Neighbors sucks!

T

tee--

New member
I don't want to rant endlessly but It makes me angry to see how people can be so selfish.

To make it simple, we live in a small apartment's building with quite friendly neighbors. We've never had too much trouble with any of them, just the occasional party noise.
For about a month our upstairs neighbors have been doing an awful lots of noise, dragging things on the floor, moving ob jets (like chairs and stuff), throwing things on the floor (like balls of metal that keep rolling), etc etc
While we don't care what they do in their home, if they do it in the daytime, when we're at the university, it's really annoying when they do it early (around 8 am even on weekends) and late at night.

For example, they put their laundry machine at midnight and we even hear them talking to their baby (Nananana Nananana my baby Agu agu agu agu... not even words just like baby talk... it's creepy since the kid is like 2 years old)

Well, we got sick of it... because we would like a goodnight sleep, so we wrote them a letter, a good intentioned one, very politely asking them to consider that they do not live alone and if they could avoid doing their laundry machine late at night, and to please consider making less noice at night (after 10) and in the mornings. We even wished a happy new year and everything.

We got an answer yesterday, very rude letter, saying that they need not ask for the permission to make laundry when they wanted to, that they did not have enough furniture to make that much noice, that they too hear "noises" and that they were on vacations, and that we should go find trouble elsewhere!
For the trouble, the women stayed at home all day .. doing noise... moving things, opening cupboards, walking like they weighed a ton and punching the walls and floor... nice ...

And it makes me angry to see how people can be so dumb, they need not to be rude and be stupid about it! Plus we know it's them because we don't have any other upstairs neighbors and because they went on holidays... for a week we could not hear a noice and they got back on Wednesday, the first thing they do? laundry machine at 2 am.

It's of no use to write them back, because by the stupidity of their actions we know it will be like talking to a wall... so we hope... they'll shut up one day... plus I'm sure their Kid will be stupid... just to hear how they talk to him!! That's punishment enough....

So rant rant rant... stupid neighbors....
 
I loathe people like that, no matter what else they do in their lives, their inconsiderate nature towards direct neighbors shows their true character. It's beyond annoying, and it causes stress on everyone, the snowball effect. People like that truly spread suffering for no reason other than pure selfishness. The world is a more horrible place because of people like that.

I'm serious, sure their "crimes" are not a big deal in the legal sense, but overall, making other people miserable leads to those people doing things they might not otherwise do, and so on and so on.

It's no surprise that neighbor on neighbor violence is at an all time high.
 
I used to bitch about my neighbors all the time so I feel for you. Did you try talking to your landlord about it? Maybe you can request an apartment change if one comes available if its bad enough.
 
Go talk to your landlord. Show him the letter, and explain to him what's going on. They might be living there, but they do have to respect the people around them. If they don't start listening to your landlord, they could eventually get kicked out. :3 That'd be fun.
 
1. It's "noise" not "noice".
2. Definitely call your landlord. He/she should be able to take care of the problem. If that doesn't work, just knock on their door and ask them to quiet down.
 
Thanks for your support and orthography lessons ^^

As for the landlord, well there are different apartments and they don't have the same owner. So there is nothing there we can do, we don't want to get into a lawsuit or something like that either.

What's worse, it's that with people like that you cannot reason, because they will always think that they're in the right and we would not want to make things worse. They are so stupid they can try to hide our mail, steal our bikes or worse.

And I think that if we try to retaliate, like trying ourselves to make noises or other, things will only get worse because they'll retaliate and then we retaliate... etc etc a spiral of anger is of no use for us!!

For the moment just ranting about it makes it easier, and their stupidity makes me laugh! I think bad karma will get to them :lol:
I know that we will move on and have a better life, but they will only rest in their stupidity and live a useless life.
 
Don't you have rules, when you live in a big building with several floors?
here there are rules like..don't have any noise after 10clock, don't smoke on the balcony, etcetc...people don't follow it all the time but it sets some ground rules that people can be thrown out on :happysad:

Maybe you could talk to your other neighbours and go to the annoying neighbours "landlord" with some signatures or all the neighbours :happysad:
 
If it was noise due to domestic violence or a huge party, then I'd say call the police. Other than that, I think the authorities have larger issues to resolve.
 
I believe there is a clause in a standard lease that requires a tenant to keep a certain percentage of the floor covered with carpeting or rugs. This should reduce some of the noise. Unfortunately, hearing noise from neighbors with children is an inherent part of apartment life. I'm sure you'll find a way to deal with these neighbors in a civilized manner.
 
I had an upstairs neighbor like that a few years ago before I met my wife. That's also when I was more well to do than I am right now. He'd walk like a brontosaurus (sp?), opening and slamming things until about 3 in the morning. Considering I was working in construction and had to get up at like 5am, I found it rather disturbing. I went up several times and asked him to keep it down, but he'd start up again within a couple of days. So, I decided to exact a little revenge.

I programmed my VCR to record the Price Is Right while I was at work and once I had a full 6 hour tape to playback on. I set all my speakers to point upwards in the direction of his apartment, and I would play it once I figured he had gone to sleep on the weekends turning the volume up to 40 and blasting all the little game show dings and cheers right up to him. I only had to do it for a couple of weekends... you'd be surprised how well that worked. I never had a single noise problem there for the remainder of my time living in that apartment.

Don't know if that's what YOU should do... but it's just a suggestion.
 
I feel your pain, man. I really do. My upstairs neighbor was my FRIEND, though. I got her the fucking apartment.

They woke me up every Saturday and Sunday morning (when I catch up on the sleep missed during the week day - VERY IMPORTANT) fucking. Their headboard banging against wall. It made me SO very mad. She knew that these mornings are important to me.

I said something to her a few times. I had to finally bang on the ceiling with a candle to get them to stop. I had to do this two Saturdays in a row before they started making less noise.

I fucked sideways on my bed so that she wouldn't be bothered. Ugh.

Now, I have the entire fourplex to myself (well, I think there are some squatters upstairs) and I'm LOVING it. I can be as loud as I want and not worry about bothering anyone. And I do worry about that shit, as should everyone.
 
I'm sorry, I couldn't stop laughing. I just had to quot this so other people would read this line again.


Anywho, beat the snot out of the fuckers if they don't comply with your very reasonable request. If you do not like that idea then go to the landlord.
 
Just a couple of things.

1) 8 am is not early. If you're not up by that time, then it's kind of too bad - the rest of the city is. This is a silly complaint imo. If you had said 5 or 7, I'd agree, but by 8 most people are up and getting ready for school/work, or already on there/on their way.

2) Why did you write a letter instead of confronting them in person? It makes you seem like a sheepy little pushover. At least if you talk to them face to face there's that feigned civility thing going on, and it shows them that you're not afraid to confront them.

3) What the fuck does "doing noise" mean? How exactly do you "do" noise?


All that said, talk to their landlord if they really bother you that much. I'd suggest speaking to them face to face before you do that though, if for no other reason than it looking good on your part to the landlord.
 
Back
Top