Neighbor Issues

Ever have issues with a neighbor that you just couldn't seem to resolve? People in nearby apartments that broke city sound ordinances or dealt drugs in their living rooms, or anything like that? Were you the annoying neighbor that no one could stand?

I can abide noise most of the time, but not from hypocrites who claim they only listen to classical music on Sunday "to reverence the sabbath." I also cannot abide that which my downstairs neighbor from 2 years ago did - practice his electric guitar, very loud, and at all hours of the day/night, and practice poorly and sound awful.

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I've had no problems with my neighbours, but I can only imagine that they've been annoyed with "us" a few times due to my brother's drum kit that lies in my house. It's all dusty and all now, but when it was first purchased, I really felt for my neighbours, both because of the noise and the...err...bad playing. And that's putting it nicely.

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I haven't had problems with my neighbors at all, although there have been times when my parents have at home, especially when living between a Bar and a Grocery store. The neighbors to the north bothered them for a while, but things worked out better after they built the berm.

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I used to live under a band, and they were more considerate than the guy who moved in after them. He ran a Dojo, and man.....one night, some idiots decided to call him out at 2AM. The way the place was laid out, the door to his apartment was next to mine. I was NOT happy.

The place I live in now is relatively quiet, although I can hear music from the back apartment in my bedroom (other side of the building). It's not all the time, so I don't mind.

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I'm pretty sure that when I lived in Fresno, all our neighbors complained all the time. A whole semester before I started attending college myself back in 1999 I lived with a couple of friends 2 blocks from Fresno State. Every single night we had people over drinking, strobe light on, music mildly loud, poker games until 3 am and lots of substance abuse.

I left after one semester there but they stayed there and kept their joint going for 3 years without so much as a warning notice. I guess people were far too kind in that building.

I was speaking idiomatically.

When I lived on campus last year, the flat above us used to constantly bang on the ceiling through out the night. Not to mention being loud, drunk and abusive in all other hours. We politely asked them a few times to keep it down, stop banging on the ceiling etc etc but after about four months to no avail we just lost our temper and decided it best to use a different approach. We plugged my flat amps into my computer and blasted Emperor through the ceiling until they called campus security, who we had already explained our plan to. They told them why should they do anything if they themselves where being inconsiderate to us ^_^ they stopped bothering us after that.

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I hate DeadSky's current neighbours in Wales. Whenever I'm over there I can constantly hear the guy who lives there shouting abuse at his wife and kids. I get on the edge of calling the NSPCC (social workers) when he really gets going at his children but it's probably overeacting...

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The two guys in the dorm next to mine are good people, but they are obnoxious and loud at night. I'd be happy to be able to say I can count on one hand the number of occasions on which I've had to gone in their room and told them to stfu.

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Our neighbours to the right of us have a dog that will just not be quiet. I understand that it is not the dogs fault and that it's barking is like us talking, but it does it all day every day. The neighbours don't seem to know how to keep it quite, they even had a dog trainer in at one point, but that didn't make any difference. We also fell out with them over something else as well, but we're not sure what. They just gave us the cold shoulder one day, and barely speak to us since then. I prefer it that way, don't like them much anyway.

The neighbours to the left of us have a habit of playing their music really loudly into the wee hours of the morning, well at leas they used to. I haven't heard it so much lately.

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I currenty live in the basement apartment of my brother's house, he and his wife have two kids and boy to they make a racket! When more children come to visit it pratically sounds like a stampede upstairs!

Thank goodness I am moving to my new house in a few days.

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I haven't had any serious issues with neighbors, but there's a woman who lives in the house next to my parents who can't seem to stay inside her home while talking on the phone. Whenever I visit my parents, I typically hear her talking on the phone quite loudly around seven or eight in the morning. I suppose she's been like that for a long time and enjoys talking outside, but I normally don't need an alarm anymore whenever I come home.

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My husband and I have trouble with the guy downstairs. We try our best to keep it down (sometimes coming in conflict with our own friends who want the TV on louder than we permit). Even if we keep it down, he still gets mad and hits his ceiling/our floor with (in my mind) a broom.

Here's a typical scenario:
*1-3am*
Koneko walks around her apartment, picking up laundry or otherwise just walking around normally. Maybe she goes into the kitchen for a snack.
*THUMP, THUMP*
Koneko and husband finally go to bed around 2-4am. The bed frame is an antique and creaks when we climb into bed. We whisper goodnight to each other and get into our respective sleeping positions (rolling over and facing opposite ways).
*THUMP, THUMP* (once he even yelled "SHUT UP!!!")

We've had 2 offical complains, one was a call from the landlord telling us there was a complaint and the other was a letter. The call was months and months ago when we first moved in. My old car also faced plenty of vandalism (until my husband went down and asked the neighbor if he was responsible. The guy denied it but the vandalism stopped).

This neighbor has also taken to slamming his door repeatedly at around 5am or blasting the Disney Channel so loud, I can clearly hear the TV as if it were in my living room. These revenge tactics are employeed intermittenly, but the *THUMP, THUMP* is common. I think the plan is, the night before we move out (if he's still there), we'll place my husband's speakers on the ground and blast Tool at him.


One more note on the repeated slamming of the door. IT was mid-summer when he did it at least 10 times in a row. I had the window open and I heard a woman say "What about the other neighbors?" His reply was "Well THEY don't care about anyone else." In hindsight, I should have filed a complaint but I was too tired to care at the time.

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When I first moved in to my current apartment, my next door neighbor (I call him The Todd), played loud music almost every night, from around 6pm to midnight. I first tried knocking on his door to ask him to turn it down, which he ignored, so I ended up writing 3 or 4 letters of complaint to the apartment management. With each letter, they sent him increasingly threatening letters warning him of possible eviction, and he finally started keeping it down. Every couple of months he turns the music up, and he has his friends over watching soccer/football on the weekends, but that's managable. Not to mention the smell of weed wafting from his apartment and the smell of his cat's litterbox in the hallway, but that's a whole different problem.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The people in the apartment above us have a young child that clearly goes running around screaming and thumping heavily at the most random time. The thuds are audible at the most random times and sometimes you don't hear them. This only started to happen within the last couple of months, although we really don't do much but bear it. I wish I had something loud and long I could disturb the upstairs neighbours with without disturbing adjacent neighbours. Playing my piano/acoustic guitar won't cut it.

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I tried blaring loud music at The Todd, but it didn't faze him. If having the Chocobo Racing soundtrack blared at top volume simultaneously from my computer and TV with the speakers facing the wall didn't get the point across, nothing will.

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The next-door neighbors of my mom reported her to the borough for me dumping cut grass over the back hill. That made me mad, so I just dumped the next few on their front porch.

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Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

I tried blaring loud music at The Todd, but it didn't faze him. If having the Chocobo Racing soundtrack blared at top volume simultaneously from my computer and TV with the speakers facing the wall didn't get the point across, nothing will.

The todd was adjacent. I wonder how I can project sound upwards! I like the Chocobo Racing OST so it would be a double dip with hearing something I like, and annoying the neighbours also the child might end up liking it too. No one likes blaring JRock so I'll settle for that :P Very fortunate it didn't come close to mailing letters of complaint. That's too hassling

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in the dorms, my "neighbors" were cool. there weren't much issues other than a few noise complaints from the female RA at the other end of the hall sometimes: ridiculous computer speakers + metal DDR pads back then tended to get loud...

in the apartment, most of my neighbor were cool, except for the bitches below me. they've called the cops on my apartment a few times for crap that no one else would normally care about, like partying it up on a friday or saturday night. sometimes it was reasonable when there actually was a ruckus going on, but sometimes it's just a game of poker, taboo, cranium, trivial pursuit, or a sports game/video game on tv that just ended up getting slightly crazy, and they'd call too. too bad exploding their place would destroy the foundation for my place. ;_;

and then at home... oh boy... most of the neighbors keep to themselves, though a few are closer family friends. but the neighbors in my backyard (literally) my family's never liked. and a couple months ago, one of them assaulted my dad and brother, thus starting the court processes (which are still going). first there were restraining orders, and both sides (yes even that neighbor) were pressing charges. eventually, the ones against my dad were dropped as they were false to begin with, and a trial by jury should be coming up sometime for that neighbor.

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Anywhere I've actually lived my whole life, I haven't had any problems with the neighbors. The one bad thing I can ever remember is our across-the-street neighbor yelling at my grandma for honking the horn too much while she was pregnant.

However, when I'm at my friends Nick's house, we get along with the neighbors, but they probably don't like us very much. We're all musicians of a different instrument and can be heard playing at any time of the day or night. Sometimes we feel bad, but then we just go downstairs and party with everyone and it's all good again.

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I haven't really had any problems with my neighbors... and that's surprising since I love music and I have a piano. Then again, I made sure I was on the bottom floor and I always stop playing after 10 pm. After that hour, I'll also put on my headphones. I think I'm too considerate.

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Well the neverending saga of "That Jerk Downstairs" continues. I tripped over some stuff in the dark around 4am trying to get to bed. 7am rolls around and the guy downstairs thumped the ceiling and blasted Nickelodeon at full volume for a good 30 minutes. Just enough to ensure I couldnt fall back asleep... and I have class in an hour.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't have any problem with my neighbors at school, though I can say that my neighbors at home are ridiculous. I live in a 3 family apartment at home, on the second floor, and its the 3rd floor thats the problem.

Firstly, they're drug dealers. We've found joints and the like discarded in the hallway stairs, and both father and son have been arrested before. The cops have even been to our apartment, asking us about them.

As you may imagine, dealing drugs takes subtly, so of course pounding up and down the stairs at every hour of the night is perfect for it. In timberland boots, with every friend they have in town. While they're at it, they need to cover up discussions about dealing drugs, so they blast ridiculous music at every hour of the night.

We thought we got rid of them with the first arrest, then they came back.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Doesn't the complex have some sort of zero tolerance policy regarding drugs? I think the place I'm living now has some kind of clause in the lease that if you're convicted of selling drugs, that's an automatic eviction.

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Its not a complex unfortunately, its just one apartment house. The landlord actually lives on the first floor and has done what he can to discourage them from staying, such as increasing rent to ridiculous amounts, but they just stay. I don't know why he doesn't just evict them...Sometimes I wonder if the landlord is in cahoots with them. He is an odd guy. Nice enough, but odd.

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Hey, if he keeps upping the rent to ridiculous amounts and they keep paying, I can see why he'd keep them around. I wouldn't deal with it if it were me, but I know plenty that would if they were adequately paid off.

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