How to deal with tenants with noisy pets

[Dan Beck]

Hey BiggerPockets community,

I own a small apartment building and I occupy the lower level unit. I’ve never had problems with previous tenants.

However, my new tenants have three cats who get quite noisy at night. They run around and make a lot of noise around 1:00 am. I usually go to bed at 10 pm, so staying up late is obviously not an option.

They just signed their 1-year lease and I don’t want to wait so long. I talked to them and they apologized, said they feel really sorry, but they don’t know what to do.

What can I do as a landlord? I don’t want to start the eviction process based on the noise nuisance since it’s lengthy and complicated.

I was considering simply asking them to move out and pay their moving fees since they just moved in.

Thanks