Why the **** are my neighbors so god damned loud?

[Che]

Seriously, I'll send $20 to someone who can either shut them the **** up or explain to me why my upstairs neighbors are so loud.

They're fine at night except it seems like they constantly walk to and from the kitchen because all I hear is *creak creak creak*. Unless they never sleep and just slowly **** the night away.

Then they wake up. Yelling ensues, the male proceeds to bang on shit for hours, I think he does something with woodworking. Why would you have that ****ing job if you live in an apartment complex? Or does he just build houses on the side and sell them illegally out of his apartment. Either way, its ****ing loud.

Like right now, I'm literally listening to constant banging. The only way I can imagine what it is, is if I imagine someone just picking up a chair and throwing it, waiting a few seconds and repeating.

When the chick comes home from work the roof over my head sounds like its getting bombed. She's fat as hell and can't sit down in a ****ing chair, ever. She constantly is either singing or yelling at the guy she lives with. Which makes sense. I'd be a woodworker just to drown her fat ass out of my life. Then theres the ****ing dog they just let roam around. Pitter patter pitter patter. I swear she bought that dog just to piss me the shit off. And she chases it around on purpose so I have to listen to their floor sound like its going to cave in on my head.

When I walk into my bathroom I can hear things a lot more clearly. I can't even take a piss or shit or shower or shave or do anything bathroomy in peace. And that's what bathrooms are for.

[loaf]

Be loud back.

or complain about it at the front office or something.

Also I picked 2.

[SOLDIER #819]

Best thing I've read all morning.

My whole neighborhood is pretty loud. They will have parties outside often and play music into the night. Somehow I've gotten used to it, but there are certain things I can't get used to ever. Like how some people abuse their cars.

It used to be where they would just spam the horn over and over. I'm not sure if they let their kids inside it to play around or if they were using it as a makeshift alarm clock for someone in the building or what, but this could go on for at least 5 minutes. Goddamn. Thankfully they stopped. Now the new thing is to start up their car repeatedly and they do it so damn often. They start up their squeaky engine over and over and once in a while it will actually work. Then they'll shut it off and start the process all over again. Godddd.

[Djinn]

They wouldn't be neighbours if they didn't piss you off haha, thats what they do right?

Piss them off back, always works for me. Room above me used to play their music stupidly loud, so we taped a subwoofer to the roof and turned the volume on everything to max then proceeded to throw basketballs at the roof for about 10 minutes. They stopped playing music loud now.

[OceanEyes28]

You make me laugh, Che.

I have thin walls. My neighbors are pretty cool, but the downstairs neighbors did start playing electric guitar at midnight once. I did not appreciate. Really, my noise complaints come from the people outside. People walking down the street, yelling... they're not upset, that's just how they talk, apparently. "OH HEY WHAT'S UP" "NOTHING, JUST WALKING ON THIS STREET." At least you know the people responsible. And gunshots have woken me up before, but that's only been twice since I moved in in September. I sympathize with your bathroom situation. I was in the bathroom one time and I heard footsteps running down the hall and then a child bellowing out some gibberish and it freaked me the **** out until I realized it was in the apartment next to me. Also, when the father pees, I can hear it. They (mother and father) still talk when one of them is peeing. I can hear the stream, and I can hear the other brushing his or her teeth or something. Kind of weird.

Sucks you've got shitty people living above you. I get completely belligerent if I'm dealing with loud neighbors (my junior year uuuuugh). If you have a good landlord, you might complain. Or next time you see a cop in a donut shop, ask him if your situation could qualify for calling in a noise complaint and getting cops to show up. Ha.

P.S. I chose the bra option.

[Taco-Calamitous]

They're loud because it's their job to harass you. Why don't you knock on their door, explain what's happening, and ask them if they might shut up every once in a while? One time at the dorms back in Yelowstone, these people were listening to their damned music at like 2 AM. I went over, knocked on their door, and they were like, "OMG, so sorry! Thanks for not sending in a noise complaint!" Then again, it's a bit of a different situation with you, but not that much.

I didn't vote in the poll because none of your choices covered my answer. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[Pete]

Dude, just be loud back. I've lived in apartment for my entire life (sans 4 years of college). People are dumb and won't get the message. You can leave notes, ask politely and do whatever else, but in all of my experience, it doesn't do anything if your neighbors are inconsiderate. My advice is just to be as loud and obnoxious as you can be. Anything with bagpipes is a surefire way to piss people off.

My Puerto Rican neighbors HATE bagpipes.

Oh and in all reality, see if there's a carpeting rule. I know in my building you need to have the place either 60% carpeted or have rugs/ carpets only in the high traffic areas. Bust their asses on that.

Oh and I also picked 2.

[Dodie16]

Sorry to hear that you're having problems like this with your neighbors...

I never lived in an apartment, but my neighbors have noisy dogs. I eventually got used to them, so now I don't really think about it when they bark and howl.

As for why your neighbors are so loud, maybe they don't realize that they are and you need to bring it to thier attention, either personally or get an authority figure to do it. I would call the front office and complain about them, as suggested before me. I think getting the cops would be a bit extreme, but like I said, I never lived in an apartment, so I don't exactly know what the front office can do for you and you may have to get the law involved.

I don't know any hitmen.

[Che]

Thanks for the advice guys. I really think the combination of me venting my anger and then playing my music ultra loud today helped me quite a bit.

I was playing it loud enough to drown out the sound of them, but I could still feel the vibrations from whatever the **** it is they were doing.

It seems to have come to a stop. I guess you get tired eventually after destroying shit for hours on end.

I probably would go talk to them if I lived in the dorms (used to freshman year, and that worked), but with apartment complexes I've never had that work. Usually it just creates more trouble than problems.

[Tiffany]

Dude. Story of my freaking LIFE.

We live in stacked condo townhouses. So we have two floors, and the upstairs unit has one floor. We each have separate outdoor entrances. The building company responsible for our place didn't consider that maybe, just maybe the upstairs peeps might be noisy.

Holy hell. If I stand on the landing on my stairs leading up to our 2nd floor, I can hear them talk. If I was a voyeur I'd be having a heyday right now. My guy (before I moved in here) had to take the previous tenants to court with how loud they were.

Thankfully the new girl who moved in is really understanding. Her living room is right above my daughter's nursery, so its even more of a piss off when they are loud at night because then I have to deal with my screeching kid at 2am.

Not much to suggest, other than I totally understand.

[Unknown Entity]

Our walls are pretty thin too. When my neighbours first had their baby, I could hear it crying/wailing. Wasn't loud enough to wake me up, but still. At least a baby crying over my other neighbours having what sounded like rampant sex (which I heard when I had the room on the other side of the flat) isn't as bad. *shrug*

I'll get them back one day. ><;

... Anywho, maybe they just don't realise they're being loud? If it were me, I'd be just as loud as them if I was really pissed. Or just go up there nicely, and ask if they could keep it down (with the banging - I think telling them to stop walking around in their own home is out of line, even if it IS loud).

[GypsyElder]

OMFG.

My neighbors suck.

And you know what's worse? they all have little kids, that they never watch woo hoo! well at my brother's anyway.

I remember, at my brother's apartments his bedroom was right next to the neighbor's bathroom so whenever the kids were in there taking a bath they would make so much noise, toys being thrown everywhere hitting the walls, kicking, screaming, crying it sounded like their kids were dying in there and they didn't even bother to check up on them. I understand sometimes it's hard to give your kids a bath, but this was an everyday thing not just in the shower. It's not like the parents were trying to give them a bath and the kids didn't want to it's that they didn't watch them at all. They just let their kids run rampant through the neighborhood and then punished the youngest kid whenever something bad happened.

common sense would say hey, I have neighbors, maybe I should tell them to shut the hell up and stop knocking on peoples door's asking for candy.

they didn't get S*** from me on halloween. revenge!!!!

[Tiffany]

OMFG.

My neighbors suck.

And you know what's worse? they all have little kids, that they never watch woo hoo! well at my brother's anyway.

I remember, at my brother's apartments his bedroom was right next to the neighbor's bathroom so whenever the kids were in there taking a bath they would make so much noise, toys being thrown everywhere hitting the walls, kicking, screaming, crying it sounded like their kids were dying in there and they didn't even bother to check up on them. I understand sometimes it's hard to give your kids a bath, but this was an everyday thing not just in the shower. It's not like the parents were trying to give them a bath and the kids didn't want to it's that they didn't watch them at all. They just let their kids run rampant through the neighborhood and then punished the youngest kid whenever something bad happened.

common sense would say hey, I have neighbors, maybe I should tell them to shut the hell up and stop knocking on peoples door's asking for candy.

You've just given me inspiration on how to torment my neighbours once Claire gets a bit older. Woot!

[GypsyElder]

You've just given me inspiration on how to torment my neighbours once Claire gets a bit older. Woot!

Yeah but the thing is, they have like nine two year olds running loose O_O I don't think even you would want to deal with that

I could handle the neighbors if it was just one munchkin

[Rocky]

1. Aquire a trenchcoat (coolass spy hat is optional for extra points)
2. Procure a briefcase
3. Ring doorbell/knock loudly of neighbor's apartment
4. When answered, ask in a calm, low voice if the neighbor would like their walls painted... with the insides of their body
5. ?????????
6. PROFIT!

[Che]

1. Aquire a trenchcoat (coolass spy hat is optional for extra points)
2. Procure a briefcase
3. Ring doorbell/knock loudly of neighbor's apartment
4. When answered, ask in a calm, low voice if the neighbor would like their walls painted... with the insides of their body
5. ?????????
6. PROFIT!

Rofl. Too direct, though.

I think I found the perfect thing:

[Pete]

See, and my friend thought it would be ****ed up to throw bug bombs into their window at like 2am.

Ok, maybe it's a little ****ed up, but hey.

[Locke4God]

Pretty much welcome to apartments. I consider myself a reasonably upstanding citizen and while you may not fit this category I generally have considered most of my neighbors (in apartment settings) to have been beneath me. I once had this goober who thought it was cool to pee on the welcome mat of my other neighbor who was a certified whore. See what I mean? That is until I bought my house. I've got a nice old lady beside me, and another nice old lady on the other side. Unfortunately she has a dead beat daughter with 3 illegitimate kids to 3 different dads who doesn't work and smokes loads of pot all day. GREEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

[Che]

Pretty much welcome to apartments. I consider myself a reasonably upstanding citizen and while you may not fit this category I generally have considered most of my neighbors (in apartment settings) to have been beneath me. I once had this goober who thought it was cool to pee on the welcome mat of my other neighbor who was a certified whore. See what I mean? That is until I bought my house. I've got a nice old lady beside me, and another nice old lady on the other side. Unfortunately she has a dead beat daughter with 3 illegitimate kids to 3 different dads who doesn't work and smokes loads of pot all day. GREEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

The part in bold totally just wooshed over my head. Are you saying that people who live over other people are actually more responsible citizens? Is that why I live on the first floor?

[Unknown Entity]

The part in bold totally just wooshed over my head. Are you saying that people who live over other people are actually more responsible citizens? Is that why I live on the first floor?

Unfortunately, I think he means hierarchy. >>;

To be honest, I can see where he is coming from. Maybe it was worded in a way that irked me (I have a strong hate for patriotism and the pride surrounding it). In the block of flats I live in, everyone else is scum who claim benefits and spend it on booze and cigarettes, let their kids run wild in the streets high on e-numbers of all hours of the day. They must be getting some source of extra income other than benefits because they always have a new flashy car, a new bike, that big 40" television you can see through their wonderfully-chav-like decorated kitchen, and the million gaming consoles linked up to it.

EDIT: I'm not saying if you claim benefits, you're scum. Just some people claim bullshit, and spend the money on junk.

Yesterday was New Year. Did anyone's neighbours drive them crazy?

[Locke4God]

@ Che - I was really just saying that I'm the type of person who works towards the future, graduated college, invests money, spends conservatively so that I can do things like retire when I'm 65. And my experience with apartment neighbors is that most, but not all, have been the opposite of that. I had a girl who inherited 60k who lived beside me and blew 50 of it on a car? WTF? Dumbest purhase ever. If I got that money, I would have maybe bought a 10k car if I really needed one and dumped the rest in my mutual funds.

Yeah I didn't mean to offend anybody, but that's just what I've seen. Unknown Entity brings up some good observations too. Happens all the time.

[Rocky]

Why save for retirement at age 65 when you are unsure if you will even be alive for tomorrow?

[Polk]

They're probably constantly having sex. Just imagine it. Two, fat, sweaty bodies, passionate in their love for one another, ****ing in various positions throughout the night. Maybe the dog's into it too. Yeah. Think about that for a minute. You're welcome.

You should join them. It'd at least be a funny story.

[Locke4God]

@ Rocky - because it's the responsible thing to do IMO. I might ask you in return, Why go broke if you're going to live past age 65 and have to depend on your kids to support you?

Simply put, I plan to have no less than 500,000 in the bank when I'm 60, based on just what I save. I can stop working, go do what I like. I mean I just know several people who live their lives in debt but are really proud of their new corvette they can't afford, and their new 60" tv, they have to put on credit. I don't have to do that. When I need to buy new tires, or get christmas presents, it's not big deal. I save money and I think any responsible person does. I'd rather have a smaller TV and a more modest car, and see a growing bank account every week. But that's just me. To each his own

[Che]

Well I only eat my food if diamonds are sprinkled on them. Makes my dookie twinkle, mang.

[chrono]

I think that the thread starter needs to move out of the ghetto.

[Nemesis93]

man i used to have a the noisyest frickin neighbors ever.it would be somewhere b/t 9-11 o' clock at night and they would start blasting frickin latino music. i called for a noise complaint but that didnt do shit. so i said out the window and said "**** YOU" and i went inside blasted my stereo and turned my guitar amp all the way up and blasted them mutha****ers. they quit after about 10 minutes.

[Naegleria_fowleri]

Too many reasons, so there's no explanation.
Maybe they're having fun, maybe they don't know how to NOT disturb other people, maybe they feel like the apartment is their own only, maybe they just don't care about other people, as long as they're having fun...

I have loud neighbors too. When evening comes, they gather in front/beside my house and be all like, "HAHAHAAAAAAAAA HEEHEEHEEEEEE MWHAHAHAAAAA" like mad demons.

OMAIGAT. What the hell. I'm trying to take a nap here. Sometimes I get crazy ideas like, putting crocodile in front of their house so they don't play outside anymore, or throw some dynamites >:[

I mean, WHAT THE FFFF. Hellooooo?? This neighborhood isn't yours only!! So please think of other people!! Geez.

[Block]

I was quite surprised they're black wasn't an option... Racism is slipping these days. Damn you Barak Brobama.