Living in an apartment means dealing with a certain amount of noise. But there’s a big difference between hearing the occasional loud neighbor and dealing with the same problems every single day.

One renter moved into a fairly new apartment complex and expected the building to block out most of the noise.

Instead, he’s spent the last two years listening to someone drill several times a week. He’s talked to the neighbor upstairs and complained to the landlord, but nobody seems willing to take responsibility.

Then another problem started when a strong cooking smell began traveling into his apartment from several floors above.

At this point, he’s done everything he knows to do and is unsure what to do next.

Keep reading for the full story.

I live in a crappy apartment complex

My apartment complex is fairly new. It’s about 9 years old. I thought this would automatically mean that it would be well isolated from loud or annoying neighbors.

But unfortunately, I’ve lived here for 2 years, and I have an upstairs neighbor that’s drilling every week, multiple times a week, for the last 2 years now.

It’s a rental, so remodeling isn’t necessarily allowed, and it shouldn’t be going on for 2 years straight.

He’s contacted the landlord about it, but nothing is ever done.

I have already contacted the landlord about this a few times and spoke to the upstairs neighbor, but he claims it’s not him.

The landlord refuses to do anything about this noise, and says that I am the only one ever complaining about it.

But the drilling can be heard all over the complex. I’ve spoken to other residents before, and they say they’ve complained as well, but when I ask the landlord about it she tells me a completely different story.

Lately, he’s encountered another issue.

Now for the last 3 months, I have a neighbor that’s lives 3 floors ABOVE ME, and they are frying every single day for the last 3 months. In my country, it is done in such a specific way that the smell is bad and will linger for days if nothing is done about it.

Well, the problem is the person lives like 3 floors above me and then one apartment to the right, so not directly above me. I have asked other residents about this as well and some say they smell it too, some say they don’t.

It’s such a strong smell that gets into everything, your clothes, furniture etc. The landlord then once again tries to blame me because I should ‘ventilate’ better but I already do that 24/7 because my ventilation is automatically turned on.

The good news is that he’s narrowed down where the smell comes from.

I just do not know what to do anymore it’s like the landlord doesn’t give a **** about their tenant no matter what I say or do, but the noise and smell complaints are causing me lots of stress.

Moving is not possible BECAUSE over here we work with waitlists. And because I only live here for two years, I’m somewhere on the bottom of that list. I wish people would take laws more seriously.

The smell comes from the small closet that’s next to my front door.

At this point, he’s tried everything and doesn’t know what to do.

Unfortunately the hallway does not have ventilation. It’s only in the bathroom, the kitchen, my living room, and my bedroom has windows as well, but not the place where the smell comes from.

I have tried to see if there are maybe tiny holes uncovered where the smell could possibly be seeping through but can’t really find anything.

I had to buy an automatic air cleaner with special filter and even then the smell does not go away. So you can imagine how bad it is. And EVERY day.

Oh yikes! That does sound like a pretty stressful place to live.

Let’s see if the people over at Reddit have any advice for him.

This is probably true sometimes, but not all the time.

It sounds like this person had quite an experience.

That’s so true!

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a woman who shuts down her neighbor’s construction project after her property gets damaged.

Here’s a good point.

This would get old really fast.

He’s complained more than once, and instead of looking into it, the landlord keeps brushing everything off.

At this point, he should start documenting everything because it sounds like he’s going to have to take it further.

Ultimately, if multiple tenants are dealing with the same thing, the landlord can’t keep pretending nothing is wrong.