How to Deal with Noisy Neighbors in Morgantown, West Virginia

I have been living in Morgantown West Virginia for the last eight months. Due to my fears of long drives on snow and ice I have elected to move myself, the fiancé, and our two young children into a community owned by Pineview Apartments. This series of complexes is in a low to mid range community that is among the closest apartment homes to the West Virginia University Campus and both hospitals.

The first apartment we moved into up the street was a two bedroom one bath apartment on the ground floor and was located only a few hundred feet from the main road. This place was a great location for we lucked out that we rarely had anything to complain of about or neighbors. We had one occurrence where a new tenant moved in above us and started blasting their radio all hours of the night. Two phone calls to our main office and they were evicted from the apartment within two weeks of moving in there.

Half way into our lease I mentioned to the landlord that I wanted to move into a larger three bedroom apartment in the area. To my surprise, they allowed me to move to a bigger place in mid-lease without any extra fees or contract extensions. At first everything was great here as far as neighbors went. All of the apartments around us had young families that did not have any loud radios to be concerned of and the apartment right next to us was vacant. Just last week in the middle of the night a few young men moved into the unit next to us. That night, they started blasting their radio all day and night long. Without wasting a beat, I called my landlord's security office. The office came to the other unit and advised them about the noise concerns. The following day it started all over again. This time I called the main office and had the company manager go out and talk to the tenants. Yet again a day or so later, they music is blasting again. I called the office on a Saturday (wow, they were there!). The manager assured me that he warned them about being evicted for noise if they continued. He them assured me that the next business day he would be legally evicting them from the unit.

My advice to tenants in this area that do not want the noise is to have faith in your landlords. Call them and explain what is going on with the problem tenants. Despite the money they are getting from that one unit, they do not want to lose money from the tenants that have been there and are not causing problems. As the manger, Chris, told me "It's not the money that we care about, its keeping good tenants in place for years to come."