How to handle a noisy neighbor if you live in an apartment/condo

[BrightStaroftheDawn]

Authorities shouldn't even be involved, unless they are disrupting the whole neighborhood, just not you. As far as talking to them?? Most of them that make noises that are outrageous do so on purpose. It will only get worse if you give them attention.

The landlord will move you to another floor, rather than them in most cases.

Just train them.

[BrightStaroftheDawn]

As a former apartment dweller myself, I say:

Train them.

When they make noise when you sleep, wait until they're sleeping. Three or five ramming bangs on the wall at 4 am, a brief blast of dubstep, should get there attention. A nice crack of cymbals every two hours is pretty good, too.

If they complain be very, oh very apologetic.

You'll be surprised how they become self conscious, and if not well, keep training them.

[gaarcemail]

Wow, good to know i am not alone, lol. Most old homes have no soundproofing or anything like it. I live in a six unite apartment complex, and never again will i ever live with more than 1 neighbour next to me. People are innately selfish, but it also can be that they have no reality on how much noise you are hearing, specially an upstairs neighbour. The sound is much loader at your end than theirs, so recording it with a camcorder or something that records it good and give them a copy might help

[VancouverCanucksRock]

The persons in the unit above me acts as though their god damn kids make no noise at all, and the only person that makes a peep, is me...Hahah ignorant spoiled fucks

[MsWhatevahhh]

I own a 2 family house and I live on the first floor and renting the 2nd floor to a childless older couple. My unwritten rules for renting the apt are no blacks, no hispanics, no trailer trash and no children/teenagers. It's my house and I have to be very selective on who's gonna live above me. Of course I'm not going to say the above mentioned to any potential tenants. I will just simply turn them down with no explanation.

[leiviguy]

@jasonerling Then kill them

[lilsweeti13]

Maybe some of the apartments were originally created as a one unit.

[jasonerling]

i have neighbors above me that party, talk loud and stomp around ALL NIGHT LONG almost every single night til like 5-6am! ive talked to them half a dozen times, talked to our building manager, talked to the landlord, even called the police at 4am and they came out and talked to them, and what has happened? NOTHING! they may be quiet for a couple days but are right back at it. i hate these people so much

[nivak11]

How in the hell is the complaint anonymous if you are complaining about the person who lives above you? Wouldn't that be easy to figure out?!

NONE of this stuff works!! I have tried it all and ended up with nothing but a heated exchange! Police in NYC have too much to deal with to want to deal with something like this! like she said in her video: "Good luck!"

[sirMAXX77]

or just cut his break lines and hope for the best

[pudding0023]

What a crock of shit! Go up and complain nicely? The only thing you will receive is a heated exchange. Very very bad advice.

[mcradloff]

I have neighbors who complained about my stomping two days after they moved in, so now I have to walk on my tippy toes, it is impossible in an old cheap apartment to not make noise, I had an older woman who lived below me for 14+ years and never heard a complaint, old women have been the nicest to me of any group of people, bar none! I miss her a lot!!

[rgk2011]

check out my slumlord story live daily...

[Antithropocentric]

She's right, since many noisemakers are pathological scum and you need to be careful. Once they fixate on you as a "complainer" you could be under far more stress (or danger) than the original noise caused.

My strategy has been to think of noisemakers as dumb farm animals who don't know any better. Like having hogs next door. If they are humanized, they become too annoying to take.

[deathtrap68]

" higher authority" does that mean i go "rent" a hit man to vacate the said problem????

[Noodles37UK]

I've threatened my landlord in a round about way to sort out the next door's habit of leaving USED DIAPERS on display for me to walk past , or I'm off. They don't take their bins out till long after the magpies have hacked at them and then they'll still leave annoying Flash wipes and bits of tissue at their backsides.

It's like " smell the glove ". Lower classed white trash. They just look at you when you pull them up about it. And yeah, they slam their doors like fucking half wits.

[PastorFredPhelps]

usually pulling a gun out and telling them to "shut the fuck up NOW!" works.

[jones21290]

@PastorFredPhelps Nice ol 870 w/slugbarrel would be cool, but not in this system we're under.

[MyJohnsonable]

Worthless "advice." Tough situations call for tough solutions and the use of heavy machine gunfire! Fuck them!

[HMSHyperbole]

Sometimes neighbours don't realize that they are making too much noise. But if they do and don't "care", escalating the situation by retaliating with your own noise is a bad idea. Not only will it make the situation worse for you, it might make things worse for your OTHER neighbours. Most cities will have other higher authorities-landlord tenant boards or bylaw enforcement officers.

You could also try buying a white noise machine. They can make a huge difference.

[a1mint]

Guess what? You can move to a country place, but what the hell do ya know... even the fucking neighbor across the street, in a freaking rural setting, manages to get annoying with late night music.

Advise, if you ever get really fed up, and wish to sell your urban property and want to buy a rural property, make DAMN WELL SURE that you DO NOT HAVE ANY FUCKING NEIGHBORS, * * * P E R I O D * *.* trust NOTHING and NOONE.

[Phase171]

Unfortunately, 'higher authorities' are rarely interested in things that don't immediately affect their pocket book; apathy rules. Been there, done that.

[Bllackguard666]

@Phase171 QFT.

[lamsley1]

I rent an apartment just outside my college and my upstairs neighbors are the worst... Woken up everyday at 5:00am by their stomping and dropping weights. Tried being friendly, tried talking to the apartment complex but nothing got done. So i taped a radio to the ceiling and blast it everyday at 2AM, shut the door, and sleep in my living room. I hear their frustrations :) they stomp louder but FUCK EM!

[tellmewhoswatching]

@lamsley1 sounds like a good idea but my neighbors upstairs are so immature that when you hit the ceiling with a broomstick they literally stomp the rest of the day.

[lilsweeti13]

@lamsley1 Well I don't knoww hat you mean nothing gotten done. What did you actually say to them. Ask to spend more time together.