Polite family tries to get through to noisy neighbor who keeps ignoring the apartment's sound curfew, ignores them and gets berated by intimidating neighbor instead: ‘Can’t say she wasn't warned…'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 14, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

When living in an apartment, your quality of life is heavily dependent on your building neighbors. One family found this out the hard way when they "befriended" the single mom that lived next door to them. They had kids around a similar age, so, in the beginning, they would hang out together with their kids. However, they slowly started to drift apart when the single mom started throwing noisy parties constantly next door until all hours. Where was her kid, they are not sure. But their kid shared a wall with her living room, so the noisy parties that would go on until the AM were not working for them. They tried over and over again to ask her politely to turn the music down, but to no avail. In fact, she snapped at them and started partying louder and rowdier. 

 

Little did she know, however, that her neighbor upstairs was also getting fed up with her antics and he is not as nice as the family next door. So one night when she was having a party, this man comes storming down and verbally tears her apart completely, loud enough for the whole floor to hear too. 

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  • "Can’t say she wasn’t warned"

    I live in a crummy apartment complex. It seems all my neighbours are more akin to cryptids than people. Most don't think ahead and break stuff that can be worked around, others steal stuff (RIP my bicycle, and one of my neighbor's package freshly delivered to their mail box, which had been busted open), others have their dogs shin the entrance pathway, the trash gestion is out of control, and more... Just plain old uncivilness that makes you feel like you were parked with goblins.
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  • My next door neighbour is a single lady with a 2y old daughter. She's a recluse, so am I. I also happen to have a 2y old boy. At first we clicked, our kids got along, we used to go to playgrounds together, it lasted a year and a half.
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  • She comes from free party background, and she loves her techno music. At first it wasn't a problem at all, she generally kept it down and when she didn't, she'd be comprehensive and turn it down upon an simple little text.
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  • See, my son's bedroom shares a wall with her living- room, where all of her parties unfold. I'm sure you can guess where this is going.
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  • The parties got wilder and rowdier. I want to believe her daughter was over at the grandparents when these events took place, but I can't say for sure. Still it became harder to put my son to sleep in his room and keep him asleep during nights where she partied despite asking, she'd start by 8pm and you'd be left guessing when it would end.
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  • On a good day, I pretend her music is some weird old washing machine running from behind the wall so it gets less on my nerves.
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  • When it got bad, we would move our son sleep to our room where it was a bit more muffled and bearable.
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  • I got pregnant with my second child by the end of last year, she knew (it was planned) and I guess my mistake missing a couple of her messages, I was sickly and slept through during the first trimester.
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  • guess she took offence that I wouldn't be available on demand like before, because the next time I had asked her to keep it down by text, she replied with a vague accusatory response, something like "oh now you talk to me".
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  • That same night, my husband knocked on her door, and while at first she was pretending to be cooperative (as in, turning it down only to turn it back up 5 minutes later), she then started sending her wasted guests at the door instead, and then ignoring it all together.
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  • She made that party last up until 9am, I guess out of spite? We stopped communicating with her and started sending mails to the landlords and calling the cops instead. She's been avoiding us since, but the parties resumed a couple weeks later.
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  • We aren't the only neighbours having issues with her music of course, the entire floor does, upstairs and downstairs too. Our upstairs neighbours are elderly, downstairs are families.
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  • I remember one time where it got particularly bad with her guests, they would be singing along and yelling from her balcony as if they were simply alone in the whole block.
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  • So of course some started yelling back and pounding at her door. By the next morning, the ground floor lot, which possess a small backyard, had their plants crushed and as well as their outdoor furnitures. Some stuff were stolen.
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  • Do you believe me if I tell you she went to complain to our upstairs neighbour because she was vacuuming in the middle of the day? And on top of that, she's glued a note on her doorbell asking people not to use it because "my daughter's napping!"
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  • I really don't get how the lady isn't struck with the sheer irony of her situation like a lightning.
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  • Anyway, today she started with her music again at around 7pm, and it was past 9 when I begun hearing commotion in the hallway.
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  • Turns out the son of our upstairs neighbours was sick and tired of coming down to tell her the same thing over and over and he was straight up yelling in her face.
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  • He told her things that were fair (bothering everyone with techno music and smoking her bad w d all night while everyone had their windows open trying to sleep) and other things that were frankly hurtful (accusing her of being a trashy dog addict, being a poor parent to her daughter, etc).
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  • He was p ed off real bad, pounding on her door, yelling, all around threatening to beat her up if she did it again. I think she got genuinely scared because she left a could minutes later.
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  • So just keep that in mind when you are apartment hunting. It's not just about finding the perfect home, but it also about finding neighbors you click with. You are literally sharing walls with them after all…

  • While it felt good in the moment to hear the angry guy go off on her, I can't help but feel bad, mostly for the child.
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  • Her mother puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations and making enemies off her neighbours for what? We warned her people would lose their patience, that we were civil with her for the sake of her kid and that things would not go her way even if she persisted and ignored everyone.
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  • I don't understand why this is so complicated for her to understand, but here we are. All I'm gonna say is I can't wait to start working again so I can get out of here with my family.
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  • It probably won't be the end of it considering she has an habit of retaliating against unhappy neighbours, and maybe I'll update if something else comes up.
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  • Apartment living is the worst.
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