Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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Dear Noisy-Ass Neighbor...
A few months ago, a woman moved in next door. Her voice carries. She has a dog that really enjoys a good bark. Our walls are paper thin. We live in a big concrete box. Here's what happened next!
Pretty much discovered on the day she moved in that the dog was going to be a problem. Our previous neighbor had a tiny little dog that barked like mad, but the couple of months between when she moved out and this neighbor moved in were bliss. The difference was, I could only here the previous neighbor's dog - not her.
This neighbor - well, she obviously has NO idea just how thin the wall dividing the space that makes up our lofts is.
I've contacted management about the dog, and management first asked her to get a citronella collar for the dog. When that didn't seem to work (if she ever even did it), management asked her to remove the dog from the property when she's not home. That doesn't really seem to have worked either. But, whatever. It doesn't seem as bad.
However, this morning around 6:30am, we hear her stereo pumping up the jam from the other side of the wall. Mind you, were happened to already be up - not that she knew that. Still, it was a little early for some drum & bass for me. Or whatever it was. All I could hear was bass. If it was a Saturday afternoon, I wouldn't care. It was, in fact, a Tuesday morning before the sun was even fully up. This, I'm not really down for.
So, my girlfriend and I listen at the wall to make sure it is her, and not the neighbor behind us (whom we've never even seen, and almost never even hear). My girlfriend bangs on the wall, just as I was about to briskly KNOCK on the wall...lol.
Get this.
To most people, that would elicit a "Oops! My music must be too loud!" reaction, and they'd turn it down. Oh, no, no! This _____ ... woman BANGED BACK, and yelled. through. the. wall. at us. Yelled. At us. Back. Through the wall.
DON'T BANG ON MY %$#*@ WALL!!!!
To which my girlfriend (she has a tendency to be...hot headed...lol) yelled back, "Then turn your fucking music down, you cunt!" Pretty sure the neighbor didn't hear that, as her music was still going.
I calmed my girlfriend down, and we thought the problem was solved. The music was turned down. I started getting ready for work, and girlfriend was doing whatever she was doing. Then, the music starts again. Mind you, it's maybe 7am by now. I'd already emailed our community manager, and the property owner.
We threw on a respectable assemblage of clothing and traipsed next door. The neighbor answered, and we began what can only be described as 3 minutes of "I understand-you-guys-sleep-different-hours-and-I-can-respect-that-but-I-don't-respond-well-to-banging-on-my-wall-I'm-already-having-to-move-my-dog-every-day-for-you-guys-blah-blah-blahhhhh."
Point is, um...I shouldn't have to tell you to turn your shit down at 6-fekking-thirty in the morning on a weekday. I mean, really, you look old enough that you've slogged your way through a few leases. This isn't news.
So, after arriving at work, I followed up on my previous email with another couple back-and-forths with the manager, then I called her. I said, "Look, I don't want to get anyone in trouble, or certainly not evicted or anything," (she'd mentioned noise clauses in the lease, etc.) "and I understand there's some carryover noise when you live in apartments, but there's a difference in hearing someone and their noise being intrusive when I'm in my own home." She totally agreed, and said if it came to it - which neither of us wants - she'd rather the neighbor leave than me (my lease is up at the end of October).
Hopefully we won't have any more run-ins, pre- or post-dawn.
Until then, Noisy-Ass Neighbor...
Ever had a rude, loud, inconsiderate neighbor? How'd you handle it? Was the situation resolved on its own, or did you have to take matters into your own hands?
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Comments (17)
ahah I had to deal with this all the time living in the dorms. It can get annoying... But sometimes I would be the person blasting my music so I guess it evens out.
I'm glad you took the more civilized approach.. I woulda just blasted my own music or continued banging on the wall till things escalated into a physical confrontation.
Fun times!
I've never had this problem, in any of the living situations I've been in. So, thanks for giving me something to feel good about. ;)
I have had horribad room/housemates, but the only one I've ever had a noise issue with is the guy who freaking masturbated LOUDLY in his door- and wall-less area in the basement despite knowing I was in the laundry room on the other side.
If I'm thinking right, I just gave you something to feel better about your neighbor situation. ;)
sorry you're going through this. :( yeah, i think we can all relate to some aspect of this.
@Timmmmmmy@xanga - So YOU were the one?!?!! >:-O *shakes fist* lol
@Prolixity_Split@xanga - I have no words. None. Other than *FAP*!
@wyrdkismet@xanga - Thanks. We're probably moving at the end of October anyway. A big wall-less space just doesn't work well for two people with opposite schedules...I hear it works great for masturbating though! lol
@thesoftlights - It was unspeakably disgusting. "Fap" is not even close to what it sounded like. *shudder*
@Prolixity_Split@xanga - haha! G-ross! So what happened? Did he move? Just quit doing it?
We have a homophobic lady that lives a couple doors down from us. I only know for certain she's a homophobe because she has a 15 year old son who told me so prior to him being told to never speak to either of us again, lol. She gives the rudest down-her-nose looks. Which is hard to do. I'm tall!
We're not too big into PDA, but she gets a good dose every time we see her. We tried the talking, being polite thing and she just got bitchier. So now we just try to offend her eyeballs as much as possible.
@Prolixity_Split@xanga - Hah, that reminds me of the wankin' in the car scene from Due Date.
@Grtt@xanga - hahaha! I wholly approve of this behavior!
oh man that is horrid. I suppose I should tell you about my neighbors. there was a guy and girl and their 1 year old girl. The woman worked all the time and I don't think the guy did much. Well it all started with one Sunday afternoon shortly after they moved in. It was the day before school started and I had to go to my classroom to do some last minute prepwork like writing a welcome message on my whiteboards. Anyway I go to leave and they are having a birthday party for the baby and they have table set up right in front of my garage. After that it was the constant fighting and it was physical with the girl beating the guy. She would leave and then the baby would cry and the baby's room was up against my room so I heard her cry and the dad would come in and scream "WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP AND SLEEP!" Then there was the time my car was broken into and all my cigarettes and change was stolen. I went to tell them to make sure they kept an eye on their car and keep it locked. The guy answers naked and starts rubbing his balls. I think he broke into my car and stole all that stuff because he made some sort of snide remarks. Then there was a day the public school called off so I didn't have class and I spent it at home watching Maury. I see him walk by my patio and I hear him messing around outside my sliding screen doors. He was plugging in a vaccum cleaner into my outlet so he could vacuum his car on the driveway. I quickly opened my door and unplugged the vacuum. He started screaming "WHAT THE FUCK!" Then I hear knocking on my door. "WHY DID YOU UNPLUG MY VACUUM?" I told him he had an outlet. "Oh yeah, I just thought I'd use yours because you weren't home." WTF? Then the woman disappeared and I kept hearing what sounded like digging and my landlords asked if I had seen anything of them. I told them about the digging and they were freaked out because he refused to let them in one room in the apartment. So of course I think he killed his girlfriend and buried the body. It turns out he just didn't put any salt in the water softener and it was grinding and basically was destroyed. Then the snow started flying and one night after getting everything prepped at school I came home and changed so I could go Christmas shopping. The dude popped his head out of the door on their apartment as I was pulling out of the driveway and then as I'm backing out he comes running wearing nothing but a pair of boxers and a tanktop and he was holding the baby who was wearing just a onesie. Well he tailgated me for about 5 miles on the highway and then we came to a stoplight and he pulled up next to me and turned on his interior lights and stared me down. Then when the light turned green he peeled out and I quickly made a right hand turn to take a different route to the stores where i was planning on shopping. I roll into a Target store and finish up a cigar and get out and there in the next aisle in the parking lot is my neighbor. He's still just wearing a tanktop and boxers and now I see he has no shoes. He grabs the kid and goes running inside. I just slowly walk in and see him run to the children's section so I head off to the electronics. I made a few other stops that night and when I got home there was a note on my door that said, "get me anything?" I had a few other run-ins but nothing that creepy. Eventually they were evicted and he went into a battered woman's shelter because his girlfriend was beating on him something fierce.
@godfatherofgreenbay@xanga - I don't even know how to respond to any of this. lol *_*
@thesoftlights - He completed his task while I slammed around the laundry room and made as much noise as possible. Yeh, GROSS.
@Prolixity_Split@xanga - blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I think the guy had mental issues or maybe he was just acting out because he was being beaten by his girlfriend. You know I shouldn't mock domestic female on male violence but he was creepy nonetheless.
@godfatherofgreenbay@xanga - Well yeah, regardless of circumstances, creepy is creepy.
I lived in an apt. once where the people above me would have wild, sadistic sounding sex, at like 4am. I would hear a huge BANG! on my ceiling, followed by "Damn baby, you alright?" She would reply "Fuck Me! Im fine!" and then tons of moaning. It sounded as if he was body slamming her onto the floor. I was waiting for her to come crashing through into my bedroom. It was insane. They finally got evicted.
@Grtt@xanga - Love it! lol Sounds like something I would do:)