It's 11:15pm at night and someone just started moving in the apartment

[Scout1071]

above me. Am I wrong to be totally pissed off? They seriously just started unloading things about 20-30 mins ago and are making a ton of noise.

Maybe I'm turning into a cranky old lady, but I think it's pretty rude to not wait until morning.

[rwenos]

1. Wait Till They Start Screwing

You'll want ear muffs. Or a LOUD stereo. I find Jimi Hendricks and Tschaikovsky's 1812 Overture work well.

[Deja Q]

17. W00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

[carpetbagger]

2. Most of the time I've moved, I haven't been able to pick times.

It's invariably whenever a few friends are off work, or I'm off work, or I have one or two days in between jobs. Closing dates and lease dates merge together, that kind of stuff.

Sure, be pissed. But wake up with graciousness in the morning.

[JVS]

3. It's too hot to move during the day. Unless you volunteer to help :-)

[Scout1071]

5. It's too hot to mow, but I don't hear the freakin' lawnmowers going

at midnight.

I'll be forgiving, but it's not a great way to start off as neighbors.

Maybe I'm just a little disappointed. I happened to see it was a young woman and I was kind of hoping for a tall, dark, handsome, intellectual, 30-40ish man.

[JVS]

6. Do apartment dwellers need to mow lawns?

[Scout1071]

7. At my apartment complex? Yes.

Here is my yard:

[delete_bush]

8. what's the name of your complex, looks

like a place I used to live in years ago!

[Scout1071]

9. I could tell you, but then I'd have to........

[Scout1071]

13. Ever lived in Kansas?

[delete_bush]

14. Lived in Kansas City, both on

MO & KS sides. At one time lived in an apt complex with the same name as a well known area of DC. Had a great time there as I was recently divorced, and for the most part everyone living there was single.

[Scout1071]

16. That's weird.

You have hit the nail on the head.

What are the odds?

[delete_bush]

18. Wow, very weird indeed!

I don't remember the bldg I was in, but it was on the northeast? side with a park like setting in back, I think there might have been a creek bed with houses on the other side.

Hopefully you got some sleep last night and the new neighbors will be quiet once they've moved in. :toast:

[Lilli]

10. Make nice darlin...they might have a yummy single Uncle

:)

[2Design]

4. sounds like it is time to move -

I had this happen three times - three different sets of tenants - their night life styles kept me awake all the time.

The last ones would have card parties with drugs and alcohol from about 11pm to 6am - they brought in card tables and set up three tables in the living room and had about 15 guys over

I am out of there - and boy what a great difference in my sleeping and attitude -

I tried talking to them, calling landlord, calling police - they just laughed it off and did it again and again - no respect for others

if you can hear them - it will not be pleasant in the future

[Omphaloskepsis]

11. Oh man.. Two nights ago..

The tweaker building the house on the lot next to ours decided to shingle the roof at 1 am. I was a little pissed. But in the end it was worth it.

White drugs + Nail gun + Shingles + No lighting = The neighbor having a good belly laugh in the morning after seeing the the job done

[steely]

12. Brings back memories

We had the couple upstairs start a flooring job (hammering wood flooring onto a concrete pre-fab floor) - I couldn't believe it. Must have been 1:00 AM, I went up to say something, they had me talking thru the door - his wife says "... it's the neighbor, he wants to borrow a hammer...".

The guy stopped thank goodness. We just happened to be moving a few weeks later.

Hang in there. Maybe it'll be the only incursion into your sleep.

[ofrfxsk]

15. Kill them. Kill them all.

You'll thank me later.

/former apartment dweller

[Obamarama]

19. Buy them a clock as an apartment-warming gift....

Or bake them a "welcome to the building treat" and deliver it to them at midnight.

On a more serious note, though, I'd ignore it for now. There could be a reason why they had to move at that time, in which case your complaining about it could get an otherwise civil neighborly relationship off to a bad start.

If, after settling in for a few days, weeks, whatever they seem to just be inconsiderate, rude night-owls then by all means...take matters into your own hands however you see fit! :-)

[Enraged_Ape]

20. If you see them moving a big wooden box up the stairs...

move.

[Nikia]

21. Don't panic yet

As others have said, there might be a good reason that they have to move at that time. You don't know how far this person is moving from, when their moving help is available, when they had to be out of their old place, and their use of a moving vehicle (might be a rental or someone else's vehicle).
Hopefully, their night time disturbance is only a one time thing.

[Dastard Stepchild]

22. It depends.....

if it is a pattern, yes. My husband and I could not afford movers, so we moved ourselves. It took us all day. From 6am to 11pm. At the end of the night, we just wanted to put the bed together and collapse from exhaustion. We were in the process of putting the bed together, and dropped a bolt on the floor. The guy below us came up and told us to be quiet. Yes, it was late. And yes, we dropped the bolt. But we are otherwise very quiet people and just wanted to get our bed set up. Maybe cut some clack the first day (moving requires patience and goodwill on everyone's part), and then expect better from thereon.
We did stop putting the bed together and just crumpled up together on the couch. But, were I the bottom tenant (and I have been in many situations), I'd have let it pass on the very first day.
We now have a noisy upstairs neighbor. Since they seem to relegate the noise to infrequent Saturday nights, I don't complain much. But, were it to become a midweek pattern, I'd definitely say something.

cheers!
:hi: