Topic: Neighbours From Hell Above Me, Council letting us down.
We live in a three floor flat on the middle floor.
This January noisy neighbours moved upstairs…they are a 19 year old couple with a 2 year old son.
Last night I couldn’t get to bed until 1am because their TV was on full blast.
I was woken at 9am (it’s my day off) to raised voices and constant banging.
Everyday all I hear is constant banging. Our mini chandelier often shakes due to their vibrations. You can often mistake these vibrations for an earthquake.
There have been some major incidences. Her boyfriend has “trashed” the flat several times in a temper (the noise was unbelievable). She has always promised that he won’t be coming back but he returns a few days later.
He once trashed the house and she defended him by saying, “it’s ok he’s only drunk”.
She denies to the council that she has a male living with her, which is completely untrue. I can hear him in the middle of the night. His car is parked outside all the time. He is the father of her child. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out he’s living there.
They had a massive party that lasted from 7pm to 11am the next morning (yes, that long). We called noise who told us, “If we’re not there before 4am, we’re not coming”. They never came. We called the police who said that there is nothing they can do as it’s not a “criminal matter”, I thought the police came for disturbing the peace. They rang us back 10 minutes later and asked us whether we thought drugs were involved. We found this very strange.
We rang the police on another night when they had a social gathering in the early hours of the morning. They told us they were coming as there’d been a fight nearby and they had plenty of officiers nearby. They didn’t come.
Their son is only 2 but the first words I heard him say were, “fuck off” to his mother. He has temper tantrums all the time in the middle of the night. This is more than the usual tantrums for a 2 year old. The son is like his father and throws things around when he’s in a temper. I can hear things smash. I’ve never heard a 2 year old be so aggressive. I hate to condemn somebody so young but he will end up on an ASBO one day and probably in prison, mark my words.
They once flooded our kitchen through their own carelessness.
We frequently hear a grinding noise in the early hours of the morning. It sounds like somebody is trying to grind something down (it’s hard to say what the noise is but it’s unusual). Once whilst this grinding noise was going on shady figures were in and out of their flat. They stopped for less than a minute and then before you knew it somebody else was up. It was all very weird.
She sometimes kicks our door as she walks past.
We keep hearing an old man shouting at them. He does not live there. But he shouts at them for hanging out with dangerous people and drink driving by the sounds of things , he has a very strong accent so it's hard to understand him.
We have been investigating her via facebook as her facebook profile is public. She has written on her facebook that she hopes we die. We have reported this to the council but we have been told that there is nothing they can do as they have not used our names they’ve referred to us as the people downstairs. If they use our names we should report them to the police.
On her myspace account (which she no longer updates), she has pictures of her boyfriends cannabis plant in her flat (this is uploaded before she moved in above). She also has quotations such as “live by da gun die by da gun”.
We have reported them on a weekly basis to the council.
A woman on the bottom floor caught them exchanging packages and money with teenagers and young men in the back doorway of our flats. People now hang outside the back door of our flats who do not live here.
The next day the woman caught them tampering with her door. She has also reported them to the council. Apparently a third neighbour has reported them. There are 9 flats in this block, 3 have reported them.
The police come round to their house on a regular basis. For what I do not know.
To make matters worse, their antisocial friends (who they previously knew) moved into the flat next to them. We cannot hear them too much as we are not directly under them. Essentially two anti-social neighbours who are friends managed to get flat’s next to each other. Coincidence?
We fill in the log books, they call her in, she say’s we’re lying. We’ve asked if they can install recording equipment to record them but they won’t.
I’ve got my own recordings of them admitting their noise. I’ve got a long one of the time where her boyfriend trashed the flat and she said it was ok because he’s drunk.
The council are useless. They have given them ONE warning in 11 months. They have also informed us that their “hands are tied”, which does not fill me with confidence.
We are trying to move. They are banging as I type this.
I feel completely let down by the council.
What should we do next?
Last edited by Tired_Man (29 December 2010 11:26)