Falsely accused of being a noisy neghbor.

My husband and I are in the same kind of situation:

We received a notice and phone call from the landlord stating the we have been overly noisy (saying that there have been loud fights that sound like domestic abuse at 3 -4 AM) and threatened that if it does not stop they will evict us.

We have never had any heated discussions, fights, arguments or anything else that could even remotely be considered loud nor have we even turned on our stereo. We watch our TV at normal listening levels that cannot even be heard outside of the unit door. Both my husband and I are flabbergasted at these accusations. My husband leaves the apartment at around 5 am every morning to go workout and then goes to work, I am up at 7 am every morning and go to work by 9am. We both go to bed around 9:30 – 10 pm every night even on the weekends, there are only the 2 of us there and we have no visitors, kids or animals. They have said they will call the cops if we do not stop……….I said please do, because there is no noise or problem in our home to report.

This building is not very well built and you hear the upstairs and downstairs tenants all the time, but it is hard to tell in this building where the noise is coming from unless you stand in front of someone’s door. I know that we are being falsely accused and I want to know how we can protect ourselves. Can the landlord evict us just because someone is saying we are the problem, even when there is no proof of that?

my wife and I are faced with a similar issue.

My wife and I have, up to this point, been renting an apartment since July last year. 
Since our initial move in, our family has been through a lot. Life has sure been throwing us some curveballs. Our daughter was in the hospital for the first 8 months of her life, fighting every day to live another. Due to fatigue and stress, the first few months we lived here; my wife and I openly fought and argued. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for my neighbors to live nearby. For that, I have sincerely apologized.
The issue at hand, however, is that once the noise complaints began.. they kept rolling on in, falsely. My daughter came home from the hospital in December. It seem like an immediate change for us (for the better) The fighting stopped, and we began to act as a family again. 
But, once those first initial complaints were filed, in November, they have continued.. even until now. My wife and I have literally been tip-toeing in our own home for several months now. And the complaints have still been rolling in. 
The management in our complex show no concern in verifying if the complaint accusations are even true or not, and it has gotten to the point i am beginning to wonder where some of the accusations could even link to my family at all. The complaints we tried to argue and have actually proven to be inaccurate, the management claims they cannot remove. 
I feel a picture has begun to be painted, falsely depicting my family as being an uncontrolled nuisance.
This last week, the management asked that we begin to look for a different place to live. Due to the mass amounts of noise complaints we have received, they are evicting us.
Noise complaints that are not true! That the management has neglected to even prove to be really us or not! For instance, the complaint that broke the ice, was because a group of ‘party animals’ who live across from our balcony were outside, drunk. My wife and I smoked a cigarette together before we went to bed. She laughed at something obscene they said to is across the way.. and we received the move out request the next day. Ironically, neither of us drink.
I do not appreciate the picture this paints of my family and my home life. I have already spoken with several immediate neighbors, who are all willing to vouch and/or testify that the noise complaints have been falsified.
I do plan on fighting this eviction. If it is necessary that we move, so be it. But not without a fight!
It is stupid to even think about moving! My daughter’s health in mind, I just will not do it! 
My rights have been basically removed as far as the ability to defend myself. I just pray to God this all works out.

Hello my name is Brandon. I live in a downstairs apartment with my girlfriend of 5 years to be married as soon as i can find a cheaper apartment or house. Anyway to the problem this is my first time in a down stairs apartment, I used to live upstairs but when I tried to get out of here we just couldn’t come up with the money so we stayed and were forced to move into this apartment due to other tenants had already leased the apartment even though they never saw it and never showed up on date I was told either way. I met the new neighbors to the top right and bottom right no problem my girlfriend and I are actually really good friends with my bottom right neighbors. Then come the neighbors above me, a woman with 2 kids OK so what you know but then it starts to get really noisy kids running frantically above not just playing but kids will be kids I understand this, but the mother as well I swear the lady never learned how to walk up right it sound like a heard of elephants. So the one night I knock on the door and was greeted by another lady, who opened the door and immediately said its not a good time, so i passionately asked her if they could keep it down and be a little more neighborly and consider that there is someone living below you and she said this isn’t a good time her mother just passed and her husband not far before, I said i understand that but and then a door got slammed in my face. Call me crazy but wow, anyway then about a week or two later i let it go that night and then the noises just got worse from then on so i knocked again, my mistake of course. I am now standing at the door the lady is freaking out and telling some guy to answer the door , so he come down smelling of bourbon and obviously drunk and gets in my face and says who the He$$ are you to be knocking on my door You need to get the F^%$ off my property, I reply sure im in front of my door there for not your property anyway, could you please keep it down a little. The man of at least 50 then says well you need to take it to the apartments and I said you’d rather me report you then ask you as a man and a human being. Then he starts yelling again I lost my temper I felt as if I was being threatened so I got in his face and said if you keep it up im gonna call the cops I do not have time for this petty Sh^t. So I raised my voice obviously and still never called the cops my girlfriend came outside and pulled me inside while my neighbor sat on my couch and heard it all. The next day my girlfriend got a call from the manager of the apartment, telling her to tell me I cant threaten the lady up stairs, and the lady fears for her live she called the apartment and cried hysterically even though i never talked to her and the only threat I made was I would call the police, so now I received a a cease to stop for both night, the times are wrong and the date, and also I could be evicted if it happens again, even though my story was never heard I never got a phone call. The manager wouldn’t even listen to my girlfriend she said she wasn’t gonna loose a good tenant even though they just moved in and I had been there 3 years, and that the lady went through allot of hardship’s with her mother and her husband passing. OK my father was in the hospital for the past 3 weeks during all of this I’m running his company picking up the slack that’s a hardship , my girlfriends mother just got out of a cancer surgery which could have gone either way that’s a hardship. We all have hardships it affects us all differently but that is no reason to falsely accuse a man of a threat and get him evicted. The manager never contacted me about anything and called my girlfriend a liar basically taking sides without hear the other side how does that work I have two witnesses when they have non but I’m in question cause I threatened to call the police. What do you think any tips let me know please I don’t want to lose my apartment due to a liar and her alcoholic boyfriend or father or whatever, and manager on a hate trip . Thank you for reading this if you do and any info would help. Sincerely Brandon

OK> I can relate with all these situations, we are going through the same with a lady downstairs getting the landlord involved before talking to us directly because she has a hatred of animals (which we have 2 professionally trained, well behaved dogs), trying to get us evicted, and knocking on the floor at 2 pm on a Saturday for vacuuming,… ridiculous. But, how do you handle these kind of people? I’ve tried reasoning with her insanity, still no luck. Suggestions on dealing with people like this?