What would you do if your landlord didn’t want you doing laundry at night, but that was the only time you were home?

In this story, one young woman is in that exact situation. She’s living in a garage that’s converted to an apartment, and her landlord lives in the house. He can hear the washer and dryer when she’s using them, and he hates it when she does laundry at night.

She has tried to explain, but he has resorted to lying to get her to stop.

Now, she’s wondering if she really is doing something wrong.

Keep reading for the whole story.

AITA for refusing to turn of the dryer despite my landlords repeated requests?

So some context. I live in a short term rental situation as I was relocated for work to support a specific location.

I rented a nice garage in LA that has been repurposed as an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) for 3 months.

I was interested in this rental because it is in a really nice area, close to the beach, and the owners had very positive reviews.

But since it is an ADU I am basically living in their garage which is detached from their main house and separated by about 75 feet.

How long is she at the gym?

When it comes to work i am very busy.

I usually work from 7-5 and then go to the gym afterwards.

On a usual day I don’t get home until around 8pm, which is when I have to do all my other normal human activities like making lunches/dinner, do laundry, etc.

Laundry is the problem.

Well it turns out my landlord absolutely CANNOT sleep with my dryer on which I usually have running from about 9-10pm.

He is an older man, about 60 years old and retired, and usually goes to bed early.

But on the first day that I did laundry he walked back to the garage around 9:15 and knocked on the door.

When I open it he’s in his underwear telling me to turn off the dryer.

She tried to explain.

I calmly explain to him that I didn’t get home until late and my clothes are wet and the dryer should be finished around 10pm.

To this he grunts and walks away.

He then came back at 9:50 and tells me to turn it off again to which I reiterate that it will be done in 10 minutes.

This has happened each time I’ve done laundry on a weekday and he escalated it to saying that the neighbors have been calling him nonstop about the dryer noise.

She wanted to find out if that was true.

If I was being a nuisance to the neighborhood I could understand his frustration so I went and knocked on the neighbors door, introduced myself, and asked if the dryer noise from the garage was bothering them.

To which they said they had never called my landlord or even knew that’s someone was living in the garage.

So I figured he lied about the neighbors to try to get me to turn off the dryer so I continued to run it at my normal time.

She doesn’t think she’s being unreasonable.

Things came to a head yesterday when he came back and yelled at me at the top of his lungs to turn off the dryer.

I told him that he is being paid good money for me to live here and if he cannot handle the noise of his garage being lived in then he shouldn’t rent it out. I need clean clothes for work and in my mind doing laundry at night is a pretty normal thing to do. Not to mention I sleep in the same room as the laundry machines when for him it’s far away.

I’m not sure I feel like could be solved if he invested in some noise canceling headphones. Also it’s not like I do laundry every day. Since this living situation is temporary I didn’t bring my whole closet so I’d say I do about 2 loads each week, one of which is on a weekday.

So what to you guys think, AITA?

The landlord is really being unreasonable. Unless there’s something horribly wrong with them, a washer and dryer aren’t all that loud. I’d be able to sleep through the noise.

Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

This is what I’m wondering too.

This person has a suggestion.

Here’s some advice for the next time the landlord looks for a tenant.

Nobody thinks she’s doing anything wrong.

Maybe he needs to buy her a different washer and dryer. Something has to be seriously wrong with them if they’re so loud that he can hear them in his house. That’s pretty crazy!