Dealing with noisy neighbours

i feel sorry for you :(

my friends work for letting properties management company. he deals with letting, contracts, complaints etc.

he said the best way to solve the problem with noisy neighbours is move :(
 
I kind of have this in reverse. I have been living in a mid terraced property for about 14 months. about 6 weeks ago one property was made vacant and new neighbours moved in. Since they work night shift they now complain about my 3 y old child making any noise during the day. I apologiesed but asked what I was to do. He's not making an abnormal amount of noise and he's 3 - he's always in bed by 8-9pm and up at 8-9 in the morning. Anyways so they have gone into full retaliation mode and now blast terrible local radio until the wee hours. It's starting to make life unbearable. If I try and watch any telly in the living room the noise of this radio drowns it out. I really like the area - we were here first and it's not ureasonable to have some household noise during the day - it's a really horrible situation. I only hoope that when their 6 month SAT is up they look to move. The previous neighbours never complained and we've never had any complaints from the people on the other side. It's a really good street and it's a mix of families and older people. My new neighbours recycle bins arae overflowing with stella bottles and cans. Maybe that's why they are struggling with noise. Either way I'm not sure what to do next
 
We had an ongoing issue with the next door women having BBQ/karaoke party's of upto 30 people sometimes twice a week when her husband left for month's on end. We did not want to cause any problems but in the end we reported her to the local council and after speaking with a nice lady who fortunately came to our house during one of the mild day sessions took immediate action and the noise stopped for the most part.

She still does it once in awhile but its not an ongoing constant issue, she wont speak with us anymore and that's fine. Its unacceptable and you should not sit quietly and take it.
 
Lartyconshayo said:
I kind of have this in reverse. I have been living in a mid terraced property for about 14 months. about 6 weeks ago one property was made vacant and new neighbours moved in. Since they work night shift they now complain about my 3 y old child making any noise during the day. I apologiesed but asked what I was to do. He's not making an abnormal amount of noise and he's 3 - he's always in bed by 8-9pm and up at 8-9 in the morning. Anyways so they have gone into full retaliation mode and now blast terrible local radio until the wee hours. It's starting to make life unbearable. If I try and watch any telly in the living room the noise of this radio drowns it out. I really like the area - we were here first and it's not ureasonable to have some household noise during the day - it's a really horrible situation. I only hoope that when their 6 month SAT is up they look to move. The previous neighbours never complained and we've never had any complaints from the people on the other side. It's a really good street and it's a mix of families and older people. My new neighbours recycle bins arae overflowing with stella bottles and cans. Maybe that's why they are struggling with noise. Either way I'm not sure what to do next
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Sounds exactly like what my GF has to put up with - apparently a 3 year old upstairs playing with his cars at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon is "excessive and a nuisance noise", because the guy downstairs works nights... of course if he wants to play his music at full blast in the garden at 8-9pm, disturbing all of the surrounding flats/houses, that's perfectly acceptable. :rolleyes:
 
Infamous786 said:
I had a similar issue, living a detached house, kids screaming and people chilling out all day in the garden, People going in and out the house, was about 8 of them living in there with kids only 4 bed house, this was going on about 1 year i had enough as i just recently purchased the property lovely street just these idiots started to rent after a few months after I moved in. Council was paying for the rent which was over a £1000 pounds a month.

Sent them a letter don't think they understood it as they didn't speak much English. Spoke to the Landlord he tried to make them stop making so much noise, but still went on for ages, he didn't care much as long as the rent was paid. Then I raised this with the council for noise pollution they sent them a letter and advised me to keep a diary of the noise, but i was lucky in one night they left but i found out later they had been working and claiming benefits at the same time.

Best way is to hound the landlord and Council till they do something
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Benefits. Check.
Multiple children. Check.
Immigrants. Check.

It's like playing Daily Mail bingo! :D
 
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I had noisy neighbors a few years back in the house I share with my younger brother, Nigerians who moved into the multi tenancy house next door.

It was mainly due to bass and large fire doors slamming at all hours of the morning.

Ended up coming to blows when when my older brother was visiting on xmas eve and they were playing soca music at midnight. Police got involved, landlord etc and they've been silent since then.

Now we're actually good mates and he comes in and trains my gym with me from time to time.

I always think a good fight clears things up.
 
nitram100 said:
I had noisy neighbors a few years back in the house I share with my younger brother, Nigerians who moved into the multi tenancy house next door.

It was mainly due to bass and large fire doors slamming at all hours of the morning.

Ended up coming to blows when when my older brother was visiting on xmas eve and they were playing soca music at midnight. Police got involved, landlord etc and they've been silent since then.

Now we're actually good mates and he comes in and trains my gym with me from time to time.

I always think a good fight clears things up.
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Things shouldn't even get to that stage though. What's wrong with some people who have absolutely no sense of what they're doing to neighbors? It really is a frustrating thing to deal with. Some people just don't give a crap, or will only back down when extreme measures are used.

I'm sure like with most people when I've had a crap day at work all I want to do is chill out and relax. If you come home to thumping bass and slamming doors it just takes a toll on people.

I remember when I was trying to chill out and my downstairs neighbors door got kicked in and people shouting "Where's my ******* money?!" This was shortly after they started growing weed.

The housing association seemed not to give a **** about any of it. Their tenants openly admitted to growing weed in the flat, all they did was give them a slap on the wrist. Police were over at one point but failed to obtain sufficient evidence (WTF?)

They also left a dog chained up outside in the carpark, all day, when we had a few hot days in summer. Heard the poor thing wailing. I provided photos of what was going on to the housing association, and still just a slap on the wrist.

Countless phonecalls and emails were exchanged but nothing really got done. I was once told over the phone that after those people left they would not be allowed to live back at that flat and they would find alternate accommodation. They moved back and further denied that statement. My fault for not getting it in writing.

Going off on a bit of a rant here, sorry, but I really do emphasize with people who have terrible neighbors, and it's such a struggle to get anything done about it, at which point when anything does get sorted, the damage has already been done.
 
We bought a house without realising that next door's landlord liked to fill it with students to maximise his rental income. Living room, Kitchen(!) and even the box room were used by noisy kids treating it as a sixth form common room.

Luckily I'd got the landlord's number previously and basically harassed him the day after they'd kept us up all night via phone, email and even linked in...that, combined with threats to report him to the council seems (fingers crossed) to have made him consider the type and amount of tenants he puts in there now.
 
I thought my cricket idea was good. Start with one, otherwise he will be like, why do i have 10 crickets in my living room. Then wait a week, put another two through. Then its open gates, as they are breeding. Put another 10 through. You can buy them at pet shops alive for reptile feeding and things.

I had a noisy neighbour above me one converted flat i used to live in. When i was moving out i ran in her and said i was moving out because of her noise, she said that she never realized, some people just have no consideration.
 
Really isn't a good plan except for to move. Going through the council or landlord can take months then you will likely get screwed anyway.

LIved here for a year, fantastic, not a peep from any neighbours. New guy moved in upstairs, awful noise from day one, weekly party till 3am or so, noisy friends who like to be drunk and loud in the hallways waking people up. Slamming every door possible, waking me up at all hours, being loud throughout the day screaming off the balcony, etc.

After 4 months they had a full on fight rolling around the floors and throwing each other into walls and doors. Police came, arrested the guy that(afaik) is still there, the other one had basically run away because of this guy and was later found and taken to hospital. Seemingly when the one guy got back he threw a tv, a guitar and some other stuff off the balcony.

On site guy finally enraged, they did some decent damage, needed a door replaced, holes in walls fixed, etc. The main guy who was the only one on the tenancy was seemingly the one beaten up and moved out unofficially the next day, officially he came back and collected his stuff two weeks later, left, ex girlfriend arrived to get her stuff having given a statement against the guy, police called again as he was choking her and took her car keys off her to keep her there.


So on site guy is convinced this guy has been told to move out, may be being given some leeway to find a flat. Rightmove had the flat listed for rent... then that listing disappeared. I got worried, spoke to on site guys, they still think they are moving. Finally after spending about two days calling every hour or so get a reluctant call back from the landlord.... who tells me the guy upstairs signed a new tenancy for 6 months on Jan 1st... 6 weeks after he had signed the on site guys are still waiting for them to move out as was I due to the landlord not bothering to tell anyone.

Landlord utterly screwed me, has now made it very difficult to get rid of this guy within the next 4 and a bit months.

Move out, I hung on WAY to long, landlords will invariably screw you, noise complaints either don't get taken very serious OR take an insane amount of time to get council to do anything or landlord to evict said tenant. Move out and try and find somewhere that limits potential exposure to noisy neighbours.

Due to terrible knees limiting my options significantly I haven't moved out yet, also because I was mistakenly under the impression they'd be out soon, but I'll certainly be taking the next suitable place I can find. Don't be optimistic about letters or complaining, terrible neighbours are a pain to get rid of and most make noise because they couldn't care less about other people and a letter to tell them to shut up won't change that. Easiest, quickest and best option is move out.
 
My neighbour does this every now and again playing ****** 80s music (like really terrible one hit wonder rock stuff)

Few years back we had a BBQ in our garden playing music barely audible to us, next thing we know he's playing his at volume 11.

He's an A grade douche and no one likes him on our street. He also hides behind his kids if you as so much as knock on his door. His kids make noise but its acceptable as they have special needs and their kids, but he is a bit of a ******.
 
anything I don't mind said:
I thought my cricket idea was good. Start with one, otherwise he will be like, why do i have 10 crickets in my living room. Then wait a week, put another two through. Then its open gates, as they are breeding. Put another 10 through. You can buy them at pet shops alive for reptile feeding and things.

I had a noisy neighbour above me one converted flat i used to live in. When i was moving out i ran in her and said i was moving out because of her noise, she said that she never realized, some people just have no consideration.
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You should speak to people really, my next door asked me to turn my music down the other day, and i know how annoying it is as Ive been on the receiving end in the past.

I apologised and turned it down and stressed to her to let me know if it's ever an issue in the future.. I'm more careful now but sometimes people genuinely don't know how loud is too loud to cause annoyance.
I'm not saying that all people are reasonable, they are not, but you should at least speak to them in the first instance.
 
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I feel for you,we have a nmpty next to us that plays trance music into the early hours

I think it must have rotted his brain listening to that tosh
 
Half the problem is if you blast music back and they don't realize (read: too ignorant/stupid) that their's is already too loud, they think you're the ignorant one and then it's all out war of both of you thinking each other is the bad guy.

so, taking into consideration the above.... crickets, maggots, cat noises and sex noises should do the trick.
 
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