<p>Let it go for now–don’t mention it to them, but call the police if it happens again (and you can tell them it isn’t the first time). To carry on so loud all night, on a week night, is rude and inconsiderate. Rude and inconsiderate folks don’t listen to “nice.” Just let the police deal with it. Other neighbors will probably call the police, too.</p>
<p>" Rude and inconsiderate folks don’t listen to “nice.”"</p>
<p>thats what i’m thinking, i think i will go ahead a have a quick chat with them but as i mentioned earlier, they’ve parked in our parking slot without asking when they could have parked on the street and don’t bother mowing the lawn. The grass has gotta be over 2 feet high…</p>
<p>We had a house like that in our neighborhood. It was a rental. Loud people, party city, high grass…Turned out to be a drug house–cops raided it and that took care of the problem. </p>
<p>Is that house next door a rental? If so, you might want the landlord to know what is going on.</p>
<p>What if your “neighbor” is a church. We live on the edge of town and some group (maybe Baptists) built this huge ostentatious church. They came to the door to invite everyone, and I found it humorous that there was a white woman, a black man, a handicapped man, and a child. We have nicknamed the church Notre-Dame. </p>
<p>Anyway, one Sunday evening they decided to have an outdoor rock concert. It started at 7 and I assume would have been over by 10, theoretically so as not to disturb the neighbors. However, H & I were trying to work. Even with windows closed, air conditioner on, we could not talk or even watch TV, let alone try to work, because the music was so loud. </p>
<p>I finally called the police. I held my phone up to the closed window, and he could hear the noise. They must have come and told them to turn it down. I wonder how the neighbors felt who were immediately adjacent to the church. It’s a huge building. There’s really no reason they couldn’t have had their concert inside.</p>
<p>Yes, ellemenope - the same thing happened to us before we had kids! We were renting an apartment in what we thought was a nice complex. New neighbors moved in and we became aware of comings and goings all night long. Brief visits, ahem. We could have ignored that, but they played LOUD music all night long and actually set fire to their stove TWICE when they fell asleep while they were cooking. :rolleyes: The second time they were so out of it that we heard their smoke alarm and they didn’t - dh went over and pounded on their door in an effort to keep them from burning the entire complex down. They were eventually arrested for drugs, not noise violations.</p>
<p>There’s inconsiderate, and then there’s criminal. I hope the OP’s neighbors are merely the former.</p>
<p>Call the police. It is their job. Or it is in our neighborhood. One neighbor had a party (full on adults) which started at ten on a work night. The music was so loud that my house shook. (I thought it was one of my kids as I ran upstairs to scream turn it off!). I wasn’t the first, second or third call.<br>
the law here is music is off by eleven…and the police made them turn it way down. When they refused, the party was shut down.</p>
<p>Not the first or second time…one Bar Mitzvah was shut down (my kids were guests) by the police.</p>
<p>"Is that house next door a rental? If so, you might want the landlord to know what is going on. "</p>
<p>Yes, the house is a rental. Apparently they will only be staying for another 2 months (yay!)</p>
<p>Does it change anything if the neighbours are not playing music? They are just talking loudly. From my room, I can hear pretty much every word and its a single house. I partly blame it on the housing design, the houses are fairly close together. </p>
<p>However, i still think its a bit much to have a loud conversation outside from 2:00-7:00am. I went over to talk to them but they were out.</p>
<p>I’d call the police in a heartbeat. You don’t owe these people the courtesy they refuse to show you.</p>
<p>Some people just aren’t thinking. They just moved it, they don’t know the neighbors or how badly designed the houses are for this issue (as you mention), they probably have no idea how loud they are. </p>
<p>I find people respond incredibly well when they see your face, the situation, and you explain a kind way, and ask for genuine sympathy (but it backfires if you go over there sounding *****y or demanding-- no one wants to be told what to do which is why they usually turn the volume up after the cops leave). </p>
<p>I really think its best to let it go as a one-off, raise it with them directly if it happens again (when its happening…love the bathrobe look), and then escalate after that but only if needed.</p>
<p>Have the loud neighbors moved out? Maybe next time you can join the party and meet some new folks 
(jk) Seriously, if something like banging on the wall doesnt work (if its a condo or something) call the police. Not your job to manage your neighbors.</p>
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<p>Very well said.</p>