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My neighbor's kids suck. But such is the life of apartment living. Who owns the property and can you tell them to speak with the tenants? You pay money to live there too after all.
@KatyElle: i agree - contact the property owner about it!
i'd probably get a new hose, use it and bring it back into the house when i'm done. maybe they'd get a hint!
FH lives on a 2nd floor with obnoxious running kids and fat stomping lady above them and a guy who plays his music super loud all night below him. he tracked down the music guy and confronted him about it (he's pretty scary looking so the guy immediately turned it down) but i don't think he's talked to the people upstairs.
Ugh... that sounds like an absolute nightmare! That is worse than my situation, but I still get mad. I have several neighbors, and randomly during the week they will be outside partying. Now I'm all for a party, but why do you have to scream to hear each other? Especially if there is no music. Wednesday night, 2 am... really? Just because you don't have class tomorrow, doesn't mean I don't have class/work/want to sleep. Geez!
I'm the mean person who calls the police on people. I open my window and tell them to be quiet. But they're too drunk to understand what I'm saying. So now the police are involved. The problem sometimes (this happens frequently) is that when it's too cold outside they stay indoors EXCEPT to smoke. So every 20 minutes they come outside and scream at each other. By the time the police comes, they're inside again and I look like the idiot. Boo.
I like FH's neighbors as people but I wouldn't count them as 100% considerate. They share a wall with FH's apartment and when I'm over I can clearly hear their TV and people talking when they have parties. And whenever people arrive/leave they scream "HEY!" or "I LOOOVE YOU!"
Better than his old neighbors. We'd be watching a movie in his room and we'd hear their bed squeaking... and squeaking... and squeaking... may or may not have resorted to playing "Go Go Power-Rangers!" to get it to stop 
@Knubbsy-Wubbsy: I love the Power Rangers idea.
I've seriously considered blasting Nine Inch Nails with my stereo in the kitchen and the window open (it's on the East side of the house, the window opens to the back yard of the houses).
But I can't resort to that. I'll just suck it up for now. If they have anything loud and late this summer I WILL go over there and take my flippin' laptop and make them READ translations of what I am saying to them (if I have to).
The problem is they aren't doing anything too bad, but when you add it all up they are super annoying.
I think it's really rude because we'd never act like that....EVER! I just think it's common courtesy (even though I know it's not to a lot of people).
Wow I know what you mean about the music with base. Someone in my neighborhood plays it loud enough that my house shakes, and it's not like we are right next to each other (and I think they are across the street). It's ridiculous!
my nieghbors are awful too! the people above us are so loud! i swear they weigh 5000 lbs!! they are always stomping around and making awful noises and playing music LOUD! they have their friends over all hours of the night and are always stomping up and down the stairs. the people beside us are always screaming really loud. Also, they
people below us have a billion kids (in a two bedroom apartment!) and they obviously dont have a bed time. They are running around VERY LATE at night screaming and laughing. I understand kids are going to have fun and stuff and it does not boher me at decent hours but when it is 11pm on a monday night it is rather annoying!
oh how i miss our house!!! lol
I have to add that I live in a little development that's has a lot of doctors, residents, and nurses (we're within walking distance of the medical center). Clearly, we're all on different schedules.
Every now and then, we have discussions on our community forum about noise and some people just don't seem to care that the doctors and nurses work different hours than the rest of us. I once wrote that "our Friday isn't their Friday" and one guy didn't understand what I was talking about. I hope he never has to go to the hospital and have a sleep deprived doctor from the neighborhood work on him!
Life is too short. If you are not willing to take your concerns to the landlord, move.
These people are not going to change and the longer you let this go on, the less likely it is they ever will.
@julies1949:The landlord can't really do anything about it. It's not in a house developement or apartment area. They technically don't have to be quiet until 10pm (per city laws about calling the cops on loud neighbors in our area).
Honestly, I'm also concerned that if I say anything the husband might tell one of his buddies to mess up our cars. We can't afford to have that happen.
Out of the 4 houses (8 units total, on our street) only one other neighbor has been here longer than us. Everyone else has moved here after us (most within the last year or less).
We are pretty sure they are going to leave soon (we've had at least two neighbors leave in the middle of the night); though the rent is fairly affordable if you aren't an idiot about your finances.
Do we live in the same complex?
Our upstairs neighbors play their death metal music so loud that it rattles our light fixture when we're sleeping. And our downstairs neighbors ignore their 3 year olds and let them scream and cry all day on top of playing their music so loud it vibrates my body on the couch.
Management will do nothing. You're right about the noise ordinance. They can do whatever from 7 am to 10 pm. It sucks. We're trying to move but we're assholes back sometimes because eventually we just give up fighting with them.
@ktk- Say something and place a video camera facing your cars just in case something does happen, you have proof of the perps.
I had an issue like that when I was living in the dorm at school. The girl living next door (she didn't move in to the dorm until april, so it was nice until then) would play loud regae music until 2 in the morning during the weekday and it would shake the walls. I had to get up at 6 to get ready for student teaching everyday so needless to say her taste in loud music was a big issue. She ignored the RA and soo when I would get up I would turn my tv on really loud and (the wall connecting ours was built in closets and shelves) I would bang on the wall and throw my shoes against the wall in the closet. I know, not mature, but I was 21 and I didn't really care. That's what happens when you don't let me sleep and I have to work with kids all day lol. Eventually she moved out, it was a sad day 
@MissCallieJean: That kind of behaviour would have had her kicked out of the dorm I lived in- after a meeting with the Hall Director.
Of course, they did nothing about the "East Texas Twins"... two LOUD Redheads (thus the twin part) girls from Tyler area (East Texas) who would scream to each other (they lived around the corner from each other) and do cartwheels down the hall in their thongs at 2am... they were friends with the CL (our version of a RA) so the rest of us just had deal- and throw out whatever lacy/netted stuff they left hanging on our bulletin board in the laundry room.
My neigbors are not that bad. They don't play loud music, their kids do not scream. But their little boys sometimes get annoying. Every time we open the garage door to walk our dog, they run into our garage and start asking questions like "Is that your dog?" "Is that your car?" "Is that your cat?"...And they ask the same stuff over and over. Or he would follow us around the street asking us to let him try our nitro rc car (it is really fast and expencive and he might easily break it). But I found thos kids funny. It's just their mom was a little mean to us once. She yelled at my mom to move her car when she dropped me off at my house and I invited her inside for 15 min. Her car was not in the way or anything, just in the corner in front of their garage door (they live in the corner house and our house is right next to theirs)...But then our neighbors parked their guests cars right in front of our garage and not 1, but 3-4...And stayed there all night. We didn't say anything to them.
I had a series of obnoxious guys live above me in my old apartment. It was an old building with hard wood floors, thus horrible sound insulation. They would play their music pretty loud til 11, 12, 1 am. Oddly, the last guy who moved in ONLY alternated between Cyprus Hill and Jack Johnson. He was also a drunk. I left notes and talked to the land lord about all of them, it would help for a while, but eventually things would go back to normal. Such is life when you live in an apartment, sigh. My building also had a courtyard and a certain group of people liked to hang out there after they came back from the bars. So, at 2 am I would wake up to drunken frat boys yukking it up outside my bedroom window. I would call the cops. I don't care if I'm the crabby old lady in the building.
Thankfully we moved last August into a coach house. If I ever have to move into an apartment or condo again I will live on the top floor. Hopefully we won't have to though. Our next step is a house.
My neighbors drive me nuts! I moved into this apartment thinking I would be here 3 months. 1 year later and I want to scream!!!! If I would have kniown I would be here so long I would have gotten an upstairs apartment. But I'm downstairs and my upstairs neighbor is mentally disabled, and I feel bad for the guy, it can not be a happy life at all. However, he has threatened to stab me and keep me up all hours of the night if I complain. Of course I still did, even more. I even filed for a restraining order after he threatened me. But the courts didn't approve it. He finally had enough complaints to get evicted. For the first few days after his eviction notice his dad came by and was making sure he took his medication on time and at the right does, and those three days were complete bliss! But he stopped doing that and I just have to deal with it until April 17!!! Yeah!!! But really the manager of this place sucks, before this guy lived here the manager had a family of 5 living in a 1 bedroom. There were always at least 2 or 3 people in a room at a time and sooooo loud! UGH!!! I can not wait to move!!!
My neighbors are the worst! If they are not yelling at each other and fighting, they are having sex. I hear them at all hours! Saturday afternoon, around 3pm, I was in my living room and I heard the girl screaming and the bed shaking. Crazy!!!!
SO and I have 2 sets of bad neighbors, so I can't wait to move! The girl who lives in the apartment behind us needs a sock stuck in her mouth or something. SO and I heard her and her bf having a reaaaaaallly nasty breakup about 2 weeks after they were moving their furniture in (taking doors off hinges at midnight on a work night, nonetheless)...lotta work for nothin'. I almost feel sorry for the guy...oh but wait, he had a whiny voice and used to "play" his guitar all the time. So nevermind. Just wish he'd taken his gf with him :)
The folks in the building next door are even worse. We call the cops on them at least once a month. The guy has a *really* loud voice, even when he's not yelling, so the "get the f*@# out!" at 2 am and slamming doors gets old fast.
I used to think I always wanted to live in a college-y area, but based on our current situation, the 'burbs are almost starting to look good to me!
ive had bad neighbors since i moved here two years ago. my first apartment was a first floor apartment. the girls next to us were always fighting. having sex with their boyfriends or up vacuuming at 5 am every morning. the people upstairs must have had a bowling alley in there apartment. i moved out and into another apartment and got some more bad neighbors. parties all the time in our front yard. 30 people would be outside yelling and drunk. they liked to knock on my window and mess with my cat too. after 6 months of that. i moved into my trailer and i still get no peace. the people across the street are always playing their music loud with the bass rattling my house. the people behind me are always yelling and fighting. the people beside me are up until 5 am every single night playing rock bad as loudas they can
needless to say i will be more than happy living somewhere really quiet. i havent gotten a good nights sleep in months.
We live in a condo and the woman who lives below us seriously complains everytime we even walk in our house! The sad thing is that she won't even come to us, she just writes nasty letters to the landlord. Bitch.
@jwinnings: A friend of mine has the same problems. She has a 18 month old son and the people that live below her are always writing the landlord about her "loud child". The floors are carpeted and seriously, how much noise can an 18 month old really make? He's in bed by 9.
you are all making me worried about moving from my quiet house in a small town to an apartment in a big city. i'm not looking forward to noise.
my neighbor smokes in a non-smoking apartment complex. I can smell it in my kitchen and in my bathroom, it's awful. what's worse - he has a gigantic cough, and we can hear it loud and clear!
We have a house and our nighbors kids sound just like the kids next to you! Drive me NUTS! We have to keep the windows closed in the summer so my dogs don't bark non stop at their screaming kids. I understand that kids are kids and I love kids, can't wait to have my own, but these parents really need to have some kind of control over their kids. When this family 1st moved in, the neighbors invited them out or over and now a year later.....no one invites them anywhere because the kids are so obnoxious! No one wants them around! It's too bad because the people in my neighborhood are so nice & fun. Makes me want to buy a house in the middle of 10+acres!
We have methheads living next door. Music is the LEAST of our problems. Can't wait to move.
We live in a nice gated apartment complex, I actually lived here 2 years before with a roommate & our kids before FI & there moved back there. When we lived there we had absolutely no problems out of any of our neighbors at all! The people above us had kids just like us & honestly other than the vaccuming you couldn't hear a thing.
We moved in a year ago this weekend actually and our original neighbors above were the most obnoxious people ever! They had 2 yappy dogs, 12 snakes, and all kinds of other reptiles & animals! The dogs would get put in a cage or left out on the patio & bark all day & all night. We complained so many times, finally when their lease was up the management refused to let them sign another one. We had a family move in above us with twins who are around 3 & they don't have the yappy dogs thank goodness! But they are so loud, it sounds like someone is bulldozing up there because of all the banging and running.. But I'd still much rather deal with that then the yappy dogs.
Wow. We would much rather live in a duplex or townhouse, but not with neighbors like that.
We live in a 6 unit apartment building right now and it sucks badly cuz the walls are so paper thin and you can always hear people fighting. The neighbors across the hall from us fight all the time and really loudly too. Sometimes they have parties and you can hear people laughing at like 3 am and loud music. Not only that, but at night when I lay down to sleep I can hear the people that live above me snoring loudly.
Fortunately for us, we're moving to another apartment and it only has 1 other unit in it upstairs with a single guy who lives alone so I don't think it will be quite as bad.
Have you tried calling your landlord at all about the noise?
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We live in an older style duplex/townhouse.
It's a two-story house, with a garage and drive-way on each side. Split down the middle so we each have two stories, drive-way and garage. The wall we share is the wall that goes through the middle of the house along the stairs and the full bath upstairs.
- They play REALLY loud music. Usually not past 11pm. (With a lot of base and trumpets.)
-They let their kids run/stomp up and down the stairs, banging against the wall at the same time. Whenever Dad goes outside the kids have to follow him and scream him name over and over again (usually well past 10pm).
-The use their garage as a play room whenever it's warm enough, so the Mom will play loud music in there that echos....it can be heard up to a block away at times.
-When they have parties (usually from noon till 11pm) they use all available street parking and allow people to park their cars on the grass (super tacky!). They use the back area as the BBQ area where they play REALLY REALLY loud music and have 30+ people all talking at once (so I can't have the windows open on the East side of the house unless I want to hear annoying music all day). They use the front of the house as a place for the guys to show off their crappy cars and smoke (so I can't have the windows open on the West side of the house because of the smoke that stinks up everything).
-We only have windows on the East side and West side of the house....so I have NO air flow at all through the house whenever they have parties.
-They don't speak English. So I can't try to ask them to quiet it down at all. I've tried to talk to the Mom (She seems nice.); but she doesn't understand a word I say. I could call her a mother flipper and she would just smile and walk into her house.
-I work nights! At the latest I try to go to sleep by 9pm so I can get 6 hours of sleep before work the next morning.
-They have kinked up the ONLY hose we share so badly...that barely a trickle of water comes out. They've already duct taped it to try to fix a leak they caused too (not that duct tape is bad, but if I break something I go buy a new one!) and they broke the sprayer attachment I bought for us to use.
I can't wait till we save up enough money to buy a house. I want at least a half acre of land! I can't stand living so damn close to people that are so inconsiderate.
I understand that people want to have parties. But if you are living literally FEET from another person you should have some common sense about what noise levels are appropriate at what times. Or ask your neighbors if there are any times of the day that they would like you to keep the noise level down.
COMMON SENSE IS DEAD!
ARGH!!!!!
P.S. Within the first few days of them moving in my Fiance tried to introduce himself to the Father...and he was totally ignored. The guy actually TURNED away from him and pretended like he wasn't even there. What an asshole! So we haven't even tried to talk to him since. I try to completely avoid him at all costs.
P.P.S. I can't use google as a translator to write them a letter because I don't want to sound like I'm demanding things from them or being rude.