How long until they can evict/throw us out of the apartment?

We live in a fairly large apartment complex in Washington (the state), and the neighbors below us seem to be playing a game with complaints. I reported to the office one day after they had music blairing from 7am. I reported it at 3pm, giving them a bit of leeway, assuming they just wanted to enjoy a day off, but at 3pm (and after repeatedly knocking at their door for 20 minutes), I had to call the office. Apparently the office didn't have the authority to use their key to go in and turn it off, and the music went on until 9pm. I chose to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they may have had the music on in the shower and just forgot to turn it off when they went to work that day, and I only called the office because I was hoping they had the authority to just go in and turn it off. Since then, they've placed two complaints on us without even knocking at the door. The complaints say "loud noises" with no explanation of time or what the possible cause would be, and they didn't knock on our door to ask us to stop first either time. I feel like they only placed them to get back for our complaint, especially becausue I'm not sure what the problem is. We have a puppy and he's hard to control sometimes: he'll get on a running spree and be impossible to catch and if we try to constrain him, we can stop his barking. I feel like if only I could explain this to them (along with why we reported them that time), they'd have a little compassion and we could even because friends! Anyway, back to my main question: what is the usual limit that we as tenants have? Can they evict us for having a certain number of complaints? Is that number set by the owners of the apartment or the government (local or state)?

1 month ago - 1 answers