‘No problem!’: Gracious neighbor tries to be considerate of construction noise but continually gets harangued by the nitpicky couple next door, ends up sticking to his contractor's original contract to start work every day at 6 AM

There's nothing quite like getting woken up every morning by the sound of an errant jackhammer, which is why the guy doing his remodel in this next story tried to be gracious with his neighbors. However, despite the fact that he was bending over backwards to accommodate them, they were continually dissatisfied. Welp, looks like we gotta revert to the original contract then!

When my husband and I first bought our condo, it was a dump—I mean a real dumpy, old, gross place that needed to be gutted from floor to ceiling. Knowing we had a long road of DIY remodeling ahead of us, I made gift baskets for all of our adjacent neighbors, begging them to text or call me if they ever had a problem with our noise. Unluckily for our downstairs neighbor, he worked a night shift, enduring his precious hours of sleep underneath our construction noise for over a month. Even the nightshift neighbor was understanding a cool about our noise—we kept to the working hours and made sure not to be disruptive. I realize now that we were very lucky. 

Because when you're living next door to people who are completely unreasonable, you can't approach them with reason—you've got to approach them with technicalities. 

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