lotsofmagnets

has someone suggested killing the fuse to their apartment and if you can´t, the whole building? not a nice way to do business but it might get you to sleep at night

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Blackthorn

I have similar problem but I sort of enjoy it being that I'm a bit of a voyeur. A couple three times a week I can hear the couple above me doing the mattress mombo... their bed squeaks like crazy! He hammers her like a 10-penny nail and it's clear they must be enjoying themselves. I'm just happy to know someone is really giving/getting it...

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MSD

In that case, my all-purpose solution to life's problems is tear gas. Maybe you can work it in somehow.

biznatch

I remember i had many neighbours who blasted music. The one above was much shorter and less in shape than me, so I felt it wouldn't be a problem. He did lower it, though around the fifth time, he looked at me really mean, went inside, slammed his door, locked it, and then proceeded to yell "ASSHOLE!"...and then lowered his music. Got a chuckle out of that.
I once lied to him when he asked me why, I said I worked at night. I felt bad for lying, but the walls were so thin in that place, the coke cans on my table would rattle from the noise.
Hopefully I can afford a place with thick walls and nice neighbors soon.

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canuckguy

So have the police just never come to investigate after you call? I know in my area if you call they come for noise violations (back in my younger days I too was an asshole).

My worst and last experience with a noisy neighbour was almost a life changing one. I was renting the floor for a house that had a basement apartment underneath.

While i was away on business they rented out the apartment to two welfare (cheques came to my mailbox in error) teenagers who partied all the time. I complained to them numerous times about the noise, the smell of weed...etc.

Well one night i was coming back late from the detroit airport 11pm, highway accidents caused major delays so a drive that should have taken 2 hours took 4. After finally getting home i get to bed only to abruptly woken by these fools arriving home from a night out...music comes on full blast.

I snap, I ran out of the house and to their door and proceeded to knock/punch the door. Up comes this teenage punk who i grab by the throat and slam against the door. While i threatened death to this kid his girlfriend is freaking out and almost falls down the stairs.

Music stayed off the rest of the night, i gave my notice to move that next morning. stupid move on my part, should have just called the cops luckily i did not hit the kid or chuck him down the stairs.

Manic_Skafe

Perhaps it's just me but having to deal with other people's music, their arguments, and their late-night sexual encounters just seems like another one of those things that come along with living in an apartment complex.

SofaKingA, I just read this entire thread and have yet to see you mention that the time in which they're playing this music is inappropriate. For all we know, they could be blasting this music at 4pm which doesn't seem to be too unreasonable to me.

In fact, the only thing that appears to be unreasonable about their entire situation is your perception of them - you've continually called them "trashy" you've referred to their music as "shit" and you've even gone so far as to call them drug addicts.

I'm not denying that you obviously know more about this than any of us but I can't help but wonder as to whether or not you're looking at this the wrong way. How could you ever expect to deal with them amicably if you can so comfortably assume so many things about them and judge them so harshly?

Is there anything you can do? Sure, grow up a little bit and handle it like an adult.

Or just find somewhere else to live.

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lotsofmagnets

we´re simply trusting the OP´s assessment of the people. yes, they do have a right to enjoy life, but there is a point where it becomes excessive and infracts on others equal right to the same.

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yournamehere

Exceptionally loud music that rattles your walls and furniture is unacceptable at any time, IMO. SofaKingA pays money to live there, and should not be forced to live by his neighbors' standards, which seem to not be in sync with everyone else's standards.

Remember, everyone has rights, but the right for me to extend my fist ends at your nose. Period. It's the people who think their rights are more important than everyone else's who always end up causing trouble.

Having said that, I'm certainly aware that different standards may apply in different situations. What passes for acceptable behavior in a college dorm won't fly in a $3,000/month apartment building. SofaKingA - does this kind of behavior go with the territory? To be fair, let's face the reality in this country that your right to privacy improves in relation to the amount of rent you pay.

Not to pick on you personally, Manic_Skafe, by double-quoting you, but it seems to me that he has been very mature in his handling of the problem so far. As far as his having to be the one to move - I would disagree strongly with that in principle . However, sometimes you have to look ahead to all of life's battles and choose the ones that just aren't worth fighting. Maybe that is the best answer. I sure wouldn't worry about your lease, since the landlord is not living up to his part in providing you a "safe, habitable domicile," or however the legalese is stated in your neck of the woods. Take a look at your lease and look up tenant rights laws in your city, then take your argument to your landlord. Keep calling the cops, too. Eventually, landlords tire of having their property recorded in police reports.

In the mean time, good luck. And buy some ear plugs.
Yeah, I know you shouldn't have to, they've helped me keep my sanity (and my ass out of jail) on several occasions.

And if that doesn't work, plant a pipe bomb and a blueprint of City Hall in their apartment, and call ATF.

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Manic_Skafe

You may trust it. I find it rather difficult to readily accept anything from someone who believes it to be more appropriate to bang on walls and send letters under the guise of being someone else than it is to even consider the mere possibility that his seemingly rude neighbors might be under some sort of misconception. And that maybe this whole situation would be much better sorted out if he afforded them the benefit of the doubt.

Yournamehere, other than being one of the few people who've contributed to this thread and haven't supported any of the childish and/or criminal methods of going about rectifying the situation - I don't feel the least bit singled out.

And while you may consider it appropriate and mature to deem people as trash who are too busy "sniffing whatever it is they can find underneath their sink" to turn down their music - I have to disagree.

However, these specific points weren't the real point or purpose of my post. I'd like to hope that by pointing out the contradictions and possible bias behind the op's comments it'll force him to look at the situation objectively and handle it as appropriately as possible.

But yeah, whatever.

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canuckguy

you want to rock out while you live in an apartment complex? get a decent set of headphones. no way i should have my dishes vibrate on the table because of the music. i don't mean that people have to be mouse quiet but come on now, if i can't hear my tv on 2/3 of the volume turned up we have a problem.

you don't like headphones? buy a house and crank it up. I love loud music to be honest, i want to feel it along with hear my movies so i bought a house. i can damage my hearing without being that jackass in the apartment.

lotsofmagnets

at the end of the day the OP knows these people a lot better than you or i do and for all i know the assessment is 100% right. it´s funny you´re giving them the benefit of the doubt and not the OP which is what i think most other people in this thread are doing. after all the thread wasn´t titiled "inconsiderate neighbors banging on my walls everytime i turn the music on."

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Daniel_

I've watched this thread for a while without posting.

It's an interesting problem.

The boor in me wants to say "bang on their door, turn your stereo up to 11 with Wagner on, send letters to them from the owner".

The thinking adult in me says you have two choices - go through channels, or move out".

Some fights aren't worth having, even if you win. So you complain and they trn down the music. That's great. Is it a coincidence that your car got keyed and your wingmirrors broken?

More violence is dne to more people because of neighbour disputes than any other reason.

If these guys are breaking the tenancy rules, get them in front of the residents collective/owner/kangaroo court and get it sorted. If they're breaking local bye-laws (I guess you Americans call them city ordinances?) call in the cops or a lawyer.

Start looking for a better address now. Unless your flat comes with hot and cold running Olsen twins and valet parking there is a better place in town - for sure.

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lotsofmagnets

what the?

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MSD

It doesn't come up much on TFP, but on the Something Awful forums there's a fairly constant flow of "my neighbors suck" threads, and about 80% of the time the person complaining is being unreasonable or just refusing to talk to them politely, and the other 20 the neighbors are really bad. That's why I was direct about making sure he'd tried the polite way first.

For future reference, from what I've seen and experienced, the single most successful way to deal with disruptive neighbors, whether it's noise, light, or whatever, is to talk to them civilly and politely, and if they don't understand, ask them to turn on the music/lights/whatever and come into your house and see how irritating it is. Despite my attitude toward the majority of people, I think that most cases of people being inconsiderate, especially to those who live around them, are because they don't realize they're doing something wrong.

We hated most of my friends' neighbors at their old house because instead of talking to us, they'd just call the police, who would come over, ask us nicely to quiet down, and leave. One guy walked over during one summer, told us nicely that the spotlight in the back was keeping his wife and kids awake, and after that we always made sure to point it away from his house. We never bothered with the ones who would call the cops as soon as they saw more than three cars in the driveway because we felt no need to act civil toward them when they didn't give us the courtesy of being civil toward us.

Angel_037

I posted here awhile ago about neighbors I had in a rowhome and we sold our home there because of them with the loud music and partys every night. We moved into a single home in NC and loving it. It was either moving into a single home or apartment. I got so fed up with the loud music that I would start blasting mine at times but it did not work. Good luck to anyone that has to deal with that. I know what you go through and it is not easy. If the person you are getting problems with is a renter, I suggest contacting the landlords.

girldetective

You might try stepping lightly into their house, sometime when you wouldnt be noticed and the music is not on, to somehow dismantle their stereo in a subtle way that would not be too expensive to repair.

I am not condoning this, nor even suggesting it. Im just sayin that if the opportunity was apparent it might be a subtle, easy way of taking care of the problem, at least temporarily. It would be non-confrontational, wouldnt really hurt anyone, and you could leave what you thought it would cost to fix it somewhere hidden where they would come across it unexpectedly at a later date.

Of course you would not have to leave a note with the money, but if you did you may want to think about signing it John Robie. Id also consider wearing a black turtleneck when doing said deed.

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