Between a rock & a loud place
Posted Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 at 10:35 pm
This is one of the frustrations of being a neighbor in the ‘hood - loud weekend parties. One of our neighbors is starting to major in them. Unfortunately, their back yard siets right underneath my daughter’s window. To add to the tension, we’ve tried - unsuccessfully - to talk with them directly about being quieter.
So should I just make noise complaints to the police? Are there any other options?
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:00 am
Scott, that’s a though situation. If you continue to try to talk to them about it unsuccessfully, I can see no other option but to make noise complaints to the police if it keeps up. Good luck mang.
December 5th, 2006 at 12:17 am
I think when we become fathers, our ears become way more sensitive to noise. You are in a hard place. I’ve made noise complaints to the cops without success. What we’ve done is create a lot of ‘white noise’ for Layla. So whether it’s a fan running or static off the radio. It helps to drown out some of the noise.
Don’t you wish the RA could walk down and cite them and write a letter to the parents?
December 6th, 2006 at 12:03 am
I used to go across the street barefoot and in my bathrobe and ask for folks to turn it down. Pretty much disarms the assholes at midnite.
If that doesn’t work, got to go straight for the owner of the building.
We had a Latino absentee landlord living in Laguna Beach who owned a couple of properties right across from my house in Northwest Pasa. Tried to reason with him for about a year.
Eventually I ended up calling him at work and at his house repeatedly for about two weeks. Guess he got tired of the phone calls. He solved the problem.
December 6th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Dude, Tom is hardcore.
December 8th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
On two occasions, I’ve tried to talk with him directly. Unfortunately, on the first occasion, he was horribly drunk - an angry drunk - and proceeded to cuss me out over the fence at 10pm for 20-30 minutes. (I left just as he was getting started, but listened to the tirade from the luxury of my bedroom.)
On the second occasion, Veronica & I went over there in the afternoon together, hoping to avoid any over-the-fence remarks with a face-to-face discussion. While we didn’t get cussed out, we got a pretty rude treatment from the spouse, along the lines of “what happens in our house is none of your business,” not recognizing that the music isn’t playing in their house.
But then they turned it down. Until about 9 o’clock, when they turned it up again. When I called in the noise-complaint and the police came, we got to “enjoy” another profanity filled tirade. No fun.
At this stage, I’m truly at a loss as to what to do. I know that the noise-complaints are effective in addressing the noise problem, but they only escalate the neighbor-to-neighbor problem. And I rarely see this neighbor, and even less since the first episode.
Any other suggestions for me? Seriously.