Noisy Neighbors!

[Cody Fousnaugh]

We have lived in both a house, we were buying, and apartment complexes. We've encountered substantial noise from neighbors in both. We've always lived on the bottom/1st floor, but at one complex we lived in a "bungalow" which was at the end of a 2-story apartment building. We actually lived in the "bungalow" for 10 1/2 years, but still encountered noise from neighbors in the next building over at midnight.

Now we live in a bottom/1st floor apartment in a 2-story building. When we first moved in, the lady that lived above us was our age (mid 70's), thin built and had a cat. She was extremely quiet, but sometimes, we could hear her cat running/jumping around at 6 in the morning. Sort of like Garfield (LOL). That tells you just how thin our ceiling, her floor was.

About a year ago, after the lady moved out above us, two young ladies in their late 30's, early 40's, moved in with a 2 year old girl. That was when we really found out just how thin the floor that separates our apartment from theirs was. What the two young ladies did was turn their apartment into a play ground for the little girl. IOW, jumping off of furniture and running all over the living room. The little girl is now 3 and still the noise goes on. Sometimes we can even hear the mother running after the little girl...........and the mother is built like a WNBA player (solid). Not long after moving in, the two ladies had a party on a Sunday evening in their apartment. Them, and their guests, got so loud playing a game on their tv, that, after 10PM, we had to call Security. Neither of us could sleep and my wife was still working and getting up at 6AM. After that, they wouldn't talk to us and we wouldn't talk to them.

If we had pictures hanging on our walls, the vibration of the noise would put them on the floor. Sometimes the noise they make is so loud, it will actually shake our apartment! We told the Asst. Manager about calling Security and she talked to them and they told her "were sorry", but the noise continued. Our plan now is to talk to the Asst. Manager again and show her the part of the Lease that states: "No activity in your apartment home should interfere with the enjoyment, comforts and conveniences of other residents. Quiet hours are 10PM to 9AM." What we are most definitely looking at is the "No activity" sentence to show her.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Unless a person lives out in the sticks somewhere, there is always going to be noise around. It would be worse in an apartment where people live just on the other side of a skinny wall, but even when yo have your own house, there can be noisy neighbors.

We have people down the street that boom music (?) into all hours of the night, especially on weekends, loud cars that rev their engines as they drive down the street, and just people outside yelling at other people, or their kids and dogs.
On any kind of a holiday weekend, we have people shooting guns and fireworks besides all of the other partying. There was one guy who had a car that would backfire all the time, and he just thought it was great to drive up and down the street making his car do that. I have not heard him for a while, so maybe he either moved or finally blew up the engine in his car ?

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

My biggest noise nuisances tend to be reroofing jobs, but more often hired-out lawn care using giant-sized equipment. The worst are the hillbilly neighbors, who always have a dog. They are on their 3rd one in 6 years now (???) and every one has always been a rude and very noisy barking nuisance.

There are other dogs around here and none are anywhere near as anti-social as these nutjobs' dogs. They have kids, and I can just imagine how they'll turn out. Milk carton mugshots? Prison? Wouldn't shock me.

 

[Don Alaska]

Unless a person lives out in the sticks somewhere, there is always going to be noise around. It would be worse in an apartment where people live just on the other side of a skinny wall, but even when yo have your own house, there can be noisy neighbors.

We have people down the street that boom music (?) into all hours of the night, especially on weekends, loud cars that rev their engines as they drive down the street, and just people outside yelling at other people, or their kids and dogs.
On any kind of a holiday weekend, we have people shooting guns and fireworks besides all of the other partying. There was one guy who had a car that would backfire all the time, and he just thought it was great to drive up and down the street making his car do that. I have not heard him for a while, so maybe he either moved or finally blew up the engine in his car ?

We live in the boonies, although not as remote as we once were, and we frequently here gunshots. I always wonder: hunting, target shooting, murdering someone.... We generated our own noise in years past with roosters (we still have one) and a dog team. Of course, there are snow machine and ATVs/4-wheelers going around as well.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Some noise can be easily taken care of, like the two large Woods Owls that flew up and sat on each end of the house that was behind ours years ago. During those years, in that house, I'd have to wake up at 5:15AM to be to work at 7AM just north of downtown Denver. They would start hooting at each other around 2AM. The headboard of our bed (upstairs) was against the window that faced the house behind us.

Now, how did I solve that "hooting" noise: I got our handheld portable high-beam boat light, pointed it up into the sky and slowly brought it down to the one owl. I never shined it at the house. That owl would fly off and the other followed.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Unless a person lives out in the sticks somewhere, there is always going to be noise around. It would be worse in an apartment where people live just on the other side of a skinny wall, but even when yo have your own house, there can be noisy neighbors.

We have people down the street that boom music (?) into all hours of the night, especially on weekends, loud cars that rev their engines as they drive down the street, and just people outside yelling at other people, or their kids and dogs.
On any kind of a holiday weekend, we have people shooting guns and fireworks besides all of the other partying. There was one guy who had a car that would backfire all the time, and he just thought it was great to drive up and down the street making his car do that. I have not heard him for a while, so maybe he either moved or finally blew up the engine in his car ?

But, see Yvonne, I always talk about "respecting your neighbor when it comes to noise" and there are those, like the two ladies that live above us, that definitely don't. They allow that little girl to jump off of furniture and run all over the place, knowing that we are home. That is just simply disrespectfulness on their part. They know that we have talked to management about the noise, but simply don't care and keep letting the little girl do what she wants. Management put that clause, concerning and about noise, in the Rental Policy for reasons..............right now, we are really wondering what the reasons are. LOL

Managment mentioned to us about moving to a different apartment and all we could think about is............"just how young do you think we are?" and "we aren't the problem, they are!". The little girl is a cute one, but once she steps into their apartment above us, she becomes a total "terror of noise".

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I am not discounting your noisy neighbor problems in any way, @Cody Fousnaugh . But you titled this thread “Noisy Neighbors”, so everyone here is writing about our experiences with noisy neighbors, just like you are writing about your noisy neighbors.
We all have different experiences, depending on where we live and what the neighbors are like.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

This is what I call Eddie's Revenge... You should be able to find this CD pretty easily. Get yourself a very loud stereo, and I mean shaking the walls loud. When they are making a ton of noise, wait for it to get quiet. Turn the stereo on good and loud and play this song as loud as you can tolerate it. Rinse and repeat as necessary. They will eventually learn to be considerate of the neighbors.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

This is what I call Eddie's Revenge... You should be able to find this CD pretty easily. Get yourself a very loud stereo, and I mean shaking the walls loud. When they are making a ton of noise, wait for it to get quiet. Turn the stereo on good and loud and play this song as loud as you can tolerate it. Rinse and repeat as necessary. They will eventually learn to be considerate of the neighbors.

I, more than Nancy, know Van Halen (w/David Lee Roth) music. However, her favorite song is the remake of the Kinks song, You Really Got Me.

When the 3-year old gets overly-loud with her running and jumping off of whatever, we simply go up to an inner wall and bang our fists on it a few times. That seems to stop the noise. However, we shouldn't have to do that! If the two ladies living above us had respect for us, living below them, they wouldn't let the little girl do what she does. We can tolerate some playing, but a lot of the running and jumping gets out of hand. We haven't yet, but we are going to show the Asst. Manager, and even the Manager, if needed, what it says about noise in the Rental Agreement/Policy. If they won't do much about it, we will just have to continue tolerating the noise until we move.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

I am not discounting your noisy neighbor problems in any way, @Cody Fousnaugh . But you titled this thread “Noisy Neighbors”, so everyone here is writing about our experiences with noisy neighbors, just like you are writing about your noisy neighbors.
We all have different experiences, depending on where we live and what the neighbors are like.

Sorry, guess I should've titled the thread better. We can't do a thing about 4th of July and NYE fireworks/gunshots and the airlines takeoff pattern going right over the complex, but when the Rental Agreement/Policy distinctly has a statement about "disturbing neighbors", when can bring that up to management. Whether anything is done about it or not.............who knows. But, Bottom Line word is............respect to your neighbors concerning noise.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

When the 3-year old gets overly-loud with her running and jumping off of whatever, we simply go up to an inner wall and bang our fists on it a few times.

Our only real noise problem is kids running back and forth in the upstairs hallways. We can even hear them on the third floor. But at least is isn't all day, every day like it was when school was out. The people who lived above us for two years moved, and one of the new tenants plays Bass. He has virtually no taste in music at all. From about 6:00p to 9:00p he's up there playing along God knows what. Whatever it is, it's very simple bass lines he's playing. So the other night I shot him a little message through the floor.

At about 5:50p I heard him come home and I got my guitar amp out, paired the Bluetooth to my computer and played Eruption as loud as I could stand it... When his bass came out, I played it again. And surprise surprise, it got quiet up there. I could tell he was still playing, but he had turned the volume down quite a bit. I can live with that. Don't get me wrong, I've ticked off a few people playing my guitar before, but if I know it's bothering someone I tone it down.