That thoroughly sucks about the vibration, that would drive me completely insane, you have my sympathies for whatever that’s worth.

And about your neighbor calling you “passive aggressive”: bullshit, your sign is good old fashioned aggressive, nothing passive about it. In fact the only thing passive aggressive that I see here is his little “good neighbor” sign. What a prick.

2) There was never a genuine offer of mediation.

3) the only issue is the equipment they’ve installed on the roof and they know it. Either they are willing to take it down or they aren’t. What would be the point of mediation?

4) the owners of Schmidts have lied about my roommate on the News, she isnt eager to be in the same room as them.

We lived in beautiful harmony with the El Faro market for years. They cooked in the back and there was never any problem. One day the landlord decided to take a stab at running a restaurant and evicted our convenient little market/ take out food place downstairs. He got some partners to front for him and open a beer bar in it’s place. We protested and got the neighborhood together to sign a letter, we successfully put a hold on the beer and wine license.

About a year went by and we were contacted by David Peirce and his wife, believe her name is Christine Schmidt, about how they wanted to take over the space but our hold on the license was still in place. Should have smelled a rat there. They promised us that they cared about the other people in the building and that they’d be good neighbors. they said we could always talk to them about any problem and that we’d always get a healthy discount when we ate there. I love beer and German food so I was falling in love with these guys. I talked my roommates into retracting their objection to the alcohol license.

Within a week Schmidt’s installed some loud equipment on to the roof of our building that made our whole flat shake like a buss was going by non stop for 16 hours a day. I didn’t think anything of it, I figured all I had to do was show my new buddy David Peirce and get it sorted out.

I called him up and he came over and felt the vibrations. He said that he’d get right on it and have his fan guy come out as soon as possible to fix it. After a few days of no action and no reply to emails my roommate called a city inspector out to check it out. The inspector in his notes says that the fan isn’t loud enough to violate the noise ordinance and while there is a noticeable vibration unfortunately there is no “vibration ordinance”. Seeing that they weren’t technically in violation of any law Schmidt’s decided to do nothing about the vibration for months until it cased my roommate to have a nervous breakdown. I don’t want to go into any details about my roommates’ breakdown but quickly after the police were called out they finally had the equipment repaired. Even though the vibration has been reduced and can only be felt in a couple of rooms now we still have to live with the noise and Schmidt’s couldn’t care less about the way they’ve shaken our lives apart.

I ask you, do you think Schmidt’s are good or bad neighbors?