13 things good neighbors never do

Turns the stairwell into a personal pantry

All right, a sink, building materials, something else of this kind that is needed for current repairs and will lie for a couple of weeks. But the stroller, the sled, the skis, the old sofa – out! And this is no longer a passage between apartments, but a warehouse of someone’s things. For this, neither firefighters nor Rospotrebnadzor will pat on the head. Only our advice to those who are forced to endure such sluts: do not throw away their things yourself. Will pull on damage and theft of personal property. Write a complaint to the management company – let them seek justice for them.

Quarreling in the bathrooms

In modern houses, the walls are not even cardboard, they are made of tissue paper. Keep this in mind when you sort things out. Or do not be surprised if a neighbor three floors higher suddenly one day in the elevator asks sympathetically if everything is fine with you. Or the police will come in the midst of your quarrel with the cat: the neighbors just thought you were yelling at the child.

And especially you need to be restrained in the bathroom and toilet. If you don’t know yet, then the audibility there is just perfect, regardless of the type of house. Moreover, the sound is amplified. Before that, for ten years, every morning, sorry, I heard the neighbor’s alarm clock in the toilet. We now live in a new apartment. There is no alarm clock here, but there is a mother who loves to swear at her children. Not really loud, but I can hear every word.

“We had a pensioner two floors higher, who coughed all the time,” recalls a friend. – You go into the bathroom, and you get the impression that you have a man with tuberculosis right behind the wall. Then I was afraid to go with him even in the same elevator. But it turned out that in fact he is not coughing strongly and not loudly, it is such an echo. “

Compulsively trying to be friends

Good neighborly relations are great. It is even better if over time they develop into friendship, and then a strong friendship.

But still friendship is a voluntary concept. Believe it or not, some people are introverts. They just want no one to touch them. Therefore, if your neighbors are just greeting politely, please do not offer to celebrate some holiday together, to throw up children for a couple of hours in a “friendly way”, or to drop in for tea at any time of the day or night. And yes, the neighbor who lent you salt is not at all obliged to “help you out by a hundred until the evening.”

Putting trash in the hallway

I confess that sometimes I myself am sinful. For example, during general cleaning, I can briefly put old things in the vestibule, which I will take to the landfill within a few hours. I know that this is not entirely correct, but it is simply more convenient that way.

But I never (!) Put a bag with household waste in the corridor. Although I know people who do it all the time.

“Throwing out garbage in the evening is a bad omen, there will be no money,” says one friend of mine.

So that the apartment does not smell, she puts the trash bag outside the door before going to bed. The smell of the staircase in the morning is unimaginable. And most importantly, varied, depending on what she cooked that day. The husband takes out the package on the way to work. And on weekends, the bag can stand for half a day and until the evening. By the way, the neighbors no longer complain. We just resigned ourselves.

Smoking at the entrance

Well, first of all, the Ministry of Health warns. And secondly, not only the Ministry of Health warns, but also the law. Since 2013, smoking in public places, in particular elevators, front doors, stairwells, has been prohibited. We completely agree: it is you who are poisoning your health voluntarily, and the neighbors were not hired to sniff the smoke that goes into their apartment. By the way, secondhand smoke is considered much more dangerous than active smoke.

By the way, other residents do not burn with great love for those who smoke on the balconies of apartments. Admiring cigarette butts on the lawns is a dubious pleasure. It is even worse if a smoldering cigarette butt finds a neighbor on his balcony on the floor below. In addition, smoke is guaranteed to be drawn into the windows of neighbors on the floor above. Do you need extra curses for karma?

Turning an apartment into a pigsty

It would seem, well, then what does the neighbors care about? The most direct. We are already silent about the smell that can spread throughout the house from such a “miracle apartment”. Another thing is worse.

Cockroaches and bedbugs. Believe it or not, eight out of ten houses of the residential complex are already suffering from them. New, commissioned just a couple of years ago. Someone has already managed to bring these insects here with things, and now it is very difficult to etch them out.

Warm up the car close to the windows of the apartments

Long, boring. At the same time, the music is also turned on louder so that it is not so boring in the predawn hour.

To begin with, cars, in principle, cannot be parked close to residential buildings. But everyone knows the situation with parking spaces in cities, so we just keep silent here. However, even if you have nowhere else to stand, please show respect for your neighbors. At the very least, do not face the windows with the exhaust pipe. And of course, don’t give people a concert of chanson hits at five in the morning.

This also includes parking on lawns, as well as at the entrance to the entrances, right on top of the slopes for wheelchairs. To those who do this, we are now mentally sending rays of “good” and a couple of stickers “I park like [an obscene word]” on the windshield.

Sing and dance at night

Two main reasons for angry entries in the group of our LCD on the social network: parking on the lawns and loud noise. Returning to the topic of audibility in high-rise buildings: if you are in a good mood at two in the morning, it is not at all necessary to share it with all your neighbors. You will be surprised, but there are those who want to sleep at night, and not listen to the stamping of feet and guitar bass. Not even a hammer drill on a Saturday morning beats it. Although pleasant is also not enough.

Pretend you don’t exist

They do not greet, but at the same time they actively spy on and eavesdrop. You can take the gossip girl out of the village. But never a gossip village. There are neighbors who are always aware of other people’s affairs. It gives them a certain kind of pleasure to delve into the details of the neighbor’s life, and then tell them to everyone who wants (and unwilling ones too). Do not be surprised if one day you see such a neighbor peeking into your mailbox or, meeting you on the staircase, trying to look at what is in your garbage bag.

Renting an apartment to a crowd of handymen

No matter what nationality, we are not talking about that now. But letting ten people live on 60 squares is probably too much. Moreover, tenants are not always distinguished by cleanliness, accuracy and exemplary behavior. If you have already passed, then look after your tenants so that they do not litter, smoke, make noise, behave decently.

Poorly cooked

All the time, something escapes, burns, or they just cook something unimaginable in overcooked oil. The smell of fried fish on the entire entrance, which does not fade for several days – who will like it?

“As my neighbors begin to fry their herring, they open the doors to the site so that they draw out the stench from them. And that this terrible smell pulls me into my apartment, they do not care, ”my mother complains. Her neighbors are really not very good. I don’t even want to imagine how they themselves smell.

Running on a treadmill

At 5:40 am. Not worrying about soundproofing at all. That is, absolutely. Every morning I wake up to the fact that this sporty lark pounds on a huge drum that sits right on my head. Rhythmically, do not take away. But I’m not a morning person, and I want to sleep at 5.40, and not admire the willpower of a neighbor on a run.