If I could go back in time i would never have signed my lease with TGM ridge. If you're like me you are probably the type that spends a great deal of time research apartments because you want to make the best possible decision, because housing in this area is pricey.. This place is NOT it.
I am noise sensitive and my number ONE request was to leave in a quite unit. The apartment I was shown was on the third level which made me a very skeptical, but the leasing agent assured me that they don't
...hear complaints about upstairs neighbors, saying it's a quite units and noise isn't an issue.
I am aware that living in apartment communities you should expect to hear footsteps and noise and I agree . However, the footsteps are so heavy that my apartment walls and floor shake and vibrate. The chandeliers in the kitchen sways back and forth whenever they are walking.
I don't think it's normal to wake up in the middle of the night 3-4 a week, because your neighbor has to use the restroom. I use a white noise machine but that doesn't cancel out the crashing noise and physical vibrations I feel. I have lived in apartments all over VA including low income apartments and I still have never experienced anything until I moved here.
I have to live my life around my upstairs neighbors schedule. I cannot enjoy reading a book to go to sleep, i cannot meditate, I cannot take a nap when i want.
The problem isn't the neighbor even if they tip-toe you can hear it. It's the way the apartments was built, so so so shoddy and poorly insulated. Also half of the electric outlet in the apartment do not work.
I wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone is breaking into my apartment because of the BOOMING noise coming from upstairs when they decide to use the restroom or go to the kitchen.
If the leasing agent was honest with me from the beginning i could have just patiently waited a month or two for a top level unit to become available. I was mislead and I feel betrayed.
My morning anxiety which i spent YEARS trying to control and manage is so bad now and I don't feel safe at all for my mental health. The quality of my life had drastically decrease ever since I moved in here three months ago. Please please if you are noise sensitive and noise is a trigger for you find another place. And if you chose to live on the top level just know you will bring disturbance onto the people below you.
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