Add new comment

I used to live in a warehouse loft with stone floors, but drywall and brick for the walls.
My nextdoor neighbor had a business that brought in very loud, cussing, partying thugs. On the weekends, I couldn't even hear myself because of the loud music and yelling blasting through my unit!
I finally went next door and talked to the guy and his girlfriend, nicely, and explained the problem. He said he was sorry and that if it ever got too loud to knock on the wall and he'd tone it down.
Well...the next weekend, it got loud again, I knocked, banged, and nobody heard me. I knocked on the door, the noise just continued.
So, I emailed the guy asking him what happened to our agreement? He ignored the email. I knew the email address was good because we'd corresponded that way before.
Then he started keeping up noise until about 2 in the morning. I had to be up by 6am to start my journey to work each day.
In all this - management would express concern, but wouldn't do anything about it because they liked him and he paid his rent.
So - whenever he kept me awake until two, I'd get up at 6am and turn my stereo on full volume with the speaker facing the wall. I knew his bed was right there. If I couldn't sleep, neither would he!
About a month later, he moved. :>

I don't recommend this, but it was my only solution. My last resort. I'm normally a very quiet person and rarely even listen to my radio - let alone blast it. It was hard doing that to him, but I had no other choice. The manager would just say, "call the police", but the police would never answer the calls!