Noisy Neighbors!!!
 

I live in a downstairs apartment and I am driven crazy by the people upstairs!

For summer and fall it was XYZ fat sorority beeotch and her (non-greek) friend. We chose the bedroom below her "friend's" room cause she was a lightweight- hence less noise! The grievance with her was that she was on the phone all hours of the night in her horrible hick Southern drawl and most of the time we could hear her pretty clearly. If you thought that was bad-- after she would finish her conversation she would drop her phone on the floor! :rolleyes:

XYZ fat sorority beeotch would have random guys over and we could hear them get it on :eek: Our apts have very limited parking and one of her "buddies" was in my space. I didn't know who's big ass red F150 truck it was then and I wasn't about to knock on everyone's door to find out (it was 11pm) :p So I called the towing company. It took about an hour for the tow truck to come-- but it eventually hauled off the red truck. The tow truck is horribly loud. Usually people can catch the tow truck loading the car on cause of the noise. XYZ sorority fat beeotch comes and knocks on the door in her PJ's asking about the tow company's number. :rolleyes: Only then did I realize it was her "buddy's" truck and they were probably too "busy" to hear a darn thing outside! :p

About a week before finals (mid Dec), XYZ was bawling-- crying her eyes out. I mean I could hear her gut wrenching sobs too clearly. I dunno what happened-- maybe someone died? She went home and we only saw her one day of finals week.

XYZ moved out last Saturday, but we never saw her roommate move out. :confused: Then on Monday, we see her roommate and her mom (?) bringing stuff in. Plus her boyfriend comes and hammers stuff upstairs. I'm beginning to think her boyfriend moved in. At first we couldn't figure out if she was moving out-- but she and her stud have been here for the past two nights, so I guess she's staying :rolleyes: Doesn't seem like the roommate has any classes-- and I seriously doubt her "older" looking boyfriend does either. In any case, they've chosen the bedroom above ours so we can hear them in every lovely moment :rolleyes:

Anyone have noisy neighbors? It seems like we have thick walls (never really hear anyone next door), but a thin ceiling!

Just to clarify, in case someone from somewhere other than the South is reading this thread: Not all Southern drawls are "hick". I have a Southern drawl and it's actually quite nice. :) Sounds like the chick AlphaGam is talking about is a redneck. BIG difference between Redneck speak and Southern drawls. :D

trust me, I'm in the DEEP south-- I know a nice cute Southern Drawl and a Redneck heehaw accent! :D

I second everything alphagam1019 said. They are loud. Get rid of one loud fat girl and gain one big loud guy. How fun.

Note to the XYZ fraternity guys next door:

No, you are neither clever nor funny when you set off bottle rockets outside of my dorm at 4am, and I'd really appreciate it if you'd vomit somewhere other than right below my window. Also, let's think about learning some pattern recognition skills - after the fifth or sixth time of setting off your own fire alarm with the aforementioned bottle rockets and yelling a dismayed "DUDE! F*CK!" each time, I'd think you would have caught on. Apparently I have vastly overestimated your intelligence, assuming that because you managed to gain acceptance to one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the nation, you would also have some reasonable amount of common sense. I was wrong. Next time, I'm calling campus police. Nobody comes between me and my sleep.

Sincerely,

DukeBlue

Re: Noisy Neighbors!!!
 

I don't know -- I don't mean to be rude, but I'm guessing that you could maybe be a little more tolerant and a little less judgmental. Okay, so you don't like fat people, people with accents, people who cry and people who hammer. Noisy neighbors can certainly be annoying, but your post seems rather cruel and insensitive. You're complaining that someone is fat? You're complaining that someone was bawling her eyes out? Maybe somebody did die. Did you ask? Or instead are you just all up in her business and spending way too much time monitoring the comings and goings of these people you don't even know.

If the noise bothers you that much, why not show some maturity and go up there and explain that you are bothered and ask if they could keep it down a little, within reason. Or, if you like, go up there and call your neighbor a "fat sorority beeotch" and see what happens.

I really think that you need to be mature about this and stop being so cruel and judgmental.

I can semi relate to your situation. When I first moved into my second floor apartment(of a three story building), I had a visit from my first floor neighbor who informed me that I was VERY LOUD and that she could hear me "stomping around" up there all the time. Okay, I had an 8:30-6:00 job, and I went to the gym right afterward, which was followed by my couch time, so my "stomping" hours were very limited. But I am nice and tell downstairs neighbor I will be quieter. Guess that wasn't good enough for her because she moved an apartment over and upstairs.
Fast forward to June when someone moves into the apartment above me and guess what? I can hear him "stomping" around all the time. What I came to realize is the tile in our apartments must be about an inch thick because they POUND when you walk on it. But the carpet is okay. LUCKILY, the bedrooms are carpeted, so it doesn't wake me up. But I can always tell when it is halftime in any game because I hear my wonderful neighbor POUND to the kitchen and back. But will I go up and yell--probaley not because I know I felt like shit when I got yelled at and I think some of it is part of being in an apartment.
Alpha Gam--ANYTHING that keeps you from sleeping and parking means all bets are off. I would keep on towing people and maybe see if you can complain to the management. But always remember this anytime you have an extra loud hookup session--you never know who can hear you!

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First off, I have nothing against fat people. I said this to differ her from her roommate-- this makes a difference when you LIVE UNDER THEM.

I wasn't complaining that she was bawling her eyes out. Read it again. I was really sorry for her and hoped it wasn't something major in her life. Did I ask? no. I was tempted to, but XYZ stopped talking to us and gave us dirty looks after we DID go up and tell her NICELY to turn her TV down.

Monitoring and complaining? :rolleyes: it's kind of hard to ignore the stomping going on upstairs. Our entryways are made of hardwood and it makes a great deal of noise.

I think you need to ask your questions within reason- when you know the whole story plus note this story was told with "emotion"-- I'm sure it's never happened you.

Plus, if you are looking for "so cruel and judgmental" statements, check out that "things you want to say" thread. lol. I have a feeling if I had posted this in that thread, I wouldn't have gotten a negative reaction.

Hmmm...I have the luxury of not having any neighbors - but I do remember living in your kind of situation. I agree with val that maybe a little more...understanding on your part should be expressed. Im not saying that your situation isnt irritating as hell -it sounds bad - but, you never know - the people around you might complain just as much. I never realized how much noise I made until I had neighbors - I got to be so sensitive about slamming doors or cabinets - or the volume of my voice - because I noticed all of these things in my neighbors.
I would say if it is just too much to take, move...complain to the landlord...have a rational discussion with your neighbors.

When you have noisy neighbors for almost a year the understanding flies out the door. They know we don't like the noise but sometimes they seem to make noise just to piss us off. Just wait til the night they make noise and they don't stop after I bang the ceiling. They will hear a cop knocking on their door with a noise complaint. If they are going to be noisy during they day I will make sure to make just as much noise back like turning the tv for revenge. They won't be civil about it neither will I.

I had a couple of noisy neighbor situations. First there were these 2 girls that lived upstairs from me and they were really tiny (like maybe 100 pounds) but it always sounded like elephants stomping. My rommmate and I were on good terms with them and one day she asked one of the girls what was going on up there. Turns out they were doing their aerobics and tae bo tapes and that was the stomping. Although even their walking sounded really loud.
I lived in this apt for 3 years and the next guy that moved in upstairs was awful. I wasn't that we would hear him walking....he would turn his music up LOUD at like 2am and the bass would just come filtering down. We weren't on good terms with him though and we would sometimes take the broom and knock on the ceiling but it never worked. However, this fall a really nice girl moved in upstairs and I never knew she was there. I never heard anything--walking,music, talking, etc. But she would come down sometimes and ask if she was being too loud and I never even heard her.
Onto my LOVELY ex-next door neighbors. For 2 years these wonderful people moved there and we never had any trouble. Then this summer it all went down the tubes. The 2 guys that moved in were SO LOUD all the time. They would blast their music at all hours and have huge parties. They were so loud my dishes were shaking in my cabinets and the furniture was vibrating :eek: Everyone in our building tried to handle it as mature adults but it kept going. So we started calling the non-emergency police number. And the cops would come and tell them to turn it down...it would last for like 15 minutes and then return. It was PURE HELL and we started complaining to our apartment manager (who when we first complained told us to call the cops) They eventually were evicted, but it figures that it was only a couple weeks before I moved out. :rolleyes:

As far as the hick/redneck thing.....I live on what is called the North Coast around here.....go North and you fall into Lake Erie, keep swimming and you're in Canada. Can't get much more Yankee than that. And let me tell ya, we've got TONS of 'necks (as we call them) around here. They have the accent and all....there is a big difference between a nice Southern drawl and the kind of accent you hear on Jerry Springer all the time.

I have lived with pig neighbors and I must say, yeah some of the description was a bit rude but when you have dealt with people like this long enough all compassion and benefit of the doubt flies out the window. We lived in this ancient Victorian house for two years. The first year there were these two sisters living upstairs, one of whom was very large, and she sounded like she was going to come through the ceiling at any second. She wasn't the problem though, she was actually very nice. It was her skinny loudmouth sister who was the pain. To access their apartment upstairs they had to come across the front wrap-around porch, which was right outside our bedroom windows. The stairs ran up the side of our house, also on the wall of our room. This dumb bitch would have these parties, with people clomping up and down the stairs, and then at times they'd be standing around on the porch RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR ROOM talking and laughing and clomping around. One time I got sick of it and I called her during the party and asked her nicely if they could keep it down because we both had to work early in the morning. She was like "Yeah sure whatever" and nothing changed. Well I hated to be an old fogey at the age of 22, but I called the cops on her. After that I talked to her sister and asked her if she could maybe do something about it, but her sister was about as nice to her as she was to us and nothing changed. So I just called the cops every time she had a party, because there is a very strict noise ordinance in Kent and they really enforce it. Finally the stupid bitch sister moved out and life was good again.

I live in a post-war building that doesn't have any insulation to speak of. I used to live downstairs and now live upstairs. Noise from neighbors is just something I live with.

I have had a few neighbors who haven't felt that way. I had one neighbor downstairs who apparantly liked to sleep late. She called the manager and told them that I close my front door too loudly in the morning. LOL. If the fact that my door is swollen and old and we live in earthquake territory is all you've got to complain about you need a life!

I had another neighbor who lived next door to me who used to pound on the wall when I talked on the phone in my bedroom. She'd leave nasty notes on my front door that my alarm clock was too loud and she somehow got my phone number and started crank calling me and screaming at me in spanish. Boy was she surprised when I screamed back in spanish. I wound up calling the landlord on her b/c I couldn't take the harrassment anymore and b/c her pounding on the walls knocked stuff off my walls and cracked my pictures. I was a very happy neighbor when she moved out.

Neighbors are a pain in the butt, but my philosophy is that we just have to live with them until we can afford not to.

OK, i dont think its necessary to judge Alphagam1019, by a few words that she wrote. She isnt judgemental at all by any means. Shes just a little angry at the situation thats at hand, and who wouldnt be! We all say things we dont mean or exaggerate sometimes to get the point across. So lets not jump down the girls throat, shes a very sweet person. She's not complaining about people being fat, it was just an expression. I mean when you have someone whose "love making" can wake up the apt under you and im sure next to you....theres a problem (Nina, I would have tape recorded it and played it back for the whole complex....JOKE). No offense Valkryie, but I think you came to a harsh judgement yourself about someone and read to much into a story that didnt need to be read into. Thats just my opinion though.

As far as the whole red neck/southern accent thing goes.... lets drop that too. Some people cant help their background and how they might have been educated.

Nina, hope the situation gets better and if you ever need a tape recorder just let me know... ;)

alphagam1019-
i've been in your situation but the other way around....
on the weekend, my friend's apt. turns into the hang out. On friday and saturday nights there's at least 20 people there every weekend and a lot of us ususally spend the night there. we are those kids who make all the noise. i'm still in a dorm, so i don't have a huge problem with noise, just drunk sisters coming home and making a lot of noise in the middle of the night, but usually i'm with them.
anyways- at my friends apt. we've had the cops come sooooooooooo many times. while using our drunk logic one night, we decided we should invite the downstairs neighbors up to party with us. we thought that maybe they were just mad because they weren't having as much fun as us. it didn't really work and they declined the invite, but we tried.
just thought it was a fun story about noisy neighbors.

maybe you should say something to your landlord..........