noisy neighbours

I live in an apartment and have noisy upstairs neighbors sometimes too. Some can be worse than others but none that cause me to lose sleep. Since I'm in an apartment, the neighbors are often just there short term so it doesn't last long enough for me to go talk to them about it. I'm always afraid that if I make them mad they will just get noisier. The worst so far has been about 6 months ago and I think the kids were skating or skate boarding in the kitchen. Since the layout of their apartment is the same as ours, it would be right over my head while I was working on the computer and usually during the day. I have a feeling that it was after school but while the parents were at work. In that case, I didn't want the kids to get revenge for me telling their parents. My truck has already been egged twice and I can't remember doing anything to cause it.

[i]Hi chris, I hope this is resolved already! I hate to experienced that again! When I was renting before during my College time, I always suffer this, with roommates who are very inconsiderate and even when I will confront them, they still do it, like laughing and talking loud even 2 am or 3 am where almost everyone is asleep! Later on, I had to talk to our landlady about the issue and she confronted these girls[/i]!

I don't think I would say anything at all to them, at least not at first. My husband and I have had a few noisy neighbors before (this was before we married). The first one I can recall was when I would stay at my late grandmother's when I was little. She lived in an apartment on the lower level. And of course the noisy neighbors were right above her. Sometimes we could hear them stomp around. It would annoy me (and I'm sure her). Luckily for her she had an organ (her eldest daughter was a pianist) and she would let me "play" loudly until it stopped. If it started again, I'd "play" again. And no, I never had lessons. LOL The second one was I was a teenager. I lived with my mom in apartment complex and my neighbors right next to me would be rowdy and loud. They'd blast their music and whatnot. It drove me bonkers. I would kick the adjoining wall hard at times, but it would never do any good. Another story was when my husband and his parents lived in a different apartment complex. However, they lived above the noisy neighbors. My late father-in-law actually threw one of my husband's weights (I think it was a 45 lb plate) SPLAT! onto the floor. He did this a few times and it did the trick. The neighbors stopped being noisy. Of course, it might have helped that my husband was really into working out back then and his muscles probably scared the crap out of them. LOL I think I'd cry if I had to live in an apartment now. Not because of the possibility of noisy neighbors, but because my family and I would be the noisy neighbors. With having an autistic son it can get quite noisy at times from all of us. I'm sure all of our neighbors would hate us.