I live veeeery close to my neighbors. I am a single mother working and going school. I like my apartment and I can't afford to leave anyway. The problem is, about a year and a half now my neighbor's son who is now a teenager, plays music everyday! especially now its summer. What's bothering me is the base. Sometimes I can't hear the rest of the music like the words to say but the base has become a daily annoyance for me. Due to the location of my bedroom, when this little jerk cranks up, the music travels toward my bedroom direction, It wakes me up. When I try to sleep I can't because I hear the "booms" between sleep and wake it almost drives me insane. These past months I have complained a lot, I have called him up and ask him kindly to turn down his base so that I can get some rest, he acts very understanding about it and says ok, but I don't hear any difference after!!! I think he and his mother is very spiteful about it now. I also suffer from fatigue and headaches due to work related stress. I loved being "home" it was like a tranquil get-away from my job. Now I sometimes feel like crying, everytime I get home anticipating rest and this little jerk is blasting. I really get ticked off when I think the coast is clear for some rest and then.... you know what happens just as I am about to dose. The neighborhood was never really like this before this prick reached adolescence. I really lost it one early 7:48 am on a Sunday, the little idiot started. I called the landlord and I demanded again she speaks to the Mother.(when ever the mother comes home). The Mother is such a bi*** she feels she is paying her rent, blah blah. But since I was on vacation this week and home during the days, I realized when the mother comes home from her shifts she makes the little jerk turn OFF the music so I guess she can get her rest AT THAT TIME. So f**king unfair!!!!
Well :) her bedroom is very close to mine as well, so I cranked my radio (which I don't ever use, due to my computer taking over my life) and put my speakers to face her bedroom window. Even a passing out drunk won't get any sleep in that racket.
I know she was very upset, I did feel better that day, but I know that won't last I am now back to the regular schedule. I really don't know what to do at this point, am I being too sensitive to the noise or is there others that feel the same way I do about this neighbor noise situation? Some people are lucky noise don't bother them and may feel in life we would have to live with noise. I feel if people who want to make noise should be considerate of others and perhaps move in a secluded place where they can't victimize others who would like to have tranquil peace. Any suggestions? Forget the Landlord she thinks I'm unrealistic and she don't want to loose a tenant.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jan 26, 2003 at 6:01 AM

What are the laws concerning noise in your city? Where I live you can't be loud after 10 pm. If the kid is noisy you can call the police not just the landlord. Have you tried talking to the mother about the noise or just the kid?
Just because you live in an apartment doesn't mean you can't call the police on noisy neighbors.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jan 26, 2003 at 8:38 AM

Post their phone number and a time to call them when they are sleeping, and I will take care of the rest.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jan 26, 2003 at 12:25 PM

You don't sound like you're being unreasonable, but there may be little you can do ... Maybe you can move to a different unit in the building? That way, your rent and location should be the same, but with different neighbors.

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by Anonymous on Feb 2, 2003 at 11:12 PM

I had this same problem , but my complaining after the 100th time got them evicted. complaine ,complaine, complaine to the manager soo many times she/he will be forced to do something. I did now its quiet *sigh*. There is a rental problem all over the USA , there are not enough apartments to go around, so I hardly doubt the landlord will find a problem filling the apartment with new quiet tendants. complaine , complaine , complaine , complaine , complaine , complaine complaine , complaine CANT SAY IT ENOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Feb 16, 2003 at 6:13 AM

buy a on off timer for you radio, so it goes off every day when you are at work when the mother is sleeping. Or set a alarm clock to go off every day when you are at work. The alarm clock will eventually turn itself off:)

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by Anonymous on Mar 31, 2003 at 6:56 PM

You probobly cant say it enough, but you could learn to spell it.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jun 29, 2003 at 2:48 PM

"probably" "complain"

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