Um, noisy neighbors

[Dee77]

The landlord lives next door to her

If that's the case then I would ask what brand of earplugs the landlord uses.

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

The last apartment we lived in before we moved into our house had what I can only imagine was the most paper thin walls on the planet. The tenants in the apartment next to us had a bedroom right up against our bedroom wall. And their bed was right up next to our bed. Every single night for a month they had Olympics going on and it would last literally 2-3 hours each time. I finally had enough one night at 2 a.m. when there was just constant groaning, creaking, wall banging...I pounded on the wall and said people had to work in the morning and finish it up, and quickly.

Stopped them for THAT night and then it continued on until we moved out.

 

[jeepgirl30]

I'd leave a note and let her know she is being heard.

I had a friend once that was the loud girl! She and her boyfriend moved into a house and honestly had no idea the neighbors could hear. I can't remember the wording of the note but it was funny and yet let her know. She was embarassed but glad someone told her. It was something they could fix. I forget exactly but something about the ac unit in the wrong window.

And no, the "friend" was not me!

 

[MissElizabeth]

Well, I don't know this from experience or anything but uh, what hotels do when they have a pair of lovebirds feathering the nest, so to speak, is call the room, and when the occupant answers, hang up. It both stops the action and puts a damper on things. So, I would take a cue from the hospitality industry and pound on their door, then run. A couple of good interruptions during the height of festivities should do the trick.

If furtive knocking followed by panicked running away isn't for you, then I think a note would be your next best option. It minimizes embarrassment while hopefully addressing the issue. If that fails, then I'd call the cops and tell them you hear sounds that seem like a domestic dispute in progress, they get one 10 10 call and it should teach 'em you're playing hard ball.

 

[MizTink]

i had the same problem with my old neighbors. it went from one extreme to the other. i would hear the types of noises you're talking about and also horrible fights. she SCREAMED, things were thrown (sounded like big things, like dressers!), and he would really beat her. i NEVER ignored it. I banged on my ceiling with a broom, told the office, etc. my son and his friends even went to see if the lady was ok. it didn't stop them. they were finally thrown out of the complex......

 

[izzy]

Ah the memories. My suitemate in college was "very friendly" with lots of guys and would invite them over in the afternoon. Consequently, her roommate often ended up in our room waiting for the all clear. We all got tired of it one day, so we got the song "Afternoon Delight" and really cranked it up. Let's just say that the suitemate found a different location for her liaisons after this!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

We had a small condo when we were first married. When a new couple moved into the unit downstairs from us, we started hearing those same types of noises late at night. One night, our bedroom window was open and we couldn't contain ourselves and started laughing out loud. The next thing we heard was their bedroom window being slammed shut! Apparently they heard us and realized they had provided us with a great deal of amusement! After that, they were either much quieter or stopped doing it all together because we never heard it again!

 

[jsmith]

LOL-the guy who used to live upstairs from me had a girlfriend who was-vocal-they both worked shifts so it wasnt an all the time thing but they always managed to be there earlly in the morning when i can home from an overnight. Soooooo one morning i came home to the seranade-and i was-like my friend Tina going thru a period of being deprived for your freedoms and i had had enough. So i yelled "Ya know what-she's kidding-your not really that good". I never heard a peep again

 

[epcotprincess]

I had neighbors like this in college!

My roommate and good friend has a pretty twisted sense of humor. One day she came home with a cd of children's music including The Wheels on the Bus and Barney's I Love You song, sang by kids. I didn't get why she had it at first, but then the neighbors started getting "loud". My friend put our huge speakers up to the wall and started blaring the children's voices into their apartment. It took a few times, but they never got loud again! Apparently, it really kills the mood!

 

[teskak]

Land lord here- we went to an owners meeting only to be rounded on by all the other owners.

One had to move into their lounge room so they could get sleep. The property agent sent them a first & final warning that they were breaching thier lease which required them to give quiet enjoyment to the other householders.

 

[Tinkerbell1013]

I had this same thing happen to me. I took the mature route and threw my high heel wooden shoes at the ceiling repeatedly. She got the point but I did have to do it every time. Not to worry - my heels were fine.

 

[aprilgail2]

Ah the memories. My suitemate in college was "very friendly" with lots of guys and would invite them over in the afternoon. Consequently, her roommate often ended up in our room waiting for the all clear.

My friends daughters biggest complaint in college every year was her different roommates having sex all the time. One year she ended up switching roommates because this one would wait until she was asleep and then bring her boyfriend into the room and they would go at it in her bed just 3 feet from where the other kid was "sleeping".....she said she would wake up to it and have to pull the blanket over her head!

 

[Carly_Roach]

If she's a screamer, call the cops and say you can hear your neighbor screaming and you're not sure what's going on but it sounds pretty bad. Otherwise I'd go with the whistles, applause and performance critique routine until the noise stops. Nothing worse than the guy hearing, "Hey! That was only 2 minutes this time. You sick or something?" from the other side of the wall.

 

[anniemae]

I would not bring it to the landlord yet. She may be unaware that anyone can hear them.

I would do something to let them know you can hear them, like pretend to be talking on the phone while they are being.....Noisy. Just say, "Hold on Aunt Edie, I hear some strange noises next door and I'm not sure what it is, I hope everyone is okay......" Or bang on the walls, etc. Hopefully she will get the hint that if she can hear you, then you can hear her.

 

[MizTink]

If she's a screamer, call the cops and say you can hear your neighbor screaming and you're not sure what's going on but it sounds pretty bad. Otherwise I'd go with the whistles, applause and performance critique routine until the noise stops. Nothing worse than the guy hearing, "Hey! That was only 2 minutes this time. You sick or something?" from the other side of the wall.

OMG, this just reminded me that my sister did that one time! but she really did think someone was being murdered next door!! the police came, my sister watched from her window and saw both the man and the woman at the door (1 in a robe, 1 covered w/a towel!) talking to the cop. then the cop went to my sister's door and assured her that everything was ok, while laughing! my sister still wasn't convinced, she wanted the cop to go in their house and make sure there wasn't a 3rd person in there, a victim of some sort!!!!
the neighbors never waved to my sister after that night, they didn't even look her way if they both happened to be outside at the same time!

 

[Agri]

Goodness!

If you've said more than 'Hello' to her in passing, then just tell her quietly that you just wanted her to know that you could hear her having a good time the other night. Just be polite about it - like you're a friend who doesn't want her to continue embarrassing herself. If you haven't, just leave a note on the door. If it continues and truly bothers you, contact the landlord.

Also - I don't get the bit about hotel hospitality, because they don't hang up, they tell you to keep it down because the person next door complained. I stayed in the same hotel twice and the walls are *very* thin and neither time was I making with the love. One time my mom had won a night in the hotel when I was a kid, so we stayed up watching tv (quietly) and got the phone call. The other time I was hanging out with a friend watching tv (again, quietly) and got the call - after the only person next to us had the headboard bouncing off the wall for about half an hour.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

LOL-the guy who used to live upstairs from me had a girlfriend who was-vocal-they both worked shifts so it wasnt an all the time thing but they always managed to be there earlly in the morning when i can home from an overnight. Soooooo one morning i came home to the seranade-and i was-like my friend Tina going thru a period of being deprived for your freedoms and i had had enough. So i yelled "Ya know what-she's kidding-your not really that good". I never heard a peep again

I did something similar once. I had a next-door apartment neighbor who woke me several times a night with the noise. Even my bed was shaking! So finally one night, at 3:30 a.m., the third time they woke me up, I pounded on the wall and yelled, "Dude, she's faking it!"

It suddenly got very quiet...

 

[golfgal]

Record the noise and slip it under her door.

 

[WDWisTheBest]

Record the noise and slip it under her door.

Do you mean to record the noise on DVD and then slip the DVD under her door?

Or do you mean to record the noise on DVD and then play it back at a fairly high sound level so they can hear it?

 

[cm8]

We lived in an apartment complex with the thinnest walls ever. My bedroom and bath had a shared wall with the people next door. I had no doubt that they could hear "noise" like we could.

However one night I'd had enough (probably because it was during a deployment drought) and I started banging on the wall and yelled "hurry up and get done and go to sleep"

I would leave a note on the neighbor's door letting her know that you can hear alot and maybe try to turn it down some.

,, I sure they could not quite look at you the same after that incident