Neighbors...from the land of loud

I live in an apartment building. And although I hate the building and the incredibly rude staff with a burning passion we are stuck here until June. All this time our neighbors haven't been bad, never a single problem with anyone.

Until recently

At first we thought it was the neighbors to the left of us since the noise is so very loud and clear...but it is not.

Our downstairs neighbors, in the apartment directly below us are so infuriatingly loud. As I type this I am hearing a country song (that I ONCE liked I might add) played over and over and over and over loud enough I can hear it in the shower, with my zune earphones in, in the bedroom with the fan on high, with the TV turned up to a comfortable level. I can in fact, recite the entire song.
Last night we were woken up at 1 a.m due to.... you guess it, loud music. Followed by yelling, what sounded to me to be fighting or rough housing, followed by more yelling and finally 'OOGA OOGA OOGA OOGA OOGA'. Well, due to the possible fighting security told us they would do nothing when we called them so we got to call the police (911 for a noise complaint, no wonder REAL emergencies never get through). Cops came, woke up our neighbors in the apartment next door before we all came to realize the raucous was coming from downstairs...
The police evidently talked to them because they were quiet MOST of today until now... The urge to jump up and down on their ceiling is great I tell you.

Now, some humor for the story. When the police officers came in to the apartment last night all was well for a few moments until one went "ma'am, I don't mean to alarm you but you have a LOT of snakes in your house" at this his partner lost all color in his face and practically ran out into the hall before going "dang man! I almost drew my gun!". We got a good chuckle and wished them well.
They only saw my baby rack too.....

Wow...I really feel for ya. I hope the next place works out better. Getting a single family detached? Or are you gonna try the apartment/townhome thing again? Good luck either way!

Years ago my neighbor come to an understanding about the meaning of quiet after I took up stomp dance lessons over his head. He refused to turn down his music, SSOOOO I started stomp dancing up to 2 hrs a night on hardwood floors above his head. After that all was quiet.:rolleyes:
Hey, I really got a workout. It was well worth it.;)

Oh man, I wish I could do something like that for our downstairs neighbors... but they would probably think we were just dancing to their crappy heavy base noise (I don't call rap and Mexican alternative music).
If I still had a stereo, I would do what I did to a former group of very loud neighbors and place the speakers face down on the floor, put in my favorite CD of Verdi's Requiem, set it to play the 'Dies Irae', and turn the volume all the way up. Worked great last time!

And now, the horrid noise from downstairs is even more annoying since it vibrates the walls and floor! I hate to imagine what my poor snakes are thinking.

Well evidently the cops visit didn't have an effect. The dang music is just as loud if not louder then before. Call security "oh the noise ordinance doesn't kick in until after 10 p.m." of course it doesn't seem to matter that we can bearly hear our own tv or ourselves think.

We went down to knock on their door to ask them to PLEASE knock it off. They refused to answer, I'm sure they could hear us as loud as my husband knocked.

The things I want to happen to these people are not suitable for this forum.

Nothing worse than loud neighbours.

I loathe being invaded by music that is not my choice.

We once had a next door neighbour that was so loud, a DJ that had his speakers against our wall, that it shook paintings off our wall.

The seething contempt cannot be measured.

I completely feel for you. :(

bruce

Oh and best of all...

he was working on a remix of a song by DeBarge...

:confused::colbert::rage::weirdface::bow::rage::please::tears::weirdface

It played OVER and OVER and OVER again.

:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O

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Originally Posted by Entropy

I live in an apartment building. And although I hate the building and the incredibly rude staff with a burning passion we are stuck here until June. All this time our neighbors haven't been bad, never a single problem with anyone.

Until recently

At first we thought it was the neighbors to the left of us since the noise is so very loud and clear...but it is not.

Our downstairs neighbors, in the apartment directly below us are so infuriatingly loud. As I type this I am hearing a country song (that I ONCE liked I might add) played over and over and over and over loud enough I can hear it in the shower, with my zune earphones in, in the bedroom with the fan on high, with the TV turned up to a comfortable level. I can in fact, recite the entire song.
Last night we were woken up at 1 a.m due to.... you guess it, loud music. Followed by yelling, what sounded to me to be fighting or rough housing, followed by more yelling and finally 'OOGA OOGA OOGA OOGA OOGA'. Well, due to the possible fighting security told us they would do nothing when we called them so we got to call the police (911 for a noise complaint, no wonder REAL emergencies never get through). Cops came, woke up our neighbors in the apartment next door before we all came to realize the raucous was coming from downstairs...
The police evidently talked to them because they were quiet MOST of today until now... The urge to jump up and down on their ceiling is great I tell you.

Now, some humor for the story. When the police officers came in to the apartment last night all was well for a few moments until one went "ma'am, I don't mean to alarm you but you have a LOT of snakes in your house" at this his partner lost all color in his face and practically ran out into the hall before going "dang man! I almost drew my gun!". We got a good chuckle and wished them well.
They only saw my baby rack too.....

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I understand how you feel as we have a drunk worthless (you know the rest) downstairs and until i snapped on him they were very loud ;).Go figure the protector of the public scared of a few baby snakes :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Originally Posted by Entropy

Well evidently the cops visit didn't have an effect. The dang music is just as loud if not louder then before. Call security "oh the noise ordinance doesn't kick in until after 10 p.m." of course it doesn't seem to matter that we can bearly hear our own tv or ourselves think.

We went down to knock on their door to ask them to PLEASE knock it off. They refused to answer, I'm sure they could hear us as loud as my husband knocked.

The things I want to happen to these people are not suitable for this forum.

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Contact the owners and also let them know about the worthless security morons.Cmon till you move out :P

Oh the apartment managers know of these worthless slugs. Believe me. They started up and it's after 10 pm here. Security refused to do anything because they heard that they may have gotten aggressive last time someone confronted them so they told us we had to call 911 if we have any future problems with these people.

I'm going to attempt to sleep but I swear if I have to wake up and call the cops tonight heads will roll.

Gone through all this before...which is why I rent rooms in houses now :)

Well, it all started with my husband alone being the one to look for housing. I was still in Indiana and he was out here staying on the ship. I love him dearly but details are not his strong point.
Trying to find a personally owned apartment or house out here is like finding hens teeth, the last time our lease was coming up I looked all over, heck I even looked in the surrounding towns. By the time I found a place and had contacted the person so I could go look at it someone else had already submitted their credit check and 90% of the time it was already accepted.
This lease is up in June and I'll start looking the end of January but it does get difficult, not to mention Ryan doesn't want me to move because he'll be on deployment and is afraid I'll have to move all of our belongings down the four flights of stairs all by myself.

But oooohh, oh this place does NOT have rave reviews from me. In fact I've reviewed it on every site I can find trying to warn people to NOT come here. Various reasons, but it's not a good place.

I miss the places in Indiana, to rent most places you need references, that's it. And while I was home I made myself ill looking at the classifieds, HOUSES for rent for much less then we're paying for this postage stamp. HOUSES dagnabit! *sigh* Just gotta make it til '09 then I can move back to Indiana and be the hermit I am meant to be. :D

I rent a house so I can be loud and not worry about it.

Haha we have a neighbor to the side of us who smokes weed, cigarettes, and anything else he can get his hands on enough for it to seep under our door and through our windows. He also loves rap with a lot of bass, which makes me want to kill him over and over to the beat of his bad bad music.

I cannot sleep if I hear my own breathing...I have wished death curses on my neighbor more times than you can imagine.

I feel your pain.....sigh....

Wow; this makes me appreciate our secluded place more. Granted, we are renting, but I could Not live in the city or even in an apartment in town. I swear, I would rather be dead.
WE actually had our landlord's friend (deadbeat jerk) living upstairs for awhile. He was a NUT! He'd get his car stuck in the driveway and beat it with a chain! And Clipclop, the way he is/was; your smoker neighbor and he would have gotten along famously..
I Love the stomp-dance idea!

I realize I am new..
But had to chime in...
I found I had some music on the computer.. BUT you can find it anywhere...
What you need is a Boom box, Portable stereo and good speakers. One with a CD Player..
Find Anime music OR Gregorian chanting monk music.. (it is super eerie).
Burn the music on to a CD, place your speakers DOWN towards the floor..
Hopefully in the kitchen, or bathroom.. a place where there is not a carpet..
Turn it on Low at first, if it doesn't work, Turn it up..
Turn it on JUST before leaving for the day..
Leave it ON ALL DAY. If they are at home, it will drive them nuts.
I got some of the songs from the Producers, the one that was the "hitler" song, and played it along with Olympic fanfare, anime, and other weird Odd ball music.
I played it in retaliation to my neighbors who played the mexican oompa loompa music super loud
And my husband used the gregorian chant music and had it playing against the ceiling and went away for the weekend..
Be sure to put it on an endless loop...
heheheheh
Montessa Python

Well, to update I heard them only once yesterday, started the angry upstairs neighbors stomp and the music stopped. I was at work last night and asked my husband how it went, he said they started once but quickly stopped.
Hmmm, makes me wonder if they got the noise complaint.... how their neighbors on their floor can handle them.... I shudder to contemplate.

Argh. I hope that they either shut up or move out :( Some bands for fun music-blaring that I can think of are KMFDM, Slayer, or Cradle of Filth if you're into edgier stuff. All are great music in their own right, but on repeat, loud.. but then again; it would also bother your good neighbors, so I am not sure that's the route to take in this case. I know a guy who hangs deer carcasses (minus the meat) on poles in front of his acreage by his house (I am Not making this up and can get photos..) keeps trespassers at bay!

I just remembered something else that was funny! Last summer I was at my mom's; she lives in a city neighborhood where houses are about 7 feet apart. There were people painting the house next door Blaring Rap. I was online, and I YouTubed all of the Morrissey songs that I could find and Blared them right back! I got some awesome comments doing that! People either love Morrissey or despise him.. the painters were not Morrissey lovers..

Find the circuit breaker to their apartment and switch it off. They probably don't know where it is so would have to call building management to fix it for them, which if your building management is as bad as it sounds could take a fair amount of time. A quiet evening alone in the dark can be very illuminating.

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Find the circuit breaker to their apartment and switch it off. They probably don't know where it is so would have to call building management to fix it for them, which if your building management is as bad as it sounds could take a fair amount of time. A quiet evening alone in the dark can be very illuminating.

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That is the best idea to date, in my opinion. :D

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Originally Posted by MarkS

Find the circuit breaker to their apartment and switch it off. They probably don't know where it is so would have to call building management to fix it for them, which if your building management is as bad as it sounds could take a fair amount of time. A quiet evening alone in the dark can be very illuminating.

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Mark that is a GREAT idea....I took live in the bottom of an apartment complex and the folks above me, I swear do not sleep! AND...I think they run a daycare up there....I have a snake hook in the living room designated as the 'quiet it down up there' stick :)
-Josh

I also used to live under a very loud person. He would come home drunk and collapse with his TV blaring. I banged the ceiling with a pool cue stick and it actually left marks that are still there today at my mom's house. :)