Well we had a lovely time friday :(  had to listen to nextdoors panel beating music for hours during the day, then it stopped suddenly, ah relief!  then later it started again 6-7.30 :(  then someone went out relief again!  then at 11pm it starts up again, not quite as loud but with the ultra bass wotsit it's still intrusive :rolleyes: this went on till 1pm when there was an urgent knocking at the door.  OH went to answer and it was the 'bloke' and 'another bloke', both half cut and accusing me of upsetting the girlfriend earlier in the day by 'having a go' at her :rolleyes:  we tried to point out that it wasn't me but not listening, I asked if she's told him it was me, no she was too upset to say anything except that he knows her   OH wanted to go and confront her (he knows her parents well) but I told both of them there was no point in talking to them as they were drunk, so I told them to go home and get their stories straight and not come half cocked at 1 pm next time.  told OH he was going nowhere with 2 drunks as we had nothing to answer for!  also pointed out to them that if I had wanted to speak to 'girlfriend' I'd have been as polite as I was with him no matter how much attitude she had ;) ;) (they have enough attitude too)

Went inside and burst into tears          Can't decide what to do next, but if they knock on my door again OH's out the back door and I'm calling the police - I'll be a woman alone with a young child and very scared ;) ;)

This is not good for my blood pressure :( :(

Do these noisy neighbours own the house or do they rent?  I know there is a way of finding out, but I'm not sure??

If they own, Police is your best bet!  Although, if you ever sell your house you will have to declare that you have complained, I believe?  You could also get environmental health (I think) who get you to record a "noise" diary, they will also come out and measure the decibell reading.  this can give you a bit of oomph!

If they rent, go to the landlord.  Threaten that if they ever move out and you see prospective renters viewing it, you'll be as obnoxious as you can be ;-)!!!

Is that a bit malicious??  I can't stand noisy neighbours, and I have moved purely to get away.  Can you not train your dogs to start howling as soona s the music stops, bit of revenge you know! although that will still keep you awake!

Sorry I can't be of more help, unless you want to be malicious ;-)

They are renting but the house has been sold, not sure who to :rolleyes: but it was through an estate agent and if they could have bought the vendor would have saved the money ;)  so I'm hoping they aren't staying.

The 'other bloke' now dubbed 'the lawyer', claimed that his neighbours tried to get him evicted but couldn't because he only played his music between 10am and 10 pm :rolleyes: it didn't matter whether his stereo was 500 watt or 1KW it was when the music was played :rolleyes: I told him his legal expertise was out of date and EH might be able to fill him in ;)  OH backed him out of the garden telling him to but out as he didn't live there!  (for reference, daughter's band uses 150 watt speakers on stage at a BIG venue, and smaller ones in a sound studio)

I'm feeling very malicious at the moment but won't do anything rash.  We've been thru this before but that was when we knew that the people there owned the house.  I've been known to start banging the fireplace with a heavy object at 9am on a saturday morning for 10 minutes after a really late one (they'd only had 2 hours sleep :mad evil grin: ) not my fault if something was needing fixing on the fireplace ;)

I can't figure out who could have 'had a go' at her, the old biddy the other side has been in and out of hospital and isn't there at the moment.  Personally I think she's making it up :rolleyes: Unless it was someone from another street

Unfortunately I know the landlord and wouldn't discount his encouraging it :( :(

Oh dear, so the landlord is just as bad then... Was there a sold board outside?  If so, ask the agents if the tenants bought it??  At least there might be a light at the other end....  Another old biddy next door.. nice and quiet, who loves dogs!  If the tenants bought it, surely the landlord wouldn't have used an agent at all, as you say!  I rekon  you'll be free in 6 - 8 weeks!  What a lovely xmas / new years present!

Sometimes people make me mad! They can be so inconsiderate!

There's been an interesting development :rolleyes:

Neighbour other side of us had a word with the landlord and his girlfriend came down last night and said I shoud have told them, the tenants are in breach of their lease if they're behaving like this   she also said they haven't bought the house as they couldn't afford it, so they are going in january - yay!  hope the next ones are nicer (young couple apparently)  
She was shocked that the people on the other side of us had also heard the noise! 

She was going to have a word with them - so fingers crossed, peace will reign again !
Maybe the Landlord is growing up at last :rolleyes:

Edited to say
What was really wierd was we had to listen to their LOUD music, and then they were banging on OUR door at 1 in the morning to give us attitude, because someone else complained!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (Evil Laugh - Ha)

Ooh isn't it nice when things go your way!  I imagine it is karma treating you well because you remained so dignified through the whole thing!

Lets hope they disappear for Xmas and you have some peace and quiet!

I belong to a young couple and me and the OH are ususally in bed by 10:30 :rolleyes:!! Work has a very bad effect on me you see.  We just work too hard and have to sleep it off!  no real time for playing! So you should have no noise at all!

Roll on January and a peaceful new year!

LOL

When we were your age we were the same :)  Both working too hard to cause any trouble or noise :D :D 

Trying not to think about the ones who've bought, although hoping they're not into boom boxes and panel beating 'music'  - can't keep going thru this, it's too wearing :rolleyes:

Oh my god I can't believe it!!! I think that bad neighbours are the worst thing that can happen to you ...... me and my bf just bought a ground floor conversion flat and there's one couple upstairs (apparently, haven't met them yet) who we have to share a freehold with. I am really worried and praying that they turn out to be sweet, quiet, dog loving people!!! ;)

Please don't talk to me about neighbours.  I moved into my ground floor flat in June and up until October I thought I got on quite well with the woman who lives upstairs.

Then one Saturday morning I had a letter from the coucil, someone had put a complaint in about the dogs, apparently they bark a lot when I'm out at work ....... but what was a complete lie, apparently my garden was over run with dog poo !!  So I went straight out into the garden to find the offending poo, nothing, not one little bit.

However, I did take the barking issue seriously and asked a couple of other neighbours and yes Ellis is starting to bark around 3pm until 4pm, so I immediately stopped leaving them at the flat and take them back to OH's place for the day.  They seem fine there.

But since then the woman upstairs is making as much noise as she can when she knows I'm around.  She know's that I get up early to walk the dogs before going to work, so she likes to make quite a bit of noise around 3am, and as for her daughter, she comes home every night around 12.30am, and not being considerate in the matter at all.

So all in all, totally and unterly fed up with my first experience of having a flat, and not very nice neighbours, well one neighbour anyway.  She's got too much time on her hands and likes to cause trouble.  Someone did say to me I did warn you about her when you moved in, but I didn't take much notice then, from what I can gather a couple of people have already moved out from the other flats because of her.  So nice lady !!

  They've gone! 

All week it's been very quiet, but they went on Thursday apparently, I saw the landlord yesterday who apologised for their behaviour and told me they'd upped and gone on thursday! :rolleyes:

My reply, "Don't worry about it, you aren't responsible for them, they were acting like a bunch of young kids, they'll grow up eventually!"  I could have said SO much more LOL but I think he got the message (it was the same with him when he lived there, 'till he grew up a bit ;) )

So peace reigns - for the moment!

GSPMUM,

Maybe you should have a word with her, obviously she's gutless if she's been to the council before having a word with you re the barking ;)  You could always point out that you both have to live there and it would be better if you could live in harmony, but if she doesn't stop her antics then you'll be forced to either get noisier yourself or get the council involved ;)  sometimes just fronting up to them is enough :)  does your council offer a mediation service?  sometimes that can be of enormous help, especially if you can show the council that you are trying to get along with her :D :D

Thought you might enjoy my story though it will be no help.  When I was a young thing with my first apartment and my boyfriend visiting on weekends I had a run in with a neighbour, an older woman.  She complained that she and her husband had been told only "adults" (I was an adult) and retired persons were to be allowed in the building.  She was worried about the noise young people might make.  After my reply she barely spoke to me again.  I told her I had been informed that most of the other apartment owners were older folks and I had been worried about them being deaf and having to put their TVs and radios up high, about them being confused and smoking in bed or leaving a pot on the stove and starting a fire, about them losing their ability to drive properly and hitting my car in the parking lot (which did happen).  I also said that of course the only way only older people could be allowed was to make it a senior citizens home, otherwise to keep out young people was age discrimination.  Oh boy, was she mad, the snotty old ......  Her husband was nice though, I felt sorry for him.  And they had kids my age too, how would she feel if someone treated their kids the way she acted with me?