We are being harassed by our neighbour, they keep knocking on the wall at the slightest bit of noise made.?

Question

It all started about 8 months ago now, she reported my Husband for shouting at our little girl one day, long story. It was all sorted out and no concerns with the authorities.

The neighbour in question is literally next door we were friends before all this. Although she was so called concerned about the above situation she has been banging on the wall and shouting "shut up" with the slightest bit of noise made by our 2 year old and 4 year old children, it seems it's okay for her to do these things and frighten our children and not us to on the odd occasion tell our children off.

She is slagging us off to the neighbours about the children being noisey and who knows what else, she is writing threats on our car, we have the house on the market as she is making my 4 year old paranoid with all the banging on the wall, and now her Husband has started poking his tounge out, does anyone have any suggestions of what to do, we have not approached them at all as was told to ignore them.

Answer 1

Personally, I'd corner the kunt in the hallway, and tell her, "Listen, if you bang on my wall, or leave me one more nasty note, I'm going to make it my mission in life to make your life 100 times more miserable than it is now."

Don't worry, no witnesses, means nothing will happen.

Now, when she bangs on the wall, make it a game with your 4 year old, "Oh look, suzy wants to play!" And then you, and she beat the ever living sh!t out of the wall.

When you leave the house, put on the most inane DVD or CD from your child's collection, turn up the volume with speakers on her wall, click the "repeat" button, and then leave.

After a week of that, she'll have enough. And if she doesn't, then I'd resort to, uhm, less civil measures. Just rent some Sopranos DVD's for ideas ;-)

Answer 2

Just ignore them. My next door neighbours put their music on full as soon as my kids got to bed because they are noisy. When I hammered the door down at 1.30am she asked what my problem was. Up until that point we had done the odd knocking on each others walls when the decibels went up.
You have to declare this when you sell your house in case you didn't know, but meantime, ignore them. I'd even suggest you rent your house out and rent a property for the family in the meantime, that way you can sell the house in a few years time when the equity has risen further and you don't have to declare the disagreement.
I know how hard it must be for you, but try and look at all your options, ignore them and work out what's best. Goodluck

Answer 3

OMG u sure we don't have the same neighbours? Mine are so the same she actually knocked once and complained about the kids dancing at 6:30 pm as she could hear them stomping!! when her husband came out to ask her to leave it and there jus kids she smacked him in the face on my door step!!! scary woman she is a proper wall banger all the time even if you jus talking on the phone a bit too loud drives me mad but i have jus started banging back try to get a rhythm up and she is now doing it less and less give it ago and i wish u luck bad neighbours are a curse xx

Answer 4

I unfortunately had this happen to me at the apartment I was living in at the time. The neighbor would harass me to no end about anything and everything- from where I parked my car in the parking lot(she actually called the cops on me once) to what I was cooking for dinner("stinking up the whole building with that slop").
What I eventually did was tell her off right to her face, immediately after she tried to start her garbage. She didn't give me a hard time after that. The key here, for it to work, is that you have to wait for her to initiate trouble. That way she will associate one with the other. And under no circumstance are you to apologize or try to "make nice". These will only reinforce her behavior. (Of course, you should get the cops and/or landlord involved if she makes physical threats.)

Answer 5

Well, you could call the police, call the landlord, or even better I would move and leave them to terrorize the next neighbors. There are very few things other than these that you can do. Or simply deal with it. I do not understand why the landlord has not dealt with the problem. Begin calling him every time this happens and disrupting them every-time you are disrupted perhaps then he will see this as a problem. Good luck and God bless

Answer 6

Try not to have anything to do with them and seek advice from a lawyer. I'm sure your local council/authorities would be able to do some thing about the noise, they have rules on that kind of thing. You also need to be taking photos etc of the messages on your car and make a diary of the abuse it will come in useful when you take her to court. The local council/town authorities and police will usually ask you to do this so you have proof of what is happening.

Answer 7

I know you should start a diary and record everything your neighbour does and the times and the dates they do it. It is harassment after all. Hope this little bit of advise helps. I'm sure other people can add to this as I have never had this problem and hopefully never will.

Good luck. Hope things get better.

Answer 8

cheezy, good answer so would I except i'd turn it up for 10 mins then down for 10 mins and then up for 10 mins and down for 10 mins we did this with our neighbour who called the police and they told then as long as it wasn't up really loud for 1/2 hour at a time and after 11.15pm there was not a lot they could do....lol It sure cured them of the banging and they welcomed the odd noise after that instead of the music...lol

Answer 9

there are distinctive conceivable suggestions, the common of it particularly is checklist it to the police. so some distance as proving the region, you have some concepts. Get a affordable video surveillance gadget and seize them interior the act. hire a private Investigator to maintain tabs on the region for a week or so. Take photos of their movements your self (no longer their teenagers, as they are doing to yours. yet fairly their 'stalking' of your very own teenagers.) once you report the police checklist, be very particular with reference to the region. you additionally can call baby protective centers.

Answer 10

best idea yet!!! have a big party,,, invite as many people as you can and let the kids make as much noise as they want,,, if they complain say to then "oh sorry thought u were having parties 24/7 from all that banging on the walls!!!!
they need to know you arent intimidated by them,,, give it back to them!!! try poing your toungue back at them... best of luck but i know id be having fun annoying them back until they have given up rather than letting it upset my family life