As a resident of an apartment building on Wertland Street, I was prepared for the parties and loud noises that they bring. However, I did not expect to be living next to people who probably party as hard as the 1990s Miami Hurricane football team. Our neighbors, apart of a certain UVa sports team which I will not name, party all the time. It has been two years and the music has not stopped. Ever. There is music every night, every morning, and even during finals.
These people are living their party lives to the fullest, but our apartment struggles to study, watch movies, and sleep. Not only is there a negative externality on us, but also on them. Last year was the worst year in this team's history and it is not surprising that the star players happen to be our neighbors. Living in this apartment complex, the social marginal benefit goes down even though it is in a great location. Our demand for wanting to pay goes down.
Regardless of our noise complaints, lodged to our landlord, the music continued to play. One of my roommates ran into them the other day and the neighbors were actually pretty chill. In fact, they said that if we ever had a problem with them playing music too loud then we can just knock on the door and ask them to politely turn it down and they would do so. Ever since, the music has been turned down and I have actually started becoming friends with one of them.
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