u/Ill_Possible_7740

Jersey City, NJ. Criminal neighbor that lived in the condo below me sprayed commercial chemicals into my home and car for 6 days. There were most likely 2 different ones. Definitely 2, but can't confirm if there was any more than that. So, basically my home and everything I own is contaminated. I haven't been home in over 6 months.

Looking for places that won't try to take advantage and rip me off or over charge. As well as reliable and competent. This is NJ afterall. Any one who's lived in north east NJ knows why I'm complaining.

1. Option 1, company that can come in and field test the air for unknown chemicals with some kind of chromatograph or similar equipment. Chemical sniffer.
2. Option 2, a lab that I can send stuff to be tested.

As far as labs go, I'm waiting to hear back from the Rutgers lab that has what I think is the right equipment. Emailed them. No reply for 2 days so far. Will try to call if I get the energy.

Looked up what kinds of equipment can field test for unknown chemicals. Tried to find companies that have them. Basically not used for residential projects at the companies I found with them so far.

Most places I came across that do chemical testing, send to a lab to test for VOCs. I don't know if they were VOCs or not which makes it unreliable if it doesn't detect something.

Contacted the Association of Vapor Intrusion Professionals. No help Nor was JCPD, state EPA, HAZMAT, state and local departments of health and human services, insurance company, NJ dept. of community affairs.

Neighbor and his associates most likely are involved with a chop shop so my best guess is autoshop related solvents. One is extremely volatile and near instantly turns to vapor. The other was likely semi-volatile as it left a clear film on the kitchen floor I could see when the sunlight came into the window at an angle in the morning. First thought was VOCs. But I bought a home air monitor off Amazon with a VOC sensor and detected nothing. Unreliable but convenient, I gave google AI a shot for tentative quick and easy info. It did say there are some VOCs that may not be detected as they are kinda off on the side so to speak. Hail Mary candidate for the semi-volatile one is an isocyanate. Has the physical properties of the chemical, the physical reactions to it, and the cognitive reactions, the permanent chemical sensitization, rapidly kicking off my Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma activity that I believe was being held in check by Mounjaro for the previous 3 years. And said it may not be detected by VOC sensors for some reason that I forget off hand. Maker of my air quality monitor said they can't say if it would detect an isocyanate or not since they were not tested against it. Easily detects rubbing alcohol so I do know it is working.

Could potentially be some kind of pesticides but didn't go that far down that path. Do know he and his wife were from Brooklyn. And there were issues in brooklyn with pesticides being sold illegally and may have been used in crimes. But, Brooklyn is a well populated place so that would be highly speculative and can't assume it. Just can't write it off either.

The chemicals were chosen for a reason. By the time the cops get there, the second one would air out and they wouldn't be able to smell it. But, I was sensitized by repeat exposure and able to. Didn't realize I had developed Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Hyperosmia till I got out of state and dish soap and rubbing alcohol were over powering with their smell. Yet could not smell a sulfur based supplement that had gone bad, sticking my nose in the bottle. While my father could smell it from over 10 ft. away. And my step mother literally gagged when she smelled it. I took one before that.

The cops could have smelled the other chemical, if they weren't useless. Skipping that whole explanation. Cleaned up the semi-volatile one as I assumed my neighbor was done with his crap and wanted to reduce potential issues from it. If I knew I'd end up needing to lab test it, I would have left the residue on the floor or tried to collect a sample first. But, 6 days later I could still smell it anyway.

Research is very difficult as my life was destroyed twice over before having to deal with my neighbor for over a year. Then the longer chemical assault (had sprayed some before but not like those 6 days). Anyways, threw a bunch of stuff thrown further out of whack physiologically that adds onto being cognitively disabled even before these events.

Looking to go genocidal on poison Ivy in my neighborhood. There are several sprayable products that claim to be safe around pets and water. But, if there is one or more that people with an environmental science background would tend to prefer. I'd rather use one of those. What would you use?

Last time my father killed some poison ivy, it killed off half the turtle population in our pond. Also, poison ivy is mixed with other plants, grasses, and trees up and down my neighborhood. I know it is not possible to only hit the poison ivy leaves so if one product is more sparing of other plant life than another. That would be optimal. Assuming the options would be safe for dogs that get walked by these areas daily and other animals that may come into contact with it.

After 50+ years, just found out about controlling my "Tensor Tympani" muscles is how this works, and that other people can do it too. Assumed others could. Finally found people who know WTF I am talking about!!

Have zero idea if there is any correlation between any of these things at all. Just figure if they were a cluster of things for me, maybe they are for others too, or not.

1. Can rumble ears at will

2. Better than average hearing, may even perceive something if not able to identify something soft enough as a sound.

3. CRT monitors were set at 60Hz by default. Yet, on a white screen could perceive flicker up to 85Hz. 60 to 75 Hz wasn't subtle. Looked like the monitors were broken they was so bad.

4. Less noteworthy, but mine as well throw this in as it goes with number 3. Strobe lights suck.

5. Can anyone else sometimes hear low frequency rumbling or just low frequencies in general that others don't pick up on?

[ Optional extraneous anecdotes and explanations below ]

I can rumble my ears as long as I want, can go louder or softer. Not totally smooth transitioning up and down, louder and softer in intensity. But can do it well enough (I'm sure we could be smooth with it if practiced). Can pulse beats with varying intensities like following a rap or thrash metal song in my head. Haven't tried to master it. Just used it often enough.

As a kid in the 80s they did yearly hearing tests. And I could always if not hear, but perceive 2 to 3 tones softer than what they expected for normal hearing. Made it hard for kids to sneak up on me. Which made me understand the old saying that you could never sneak up on an indian. Because living in nature and needing fine tuned hearing to identify danger or prey for hunting, they probably developed good finely tuned hearing. That didn't have the noise of the western world to ruin it. Totally ruined it in middle school and regretted it the rest of my life, so far.

CRT monitors, if you're that old. A white screen up to 85hz I could still perceive flicker. Looking straight on. I know peripheral vision is more sensitive to motion, which is why whenever I was trying to see if something was moving or not, I'd turn my head and look near it so peripheral vision would pick up something moving or not. But, staring straight in front of a CRT monitor, it was still flickering. When I bought my first computer, first thing I looked up on the internet was how to stop flicker on a computer monitor. Especially since I paid extra for a good one since I assumed it had less chance to be an issue. As a software engineer. I refused to discuss anything on another person's computer till they turned up the refresh rate. This wikipedia article has a name for it. "Flicker fusion threshold"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold

Strobes lights. Even before they started reducing rates to not trigger epileptics. (late '90s) they were not smooth. Eyes and/or brain were just on another frequency and could not mesh. If strobes went on, I'd take a break from the pit. (dance floor for those non hardcore punks or metalheads). Was actually kind of a safety issue as I couldn't see where things were and may not be able to get out of the way of someone else. Or might unintentionally clock someone else.

Not 100% sure it's not just something wrong with me vs. actually perceiving something. Live in an urban area where there is potential for low frequency stuff. Notice when things are quiet enough, overnight especially. Lots of highways, trains, construction, industrial zones, international airport, @#$%$#!s who blast their car stereo at literal concert levels in the middle of the night at pop up parties. Sometimes notice physical vibrations that I assume are transmitted through the ground, and vibrate enough to be perceived in a second floor condo. Freight train is one source. But, quite often I don't know what the source is. Then again, wife didn't notice the minor earthquake we had in NJ a few years ago. "How did you not notice that earthquake?". She didn't notice the aftershock either. When I found out it happened in "Tewksbury". I left out the fact that that was the name of an ex girlfriend, who had boobs the size of her head. Wow, that really devolved pretty fast. Even for NJ.

[Edit, I could have phrased it better. I am looking for an existing app recommendation to find a bluetooth tracker]

Trying to determine if there is a bluetooth tracker in my car or not. Some built in feature on my pixel phone detected one but didn't see any way to determine where it was. I hit the feature that is supposed to make it sound off, but after that I didn't detect it. Could be a custom feature to better prevent it from being found for all I know. Or a false reading from the start. Need a better app that can follow the signal strength if one is detected.

Problem is, don't trust apps in general so hard to determine which are good and which to avoid. Hence, ask people who may know better than I.

I do have a legit reason to believe my car could have a tracker. That whole story is not beneficial to explain it all. Will say, tracker would be from an organized criminal group involved in stealing cars and other things. They do have a FOB relay and were able to get in my car at least 2 times. So their tracker may be more sophisticated than a run of the mill criminal.