things that go beep in the night and then some.

[Colleen F.]

Ok so I am stumped. I have a tenant complaining of a periodic beep in a 5 unit building. I can hear it, other tenants hear it occasionally but she hears it night and day every 15 to 45 minutes for like 1 second. The building has a fire lite MS-4 fire alarm but neither the inspector or the manual report this as an alarm this unit makes and the panel is green lighted. The emergency lights don't have a beeper and we have stood in front of the Verizon Fios boxes, septic alarm, Battery CO alarm and it wasn't coming from them. It doesn't seem to be in her apartment and when you sit in the front hall it seems to be referred to the upstairs but when you go upstairs it seems to be below you. What else can beep like this? None of the other tenants complain so I don't think it is coming from their apartments and she says it hasn't happened before. We are relatively new owners and put in a call to the old owner but I am open to suggestions.

[Colleen F.]

Ok so notice it is December.... the saga of the beep continues.

I had the fire alarm company out twice--nothing wrong with the system, no beep, they go away... tenant says it is beeping again.

So I have a locksmith there one day and jokingly tell him let me know if you hear a beep. I come back and he says there is a beep behind the TV so I look and tenant has a Verizon box that I thought was in the basement. I call her and say its your Verizon box. So she calls me back can I take the battery out of the box that is what the Verizon Fios person says has to be done....now I don't work for Verizon and it is not my cable but I happen to be onsite one day the next week and she still doesn't have it out so I help her remove it because even though the beep is driving her crazy she has waited a week.... Ok so no beep for a bit

Then she says it is beeping again.. I am going to pull my hair out and I can't hear this beep.. So now mind you I changed the smoke alarm and battery too. Anyway today, my husband goes down to troubleshoot another issue and there are a bunch of people standing in the apartment and they hear the beep and collectively they decided it came from smoke alarm. I am going to replace the thing again and see where that gets us... All I can think is it is a plot to make me crazier then I already am...