Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:45 pm
cronut neighbours in the flat above you.
They have two young children, around 3 years and 5 years old. Other than taking the older one to school, they never take them out anywhere. Ever. As a result, the younger spends most of the day charging around the flat upstairs (not her fault, it's what kids do) but because it's a 1960s build it's not soundproofed to modern standards so we hear everything - running, crashing, banging, stomping around literally all day. And to top it off, the young one also screams at the top of her voice at any given opportunity - presumably lacking social and developmental skills due to being indoors virtually 24/7.
I complained to the Letting Agent but all they did was send someone round for a talk and they'll "try to be quiet and calm the kids down". I said that if the landlord put down thicker carpet and underlay (they current flooring is well over 10 years old minimum as I knew the guy who rented it previously and that's how long he was there (and never had any noise issues with him)) then it would help - but obviously the landlord is only interested in making as much money as possible while spending as little as possible. Also a cronut.
They're not doing anything 'wrong', but what absolutely awful parenting. We've got a park literally 5 minutes walk away, even if they've no money to take the kids to the cinema etc. it doesn't cost a penny to take them to the part when the weather is nice, let them play and burn off some energy that way. Their bed time also seems to be pretty much anything between 10pm and 1am...I've not got kids but that seems a bit late for a 3 and a 5 year old.
The other issue is they don't speak very good English so when you try to speak to them about it virtually nothing goes in. But even so, they're f***ing morons who clearly have zero common sense or respect for others.
I had a nightmare neighbour when I was last living in a flat. She was also the head of the housing association so was doubly a f***ing nightmare to deal with.
I was still a chef so used to come back home about 1am. The b**** complained every time. I even used to take my shoes off to take the stairs up to the 4th floor but she'd hear me; even on top toe.
I had one day a week off so used to vacuum and clean the flat and do my laundry. She would hammer on the wall about the noise.
The washing machine was one of those combo types but invariably the dryer aspect never dried the clothes so I put them on a clothes horse with a window open.
She somehow managed to look inside the flat from the 4th floor and spot them and then I had a written notice about how that was against the rules (couldn't have clothes hanging near windows or something).
She had a shitty little dog. It yapped incessantly all day. You could hear it as it walked about as well on the floors.
I mentioned that to her after weeks of her **** and found myself on a second and final warning.
I knew I was moving out and then threw a party for everyone else in the block of flats who hated her guts.
She called the police. The police monitored the noise level and we were well within bounds and left.
She called them again and again about noise and they just refused to show up.
She then said we'd abused her dog so they came out. Dog was perfectly fine. 20 witnesses said she was lying.
She was arrested for wasting police time.
We then turned up the music and had a wonderful time.
