Neighbor Will Not Stop Disrespecting The Lease Agreement And Landlord Is Not Effective In Doing Anything About It.

I'm at my wits end here. I live in low income apartments and I have a narcissistic neighbor (probably a sociopath to be honest) that will not stop harassing me.

Some backstory:

This all started in Jan. 2023 when I finally got fed up with the volume of music that my neighbor played next door. The apartment complex I live in is an old refurbished motel and the walls are extremely thin such that you can hear just about anything that's going on in the other units. And he has a bass that belongs in a Honda Civic with a fart can muffler, not in a paper thin walled apartment.

So that Jan. I walked over to his place and asked him to turn his music down, or at the very least the bass, which shakes the whole apartment complex. Literally, not figuratively. This was not the first time I asked, and he had been somewhat compliant with the lease standards previously, but not this time. Instead of turning it down he threatened to mace me with pepper spray. That was the first time I called the police.

That Summer I spent most of the season between calling the police and asking my landlord to do something about it. And the harassment even increased. Every chance he got he'd bang on my door as he walked by as hard and as loud as he could, he'd stare at me through my window every time he passed, and he'd call me a "snitch" every time I reported him or.passed by him. The list goes on and on.

The police told me they can do nothing about it because technically he's not breaking the law. They advised me to try to get a recording of the situation and to take him to court to get a stalking order. Not a restraining order, mind you, but a stalking order. And only after a judge signed off on the stalking order could the police do anything about his behavior.

My landlord, although her heart MAY be in the right place, is not effective in getting anything done in regards to tenant issues and harassment. At least not in this situation. And to add to that I was a bit of a psychological mess when I first arrived at the apartment on a Section 8 voucher coming from homelessness. So maybe she either secretly or unconsciously thinks the neighbor's behavior is justified. But to add to all that, she enables her alcoholic roommate, who's a friend of my neighbor, who colludes with the neighbor to harass me.

Like I said, it's low income apartments, so most people here are people with psychological issues, or come from a dysfunctional family background. And so it's the case that I'm the one that often gets framed as the "asshole," because like children of alcoholics, the "family" blames the truth speaker instead of the perpetrator. And the landlord is not unique in this. We have had real heart to heart conversations about both of our backgrounds. She literally came from an abusive and alcoholic family dynamic. I myself came from a situation where there was psychological abuse amplified by illness, pharmaceutical use, and that was amplified by alcohol as well. Luckily very little physical abuse, but with how messed up the psychological abuse was, I almost would have preferred it.

I have tried to make peace with the landlord and staff. I even made them some product from the business I'm starting. A value of at least over $70 after time and labour. I gave it to them explicitly stating that I wanted to make peace i.e. I made certain the way gave it to them could not be misconstrued as some sort of manipulative or influence tactic, but as an authentic request to make things right. And I meant it, to the best of my ability, for the situation as it stood. . I have recorded almost every single incident. Written down every malfeasance. Recorded on audio what I can with my limited smart phone mic, and I've even got him on film glaring at me as he walks by my window. I'm really not interested in taking time out of my busy schedule to go through all the court nonsense, and don't trust that the local courts will even pass the stalking charge. I barely trust the corrupt court system as it is in this city.

I've thought about reaching out to the owners of the apartments, but they are a company out of state, and I'm not sure they'd even care. I would prefer to do things above board, and although egregiously ineffective I don't want to go above my landlord's head, who has tried to be understanding. But nothing gets done long term. And I'm looking at another Summer of this nonsense. By the lease agreement he really should have been kicked out years ago, and the landlord even said that she has been dealing with this issue with his music for at least 10 years.

Looking for any and all advise on the situation, legal or otherwise. Thank you.