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Should I add my name to a noise complaint when I haven't heard the noise myself?

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My neighbour sent me a draft email to the building manager: “The late-night music is keeping the whole floor awake.”

She had put my name underneath it.

I haven't heard the music. My bedroom is on the other side of the building, and I sleep with the door closed. She has sent me messages at midnight saying it has started again. I believe she is upset and tired; I can't independently describe what she heard.

When I asked to remove my name, she said, “You're saying you don't believe me.” That isn't what I mean. I would support the manager looking into her report, and I can say she has told me about repeated interruptions. I can't say they kept me awake.

She thinks an email from one flat will be easier to dismiss. I understand why she wants company. I'm hesitating because the draft turns my support for her into an account of an experience I didn't have.

Can I offer a separate sentence supporting an investigation while declining to sign this version? I'd like to help her be heard without making the group email less accurate.

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Offer the wording you can stand behind: “I haven't heard the music from my room, but my neighbour has reported repeated interruptions to me and I support looking into them.” She can decide whether that helps her email.

Not hearing it doesn't prove her room was quiet. Make that explicit if she feels disbelieved. Different room positions already provide one reason the two accounts could differ.

The draft could simply describe the affected flat rather than the whole floor. A precise single-household report isn't made stronger by adding people who cannot confirm its central sentence.

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