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There’s a pretty substantial difference between hearing your neighbor’s music through the wall occasionally and unwillingly becoming the test audience for their home recording studio.

One apartment dweller had no major complaints when a group of young men moved into the unit next door earlier this year. There was some drilling at first, but moving into a new place often comes with a little noise.

Then, apparently, the renovations ended and the concerts began.

Her neighbor seems to have built an entire music production setup in his living room, and unfortunately, he isn’t keeping normal studio hours. She says the music regularly blasts between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m., with bass powerful enough to physically feel inside her apartment.

She has already complained once, particularly after the noise made it difficult to rest while recovering from brain surgery. Nothing changed.

She’s tried banging on the wall. She’s even attempted fighting music with music.

Spoiler alert: the guy with an entire production studio won that particular battle.

Now she’s exhausted, frustrated and wondering what exactly she’s supposed to do when asking for basic peace and quiet apparently isn’t getting through.

My neighbor is a wanna be DJ at all hours… what do I do?

So my neighbors moved in next door in the beginning of the year, at first it was okay. Then after what felt like weeks of drilling (we live in an older apartment building btw) they decided to debut I guess.

Now it’s been all hours of the night 11-3 am. Times vary. Now he’s woken me up at 8:30 in the morning on my day off after I already had to pass out to it last night.

I’ve complained once, after I had my brain surgery and couldn’t even rest due to it, but nothing has changed. The bass is so loud I can feel it in my apartment.

Ouch.

Our apt doesn’t have quite times only that you pretty much can’t be an excessive nuisance. I’ve banged on the wall (which I never do) twice today. It’s gotten Louder.

I’m literally disabled which causes me to be extremely tired and need sleep which they are constantly making it hard to do.

I support peoples dreams and aspirations but not at the cost of your neighbors comfort. I pay the same amount they do but yet I have no peace. They party and play music and I don’t say anything but I’m done, seriously fed up.

Who wouldn’t be?

When I pull up from work at 11/12. You can hear the music from downstairs in the parking lot.

What do I do?!? I can’t just keep complaining? I cannot afford to move, I was also the first person in the building after the Reno so I’ve been here the longest. They’re young 20 something year old boys who do not give a fuck.

And YES, they know how paper thin the walls are because one day we had a f***ing head to head comp.

Oh brother…

I BLARED my music in my speaker and put it right up on the wall as loud as I could when they were playing music so loud I could not hardly hear my TV clearly.

They won bc they have A WHOLE MUSIC PRODUCTION AREA IN THE LIVING ROOM. Why do I know this? They had the window open once and

I saw it and the giant projector they hang in the room (they use headphones for the video games ofc)

AHHHH.

I’m at my wits end. I’ve never had this issue.

They could have it play lower, WEAR HEADPHONES????? There are options they’re just choosing to not go with.

Btw, the music sounds terrible too. Just as an ADDED note.

At this point, another round of speaker warfare probably isn’t going to solve anything. If anything, it risks turning a legitimate noise complaint into an ongoing feud where everyone can claim everyone else is being disruptive.

The neighbor doesn’t need to stop making music entirely. Apartment living inevitably comes with some noise, and people are allowed to enjoy their homes. But music loud enough to be heard from the parking lot and bass that can be felt through another unit—especially late at night—is a very different situation.

Since the building apparently doesn’t have specific quiet hours, the rule against being an excessive nuisance may be the more relevant standard anyway. Rather than repeatedly banging on the wall, documenting dates, times and duration of the disturbances and continuing to report them through the appropriate building-management channels would create a clearer record of the ongoing problem.

And while her disability makes uninterrupted rest particularly important, she shouldn’t need a medical reason to expect some reasonable level of peace inside the apartment she pays for.

Supporting someone’s musical ambitions doesn’t require becoming their unwilling audience. Especially when, according to this neighbor, the music isn’t even good.

This person says it’s important to be proactive.

This person is a DJ anvdeven he thinks this is excessive.

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This person says to call and document to their heart’s content.

He may be a wannabe DJ, but the entire apartment building doesn’t need to be on his guest list.