Facing eviction and don't know what to do?
My husband and I have lived in our apartment for 22 years. We live in San Diego, CA and love our home. We keep to ourselves and thought we were quiet. Out of the blue we received a letter saying that our tv is too loud, we're slamming cabinet doors and stomping our feet. We go out of our way to be courteous neighbors, we turned off our surround sound and no longer leave the front door open when watching tv in the evening and have turned down the sound even more.
I moved everything out from under the bathroom sink so I don't need to open the cabinets in the bathroom., we don't stomp when walking but now I'm practically tiptoeing around. Today when I was in the kitchen cooking I accidentally dropped a pan when reaching under to pull out another pan.
This evening we came home from dinner and we have another letter from our manager saying this is our second notice and if we are issued a third one we will be evicted!
We have talked to the manager and she says she's sorry but our neighbor (we don't know which one) is complaining about noise from our apartment.
We are an older couple with no children, on one side of us is a young couple that is very quiet except they slam their front door when they come and go- not a problem. On the other side of us, we aren't sure who lives there anymore. We know someone does but we never see them. We are in a lower corner unit, a man lives above us (an older man) he's mostly quiet but sounds like he's been dropping a bowling ball a night, can't figure it out.
We are going to be evicted from our lovely apartment and we haven't done anything. Is there any recourse. I tried to talk to our neighbors but they never answer their door. 2 doors down is another neighbor, that we are friendly with and I asked if he can hear our tv when he walks by and he says no. The last manager lived above us and I asked her once if we are quiet enough because my grandchild came from out of state to visit and I was trying to be aware of the noise level. She said you two are very quiet.
I didn't think we made any enemies ...but now I don't know what to think.
Do we have any legal recourse?