What to do if you have a noisy neighbor?

oh wow... why do they have to make noise at night, then? ha ha well anyway i guess what you can do is to talk to them and tell them that they are making noises and it bothers you at a most uncomfortable time of the day. sometimes if you do not let them know, i think it would seem that you are just letting them do their business without the knowledge that they are actually causing other people discomfort.

I've had really bad problems in the past with noisy neighbours. Sometimes they don't realise how much noise they are making, so a little knock on their door with a smile just to let them know might do the trick. I suppose the problems arise when and if any neighbours are hostile, aggressive or whatever, as it can then turn nasty. Should that happen to you, and I hope it doesn't, does your country have an Environmental Health Department you could approach to ask for advice?

I think you should go over and talk to your neighbor and ask about why he or she is very noisy at night.. If you do not want to go over, you can just call a police nearby if it is really late at night already..

You can remind them sometime about it..if they ignore your talk, you can talk to police. However it is the final way only because we always want to keep peace with neighbors...

We experience the same problem. Our neighbor is so noisy and as they play their rock music, it is so very loud and could reach even up to 1 km... We want to file a complain but nobody could dare because we are afraid. :)) I guess they have that common sense already and they know as well that they are not just the only one who lives in this area. We can do nothing but let them and give them their total freedom.

Just try to be friendly with your neighbor and you can ask if they can stop making noise.

I think that I would say something to them first, and maybe buy some earplugs, so I could sleep.

We are in the same situation. We have called the police on them a few times, have contacted the owner and now he is finally doing something about them. I ended up calling the section 8 fraud dept on them because she is breaking every law on the section 8 code. She is only supposed to be there with her two kids, not her b/f and two other people. There are 6 people living in a 2 bedroom. None of them work they sleep all day and make noise at night. I work full time and and it is hard to sleep at night. Thank god, our landlord has enough sense to finally evict them.

All my neighbors are like that all the time. They dont seem to mind much the police being part of their everyday life.

Try talking quietly with your neighbor. If that does not work, you cowld go to the building management, or put up some soundproofing on the connecting wall.

Hello, I would try talking with them, sometimes being honest with people is the best way to go, in this case I would definitely talk to my neighbors...that is really sad when you live close to others and you don't respect your neighbors enough to realize that you are making too much noise. The other day one of my neighbors music was disturbing the neighbor upstairs, he was not sure what he should do, I said knock on the door and let her know, if you don't tell her how will she know, he did and she turned the music down, from what I know everything has been quiet thus far. I would speak to my neighbors, being loud at night is horrible for any one to have to deal with it's unfair...good luck

night owls,, some people sleep all day and up all night...I think in a nice way say hello and that you need to sleep at night because of your work or something like that and was wondering if they could be a little quiter after a certain hour. some will respect that some may not depends on your talking and tone . be nice and talk things out nice. surprised others have not complained. There is so many differant kind of people so be kind because to much drama may make it worst. some make noise just to not have neighbors...so see what kind of neghbors you have before asking..I have seen a few rude neighbors. you do not want them knoking on your door borrowing all the time either..somethings you never tell people about yourself when you come and go... so be careful and kind . it never hurts to pray for them and then see what happens..God can do things that man cannot do..

Contact the apartment-complex's managers or -owners. Ask them if there are any rules about noise. My apartment-complex has what you might call a 'noise-curfew': no loud music, TV or movies (and try to keep the other noises--moving heavy-stuff, yelling, banging, etc.--to a minimum) after ten o`clock (midnight on Fridays & Saturdays) until seven the next morning. My apartment-managers and some of the staff live very-close, so I can call their emergency-number to report if I think neighbors are violating the noise-curfew and can have someone come over to check and -to quiet the violating tenants. They're given one warning, and if they violate curfew again they are forced to move out (nothing "wrong" with their 'inability to stay quiet at night' (i.e. through friend-obligations of a partying nature), just that the apartment-complex is unable to keep the violators' sound from becoming 'noise.') If your managers don't have any rules about noise, tell them that the noise may force you to move out (losing them a tenant's worth of rent).

If you're sharing a department with a noisy neighbor, why not talk with the guy who owns this department, and let him talk with your neighbor to keep their voice down.

I would suggest you follow the polite approach. Go to your neighbor and tell him/her about the noises you are hearing. Sometimes even putting things under the chairs helps and that diminishes the noise they make. Placing a small carpet under a table can also help diminish noises. If it is voices you are hearing, it would also be a good idea to take note of the time. In our case, for example, our kids were not the problem, as they were already in school when the neighbor complained about the noise! Just make sure that it is really you who is making the noise and not somebody else! That can happen, especially in a building with a few stories!

Depends on what kind of noise and what time of night. If they are just speaking loudly and the walls are paper thin, you might want to let them know that you can hear them through the walls. It might be embarrassing enough for them to tone it down. If it's really late and there is excessive loud noise, or if they are fighting, you might want to call the police. Excessive loud noise (especially at night) is disturbing the peace. If they are fighting and arguing, you might not want to get involved personally, but someone might need help. The police could diffuse the situation. If it happens enough times, they could be cited.

I am facing the same thing too. I found that the upper floor people like to make noise every night. But I am fine with it. I still can sleep and do my things no matter how noise they are. So it is not a big problem to me. It's normal since we are just divided by a wall only. You need to talk to them, shouting won't work as it is not the correct way to do it. You need to meet them and talk face to face that you can't stand with it and would want them to control it.

I'll agree with a mylotter who said that your neighbours would have not realized that they are causing trouble for others. I think you should go them, introduce, be polite and explain and ask them nicely to make less noise. I think they should understand.

Hi jricky, sometimes its easy to speak with people about an issue. Sometimes its not a good idea..But you should definately speak with the landlord or the management office... It really not good to have to pay your rent and not able to live in your home comfortably..Some people just don't care about others and should live in a forest...

I am a very blunt person so i would ask them if i could help them when i see them being nosey... cause im a very private person and i dnt like anyone all up in my business just to be nosey...so it would probably be a akward situation with me because im gonna approach them and ask what they want....tell them if there is anything they want to know then to ask and i will give them the info they are lookin for....but being nosey gets under my skin...i had a nosey neighbor so when i noticed them being all in my business i gave them a dose if their own meds..maybe this isnt the best way to go about doing thing but its just my way..