u/Enough-Jaguar8313

So I’m in kind of a different situation here.
The apartment that I currently live in has hired some local handymen/interior workers to work on a couple of vacant buildings. (The apartments is not owned by an actual property management company, but rather it’s a local development and owned/operated by a small real estate company here)

One of the handyman they hired has a truck from HELL. I don’t know what he did to the truck but a muffler delete doesn’t even cut close to it. The thing is triple times louder than a Harley David. I’ve heard some if the worst and loudest Mustang GTs before but I’m being serious, nothing even comes close to this truck. I could be sitting in a room on the other side of my unit as far away from the window as I can with my earbuds in and the loud truck could still rip through my ears.

And the problem is not just that. This worker has no respect for the tenant’s peace or safety. Whenever he’s about to leave he literally SLAMS on the gas pedal going probably close to 50 mph sometimes while still INSIDE the apartments. Not only does the noise level shatter your eardrums, it is so rude and unsafe for him to do so. The roadways are narrow and If an emergency happens he won’t even be able to notice it in time.

I’ve mentioned and brought this up to the landlord before, and she was in disbelief and told me she would address it to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Great response from the landlord right? Well I have found out afterwards from other things that this landlord will only say that to make you quiet and she really doesn’t address anything here. But that’s a different story.
So anyways the worker indeed has stopped doing that. BUT mostly it’s because this worker had pretty much stopped coming here afterwards probably because his job was done. OR so I thought… he’s now back on the property again since a couple of weeks ago and he’s STILL doing the same thing!

Obviously reporting this to the landlord has not had much help like I mentioned above. So what can I do? This worker is clearly violating tenant’s quiet enjoyment and safety and the landlord is failing to act on it. Fortunately ring cameras were provided for all tenants (because the buildings are built more like duplexes rather than the traditional stairwell ones) so I have all of it on recording. When playing the footage I can’t even put my volume on max because my speakers sound like it’s about to blow…

This is unreal and I am begging for options!

So I moved into a newly constructed apartment home that almost has non existent sound proofing and the building was constructed with some of the cheapest and thinnest materials. I know when my downstairs neighbor is having a conversation because I’ll be able to hear them speak. Now it’s usually just very bare minimal mumble since they are not loud talkers. However when one of them sneezes it’s super loud.

But now it’s got me wondering. If I can hear them talking, then surely they can hear me talking too. But the question is, are the sound levels the same? Because sometimes I do talk about sensitive information at home and now I keep feel like I have to control my tone at a certain level just to avoid eavesdropping and be heard from downstairs. And really sometimes I’ll talk just slightly louder if it’s with someone I know well and we’re having a fun convo. But it feels intruding that someone might possibly be hearing what I’m saying.

So my question is, if airborne sounds transmit equally up and down, then the sound levels should be the same from both upstairs and downstairs right? Just because I am upstairs doesn’t necessarily mean that my downstairs neighbor can hear me anymore clearly then I can hear them right? How I hear them should be how they hear me correct? Because if this is the case, then I’ll be able to have an idea of what sound level I need to talk to prevent eavesdropping.

Maybe I’m just being paranoid after all lol.

A debt collections place has filed a lawsuit against me and I was served with a summons notice by the process server. I contacted the collections agency and worked out a payment plan with them. They told me they will be sending me the payment agreement over email for me to sign and they will then send that to the court to dismiss the case. They said in the email it will also attach a link for me to make the payments.

Everything sounded good. Until they kept ghosting me. I never received the email. I called them twice afterwards to follow up and the last call was placed on the day of my first payment. They confirmed my email address and told me their supervisor would be sending over the link and the agreement. I STILL haven’t received anything.

What is going on? I now feel irritated that I’m chasing after a collections agency that threatened to take me to court but definitely doesn’t seem like they’re interested in getting any of their money back after all. Plus, do they think this is a joke?

What would be the proper steps to take now? I’m not paying anything until I get the agreement like they promised, and most importantly - I can’t even make a payment because I have yet to received the link! Both times I have the phone conversation with them recorded just to cover my own butt. But I am out of ideas what more I can do at this moment?