Neighbors littered the landing

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Living in apartment buildings can sometimes cause some inconvenience. Most often they are associated with the actions of people living in the neighborhood.

Loud noise, dirt in the entrance after renovation, constant screaming and swearing can serve as grounds for a complaint against neighbors. We'll tell you what to do if your neighbors litter the landing below.

General rules for cohabitation in apartment buildings

Who and for what purposes can use the common premises in the apartment building?

The Housing Code of the Russian Federation establishes the right of common ownership for shared use for residents of apartment buildings (MKD).

These include common corridors, staircases, attics, and basements.

All owners of apartments in MKD can use these places according to their share. However, such use must not harm it or disturb its neighbors.

In addition, residents must maintain the common property of the house in proper condition. It is important to comply with sanitary and fire safety standards.

Placement of things, furniture and other flammable materials on stairwells, corridors, utility rooms is not allowed. In addition, you must not interfere with access to other rooms, stairs, fire exits, or elevators.

Neighbors litter the landing - what to do?

If neighbors have crowded the landings with their belongings, making it difficult to pass, you should not ignore this. After all, clutter not only spoils the appearance of the site and interferes with passage, but also creates a fire safety hazard.

There are several ways to solve this problem:

conversation with neighbors;
contacting management companies;
complaint to the housing inspection
contacting the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire inspectorate;
application to the court.

Conversation with neighbors

What should you do if your neighbors clog the staircase in an apartment building?

It is better to start resolving the issue with peaceful negotiations with neighbors. You can ask them in a friendly manner to remove things that are bothering you.

Cluttering of a common corridor in an apartment building

In a house where the corridor space is shared, each of the neighbors can place their personal belongings in it. However, often, some residents place too many objects in the corridor, which also have impressive dimensions and violate sanitary standards. As a result of this behavior, the passage becomes cluttered and sometimes it is difficult for other neighbors to even get to the front door of their apartment. Also, incorrectly placed items can make it impossible to fully open the door.

A corridor cluttered with large objects not only causes discomfort in movement and gives the room an unaesthetic appearance, but is also a potential threat to the life and health of all residents for a variety of reasons. From a fire safety point of view, corridor spaces should not contain any things that could impede the free movement of people in the event of evacuation operations. After all, no one is immune from emergency situations.

Such items, which are carelessly dumped in a large pile, can serve as a wonderful place for rats, cockroaches and other organisms to breed and live, which pose a potential danger to the life and health of all neighbors. It can be very difficult and energy-consuming to remove such neighboring residents from the house.

Such situations require intervention and sometimes it is impossible to do without a complaint to the competent authorities.

What to do if your neighbors' littering in their apartment interferes with other residents?

You can complain about untidy neighbors not only when common areas in the house are cluttered. Article 30 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation gives all owners (tenants) of residential premises the obligation to comply with the prescribed sanitary, fire and other standards when using their apartment. The use of your apartment should not violate the interests of other residents.

If garbage has accumulated in a neighbor’s apartment and an unpleasant odor spreads throughout the house, then this is already a violation. Or when the neighbor’s balcony is so filled with things that there is a danger of them falling on passers-by. In all such cases, you can also seek help from the Criminal Code, housing inspections, and sanitary inspection authorities (Rospotrebnadzor).

How to obtain permission to use common property?

On the one hand, this may seem like bureaucracy, but in reality it is possible to obtain the right to dispose of common property only on the basis of a decision of the general meeting. Do you want to host it? Read Articles 44-48 of the RF Housing Code, and the desire will immediately disappear. It is almost impossible to gather half the residents, and even for such a trifle.

However, you can make a decision at a general meeting, for example, that storage of strollers, bicycles, scooters, etc. is allowed on certain sites. Fencing a common area is unacceptable. This means that you cannot install grilles, roller shutters, gates and other structures

How to make an application?

If your neighbors violate housing standards, you can complain about them to one of the above authorities. Oral appeals will not bring much results, so it is worth drawing up a written document.

The application can be drawn up by one person or collectively. In any case, it must indicate the body to which it is submitted and the details of the applicant(s).

Next, you should state the essence of the problem and point out the violating neighbors. The complaint must be signed by the person who made it. You can submit it in person, via mail or electronically if the addressee has such an opportunity.

When contacting various supervisory authorities and inspections, sample complaints can be found on their websites or directly at the organization’s office.

Littering of other common areas in apartment buildings

More serious authorities for filing a complaint if neighbors pollute and litter common areas with garbage and bulky items are the district police officer and the court. You should file a complaint with the local police officer when troublemakers refuse to remove their trash and deliberately avoid contact with employees of the Criminal Code, Rospotrebnadzor or the fire inspectorate. They do this in order not to receive appropriate instructions and restore order from competent organizations. As a result of this, a fine cannot be imposed on them, and therefore, the neighbors do not learn any punishment or lesson from their behavior. It is in these cases that a statement written in the name of the district police officer will help solve the problem. There is no sample of an exact statement here, so you can write it in free form. The main thing is to indicate who is writing the claim and tell in the descriptive part what the essence of the appeal is.

If there are several affected residents, then it makes sense to draw up a collective document that will contain the signatures and names of all citizens who want to punish their dirty neighbors.

The court is the most serious authority, where not just a complaint is drawn up, but a statement of claim, which indicates not only the essence of the problem, but also a request for punishment. In order for the statement to have more significant significance, it is worth attaching an evidence base, which will include:

photographs of a cluttered common home area;
letters addressed to offending neighbors asking them to clean up the area;
copies of statements and complaints that were previously sent to other organizations (Rospotrebnadzor, fire inspectorate, district police officer);
witness statements.

In cases where it comes to litigation, the result always leads to neighbors quickly cleaning up the stairwell or hallway, throwing out all the things that previously caused discomfort to the people living around them.

conclusions

Even when living in your own apartment, you should not forget about the interests of your neighbors and the rules for using residential premises in an apartment building.

If neighbors allow their violations, you can influence them in several legal ways. The main thing is to know about your rights and not be afraid to defend them.

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Discussion: 8 comments

Daniel says:
02.10.2017 at 17:21
The court is definitely useless here if you don’t have a video recording in which the faces are visible and it’s clear that it’s the neighbors who are littering the site. In other cases, there is no point in fighting legally. But I’ll give you a hint: when my cat shit on the floor, I dipped his face into his “products.” But in this case, you need to know exactly what you are doing and how you are doing it, so that the law does not get to you. But this is one of the effective ways, at least it works on cats))
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Lera says:
12/05/2017 at 00:34
Unfortunately, littering the landing is not the worst thing that neighbors can do all the time; it is very difficult to ensure that they are somehow influenced, usually they wave their hand at such things and do nothing.
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Anna says:
12/18/2017 at 12:03
We went through all the circles of hell with a similar question, but only one solution helped. I took all the trash outside. On the same day, the neighbors removed everything that was in their entrance and this has not happened again.
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Maria Lvovna says:
12/27/2017 at 00:20
I live in a dorm. The neighbors littered the hallway with old cabinets and refrigerators that should have been thrown away long ago. Persuasion did not help, then I complained to the fire inspectorate. The first time, they only warned the residents, and most of the trash moved to the landfill. Some neighbors did not part with their goods, but it still became more spacious.
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Dan says:
01/24/2018 at 14:37
Littering a stairwell is, first of all, blocking escape routes, and then placing potentially flammable objects in crowded areas. Roughly speaking, if a neighbor placed pieces of iron in the corridor, but you can walk past them, this will not be part of Art. 20.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation with reference to Art. 89 "Tech. regulations on fire requirements security." What is noteworthy is that not only the fire supervision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, but also construction supervision employees can draw up a protocol under this article - this is usually the corresponding division of the Main Construction Directorate of your subject of the Federation. In general, if some are not fined, feel free to call others.
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Vasily says:
02/09/2018 at 00:44
Unfortunately, it is often very difficult to come to an agreement with such neighbors. There was a similar situation and friendly conversations did not help. We also contacted the housing inspectorate, but it did no good, we had to threaten legal action and only then did the neighbors clean everything up. Although, after reading the article, I understand that suing for this is not as easy as it seems.
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Vlad says:
05/09/2018 at 20:49
Vasily, I’m sorry, there’s no need to negotiate with anyone!!!! You’ve probably seen how people (shown on TV more than once) from the third floor and above / “have fun” jumping out of windows - and, as a rule, “to pieces”! Why, well, you might think Why did I run up the stairs without breathing for two or three floors and still they are jumping!!!! And modern “shit”, it’s unclear what kind of plastic will create such fumes, such a smell, even an outwardly beautiful baby stroller or an old refrigerator that can “just explode” and the door fillers can easily be poisoned “several times” the entire entrance and where are the corpses, citizens there is damage and prison and prove that it was not your stroller that caused your neighbor to die in the entrance!!!! But all it takes to go to jail is that in the fire inspection report it was written that in the entrance there was a stroller made by so-and-so, made from ..... which, when burned, releases ..... which could be the cause of, say, the loss of consciousness of citizen so-and-so and that’s it... we’ve arrived!!! If you wash yourself off, you’ll prove that you’re not a camel!!!! And these citizens are very serious!!!!! It seems like it’s worth running two floors there!!! Any thing left in the entrance and in a calm environment will not even create any obstacles for you, but in the event of a fire in the smoke, with your eyes closed and arms outstretched, you go to hell knows where and in a panic and you stumble over something, say a pipe heated to white heat or burning clothes and you fall and then you get up? And where to go you will find - the time is allotted for you to breathe for a second!!!! So much for the mess in the entrance - these are citizens, death is one hundred percent death, and where is the guarantee that through this “mess” through this old refrigerator that is a pity to throw away, it is not your child’s relative who will die or the court will not find you guilty???? Therefore, the Laws directly prohibit littering entrances!!!! And how serious is the fire? I’ll tell you that a car burns for 2 minutes, it seems like oh how long does it take to open the door and fall out!!!!! But I didn’t see anything “falling out”, but the corpses are still burning in the interiors as always and behind the wheel!!!! Citizens, think this very seriously!!!!! I’m not a firefighter, no, but earlier when I worked I often had to go to fires - orders obliged me - I was looking for crime!!!! So citizens, take care of yourself, respect yourself, your life is in your hands and even slippers in the entrance can cause death, this is very serious and without laughter!!!! broke it, jumped off the second floor balcony, only broke his legs, got off lightly only because he was “slightly sober”!!!! how he falls and how he gets up and walks and how he falls and hits his head on the asphalt but gets up swearing and walks!!!! And the next day, apart from minor abrasions and a sore head from a hangover, he has nothing!!!! But you try it sober fall like a drunk - try to fall once and you will hurt yourself so much that you may even get a concussion or even be put in the hospital!!!! This is an explanation of why he survived!!!! That's it, citizens!!!! All the garbage in the entrance from the category “I’ll sell it to someone, give it away, then take it to the dacha, or let it sit there and not bother anyone” is, citizens, your death and in all seriousness, no jokes! Citizens, the most precious thing is stupidity and greed, so take care of yourself and respect yourself!!!!! What about suing your neighbor? Citizens, don’t try to prove to a fool that he’s a fool, he simply won’t believe you!!!! There is a Law on Appeals, go write and ask everyone to take action!!!! For this there are competent authorities for this, so let them deal with this issue! They are experts in this, if necessary, a fireman will write a report on a person whose even the door is made of the wrong material, and the sanitary and epidemiological station will find a bunch of reasons to “give birth” to a bunch of protocols - they studied for this, this is their “bread” and the cards are in their hands, and prevention is a “necessary” thing and it’s better to draw up a protocol than then to extinguish the whole house!!!! After all, how are the firefighters? “The more a firefighter sleeps, the better he works!!! This means his prevention is top notch!!!!
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Vlad says:
05/09/2018 at 21:16
But I remembered a long time ago, it was back under socialism, I went to a fire on a nine-story building, well, the modern one with lodges is typical! The firemen were already there!!! Well, I drove up in my own way and started collecting material / in our own way, it’s a crime, not a crime / well, it was burning like that to myself!!! And then I remember a man jumping from the sixth floor loggia!!!! I don’t know what I was thinking - it’s unlikely to survive from such a height!!!! So that’s why I remember the fire - when he hit the ground, his low shoe flew onto 3rd floor to the loggia!!!! Such impact force!!!! So, citizens, don’t create problems for yourself!! The fewer burning objects in the entrance, the fewer sources of obstacles, the more chances you have to jump out of the burning entrance!!!!! And who is curious about what a modern refrigerator is? / you see it in the trash, tear it apart and take a small part of the inner filling with a match, light it and sniff it - you will like it - your eyes will sting as if they are not there and you will cough as if you want to spit out your own stomach and your throat will burn as if you drank at least acid!! !! And the mess in the entrance is very serious and it’s better not to experience its “consequences” yourself!!!!
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