Was Turned Down..Then They Started Banging On Our Floor Which Was The Ceiling I Had Asked the Landlord If He Could Find Out If We Where Walking Heavy To Bother Them. He Said.They Said No They Had No Issue With It..
The Banging Continued If I Ran Water For Dishes They Would Bang Where They Heard The Water Running..If I Took A Bath They Would Stand And Bang On My Floor We Dealt With It. Everything We Did They Seemed To Bang..They Heard The Front Door Shut They Would Bang Where The Door Was.. Just Constant..
We Talked To The Landlord..He Said He Would Talk To The..Which To This Day I Don't Think He Did. They Own A Shop Connected To The Building They Had Two Apartments Converted Into One
I Have Recently Learned That The Husband Who Is Also One Of The People Banging On My Floor Has Keys To All The Doors In The Building.
One Day I Came Home From Work And Saw Him Coming From The Second Floor Which Is Where Our Apartment Is Located He Had No Reason To Be Up There. Then Money Turned Up Missing
We Had The Lock Changed And I Know It's Against The Law But Will Not Give The Key Until We Move Out..The Officer Made Note Of It And Suggested We Not Share The Key With The Landlord Since He Gives The Key's To The Neighbor We Are Having Issue's With.
Now I Am Still Here And Problems Still Exist We Are Looking For A New Place We Can Afford But Right Now Hours Are Being Cut And Money Is Really Hard To Budget
But We Are Saving Our Pennies Everyday And Soon I Will Escape This Pit Of Hell. I Will Update This With New Events That Happen And Also to Keep Records


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