Quite a rude awakening (aka don't live in a condo)

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
07/13/2016 at 13:40 • Filed to: None

Woke up from yelling from the other house, in the room adjacent to mine. They also started beating the shit out of the wall. A wall that’s supposed to dampen sound, mind you. I heard everything. Apparently someone’s fiancée broke up with them and they took it out on my beauty rest.

So yeah, good morning, Oppo.

At least the Focus RS gets a nice pair of taillights to look at

DISCUSSION (18)

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:48

I had neighbors from hell who smoked, scratched my car and washing machine. They also loved domestic abuse calls and having a hell spawn kid more like a c.h.u.d. that kicked the walls near my bedroom for 5 minutes at a time with feet that were close to the iron giant’s. They finally moved out after suing the landlord over a window they broke and wouldn’t acknowledge. The joys of living in an apartment building.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:51

In my apartment in Pittsburgh, the couple who lived next to me had knock-down drag-out screaming fights through the night several times a week. There were a few times I contemplated calling the police, but I was a chickenshit grad student and did not want to risk getting involved.

That’s not the story, though.

I visited my parents for Thanksgiving and returned to find my door knocked in. I called the police, and surveyed the apartment while waiting. Nothing was missing...of value or otherwise. The place wasn’t even tossed over, really; it didn’t look like I had been burglarized. The police showed up, also confused that nothing was missing. The officer had a sudden flash of realization and radioed back to dispatch. He then told me what had happened.

My idiot neighbors had set their apartment on fire while I was gone. The fire department knocked down my door and prepared to spray my bathroom wall with water if they couldn’t get the wall taken care of from the other side. There was no damage, so I called the building manager to get a new lock and the officer left. As he was leaving, he turned to me and said:

“A word of advice, kid. Move.”

I did.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:52

Good morning.

S65 > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:55

Go back to sleep then

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:55

Leaving apartment life/shared living spaces was the best decision of our lives.

Azrek > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 13:57

I have a townhouse. One neighbor is an older gentleman who’s lost in his own mind (Not sure the disease).

The other side is an Asian family that is always hammering, screaming or (what sounds) like beating their kids. They door dinged my E92 and I was furious. They denied it...I am not sure what I am gonna do yet.

They started littering in the parking lot and one day opened their door to discover all the trash where their van used to park was in their door frame.

However, one day I had enough of their screaming. I have 650W of speakers. I placed them against the wall and put on Twisted Sister....at 11. They got quiet really quick.

I haven’t heard them in a week. Great success!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 14:01

I was so happy when the people below me moved out. They chain smoked like multiple packs a day, were always screaming at each other, and had children that ran around so much. Somehow the children running was a bother even though they were in the apartment below! I cant imagine what it must have been like in the apartment below them.

AfromanGTO > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 14:02

Call the police report a domestic disturbance.

Takuro Spirit > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 14:02

I had a neighbor that would get drunk and play James Taylor songs on guitar (badly) and sign at the top of her lungs (badly) but was friends with the landlord so complaining about her was useless. Even calling the police on her a few times for being loud and drunk not just IN her townhouse, but outside hers and ours as well didn’t help.

When our friends on the other side of us moved out and a couple with dogs that they would cage up in the basement and let them bark and fight all day and night long we decided it was enough and moved out.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 14:03

My sister lived in A2 and one night was woken up by a domestic dispute in the apartment below her. The husband and wife moved past the screaming and went to physical abuse. The husband was throwing the wife against walls and calling her every name in the book. My sister, concerned for the safety of the individuals, called the police. She told them which apartment the couple was in, everything.

So they show up and come to her apartment (shared hallway) and ask her to point out which apartment was having the dispute, all while standing in the hallway.

My sister moved 2 weeks later for fear of her safety.

Really unprofessional on the police.

Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 14:20

I was lucky enough to have a quiet and friendly family living below me in my apartment days. However, the grandfather occasionally worked second shift, and being a southern man through-and-through, would come home and cook collard greens at 2am on a workday. My bed must have been directly above the stove because the smell would be so strong that it would keep me awake for hours.

I love to cook myself, so who am I to complain, but collard greens smell like literal garbage while they are cooking.

Textured Soy Protein > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 15:00

I live in a rented townhouse and the walls are thinner than I’d like.

On one side, there’s a family with a couple kids but they do a really good job of keeping the kids quiet most of the time. Sometimes in the winter their friends come over and they play inside and it can get a little loud but it doesn’t happen often.

On the other side, I’ve had no luck whatsoever. When we moved in, that unit was occupied by this guy who runs a DJ company and was out all hours of the night, then would come home and have loud phone conversations. He vacuumed in the middle of the night. He yelled at his cats. He randomly broke out singing. He had a subwoofer and would watch movies or play video games with the sub going at 1 am. Finally I had to knock on his door about it, he answered in a cloud of pot smoke and was like “ah sorry man my bad I’ll turn the volume down on the sub,” which he did, but it the improvement was short-lived.

When he moved out, my fiancee and I rejoiced that we no longer had this guy sharing a wall with us, and there was glorious silence, until the landlord came in making a bunch of noise replacing the carpet and doing other repairs.

We just had a couple with a little kid move in to the unit a few weeks ago. The kid fucking screams bloody murder at no provocation whatsoever. They also have a goddamn subwoofer and it was getting persistently louder and more frequent until this weekend they were watching tv with it on for a period of like 14 hours with short breaks.

Saturday I knocked on the door, the kid screamed “MOM ANSWER THE DOOR SOMEONE’S AT THE DOOR MOM!” but nobody came to the door. I rang the bell and the lady answered from behind the door like she wasn’t dressed. When I told her the bass from the subwoofer was coming through the wall she looked at me like “what’s a subwoofer,” but turned down the volume.

My fiancee’s sister was visiting this weekend, so I was out doing my own thing and came home after they went to sleep. Sunday morning, she and her sister talked with me about the noise that continued to come through the wall all the previous afternoon and night. “You haven’t talked to them yet, right?” Oh, but I had!

Sunday morning the bass was fucking going again, so I went next door again, knocked, again the kid goes “MOM DAD ANSWER THE DOOR SOMEONE’S AT THE DOOR ANSWER THE DOOR!” and the dude answered. He gave me an excuse that it was a new stereo, and he was moving things around and testing it out but it wouldn’t be at this volume level normally. Which is bullshit, you don’t need to watch tv for 14 hours straight with short breaks to test it out. I told him I don’t care what he’s doing, it’s coming through the wall, and turn it down.

A couple hours later the noise came back so I wrote a nice detailed email to the landlord about the subwoofer and the kid. I haven’t actually heard back from the landlord but the noise has stopped. My fiancee said this morning when she was going out to her car to go to work, the wife from next door was outside putting her kid in her car, and she totally ignored my fiancee.

I don’t care if they’re not our friends, just keep the fuck quiet.

shop-teacher > Aaron M - MasoFiST
07/13/2016 at 15:01

Oh jeeze. That makes you wonder HOW they set it on fire.

StingrayJake > TheHondaBro
07/13/2016 at 15:16

We have two dogs. They both hate being put in crates during the day. One we trust to leave closed up in the bedroom but the other is still just a puppy (6 mos.) and we can’t trust to not pee, poop or destory everything. I feel very, very bad for our neighbors.

StingrayJake > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
07/13/2016 at 15:24

I once lived in a rental property that was next to an empty lot. The house next to the lot apparently owned it because it was fenced in and they treated it as a side yard.

Eventually somebody moved a manufacture home onto the lot (a small miracle that it fit). They had two small Chihuahuas that they left tied up outside 24 hours a day. They yapped at even the slightest noise/motion and would go at it for hours at a time.

My roommate was working on his doctorate at the time and eventually got so annoyed with it that he called the police. The police responded, spoke to the owner, then came over to our front door and talked to my roommate (in plain view of the house’s owner).

After the cops left the owner yelled at my roommate, “I have friends in the police department. You better not call the cops on me ever again. You don’t have any rights. You’re just renting. I own this house.”

Guy also went outside and fired up his motorcycle at all hours of the day. He’d rev the engine several times but never go anywhere.

He was a jackass.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > StingrayJake
07/13/2016 at 15:31

“You don’t have any rights. You’re just renting. I own this house.”

Having been a renter I loved living next to people who claimed this. Especially when they did get the ticket for the parties that were going too late into the night. Noise ordinances are noise ordinances regardless of who holds the deed.

Still, pretty ridiculous on the police to go to the front door of an accuser.

StingrayJake > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
07/13/2016 at 15:34

To be fair, my idiot roommate, while on the phone with the cops, said “I’m going to kill these dogs.”

They asked him if he had any guns in the house. I did, he did not. I wasn’t home. He was smart enough (or dumb enough) to say that he did not. I would have been extremely pissed if my guns had been confiscated.

Nimbus The Legend - Riding on air like a cloud > StingrayJake
07/13/2016 at 18:23

i would have kept calling.

whenever someone says “i have friends in the police department” they usually dont have an actual friend, they just kinda know someone...