We live in a 2-story condo in a small condo building. There is another 2 story unit above us, so their kitchen/living room is above our master bedroom. One Sunday night they had a party-and I swear they then decided to move furniture at 1AM. I finally went downstairs, got a broom, and hit the ceiling until they shut up. That's happened a few more times since. I think they forget we live under them (and I find it odd that they're up so late on "school nights."
Our next door neighbor (who is super nice!) is always banging around-we've come to the conclusion that it's actually her banging her kitchen cabinets closed. We can hear them while we are sitting in our living room watching TV.
Condo living can SUCK. I also hate the renters who use the garage door as a smoking exit. Come on, asshole-the garage door will only open so many times until it needs maintenance, and your 10 smoke breaks a day don't help. We finally had to have the board (FI is on it) issue a notice to the landlord that unless you're in a vehicle, the garage door is not to be used as an exit. And then last week I see another owner using it as an exit, on foot. FML.
My parents house is next door to two rental properties and there have been a number of undesirable neighbors over the years. The worst was a family of a dad, mom and teenage son. The dad was a trashy looking alcoholic who did not seem to have a job at all. He was hilarious. One day, in the dead of a Nebraska winter, he came home drunk, in a sleeveless shirt and jeans and stood in his yard yelling at his cats until he passed out and fell over in the snow. His wife had to come out and drag him in the house. Another time he drove home drunk (scary) and parked in the driveway. His car door was locked, and he couldn't figure that out (too drunk) so he rolled down the window and started screaming for help. The kid was in a gang and all his fellow gang members lived in the house at one time or another and they were dealing out of the house. Fun times.
I used to hear my neighbors having sex. They had lived downstairs, but left for a month (???) and then came back to the apartment upstairs that shared walls with my bedroom. I beat a flip flip on the wall and yelled shut the fuck up exactly once, and it didn't happen again. I was also moving in a week, so it didn't matter.
What really pissed me off is that the SAME NIGHT before they got their groove on, they had one of their Tuesday Night parties and blasted song clips (seriously, 1 minute clips of songs. Never the whole song) repeatedly until 2-3am. Their living room wall was on the other side of my bedroom wall, the part directly behind my headboard. Their headboard wall was on the other side of my room.
I was so fucking happy to get out of there.
My cool neighbor was a huge stoner, but he and his wife were both super nice. I came home one saturday at about 3, and dude had lined the porch railing with (empty)miller high life bottles, was ripping bong hits off of a neon green bong (in full view of the main drag in Derry, NH), and was loudly LOUDLY singing a stirring accompaniment to Rude Boy by Rihanna. He offered me a hit as I was walking in, but I declined.
I was that asshole that lived on the top floor with a 100 lb. dog. But we did our best to keep her (and ourselves) quiet. We wouldn't let her run and play after like 9:30 and would always vacuum early. But the floors seemed to be thin and the neighbors would notice when she would plop down. All the apartments had separate entrances so I bet the worst part for people downstairs was FI taking down and back up the stairs as the ass crack of dawn every day when he went to work.
The other side of our bedroom wall was a single guy's bedroom wall. Once or twice when we were laying in bed we heard him having sex. Pretty clearly. That poor guy probably heard us having sex all the time.
When we first moved into our apartment (were on the 3rd floor) our neighbor directly below us was a problem. I never called because I don't want to call and say they are having sex to loud. But boy is it loud! Friends would come to visit and be woken up by it. The late night sex romps happen pretty infrequently 5 years later.
The most entertaining thing from neighbor below us was when H was out on the porch for a smoke during Christmas time. I could hear yelling inside our bedroom nowhere near our porch. Neighbor lady was yelling to someone on the phone about giving her herpes. H told me what she said. My reply to him "Merry Christmas! You have Herpes!" And we both started laughing because we're mean.
When we first got our Kinect we played for an hour. It was 7pm by the time we finished. Apparently our playing for that hour during the day was to much for the neighbor below us. They called security to complain. They came at 7:30 to our door telling us we are being to loud and need to quiet down. By that point we were watching a tv show.
Two corgis moved in to the 1st floor a while back. While they were adjusting to the new surrounding they would bark a lot. I could hear them barking from inside the 1st floor apartment to mine on the 3rd floor. I forgot how loud corgis can be.
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One day, apparently my normally pretty calm dogs were going ape shit barking and growling. Downstairs neighbor knows my dogs and knew something was wrong, so called the cops. Next door neighbor called because they were too noisy.
Cops show up to find a break in by a violent ex across the hall. The dogs shut up per the cops pretty quickly once they were there. Management didn't care about the barking at all. No one else cared.
Next door complained about the noise until she moved out.
When I was in college in an apartment, I could frequently hear the bass thumping. No music, just the bass. And during quiet hours. I hated it! My roommate and I were about five minutes away from calling the RAs two or three times. Lucky for them, they stopped on time. Also when I was in a dorm, I heard people going at it a couple times
ETA: In the vein of bad apartment stories. So when I was in an apartment, I shared it with three other girls: two of us to a room. Well, my two roommates who I did not share a room with (despite the fact that this was illegal because I was underage) were drinking there once. I woke up to really loud noises and kept getting startled away. But I chose to ignore it.
Well the next morning, I wake up. I'm getting ready to head for class and I realize,my shoes (my not that cheap favorite Danskos!) were missing! So I'm like where the heck are my shoes. Found one but not the other. Well, one of my roommates' friends came over and before I even said anything, he asked if I'd heard anything and he'd CHIPPED A TOOTH that night (showed me, it was a big chunk out of it!) I said, yea, kind of. Anyway, then I asked about the shoe. He said he'd "maybe taken some stuff." So he goes away and comes back with my shoe and gives it to me.
Fortunately, it was the last week of the semester, so I didn't have to confront my roommates and tell them they needed to cut the drinking and noise in our apartment.
The first apartment Fi and I ever rented was the top floor of a two-story house. The bottom floor was rented by a 40-something couple and their teenage son, who had been there for about 7 years and felt very possessive about the home.
Over time it became clear that these people were serious alcoholics. Recycling went out once a week. Every week, they would put out two of those large outside trash bins, full ofcrushed beer cans. I can't even fathom how many cans of beer that is. Both parents were unemployed and the husband would brag to us that he was working under the table to keep getting his unemployment checks (classy). The smell of pot was often overbearing and permeated the whole house. They would have loud domestic arguments at all hours of the day and night.
Finally, things came to a head when we visited my mom in MA for the weekend. On my way out the door, I had tied up our garbage but forgot to take it out, and left it next to our upstairs door (yes, this was dumb, but it was in our area of the house, not theirs). The husband called and left me a SCREAMING voice mail about it. Fine, I called the landlord and apologized. She said not to worry about it, no big deal.
Well, we get home the next night and the wife is plastered. She was sitting on the front porch and started running at our car and screaming once we pulled into the driveway. It immediately progressed from the garbage to "You think you're better than me with your job and your education." Um, what? Her husband was physically holding her back from running at me and Fi. We went upstairs, locked the door, and called the landlord and the cops.
The next morning, my car was keyed and the front license plate holder was smashed in. We called the cops but they couldn't prove anything because it was an open driveway.
The husband moved out the next week. I think he realized she was crazy. Then we got to hear her having screaming matches with the next door neighbors and watch the cops show up. We only had a month-to-month lease at that point, so we moved out pronto.
My current apartment building is way better. We have an issue with some families letting their little kids play in the hallways, but it's nothing compared to that other place!
"I'm not a rude bitch. I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."
I used to hear my neighbors having sex. They had lived downstairs, but left for a month (???) and then came back to the apartment upstairs that shared walls with my bedroom. I beat a flip flip on the wall and yelled shut the fuck up exactly once, and it didn't happen again. I was also moving in a week, so it didn't matter.
What really pissed me off is that the SAME NIGHT before they got their groove on, they had one of their Tuesday Night parties and blasted song clips (seriously, 1 minute clips of songs. Never the whole song) repeatedly until 2-3am. Their living room wall was on the other side of my bedroom wall, the part directly behind my headboard. Their headboard wall was on the other side of my room.
I was so fucking happy to get out of there.
My cool neighbor was a huge stoner, but he and his wife were both super nice. I came home one saturday at about 3, and dude had lined the porch railing with (empty)miller high life bottles, was ripping bong hits off of a neon green bong (in full view of the main drag in Derry, NH), and was loudly LOUDLY singing a stirring accompaniment to Rude Boy by Rihanna. He offered me a hit as I was walking in, but I declined.
I was that asshole that lived on the top floor with a 100 lb. dog. But we did our best to keep her (and ourselves) quiet. We wouldn't let her run and play after like 9:30 and would always vacuum early. But the floors seemed to be thin and the neighbors would notice when she would plop down. All the apartments had separate entrances so I bet the worst part for people downstairs was FI taking down and back up the stairs as the ass crack of dawn every day when he went to work.
The other side of our bedroom wall was a single guy's bedroom wall. Once or twice when we were laying in bed we heard him having sex. Pretty clearly. That poor guy probably heard us having sex all the time.
SITB
Sorry to my neighbors, I try to keep the sexytime noise level down. ):
My first place off campus in FL was odd. The landlord really liked me because I was pretty quiet by then and I worked later so lights were on most of the time which stopped break ins. But I had first floor as I had my first USAR dog then, she had half of second and someone else had the other half.
Other tenant hated my crazy hours. Tried pulling fuses to kill the lights that didn't shine into her place. Only got landlords.
I live on the third floor and I have a 4 yr old who knows that we do not "thump" because people live below us and do not want to be bothered. Thumping includes jumping, throwing or slamming toys, chairs, etc.
He isn't perfect obviously but he NEVER gets away with it and once I remind him he stops. I cannot stand inconsiderate parents/people in general.
I have had the opposite problem. We live on the 3rd floor of a 3 story apartment. Our downstairs neighbors complained about our dog barking for less than one minute at a time around 4 pm. So the apartment management made us get rid of our dog. Luckily FI's parents were able to take her for the time being.
We even recorded her during the day. She barked when the UPS guy came to deliver things. And sometimes she would bark at other dogs barking (that were so loud outside that you could hear them on the recording).
Luckily we are moving soon!
I am worried about my fi's german shepherd. They rent a house right now but we are moving into a townhouse with neighbors on either side. (we originally looked at an end unit but they changed their mind and offered us this one ug). She barks a LOT like whenever someone pulls into their driveway. Granted we don't really have a driveway at the new place but I'm not sure what she will do if she hears neighbors opening and closing their doors, car doors, etc.
I have tried to warn fi that people love to complain but he doesn't seem concerned. He and the kids will be heartbroken if we can't keep the dog.
This is why I always demand the top floor or I will find another place to live. I would rather moving be total hell and have peace and quiet the rest of the year.
My butt always looks good from all the stairs too.
This is why I always demand the top floor or I will find another place to live. I would rather moving be total hell and have peace and quiet the rest of the year.
My butt always looks good from all the stairs too.
Haha. "third floor butt". "third floor legs". We win!
V and I live in third floor apartment. Its a house duplex, so we have a deck walkway and a porch. I love it! We are surrounded by trees and birds. Plus our porch is big enough to sit outside. We don't have a dishwasher but that's ok. We try not to be too loud or anything. I have to do some exercises like jumping jacks outside because we don't want to be annoying.
I'll be sad to leave this apartment. We haven't had problems with any neighbors here. At V's old places he had to call the cops on parties all the time. One place was a ground level/basement and spiders kept coming in and laying eggs. Poor guy had to sleep in a tent.
I have had the opposite problem. We live on the 3rd floor of a 3 story apartment. Our downstairs neighbors complained about our dog barking for less than one minute at a time around 4 pm. So the apartment management made us get rid of our dog. Luckily FI's parents were able to take her for the time being.
We even recorded her during the day. She barked when the UPS guy came to deliver things. And sometimes she would bark at other dogs barking (that were so loud outside that you could hear them on the recording).
Luckily we are moving soon!
I am worried about my fi's german shepherd. They rent a house right now but we are moving into a townhouse with neighbors on either side. (we originally looked at an end unit but they changed their mind and offered us this one ug). She barks a LOT like whenever someone pulls into their driveway. Granted we don't really have a driveway at the new place but I'm not sure what she will do if she hears neighbors opening and closing their doors, car doors, etc.
I have tried to warn fi that people love to complain but he doesn't seem concerned. He and the kids will be heartbroken if we can't keep the dog.
STRESS!!!
You can get these things that look like little bird houses. When the dog barks they emit a noise that only the dog can hear, and it discourages barking. We used it for our Rhodesian Ridgeback and now we don't have to even turn it on anymore because he so rarely barks.
I lived in a sketchy area that had a pretty high crime rate. I bought the condo because I thought the area was going through a revitalization and I'd make some money on the appreciation in the value to gain some equity in my future home - how wrong I was! I lost over 15k when I sold it. In the meantime, I heard and saw lots of things that were pretty terrible. But the woman renting the condo two doors down from me was in a VERY ABUSIVE relationship and the police were routinely called by our shared neighbor because of the screams, etc... Well fast forward almost a year and there was a string of burglaries in our building and I had a security system installed because my lock had been tampered with. A few weeks after installation, my alarm went off while I was out of town and ADP told me the police refused to respond because they'd been to the building too many times due to the neighbor in the abusive relationship. Wrong on so many levels (granted I wish she could have gotten out of the relationship to begin with) but what if her boyfriend had been beating her again, what if he'd actually killed her that time vs. being a burglary attempt. And on the purely financial side of it I spent a heck of a lot of money on ADP only to find out the police in my area wouldn't respond when the alarm was triggered....
You can get these things that look like little bird houses. When the dog barks they emit a noise that only the dog can hear, and it discourages barking. We used it for our Rhodesian Ridgeback and now we don't have to even turn it on anymore because he so rarely barks.
You can get these things that look like little bird houses. When the dog barks they emit a noise that only the dog can hear, and it discourages barking. We used it for our Rhodesian Ridgeback and now we don't have to even turn it on anymore because he so rarely barks.
oh my gosh THANK YOU.
No problem. Everyone should be able to keep their pets close.
I lived in a sketchy area that had a pretty high crime rate. I bought the condo because I thought the area was going through a revitalization and I'd make some money on the appreciation in the value to gain some equity in my future home - how wrong I was! I lost over 15k when I sold it. In the meantime, I heard and saw lots of things that were pretty terrible. But the woman renting the condo two doors down from me was in a VERY ABUSIVE relationship and the police were routinely called by our shared neighbor because of the screams, etc... Well fast forward almost a year and there was a string of burglaries in our building and I had a security system installed because my lock had been tampered with. A few weeks after installation, my alarm went off while I was out of town and ADP told me the police refused to respond because they'd been to the building too many times due to the neighbor in the abusive relationship. Wrong on so many levels (granted I wish she could have gotten out of the relationship to begin with) but what if her boyfriend had been beating her again, what if he'd actually killed her that time vs. being a burglary attempt. And on the purely financial side of it I spent a heck of a lot of money on ADP only to find out the police in my area wouldn't respond when the alarm was triggered....
So glad I got out of there!
I can't believe the police just refused to come! WTF
I live on the third floor and I have a 4 yr old who knows that we do not "thump" because people live below us and do not want to be bothered. Thumping includes jumping, throwing or slamming toys, chairs, etc.
He isn't perfect obviously but he NEVER gets away with it and once I remind him he stops. I cannot stand inconsiderate parents/people in general.
I live on the third floor and I have a 4 yr old who knows that we do not "thump" because people live below us and do not want to be bothered. Thumping includes jumping, throwing or slamming toys, chairs, etc.
He isn't perfect obviously but he NEVER gets away with it and once I remind him he stops. I cannot stand inconsiderate parents/people in general.
SITB
I wish you were every parent.
We have rules everywhere we go (don't stand on the bench in a restaurant booth, don't bring noisy toys into the store) but we still have fun! My son is very outgoing and loves to talk to people everywhere we go. Much better than being destructive!
My dogs bark when they hear things outside. I'm sure the neighbors "love" it, but they quiet down when we tell them "thanks for telling us you hear noises outside" and to hush. So far, no complaints.
Even if they did complain, I'd sooner move out than live without the dogs. They are family and where they aren't welcome to live, neither are we. We have family and friends to watch them in the short term and would find another pet-friendly place to live asap. Since we are moving to our new house in August (yay!), we wouldn't have long to wait anyway. I just can't imagine giving them up for any reason, ever.
There's no telling how loud or quiet they would be at the house. I worry about how protective they'll be of the road out front. But, as we do with all things, we manage the behavior as best we can and try to train more positive behaviors (like quiet). They are always rewarded for hushing after barking. I like that they bark to alert us, so not all barking is bad. We just don't let it be a persistent chorus of barking dogs. Our future neighbors have dogs too, so I'm sure they'll understand.
"They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, 'Search for Paradise.' " - Kiba, Wolf's Rain
My dogs bark when they hear things outside. I'm sure the neighbors "love" it, but they quiet down when we tell them "thanks for telling us you hear noises outside" and to hush. So far, no complaints.
Even if they did complain, I'd sooner move out than live without the dogs. They are family and where they aren't welcome to live, neither are we. We have family and friends to watch them in the short term and would find another pet-friendly place to live asap. Since we are moving to our new house in August (yay!), we wouldn't have long to wait anyway. I just can't imagine giving them up for any reason, ever.
There's no telling how loud or quiet they would be at the house. I worry about how protective they'll be of the road out front. But, as we do with all things, we manage the behavior as best we can and try to train more positive behaviors (like quiet). They are always rewarded for hushing after barking. I like that they bark to alert us, so not all barking is bad. We just don't let it be a persistent chorus of barking dogs. Our future neighbors have dogs too, so I'm sure they'll understand.
I wish we could have dogs. Fi and I are having puppyfever like a mother.
When we first moved to BC we were in a 4plex. There was a couple in the unit above us. The first day DH moved in the guy game out to introduce himself and he said "hi, I'm Alvin, I have a criminal record". DH didn't tell me this until we moved out. I swear this couple hated each other. They spent ALL THE TIME yelling at each other that he was cheating on her, no she was cheating on him, no he was cheating on her. They would start yelling in the apartment, then decide to go outside and continue the yelling outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night. When I bought my car (brand new, only 8km on it) Alvin was VERY interested in knowing all about if my car was new and what sort of features it had. I was really worried about leaving it parked in the driveway overnight. We moved out the next day.
Our new place is on the top floor of a 4 floor condo building. We sublet. The downstairs neighbour HATES us. He constantly complains to the condo association that we are running and jumping around the apartment and slamming the door. He started keeping a list of every time we were too loud. We were home exactly ONE of those times, and the door slammed because I dropped something coming in. Any time he thinks we are too loud he starts banging on the ceiling. This includes if you accidentally set off the smoke detector. We're always like "yes jerkwad, we are doing something about that, calm the f down". He has called building security on me twice for being too loud. Both times I was reading on the couch with the tv off and the radio off. The second time the security guard went back and told him that I was doing nothing that would make noise, and downstairs neighbour was like "oh, well they were really loud all afternoon". Yup, it was a Saturday and I did 2 whole loads of laundry from 1-3pm. Evidently, downstairs neighbour thinks that we should never do laundry, run the dishwasher, take a long shower, have a cat, have any sort of accident (dropping things, setting off smoke detector), have any one over (especially not kids) and that we are solely responsible for any kids that run down the hallway and dogs that bark. FFS, if you're that pissed off by noise, DON'T live in a condo. Or buy a unit on the TOP FLOOR.
When we first moved to BC we were in a 4plex. There was a couple in the unit above us. The first day DH moved in the guy game out to introduce himself and he said "hi, I'm Alvin, I have a criminal record". DH didn't tell me this until we moved out. I swear this couple hated each other. They spent ALL THE TIME yelling at each other that he was cheating on her, no she was cheating on him, no he was cheating on her. They would start yelling in the apartment, then decide to go outside and continue the yelling outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night. When I bought my car (brand new, only 8km on it) Alvin was VERY interested in knowing all about if my car was new and what sort of features it had. I was really worried about leaving it parked in the driveway overnight. We moved out the next day.
Our new place is on the top floor of a 4 floor condo building. We sublet. The downstairs neighbour HATES us. He constantly complains to the condo association that we are running and jumping around the apartment and slamming the door. He started keeping a list of every time we were too loud. We were home exactly ONE of those times, and the door slammed because I dropped something coming in. Any time he thinks we are too loud he starts banging on the ceiling. This includes if you accidentally set off the smoke detector. We're always like "yes jerkwad, we are doing something about that, calm the f down". He has called building security on me twice for being too loud. Both times I was reading on the couch with the tv off and the radio off. The second time the security guard went back and told him that I was doing nothing that would make noise, and downstairs neighbour was like "oh, well they were really loud all afternoon". Yup, it was a Saturday and I did 2 whole loads of laundry from 1-3pm. Evidently, downstairs neighbour thinks that we should never do laundry, run the dishwasher, take a long shower, have a cat, have any sort of accident (dropping things, setting off smoke detector), have any one over (especially not kids) and that we are solely responsible for any kids that run down the hallway and dogs that bark. FFS, if you're that pissed off by noise, DON'T live in a condo. Or buy a unit on the TOP FLOOR.
When we first moved to BC we were in a 4plex. There was a couple in the unit above us. The first day DH moved in the guy game out to introduce himself and he said "hi, I'm Alvin, I have a criminal record". DH didn't tell me this until we moved out. I swear this couple hated each other. They spent ALL THE TIME yelling at each other that he was cheating on her, no she was cheating on him, no he was cheating on her. They would start yelling in the apartment, then decide to go outside and continue the yelling outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night. When I bought my car (brand new, only 8km on it) Alvin was VERY interested in knowing all about if my car was new and what sort of features it had. I was really worried about leaving it parked in the driveway overnight. We moved out the next day.
Our new place is on the top floor of a 4 floor condo building. We sublet. The downstairs neighbour HATES us. He constantly complains to the condo association that we are running and jumping around the apartment and slamming the door. He started keeping a list of every time we were too loud. We were home exactly ONE of those times, and the door slammed because I dropped something coming in. Any time he thinks we are too loud he starts banging on the ceiling. This includes if you accidentally set off the smoke detector. We're always like "yes jerkwad, we are doing something about that, calm the f down". He has called building security on me twice for being too loud. Both times I was reading on the couch with the tv off and the radio off. The second time the security guard went back and told him that I was doing nothing that would make noise, and downstairs neighbour was like "oh, well they were really loud all afternoon". Yup, it was a Saturday and I did 2 whole loads of laundry from 1-3pm. Evidently, downstairs neighbour thinks that we should never do laundry, run the dishwasher, take a long shower, have a cat, have any sort of accident (dropping things, setting off smoke detector), have any one over (especially not kids) and that we are solely responsible for any kids that run down the hallway and dogs that bark. FFS, if you're that pissed off by noise, DON'T live in a condo. Or buy a unit on the TOP FLOOR.
Jesus that guy is a peice of work.
Yup, he is. The security company and condo association got so fed up,with him that they told him they will no longer respond to his calls about us, and that he should call the police instead. It's been 2 years now and the police have never shown up. Sometimes I'm evil and turn on the dishwasher before I go to bed.
My neighbors aren't too bad. The downstairs neighbors have a tendency to slam doors. Our door won't actually close unless we dead bolt it so I was thinking that their door might be the same way...until I was the hell a noise was. Our apartment is wider than long but the bedroom is on the opposite side of the parking lot and the family of 4 kept getting in and out of their car, and I could hear the doors slamming repeatedly, along with their apartment door.
My new next door neighbors are pretty quite (husband, wife, and MIL) but the other night they all got into a fight and ended up banging stuff around in the kitchen and going (but not talk/yelling) outside. I had to listen and peek out of the peephole and window.
The apartment complex across the street is HORRIBLE! and that's the side that our bedroom is on. There's verbal fights and screaming we can hear at least once a week at any given time, the cops and ambulances are over there at least every other week, and there have been 2 fires within the past 6 or so months that have been responded to by 3-4 different cities (thank goodness it was during the day and early evening).
The biggest nuisance we have though is ants. Apparently FI made a comment about there being so many freakin' ants in our apartment and was told it was built on an big ant hill and they can't do anything about it. His kids won't clean up after and leave food everywhere so that doesn't help the problem (and with our work schedules we don't have time to do a thorough cleaning every day after they've been here alone and go back to mom's before we get home). We also have a dog, cat, and fish tank. The ants have found and love the water source so we can't try poison or anything harmful to the fish, at least in that area.
FI and I will be so happy when we finally get a house. Not that we won't necessarily hear fights, loud music, slamming door, or sirens, and won't ever have to deal with a bug problem, but I never really dealt with any of that in the house I grew up in a few streets away.
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I'm the fuck out.
The most entertaining thing from neighbor below us was when H was out on the porch for a smoke during Christmas time. I could hear yelling inside our bedroom nowhere near our porch. Neighbor lady was yelling to someone on the phone about giving her herpes. H told me what she said. My reply to him "Merry Christmas! You have Herpes!" And we both started laughing because we're mean.
When we first got our Kinect we played for an hour. It was 7pm by the time we finished. Apparently our playing for that hour during the day was to much for the neighbor below us. They called security to complain. They came at 7:30 to our door telling us we are being to loud and need to quiet down. By that point we were watching a tv show.
Two corgis moved in to the 1st floor a while back. While they were adjusting to the new surrounding they would bark a lot. I could hear them barking from inside the 1st floor apartment to mine on the 3rd floor. I forgot how loud corgis can be.
Cops show up to find a break in by a violent ex across the hall. The dogs shut up per the cops pretty quickly once they were there. Management didn't care about the barking at all. No one else cared.
Next door complained about the noise until she moved out.
Other tenant hated my crazy hours. Tried pulling fuses to kill the lights that didn't shine into her place. Only got landlords.
And she wondered why she was evicted soon after.
I live on the third floor and I have a 4 yr old who knows that we do not "thump" because people live below us and do not want to be bothered. Thumping includes jumping, throwing or slamming toys, chairs, etc.
He isn't perfect obviously but he NEVER gets away with it and once I remind him he stops. I cannot stand inconsiderate parents/people in general.
I am worried about my fi's german shepherd. They rent a house right now but we are moving into a townhouse with neighbors on either side. (we originally looked at an end unit but they changed their mind and offered us this one ug). She barks a LOT like whenever someone pulls into their driveway. Granted we don't really have a driveway at the new place but I'm not sure what she will do if she hears neighbors opening and closing their doors, car doors, etc.
I have tried to warn fi that people love to complain but he doesn't seem concerned. He and the kids will be heartbroken if we can't keep the dog.
STRESS!!!
I'll be sad to leave this apartment. We haven't had problems with any neighbors here. At V's old places he had to call the cops on parties all the time. One place was a ground level/basement and spiders kept coming in and laying eggs. Poor guy had to sleep in a tent.
So glad I got out of there!
We have rules everywhere we go (don't stand on the bench in a restaurant booth, don't bring noisy toys into the store) but we still have fun! My son is very outgoing and loves to talk to people everywhere we go. Much better than being destructive!
My dogs bark when they hear things outside. I'm sure the neighbors "love" it, but they quiet down when we tell them "thanks for telling us you hear noises outside" and to hush. So far, no complaints.
Even if they did complain, I'd sooner move out than live without the dogs. They are family and where they aren't welcome to live, neither are we. We have family and friends to watch them in the short term and would find another pet-friendly place to live asap. Since we are moving to our new house in August (yay!), we wouldn't have long to wait anyway. I just can't imagine giving them up for any reason, ever.
There's no telling how loud or quiet they would be at the house. I worry about how protective they'll be of the road out front. But, as we do with all things, we manage the behavior as best we can and try to train more positive behaviors (like quiet). They are always rewarded for hushing after barking. I like that they bark to alert us, so not all barking is bad. We just don't let it be a persistent chorus of barking dogs. Our future neighbors have dogs too, so I'm sure they'll understand.
"They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, 'Search for Paradise.' " - Kiba, Wolf's Rain
Yup, he is. The security company and condo association got so fed up,with him that they told him they will no longer respond to his calls about us, and that he should call the police instead. It's been 2 years now and the police have never shown up. Sometimes I'm evil and turn on the dishwasher before I go to bed.
My neighbors aren't too bad. The downstairs neighbors have a tendency to slam doors. Our door won't actually close unless we dead bolt it so I was thinking that their door might be the same way...until I was the hell a noise was. Our apartment is wider than long but the bedroom is on the opposite side of the parking lot and the family of 4 kept getting in and out of their car, and I could hear the doors slamming repeatedly, along with their apartment door.
My new next door neighbors are pretty quite (husband, wife, and MIL) but the other night they all got into a fight and ended up banging stuff around in the kitchen and going (but not talk/yelling) outside. I had to listen and peek out of the peephole and window.
The apartment complex across the street is HORRIBLE! and that's the side that our bedroom is on. There's verbal fights and screaming we can hear at least once a week at any given time, the cops and ambulances are over there at least every other week, and there have been 2 fires within the past 6 or so months that have been responded to by 3-4 different cities (thank goodness it was during the day and early evening).
The biggest nuisance we have though is ants. Apparently FI made a comment about there being so many freakin' ants in our apartment and was told it was built on an big ant hill and they can't do anything about it. His kids won't clean up after and leave food everywhere so that doesn't help the problem (and with our work schedules we don't have time to do a thorough cleaning every day after they've been here alone and go back to mom's before we get home). We also have a dog, cat, and fish tank. The ants have found and love the water source so we can't try poison or anything harmful to the fish, at least in that area.
FI and I will be so happy when we finally get a house. Not that we won't necessarily hear fights, loud music, slamming door, or sirens, and won't ever have to deal with a bug problem, but I never really dealt with any of that in the house I grew up in a few streets away.
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