The scandalous neighbor flooded our apartment. She categorically refused to pay for the repairs, trumping the fact that she was a single mother, and therefore we are obliged to enter into a position.
Having good neighbors is a great blessing. Alas, this is not about us. Our neighbors are unlucky. A woman lives above us - an inadequate lover of scandals and tantrums, with whom it is absolutely impossible to build a normal dialogue. I would have been glad to never communicate with her, but life took a different turn. Three months ago, she gave us a real flood. The most offensive thing is that exactly six months ago, my husband and I completely renovated our apartment.
For a long time the apartment above us remained empty. We moved into this house fifteen years ago. An old lonely grandmother lived above us, who did not cause problems for anyone. After her death, the apartment remained empty for a long time. Nobody seemed to care about her. And we, in turn, enjoyed the silence above our heads.
But exactly one year ago, everything changed. The late grandmother had heirs, and our peace came to an end. A woman with a child settled in the apartment above. The boy looks about five years old, no more. Noise and din from new tenants have become constant companions of our life. First, the new neighbor took up the repair, as the apartment was pretty run down. Then the furniture was moved all the time. The noise from above did not stop for almost half a year.
At first, my husband and I treated all this with understanding. After all, new tenants take time to settle in. We were doing renovations at the same time. But if we finished the repair soon, then the neighbors, it seems, dragged on for a very long time. However, frankly speaking, there is a lot of noise from new settlers even without repair.
Mother and son communicate only by shouting. The child, in turn, yells back at her. Closer to midnight, they begin some sort of steeplechase and stomp with high-pitched screams. Apparently, in this way, the mother wants to put her son to bed, and he categorically resists. Such fun with hysterical screams and running around ends only after midnight. Although the boy is already more than five years old. It would seem that he is old enough to take and sleep peacefully.
But, it's all poetry. Everything was bearable until the neighbor from above gave us a real flood. It is especially disappointing that our recent renovation was flooded with water.
I admit that if a neighbor's pipe had been torn off, or a tap had been torn out, then I would have treated this with understanding, and, probably, would not have demanded compensation for the damage caused. Force majeure happens to everyone. And then there's the single mother. But they flooded us for a completely different reason. The unfortunate mother stuck in her tablet, forgetting about the existence of everything in the world. At this time, her son decided to play a real "Battleship". To do this, closed the drain hole of the bath, opened the faucet. While the water was being collected, I was distracted by other toys and did not notice how it poured over the edge. The result of the game "Sea Battle" turned out to be deplorable - our freshly renovated bath and corridor were flooded with water.
The neighbor found out about the flood only when we started knocking on their door. Water at that time had already flooded the entire bath and splashed in the corridor. The child, sensing that it smelled of kerosene, hid in the room.
The damage to our apartment from the flood from above turned out to be rather big. There was a broken wire in the toilet. It was also required to replace the ceiling, wallpaper and laminate flooring in the hallway. When they announced the amount of the upcoming repair to the neighbor, she categorically stated that she would not pay a penny, because her repair had not yet been completed, and since everything happened because of a childish prank, one should not be offended by the child. She is raising her son alone. And they say, therefore, we must understand them and forgive them everything. That's such a dumb answer. We didn't even get an apology.
Realizing that the problem with this brawler could not be solved by negotiations, we began to act according to the law. Appraisers were called, who recorded the damage and filed an application with the court. Court, of course, won. The bailiffs later collected the required amount from her, since the lady was not going to give the money, even after the court decision.
The hysterical cries of a neighbor were heard by the whole house. She screamed that we were the last bastards, if we had the audacity to sue a single mother. She promised to find justice for us and wished to choke on her money.
After the trial, the neighbor arranges petty nasty things for us. She deliberately rumbles early in the morning, then she bought her son a loud toy. But judge for yourself, she is entirely to blame for the incident, if she overlooked her son. Parents are always responsible for the "pranks" of children.
A friend advised a neighbor to write a statement to the guardianship service. Say, the neighbors are constantly screaming and screaming, and it would be necessary to check what is happening there. But I won't do that. God forbid the child will be taken away, because I will never forgive myself for this later. What-no, but she is a mother for her child.
I really hope that the neighbor will soon come to her senses and stop doing us dirty tricks.