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jen2607
jen2607 Posts: 148 Member
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are living above me. A203I23#334!. They were stomping around from 5 am to 9 am (from which point the maintenance people started mowing/weed eating/blowing and someone else was moving stuff out), then from 2 pm til 6pm, and now from 8pm to nearly midnight. I think they're zombies. I have no idea when they sleep


I just recently got time off and it's entirely frustrating that I can't relax at home. It is only a 3 bedroom apartment, but they must have it filled to the max with kids. I have already complained to management and they said they would write them a letter. That was 2 weeks ago...
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  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
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    Time to leave the zoo?
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,679 Member
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    It's better if you go up and ask them to be more considerate in a nice way. When people get letters they may schluff them off, but if they met the person they are directly affecting they may be more considerate.

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  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
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    you and I have the same neighbors! :)
  • quietlywinning
    quietlywinning Posts: 889 Member
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    I know what you mean! We have college students above us - 10 of them in a 3 bedroom apt. They must sleep in shifts and stomp when they are not in bed. Argh!
  • jen2607
    jen2607 Posts: 148 Member
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    zombie elephants!
  • JellyJaks
    JellyJaks Posts: 589 Member
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    We used to have that problem. Landlord claimed to talk to them but it never let up. They were making our lives hell. Waking my kids up at 5am and all sorts of stupid stuff. Our solution? Wait for them to move out and then move into the top apartment :laugh: Now we're on the top floor so I only hear the psycho next to us and I have enough courtesy to make sure that we only sound like elephants during the daytime :smile:
  • Eleanorjanethinner
    Eleanorjanethinner Posts: 563 Member
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    I feel your pain! We had noisy neighbours who played blaring music whenever they wanted and then took up the drums! And worst yet, couldn't play in time to save themselves! Thankfully we've outlasted them and all is pretty quiet here.

    I found that my attitude made a big difference - if I got worked up, I couldn't sleep at all, if I could stay calm, I could sometimes. Ear plugs, herbal sleeping pills, white noise (like a fan) all helped too. And I used to go over there in my dressing gown on a regular basis and tell them off/ ask them nicely. It did help much more than calling noise control (though we did that too!)

    good luck!
  • Mirror_Image
    Mirror_Image Posts: 32
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    I live in staff accommodation. I have girl in the room next to me who CANNOT shut a f*cking door properly. She slams, and not just let's it close of it's own accord which is loud enough (automatic fire door) - but I'm pretty sure she swings it off the hinges. When you're on nightshift...oh...I've never felt so close to strangling someone...
  • jen2607
    jen2607 Posts: 148 Member
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    Sleep deprivation can do crazy things to the mind. I slept ok last night. I have a standup fan that can kind of block SOME noise. The only problem is that its cold now. I also have a roommate who is ridiculously loud. She sits at the kitchen table outside my door for hours on end yelling into her cell phone and she leaves the alerts/ringtones on high. She also has the problem where she can't shut anything without slamming it. So the neighbor situation gets a little more intolerable when the roommate situation gets worse. I've had to ask her at 3 am to please be quieter . She acted like that was some major inconvenience and stopped talking to me. Oh well... it's holiday break so no problems.
  • Munque
    Munque Posts: 123
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    Sure, I could get bashed for this, but I used to be that neighbor, I got off work between midnight and 2am, had to pick up my baby, I was 17 and didn't have a car yet, so I had to take the car seat with me everywhere I went, so at 2am, I'd be walking up fire escape type metal stairs with the baby and the car seat , then again with groceries, and my neighbors would complain that I was running up and down the stairs all night. I tried to be quiet, but when a carseat hits the metal railing, it rings all throught the cheap *kitten* apartments. So when the neighbors started getting rude about it, coming to my door first thing in the morning and yelling at me in front of my kid, waking her up in return for me waking them up, there was no more trying, I stopped caring if their rude *kitten* got sleep or not. So my advice is, if you confront them about the noise, do it on a day when your not all hyped up and looking for an arguement, you'll get a better response.
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused
    Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused Posts: 935 Member
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    Maybe they're f*cking?
  • _beachgirl_
    _beachgirl_ Posts: 3,865 Member
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    ....never forget
  • turningstar
    turningstar Posts: 393 Member
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    Wow! Id start sleeping in my car!
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
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    Maybe they're f*cking?

    *kitten* louder. Have a competition. If done properly, you should be knocked right the hell out afterwards.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    Elephants have 4 knees and cannot jump.
  • pfeiferfit
    pfeiferfit Posts: 138 Member
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    I live in staff accommodation. I have girl in the room next to me who CANNOT shut a f*cking door properly. She slams, and not just let's it close of it's own accord which is loud enough (automatic fire door) - but I'm pretty sure she swings it off the hinges. When you're on nightshift...oh...I've never felt so close to strangling someone...

    I have to laugh at this, when I was 19 I had a neighbor who came IN to my apartment (he asked) to install rubber stops on my cupboards, so that the slamming wouldn't bother him.

    What a very practical guy. Sorry it's not possible in this case, but ... I thought it was funny. We were BAD neighbors back then.
  • Lizzy_Sunflower
    Lizzy_Sunflower Posts: 1,510 Member
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    *hangs her head*

    I live with the elephants you speak of.

    Sorry. :blushing:

    My kids just Don't Understand the concept of "stepping lightly".
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
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    Insanity-Jump.gif
  • shanolap
    shanolap Posts: 1,204 Member
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    Maybe they're f*cking?

    *kitten* louder. Have a competition. If done properly, you should be knocked right the hell out afterwards.

    I agree! That should work for the neighbors and the roommate. If you don't have a partner, just blare some porn.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    Elephants live in matriarchal societies and grieve for their dead.

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