I live in a co-op which I do NOT own, and I have an upstairs neighbor who is harassing me w/noise. (She has two apts combined into 1 upstairs, and has harassed my next door neighbor for the last 3 years as it turns out. Bith my neighbor and I have, separately, tried to discuss it with her, but she's insane.)
I would like to take my upstairs neighbor to small claims court, suing for 4 mos. of rent, but I need previous cases like this so that I can say to the judge or arbitrator that there's precedent for it.
Further info if you're curious:
See, my co-op owners tried to get management to do something, but management refused. When I sent my owners a letter stating I would withhold rent (at their request actually), they told Management "Look, you're causing problems by not handling this." Management not only refused but threatened my landlords with housing court (for what, I'm not really clear on, but my landlords are clearly in fear of this).
Problem is, I'm still being tortured by the upstairs neighbor. I have TWO neighbors who've heard the noise (only one of whom lives under Crazy Neighbor as I do) and both have complained to management and they're both giving me notarized letters stating that the noise is disruptive and that they've called management.
Management also doesn't like me b/c I've repeated called HPD, forcing them to turn on the heat, and the health dept., who fined them for not handling the mouse and cockroach problem. They've told the super NOT to fix anything in my apt. if I have any problems. And the super's happy to oblige, b/c he doesn't like doing ANYthing.