Re: Gun club nearby - tenant wants to terminate lease

Re: Gun club nearby - tenant wants to terminate lease by Garry (Iowa) on April 21, 2016 @10:17

This is in a grey area. Some questions I have for you, are: How many tenants are in your complex, how long have they been living there, hearing the same noise and living with it? How many other people are living closer to the range, and living with the noise----are there a hundred people living in various houses and apartments, and how many of them are owners of their homes and are choosing to live there and put up with the noise. Also, how loud is the noise----is it like a fire cracker going off 20 feet from you, or a person talking in a normal voice 20 feet from you. The times you put down for the gun range to be open, very likely coincides with some city ordinance allowing for noise to happen only during those dates and times, so the city itself has decided a person should be able to put up with that gun shot noise, and it would not be disturbing a persons "quiet enjoyment" no matter how close someone lived to the gun range. To answer your Q, if you want happy tenants , disclose the noise to all potential Ts, and only sign M2M leases with them. This T, you probably should let out of the lease, because they may not be very good Ts for you in the future if you don't.

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Re: Gun club nearby - tenant wants to terminate lease by Anonymous on April 21, 2016 @10:36	[ Reply ]

The house to which the duplex is adjoined to is owned by me, we have a built-in duplex on the side. There is another duplex directly next door which I do not own - I only own the house and rent the built-in duplex to a single tenant. The street itself has a dozen or so houses within a couple mile radius. There is no question that the gun shots are loud, as I'm sure the tenant has recorded them being heard in all rooms of the duplex, you can even hear them in the finished room in the basement of the duplex. Other residents, similar to myself, have 'gotten used' to the noise and learned to deal with it, but I can understand someone who wants quiet place to live would have a real problem with it, especially since it is every day during dinner hours and what not.

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