Letter of complaint to the landlord

On the basis of your rental agreement, the landlord is obliged to enable you to use your apartment in accordance with the contract. This also includes speaking to overly noisy neighbors and asking them to avoid making noise. But not everything that you perceive to be loud can be prevented.

Approach the landlord if there is noise

• Noise is any loud noise that is perceived as annoying. Its disturbance factor depends on the volume, the sound pressure level and the duration of exposure, as well as your own sound sensitivity and the sound source.
• The landlord must ensure that the noise caused by a neighbor, which is neither socially nor locally customary and avoidable, is turned off. The neighbor in question behaves contrary to the contract with the landlord due to his own rental contract.
• The landlord can therefore warn the annoying neighbors and ask them to stop the noise pollution. If the neighbor continues to make noise, the landlord can sue him for an injunction and, in serious cases, terminate him without notice.
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• Take into account that every tenant can basically do what he wants within his own space within the framework of his right to free life. His freedom ends where your freedom begins.


Observe rest periods in the rented apartment

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Tenants must observe rest periods

• Every tenant must adhere to the general rest periods. At lunchtime from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. each tenant must limit their activities to room volume. Room volume means that noises outside a locked apartment can no longer be heard, or at least can hardly be heard.
• Sundays and public holidays are days off. Tenants must adjust their activities accordingly.
• You have to accept one-off or short-term sources of noise. If the noise nuisance recurs, you should keep records. Make a note of which tenant caused what type of noise and when. So prepare your letter of complaint to the landlord. Quick shots from an emotion are strategically bad.

Find a conversation before the letter of complaint

1. Ideally, speak to the landlord personally and discuss the situation. Otherwise write a letter of complaint to the landlord and refer to him is obliged by the tenancy agreement to make your apartment available to you in such a way that you can use it in accordance with the contract to be able to use. Remain polite and do not formulate your wishes as an order.
2. If the landlord does not respond to your letter, try to speak to him personally.
3. If nothing happens again, you should also try to speak to the neighbors directly and explain your problem. Perhaps you will find understanding and the problem will be resolved.
4. In the worst case, you have no choice but to expressly warn the landlord and give him a deadline Threatening that you will take legal action to oblige him to ensure that your rented apartment is used in accordance with the contract wear.

Inform the public order office

• Regardless of this, you should also be familiar with Section 117 of the Administrative Offenses Act: According to this, anyone who causes unusual noise and the general public or the general public is acting improperly neighborhood bothered considerably. In this case, inform the municipal public order office and ask to call the neighbors to order.
• Anyone who causes unusual noise must expect a fine. However, the authority has a margin of discretion. You can only oblige them to intervene to a limited extent.