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Our couple apartments were bad with that. This one is really great, actually. I think the difference is the clientelle and the average age of the people who rent there. The WORST was when a kid of 16 moved in above us, when his grandmother signed the lease and apparently paid his rent. OMG - they thought it was party central, all teens invited. Luckily, we didn't have to complain long before he and his posse were evicted, but when the complaints are teens smoking pot on the balcony and screaming about where to score more, them puking on the balcony (our balcony was right underneath...
), parties all the time with a lot of underage drinking, and I know the cops were called a few times too...

In this complex, the only noise problems we had were a couple of college boys below us, and that was only a couple nights per week. Otherwise, we've mainly had nice late-20s, early-30s couples as neighbors and we all get along and respect each other's space and hearing.
 

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Gosh...and I thought it was bad living in a trailer park where someone lets thier kid ride a dirt bike up and down the road...oh and another kid has one of thoes minibikes. For hours all we hear sometimes is 'errrr! errrrrrrrrr!, etc'
 

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I'm having the same problems lol! I purposely paid extra to have a 3rd floor apartment so that I wouldn't have anyone else above me. The guy that lives below me has parties every weekend that end up going until 5-6AM. I was paitent with him for the first 3 weeks because I asked him to be quiet and he said he was sorry and gave me his number in case I needed to call him to quiet down. Long story short he really made no effort to keep quiet after I confronted him for 3 weeks so I finally told him that I was going to file a complaint with the office next time, no warning or anything. So the following week he had a party, and I filed a complaint. So this weekend he apparently filed a noise complaint against me for walking on my floor too loud! The landlord listened to my story and said he was being outragous so she's going to have a meeting with him. Geez, apartment living stinks!
 

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Sometimes the people across the street cranks up their stereo when they are outside washing or working on their cars, We like to open the front door so the cats can lay in the sunshine coming thru the screen door. It gets so loud sometimes that we cannot hear the TV even when we have it up all the way. The only way is to shut the door and then the cats cannot have their sunshine and fresh air. It does no good to talk to them. Some people have no manners at all.
 

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ooooh I know that song... and the one that went before it and probably the one coming after it too, because they all have the SAME BASS LINE!!!
our upstairs neighbour isn't really obnoxious... just incredibly dense. She has hard wooden floors and spends her time all day walking up and down in heeled shoes. Like, take them off when you're inside?! She plays music at a ridiculous volume and acts dumb when you go up and ask her to turn it down or off.
I swear, these people have no consideration whatsoever.
 

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I found a really good way to get revenge on my former neighbors in PA. They blasted really obnoxious gangsta rap. I tried talking to them, talking to the mother, and calling the cops. None of it worked.

Then I started thinking. If they liked gangsta rap, what kind of music did I have that they would despise? And of that, what would be the most obnoxious?

The answer: Bagpipe music!


Specifically, bagpipe music blasted at 8 AM (the town's noise ordinance ran from 10 PM to 8 AM) on a morning after they'd been up partying til 3.

They never blasted the rap music again after that!
 

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Originally Posted by Mom of 10 Cats

I found a really good way to get revenge on my former neighbors in PA. They blasted really obnoxious gangsta rap. I tried talking to them, talking to the mother, and calling the cops. None of it worked.

Then I started thinking. If they liked gangsta rap, what kind of music did I have that they would despise? And of that, what would be the most obnoxious?

The answer: Bagpipe music!


Specifically, bagpipe music blasted at 8 AM (the town's noise ordinance ran from 10 PM to 8 AM) on a morning after they'd been up partying til 3.

They never blasted the rap music again after that!
You know, I tried to do something like that with our neighbors(I was going for the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack at 8 AM), but my BF told me because he said that would just provoke our neighbors.

I wouldn't sure as heck beat being flicked off in the hallway by the first guy.
 

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We always have this problem when we stay in a hotel. We get the room next to the KIDS that come from out of town and check in at 1 and we are leaving at like six to travel more. They scream and laugh and may 37 trips to the car slamming the door etc. So what I do is when I get up, make sure to turn the tv as loud as it will go and sing and slam doors and drawers and bang on the dividing wall. I get mad when my sleep is interuppted.
 

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Originally Posted by lionessrampant

So, why is it that people who live in cramped apartment buildings think it's ok to blast music extremely loud at night?

I am about ready to kill my neighbor. Not the one with the kittens, but the other, markedly more obnoxious one.
This is precisely why I'm glad I don't live in an apartment and never will. I can't have my music low lol believe me I tried. I love it loud and honestly I can't imagine having Motley Crue playing at a low volume.
 

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There are 2 flats below us and when I'm walking up my stairs sometimes I just can't believe the volume of their music. How can you be comfortable sitting listening to it? Thankfully the ceilings are very high so it doesn't often come through but I like too vaccuum late at night just to show them I don't care if they are sleeping, just like they don't care if we are...
 

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Originally Posted by Mom of 10 Cats

I found a really good way to get revenge on my former neighbors in PA. They blasted really obnoxious gangsta rap. I tried talking to them, talking to the mother, and calling the cops. None of it worked.

Then I started thinking. If they liked gangsta rap, what kind of music did I have that they would despise? And of that, what would be the most obnoxious?

The answer: Bagpipe music!


Specifically, bagpipe music blasted at 8 AM (the town's noise ordinance ran from 10 PM to 8 AM) on a morning after they'd been up partying til 3.

They never blasted the rap music again after that!
I found a good way to get back at mine for one weekend too lol. Like I mentioned before he was always on his balcony making noise... so I starting placing every bag of litter that I scooped out onto my balcony.
Since it's winter there aren't any flies but it sure stunk for a day and none of them went out making noise on their balcony
 

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I hate loud music & apartment living, one of the reasons we're moving this summer is because its too loud.

I would call the police but what the lovely people do is turn on thier car, leave it running with the music and then go back to thier apartment to enjoy it. Devin gives me this look like the world is going to end, the appartment is vibrating and he's already meowing so I let him into the restroom to hide while I make ear plugs for me out of cotton.

Of course this happens on thursday night when i'm studying or on saturday night right before I have to get up at 5am to go to work on sunday.


I would try some sort of 5am loud music retribution, but I'm serisouly afraid of what might happen.
 

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Originally Posted by Cassie-ondra

That must be really awful. But, as a joke, you could give them a CD or something of the kind of music you like! Or, you could look on the bright side and be glad you don't live on an airfield or something! Either way, it must be very annoying. People are like that in the mall, too. They blast their headphones to the point that I would think they'd be deaf, and then they just stand in the middle of the mall and look around! People need to be more considerate.
*Raises hand straight up* GUILTY!!!
 
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GOD! Does she HAVE to listen to music 24/7?!?! It's all day, every day. Does she not have a job? A life? Is she partially deaf, maybe? Because when I can hear lyrics through the wall, that's not just too loud, that's wildly inconsiderate.

I really have to wonder about people like my obnoxious neighbor. And the truth of the matter is that she's listening to really awful music (I won't say what, in case somewhere here is into that).

I'm home with a massive head cold today and all I want is a nap.

My obnoxious neighbor needs to be more like my neighbors with the kittens, who take me out for really elaborate dinners just for helping them introduce the new kitten to the resident kitten. The woman was so scared when they were posturing...I'm really glad that she cares so much! Yeah. Obnoxious music-blaster girl needs to be more like the kitten people.
 

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By the way are you aware:

There is something called "quiet enjoyment"!!!

It is "the right to enjoy and use premises (particularly a residence) in peace and without interference. Quiet enjoyment is often a condition included in a lease." If the landlord interferes with quiet enjoyment, he/she may be sued for breach of contract. And in your case disturbance of quiet enjoyment by another can be a "nuisance" for which a lawsuit may be brought to halt the interference or obtain damages for it.
 

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I suppose you could always run over there and just say "I know its the middle of the day but I'm sick as a dog and need to sleep- could you scale it back a bit". The sick card usually tends to work.
I'm sick today too...must be a Chicago thing.
 
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Originally Posted by OllyExtra05

I suppose you could always run over there and just say "I know its the middle of the day but I'm sick as a dog and need to sleep- could you scale it back a bit". The sick card usually tends to work.
I'm sick today too...must be a Chicago thing.
Well, look at it outside! YUCK!

(as I type this, the clouds are breaking a little bit out east....maybe some sunshine?)
 

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Boy can I identify with all of you.

In one apartment I was in I could swear that the people upstairs were sumo wrestlers. Since I moved from there I vowed to always live on the top floor. The place I live now has sound insulated walls but it's not peaceful at 6 AM when the 90 year old lady next door has her tv cranked up so loud I can hear every word. She watches some kind of evangelical preacher shows.

This is off topic but I found out that you can get a home loan with no income verification, no debt ratio consideration, and no down payment. You can get the seller to pay the closing costs. I hope this helps some of you escape the horrors of apartment life. I got my preapproval letter today. It's not as hard as it used to be.
 

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Originally Posted by lionessrampant

Well, look at it outside! YUCK!

(as I type this, the clouds are breaking a little bit out east....maybe some sunshine?)
Still grey over here in Bucktown with flurries. Blech.
 

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I once had a neighbour like that - I placed my stereo speakers right against and facing the wall between our townhouses, put my opera recording on and cranked up the volume. I let that go for about 45 minutes.

I didn't have any problems after that.
 
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