What is a reasonable curfew for backyard basketball (neighbors bothered by bouncing ball)

[Anonymous]

9pm.

We lived across the street from the "basketball house" and the constant thumping of the ball from 10am to 10pm drove us absolutely nuts. We were so happy to sell that house!

I mean, it's ok during the day but there is no way they should go too much past 9pm at night.

[Anonymous]

Congrats on being the worst, most annoying neighbor in the neighborhood. 9PM at the LATEST.

[Anonymous]

Some of you people act like people are asking your kids to donate a kidney to them. They are simply asking that they don’t loudly and annoyingly and repeatedly bounce a basketball over and over and over and over and over. Like they don’t have 700 other toys and games to keep busy with.

[Anonymous]

I think 9pm is reasonable. 11 is much too late.
Feed them at 6 and tell them that no basketball after 9- they can go out from 7-9 which is plenty of time on the court....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our local noise ordinance is 11 pm.
So we are going to go with 10 on weekends and summer and 9:30 school weeknights.
Hopefully that will be ok.
We have a preschooler ourselves so it’s not that we don’t understand the concern.
But there’s only so much accommodation that can be expected in this fairly urban setting.

Just curious, why. You really can't think of quieter things for kids to do outside or inside after dark? Just because you CAN doesn't mean you should, especially not on the reg. Once in awhile sure. But you KNOW it is going to upset many of your neighbors.

Nah it’s just the one.
The ones on the other side are playing with my kids on the court. Along with others.
This one early to bed family is pretty outnumbered.
But we are trying to come up with a good compromise and 10 on weekends seems reasonable.

I get up at 4:30am to workout in my garage gym. If I had neighbors like you, I stop being as considerate with the volume of my music and how hard I slam my weights down.

[Anonymous]

Same situation. Even 9 is pushing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our local noise ordinance is 11 pm.
So we are going to go with 10 on weekends and summer and 9:30 school weeknights.
Hopefully that will be ok.
We have a preschooler ourselves so it’s not that we don’t understand the concern.
But there’s only so much accommodation that can be expected in this fairly urban setting.

Just curious, why. You really can't think of quieter things for kids to do outside or inside after dark? Just because you CAN doesn't mean you should, especially not on the reg. Once in awhile sure. But you KNOW it is going to upset many of your neighbors.

Nah it’s just the one.
The ones on the other side are playing with my kids on the court. Along with others.
This one early to bed family is pretty outnumbered.
But we are trying to come up with a good compromise and 10 on weekends seems reasonable.

I get up at 4:30am to workout in my garage gym. If I had neighbors like you, I stop being as considerate with the volume of my music and how hard I slam my weights down.

I’d make life hell for her any way I could as well. I mean I wouldn’t go out of my way (besides filing complaints for anything I could) but I certainly wouldn’t be remotely considerate towards them anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats on being the worst, most annoying neighbor in the neighborhood. 9PM at the LATEST.

I agree. I've got boys in MS/HS and our basketball goal is on our sidewalk. It is the most annoying sound when you're trying to relax. I don't let them play past 8:30 at the latest and not when it's dark. If they want to play later, they can go to the outdoor school courts.

Just because you 'can' doesn't mean you 'should'.

[Anonymous]

10 pm

[Anonymous]

9pm during the week, 10 pm on the weekend at the very latest. Bouncing balls are annoying. I’ve been annoyed as a young adult without kids, as a mom of babies and now as a mom of teens. No one wants to hear that late at night. I’d prefer to not hear them after dark but I think 10 pm on a weekend is more than generous. I’ve also been annoyed by neighbors playing loud music outside and think the same hours should apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? Our next door neighbor has a hoop in their backyard and their teenage boys played basketball endlessly. Once I asked them to stay off our grass because we had just seeded, but other than that, teenage boys playing basketball in the backyard is something I want to see more of and not less. Play until midnight.

Agree. Kids outside is a good thing. Buy yourself a white noise machine grandma.

[Anonymous]

8.

[Anonymous]

If you -know- your neighbors find the noise bothersome, why are you trying to push the limits? I think your question says a lot more about you than it does about your neighbors, OP. Try to be a good neighbor, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a basketball player, but would call police if playing was going on at 11 pm. Basketball is loud and kids should be sleeping at 11 pm.
I would stick my dog out there to bark if my neighbors were playing at 11 pm.

You think and 18 year old should be asleep at 11pm?

18 year should now better and hopefully have some manners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you -know- your neighbors find the noise bothersome, why are you trying to push the limits? I think your question says a lot more about you than it does about your neighbors, OP. Try to be a good neighbor, OP.

+1

What a piece of work. What she wanted was justification to ignore them.