An ideal style of relationship with a neighbor is to live side by side, but not interfere with each other's life. To be like water and oil. To achieve this, one must not only observe impeccable courtesy, but also not let aggressors, psychological or physical, into their territory.
Instruction manual
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Pronounce your intentions clearly. The neighbors have good hearing and eagle eyesight, but they cannot read our thoughts. Therefore, about your intentions - to start a repair, change pipes, celebrate a housewarming or birthday - you need to inform in advance. It’s easy to post an ad by the elevator on the ground floor. Going to the meticulous pensioner from below and dancing the pade of a polite neighbor informing about tomorrow's noise is even easier. Attention, lack of attention and incomplete awareness are the stumbling blocks in communication with most neighbors, especially of retirement age.
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Do not follow the provocateurs. Scandalists and gossips are a fairly common type of neighbor. They offer to collect signatures, compose collective letters to the management company, or call the district policeman for a rowdy or owner of an hourly apartment, and then hide in the bushes. Or, much worse, they begin to establish friendly relations with the “victim”. No need to feed vampires with your energy. It is better to stop all discussions with polite and indifferent remarks: "Thank you for the information, but I don’t have time for this. I’ll think about what can be done."
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Feel free to contact the police. Many people forget about their civil rights or are afraid of revenge, preferring to endure drunks who relieve themselves in the entrance, drug addiction or not quite a healthy person who collects garbage or experiments with combustible substances. If a personal conversation with the public troublemaker was fruitless, he should be warned of possible sanctions. One only needs to remember that all domestic conflicts are usually mutual. And forceful methods of solving problems should be addressed only when the diplomatic have exhausted themselves.
note
In order not to fall on a hook to a watchful neighbor (and sometimes just a brawler and a bum), you need to remember polite little things: wait for the person in the elevator, open the door to the entrance.
Useful advice
Joint work on landscaping or landscaping the entrance will unite the residents. Although it is best brought together by a common enemy. So discussions about unreasonably overpriced rents or lack of janitors are a nutrient solution for neighborly relations.
