Posted on 05/29/2021 8:04:14 PM PDT by fwdude
I’m only airing this on this public forum because I’ve never encountered it to this degree before. Here’s the story: new neighbors moved in about three months ago in my semi rural, large lot residential neighborhood in the outskirts of my large city. I’ve lived here exactly 14 years now, and in that time I’ve experienced a level of quiet peace that most people would envy. The sounds of nature is about as loud as it gets, discounting the occasional Harley or ricer racing down the nearby thoroughfare.
The neighbors are a large family of, shall we say, south-of-the-border derivation, and have had several loud outdoor after-dark parties, complete with the amplified Hispanic loud-bass music in the maddeningly plodding rhythm that we’ve all heard. They also keep a couple of medium to large dogs outside who bark sporadically throughout the night (they are tethered, which is another issue.) They also brought with them at least one rooster, which begins crowing loudly at 4:30 AM each morning. The parties include a lot of loud drunken yelling in Mexican and very loud laughing and conversation. The bedroom wing of my house is adjacent to our shared property line, about 45 feet away. I hear it all.
Before I go on, I want to make it clear that I am one of the biggest live-and-let -live people on earth. I reached out to them when they moved in to introduce myself and let them know who I was. They were standoffish from the start, however.
The last party, about a month ago, went past midnight, and I finally called the police to lodge a complaint. I figured if they somehow were oblivious to the city ordinances against unreasonable noise, and oblivious to the fact that the noise was disturbing a neighbor, they would need to know about it and make a decision. But, here we go again.
I love farm life and animals and can live with the rooster crowing and occasional dog barks, but this is developing into a persistant pattern. Am I being a “Karen” by reporting them? One part of me wants to be tolerant to a fault. The other part of me says that they have absolutely ZERO consideration for the peaceful enjoyment of their neighbors, so screw them.
Anyone with a similar problem?
Off topic but how did the internet turn the word ‘advice’ into ‘advise’?
45 foot isn't much. I could never live in a subdivision or development like that.
I was thinking the same thing. Who builds a house 45 feet from the adjacent home on a large lot?? Really poor placement.
I’ve owned three homes and have never had an issue with any neighbors.
Right now I’m at my mother in law’s house. Her neighbor to one side is a real piece of work. He’s paranoid about his property line. He doesn’t like the absolute fact that my MIL’s property crosses his view of the river. My late FIL even caught him digging up the property line marker once.
I once accidentally strayed onto his property with the riding mower once. He came over and yelled at me for cutting his grass.
My son cuts the grass for my MIL. I told him to leave a 12” strip that he never cuts
Well, I’m not in the middle of the lot. My driveway runs between the properties. About 15’ between my house and the driveway, driveway is about 10’ wide, and then about 35’-40’ further to their property line. The lot is 1.41 acres total. I call thos distances large for a semi-rural area.
I think the cops were called last night. Saw a car (patrol car?) pulled up to the curb and the music quieted down shortly after. It had to have been another neighbor.
I didn’t miss it. He made a statement that sounded like a redneck. I guess you hear that so much, you missed it.
Of all the things that can wreck a sense of peacefulness and well being, it is having an ongoing squabble with a intractable neighbor.
In my town, for a long time this past year, there was a group of white liberals who held BLM signs on Sunday afternoon on our town common. I would grit my teeth every time I drove by.
It’s like that.
I make sure, when I snowblower, that I go to each of my neighbor’s driveways and take down the big hump of snow at the end. (I get up the earliest)...if I see their storm door swinging in the wind, I’ll close it. If their empty trashcan is blowing in the street, I’ll retrieve it.
These are small things, but as George Washington once famously said “Many mickles make a muckle.”
Property lines are interesting things to some people.
My fence fell into a state of disrepair some years back, and I went to each of my neighbors to tell them we were going to have a crew in replacing the fence. When I went to the old lady in back of me (I had never talked to her in all the years I lived there, because she never came out of her house) she said that my fence and my shed were on her property!
To say I was perplexed would be an understatement, and I looked at all the neighbor’s fences to either side, all perfectly in a row and aligned, and when I asked if my neighbor’s fence was on her property too, she said yes.
Needless to say, I fretted about this for a while, then asked my neighbor what he thought, and he laughed and said “She said the same thing to me!” He showed me his property map, and explained that she was interpreting it incorrectly and suggested I pay no attention, which I did.
One of the best stories involved my brother, who got my grandparent’s house when they passed on. My grandfather had purchased the house in the 1930’s, and had a woman living there nearly the entire time until she passed. Anyway, he had a new neighbor, and one day he comes home to find the guy digging up my grandfathers rose bushes and plantings that had been there for sixty some odd years!
When he asked what the guy was doing, he said “Your gardens are on my property.” and pointed out the area on the street where he had put up a marker. So my brother pulled out his Property deed, and the mark on the street was where the neighbor had said it was!
However, the lines that went to the back of the property were not perpendicular to the street as one would expect...they were angled!
And yes. My grandfather’s decades old rose bushes and plantings WERE on the neighbor’s property!
But 1/2 of the neighbor’s entire driveway from the street back to nearly his garage, were on my brother’s property....:)
They had a “chat” and decided to leave things as they had stood for nearly half a century.
I hear ya, when we lived in Mexifornia more than one neighbor was inconsiderate. It was hell. Then amazingly in Tennessee we had even worse neighbors. So bad we sold our house and moved.
What I’ve learned through this is - there’s nothing I can do to change people. Either put up with it, wait for them to move, or I move.
I’ve known people in California that called the cops on their Hispanic neighbors, and the next day their dogs were poisoned. So tread carefully!
“Mexican is a nationality…not a language.”
Sure, it is. They rarely speak proper Spanish.
I said property line, not houses. There is another 40 or so feet to their home from the property line, and that is the garage part of their home. So our houses are about 90 to 100 feet apart.
There are times when my home is completely vacated, during working hours and while running errands or visiting relatives. I don’t want to become the target. I can’t afford to stand watch on premises 25/7.
My wife was gently pushing me that way. It wasn’t my inclination, but there is a reason men full of testosterone are nicely complimented in many cases by women who aren’t ruled by it.
Can you give examples?
I’m not sure I can generate up an earthquake or tornado, lol
Barking dog - there is a sound device that punishes dogs for barking. They learn to associate barking with pain. It may also work on roosters.
The aforementioned skunk spray is very good for depopulating places.
Buy a DB meter, measure the sound, before you call the cops. Over a specified level they should, might not shut them down considering ethnics.
I have to wear shooting muffs to go to the grocery store, after I pull my hearing aids. As it is to loud and will damage what little hearing I do have left from 2 Meniere’s attacks. 1 more I’ll be Deaf, with NO FIX.
https://www.hearingsol.com/faq/decibel-level-normal-hearing/
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_cause_hearing_loss.html
Industry has DB levels set, over it they have to provide hearing protection.
Restraint’s, shops, grocery stores, concerts which can exceed 120 DB don’t, fall under this. And can damage your hearing.
Why chicken broth?
See post 129
Sue them. Record on camera with a standard Radio Shack decibel meter and sue the pants off them. If they’re renters they’ll leave. If they’re owners you can levy the judgement against their house in a lien.
Get a bullhorn and drive down the street at 3 am yelling “La Migra!”
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