KikLove
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Hey everyone,
I recently moved into a new apartment and I really like it. It is smaller, better lit outside of the apartment (at night), I have a balcony (which connects from the bedroom to the living room) and a fireplace. I live alone.
I've only been here about two weeks and I told the owners of the apartment complex I'm HOH, so if I have a scheduled maintenance issue or something, they need to call me before they arrive. So far, they've done pretty well until I attached an alert system outside of the apartment - it flashes the lights and makes a loud noise I can hear, it alerts me someone outside instead of them knocking on the door by them pushing it. I don't like nobody knocking on the door because I cannot hear it good without my HAs (one ear won't let me hear it at all) and it always makes a thud that I can feel through the floor if someone knocks when I'm not wearing my HAs.
On my two doors to the balcony, I attached a door alarm on either door unless I turn it off, it will emit a strong noise that will wake me up (easily removable when my lease is up).
I felt safer in the apartment complex until the other night, when I was coming home from work and I was getting out of my car...I took off my hearing aids after a long day and I just wanted to relax. I went inside and was getting ready for bed.
I normally leave one light one next to my bed so if someone is at the door, it can flash if I cannot hear the three beeps the doorbell gives me at night.
It kept flashing off and on for about 10 minutes. Every time I got up to check to see if someone was outside the door, I didn't see no one by the time I got to from my bedroom to the door.
I thought I heard laughter at one point but it felt so distant I wondered if I was just imagining things, I sorta brushed it off and went back to bed. About 2:00am, the same thing happened again. This time, someone was playing around with my door by knocking and pushing the doorbell. I felt it coming through the apartment floor and they were knocking so loudly it almost sounded normal. I walked closely to the door and me being the genius I am, leaned towards the door hoping to hear what might have been said...
I could not understand a word of it but I heard laughter. I peaked through the door and saw what I thought was one of the office staff I told that I would like to be alerted if and when maintenance comes by.
I expressed concern about this to my parents and they said I was being over paranoid, that they didn't think my mid frequency loss was bad enough that I need to get an alert system for people coming and going. I told them I was having hard time hearing when people knock at the door and put it in mostly for that, since knocking on the door normally, I cannot hear it and the thuds it makes through the carpet creep me out.
I also expressed my concern to the office staff, asking if they had told maintenance that about and suddenly the next day I come home after apparently, there had been an emergency maintenance come through several of the apartments do to a problem with air conditioners on our floor. I was freaked out because they didn't call me and say they were going to come in...
Then last night I kept hearing my neighbors have a party (they had the music so loud, I had to take my HAs out so they didn't hurt my ears) and the same thing happened again! People were playing around at my door.
I know I may be over freaking out, but before I put the alerter outside my door and before I told the office staff, I was having no problems any of this.
Now, I feel like someone is playing tricks on me or something. The office lady told me I was being too paranoid and why complain if I cannot hear the neighbors - which I can, I tried to explain to her about my degree of hearing loss and she didn't understand it...
The rest of last night I stayed awake in bed with my HAs in to see if I heard anything and was quiet...there was nothing! I know I'm not imagining it without my HAs!
Is there...anything legally I can do here other than keep notifying the police and documenting the incidents? Or is there some more technology, something I can use to help alert me when people are outside the door without it being installed? I want catch whoever this is that is doing it. I'm keeping my two door alarms and I seriously want to buy one for the main door now...but I don't want it going off if there is an emergency maintenance problem like yesterday where it they needed to make sure there were no problems with the AC.
I recently moved into a new apartment and I really like it. It is smaller, better lit outside of the apartment (at night), I have a balcony (which connects from the bedroom to the living room) and a fireplace. I live alone.
I've only been here about two weeks and I told the owners of the apartment complex I'm HOH, so if I have a scheduled maintenance issue or something, they need to call me before they arrive. So far, they've done pretty well until I attached an alert system outside of the apartment - it flashes the lights and makes a loud noise I can hear, it alerts me someone outside instead of them knocking on the door by them pushing it. I don't like nobody knocking on the door because I cannot hear it good without my HAs (one ear won't let me hear it at all) and it always makes a thud that I can feel through the floor if someone knocks when I'm not wearing my HAs.
On my two doors to the balcony, I attached a door alarm on either door unless I turn it off, it will emit a strong noise that will wake me up (easily removable when my lease is up).
I felt safer in the apartment complex until the other night, when I was coming home from work and I was getting out of my car...I took off my hearing aids after a long day and I just wanted to relax. I went inside and was getting ready for bed.
I normally leave one light one next to my bed so if someone is at the door, it can flash if I cannot hear the three beeps the doorbell gives me at night.
It kept flashing off and on for about 10 minutes. Every time I got up to check to see if someone was outside the door, I didn't see no one by the time I got to from my bedroom to the door.
I thought I heard laughter at one point but it felt so distant I wondered if I was just imagining things, I sorta brushed it off and went back to bed. About 2:00am, the same thing happened again. This time, someone was playing around with my door by knocking and pushing the doorbell. I felt it coming through the apartment floor and they were knocking so loudly it almost sounded normal. I walked closely to the door and me being the genius I am, leaned towards the door hoping to hear what might have been said...
I could not understand a word of it but I heard laughter. I peaked through the door and saw what I thought was one of the office staff I told that I would like to be alerted if and when maintenance comes by.
I expressed concern about this to my parents and they said I was being over paranoid, that they didn't think my mid frequency loss was bad enough that I need to get an alert system for people coming and going. I told them I was having hard time hearing when people knock at the door and put it in mostly for that, since knocking on the door normally, I cannot hear it and the thuds it makes through the carpet creep me out.
I also expressed my concern to the office staff, asking if they had told maintenance that about and suddenly the next day I come home after apparently, there had been an emergency maintenance come through several of the apartments do to a problem with air conditioners on our floor. I was freaked out because they didn't call me and say they were going to come in...
Then last night I kept hearing my neighbors have a party (they had the music so loud, I had to take my HAs out so they didn't hurt my ears) and the same thing happened again! People were playing around at my door.
I know I may be over freaking out, but before I put the alerter outside my door and before I told the office staff, I was having no problems any of this.
Now, I feel like someone is playing tricks on me or something. The office lady told me I was being too paranoid and why complain if I cannot hear the neighbors - which I can, I tried to explain to her about my degree of hearing loss and she didn't understand it...
The rest of last night I stayed awake in bed with my HAs in to see if I heard anything and was quiet...there was nothing! I know I'm not imagining it without my HAs!
Is there...anything legally I can do here other than keep notifying the police and documenting the incidents? Or is there some more technology, something I can use to help alert me when people are outside the door without it being installed? I want catch whoever this is that is doing it. I'm keeping my two door alarms and I seriously want to buy one for the main door now...but I don't want it going off if there is an emergency maintenance problem like yesterday where it they needed to make sure there were no problems with the AC.