Noisy Neighbors

[Zeesi]

I can't seem to stop but I just want to share what happened last night that still puzzles me until now. It was around 1 a.m. and our dog just couldn't stop barking. Knowing that whenever our dog barks' date=' it is definitely barking at a person. But it was 1 a.m. so I wondered what was going on. I tried to peek out of my bedroom window without turning on the lights so I won't be seen from outside. I saw my neighbors head of the family coming from our garage. Our garage is detached from our house and part of it also serves as our storeroom for old and unused stuff. I didn't go out or try to confront him because I was afraid but until now I'm wondering what he was doing in our property in the wee hours of the night. To make things even worse again, I woke up today from the loud sound of their stereo playing.[/quote']
Coming from your garage??! That's not good. It's terrible to have bad neighbors. I hope that you get all of this resolved soon. Can you call the police and talk to them about it? Does your dog live outside, or is the dog inside? I'd keep the dog inside at night from now on, especially if that neighbor is walking around out there. How terrible, ugh!


Please continue to post here to let us know what is going on with this situation!

 

[DeMarie]

Thankfully I have always had nice neighbors. I did have very loud neighbors when I was in college, but I lived in a apartment complex that was full of students. I think it was amazing that your entire neighborhood joined together to remove these people from your area. I am not sure what country you were in at the time, but I know that where I live the police would be called and these people would not be able to continue to upset an entire neighborhood.


I am glad that you no longer have to live that way, and I hope you never will have to do so again!

 

[DeMarie]

OMG! I have just the same kind of neighbors right now and they could really get so annoying and scary at the same time. They are way too many in their family and they all live in one house. They would often fight, shouting at each other loudly then we will hear some loud crying. It happens often because the head of their family is a drunkard, and when he gets drunk, the fighting begins. What really scares me is the fact that he has a gun and he would even sometimes open fire when he's so drunk. I'm worried for my family's safety because of the possibility of any of us being hit by a stray bullet. Oh how I always wish for them to leave this place.

Gracer that is horrible!! Is there anything you can do? Can you call the police or even go to the station and have a talk with an officer and tell him or her your are scared. I read your last post about your neighbor going into your garage. Do you have a cell phone? If you do start taping his actions for evidence of his trespassing. I am so sorry you have to live this way.

 

[Roscas]

I have experienced that.... noisy inconsiderate neighbors who would either have their drinking spree a minimum of every other day of the week, with loud music, loud laughter and sometimes shouting bouts when a few are drunk until wee hours in the morning! No matter how much you politely plea, they just go at it again because it is their house.


That is one advantage of house or apartment renters such as us. We decided to move into a different area and location not just because of the stress and lack of sleep we get from the noisy neighbor, but we also wanted a safer location for our children going to school.


I just do not get it sometimes. It is plain and simple courtesy to tone down the noise because you are not alone in the vicinity. I do not believe those neighbors have not ever thought about it or considered taking down the noise a notch. It is so obvious if they are disturbing others. It is not stupidity. Is it intransigence? Why? What method or manner of thinking is it for someone who does not understand the concept of courtesy or understanding? It is so simple a concept that even a child who did not go to school or has not yet reached the age to go to school can easily understand when explained.


I do not get it at all. Can someone please explain this to me? I think I have a minute, miniscule, Lilliputian....what else....microscopic mind? ........

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

That's what I'm still trying to figure out until now but I really couldn't think of something reasonable for his roaming around our property in the wee hours of the night. I don't want to accuse him of anything but I can feel that he's definitely into something. I'm just afraid of confronting him because I'm afraid for our safety. They're a lot in their family and he has a gun in his possession so all I could do right now is be extra cautious and I made sure that someone knows about what he did the other night. Thank you so much for wishing us safety.

He has a gun?...Oh..If I had also a neighbor with a gun the more I am afraid for the safety of my whole family.. I do hope that you will know the truth about that incident in the right way and that this thing will pass soon. Again keep safe always..

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

I have experienced that.... noisy inconsiderate neighbors who would either have their drinking spree a minimum of every other day of the week, with loud music, loud laughter and sometimes shouting bouts when a few are drunk until wee hours in the morning! No matter how much you politely plea, they just go at it again because it is their house.
That is one advantage of house or apartment renters such as us. We decided to move into a different area and location not just because of the stress and lack of sleep we get from the noisy neighbor, but we also wanted a safer location for our children going to school.


I just do not get it sometimes. It is plain and simple courtesy to tone down the noise because you are not alone in the vicinity. I do not believe those neighbors have not ever thought about it or considered taking down the noise a notch. It is so obvious if they are disturbing others. It is not stupidity. Is it intransigence? Why? What method or manner of thinking is it for someone who does not understand the concept of courtesy or understanding? It is so simple a concept that even a child who did not go to school or has not yet reached the age to go to school can easily understand when explained.


I do not get it at all. Can someone please explain this to me? I think I have a minute, miniscule, Lilliputian....what else....microscopic mind? ........

We had a neighbor which is 3 houses apart from our house. When their son was still a teenager he always had a drinking session every weekend with his peer groups. They are drinking and singing in their videoke and sometimes up to late at night already. They do not care if their neighbors are sleeping already. Like what you said they had no consideration for other people. The parents cannot stop their son doing this thing because he will fight with them and not respecting his parent. And it is such a relief when the son grows older he had changed and became more matured and now he does not drink anymore because he is working already. In our life people had different attitudes and behavior and there will be times that we can really encounter people like this. I am glad that you had transferred already to a safer place for the sake of your children.

 

[gracer]

Thank you so much for your concern Zeesi and Roscas.


Our dog stays outside our house during good weather but it is confined within the premises of our gated patio. We also make sure that our dog stays inside most of the time because this neighbor of ours is not really fond of him. One time our dog was barking at his grandson, we heard him shout at the dog saying he would kill him. Our patience with these neighbors especially their head of the family has been stretched way too much already but sometimes we just can't help but feel so full of it already. If I only had superpowers to just simply blow them all away, I would have done it a long time ago.

 

[Zeesi]

Thank you so much for your concern Zeesi and Roscas.
Our dog stays outside our house during good weather but it is confined within the premises of our gated patio. We also make sure that our dog stays inside most of the time because this neighbor of ours is not really fond of him. One time our dog was barking at his grandson, we heard him shout at the dog saying he would kill him. Our patience with these neighbors especially their head of the family has been stretched way too much already but sometimes we just can't help but feel so full of it already. If I only had superpowers to just simply blow them all away, I would have done it a long time ago.

I feel very concerned for your dog, but hopefully the neighbor isn't so bold that he would do something stupid.


I used to have a dog that I tied up in my front yard, very small yard at the time (I've moved since then). He used to bark at people passing by, some would yell at him because of it. I hated when people did that, but I later realized that my dog probably startled them, or made them jump!! and they didn't like that unpleasant, unexpected surprise of my dog barking at them.


In all fairness to the "yellers", I wasn't supposed to have a dog there anyway, it was against the property rules.


Didn't stop me from hating when people yelled at my dog, though.


I really feel bad for the situation that you are in because being at home is supposed to be your safe-haven, it is supposed to be where you go to get peace. It is terrible that someone is making life hard for


you right where you live... terrible!!


We have loud neighbors that live in a building next door, thank goodness not the same building. I keep my windows closed on "that" side of the house for the most part, and I have a fish tank that is set up right on the side of my apartment where the noisy neighbors are. My fish tanks gently "gurgles" because of the water devices that are in the tank, and it is really nice how the gentle sound of my fish tank blocks out a lot of the noise that goes on.


Certain types of people are 'fascinating' to me, but not at all fascinating in a good way. As I 'said' before, make sure you keep letting us know what is going on with this situation, if you don't mind sharing.

 

[Nereides]

I remembered when I was still in my home country we had neighbors who are always noisy and shouting with each other either inside or outside their house. You can always hear that they are always angry to each other shouting. It is either husband and wife or the parents and their children. What a noisy family and it really irritates our nerves and scare us sometimes. There are instances when they are throwing things to each other and asking one to go out of the house and even they are running outside in the street fighting. What scares us is when they are fighting in the middle of the night you will really feel nervous as if they will kill each other. Then the whole neighborhood had taken an action and they reported them already to the police and they are told to leave our place. That is why when they are gone our neighborhood was already calm and peaceful. Do you ever experience to have this kind of neighbors in your place?

I've had neighbours like that before! The man and the woman would fight all time and we even called village security a few times. There was a time we caught the man climbing the tree beside our house right outside my sister's window! It's difficult to deal with neighbours like this because as much as possible, I want to live in peace! I don't want to have to come home to a hostile environment. But sometimes, confrontation is the only way to deal with such things.

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

I've had neighbours like that before! The man and the woman would fight all time and we even called village security a few times. There was a time we caught the man climbing the tree beside our house right outside my sister's window! It's difficult to deal with neighbours like this because as much as possible, I want to live in peace! I don't want to have to come home to a hostile environment. But sometimes, confrontation is the only way to deal with such things.

All of us for sure wants to be living in a secured and a peaceful environment. But sometimes we cannot really avoid if we will encounter neighbors like this that will not give us peace of mind even we are already right in the privacy of our own home.

 

[thecorinthian]

Call the police man, just call the police. From your description I think it's not just about being noisy here but I think domestic abuse is happening and abuse is a concern of the whole community and not just you. It's the right thing to do. I never had the experience you had but if I start hearing funny things from my neighbor (which has gradually become my friend) I'll knock on his door and see how he's doing first.

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

Call the police man' date=' just call the police. From your description I think it's not just about being noisy here but I think domestic abuse is happening and abuse is a concern of the whole community and not just you. It's the right thing to do. I never had the experience you had but if I start hearing funny things from my neighbor (which has gradually become my friend) I'll knock on his door and see how he's doing first.[/quote']
We already made a complaint about them and they are not living anymore in our neighborhood that is why there are no more noisy neighbors around. They are not abusing each other it is just that they are always shouting and yelling with each other in a loud voice if each member of the family are arguing things.

 

[gracer]

I feel very concerned for your dog, but hopefully the neighbor isn't so bold that he would do something stupid.


I used to have a dog that I tied up in my front yard, very small yard at the time (I've moved since then). He used to bark at people passing by, some would yell at him because of it. I hated when people did that, but I later realized that my dog probably startled them, or made them jump!! and they didn't like that unpleasant, unexpected surprise of my dog barking at them.


In all fairness to the "yellers", I wasn't supposed to have a dog there anyway, it was against the property rules.


Didn't stop me from hating when people yelled at my dog, though.


I really feel bad for the situation that you are in because being at home is supposed to be your safe-haven, it is supposed to be where you go to get peace. It is terrible that someone is making life hard for


you right where you live... terrible!!


We have loud neighbors that live in a building next door, thank goodness not the same building. I keep my windows closed on "that" side of the house for the most part, and I have a fish tank that is set up right on the side of my apartment where the noisy neighbors are. My fish tanks gently "gurgles" because of the water devices that are in the tank, and it is really nice how the gentle sound of my fish tank blocks out a lot of the noise that goes on.


Certain types of people are 'fascinating' to me, but not at all fascinating in a good way. As I 'said' before, make sure you keep letting us know what is going on with this situation, if you don't mind sharing.

Thank you so much Zeesi. I'm really glad I have people like you to share with.


We're also very concerned with our dog because there have been previous incidences before where we suspect that these neighbors were the ones who killed 2 of our dogs in different times. First was when one of our dogs went missing for days then they suddenly tell us that they saw our dog dead inside their yard. Then there's the mother of our present dog which sometimes usually went with my mom wherever she went. It was a very gentle and friendly dog so we would sometimes allow it to get out of our yard. The next thing we knew, it came home full of blood and died in front of our house. It was really heartbreaking.

 

[Nereides]

All of us for sure wants to be living in a secured and a peaceful environment. But sometimes we cannot really avoid if we will encounter neighbors like this that will not give us peace of mind even we are already right in the privacy of our own home.

That is so true! No one should be uncomfortable in their own home. We actually just had a neighbour who REMOVED our laundry in the middle of its cycle (our apartment building has a shared laundry area), left it on the counter and put theirs in. Can you believe that?! I was so angry! My boyfriend wanted to confront them about it to make sure it never happens again. At the same time, I thought that confrontation won't really do much? They will give a reason and then that's it? Difficult neighbours are just the worst!

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

That is so true! No one should be uncomfortable in their own home. We actually just had a neighbour who REMOVED our laundry in the middle of its cycle (our apartment building has a shared laundry area), left it on the counter and put theirs in. Can you believe that?! I was so angry! My boyfriend wanted to confront them about it to make sure it never happens again. At the same time, I thought that confrontation won't really do much? They will give a reason and then that's it? Difficult neighbours are just the worst!

In reality this is really happening where there are neighbors who will really take advantage of you and this is a kind of a difficult situation that is very hard in confronting a neighbor. I have not yet experience like this but I heard some stories from other people I knew having the same kind of neighbors like your neighbor and this really give them stress.

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

Thank you so much Zeesi. I'm really glad I have people like you to share with.


We're also very concerned with our dog because there have been previous incidences before where we suspect that these neighbors were the ones who killed 2 of our dogs in different times. First was when one of our dogs went missing for days then they suddenly tell us that they saw our dog dead inside their yard. Then there's the mother of our present dog which sometimes usually went with my mom wherever she went. It was a very gentle and friendly dog so we would sometimes allow it to get out of our yard. The next thing we knew, it came home full of blood and died in front of our house. It was really heartbreaking.

I can't believe why there are other people who are treating animals like this way and to consider animals are like humans too who deserves to be respected also. Sometimes I like to think that life sometimes is unfair for most of us.

 

[gracer]

I sometimes think the same way ReadmeByAmy especially if I see these neighbors of mine. I know it's really wrong to question why I have been given these kinds of neighbors but I really couldn't help but question sometimes. We have taken care of our dogs really well and we have loved them as our family members but these people came and ruined everything. Oh my gosh, I could go on and on ranting about them and I would never run out of words because of the many wrong things they have caused us but I'm just controlling myself because I would only get so upset. Thank you so much for you guys because at least I have some outlet to bring out my emotions against these people.

 

[Zeesi]

Thank you so much Zeesi. I'm really glad I have people like you to share with.


We're also very concerned with our dog because there have been previous incidences before where we suspect that these neighbors were the ones who killed 2 of our dogs in different times. First was when one of our dogs went missing for days then they suddenly tell us that they saw our dog dead inside their yard. Then there's the mother of our present dog which sometimes usually went with my mom wherever she went. It was a very gentle and friendly dog so we would sometimes allow it to get out of our yard. The next thing we knew, it came home full of blood and died in front of our house. It was really heartbreaking.

Killed two of your dogs??!!! This is an absolute outrage. Unbelievable. I know you wrote that you all suspect that they did it, but from just what you've written here, I would say that it is fairly certain that they are the ones who did that. People can be evil. Years ago, I had one jealous-nut-of-a-woman neighbor who always had some type of issue with me. She used to 'sprinkle' glass...GLASS(!!) in front of my yard where I would sometimes let my son play. I had no idea she was doing this until she told on herself.


I was really nice to her, overly nice because I was afraid of her, and also just because I'm a nice person in general. Anyhow, I was always, and I do mean always being nice to this creep-of-a-female neighbor, but she was a constant trouble maker to me.


She used to park her car on the grass in front of her front door, against the rules, but many people in the development sometimes did the same thing in front of their respective apartments, so really, no big deal, because basically everyone did it.


One particular day, for whatever reason, she was unable to park her car on the grass in front of her place, so... me being the super nice (really afraid of her) neighbor that I was, I told her that she could park her car in front of my house on my grass until her space was available again.


Well, that's when she told me 'no' that she couldn't park on my grass because there was glass (glass!!!!!) there and it would mess up her tires.


(Wait! How does she know there's glass on my front lawn??)


She then goes into some lame story about how she had accidentally broken a glass there a few days back. My (then 2 year old) son used to play out there!


That @#!!!!!@*** had put glass on my lawn on purpose. Well, right then I knew that she had been in my yard, up close to my front windows and close to my front door sprinkling glass there. I was so glad when that rude, crazy, evil b---- moved away, I didn't know what to do!!


I know you said in a recent post here that you could rant on about your bad neighbors, but you would get upset, so I just want to say thank you for continuing to share your story here and keeping us updated. I have had my share of really bad neighbors, so I am interested in continuing to hear how all of this plays out for you, and I hope soon gets resolved.


It is terrible when neighbors are not friendly or easy to get along with, but your neighbors are crossing the line in my opinion.


I read all the time where, when people come into some money, one of the first things that they do is move to a nicer, neighborhood, OR, if they are really wealthy people, they buy the surrounding houses so that they don't have to deal with neighbors. Period.


I think I read a story where Bill Gates bought the properties on both sides of his house in order to protect his family from would-be bad/nosey/intrusive neighbors. I love that he was able to do that; that also lets me know that having bad/nosey/loud neighbors is such a regular occurrence that rich people go to "extreme" measures to avoid having to deal with such nonsense.

 

[gracer]

Zeesi I couldn't help but feel mad for you too as I was reading your post. Why do people like them exist? I could just imagine how mad I would also get if I was the one in your situation. I guess I could have forgiven that lady if I knew it wasn't my son who would get in trouble because of the glass she intentionally put on my yard but being a mother makes me so protective of my son's well being that I would go on an all out war just to protect him. Oh my, I'm really feeling so mad right now because of what your neighbor did to you.


I can also relate with how nice you have treated her but she still treated you badly. Our neighbors here also received a whole lot of kindness and patience from us, especially when they were just starting to build their house. They used to always ask us for help with their initial electricity and water supplies. My mom was so kind enough to let them temporarily make an electrical connection from our house to theirs so they could have a source of electricity for their building needs. We have also allowed them to temporarily connect with our water supply so they could have something to use for their cooking and hygiene. When they needed to call someone, they would usually come to our house and use our landline phone. My mom even gave them one of our dog's puppies before. But I guess that no matter how kind you are to some people, it's not a guarantee that they would also respond with kindness.


Remembering all these things brings back my anger towards them again. Just like you though, I'm generally a peaceful person that's why I could only do my ranting over writing.

 

[hades_leae]

Wow, I have never had the whole block, or just a few neighbors complain so bad that the disrupting neighbors had to leave. The most trouble that my neighbors got in for the noise that they made was ticket after ticket. I used to call the police on my neighbors, but I would lie when they would come over and ask if I knew who called on them. I just wanted to avoid any revenge, some people are just annoying neighbors, and they don't care about how they are making others in their own homes feel.


It's common courtesy, and if they can't respect that, then they need to move around.