I hate my neighbor and I'm about to kick him in the face

College Life
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<p>it's 1 in the morning.
I was like what a great day I don't have anything immediately due for once.
I stayed up til 6 o clock today working on my project so I get to sleep in right?</p>

<p>NOOOoooo.</p>

<p>I live in an old apartment where everybody can hear everything... I can hear people talking next door for heaven gods sake like they are in the same apartment with me. I can hear creaking from upstairs. There's a house right next to this apartment where they have parties every other day. but i deal with it because I have the apt all to myself.</p>

<p>Except for today.
or now more likely. I went to sleep at 12.
i wake up to atrocious singing next door.
It sounds like someone's suffocating a cat. And it continues.
I knock heavily at the wall. I scream I yell. I'm too lazy to get out of my bed but I'm about to go yell at them. Oh my gee. They stop for like 10 minutes after I knock and scream. THEN IT CONTINUES and it gets worse and worse and louder and louder.</p>

<p>Right now I have my music up loud in my little tiny laptop because my 6.1 surround sound speaker is in the living room. It does drown his crappy singing though I guess its better than nothing.</p>

<p>How do i deal with this.</p>

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<p>Posting about it on the internet is far more likely to get them to stop than going over there and asking.</p>

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<p>u NEED earplugs</p>

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<p>You knock on his door and ask him to keep it down. (Although you’ve pretty much guaranteed that he won’t be too friendly on this occasion with the yelling and screaming. </p>

<p>Or you call the police and make a noise complaint. </p>

<p>Or – during business hours – you contact the landlord and ask for help. </p>

<p>Or you break your lease and find a quieter apartment or one with quieter neighbors. </p>

<p>Or you become a horrible neighbor yourself and try to drive him out. </p>

<p>Or you become a horrible neighbor yourself and hope to get evicted.</p>

<p>Or you start leaving xeroxed pages of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Crime and Punishment” and similar works of literature in the hallway and hope that he is an English major and paranoid enough to think you are planning something.</p>

<p>Or you use a fan or something to make white noise to block out the sound from next door. </p>

<p>Or you use sound of your own – as you are doing – to at least ensure that the noise you hear is noise you like. </p>

<p>Or you use earplugs. </p>

<p>Or you fill your ears with papier mache. </p>

<p>Or you attach carpeting to the wall to help insulate you from the sound. </p>

<p>Or you go sleep somewhere else in the apartment that doesn’t share a wall with him – at the very least on the opposite side of the bedroom, or perhaps in the kitchen. </p>

<p>Or you kick him in the face, turn yourself in to the cops, and hope that you’ve picked a quiet night at the local jail. </p>

<p>Or you join the Marines and hope that your roommates in Basic Training are quiet. </p>

<p>Or you go to a hotel to sleep when you really, really need to.</p>

<p>Or you physically exhaust yourself during the day to make you so tired you’ll sleep through it. </p>

<p>Or you use melatonin or Benadryl or large quantities of alcohol or something to do much the same thing chemically. </p>

<p>Or you use a lot of caffeine or something to ensure that you wouldn’t be asleep anyway. </p>

<p>Or you drink lots of water starting at 6 pm so that you are more worried about how fast you can get to the bathroom than about what noise someone else is making. </p>

<p>Or you start projects early enough that you never have to stay up really late to finish. </p>

<p>Or you go to bed at a reasonable hour every night and just don’t turn in the things you haven’t finished. </p>

<p>Or you drop out of school and get a nighttime job and sleep when he is at work. </p>

<p>Obviously I don’t recommend each and every one of these solutions, but you do have options.</p>

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<p>^^^well, I guess you’ve been given every viable option. Good luck with that.</p>

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<p>I would knock and tell him to keep it down, or talk to the landlord. I don’t think the police will come for a noise complaint about someone singing in their own house.</p>

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<p>Well the thing is I had NO idea which one of my neighbors it was. I was thinking it was the next door it could’ve been easily my upstairs neighbor as well.I was half way asleep so i wasn’t sure where… i was thinking about marching up there or next door but i live by myself and didn’t really feel like knocking on random guy’s doors. Also I don’t like letting my neighbors know who lives in my apt in case I do something loud/stupid and they are like “OH ITS that GIRL.” LOL I know I’m ridiculous. If it happens again I’ll tell them to **** soon as I figure out which apt it’s coming from…</p>

<p>Or like today I just started screaming in my room and I think they stopped. LOL! “AHHH **** EVERY NIGHT EVERY DAY WHAT THE HELLLLLL!!! SHUT THE EFF UP”</p>

<p>I’m totally ok with people singing during decent time of the day (preferably 1-7 ish), just not at 2 in the morning with their guitars. I think he was trying to record something… He kept on starting a part in the song, stops. Starts that part only again. Stops. I don’t know, they also wake me up with their loud ass music every morning which i don’t really mind as much. I’m pretty tolerant, just not 1-2 in the morning.</p>

<p>There’s an RA but he doesn’t live in my apartment, he lives in another building. I guess I can call campus police but he stops for like 10 minutes, sings for 10 minutes, stops, sings again. It’s kind of hard to call anybody about it.</p>

<p>I DID end up putting on ear plugs. I could still hear him screaming, that’s how loud he was! It wasn’t good kind of singing, it was like American Idol failure kind of singing. Like he was trying to be a rock star screaming on top of his lungs singing. Like the type of singing that sounds like a dead cat singing. His voice kept on cracking because he was like screaming.</p>

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<p>uyulove, didn’t you mention earlier you had roaches in your apartment too? I guess you won’t be living in this place next year :]</p>

<p>Here’s what I would do: talk to other neighbors who are also bothered, band together, and politely ask him to stop. There’s more power in numbers, and he’ll take you guys more seriously. Remember to mention it to your landlord as well.</p>

<p>If that fails, call the police and tell them “I heard hysterical screaming in apartment 3B (or whatever it is), I think someone might be seriously injured!” the cops will show up, find out the noise was your ■■■■■■■■ neighbor, and ask him to stop. I can’t imagine he won’t take that seriously.</p>

<p>if that doesn’t work, feel free to kick him in the face.</p>

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<p>Never let them win. The police should listen. Especially during beddy-bye time.</p>

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<p>I had the same problem. My constant complaining eventually resulted in my drunken neighbor kicking a hole in my door by knocking out a panel, and having his friends threaten and insult me. I called the police, it took them an hour to arrive, and all I could do was prosecute for misdemeanor vandalism. The guy doesn’t go to school or do anything other than work at a fast food restaurant, bang his idiotic live in girlfriend, turn up the volume on his audio equipment, get drunk and stomp around the shared balcony, leave garbage and cigarette butts everywhere, and have like ten drunk people over at a time in his 1 bedroom apartment until 3 am.</p>

<p>I complained to the property management for about sixth time, and the response was i instigated the whole thing by having gave my neighbor highlighted portions of a city ordinance restricting noise during late hours.</p>

<p>In a addition to that, when I first moved in the place was infested with ants, termites, bees ( in the walls), and at one point maggots were crawling out of the baseboards in the bedroom for close to three weeks. None of this was my fault since I am a neat freak, and I had only lived in the unit like 2 weeks before my apartment was inflicted with godlike plagues. I wasn’t able to sleep in my bedroom, and slept on the couch during this period, while spraying pesticide on a dialy basis, and vacuuming up the maggots with a shop vac.</p>

<p>So I am moving to a new place, but I have to pay a $1500 lease termination fee. The idiotic property managers have no sympathy for my situation at all, other than offering another unit in their decrepit complex.</p>

<p>I do have to say I really dislike the idea you are turning up your audio equipment, because that just makes it worse.</p>

<p>BTW, my idiot neighbor is Korean, any good advice on how to pi$$ off a Korean?</p>

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<p>Buy a taser gun, kick down their door at 2am during their cat-strangling session and yell GET DOWN ON THE GROUND and then tase them when they’re on the ground</p>

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<p>Kick him in the face.</p>

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<p>Exactly one month later…is this still happening, OP?</p>

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<p>Nope, i think it was a one night thing or something… I mean they are still abit noisy at times, but usually during the day which I don’t care about. I think that night he had ear phones on so he couldn’t hear me banging the wall. If this happens again, I’m probably just going to call the campus cops though (after 1AM anyhow). I TRY to avoid doing that because my friends got cops called on him and he said it was really annoyinh how they didn’t just come up and talk to him first. But I don’t know which apartment it is so… Oh well. :)</p>

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<p>Buy a dog.</p>

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<p>Wow. You sound like a loser. If someone wants to sing at 2 AM in their own apartment they can. The world doesn’t revolve around you.</p>

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<p>^ Don’t be a smartass. Since you seem to like my neighbor so much, why don’t I move him next door to you? ROFL At least that would get rid of both you for me… and it’s just a common etiquette. I mean your roommate CAN have sex in his own bed but it’s a common etiquette to not do it with the other roommate around. This is the same thing, duh.</p>