Ugh!! I need to complain...
#194659 - 07/12/05 01:12 PM
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RachelT
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I just recently moved into a house that was turned into a 2 unit apartment building. We rent the downstairs (it's a walk-out so we have a front door that opens into the backyard). Anyway... the woman upstairs has taken the responsibility of caring for her sons children... 2 boys... one is 14 the other is 16. I am so sick of hearing loud music, I could just scream!!!!  
The kids share a bedroom that also unfortunately, shares our bedroom wall. For the first 2 weeks we were here, they kept me awake every single night. It was either a loud radio, loud tv or one of them talking on the phone with loud voices. I sleep with a fan going everynight, which usually drowns out most noise for me, so you know this is loud. I tried sleeping on the couch a few times, because our window AC unit is right there and you can't really hear much else when it's on, but with a big belly, it's really uncomfortable.
Now I'm having to use earplugs everynight! Which would be fine, but they dry out my ears and make them bleed and not one company sells them in more than one size, so they're all too wide for my ears... which is also painful after a while.
So, this afternoon, I'm laying on the couch, with the AC going in hopes of taking a nap (something I can't seem to get away with not doing during this pregnancy) and I'm just about asleep, when I start hearing loud thumping noises. It's their d*mn music again!!!! Only this time it's so loud that everything in my apartment is vibrating! Good grief!!!
I have talked with their grandmother 3 times and the boys personally once, and it just does not seem to help! This does not help my already crabby attitude today!
Sorry to be a complainer, but there's only so much I can take of this crap!!! Thanks for listening... what would you do?
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This is a little extreme, but if you've talk to them, and they aren't doing anything about it, call the police with a noise complaint.
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Melissa
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Try putting your speakers (or radio or whatever) right next to and facing their wall. Play something classical or better yet DISCO ... (yuck). See if they like it.  
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I sympathize with you (I had a total party animal for a neighbor in my last apartment), but I'd hesitate to do anything to create animosity. You are going to have a baby very soon, and that baby might be up all night screaming. If that happens, you are going to be totally stressed out. Imagine how hard it would be for you to deal with the upstairs neighbors coming down and saying your baby is keeping them up all night. I'd do my best to grin and bear it until the baby is born. Then, you can have the built in "baby is sleeping" excuse to ask them to please keep the noise down. Or, you could do it in a sweet, Martha Stewart type way, and buy each of the boys a pair of decent (but not too expensive) headphones, and write them a note saying how nice it is to have young people around, but that you need your sleep. Catch more flies with honey, you know?
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Yes, I agree, call the police. You've talked to the grandma three times and the boys once. Maybe try writing a letter and making a copy of it, explaining that you are pregnant and need your rest and you've asked them repeatately to keep it down and warn them that if they don't, you'll be forced to call the police. That way, if it comes down to it, you'll have sometghing to show the police that you've tried to peacefully resolve the issue on your own. Maybe even knock on the door when its really loud and have them come oer into your bedroom so they can see for themselves just how loud it is to you!
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Have a tape recorder ready.... when they are loud...record it... you say the date & time.... do that for a little while... make a copy of it.. then give them a copy for their listening enjoyment!! (I'm just kidding....but this is something I might personally do if in this spot....but this is just MY character) LOL
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I've thought about doing this, but what can the police do? Can they issue warnings or anything? I guess I figured the police really wouldn't be able to do much.
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~ Rachel (IBS-C)
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The police can give a warning and if you have to call them again, they can give a ticket for the loud noise!
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I have loads of classical stuff I can play for them. Maybe I'll wait until I know they're sleeping (6:00 in the morning for instance) and play it nice and loud for them! Although I do have to say... they'll get their come-upons when our baby is born. I'm sure there'll be lots of 2,3,4,5 & 6:00 crying... just for them.
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Not only will I have a good excuse, but I'll also have my very own built-in loud music for them... baby will make a great wake-up call for them. 
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They have a door in our laundry room that goes to their bedroom... I've thought a few times of having my DH go and knock on it with a look of anger on his face... I know this is extreme, and I would never do it, but I've also thought of having DH knock on the door with an unloaded pistol in his hand... just for the effect. Pretty extreme and not necessary, but I'm sure it would help things!
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I'd love to record one of their phone conversations and play it back to them... that would be funny. Especially if it was a conversation with a girlfriend!
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I will for sure keep this in mind... thanks Michele!
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~ Rachel (IBS-C)
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Quote:
I'd love to record one of their phone conversations and play it back to them... that would be funny. Especially if it was a conversation with a girlfriend!
DOH!! 
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Ugh, Rachel
#194693 - 07/12/05 01:35 PM
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BL
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I feel your pain! As the mother of 2 teenage boys, I understand your frustration. Loud music drives me crazy too!
The teens are going to listen to their music---and they want it LOUD. And they don't understand why everyone else doesn't want to hear their music---and why they don't want to hear it as loud as they do!
So a great compromise is HEADPHONES.
I'd suggest going to the landlord and complaining. Request that they speak to the grandmother about buying some inexpensive headphones for the boys to use.
That way they can still listen to their music while you get some peace and quiet!
Good luck!!!
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These teens will absolutely LOVE it when your baby wakes them up crying at 6 a.m.!!! (since they probably go to bed about 3 or 4 a.m.)
It will be payback time then!!!
When my boys kept me up at night with their music, I loved to run the vacuum cleaner early the next morning.
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Hmmm....maybe you could make a noise complaint with the police. The only problem is that you're stuck living with these people so if you cause them problems then they might make your life a nightmare.
Maybe bang on the wall or the ceiling next time and see if they get the hint?
Hang in there....
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Haha! I've thought of putting the vaccuum cleaner in our laundry room by the door to their bedroom and letting it run on it's own for about 10 minutes or so... every 20 minutes... at 6:00 in the morning. I know... 2 wrongs don't make a right, but when you're desperate for sleep, your mind wanders!
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I've tried the banging on the wall thing... it doesn't even phase them. I'm hoping that when school starts, it will quiet down a little... at least during the night hours. If not, I will for sure make a huge stink about it with the police. Until then... my ears are going to have to put up with the plugs... unless of course it really gets out of hand!
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~ Rachel (IBS-C)
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ugh girl I feel your pain.
My neighbor next door is a single mom with three kids ( I think two dropped out of school) but every morning during the school year at exactly 7:23am I hear the mom screaming her lungs off telling her kid to "wake the F#$% up and get his stupid lazy A$# to school".. and he answers her by saying "shut the F#$@ up mom" and this goes on for seriously ten minutes every morning. UGH.
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I moved out because of noisy neighbors. My last neighbors liked to fight at 3am in the morning. Luckily we had a "courtesy patrol" who would call the police for me. The police came out 3 times to make sure everything was okay.
I would definitly talk to your landlord. I'm sure in your lease that you signed, there was probably something about keeping the noise at a tolerable level. Although come to think of it, I'm not sure if my current renting condo lease has anything written about that. Guess a noise complaint is easier to deal with in an apartment complex.
Tell your landlord that you can deal with uncontrollable noise (occasional thumps against the wall, babies crying, etc.) but its the controllable ones that cause an issue for you. Maybe also tell your landlord that the neighbors are welcome to turn their radio on and come listen in your part of the house so they can see how loud it is. This looks like you're trying to end the dispute peacefully.
If your landlord doesn't do anything, just call the police and explain that you're worried there might be a domestic dispute going on with all the noise you're hearing.
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Ok I know that your story is NOT funny.....but for some reason it made me laugh out loud.
I can't believe people talk to eachother that way!! Espeically a mother and her child, no matter how old!!
Geez...some people.
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When you bug them every single day they get sick of hearing from you and eventually do something about it.
So sorry! That is the worst!!
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Michelle
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oh I know.. the family is pretty tragic.
the girl (who is 16) walks around totally stoned all day long and dropped out of school.
the boy is 17 and swears at his mom all morning long (I'm lucky enough to hear it.. although he probably got it from his mom who swears back even more)
and then there is another girl that is about 14, but she's never around.
The older boy and girl walk around the hallways of our condo smoking cigarettes illegally in the elevators and its really annoying.
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Rachel,
Noticing that you are also from Iowa, I know that most of the towns/cities in the state have noise ordinances (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Ames, Waterloo and Cedar Falls are the ones that I have run into) that the police will come out an enforce. I know my neighbor's house had three teenage boys who had their stereo cranked that it vibrated everything in my house 25 feet away. I called the nonemergency police number and told them that I had approached them numerous times (had dates and times) and asked for them to turn the music down but at 11:00 pm-4:00 am is a bit extreme. The officers came out and would get a noise level and if it was above the set limit they would issue a warning the first time. The next time it was a ticket to the parents, and the third time there was a fine and court appearance for both the parents and the kids. After the third time I didn't have any more problems.
I even thought about setting off the panic alarms on our two vehicles at 6 am while I walked the dog but thought that might be cruel to the other neighbors. Instead the best revenge was getting our dog to start barking to wake up their big lab/pitbull mix who would bark and bark to go outside and play with our little dog. Course now all the dogs seem to get together in the morning and chat which I can at least sleep through.
I hope things work out and you are able to get some well deserved sleep.
-Michelle
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I have ZERO tolerance for people playing loud music. How RUDE!!!!
Can you call the police?
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Rachel, it's ALREADy out of hand. You're being too nice!
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