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  3 0 If they're loud after 10 PM, you can call the cops on them. Fnarf answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 9 comments by Ed B, Fnarf, and protosaurus… 0 0 Really, that works? Can you give a walkthrough for us timid, passive-aggressive types? I've occasionally thought about doing this, but I was afraid it would just make things worse. Ed B commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Call 911, say "not an emergency" when they answer, then tell 'em your neighbors are making a ton of noise and it's disturbing your slumber. They'll ask for your address and theirs (apartment numbers), and they'll ask you if you want them to know it was you who called. You can say yes or no. They may or not come out, but it gets logged, and if it happens more than once, they definitely will come out. Cops knocking on the door tend to get an asshole's attention better than some Joe in his bathrobe. Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 The cops can and will even go to the point of confiscating their audio equipment if it continues to be a problem for weeks/months. Or at least that's what SPD told me last time I called the cops on a neighbor. protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 There is no need to call 911 for noise complaint calls. I live downtown and routinely call the non-emergency line for noise complaints about street musicians and other types being loud after 10 PM. If you give detailed information the police will respond. Downtown it's usually within 15 minutes. Calls to this number are logged and they take your name and phone number. Call this number: 206.625.5011 Dan Williams commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Huh, that's weird. They always used to say "call 911" when I called them. I guess they've set up a new number. Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 In Bellevue they ask you to call 911 protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 If your neighbor's noise bothers you at 1 a.m., set your alarm clock for 4 a.m. and take your bugle or trumpet out and give them a blast of your instrument each night until they get the message. (WARNING: The OTHER neighbor may also dislike your action... but if you warn them, they may tollerate it in order to get the problem solved.) O my captain commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 911-call-phobia makes me smash things. if a law is in process of being broken, it IS ok to call 911. THAT'S HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT FINDS OUT WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Wow. In Olympia, the police can't do anything about noise except politely ask them to keep it down. You have to take your neighbors to court before law enforcement will do anything else. I only got my parties-with-a-live-band-all-night-on-the-weekends neighbors to shut the fuck up when I discovered they house they were in was owned by the same people who owned my apartment building. Since my lease said no loud parties or loud music, I figured theirs did too. Fortunately, a talk from the apartment manager (okay, three talks actually) got them to quit. The manager suggested I go over and talk to them myself, but you never know when someone will turn out to be completely insane, so I declined. Chelydra_serpentina commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 Along with calling the police, I have had to go and purchase those ear plugs that are moldable rubber/plastic. Designed for swimming, but they really work wonders for sleep. They fit into your ear really comfortably so you can sleep on them without any discomfort and they wont fall out. I think you can get them at most drug stores. Basil answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 One evening, after I lost my job, I was typing out resumes on my daisy wheel printer and Apple computer, pausing only to insert a new paper each sheet into my electric typewriter/printer. After about the twelfth one, someone pounded on the wall of my appartment, and I realized it was after 11 p.m. and I had been working all evening on it. I immediately hit the pause button (looking around to see what that noise could have been) and then realized my error. I said LOUDLY "sorry... one more minute", restarted the pause button, and about a minute later, removed the sheet and shut down my operation. I had forgotten our two 2-bedroom apartments were the mirror image of each other, and we shared a bedroom wall. My wife and I had chosen the OTHER bedroom to sleep in, and the other couple had similarly chosen the bedroom furthest from the noisy front street. I had never thought about it until then. I had never heard them (until later that year...) (After that, I would occassionally stay up and read the computer screen in that room, and hear the couple next door making love, bumping the wall, squeeking the bed, moaning or coming. It was very amusing... and about nine months later they moved out...expecting twins!) O my captain answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by O my captain… 0 0 For years, my wife would refuse to live in basement appartments. She complained that she didn't want to hear people walking over her head at all hours. I had no problem with it, until after we were married, and lived on the second of three floors. We would hear the couple below us getup and shower in the morning, which would tend to wake us. And we'd hear the people upstairs walk the hallway from one end of the apartment to another. That got me to thinking, every time our two cats would chase each other back and forth down the hallway in great galloping bounds, again and again. I'm amazed the people below us never complained. But I always walked softly after that and never bounced balls or dropped anything on the carpeted floors or hallway ever again. O my captain commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 i agree with fnarf. if these are young folks they're gonna see the apartment complex talking to them like some college kids getting scolded by an RA. bring in someone in uniform and they'll cool it down. however, dont plan on ever being friendly with them again. but w/ the cement shoes and all, doesn't look like you were planning that sallybobally answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Julie… 0 0 I am a person who lives up stairs in a building and no matter how quite we try to be the down stair neighbor is reporting us, My Fiance works night's, and so do I and some time you just can't please everyone. And I will never live on a upstairs Apartment ever again. Walking on egg shells is just not living. Julie commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Well, I'm going to sound like a fatalist because I just came out of a situation similar to yours and the answer required drastic measures. I lived above two guys who would surround sound their blow-up, rumbly-tumbly video games until 3 AM...during the week even. I know I'm getting old and maybe less tolerant than I once was, but I remember the Friday and Saturday nights of my youth and everyone's entitled to party every now and then. But these guys were party-ers on Sunday mornings at 5 AM, Wednesday mornings at 1, Friday afternoons at 3; it didn't matter. They were very vocal inside their apartment, out on their balcony below me, and the surround sound made my floor shake and windows rattle. My rent was pretty high, too, which pissed me off even more. If you live in a cheap place, you expect noise....kinda. This place was not cheap. And by the way, I don't know how they knew it, but they always seemed to know the rare times I wanted to watch something on TV. My sofa would literally buzz with vibrations. Couldn't hear shit on my TV at a reasonable volume. I spoke to the manager and she was aware, told me to call her whenever there's a problem. I called her time and time again, and she'd go talk to them, but a few days later, another party with video games. It got to the point that I hated calling her, and I told her to tell them that the next time, I'm directly calling the police. I thought that might intimidate them because I think the drugs flowed rather freely there. I think it was reasonably quiet for about a week and then on the next Friday night, they had a band jamming in their apartment with guitars a-walin' (badly, I might add) and drums. I called the cops, they came out and broke it up. Three days later, there was another party. The point I guess I'm making is that sometimes you just have to fucking move. Hard to believe people can get away with disturbances, but at some point if people don't care about annoying the neighbors, the best thing to do is just re-locate being VERY careful about noise analysis in your next flat. Bauhaus answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Rev.Enant and Bauhaus… 0 0 you told her to tell them next you're telling someone else DIRECTLY? Wow, that's telling them! or not. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 RS, I didn't mention the backstory. I'd been down to their apartment twice to ask them if they could hold it down myself before I contacted the manager. Both times, my downstairs neighbors didn't answer the door. It could have been because they didn't hear me knocking over the noise. I was knocking rather loudly after the first few normal rappings, but I didn't take it to the point of sounding like I was going to break the door down. That's why I took it to the manager, and as it turns out, it wouldn't have mattered if I had confronted them personally or not. They weren't interested in keeping the noise level down for the neighbors. I should have known something was up when the manager showed me the place for the first time (I rented it long distance). She kept telling me it was always OK to call her if there were any disturbances. Bauhaus commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Wait, do you live in my apartment building? My neighbors were literally screaming until almost 4 am last night/this morning. I can tolerate quite a bit of noise from my neighbors; it's part of living in an apartment building. However, if yours are consistently loud late at night, and talking to them calmly and rationally hasn't helped, then I agree with Fnarf. Call the cops. e.strange answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Devin Silvernail and e.strange… 0 0 I too can usually tolerate a ton of noise. Living in the city, you sort of have to give in to that, but damn man. They are still going at it. At least it's daytime now. Devin Silvernail commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Sounds like you have terrible neighbors who deserve to have the cops knocking at their door. e.strange commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 yes, duct tape over oral orifices is direct and somewhat effective. However, you should keep that as plan C. Plan A: TALK TO THEM / REASON WITH THEM. Tell them how this is going to play out. They give you a headache, you'll be damn sure to teach them the golden rule. Likewise, if they keep shit in their own home after 10pm, the golden rule will appropriately reward them. So: Next time it's 10pm and they suddenly turn that shit down? bake them some cookies / buy them a dime bag and pavlov will grin in his grave whilst you may be the proud owner of a solved problem. Plan B: "I have tasted my own medicine and it is bitter" figure out when they sleep. Crank the tunes. NOT their kinda tunes. Better yet, leave several alarms blaring and head off to work. Then, if the shit keeps up, get nasty. Dog shit's hard to trace but easy to throw. Tear gas is easy to make/order online. Cops don't like when the entire building calls to bitch and then sends emails to city council about how ineffective they are. It's easy to get someone signed up for junk mail if you have their name and address. Likewise: College audio nerds would love to figure out if the brown note works, using your neighbors as unwitting guinea pigs. Plan D: get a plank to hang over your door: "Keep off my lawn you damn kids". And then spend the whole 25 cents for the earplugs, gramps. Rev.Enant answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by keshmeshi… 0 0 I've tried the tit for tat approach, and it doesn't work on people who are hypocritical, lying whiners (i.e. my shitty neighbors in my old place). They will take huge exception to any noise not generated by themselves and won't turn down their music/TV/whatever. keshmeshi commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Ok, i've been thinking a bit about this... I'm on a house with several students and my "neighbors" sometimes make noise until 3 am and today it was too much they brought some kind of freak chicks (cause they scream like women selling fish at the market for talking about anything ) anyway i start making plans how i can expel them from here. 1º Somehow borrow them something and then say they stole it which is a very bad thing to do where i'm living right now, the owner hates that kind of stuff 2º Go inside their room by window and make somekind of damage like flood or something 3º Talk to the owner to make somekind of warning 4º My favorite, set my alarm to 5 am when they are sleeping, turn on my guitar and speaker to the wall for their room and blast them. Then if they come talk with me ill let them know why i did it. I guess one of the best things to do is make them so uncomfortable as they make us... so we need to target them in the right time, right place. 5º i could buy some drug, put it their room and call the cops, even if its not proved the owner wouldnt let them come back 6º Take a day of and make loud sex after they go to bed punching the wall and everything, that worked with some friends of mine 7º Sabotage their food with laxative and leave a warning, since i dont eat most of time at house and i keep my things next to me they cant sabotage my food (out of question cause the kitchen now has a camera) most of them are risky, but i dont really believe in warnings anymore... they never fixed anything for me... the cops ill probably think carefully before i do something, these are guys i dont know anything about except they are grown up punks and they spit on the corridor inside the house and have other nasty habits, anyway im tired of doing it the right way that never works... so maybe i do something more drastic... Johnny answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Don't live down stairs, Move up stairs. If your so quite and bothered by notice, move up stairs. I live up stairs and no matter how quite I try to be, the lady down stairs is complaining. I work 2wnd shift and that can cause issues with neighbors. but, I can't help my hours, and I refuse to walk on egg shell's. I have to say I am very respectful, she is Hypersensitive and should be living up stairs, and let me live down. Julie answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Move. Get a house. No more shared walls. It works wonders. You'll actually get some sleep. Downside: lawn mowers on Sunday mornings; dog shit on the lawn; nosy, meddlesome, busybodies who are always watching, listening, gossiping. But, you can be that quiet guy (or couple) who always keeps to himself and never joins in the neighborhood activities. Warning -- don't let the neighbors watch your pets while you're way. They'll go through your things and even take note of the books you own. If you own a copy of The God Delusion, watch out. Then you're that weird atheist who never gets drunk at the cookouts. Homeland Exile answered in House & Home about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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