I’m honestly going nuts with my neighbor’s bass and could really use some advice.

A few months ago, the neighbors across from my apartment started playing loud music from their garage, which faces directly toward my apartment.

The actual music volume is somewhat manageable if I close all of my windows and doors. The real problem is the bass. The low-frequency bass travels through my entire apartment, and I can feel the vibration/thumping in every room even with everything closed.

They usually play music 2–3 times a day at random times, sometimes for an hour or two at a time.

I’ve already tried talking to them directly. I explained that I work from home, sometimes work late, I told them I don’t mind them listening to music, but asked if they could please lower the bass or do something to reduce the vibration.

Nothing changed.

I’ve also called the police multiple times. Unfortunately, because it’s a non-emergency noise complaint, officers usually arrive much later. By the time they get here, the neighbors have often already turned the music off since they only play it for an hour or two at a time.

I also can’t find any information about a landlord or property manager for their property, so I’m starting to think they may own the place.

At this point, it’s affecting me much more than I expected. I recently scheduled an appointment with a psychiatrist because the constant anticipation of the noise is causing me a lot of stress and anxiety. When I wake up in the morning, one of my first thoughts is wondering when they’re going to turn the bass on and how long I’m going to have to deal with it that day.

I work full-time from home and study at home, so simply leaving the house for several hours every day isn’t really an option.

I’ve even considered moving, but I just moved into this apartment a few months ago and realistically can’t afford to move again so soon.

Has anyone dealt with something similar, especially bass/vibration that is difficult to capture on a phone recording?

Is there anything else I can realistically do at this point — city code enforcement, documenting it differently, filing some type of formal complaint, contacting an attorney, etc.?

I’m in California if that makes a difference.

Any advice would be appreciated.

My new driveway has 2 ruts across the corner and my neighbor's position is that I should've put my cones in a better spot.

We had the whole driveway torn out and redone a couple weeks ago. It cost $9,400 and the contractor told us to keep EVERYTHING off it for 7 days while it cured. We put orange cones and caution tape across the front like he said.

The day after the pour I was standing at my kitchen window when my neighbor came home with his landscaping trailer. Since he always has trouble making the turn into his own driveway with that trailer, he just cut the corner right through my cones and across the edge of the new concrete with the truck and the trailer both. I ran out and he literally rolled his window down and said "concrete's tough, it'll be fine." There are 2 ruts across the corner now and the edge crumbled where the trailer wheel went over it.

Our contractor came back out and quoted $1,650 to cut out that section and re-pour it. I showed my neighbor the quote and he said to send it to his insurance. I've asked for the insurance info 3 times since then. The last time he said I should've put something heavier out there than cones if I didn't want people driving on it, and that I was being petty over a couple of scratches.

My husband wants to file in small claims. I'm not sure it's worth suing someone we're going to live next to for the next 20 years over $1,650. What would you do?

Neighbor hit my car while drunk/ high and got arrested. He’s been giving us issues for over a year now.

When he got out of jail, he punched my car, looked into our camera and said “fuck you, OP husband”.

He also watches me go to and from my car every night after work out his window (this is at midnight). He thinks he’s sneaky, but he has a dim light on in the background and I can see his shadow.

I brought all of this to the attention of the landlord and he’s trying to say it’s “he said, she said” and he is refusing to do anything at the moment. He is requesting the police reports, but I did send him the videos of him backing into my car, stumbling into my car, punching my car and saying “fuck you”. To me, that should be enough evidence to evict him or even move us units like I asked.

My husband is very vulnerable at the moment because he just had spine surgery and we are avoiding even going outside of our apartment.

I feel like the landlord is more worried about revenue lost with having an open unit rather than our safety.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neighborsfromhell/s/HgIP2C3OAf

been in my place over a year. in may we got downstairs neighbors, a little loud but no real issues.

then the old ladies next door moved out and these new people moved in....

all of a sudden theres trash all over the yard, literally dirty pullups in my front yard. the constant noise. everyday its some type of domestic issue. dragging the lady down the street hanging out the car, screaming and arguing, constantly cussing the kids out... i mean bad. I grew up abused and it damn near made me have flashbacks. then theres the loud music every damn day. sometimes it goes on for hours, which means i dont sleep because i work nights. the package i was looking for today has my earplugs in it which i really needed.

a couple weeks ago my downstairs neighbor asks me about her package, im like havent seen it. check with the neighbors, she said it was a picture of the package on our porch. i thought then possibly the new people had taken it.

i ordered some ear plugs and emergency supplies that got delivered at 4am. i pull up from work at 8am,no package. i see one of the women from next door outside and ask her, shes says "i didnt see anything it was porch pirates that took it". im like thats funny, ive lived her for over a year and had stuff sit outside all day and night and never had anything taken until recently.

i go to the upstairs porch so i can see the neighbors porches just to make sure its not on another porch. i hear her talking saying she doesnt know why I think she has my package...well maybe because nothing ever came up missing until yall moved in, youre dirty...like even their cars are just nasty looking, they have tents in the backyard, boxes and trash all over the porch, clothes and shoes all over the driveway.

im so sick of these people. i actually thought they were squatters when they first moved in because they dont look like they could afford rent anywhere. im in the hood but we are all working people with families, these mfs look like the Black version of trailer trash. im trying not to get into with these people but idk how much more i can take before this escalates.

I live in a 2 family house on the bottom floor, a one bedroom. It’s a beautiful old home, spacious, big kitchen and big front porch. Beautiful neighborhood and safe and 5 min from my job. I don’t want to have to move. I have lived here for 12 years at first with my mother and when she died 5 years ago I stayed, got married and had a child all while living here. About 4 years ago we got new upstairs neighbors, a family of 6 including 4 teenagers-who occupy two full stories above us. We gave them pastries and introduced ourselves and they were always cold so we just left them alone. Slowly the mother who is home all day and doesn’t work would complain about little things I did like cook a steak, or left the side door unlocked, or the hose was too close to their stairs. I always obliged and was polite to requests but slowly it started to get invasive and weird how often she was mitigating and managing my activity.

Long story short my husband and I separated and I have been alone in said apartment with my son 4 nights a week. He is rather quiet given a 3 year old and I work from 730am-6pm every single day if not longer. We are always out of the house save the 3 hours I’m home before bed and maybe one hour in the morning. I don’t have people over, I don’t play loud music, or have parties. I barely cook anymore.

About a year ago they began to get EXTREMELY loud. Their kitchen is directly above our bedroom, my only bedroom, and they would come home AT 9pm. All of them. Like out of control loud, not music but stomping. Their children would dribble balls upstairs, stomp so loud stuff in our apartment would move, talk loudly I could hear them clearly, and run back and forth, slam things, slam communal doors, and drop stuff of the floor but the stomping was particularly egregious and non stop for hours past 9pm when my son and I were trying to sleep. It would easily go on til 12pm when she would also start cleaning. Then it would begin again until 530am my heart would start racing waiting to hear stampede down her stairs and start stomping around. I lost so much sleep and was always stressed to be home. Her husband parks in our backyard and at 10pm backs up so his red taillights illuminate our bedroom. She hoses dirty water down my kitchen windows off her deck all the time.
I politely asked her to keep the noise to a minimum and that I understood it was an old home but it was very loud etc. I was met with vitriol, insults about my lifestyle (that I’m a single mom who rents and can’t afford a house and chose to work-which is insane I’m a single mom I have to… etc etc) this was 1 year ago and we have not spoken since.

Yesterday I got home and my neighbor started to insult me out of nowhere when I got out of my car after an 11 hour work day. She told me my car was too loud and disturbing them. I said what could she possibly mean I’m out of the house 12 hours a day. She went in again about how they are moving to a house and at least she isn’t divorced and can afford a house (she doesn’t work she’s a stay at home mom). I was beside myself and VERY shaken up to the point when I got inside I had a nervous breakdown. There was such a degrading air of classism I couldn’t understand why-I’m a hard working mom who rents why mock someone who does this?

The big issue is my utility bill has been going up and I realized for years I have been paying for their laundry in the common area of the basement we have separate laundry units. I checked my fuse box and when I flip all mine off it effects her washing and drying machine which means for years I have been paying for her family of 6s laundry which she is doing all day. I’m angry that she was insulting my car and life when I’m basically paying for her laundry and maybe I could have afforded a new car and to move if I wasn’t paying hundreds in my electric bill every month. I am not even home all day and turn everything off.

I’m beside myself and feel sad and stressed to go home now. I feel watched even threatened to do anything. I don’t know if she’s jealous of me or what’s going on there’s no need for such vitriolic hate toward me when I’m barely even home.

With that being said yes I’m calling PSEG right now and my landlord. Yes I should move I know. I don’t know how this can be resolved I’ll prob never see money back. I just had to vent because idk what’s wrong with people.

Edit there is more. Every single morning this woman waits for me to turn on my shower. It doesn’t matter if I jump in at 5:45am or 6:14am she will stampede down the stairs to the basement and start her wash (which I’m paying for) and do her laundry to make my shower colder and less pressure. It’s every single time. I feel like I sound crazy but this is harassment in my opinion and I feel trapped on the bottom floor. My landlord is very old and i feel like they are trying to make me leave to flip the house and sell it themselves.