Strange Neighbor Behaviour

varunynr on 21/07/2015 - 18:17

Hi All,

Apologies if this looks duplicate (and it may look to many indeed) but I just got a call from my landlord (today evening) about our neighbor complaining about noise coming from our house which would not let her 4 year old daughter go to sleep. Few facts below :

1) I have been living in these units for 2 years (neighbor even longer) and he never mentioned that to me.
2) I have got same age kids and never ever we kept our house volumes/noises above the normal family range (sorry dont know if I can find a better word here)
3) I agree he is little weird but bearable. We are on talking terms (till now) with an occasional hello once in a month (Wish it was better, anyways)

What should I do:

1) Should I go and talk to him face to face (I wish he came to me before talking to my landlady). Few of my friends tell me not to do that in case discussions heat up.
2) Wait for next time if he come to me at all (Or may be goto council directly to complain about me)
2) ?????????

I am planning to go and talk to tenents union directly tomorrow to get legal opinion anyways. Hope I get some serious answers here.

Appreciate your time.

Regards

Home & Garden

Comments

  • spackbace on 21/07/2015 - 18:23
    +1

    I just got a call from my landlord (today evening) about our neighbor complaining about noise coming from our house which would not let her 4 year old daughter go to sleep.

    Even though it might not have been you, what did they want exactly? Was it just to ask to turn it down next time, to say they were annoyed, or what?

    If it was just to complain, and that's it, even if it wasn't you making the noise I'd personally just let it blow over!

  • ozhunter on 21/07/2015 - 18:24

    I have got same age kids and never ever we kept our house volumes/noises above the normal family range

    If this is true, then I don't think you need to worry about anything. Is there even a loud noise? It might be from someone else's house.

  • battler on 21/07/2015 - 20:06
    -1

    Bikies

  • DarkOz on 21/07/2015 - 20:18

    If he/she doesn't want to talk to you directly I suppose he/she wouldn't want you to do the same. You can't 'fix' any noice if you don't know what noice he/she is referring to.

    Find out from your landlord what kind of noice it is. Is it your cooking? Your radio/TV volume? Your kids playing? Your normal family conversation? Or even your late night romps?

    By talking to your landlord at least you have prove to your landlord that you have nothing to hide.

  • pointless martyr on 21/07/2015 - 20:38
    +2

    Take up drumming - make sure you learn double kick.

    And bass guitar too.

    Be sure to practice at every opportunity between 7am-10pm weekdays and 10am-12am weekends.

  • varunynr on 21/07/2015 - 22:23
    +1

    Thanks everyone for the advice and especially the one made by pointless comment. I think I will chill a bit here. May be the things are not that serious. I would give a shot to tenants union anyways. I think as tenants we should know our rights. I may come back to let you guys know what happened.

    Regards

  • jsefrog on 21/07/2015 - 23:11

    We have noisy neighbours. They don't think they are noisy.
    They go outside on their decking and "talk" for anything between 5 minutes and a few hours. The problem lies in what they consider talking, and what we consider yelling. You can hear their "talking" everywhere in our house, even if we have music on our the TV on. They can be heard for at least 5 houses away in the still of night.
    Literally yelling at each other… very very raucous laughter, this is constant for the duration of when they are outside (they are doing it now!)

    During summer it's music and drunken singing till after midnight several times a week, along with the human noise mentioned above (alcohol is a big factor here!).

    I would strongly suggest you just go and talk to your neighbours and discuss what noise they are concerned about and what they expect is reasonable noise. Also what level of noise they deem as unacceptable. Coming from the other side (and I'm not suggesting you are in any way like my neighbours), I would be so grateful if my neighbours just came to talk and at least gave the impression that they care in the slightest about anyone else but themselves.

    From what you are saying you can't understand what the problem is, I think that should be your first priority, to find out what you or someone else in the vicinity is doing to prompt them to make a complaint.
    If they become unreasonable, try and keep on track of finding out what you might be able to do to help their situation. Most normal people will realise you are wanting to help!

    If things go pear shaped, then I can also offer advice, short of taking you to court, there is next to nothing they can do to you. You as the noise makers are virtually untouchable :-)

    Can I make one last suggestion: if you listen to your tv and music with a sub woofer, it may be driving other people insane. Low frequencies penetrate all manner of sound proofing. There is almost nothing you can do to keep it out. Turn it off unless you are watching Heat or Top gun!

    I hope this helps you and your neighbour,
    Jse

  • varunynr on 22/07/2015 - 07:47

    Thnaks Jse. Appreciate your reply here. Well we are no where near those levels. No alcohol induced chat and no woofers :) I agree, communication breaks barriers but it should come from both sides I guess. Different people have different levels of patience and thats what I think makes the difference.

    I dot know what goes on from here but I certainly have sigh of relief from the advice here and that I am not alone. Well done ozbargainers. You are all awesome. Thanks again.

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