Noisy Upstairs Neighbors

[Brian's Bride]

So, we got some new neighbors on Friday that live directly above us. They are LOUD! They stomp around their apartment, blare the tv, talk really loud... we NEVER heard the couple that used to live there and they were larger folks... we gave them the benefit of the doubt Friday night figuring they just wanted to unpack all of their stuff. Swear to god, EVERYTIME I woke up Fri. night I could hear them. Then Saturday night was a repeat, and guess what?!? Last night I could hear their kids talking, their tv, and the woman was actually SOBBING this morning at 4:45am. The guy left at 4:30am and I was expecting some peace and quiet until I heard her. I felt like joining her because I was so tired! I woke up at midnight, 1:30, 2, 3:30, and then layed awake from 4am on. Only good thing is I got to work at 6:30am so now I can leave early! Brian said he would talk to them this afternoon after he's done working but we can't figure out a way to broach the subject without sounding mad, which we are! I feel like calling the landlord and having HIM call them to remind them of the quiet policy (from 9pm-8am) but Brian would rather deal with it ourselves. Any advice? Oh yes, I grabbed some ear plugs from the shop floor this morning hoping it will help tonight! We're thinking maybe they are third-shifters and will hopefully be going to work tonight. Or maybe drug dealers? Seriously!!!

Thanks for the input, ladies!!!

[WBandMe]

I have some LOUD neighbors next door, sharing a wall with my bedroom. The same wall that my bed is against. I hear these people laughing, yelling, stomping around, slamming drawers and playing video games all day and all night and it's horrible. So one night at 4:30 I went over there in my pajamas and asked them to quiet down because I could hear everything... they did, but just for that night. I was also worried that they'd think I was really mean or they'd get even louder or come knocking on my door every time I made a single noise, so I had trouble handling this too. I ended up printing off our rental company's rules from their website, highlighted the part that says to keep noise down especially between such and such hours, and hung it on my neighbor's door. I don't know if they think we did it or the landlord, but it worked. The guy even came over here and apologized to my roommate and now 90% of the time they're pretty quiet, especially at night.
Last year I was in a bit of a different situation where we could hear my neighbor yelling and cussing and beating his gf and her yelling and sobbing back--we just called the police then because we certainly wouldn't get involved!
Anyway, sorry this is so long--I hope you find something that works!

[val24]

we been lucky that we never had to deal with that

my friend just got an aparment and i went to visit her. I dont always hear everything, man her upstair neighbors are noisy also. I can hear them stomping across the floor. I have no idea if it has changed since i been there.
the only thing i have ever been annoyed about was our neighbor next door. I think he used to do weight or something. cuz you could hear this thump every other minute. We used to hit the wall. I seriously dont know what was going on over there. It was like everyday all times of the day also.

i would maybe talk to them first and see what is going on then if it does not improve after a few days then talk to the landlord.

sorry you are having this problem. Some people have no respect for others.

[tootsie]

If I were you, I'd report them to the landlord.

We used to have loud neighbors but they moved out, thank goodness. The girl above us used to yell at her boyfriend all the time and scream at the top of her lungs. One time she was hitting the walls and screaming so loud that I called the police. They were pretty quiet for weeks after the police came. The neighbors next door to us would have their music on so loud that the walls would be vibrating. I reported them to the police and to the management. Management just sent them a letter, 3 times may I ad, and they finally moved last summer. Our new neighbors are pretty quiet. The guy above us stomps around a lot but other than that, it's not too bad. Oh, and I can hear him pee sometimes too - the bathroom has thin walls...:purplex: I can't wait to move into a house!

[sweetvenus]

I feel your pain!

At one of the apartments I lived in, we had some noisy neighbors move in upstairs. At least once a day, there would be a crashing sound above the kitchen that would make me nearly jump out of my skin. I still have no idea what it was. They were relatively quiet at night (except for a few pretty loud arguments in the middle of the night, but turning the TV on usually drowned that out), so I never said anything.

We did call the cops on our downstairs neighbors once, though, because they were clearly playing guitar with an amp at 3 am and I had a huge exam at 9 am the next morning. When the cops came, they apparently told them they had been sleeping and had no idea what they were talking about, but we never had any problems with them after that. I'm so thankful I have a house now, lol.

[mindi_lynn]

I had a similar problem when I went to college. I don't know how we could even hear it but I lived on the bottom floor which was all girls and then the floor above us was a guys floor. The guys that lived above me used to bounce a basketball. The funny thing about it was he was on our floor and stopped to talk to someone in my room and he made the comment about how his room was right above mine and I was like oh so you are the one that bounces the basketball (jokingly) and after that I never heard it again.

But I agree with Tootsie and report them to the landlord. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get some sleep. Now if I could find a way to keep my cats from waking me up at night!:upsidown:

[WebLady]

I just skimmed the other replies here, so sorry if I repeat something ...

Sorry about the new neighbors; when DH and I lived in an apartment we had some loud upstairs neighbors too. The worst of our issue was the kids that would get up early on the weekends (when we slept in) and be all loud inside and outside.

I would talk to the landlord like you said you did and if that doesn't work to settle them down some you can always call the police and complain about the noise. There is usually some sort of noise law early in the mornings and late at night. Here it is like 11pm to 7am I think. Although we have called the cops on our neighbors and they didn't ever come out :purplex:

Good luck!

[Dani]

Sorry about the neighbors. We have a house, and we complain about our neighbors. They will let there dogs outside early in the morning and they BARK BARK BARK. Now, if I can hear it in my house, I know darn well they can here it in theres. I was hoping that the new neighbors on the otherside would have called in a noise complaint.

Though, I have called on ones that live down the street, they usually have a loose dog running around or barking till late at night.

[Brian's Bride]

I sent an email to the landlord and am waiting for a response. Thanks for the feedback, looks like it's a common issue... Ugh.

[tootsie]

Hope everything works out.

[LadyDante]

Learn how to play bagpipes or a trumped.... and practice practice practice before 9 pm :bblol:

[Kfancii]

Sorry for the trouble you are having with the neighbors. I hope your e-mail to the landlord helps the situation.

I'm so spoiled to being in my house now that I forgot what it was like to share walls with someone but there are times when even having my own walls doesn't help.

I have a neighbor that has a 4 wheeler that is not street legal but they will get it out and run up and down the street at speeds that they have no business going. It is sooooo loud and gets all the dogs in the neighborhood riled up. I have been tempted to call the police on them too, but I haven't.

Most recently I just found out that the little girl (6 years old) behind me has been climbing over the 6 foot wooden fence to come into my yard when I'm not home. She really wants to play with my dogs, but that scares me because my dogs are not around children and what happens if they were to bite her? I would be the one in trouble even though she was in the yard illegally. :purplex: I tried to talk to her parents but they don't speak any english so I'm not sure it would do any good. :upsidown: In a couple of weeks I'm going to be tearing down the fence and rebuilding it (she has broken a number of the pickets and now the whole thing is leaning over from her climbing on it) and I think I'm going to make sure that the rails are on my side so she won't have anything to climb on.

I'm so glad that in a year I'm selling my house and moving out to the country with Mack- then I only have to contend with the Coyotes howling and causing the dogs to bay all night. :puppy:

[FirechickBride]

Well I think my story is just as bad. I live in a house that is rented from the upstairs and downstairs. Rent is 475 but my landlord is my uncle so we said if we fixed holes and doors and moved grass and cleaned up the yard we will move in for 400. So we did (being you only mow grass in summer) and fixed the holes from the last lady whose bf broke in and trashed doors with foot holes through them and huge holes in the walls. So now I live in the upper half of the house with matt. My downstairs neighbor was here before we were. He is pretty much a rocker type guy which is cool for him and so he is nice but yells alot at his 9 year old kid and his girlfriends. He can never hold one for longer than a month if that but always goes back to the old one who makes him feel bad and takes his money and uses him to fix her house. So its just the neighbor and son and well little boy to serious is not good with hygeine litterally smelling of poo...ewwww......and so everynight we have to blast music downstairs with his amps and electric guitars and then everyweek sometimes 2 is a band he is in comes here to his apartment in that tiny space and sets up to play all night long. I have a rottweiler now she does not really bark unless you stare her in her eyes (thats when she knows its play time) or she gets wound up and runs all over the house. When she gets too crazy i know she is a large muscle dog but i dont let her jump and slam herself into the ground for neighbor down there to hear...Now i take her out but will not leave her out alone cause there is a bus stop and children out as our neighbors and so easy for a dog to turn but she is so gentle and just able to listen and dont have to repeat myself but just not risking someone maybe teasing my dog or abusing it and wonders why they got bit (my downstairs neighbors kid teased my neighbors dog that was a chow and got bit so i am not leaving her alone outside) so now they got a cat which they are suppossed to pay 400 security deposit for cat well they did not cause they have not enough money but sure he would if he didnt spend it at bar everynight.... but cannot rid cat cause its his son christmas present. I got more but surely i post another time if topic reoccurs..


EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THE MOVIE DUPLEX WITH Ben Stiller and this old lady honestly it will make your living situation alot better

[Parhelion]

Good luck with that e-mail. I hope for the best. If your landlord is worth his salt he'll take you seriously and do something about it.

We live next door to a quartet of rowdy college freshmen who LOVE to party until 3 a.m. At times we've counted 10+ people entering or leaving their place. On Saturday morning as my FH and I were leaving, we noticed part of a bottle rocket positioned precariously close to our (flammable) doormat--and that was the LAST straw. We went down to the leasing office and complained then and there...

...and apparently were not the first to do so. As we were finishing our complaint, another of the apartment managers walked in and said "This wouldn't happen to be about building 4, apartment number ***, would it?"

Apparently they had already received a few warnings, and that previous night someone had called the police on them. Supposedly "the last straw" according to that manager...so I dunno what will be going on with them. The vindictive part of me wants them evicted.

Yeah...we can relate. ^_^

[uptowngirl]

My loud apartment neighbor story is just funny!

Before we bought our house we lived in an upstairs apartment. Our downstairs neighbor was the sweetest quietest guy...He was probably in his mid 30's but it looked like his mom had decorated the apartment - he had these frilly lace curtains and a floral couch...

Anyway the only time we ever even knew he was there was one day a week - must have been his day off - when he watched the Lord of the Rings Trilogy from beginning to end at full blast. It was so loud our floors would shake, but for some reason it just cracked us up. We would pantomime the parts to each other, and after a few weeks had the movies pretty much memorized. To this day if FH breaks out with "FROOOOOODOOOOOO" I just about die laughing.

For your situation I hope the landlord takes you seriously and does something about it!

[Brian's Bride]

So we attacked the neighbor two ways... the landlord DID contact him to remind him of the policy. PLUS Brian also stopped over in the afternoon to let him know that our son's bedroom is next to this guy's stairway and he'd have to be more careful about being loud and slamming his door. Brian shook the guy's hand, he was very apologetic and I got two good night's of sleep since!!! Yay me! Although the dude still clomps around but I guess some things can't be helped... I still can't wait to get a house!!!

[WebLady]

Sounds like things are looking up; glad to hear you have gotten some better sleep since :)

[spuls5]

LOL Sarah your story about Lord of the Rings is funny.

When I first moved in to my apt. I had a couple that lived below me. They were so quiet and an older couple across the hall from them. Across the hall from me was a professor from the college I worked. Nobody had kids, things were great. They all have since moved and new people have moved in. There was a family next to me that I couldn't stand because they smoked and at times I could smell the smoke in my place. I hated that. I haven't had too loud of neighbors so far. I can hear the people next door but not too bad. I do hear kids running in the hall outside my door. I really hate it early in the morning on weekends in the summer kids screaming outside and wake me up.

[FirechickBride]

LOL Sarah your story about Lord of the Rings is funny.

When I first moved in to my apt. I had a couple that lived below me. They were so quiet and an older couple across the hall from them. Across the hall from me was a professor from the college I worked. Nobody had kids, things were great. They all have since moved and new people have moved in. There was a family next to me that I couldn't stand because they smoked and at times I could smell the smoke in my place. I hated that. I haven't had too loud of neighbors so far. I can hear the people next door but not too bad. I do hear kids running in the hall outside my door. I really hate it early in the morning on weekends in the summer kids screaming outside and wake me up.



Ya I hear you cause there is a bus stop right out in front my apartment i mean we got just a duplex i guess you say and i swear 8 AM rolls around and i swear you rather hear a rooster than them kids that are like teens and then the little kids come down next for bus...sigh... so now my neighbor is leaving his kid home alone again and thinks its ok. before he was sometimes say he was going out and sure i had no problems staying up to check on the boy and well he now just his dad is leaving at like 11 pm after kid goes to bed and doesnt say he is going out. how sad it was few months ago kid was sleeping and i was babysitting sort of (he slept in his own apt. below us and i can hear everything in their apartment) and his dad locked our main entrance to enter the house and left his apartment unlocked to check on him. The dad was to be home at 1am and no sign so i called to see what he was doing so he called after not answering my calls for an hour and here him and 3 buddies drank met a girl who wanted to learn to drive a stick in a jeep (all drunk) they did and well she hit a tree, a guardrail and a hill and the dad got a arm broken in 2 and popped out socket so i brought little boy up to my apartment told his dad to stay in hospital and so that went well and instead of letting boy sleep the grandma was knocking on my door at 5 am to get the boy to his dads yet the boy spoke to his dad at 2AM and knew what happened and that he was to stay with me...


So can you imagine how worrying it is to know the neighbor single dad always yelling and leaves his child home alone and assumes i am even home to watch when i dont know he going out. so one night i could probably wake up to a fire in my apartment or something...I did on other hand left CYS a call about this but did not leave name for my own safety (his dad is a little destructive not knowing if i would have a head left or not if he found out)

[Parhelion]

^ That is...scary. :purplex:

Our neighbor troubles are continuing...and this time my FH called the cops on them. They were shooting off fireworks from their balcony!

[LadyDante]

^ That is...scary. :purplex:

Our neighbor troubles are continuing...and this time my FH called the cops on them. They were shooting off fireworks from their balcony!

Pick up a bunch pf primers from a firearm reloading store and start smashing them with a hammer. That will make a bang :D

[Brian's Bride]

Lady Dante, you are WICKED!!! I love it!!!

[flyerso6]

load neighbors are no fun. But I do agree you tend to forget there are other people living so close around you. Our first (and only) apartment our neighbors were fine except would could hear them in the bedroom if you know what I mean. It was more funny than anything and occasionnally you could here the guy playing loud video games. I didnt mind because we had two puppies at the time and occasionally the lady told me she could hear them crying when we were at work, I felt so bad because I know they were loud and there wasnt much I could do about it, thank goodness they stopped crying so much after a month or 2. Needless to say when our lease was up we bought a house, now we can't hear anyone and dont have to worry about bothering anyone else.

But it is a touchy situation you dont want to say something and have your neighbors be more loud just to be mean.

[BingBot]

I think we can all relate to having loud neighbors.

FH and I are in the lower part of a duplex. Our upstairs neighbors just moved out last week but they weren't too bad. We could always hear them walking around and we could hear their tv a lot of times. The thing that bothered us most is that it seemed like these people did laundry soooooo much! It is a shared basement in our duplex so both the washers and dryers are down there. When the dryer is done it will buzz very loudly. And if you don't get your laundry right away, it will buzz again after 10 minutes. And the next 10 minutes, and so on. Of course our neighbors would never get their laundry right away and we would have to hear that annoying buzzing!! I was so sick of it. Now I'm just nervous about who is going to move in above us now though, because they could be a lot worse than the last couple. We can't wait to get a house!!

[rainbowtreat]

I have been there as well. Just love having neighbors. I live on the second and 3rd floor and there is one apartment below me. There are only 2 apartments in this building so if there is a complaint they know where it is coming from. We had some one there when we first moved in. The guy used to play his drums all the time. Then he left his girlfriend aand it was just her and she had so many parties it was crazy. We couldn't even get into the drivway half the time because they took up the whole thing. I even had some one hit my car one night just before the moved out. She was horrid. I used to have to go down there every day and ask her to turn down the music. I got sick of if and started stomping on the floor real bad. They would just crank it up louder first then turn it down. I finally put a note on her door telling her that the next time I feel I have to come down to tell her to turn it down I would call either the landlord or the police. She was horibable towards me after that. So glad she moved out.

Then when the new baby is only 6 wks old we got new neighbors. She wa pregnant so I figured we may not have a problem. I told them about the last ones and they understood where I was coming from. Well that only lasted so long. After the baby came they were smoking dope in the apartment, there is a no smoking rule here. It is in the contract. yet they were smokign this in their apartment. I had called the landlord and she told them the next time she gets called tehy woudl have 2 weeks to get out. That didn't work. I must have called her a dozen times. I told the girl down there ( as she comes up to borrow stuff all the time ) the next time I smell it I am calling the cops. These people are not mad at me or treat me bad ebcuase I have said things to them. They thanksed me for beign udnerstanding. But it ends. I can not take it any mroe. I gave way to many chances I am waiting for the next party so I can call the cops. I am so done. tHe landlord is to as she wants them out becuase they never pay their rent.

Sorry so long, this is a issue I deal with every single day for 2 yrs now.

I feel any ones pain along with them. I hope all works out for you.