Entitled resident hosts loud parties every weekend, leading neighbor to start spring cleaning their apartment at 6 AM every Sunday, resident takes the hint: ‘People are trying to sleep’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 28, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

When it comes to comparing noises that wake you up in the morning, we like to picture a scale and rate each noise from 'least annoying' to 'most annoying'. Birds chirping, for example, is a noise that sometimes wakes you up, but on the scale, we would not consider their singing to be particularly unpleasant; some would even say it is quite a nice sound to wake up to.

Drilling, on the other hand, is up there with the 'most annoying' noises that can wake you up in the morning. Whether it is construction work on the street, or an entitled neighbor who thinks it's valid to start putting holes in their walls at 7 AM. Waking up to that sound is easily something that can drive someone to move as far away as possible.

The sound of someone else's spring cleaning–moving furniture around, vacuuming, and playing loud music is also definitely up there on the scale. As teens, we were often woken up to these sounds by our mothers obnoxiously cleaning the house, and now that we are adults, we must often face the same from our neighbors.

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  • No matter how you rate each annoying noise on your scale, you must decide how to react. You can ignore it and hope that tomorrow will yield a quieter morning, or you can confront those who force you to wake up every day hours before your alarm.

    Or you can fight noise with noise, like the neighbor in the story below decided to do…

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    Upstairs neighbors were too loud, so I returned the favor

    The couple who lives above me parties every single weekend until like 3am. Loud music, people stomping around, yelling, the works. I
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    work early shifts so this has been ruining my sleep for months. I've complained to the landlord multiple times but
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    nothing changes. I've knocked on their door asking them to keep it down but they just ignore me.
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    Last Saturday they were at it - again some house party that sounded like a herd of elephants. I finally snapped.
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    Sunday morning at 6am I decided to do some "spring cleaning." I moved all my furniture around, vacuumed every room twice, played
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    music while I worked. Not super loud but definitely audible. Around 8am I hear pounding on my door. It's the guy from
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    upstairs looking like doth warmed over, asking if I could keep it down because people are trying to sleep.
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    I said "Oh I'm so sorry! I didn't realize sound travels between apartments. I'll try to be more considerate in the future." with the biggest smile on my face.
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    He just stared at me for a few seconds then walked away. Their parties have been much quieter since then. Fight fire with fire, as they say.
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    TheExaspera Next time they have a noisy party do the same thing. They were warned.
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    Straight-Extreme-966 Keep doing it. Let them know what it's like when someone doesn't give a f about their neighbour.
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    NoTranslator7239 OP Exactly sir! I'm not usually the petty type, but sometimes people need a taste of their own medicine. It's amazing how fast they "get it" once the shoe's on the other foot. Peace and quiet never sounded so good.
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    BethanyCullen I disagree. Escalating it won't make anyone happy.
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    CoderJoe1 They have tasted their own medicine and are not d -hard fans of it.
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    atlredneck I had to deal with neighbors like that once. I ended up buying an air horn and every time they were loud I would just blast the horn and it sounded like The Love Boat was pulling into port. After that no more noise haha
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    take0a0pinch Just play baby shark on loop in your house while you away for work during the day when your upstair neighbors supposed to be sleeping after their party.
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    ewctwentyone I might expect a separate post from the guys upstairs how their petty revenge worked after you did some spring cleaning.
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