How to Put a *Stop to a Noisy Neighbor*

Our home, no matter what we live in, is supposed to be a place of peace and quiet and where we relax, live and enjoy life.  We have enough noise and problems to deal with on the outside so we look forward to the only place we have to get away from it all, our home.

Sometimes that peace gets interrupted by an inconsiderate noisy neighbor who cares nothing for anyone else and is constantly playing loud music, throwing parties or having friends over for an evening of drinking, watching the game, playing loud music or just annoying loud talk and laughter.

You’ve tried to be neighborly by asking them to calm it down a bit or turn down the music to no avail or maybe because it’s not past 10:00 pm you think you can’t do anything about it so you think you have to put up with it.  Wrong!  Your peace can be disturbed 24 hours a day. 

You have exhausted all of your resources, you’ve called the Police several times, you have been polite and neighborly but nothing seems to work.  Yes, it can be very frustrating to say the least so, follow these tips in the order that they are listed and you will defiantly put a stop to your noisy neighbor:

Write a letter. Most complaints come from people who are living in an apartment complex and it seems that there is at least one apartment where there is a group of people or one person who care nothing about anyone else’s peace and is always creating noise.

Write a certified letter to the manager and the owner of the building demanding that the problem be rectified.  If it is a single residence then write the letter to the residence owner.

Mention in your letter that your next step is to file a “class action law suit” for “noise annoyance” and a complaint with the City Attorney’s office declaring the apartment complex a “nuisance to the City”.  

Writing a letter helps you build a case in the event your situation ends up in court.

Call the Police. Calling the Police and documenting ‘every’ time there is a loud party or major noise complaint is a must because it proves and shows that the noisy tenants are a “nuisance” causing the City to use valuable Police resources to solve an ongoing problem.  Believe me, the city will not tolerate this for very long.