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Neighbor vent...

If I could legally smack my neighbors and not get assault charges I would do it in a heartbeat. We've lived here for a little over a year now and at the beginning everything was good. Well lately they have had people move into their basement. Two guys and one girl, all around the ages of 20-25 and 4 kids probably 2months to 4 years old. Well 3 times in the past month, month in a half we have had to call the police on them for noise complaints. They woke my fiancé and I out of a dead sleep at 2:30 this morning outside smoking weed during a thunder, lightning and down pour storm. Our houses aren't even all that close for us to hear them especially when our windows are closed. Every time we call the police they seem to drive by but not do anything, recently we heard that its known now as the "drug" house. So we're thinking maybe the police aren't doing anything because they could be potentially watching the house for a bust. They just don't seem to care about anyone else having to work in the morning or for the fact that they live right across the street from a school. Now the first thing on our list of to dos after the wedding is new windows in hopes that will help.. Ahh annoyed this morning.. Anyway enough of my rant. Happy Friday!
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Re: Neighbor vent...

  • Ugh. I hate crappy neighbors. I was a little annoyed at mine a few weeks ago when they had a party and were super loud late into the night, but other than that I seem to have good neighbors. 


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  • Ugh.  It's times like this I'm glad I moved to the suburbs.  It's a weird place, but at least everyone is old, boring and quiet.
  • Can I play?  I just sort of had it out with mine. 

    Quick backstory - we own a condo, we have basement/ground level, neighbors upstairs have second/third stories.  We own, they rent from the owner.  We also have a back patio area is considered "common area" but we have exclusive rights to use.

    They have a a toddler who runs constantly, usually starting at 630am and seems to go on all freaking day til past 9pm.  I'm working from home today (H works from home 3-4 days/week) and I just couldn't take the noise anymore.  I went up to politely ask if they could keep the noise down and got told "get used to it we have kids" and how considerate they have been.  This has been going on since the kid learned to walk.  We are both smokers, but don't smoke in the house, we use the back patio.  Upstairs has a balcony that over looks it.  The jist of what he told me was we need to smoke less so they can use the balcony and then they'll keep the noise down.

    I get that smoking bothers people, especially with kids, but it's not like we are out there chain smoking 24/7.  M-F, I'm not even home for most of the day and H doesn't smoke as much as I do.  Maybe, MAYBE, we smoke once per hour.  I was so fucking annoyed, I immediately went outside and had a smoke. 

     

  • @MrsMAck10612, thats too funny that you went out and smoked immediately after talking to them!! 


    I dont even mind if they party, hangout, etc on the weekends but when its during the week and they are so loud that it wakes both of us thats when i get annoyed. We had help off calling the police for the longest time, until one night we actually had the windows open and they again woke us up so my fiance got up and closed the window and they saw this and had the nerve to laugh, after that night we just resort to calling the police.

    I dont want to be "that" neighbor but it is beyond annoying that we paid a pretty decent price for our house and havent even been here a year and a half and are considering selling and moving because of it. We have talked about going to the owner of the house but figure it will go nowhere as they allow it because I know if we can hear them in our house they surely have to hear them in the house..
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  • @jessica41381 - It was probably really juvenile.  When I was a kid and started crying for no apparent reason, I was given the "I'll give you something to cry about" lecture.  That ran through my brain, you want to make the smoking an issue, then I'll make it worth it.

    I get what you mean about the occasional party; we have one maybe two big parties of the year at our house.  We always warn the neighbors and to just let us know if it gets too loud and we'll tone it down.  In 12 years, we've never had a single complaint.

     

  • @MrsMack10612, I would definitely have the same approach. If someone wants to be rude or inconsiderate then im going to act the same way. We warn the neighbors when we have a get together also, well minus these new a holes. We usually party in our basement so we arent much of a problem to the neighbors.Is it bad that I was so annoyed last night that I actually hoped they got drenched in the rain and a big "boom" of thunder scared the shit out of them.. 

     Our next step is new windows after the wedding and if that doesnt work I guess we start sucking it up and going over personally and say something. 
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  • jss0302 said:

    I want to get in on the bad neightbor vent!

     

    I lived with a sorority sister in a duplex a few blocks from campus. A couple with three kids lived in the other half of the building. The wife absolutely hated every white woman she came across except for me (the husband apparently loves white girls, including me). I come home from work one day, and she told me that I might want to stay inside because her husband's 'girlfriend' had been driving past all day waving a gun at wife every time she drove past. Yikes.

    So a few weeks later, I come home to two cops in our front yard. I walk up, and one asked if I lived here. I said yes, and he said he needed to talk to me. We go inside to get away from the kids, and he told me that the neighbors had been having problems and that she had kicked the husband out. Turns out, he had been crawling around in the attic space peeping on her and the kids and that they had no idea if he had been watching us or not! They cop didn't think he had, but it didn't matter. I didn't stay there another night and moved out a few weeks later when the lease was up.

    Eeek!
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  • FI's parents had neighbors that we're sure were running a meth lab, and treated their dogs like crap. FSMIL is in animal control, and called in on it/documented everything. They've since moved.

    New neighbors down the street from FI's folks. Pretty sure it's a drug house/gang house. Oye.

     

    FI and I are lucky at our apt complex. We're in the building with 3/2.5 2 story townhomes. One side, wife, husband, 3 little girls under 8 and 4th on the way. Tend to be pretty quiet, though the girls love to see my kitties in the window. On the other side, sweet lady whom I've been developing a friendship with. Called and left a message with her when she was out of town that a package arrived and was getting soaked in the rain, so to save it I'd put it in my front hall way till she got home. Turns out, she's a massage therapist, and that was an expensive new piece of equipment. To thank me, I got a free full body swedish massage!

  • Our neighbor used to sounds of girls orgasming really loud in his apartment. We think it was to convince us that he has a really amazing penis or something. He'd do it in the middle of the night right after playing video games.

    I'm really sorry to hear about your shitty neighbors. I hope they do get in massive amounts of trouble and that those kids are brought to safer homes. It might not hurt to call CPS.
  • New Orleans is one of the only cities I know of where it's not only okay to have chickens in the city limits, it's okay to have roosters, and nothing on the books about any other kinds of birds or a limit on how many you can have. Our (perfectly nice!) neighbor lady has eleventeen thousand birds, some of which sound like howler monkeys, and the coop where the hens do all their laying and clucking is riiiiight next to our bedroom. Morning wake up call for me is usually FI banging on the window yelling at the howler monkeys to shut up. They don't usually comply. 

    She is nice about it though. Moved the rooster to the other side of her yard, leaves eggs on our doorstep from time to time. She's just a weird old lady who loves birds, all of her birds are rescues, it's her house and she's not breaking any laws, so I can't hate her. But I can hate the shit out of that goddamn howler monkey bird.

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  • Oh man I shouldn't laugh but the howler monkey reference was funny.
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  • I figure like breeds like.  The owner was an asshole about noise too when they still lived here.

    I'm still trying to figure out how asking for a little more quiet while I'm working from equates to their issues with smoking.  They've lived here for 2 years, the current toddler wasn't walking when they moved in.  Somehow if it was that big an issue they would have mentioned it by now.

     

  • @Jessica41381, please do laugh! It actually is super funny, because what on earth makes that noise? We can't see over the fence but I'm thinking maybe peacock or something? It sounds like the zoo, is the point. If it's a chicken, it has brain damage, and it's fun to imagine it swinging from the trees. So the only time it's not funny is when we're sleeping. Then it's stabby.
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  • I figure like breeds like.  The owner was an asshole about noise too when they still lived here.

    I'm still trying to figure out how asking for a little more quiet while I'm working from equates to their issues with smoking.  They've lived here for 2 years, the current toddler wasn't walking when they moved in.  Somehow if it was that big an issue they would have mentioned it by now.

    My friends were in a similar situation, with a hyper kid who ran around their apartment all day long.  All she ever heard was this kids feet above her.  She almost offered to buy the kid gymnastic lessons or similar to help him get rid of some energy

  • MrsMack10612MrsMack10612 member
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    @Winstonsgirl - I got audibly scoffed at when I suggested taking them to a park.

    OMG - it's a bright, sunny, not too hot day, why would ever take my children outside to get some exercise.

     

  • Before my fiancé and I moved from my townhouse I had a neighbor who wouldn't allowed her kids outside until it was dark out. I know it wasnt a medical reason because I've seen them out a time or two.

    My fiancé while in his apt had a neighbor beside him who got home drunk form work and decided to make soup and fell asleep..fast forward a few hours mind you we were sound asleep. Beating on the door telling us there is a fire and we needed to get out. Thankfully it was just smoke and a contained fire in there stove but it was a rude awakening. The next night we got the joy of hearing them get it on..
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  • Wow, all of these stories make my appreciate the fact that all of my neighbors are elderly people who have only adult children, are never noisy, and are in their houses with the lights out by 10 pm.  

    When we lived in a town home, we had a shared backyard with like 6 other units.  We all had our own patios, but the actual yard was common space.  Unfortunately, we could never use it because everyone let their dogs shit all over and never picked it up.  And, at one point, our neighbor's friend was living in a tent in the common backyard for 3 weeks.  Oh, and in college our neighbors were drug dealers, but we didn't really see that as a big deal.  Other than that, I have no neighbor horror stories.
  • @Winstonsgirl - I got audibly scoffed at when I suggested taking them to a park.

    OMG - it's a bright, sunny, not too hot day, why would ever take my children outside to get some exercise.

    Because if little Johnny goes outside, everyone and their dog will want to kidnap him cos he's so perfect.  Which means Mom/Dad have to go with him and parent him.  And parenting means work, so why bother??  ;)

  • I had a terrible neighbour when I lived in an apartment last year by myself. He'd play loud tribal music until the wee hours of the night, then would be yelling random stuff (sometimes to himself it seemed) and stomping around. He'd also watch tv and play video games with the volume full blast, and leave his alarm clock going for hours on the weekend. I lived in the apartment below him, so if there are dents on the ceiling from hitting it with a broom to get him to lower the noise, then I'm not sorry.

    I contacted the landlord many times, and he tried to get him to keep the noise down. But this dude did not listen at all. Eventually he moved out.
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