'There's too much noise outside': Neighbor tells HOA that kids are being too loud, entitled mom gets petty revenge

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    Natural landscape - "Tell the HOA my kid's too loud? Ok, deal with him some more."
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    Font - Tell the HOA my kid's too loud? Ok, deal with him some more. So I went to visit my mum yesterday and she told me this story. My brother (9m) likes to play with other boys on the block, they usually play soccer or bike races outside and Fortnite or FIFA 22 online, all this during the afternoons/evenings after they're done with homework. They can be pretty loud, but they're ages 8-12. The neighborhood my mum lives in has something similar to an HOA (they have a representative and they have
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    Font - So on a Thursday the rep calls my mom to tell her that someone complained that the kids were being too loud and it was too late for them to be alone outside, mind you it was like 7:30pm, they don't have school the next day, the street is pretty illuminated and has cameras basically on every light post (also, the neighborhood is pretty much gated all around). My mum calmy told rep to ask the person complaining to call her directly because she was actually outside speaking with the other ki
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    Font - Thing is, he's basically fresh out of college, which means that he hosts parties from Thursday to Saturday or just blasts his stereo while drinking alone until 4-5 in the morning when he passes out drunk. Kinda hypocritical if you ask me Cue my mum asking the boys to play right in front of his house and yell as loud as they can. My brother's curfew is 8pm so he can get a good night's sleep, but my mum (and the others' parents) extended it to 10pm because they didn't have school the next d
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    Font - ETA: the problem isn't the complaint in itself, it was that the same dude who plays loud music 3 nights a week till 5 am, thus disturbing all the neighbors and their sleep schedules and goes unpunished because he has family in the HOA has the gall to ask for others to quiet down when others have asked him the same and he responds by being louder. I get that kids can get very rowdy and I know my brother is, but when asked to be more quiet, he does accommodate, and so do his friends. I gues
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    Font - Mycologist Putrid 7494 9 hr. ago +2 He might have been the complainer or it could have been a coincidence OR she might have been the one complaining and just said it was someone who called in. 234 Reply Share
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    Font - Purelife9 . 4 hr. ago Honestly this isn't revenge it's just you being an hole. I live where kids are screaming at 7:30 PM and it is very annoying. There was no need to double down, especially going to 10PM? Shame on you. 213 Reply Share
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    Font - secondphase 2 hr. ago Also, not everything has to be a battle, OP. This interaction could have gone... "We've had a complaint that the kids are too noisy" "OK, I'll ask them to tone it down a bit" "Thanks!" Now we've escalated to you instructing your kids to intentionally exacerbate someone who likes to drink to excess. I'm sure that will end well for them.
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    Font - QueenPotat-the1st OP. 2 hr. ago This has happened before and usually the neighbors are pretty calm about it. No one had gone to the HOA because, since there's always someone watching the kids, they'd go to the supervising adult and the kids would be told to keep it down or play inside. The one person who complained about it was the person whom the whole neighborhood had a problem with due to the same reason: noise.
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    Font - Willow_and_light. 8 hr. ago Honestly this depends on where the kids normally play. Big patch of grass on the estate? Fair enough. On the road right outside people's homes. Super annoying. You admit they're playing soccer or racing bikes and are pretty loud. I live in a ground floor flat and in the summer the kids play football right outside. They hit our walls constantly and all you can hear is the rhythmic thud of a football again and again. If you're trying to work or just enjoy the TV
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    Font - I'm all for kids playing, but it needs to be in designated areas, like the park or green spaces and not in places where its going to disturb people who just want quiet enjoyment of their home. It's pretty hole behaviour to receive a complaint, and then double down on it by deliberately asking the kids to play outside the guys home and be extra loud. The level of entitlement here is actually unreal. 196 Reply Share
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    Font - BethieMoon 5 hr. ago Thankful not to live somewhere where kids are running all over all the time. I did that for a year at a larger apartment complex and the behavior was abhorrent. I set my car alarm off every time I caught them touching my car. They would draw on the buildings and scream bloody murder. Maybe. Just maybe, don't double down.
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    Font - ilpcbf1524 . 2 hr. ago You and your mum sound like inconsiderate people... The TLDR of this story is that you received a noise complaint, and instead of trying to accommodate or at the very least ignore it, you decided to make it even worse. You punished someone for checks notes daring to ask for reduced noise. This is basically adult bullying Glad you're not my neighbour
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    Font - QueenPotat-the1st OP 2 hr. ago The issue with this is not the complaint in itself. The guy who complained is usually very disruptive and, as I said in my post, he blasts his speakers to the point where the whole neighborhood can hear, and since his auntie is the HOA rep, he doesn't get any consequences. My brother and his friends are pretty good kids, they help neighbors with small odd jobs and are well behaved at home aside from an occasional tantrum, which is to be expected. As I said i
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    Human body - Poisoned Cherry · 2 hr. ago I don't know you but I think I may hate you.
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    Font - Suckonmysycamore 2 hr. ago this is why people hate kids...but its really the parents who are teaching them to be inconsiderate holes.
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    Human body - Knifiac 2 hr. ago No one likes your kids but you
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    Font - GreenWitch OfTheWestt. 38 min. ago What about the other people who live next to the loud complainer? Do you think they enjoyed kids being intentionally loud until 10pm? You're lucky you didn't get more complaints. That is super inconsiderate to everyone else. You should have only complained when that particular guy was being loud. There is no need to punish everyone else in the neighborhood. Just because you're okay with hearing those kids be rowdy doesn't mean everyone else is.
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    Font - youseemeatreddit. 4 hr. ago 7.30 is way too late .. There are probably smaller kids who do need to sleep. Even if they have no school te next day some kids have a routine due to them being up the same time and loosing sleep. Dont know why people can't live together and always try to make drama

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