Good Neighbor Day 2024 is on Saturday, September 28, 2024: Neighbors having loud hockey day parties?

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Good Neighbor Day

Not such a long time ago, the planet felt just like a more compact place, and everyone understood everyone else within their neighborhood. Now, a lot of us aren’t acquainted with our neighbors, and just talk to them in passing. Why don't you use Good Neighbor Day being an chance to lend a proverbial cup of sugar, and become familiar with those who live nearby?

Neighbors having loud hockey day parties?

You have a few choices: You can accept that you can't change other peoples' behaviors, only your own. You can move, or you can try to get the neighbors evicted.

In accepting that you can't change their behavior, you can take control of the situation by adapting your own. Could you sleep with earplugs and a loud alarm clock so that you snooze through the door slam? Could you get up at 5:30 on your own and use the extra time for something constructive? (i.e. exercise, reading, hobbies, etc). If it's the middle of the day, get outside and run errands, go to the park, the library, etc.

You also have the option to move. This could mean moving to a different apartment complex, or pestering the manager into letting you change apartments in the same complex with a new lease. Some property managers want to make you happy, and some will be tempted by the guaranteed income of a fresh lease on your new apartment. It's absolutely worth a try.

The last option is to try and get the neighbors to leave instead. This is a chancier option because there's a very real risk that they will retaliate somehow. If you're willing to take that risk, then keep calling the cops every time they get loud after 10pm. Sooner or later the cops will get tired of showing up at these peoples' apartment...but they will be angry at them, not you. They are causing the problem. Get a copy of the police report, or document that they were there and send it to the apartment office so they know. Most complexes have clauses about eviction for criminal activity; and they may get sick of the police presence in their complex for these people.

Have you complained to your apartment complex owner as well? Ask specifically if they have a formal complaint process. Write a letter (it will be taken more seriously than a verbal complaint). Get with your surrounding neighbors (I'm sure the apartments above, below, and around them aren't very happy either) and have them write letters. Document the police visits, including time and reason for the call. If the complex has multiple residents complaining, they may decide it's better to make 6 residents happy then keep the lease from one. Not to mention the property damage that may be taking place.

Those are the options as I see them, but you've hampered yourself somewhat by putting up with it for four years. Be prepared to answer the question "why now?"

Missing Neighbor (2 days) and Barking Dog?

Missing Neighbor (2 days) and Barking Dog?

Go and knock on the neighbours door and if there is no answer, get the landlord to check the place out.

If there is an answer to your knock then just explain that you were concerned.

I would class this as being a good neighbour.

Annoying neighbors - lookout...moving day!?

Annoying neighbors - lookout...moving day!?

The bad neighbors I have don't live on my block, but they leave their dog's poop in front of my house. Hate it with a passion.

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