Neighbours kids driving me mad

LegacyUser

Hi everyone.

Basically i live in an apartment block,i have lived here for five years and loved it up until recently, Anyway over the last few weeks neighbours kids from the estate across the way have started coming in to the complex roaring shouting and screaming especially weekends at around 9 or 10 in the mornings, they especially love sitting just a few yards infront of my bedroom window so i can hear everything, only two of the kids actually live in the complex so the rest are coming in to play with them, Now these kids are only round 6 or 7 and what i cant understand is that their parents dont seem to care where they are it's very stange.

Anyway its really beginning to annoy me as i work nights so i need to sleep during the day which is impossible with them, also i dont see why i have to put up with other peoples kids who clearly don't care where they are.

I want to tell the landlord but i really don't know what he can do, how can he stop them, i have often gave out to them but they return again, its pointless. Any thoughts on what i can do? Thanks

Merkin

Is there a management company you can speak to? Also, have you discussed this with any of the other neighbours? Might give you a stronger footing if a few occupants find it disturbing?

gandalf

Jesus I wonder do you live in the same complex as me. We have a similar issue with kids from the houses in the estate using our carpark as a playground. In the last year a load more kids have appeared.

Lorna123

I know it can be annoying to hear kids shouting outside your apartment but it is often the case with kids that they only latch on to a certain spot for a couple of weeks and then they move to another one, so if you hang on in there and say nothing you could find them gone in a few weeks. If not you could ask them to be quiet that there is a sick person in your apartment or something similar, trying to sleep and if you are nice to them they might just move on. If they think they are annoying you they could act the canister and up the noise, so be careful.

fermanagh_man

Buy a paintball gun

LegacyUser

Lorna123 wrote: »

I know it can be annoying to hear kids shouting outside your apartment but it is often the case with kids that they only latch on to a certain spot for a couple of weeks and then they move to another one, so if you hang on in there and say nothing you could find them gone in a few weeks. If not you could ask them to be quiet that there is a sick person in your apartment or something similar, trying to sleep and if you are nice to them they might just move on. If they think they are annoying you they could act the canister and up the noise, so be careful.

it is not true they only latch on a few weeks. if the behaviour is allowed to 'put down roots' it will be a lot harder to stop it. That is because your apartmentwill be knkwn as a place this behavours happens. Like if people are allowed say drink in an estate. f it is not stopped it becomes a placw where the behaviour is tolerated " where is a good place to drink" Ah we go to x estate"..It needs stamping out before it becomes habit

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meeeeh

Buy earplugs. You'll never win an argument with kids.

pwurple

Weekends at 10am... I know you work nights. I feel for ya, I did nights before and the sleep is a dose. The thing is, those are fairly normal hours for kids to be playing, laughing and being noisy.

Is there another room you can sleep in that doesn't open onto there?

Earplugs, or talking to their parents is the only other thing I can suggest.

jimmycrackcorm

goingmad99 wrote: »

Now these kids are only round 6 or 7 and what i cant understand is that their parents dont seem to care where they are it's very stange.

If you ever have kids yourself then you'll understand that unless you lock them up you won't know if they are not in the usual places you normally know they are. Even so, the parents of these kids may actually know where they are and be OK about it.

Have you talked to them and mentioned, nicely, to them that you work at night and need to sleep during the day and the noise they make keeps you awake? Most kids are considerate once they are given some guidance.

In any case you are the odd one out, an adult would be perfectly entitled to be noisy during the day by playing music or mowing the lawn or whatever. If you can't hack it then get some ear plugs.

My house is straight across from a primary school and you would not believe the noise at break-times, I can imagine what reception I'd get if I were to complain to the principal about it if I needed to sleep during the day.

ibarelycare

I presume your apartment complex has rules about noise and what hours it's tolerated between. And I imagine it's something like 7am to 11pm. So unfortunately there's nothing you can really ask the management company to do about the children. It's unfortunate for you working nights, but it would be the same in many apartment complexes.

Would you consider buying one of those audio devices with the really high frequency sounds that only young people can hear? I know many shopkeepers have used them to stop young people loitering in front of their premises. You can buy a version that you can use through your PC speakers, here.

jdsk2006

Approaching a parent to complain in any shape or form about their little treasures (no matter how nicely you do it ) will most likely have no positive results. I think the sound emmiter is a super idea!!!!!!

LegacyUser

Hi, thanks everyone for your replies, to answer a few questions we don't have a management company just the person who owns it, i definetly am not going to approach the parents it would probably make things alot worse. Also my apartment is a one bed so i don't have any other room to sleep in,even the kitchen/sitting room faces the same way.

Also its not just a case of kids screaming,shouting, they also run through my apartment block as they know the codes for the doors and they also dig up plants in the landscaped gradens and throw them around and also at one stage they went over to the communal bin area and brought over rubbish and left in front of my door.

I will look up about those audio devices i didn't even know they existed, and i'm defintely gonna invest in some earplugs.

thanks again

meeeeh

goingmad99 wrote: »

Also its not just a case of kids screaming,shouting, they also run through my apartment block as they know the codes for the doors and they also dig up plants in the landscaped gradens and throw them around and also at one stage they went over to the communal bin area and brought over rubbish and left in front of my door.

I don't think you could do much about noise but I think you should talk to parents if they are dropping rubbish in front of your door or if they are pulling out plants. Kids have to play and they will be noisy when they play but they shouldn't cause damage. As a parent I'd want to know if my little brat is doing something like that.

ibarelycare

I still wouldn't approach the parents about that. You need to talk to the landlord, he or she should be the one dealing with vandalism and unauthorised entry to the building.

Sky King

Would you consider the use of a high frequency child deterrent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

Morag

or a few stink bombs.

Mikros

Sky King wrote: »

Would you consider the use of a high frequency child deterrent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

I don't think that is good advice. What about the fact that other kids, teenagers or young adults who can hear high frequency tones might live in the apartment complex and will be able to hear a maddening high frequency buzzing? Surely those people shouldn't have to be affected because kids are making noise on a Saturday morning?

Sky King

It wasn't advice per se, I was just asking if OP would consider it. I know I would.

You'd only have to turn it on when necessary.

Mikros

Sky King wrote: »

It wasn't advice per se, I was just asking if OP would consider it. I know I would.

You'd only have to turn it on when necessary.

Not to get into a debate on it but Mosquito devices and their like could well be illegal in this country and classified as an assault. Relevant legislation here. I wouldn't consider it a good option.

I have a lot of sympathy for the OP trying to get some sleep, but kids making noise on a Saturday morning is kind of what they do. Living in an apartment complex you are going to have to accept normal day to day noises. The only option would be to either talk to your neighbors or the parents and see if some more suitable arrangement for a play area can be found. Or else invest in some good earplugs. That is in my opinion of course.

snickerpuss

Sky King wrote: »

It wasn't advice per se, I was just asking if OP would consider it. I know I would.

You'd only have to turn it on when necessary.

I'm nearly 27 and I can hear those things clear as day. I would not be impressed with someone playing one where I live!