Noisy Neighbors

rbmac hi well if they had dogs and four children some noise will be inevitable specially with a trampoline.did you talk' to them about the noise? I mean I do not see how this could affect your quality of living during the day as other people have rights too. but if you could get them to quiet down their dogs and children in the evening that would help. why live next door to a young family with children if it bugs you so much? adult communities are just right for people who cannot stand children's noises. all children will 'make some noise. Personally as an elderly woman I sort of like to hear children at play , yapping dogs no that I do not like. Are these houses or apartments? I would move if I were you to a place that does not have children.

First off I would try to talk to my neighbors about the situation. Sometimes people can be a pain in the behind without realizing it. If this doesn't solve anything, and if you are worried about the wellbeing of the children aswell, you could go to the police or for example your doctor and talk about it. They'll know where you can go with these worries.

Oh my gosh rbmac you are not alone in that situation!!!! :( We also have a veryyyyyyy noisy neighbour!! The one who lives at the the front of our house! They have (not just two) but three dogs who OFTEN barks for no reason.. Like when a kid passes by, they instantly bark bark and bark!! Sometimes I often wonder if their jaws are getting tired already!! :( Like as of this moment while typing this response, they are barking!!! :( ggggrrrrr!!! ;( I learned from a TV show that the best way to kill dogs is to let them eat chocolates, but I would not want to do that because I still pity them :( Besides that, just like their "boss", our neighbors who own those three non-stop barking dogs are also fighting like cats and dogs inside their house.. you can almost hear the plates and the glasses broken, being thrown at.. sometimes I'm not even sure if they have already attempted to kill each other.. I don't wanna be with those neighbours!!! It kills me!! We just can't help it!! So anyway probably the best thing to do about it is to report it to the local officers/ board members of your subdivision, so that immediately they will take action.. when they don't do something about it, then immediately you address it to the higher office/ authority so that there will be immediate action upon it. I hope you'll solve your problem immediately :) I feel you, it's really irritating :( You want to be friends with these neighbors, but you just can't stand their noises!! :(

You have all the right to tell them how you feel. Just remember to stay calm, diplomatic, friendly and nice as possible. If you sing videoke all day long until your lungs out they wouldnt like it either so better tell them now before your anger eat you.

well, I live in ny and most of the neighbors are noisy. I would try talking to them and letting them know that they are a bit loud, and ask them if they could keep it down....If that doesn't work, you may end up becomming the neighborhood grump. I've had to do this myself a couple of times. All I can really say, is they must know the noise ordinance laws really well as they are from 7 am to 10 pm. If the noise goes past those hours, you can call the police for them being loud.

I dont have noisy neighbours. My problem is that they are extremely nosy. Either way they are a major pain and a general nuisance. They are too fascinated by the intricacies of the lives of people living next doors. Things start becoming messy when these good for nothing people start commenting on us. They are also only too eager to gossip about us.

Hi rbmac. Welcome to mylot. Well, it would take a real real lot of noise to really bother me. I lived for years right next to an airport and then moved right smack between a fire dept. and police dept. I got pretty used to noise. If I had a neighbor whose noise was bothering me like that and affecting the quality of my life then I would first try to talk to the neighbor and see if maybe he were willing to compromise and work with you on this. Perhaps he could keep the kids inside later in the morning and call them in earlier in the evening. 10:00 is pretty late for young kids to be up playing on the trampoline anyway. Maybe he could separate the dogs for a while so they aren't barking at each other. If you could work with him, that'd be the best way to deal with it. Do you rent an apartment or do you live in a house? If it is an apartment you could talk with your landlord if this doesn't work. Also, most places have noise ordinances where you have to keep noise during certain hours.

Hi Rbmac, We just sloved this problem two weeks ago, even thought we are suffering differntly. We are living in a apartment, so the people who lives upstair was doing the construction rework, it was weekend, and we were trying to have a nice weekend morning, the consrtuction noise was so lound that we can't talk, so my husband went up and talk to the owner of the house, he was sorry for the inconvience, then they started to work in 10:00 am, so that we can get up late on weekends, we also agree that they can start working on 8:00 am in the week days, coz we get up early too. So my suggestion will be talk to them first, and i am sure you will find the way to reslove those issues.

Oh my. This situation reminds me of a dispute we once had with our neighbor too. Our neighbor has 5 dogs that constantly bark and to make matters worse, when one gets too close to another, they tend to fight. When this happens, our neighbors would usually scream and curse at the dogs. So I still wonder why they still opt to keep the dogs when they can't even care for the dogs that much? And there was never a day that the people in that house would cuss at each other at the top of their voices, oblivious that their quarrels can be heard by the neighbors. My parents couldn't stand it and had to report it to the president of our homeowners' association. The other neighbors helped as well as they couldn't stand the noise too. And pretty much, they've been quiet ever since. I hope you can resolve that problem of yours as quickly as possible.

hi ramac, i happened to have noisy neighbors, but no serious than your situation, they have no kids, no puppy. but they love to hold a party, so many people in the small house, and they turn on the music so loud, it made me hard to get to sleep. when they have no party, they prefer to turn on the tv and music so loud, i can not bear it. so one day i come to knock their door and tell them they made me hard to sleep. they apologized to me.

It's annoying have a noisy neighbor. There was an incident, my next-door neighbor, was fixing his house walls. And it happened when it was late. Sound and vibrations are felt up to my house. I do not know, he's trying to install anything, but it was very disturbing. Even my dog was so frightened, and barked every sound and vibration that sounded. Thus, my little daughter disturbed sleep, and she cried. Another neighbor who was disturbed too, had come to his house, and convey a protest. But, still, he did it. Finally, we jointly submitted a complaint to the head of the local environment, and together we headed to his house, and convey our protest. Only then he stop the activity.

hmmm, I could see how it is troubling your lifestyle. have tried talking to them making a compromise decision as what to do with the noise. one time we were living in a house but it had upstairs and downstairs and we were having problems with the neighbors upstairs. one day they were jumping above from our kitchen and I went in there to move the table just in case the ceiling came down, it was a drop down ceiling plus what ever junk was in between there. after I moved the table the ceiling comes crashing down. like matter of seconds, and these were mid 30's people can't believe we had to experience this. it can be very annoying. GOOD LUCK with that.

Depending how they are I might try talking to them first. If that does not work then call the police. I live in a city and there is a noise ordinance. Either by phone call or a roving patrol officer, it is enforced. It might take a while sometimes, but the police get around to it.

Noisy neighbors!!! Really irritating. They are first only distrubed and making a hell of noise and by knowningly or unknowningly distrubing the neighbors with their unwanted loud sound, noise or tune. Its hard to tell you about how to manage... but I often close all the doors and windows and keep a little high volume of TV and enjoy and if it is still irritating then I go and tell them to keep a low volume of tune and sometimes it worked but sometimes after a few mins the record is ON.

I feel your pain. In my last house I had neighbors that employed live bands on the weekends, and a dog named Bosco that lived behind me. Bosco stayed out all day and anytime we walked into the backyard he went nuts, charging up and down the privacy fence barking us back into the house. I really preferred the live music. At least they were fun. The neighbors with the dog were generally disagreeable people, and did nothing about the dog. I just sucked it up. I've recently moved and now I have two large dogs behind me that are chained outside day & night. They bark at everything, but more disturbing is that they cry all day. I've approached the offenders in a very friendly manner, but it didn't do any good. I finally called Animal Control because the dogs aren't being taken care of. They were given a warning and things have gotten better. At this point I'd rather just adopt the dogs so I'd know they were cared for. It sounds extreme, but sometimes it is good to have a mediator. It may be in your best interest to befriend your neighbors. That way, in an off-the-cuff manner, you can casually bring up your problem. It is a bit passive aggressive, but sometimes that is part of being a good neighbor.