Neighbor blasts insanely loud music daily, tenant asks her to turn it down but she claims she does it for the neighborhood: '[They ask me to come outside and play it]'

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  • A woman holding a portable speaker on her shoulder while blasting music at high volume outdoors.
  • I live on the second floor of a townhouse, and my neighbor will sit on her stoop all day and blare music on this huge speaker.
  • I moved here at the beginning of winter, so she wasn't out the first few months, but since March, nearly every single day, she is outside blasting music.
  • I didn't say anything at first, but one day that I was working from home, I couldn't take it and had to leave before I went crazy, and when I walked outside, I saw her and asked if she could turn it down.
  • She shook her head no and then went on a rant about "how things work around here." I immediately walked away when she started yelling.
  • A white speaker playing loud music, disrupting daily life in the neighborhood.
  • When I got back from my walk, she and her friends were yelling at me and I just ignored them.
  • My landlord was walking out the door as I was coming in. He frking calls me, and asks if I'm okay, and I'm like uh yeah, she's r de, whatever, that's what you get with apartment living nothing I can do about it. He asks me if I want to move to a different place they have, and I say I'm fine lol. He says he doesn't want them thinking
  • THAT I AM AR DE PERSON and asks if we can all sit down together... I explain to him that I asked to turn it down, they said no, and that's that lol, like I basically have to accept defeat. He goes back to the different townhouse proposal, explaining that they get louder during the summer....
  • The next day when I was coming home, she was outside playing music, so I figured might as well smooth things over. I introduced myself, we shook hands, it was fine.
  • But basically, there was no resolution. She explained that everyone on the block loves the music and they apparently will text her and ask her to come outside and play it. She does it for the neighborhood, since "you never know when someone is having a bad day."
  • She also said that how I asked earlier had a bad tone... which in her defense, may have been the case, but I literally couldn't get her attention because the music was so loud.
  • So the conclusion was that she won't quit it because she does it for the people, but I'm more than welcome to ask her to turn it down lol. She also noted that the police won't do anything about it lol.
  • A woman covering her ears in discomfort due to a neighbor's loud music.
  • At that point, I gave up. A few weeks later, apparently somebody else had called the cops because she was yelling out into the streets about it. That didn't stop the music though.
  • The music is actually comically loud. Especially since my window is right above it. I can hear the music with airpods on, I can literally feel the bass of their music even when I try to play my own speaker to drown it out. If I'm on the phone or on a virtual meeting.... the other person can hear it.
  • The positive is that it's only during the day, not at night, but still like... it's from 12 PM to 8 PM.
  • I'd honestly respect it much more if she was throwing parties, but it's literally just her outside alone on a lawn chair with this massive speaker facing the streets. Her husband joins sometimes, sometimes she has a friend.
  • There was this one guy who told my landlord "I can hear it from all the way down the street and I don't have a problem with it"... which makes my point in regards to how loud it is.
  • So needless to say at this point, I don't know what to do. As far as my landlord's offer for another townhouse... it's a sweet gesture, but the other townhouse is a studio in a much rougher area further away, so it's not really a feasible option for me.
  • I first asked her in person, then another neighbor called the police, and yet she won't quit. So I feel screwed. It bothers me so much. I can't even make phone calls inside my apartment. I'm pretty sure the answer is to S k it up and deal, but if anybody has a solution please let me know.
  • TarsigeroftheBush "She explained that everyone on the block loves the music and they apparently will text her and ask her to come outside and play it" Press X to doubt Imao
  • Willybluedog1962 Get a decibel app, check the local law's If that does not work buy a speaker and put slim.whitman yodeling on doom loop.
  • morningstardusts I'd call the landlord again. He offered to mediate the situation. Tell him that he needs to have a conversation with her, she can lower the volume and still enjoy her music.

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