Does the city pick up trash at midnight? How about 3am? No? Why do you think is? Why would expecting the building to adhere to similar hours for the trash compactor be any different?

Lol not even, a lot of "luxury" buildings have countertops that look like granite

Don’t they already have the entire states of Florida and Wyoming to use?

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Can someone make a performative outrage script to ward off these “bootlicker” guys? A literal virtue signal that says “I think it’s bad that something harmful and unfair is happening. The culprit is someone Marx would be mad at” so we don’t have to see these?

Ask to move apartments

"This week on Alpha House..."

DC Peers has meet-ups and support groups for adults with autism. I'm pretty sure they have game nights sometimes. I would check out their website.

I fully understand that money can be spent to successfully control pests, that’s my point. I don’t understand why the concept of a problem that can actually be solved is more distasteful than living in a colorful cardboard box.

Wow thanks for this advice! I’m going through the same thing except it’s a duct and the noise would come and go randomly. Definitely happens during quiet hours too. The maintenance have looked at it but no solution thus far. I’m going to do exactly what you did.

What time?

Unfortunately, you’re ignorant on the subject. Older buildings have pest issues. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are spent on extermination because nobody wants to live in a place with known issues, which means no rent collections.

This is coming from someone that has worked in the industry. So take that uppity transplant, ignorance, experienced bullshit elsewhere.

LOL something that no one on here is suggesting. Just hopping in for the centrist virtue signal.

I frequented them when in grad school in Georgetown! I was thinking of them the other day.

I guess thats capitalism. Ignorance about urban pest control (that they can be controlled, and that rats don’t infest apartments) among transplants means better quality digs for the more experienced.

Yes! And a parking spot though our street is never crowded.

I should also add I’ve always had a better experience with a landlord who owns their unit than corporate.

On top of everything else, the buildings owned by big corporations seem to nickel and dime you, plus it’s much more difficult to contest your security deposit deductions. Happened to us in our last apartment, a more dated but still corporate-owned building, and it was an unpleasant experience.

It really is amazing just how many walls a bullet can pass through.. -_-

I wonder if you can track electronically the level of noise, and compare it to the noise allowed via health and safety standards in DC.

Being lied to by a leasing agent about pest control is not the same as physically touring a unit to make sure it meets your needs and you know it.

Right, because sales agents trying to rent out their units are going to be honest about the negative issues. Oh yeah, well, we do spray for roaches X times per month, and we have some mice problems, and this unit is near the trash chute so it’s super loud! You still want it, right?

That's true. If you're paying $2,000 a month for 2/2 that's a great deal anywhere in D.C. proper. I guess I'm saying people cast judgement on new, small apartments with nice finishes when they've never really checked the prices.

They have 2/2 950 SF units on the 2nd and 3rd floor right now for $2700-3k here.

Do you have in unit W/D or central HVAC?

https://www.monroestreetmarket.com/sightmap/

It is a legal term with a scope that varies by Jurisdiction and type of agreement. For rentals, another way to say it is an implied warranty of habitability. Reasonable surrounding volume is a part of it, but its a very Jurisdiction and fact specific matter, and also covers things like working plumbing and electricity, the right to exclude others from your rented space, that no one else is also renting and using that space, and basic cleanliness of space controlled by the landlord.

Where it has absolutely nothing to do with volume or noise is in real property purchases. Real property comes with a covenant of quiet enjoyment if the seller is promising that there aren't any claims against the property, no disputed ownership of it, no liens, etc. You could sell a house stuck between a rooster farm and an open air flashbang grenade testing facility and have it still meet the requirements for a covenant of quiet enjoyment

Libraries are a good idea, thank you so much I will look into that.

Wow good for you

It can include quiet in the literal sense, but it includes many different things relating to calm/peace rather than to noise. And exactly how much literal quiet it means is not black and white.