Dealing with horrible and loud neighbors that are painting me as a racist in texas. How do I protect myself legally? : legaladvice

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Dealing with horrible and loud neighbors that are painting me as a racist in texas. How do I protect myself legally?

I have lived in my apartment for 3 years and never had a real problem with my neighbors. A few months ago some new people moved in the apartment above mine.

The last few months have been hell. They have parties every night even week nights that never end before 3am. They are loud way past our community quiet hours. They have some sort of bass they like to turn on that literally shakes the ceiling (their floor). I have recorded it. It wakes up my 2 year old. Do you know how hard it is to get a 2 year old back to sleep during a loud upstairs party.

They leave trash outside their door for days so that smells and drips down. It has ruined my outdoor rug. I took pictures.

They drop cigarette butts from above right on to my porch.

They regularly park in the reserved spot I pay for monthly. It is a special fee not everyone pays but the apartment offers reserved spots. They are an extra $50 a month. The minute I leave they pull their car there and refuse to move until I threaten to involve the apt. Manager.

They have a gigantic pairs of dogs that are aggressive and they let them run around without a leash even though the apartment has a leash policy and the city does too.

They like to empty their bleach another cleaning supply water over the railing and directly on to the front stoop of my apartment door. I have 3 times walked out to sticky pinesol or the alarming and strong smell of bleach all over my front walkway. It ruined my potted plants outside.

I have reported all the incidents. I have tried to ask them to cut it out. They don't care.

I recently called the police nonemergency line about the noise and it turns out I am not the first to complain that day. The police came out and found some illegal drugs in the apartment or on one of their guests (I am not sure of how it was found. I stayed in my apartment) and arrested someone.

Since then they have taken to recording me any time I leave my apartment. They have been calling me racist and threatening to put it in the internet and get me fired.

The woman of the couple has followed me to my car with my child in my arms and yelled about how I am impeding her ability to exist in public because I am racist. She says I call the police on her for doing nothing. I only called the police about a noise complaint at 1am because they were having a loud party and had refused my request at 12am to maybe keep it down a little because my daughter was trying to sleep.

I understand I am white and as such have no idea of the struggle. I would never dream of telling them how to live life.

I just don't want them to leave trash that seeps down my front door (leaving trash outside is against apartment policy) and ruins my things, park in the spot I pay for monthly, and play loud music I can clearly hear in my home during quiet hours.

She had thrown her dogs poop bags at my car.

They have really upped the bleach game too. It has gotten on a few spots on my door and I am scared they might throw it at my car.

I have asked my apartment to move me but it isn't feasible right now. I can't break the lease for at least 3 more months.

I can't lose my job and I am not sure how protect myself legally.

They are actually my paid space right now but I am scared to have them towed because I don't know what they are going to do. I pay for that space. I have proof. The sticker on the front inside window matches the marked spot.

If I tell the apartment they will have the car towed but I'll look like a racist.

All it takes is one video and a lie and I am ruined.

I want to add that there are racist out there who deserve to be called out and the overwhelming majority of those videos are true and tragic and the white person in those videos deserves all the bad things that happen to them but I think wanting to be able to sleep in the early morning hours and park in my own space that I pay for is reasonable. But maybe not?

RareMagazine on November 4th, 2018 at 22:53 UTC »

Too bad legaladvice has precious few lawyers on it. OP needs a restraining order/protective order/stalking injunction with a proximity clause in it. This would be fairly easy to get. Depending on where he lives they may have also committed acts of witness intimidation. But it would be up to the cops to decide to investigate that, so talking to the arresting officers in that case would be a thing to do. Doing those things would land the neighbors in jail a few times and likely evicted soon thereafter.

Sweet_Tangerine50 on November 4th, 2018 at 22:32 UTC »

This stresses me out just reading this.

My neighbor who played animal mating call sounds on full volume isn’t quite as bad as it sounds now.

(Yes, I am completely serious. I have so many stories.)

corndoggery on November 4th, 2018 at 22:24 UTC »

I'd be absolutely terrified that they would resort to harming LAOP's kid, especially if they're pouring bleach around LAOP's apartment. I really hope the apartment manager steps up soon, because all of this is totally unacceptable.