Yeah I give it six months before they bail

Absolutely.

Yeah there’s something called the covenant of quiet enjoyment that the building is certainly violating

Ok so you didn't go in completely blind but they did pull something fast on you. I agree it sucks and that you should have asked about location of these items (obviously hindsight 2020).

I would suggest using DC's noise laws to counter it.

We had to tour a model unit on the top floor because there was a tenant in our unit at the time. It’s a nice apartment outside the noise, so maybe that should have been a red flag

I’m all about OP getting their quite hours, but the “never being able to sleep past 7 am” is pretty rich. Apartments also have families with kids who wake up before 7:00 everyday crying. Loud construction can start in DC at 7:00 without any additional permits. 7:00 is the pretty standard end of quite hours. Now, the apartment management needs to play by the same general rule of any neighbor and just try not to be a dick just when quite hours have stopped at 7:00.

It’s fully reasonable to expect that your apartment won’t have noise from a trash compactor audible through the walls.

The sub gets brigades pretty hard by conservatives who live elsewhere because of the pervasive idea that DC is only the federal government and adjacent industries

On the crime stuff in particular, I do imagine a lot of the commenters are ostensibly Democratic voters who just have never really thought that hard about how to stop crime besides tougher enforcement. But yeah, super weird overall.

Genuine question: Did you tour the apartment before moving in?

Thank you big moose. People calling me entitled on this post, like I think most people are entitled to sleep lol, especially paying a shit ton of money for rent.

Crazy!! In the alley behind our unit on 16th one night, 59 shots . My husband thought late July 4th celebration. One bullet came into our bedroom and got stuck on the bathroom frame . Good thing he wasn't up to pee.

Downstairs, our tenant was in the living room on her laptop. Bullet went past, and she didn't notice, but the cat did . Out thick front window .

This is the correct answer. That takes care of the problem once and for all.

It's not "bootlicking" to accept the reality that they're not going to do anything about it and OP has no realistic way to make them.

I'm very pro-shoebox - you can live small in the best walking neighborhoods and spend money on activities instead of amassing stuff, less to deal with (no yard, no need for car, no maintenance you personally have to deal with, less to clean). Simple life, happy life.

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No way, renting an apartment where this will wake you up is pretty fucking unreasonable on their part. Never being able to sleep past 7 am? Who would accept that??

Most people wouldn't live there for free.

Y’all can keep those pest issues. I’ll live in a “poor construction” before I deal with master splinter or roddy roach

Haha yeah I was amazed my niche knowledge of DC government and tenant’s rights came into play this morning. Our building’s tenant association has been working with both of those orgs for a bit now and they’re pretty helpful. FYI it’s a slow process to make a company take accountability for things but at least you can apply some pressure beyond just isolated tenant complaints

The base level of due diligence is to read google reviews. And looking at the reviews online right now, OP ain’t do that shit.

People aren’t visiting apartments before they sign leases??? That’s absolutely insane. It is YOUR responsibility and due diligence as a tenant to ASK relevant questions PRIOR to signing a legally binding document, such as touring the property, frequency of pest control etc, where fire alarms are located etc etc. If you toured the property you’d know if you were close to a trash room like c’mon…

OP clearly didn’t think to ask before they moved in but I’ll bet they add that to the list of shit to ask a leasing agent before signing their next lease!

I didn’t think it was terrible but it was nothing special. I’m always confused by all the love 🫣

it’s especially weird because reddit leans very strongly left as it is, and DC is also a very left leaning city. But for some reason, the DC sub is pretty conservative lol

No, it's because of the loud and sloppy bootlicking that makes them bootlickers.

Hope this helps!

Yeah, someone was shot in their apartment and one of the bullets hit a pipe