Firewall do not speak with forked tongue! My brother-in -law did that. His appartment was just over the the 'fix it shop' for the community. Old refrigerators and crap dumped there. The friendly rats show up of course. He withheld his rent until it was cleaned up and rats gone.

My situation was different. These condos were purchased homes. The owner rented his condo after he moved. So, I was kind of stuck with any a-hole that might move in and not really care about anything.

First thing - there is something called a noise ordinance. Call the cops enough times and they will be arrested and eventually evicted.

There is something called a nuisance animal ordinance for every area. I suggest you read up on it for your area. Basically you can have the animals forceably removed from the premises. Something as simple as excessive barking (more than a couple times) qualifies.

The point being - you have a lot more power in this area than you seem to know about.

-S

Aren't ordinances, by nature, local and different for every municipality?

Man, if you're in an apartment, I would just move! That's terrible :cry:

I already posted the sensible thing to do so.....



JUST BURN'EM OUT. :haha:

WHich is why I said you need to read up on your own. Sitting out in the country with neighbors every 20 miles spaced apart probably lacks a noise ordinance. In city or rural areas, they all pretty much end up the same.

The entire state of Connecticut seems to have one though. Here is recommendation on how to win one in Connecticut:

NOISE LITIGATION DOCUMENTATION

1. Police reports. In order to prevail in any noise case it is absolutely essential to present independent witnesses at trial who can confirm that the noise was excessive and that occurred on a regular basis. While it is often frustrating to routinely call the local police department because they can not provide any long-term relief, it is nevertheless important to get the police involved and to keep track of every incident report number so that we can gather all of the police reports for use at trial.
2. Keeping a diary. The average wait for a trial in Connecticut is usually eighteen months or more. Memories fade, and it is very helpful for us in preparing the case for trial to have exact dates and times of when the noise takes place. A diary can be very helpful to us in this regard.
3. Enlist the help of friends and family. The defendants in noise cases usually claim the noise was not that severe, or was infrequent. The way to overcome this defense is to present many credible witnesses at trial, who can testify first hand before the jury about their own observations. Keep track of friends and family members who have witnessed the noise, and ask them to come forward if we need them at trial.
4. Check with your local officials about noise ordinance enforcement. Many towns have enacted noise ordinances which prohibit noise over a certain decibel level. If your town has such an ordinance they should have some enforcement mechanism, and maybe even an enforcement officer who can take recorded sound meter readings at no cost to you. These readings are extremely helpful to us in litigation as well, so ask for copies.
5. Take pictures of where the noise is emanating from. If the noise is coming from something that can be photographed, photos can be helpful in explaining the situation to the jury. Gathering as much evidence as possible is essential to prevailing in this type of litigation. Pictures can really be helpful.

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Here is the Connecticut state law in regards to nuisance animals:

http://www.animallaw.info/statutes/s...7_367.htm#s363

Not much in there about crapping on ones lawn. Good luck with that. Only thing you got on them is if they bark a lot.

-S

Keeping a diary. The average wait for a trial in Connecticut is usually eighteen months or more


By that much time I would've either moved or murdered all of them. :p2:

I had a similar experience. Me and a roomate moved into a downstairs apartment under a nice quiet old lady. My roomate and I valued our quiet and so did the lady upstairs. About a month later, she moved out and in moved HELLSPAWN.
This young woman, she looked high school age, had four children all by different men. Now the children liked to run. A LOT. Till 4AM in the morning ! It was like living under a constant elephant stampede that never ended. Oh.. but it gets better.
My roomate and I used to work the EARLY morning shift on weekends. Guess who would have a LOUD pot smoking, beer spilling, non-stop two day party starting Friday night and ending Monday morning ? EVERY weekend. Oh.. and she had the cliche'd requisite GIANT sterio system as well with the bass turned all the way up and they LOVED their rap and hip hop.
But... it gets better !
Every once in a while (maybe once every month or so), whatever guy she's dating (and it would be a new one each month) would show up at the apartment upstairs and catch her with some other guy. Then... there would be the fight... the shouting... the throwing things... police called.... etc...
During one of the parties, I went upstairs to complain. I knocked on the door and was immediately verbally assaulted by a bunch of guys who looked like they just stepped out of the bad side of a Spike Lee movie. Oh.. and this is great... We called the cops on them durring one party. After the cops made them shut the music off, they were stomping around angerly up there yelling "It was those DAMN WHITE BOYS downstairs !!" They also accused us of being racist because we were pestering them. The only reason we called the cops on them was because they were black and not because of their crazy pot smoking loud music party with the kids running around at till 4AM.
Heck... there was a fight at one of her parties and one of the guys stabbed another one and we had a fight between two "rival" gangs between her boyfriend/party people and a rial street gang out in our parking lot right near my car.
Even telling the landlord about it didn't do much good. No one was willing to do anything.
Because my roomate and I had blown our life savings on that apartment, we couldn't afford to move out till five years later. :damn:
Last I saw her, she was pregnant with another kid and the father was in jail. This was a pattern that her boyfriends tended to repeat a lot. 1. She'd have a boyfriend. 2. Boyfriend goes to jail 3. She starts sleeping with new guy while boyfriend is in jail and doesn't tell boyfriend in jail or the new guy. 4. Boyfriend gets out of jail and comes home and finds her in bed with other guy (They always tended to show up at 3-4AM too for some reason) 5. Screaming fight 6. Cops show up 7. Old boyfriend is taken away by cops. New boyfriend becomes main one. Go back to 1. and repeat.
The thing that killed us was when she constantly accused us of being racist. Yeah. Apparently we would have not noticed ANY of the above if we weren't racist. Yeah...:DL
Thankfully, I got married and LOVE my current apartment ON THE TOP FLOOR. :DL

Ah, last apartment I lived in was great, the girl underneath always had the Rolling Stones playing from midnight to 8am, great for going to sleep to. Always up for a beer or a smoke, too.

I'm serious, it was brilliant :)

Want your neighbours to die, eh? how much money are we talking about here.:hmmm:

Looks like another job for the "Subsim Posse":yeah:

This is odd. Here in Germany the cops take away your sound system if they have been called for the second time in a night.

OMG neighbors from hell...

:o-> :shifty: -> :stare: -> :wah: -> :doh: -> :damn:

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