my new neighbors have GOT TO GO

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so HA!

Bastard neighbours really fucX me off as i have had to live next to two lots of them - so you def have my (long distance) support

course, there is nothing to stop you trying to get them evicted at the same time, just dont reveal your hand to them

ironically, when i lived in the actual ghetto in philly (the weekend after i moved in we had to vacate because they were demolishing a couple of projects), i never had any problems, noise or otherwise.

Cough really badly in their presence.. mumble about "quarantine" and "SARS" a lot. Put some black and yellow tape around your landing.

The "let's turn it down for two minutes and then crank it back up" move in-fucking-furiates me. In my Boston apartment, I would occasionally fantasize about sneaking into the apartment just below and snipping the power cables to all of their electronics.

My point is: my old cabin/two bedroom flat I shared had zero noise issues (aside from very active wildlife scurrying across the ceiling over my bedroom) and didn't share walls with anybody.. but I was FAR more miserable because my immediate neighbors were extremely snotty, passive aggressive, and at times just plain evil. I'm much happier with some noise issues and cool neighbors.

Odd thing is: that last place in question was just TWO HOUSES AWAY.

Which brings me to my final point.. Jess? Is there anything keeping you and Nanc from moving to another complex, like a fascist lease or what not? Are you guys on an income restriction bond? Or is your complex just way below market value compared to others? Cuz I vaguely remember you having to get your place in a hurry initially, due to certain evil ex-roommate issues from last year, or something.
Maybe you can upgrade your flat *and* possibly get a better deal?

Anyway , just wanted to say that even a very short move away can vastly increase (but also potentially further decrease) your lifestyle, financially and mentally -- and can be worth the typical hassles of moving.

Not sure where you live Jess, but places downtown tend to be a lot quieter and many nice ones are earmarked for broke-as-a-joke folx. I think there's a list somewhere (sorry, not very helpful, I know).

October 30, 2004

Dear neighbors,

For the second time, you have held a party that kept me awake until 2am. If it happens a third time I will write a letter to our landlord.

I am a first year law student who, even on weekend nights, goes to sleep around 11pm. Your living room is directly above my bedroom. When lots of people dance and stomp around, you play music loudly, and you or your guests yell out the window, it is impossible to sleep.

You have never paid the courtesy of asking beforehand if a party would bother me. And, as far as I can tell, have made no attempt to keep the noise to a reasonable level. Either of these would have made me much less angry than I am now.

I hope this does not continue to be a problem.

Sincerely,

Aar0n Warsh@w
Apartment #1

good luck.

my upstairs neighbors have a piano as well as one child who lives there and plays it and what appears to be a constant stream of other people with children who come by in the mornings and play it. i thought they were giving lessons, but it seems more like these little girls are family or children of friends or something, especially as much of the noise is just tuneless plunking. one song they've been playing lately is especially bad, as it consists mostly of repeatedly pounding out a chord with both hands. i've woken up to that one something like three times in the past two weeks i think.

off to the drugstore for earplugs today, i suppose. they've been at it for two hours this morning alone!

the dudes who lived upstairs when I moved in were annoying cuz there was a lot of 'thudding' from upstairs, but it was from the dog and ultimately it turned out to be mostly a non-issue.

they moved out, but have been replaced by dickweeds who are worse. For one, they have little asshole kids who think it's HEELARIOUS to run down the stairs, knock on my door, and run away. (I had it all set up where I was going to time opening the door as they raised their hands to bang on the door, but they didn't come back).

Secondly, they've begun blaring music at ridiculous volumes at all times of day. A little bleedthrough is expected in a condo, but my floor shouldn't rattle.

Now tonight, the children of the household are doing karaoke on a really crude machine with heavy echo and are screaming "WHIP MY HAIR", and banging up and down on the floor.

I started blasting "I Fucked a Sasquatch" on my laptop and when that didn't work, picked up a guitar and started singing it really loud in return, but that also didn't work.

I had to waste my time calling our neighborhood security, who I'm guaranteeing aren't going to do anything. Next is gonna be the manager's office since it's now a violation of the agreement they had to sign to move in.

It's not like I give two shits about people having a good time, but at acceptable levels. I cut the volume of the music I play in my house to not bother my neighbors, why can't they do the same? i can at least see it happening once or twice by mistake, not five or six times.

have you tried just knocking on their door and talking to them?

the one time i did nobody answered cos they couldn't hear it

Man, it's hard being a music lover and living in those close quarters!

yay they stopped.

(last night, not just now)

My neighbors have loud parties all of the time, fortunately none of them play bad music. Which is probably deeply hypocritical. We don't live in the safest area, though and it makes us feel safer on a weekend night. Calms our pets down too so they don't freak out at night.

Hypocritical of me, I mean. When I play punk records I don't play them very loud. I mean, I checked first to see if you could hear the punk records in the street before turning the volume up.

My new neighbours are chain smokers. I guess there are gaps around some of the plumbing in our building because now our bathroom reeks of stale cigarette smoke all the time.

what is an acceptable time to go over and bang on your neighbors walls for being too loud?

midnight? 1 AM?

10pm on weeknights
12am on weekends

An 11:30pm warning round is also fine imho

id have said 11 on weeknights and prob 2am weekends

loudmouth darraghmac

does the fact that they're 30 year olds playing beer pong with actual ping pong paddles change your analysis

Depends on how loud they are imho. I've loads of probs w my noisy idiot neighbor. If he's absolutely blasting his dumbass music for longer than 30 mins that's enough for me to go bang on his window again.

There's not an 'acceptable' time if their recidivist noise makers imho. If it lasts longer than 30 mins I'm going after it, however early or late it is.

11 on weeknights is the accepted standard, yeah

how the hell do you play beer pong with ping pong paddles

(not that I ever got those games to begin with - if you wanna drink a beer just do it!)