r/NoisyNeighbours

Loud ass neighbor won't let me sleep with loud music.

So I have this aggressive neighbor that lives directly above me. I’ve been taking videos of whenever he’s violating our “excessively loud and disturbing noise” clause for just in case. I made a formal complaint yesterday as he was screaming, yelling, and stomping around during quiet hours, waking me and my fiancé up at 6am. He got his violation notice, and has now started screaming he’s wishing death on us, profanities including f**k and c**t outside assuming we can hear his aggressive language. He continued to deliberately take an object and slam it on his floor, making it impossible to hear myself. When I told my lease office about it, they can’t issue another violation issue this close to the previous one, but they implied that I should file a police report so that they can take the next steps. My question is what kind of police report should I file? I have multiple videos of his aggressive behavior that could be a noise complaint, but I feel this most recent incident could be a harassment issue.

I moved into my home January 2025 and since then haven't interacted with my neighbour once. I like to keep to myself, I'm quiet, I have a cat, and I live alone — I don't party, I don't play loud music, I work a 9-5. I don't like bothering anybody, and I generally keep to myself (maybe I'm boring or it's the autism, I don't know, it's not that relevant).

I'm writing this from the couch, in tears, past midnight on a Tuesday so bear with me.

When I first moved in, I noticed the neighbour had a pile of bin bags in the garden, with food items spilling out. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, that they were maybe doing a big clear out or something - but months passed and they remained, I worried about rodents and thought the easiest non-confrontational thing to do was report it to the council line. I now regret it.

Since moving in my neighbour has repeatedly had 11PM - 4AM karaoke sessions, on random days. This is multiple times a week. It's usually a single Tate McRae song on repeat.

She also has shouting matches with her partner, kicking him out frequently, at all times of the day or night.

I don't like confrontation. I don't retaliate. I just put up with it and move on with my life, I just want an easy life.

Last night was a breaking point - 3AM she's singing until about 5AM. I barely got sleep. Tonight she's been singing again from about 11PM - and I couldn't handle it. I hit the wall. I didn't say anything I just hit the wall a couple of times.

Then it started: screaming at me for being a prick through the door, telling me to come knock on her door, that I'm a cunt etc. I regretted it immediately. I was giving her the benefit of the doubt that she wasn't aware of how loud she was, I don't know, and it backfired.

She's since (in the middle of the night) shoved a letter through my door, and slammed the letterbox repeatedly (I have ring doorbell footage). The letter accuses me of reporting her several times (I've only complained the once), to 'enjoy the music' and that she's going through something at the moment and not to piss her off. She also accuses me of having a camera pointing at her back garden, I don't even have a camera (outside of the one on my front door)? It says that she'll report me back (again, that's irrelevant because I don't do anything). I'm currently on the couch because she's playing music in retaliation out loud, and I think this is going to be me going forward.

I submitted a noise complaint to the council before I had banged on the wall, and now I'm worried that I'm going to make it all worse. I just want to be left alone. I'm scared, as pathetic as it sounds. Does anybody have advice? Thank you! 🥲

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has commented, even just the kind messages have really helped me settle. It's appreciated far more than you can imagine! I'm keeping a log of all the noise going forward with timestamps and video recordings for the council, and the moment she tries to escalate it will be reported to the non emergency police line.

I've been renting my apartment in Spain for 5 months. It's a really small building with only 4 apartments (2 up, 2 down) and ever since I've moved in I've had issues with the couple living in the other apartment on my floor.

They yell, they argue, they are up at all times of night thumping around and talking to themselves. Laughably though, if I make any kind of noise no matter the time of day, they slam furniture against the wall to tell me to shut up. I've heard them yell and call me a whore for speaking English, and they've given similar treatment to the family below. Written like that, it seems quite mundane but it's been a genuinely quite terrifying campaign of harassment. They are clearly unwell or using substances. The family below is looking to sell up.

Mysteriously, they never leave their apartment. They don't answer their door. They never have lights on. They don't even go up to the roof terrace to use their washing machine. I've never come face-to-face with them.

My lease is up at the end of June. What can I do to get my revenge on these people in my last weeks here? I don't want my revenge to in any way negatively impact the other neighbours in the building, so how can I drive them crazy? It's difficult when they don't even leave their apartment. Their balcony connects to ours so I've thought about stink bombs or something like that. Any ideas?

There’s this bloke next door his names Cobbey or something and it’s been years he’s been playing that same god damn game call of duty and he’s terrible at it, he’s the guy who only shouts when he loses, the only time i’ve heard him shout because he won was over a football game 🫩 but oh yeah quick side note this selfish prick shouts at me for anything i do? i picked up a guitar once in my life and he told me it sounds shite and i should never pick it up again and i didn’t.

These past 3 weeks i don’t know what he has done to his room but he’s somehow managed to make everything he does audible i’m not one to be sensitive but damn i can hear every time he coughs for crying out loud! everything that was once annoying for these past couple years have just became 10x more audible and it is really getting on my nerves, he’s a real prick too, i remember i was out with me dad and when he brought me home he was on the neighbours drive for not even a minute and the git had the selfishness to say “it’s a dropped curb mate” like oh really? The funny thing is he’s sayin all that bs but proceeds to not use his own drive and park right in front of our house when he has a whole drive for his own car

It may seem cowardly but i’m becoming anxious on what i do in my own room now, im a big anime fan but i feel like because he’s became so much more louder that probably means he can hear whatever im doing now 🙈 and ill be honest i don’t want him shouting at me for watching anime cause thats MY unwinding time you know what i mean? Im an anxious guy myself if someone calls what i do weird i’ll be scared to pick it back up for weeks or even months

but yeah real pain in the arse that guy man he’s a smoker too and not cigarettes but he smokes that za so my room also stinks of it and i hate smoking, i really wish he’d get a job im pretty sure he’s still unemployed and he’s like in his 20s now he still lives with his dad i think its about time he starts getting his life together and move out but idc what he does when he moves out anything for him to stop shouting his head off at that stupid game every night and oh yeah to top it off he’s a night owl too which really is a pain in the butt for someone who just wants to watch tv in my last couple hours before sleep

but yeah that’s my rant 👏 if anyone’s got advice please share 🙏

I work 2 days a week currently so I’m home a lot of the time . I live in a mid terrace house so I have neighbours either side of me . Last year my neighbour to my left had what seemed like a full house renovation which obviously she is well within her rights to do so. However this was work that included knocking down existing walls ripping up every floor it was loud and it would vibrate through my whole house , it was drilling concrete constant hammering and it went on for 6 months including Saturdays starting at 8am. I feel it would have been courteous for my neighbour to let me know but she never did , it would have been nice to have known what her plans were so I could understand what was going on. The work finally finished just before Christmas which was a relief but fast forward to now she has workmen back in the house and it’s hard to even concentrate on what I I’m doing it’s so loud and quite unbearable at times .. I don’t drive and I don’t have any family or friends in my hometown so I am restricted to my home on days off. I do understand that there’s nothing I can do and house renovations happen but do you think it would be reasonable for me to speak to her and ask how long it will be for this time and what she’s having done ? Just for my peace of mind I’m still triggered from the noise last year and she never pre warns me . I feel if it was me I would notify both my neighbours and let them know my plans. The only thing that slightly blocks it out is having a speaker on full blast playing heavy music and even with that on I can still hear it and there’s only so much of that I want to listen to.

Im british which means its illegal to smoke weed.

My neighbours smoke weed and we haven't told anyone about it since we ain't snitches. However one of the neighbours often goes into his car in the middle of the night to do weed. He often revs the car and plays music really loudly when he does that and it's really annoying especially since we are trying to sleep. Sometimes when I go outside the only thing I can smell is weed because they do it so much. They also have a one year old baby which makes it worse in my opinion since they are doing it around a baby.

What do you think about this?

For context my neitghbour Neighbor Downstairs he keeps the TV on until 2 am and sometimes he even falls asleep and leaves the TV on. I've tried ringing the doorbell to wake him up, but that doesn't work. Besides, he's called the police on both me and the neighbor for making noise, even though I've never heard any noise from the next-door neighbor. So now I'm looking for some idea to get revenge without anyone knowing it was me.

Are there any weatherproof audio recording equipment that I can buy to record my noisy neighbours before I report them.
It is seriously affecting my mental health and that of my children.

Dear all,

I am based in Austria and can hear my neighbours walking above me. I also hear random thuds that sometimes wake me up in the middle of the night. I have tried ear plugs and can even hear them through hearing protectors...Noise cancelling headphones are my last hope ;) I see many people recommend WH-1000XM3 but these no longer seem to be available. The reviews for WH-1000XM5 are worse... anything else you would recommend getting?

Thanks!