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Distressed
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Well, it's gone 5am, I have work in a few hours and I haven't had a wink of sleep after receiving a letter from our management company falsely accusing my boyfriend and I of making loud noise and littering - completely untrue.
We've been renting this apartment for nearly 2 years at this stage, and this is the first time we've had a complaint made against us. We have been accused of "boisterous behaviour", "continuous playing of loud music until 6am" and throwing alcohol and cigarettes over our balcony - all completely untrue!!
We have NEVER had a party in our apartment, and we rarely even have anyone over, whether during the day, or at night. We both work long hours, and I just sat the Professional Three Accounting exams last week. I was at my parents house in the UK for my three months of study leave. They have stated the date of 14 June 2008 as one of the nights where we supposedly had a wild party. I travelled back to Ireland on 15 June 2008, so my boyfriend and I obviously remember the night in question. I rang my boyfriend on the night of the 14 June 2008, and he was on the couch watching TV, not drinking, not partying and preparing for a day of cleaning for my return! On top of that, we don't even have anything to play music on - our CD player has been broken for months, and we don't have a dock for our i-pods or anything - in fact we never listen to music in our apartment.
I called my boyfriend every night while I was away, and I know that he never had people over to the apartment during that time, we have never entertained the idea of having a party in our apartment.
I'm generally not a smoker, but around exam time I generally do smoke a bit, but we have a pot on our balcony that we would ALWAYS put cigarette butts into, and we have never, and would never, throw cigarette butts over the balcony. Plus, I was only smoking for the 2 weeks of my exams - this was post the alleged wild party where cigarette butts were thrown over the balcony.
They are also saying that people in other apartment blocks - which are nowhere near our apartment- are complaining about "shouting" from our balcony - also totally untrue, we are rarely on our balcony, and who would we be shouting to, our apartment backs onto a copse and the car park, and it's only ever been the two of us on the balcony, as I said previously, we very rarely have people over. How would the people in the other apartment blocks, which are not visible from our balcony as we're right at the back of the complex, be able to state that we were the ones shouting? Just ludicrous..
I'm so upset about the allegations, the most frustrating part is, how can we prove that it isn't us? I know our neighbours to our left very well, and they have never had any complaints against us. I'm so angry that we would be accused in such a way, and the letter makes references to "witnesses" seeing us causing a nuisance- this greatly disturbs me, as my boyfriend and I have never done anything they have accused us of.
The letter was dated 19 June 2008, however it was postmarked 1 July 2008 and we received it yesterday - seems strange to me. Also, we had an inspection by our landlords on Wednesday - we obviously hadn't received the letter from the management company by then, so we thought, as the letter from the estate agents stated, that it was a "routine" inspection. Our apartment is in perfect order, and we haven't heard anything from the estate agents saying otherwise.
I'm wondering what we can do, I know that we need to put something in writing, but do we have any right to obtain what these supposed "witnessses" have said, what exactly they seem to have seen us doing to make a nuisance? I really just don't know what our rights are. To be honest, after this, I feel that for some reason, someone has a vendetta against us, and I now feel like a prisoner in my own home. I feel like I can't go onto the balcony, or turn on the TV for fear of complaint!
Also what are our rights if we want to leave? Our lease isn't up until 15 September 2008, but to be honest, I am just so upset about this and disgusted that we could be treated in this way, that I just want to move out.
Help!
We've been renting this apartment for nearly 2 years at this stage, and this is the first time we've had a complaint made against us. We have been accused of "boisterous behaviour", "continuous playing of loud music until 6am" and throwing alcohol and cigarettes over our balcony - all completely untrue!!
We have NEVER had a party in our apartment, and we rarely even have anyone over, whether during the day, or at night. We both work long hours, and I just sat the Professional Three Accounting exams last week. I was at my parents house in the UK for my three months of study leave. They have stated the date of 14 June 2008 as one of the nights where we supposedly had a wild party. I travelled back to Ireland on 15 June 2008, so my boyfriend and I obviously remember the night in question. I rang my boyfriend on the night of the 14 June 2008, and he was on the couch watching TV, not drinking, not partying and preparing for a day of cleaning for my return! On top of that, we don't even have anything to play music on - our CD player has been broken for months, and we don't have a dock for our i-pods or anything - in fact we never listen to music in our apartment.
I called my boyfriend every night while I was away, and I know that he never had people over to the apartment during that time, we have never entertained the idea of having a party in our apartment.
I'm generally not a smoker, but around exam time I generally do smoke a bit, but we have a pot on our balcony that we would ALWAYS put cigarette butts into, and we have never, and would never, throw cigarette butts over the balcony. Plus, I was only smoking for the 2 weeks of my exams - this was post the alleged wild party where cigarette butts were thrown over the balcony.
They are also saying that people in other apartment blocks - which are nowhere near our apartment- are complaining about "shouting" from our balcony - also totally untrue, we are rarely on our balcony, and who would we be shouting to, our apartment backs onto a copse and the car park, and it's only ever been the two of us on the balcony, as I said previously, we very rarely have people over. How would the people in the other apartment blocks, which are not visible from our balcony as we're right at the back of the complex, be able to state that we were the ones shouting? Just ludicrous..
I'm so upset about the allegations, the most frustrating part is, how can we prove that it isn't us? I know our neighbours to our left very well, and they have never had any complaints against us. I'm so angry that we would be accused in such a way, and the letter makes references to "witnesses" seeing us causing a nuisance- this greatly disturbs me, as my boyfriend and I have never done anything they have accused us of.
The letter was dated 19 June 2008, however it was postmarked 1 July 2008 and we received it yesterday - seems strange to me. Also, we had an inspection by our landlords on Wednesday - we obviously hadn't received the letter from the management company by then, so we thought, as the letter from the estate agents stated, that it was a "routine" inspection. Our apartment is in perfect order, and we haven't heard anything from the estate agents saying otherwise.
I'm wondering what we can do, I know that we need to put something in writing, but do we have any right to obtain what these supposed "witnessses" have said, what exactly they seem to have seen us doing to make a nuisance? I really just don't know what our rights are. To be honest, after this, I feel that for some reason, someone has a vendetta against us, and I now feel like a prisoner in my own home. I feel like I can't go onto the balcony, or turn on the TV for fear of complaint!
Also what are our rights if we want to leave? Our lease isn't up until 15 September 2008, but to be honest, I am just so upset about this and disgusted that we could be treated in this way, that I just want to move out.
Help!
. I just rang the management agent and got them to resend it to the real culprit.