noisy neighbours?

Question

i used to have a druggy live next to me he was a drunk as well he caused my life hell, hed have all his mates hanging outside his door shouting swearing and sometimes knocking on my door. eventually through months of complaining to my housing assosation something was done we was moved but in jan this year a new couple have moved in. they play their music very loud they play it from 8.30pm till 4 in the morning on and off, hear them having s** through the walls coz they are so loud, they are chavs, i have complained 3 times to my housing officer about the prob and sent them diary sheets but nothing has been done. its annoying, my neighbours constantly hoovers, they leave all their beer cans on the lawn and crisp packets and cig packets, i have spoken to the woman who lives above me and she packed it in for a while now they have started it again,i feel intimidated to go outside my home because i think they will have a go at me or my other half, it doesnt feel like home anymore its hell

Answer 1

I heard about a similar problem this couple had with their neighbours, the noise from them having sex was so bad they thought they were going to break through the walls...but you have rights, and if you cant move for some reason, you really need to keep at this...you need/entitled to some peace, if this dont work see if you can get the landlord, or housing association to write an official letter to these neighbours, maybe that might scare them into being quiet.

Answer 2

1) DO NOT let them intimidate you into not feeling at home. YOU have just as much right, if not more, to be there. You have been there longer, and though you didn't tell me how long you have been there, YOU have every right to be where you want to be. Remember this the next time you walk outside with you HEAD HELD HIGH!

2) You need to make friends with these people, though at the time it seems impossible. You see, with some kind of rapport with them, you will have a better chance of taking the problem to the SOURCE! My best advice for this is to make them a cake, as a welcome to the neighborhood, or something of the like, and give it a shot. Who knows they may be nice people who have no idea that they are being heard and inflicting their own lifestyle on you. Just give it a try, and see where it goes. Don't bring this to the housing association just yet, because by going there, you will do two things... you will anger them for not talking to them, and will seem like a nark to them and this will cause them to become louder and more badly behaved.

3) Understand that no one deserves what you are going through, and that only you can speak up and let these people know that you are being made to feel like an outsider in your own home.

4) Be patient, do not move out, do not feel that you have to. If they continue to be a menace, YOU wont even have to complain, someone else will do it for you.

5) Smile when I tell you that you are more important... and also smile when I say, if the music keeps up too much longer, buy you a HUGE one and put the speakers facing the wall, sometimes a lil of someone else's own medicine can set them straight.

Answer 3

I have thought about asking for ideas on this very subject, but considering most of the answers here, I'm glad I didn't - I do want to move, but maybe it's not all that easy or feasible given any financial situation, etc.
I don't have problems with the neighbors to your extreme, but they really get on my nerves. They have never even see me, because it's made me reclusive.

I live in a 4-plex that can't have any kind of insulation - not when I can hear the girl downstairs draw her shower curtain back and forth! I do wear earplugs, but when her boyfriend stays overnight (or 3-4 days), he snores so loud he wakes me up.
They'll lay in bed and talk and laugh for hours, have sex, then take a shower (you can imagine how loud the water is in the pipes)... they've showered at 3:00 in the morning before.
When he isn't at her apt., every night she's underneath my head yapping on the phone - usually for about 2 hours.

I tap on the floor... nothing. I bang on the floor... nothing. Eventually I get up and STOMP all around the apartment... I've had better results with this.
It just goes on every single day...

She has a bad habit of slamming cupboard doors, etc. - I feel sorry for the elderly woman on the other side of the wall; she is in a wheelchair - not that easy for her to go bang on the wall.
I figure if I bang cupboards back, the other person will realize how easily they can be heard. Confrontation has just never worked for me over the years (I'm 50-something).

Good Luck to both of us on this.

Answer 4

Are you in a bad neighborhood? Why don't you move? I'm not being a smart a** here. Call the police for the noise, the beer cans you can't do anything about it if it's on their property. That is the exact reason that subdivions, apartments and the like just aren't for me. I can sit on my front porch for a hour and not even have a car pass my house, but I have the luxury of being five minutes from Wal-mart, the grocery store, food places, gas stations, banks, you name it!!! I love where i live... in the country, away from all the drama and excitement! Good luck though, and see if you can't find a place in the country!!!

Answer 5

feel so sorry for you man. really i do. but if they are "chavs", why dont you get some big fat boy to stay round your house and when the noise starts, tell him to knock on the door and go mad at them, tell them you got a baby in your flat etc. go direct to them first, then complain. if you complain first, it might cause friction, but if nothing gets better, tell them you are taking it further, dont let no one bully you in yoru own home. if so, callthe police. the more you call the police for disturbance and the counciland complain and you get a few others to do it too, they wil be out in no time.

if all else fails,. get a fat stero system and BLAST your music at 6-7 am. i bet they dont get up unitl 12-1pm!! see how they like it. dont back down and show them you got front, you as "hard" as them and you dont give a flyin fu*k about what they call you or say,jsut as long as the noise is gone by lets say 10.

goodluck **)

Answer 6

First of all stop complaining to the management. Be neighborly introduce yourself to your neighbors and ask them to please at least turn it down.

However it sounds like you live in a complex that does no screening at all before they rent.

Move honey, screw the lease. tell your rental office that you do not feel safe in your apartment and also the disturbances are unacceptable. If the won't let you out of your lease report them to your land lord tenant court authorities, or at least threaten to do so. Give them 30 day notice and move out.

Also I notice people telling yyou to call the police on your neighbors not a good move. i hate people that do that sh*t. You live in a complex for Gods sake. Those folks next door may work a differnet shift than you do. Perhaps they are deaf and need the music loud to feel the vibration in order to enjoy it you never know.

If you want complete quite move to a remote location and buy your on home or if you can't afford it buy a trailer.

Answer 7

ASBO or eviction are possible remedies - speak to your landlord. If the landlords are reluctant to take action,speak to your local councillor or MP and ask them to intervene.This often produces results! You are doing the right thing in keeping a diary (take photos of the rubbish too) and you should try to get other neighbours as witnesses.If the neighbours threaten you, this is a matter for the police. As a last resort you could ask to be rehoused.

Answer 8

You know the answer to your own question . and that is to move that is the only way you are going to feel safe in your home. if the apt complex where you live does not let you out of your lease then just move and if they threaten you with a court document then all you have to do is when it goes to court explain to the judge that you did not feel safe there and you feared for your life. there is not a judge in the world that would make you pay a lease back under those conditions. Good Luck and I hope this helps.

Answer 9

Hi. I went through a similar series of events with my neighbor. They were TRYING to drive us out so they could buy the property. That is terrible feeling when you are not comfortable in your own home or neighborhood. We had to take legal steps to get them to stop. Expensive. You could move to a better, quieter place. Or you could fight with the responsible people who's job it is to protect your quality of life. Or you could turn up the TV. The worst part is getting over the emotional impact. Having you home trespassed against (the noise is trespass) and feeling helpless to prevent it can make you nutty. Try not to let it.

Answer 10

if you live in england it is illegal to make a noise between the hours of 11pm and 7am. i have had to phone the police on teenagers behaving like a nuisance at the front of my house.got to say never received any trouble since.your home is your haven,if you dont feel comfortable and relaxed then its obvious something isnt right. i once had neighbours like this,there was one day when i was fed up of hearing the same song over and over again,it happened to be a song called"i need a miracle",i thought i need a miracle myself,brought my stereo downstairs,put the speakers against the wall,turned the volume up full,and left the house.on my return 3hrs later,all was silent,and was ever since,play them at their own game.hope this helps.