Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. I’m not really a call the cops person. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family are all light sleepers and that may be they can go inside when it’s 1030 or so.

Seriously. Grow a backbone. The passive tone and language are not going to get you anywhere but a free ride to resentment. Let me rewrite your post for you:

OP here. I will speak with the family first. If that doesn’t work, then I will call the police. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family needs to sleep and that all outside partying needs to stop at 10pm.

Drop the “maybe” and “or so” from your vocabulary.

+1 We've done this - have been to the neighbors multiple times for their barking/howling dogs and loud parties. Didn't make any difference so now I call the police emergency number. The police have been very responsive.

Why the emergency number. That’s rude.

PP here. That should be the police NON-emergency number. And, whatever number is called, it's not rude to report it to police.

Just go talk to them. We have teenage neighbors on both sides, and our kids are small. A quick friendly text asking them to turn things down has always worked just fine, and we continue to have a good relationship with the kids and their families.

Why is the DCUM response always to all the cops first? Do you all hate your neighbors? Ours are nice and we understand the teenagers aren't deliberately trying to be noisy and wake our toddler and baby, they are just having fun, especially now that it's summer. Obviously if they were hostile and made a bunch of noise repeatedly after we asked them not to, police would be an option... but not before an actual conversation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

People are not required to turn off music at midnight. Or 10 p.m. Sure, an outdoor stereo blaring music like it was a live band but most music will fall under that. Your bedtime is just that. Get a white noise machine. Speak to the parents. And if it is REALLY loud, call the non-emergency police number. But, you live in a metropolitan area and will have to deal with some noise, whether you like it or not. And, no, I do not have teens and we don't party during the week as we both work, too.

Anonymous wrote:Also, get yourself a white house machine or powerful fan - it helps tremendously.

This. I live by a fire station. Much louder than any teen party. And white noise makes it all go away (and I'm a light sleeper, too).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I’m not really a call the cops person. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family are all light sleepers and that may be they can go inside when it’s 1030 or so.

Seriously. Grow a backbone. The passive tone and language are not going to get you anywhere but a free ride to resentment. Let me rewrite your post for you:

OP here. I will speak with the family first. If that doesn’t work, then I will call the police. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family needs to sleep and that all outside partying needs to stop at 10pm.

Drop the “maybe” and “or so” from your vocabulary.

+1 We've done this - have been to the neighbors multiple times for their barking/howling dogs and loud parties. Didn't make any difference so now I call the police emergency number. The police have been very responsive.

Why the emergency number. That’s rude.

My neighbor has my sons phone number and texts him if they can hear him and his friends.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

Sound does carry, but if OP calls the cops, the neighbor will know who it is, and the teens might take matters into their own hands. OP, can you suck it up for two weeks while end of year festivities are going on?

How will they know? I'm assuming the house is surrounded by other houses where the music can be heard. And, so what if they know who did it?

+1

Go over there and pretend to be nice while you gather info....Then make an anonymous report.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

Sound does carry, but if OP calls the cops, the neighbor will know who it is, and the teens might take matters into their own hands. OP, can you suck it up for two weeks while end of year festivities are going on?

You’re another permissive parent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

Sound does carry, but if OP calls the cops, the neighbor will know who it is, and the teens might take matters into their own hands. OP, can you suck it up for two weeks while end of year festivities are going on?

How will they know? I'm assuming the house is surrounded by other houses where the music can be heard. And, so what if they know who did it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

Sound does carry, but if OP calls the cops, the neighbor will know who it is, and the teens might take matters into their own hands. OP, can you suck it up for two weeks while end of year festivities are going on?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We could be your neighbor. Weeknight they have to move it inside by 10. Weekends they have to move it inside by 12.

Seems like a good policy!

Not for neighbors if the music is on. Sound carries much further after the world has gone to sleep. Music at midnight is keeping neighbors up and waking babies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I’m not really a call the cops person. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family are all light sleepers and that may be they can go inside when it’s 1030 or so.

Seriously. Grow a backbone. The passive tone and language are not going to get you anywhere but a free ride to resentment. Let me rewrite your post for you:

OP here. I will speak with the family first. If that doesn’t work, then I will call the police. I’ll talk to the parents about how our family needs to sleep and that all outside partying needs to stop at 10pm.

Drop the “maybe” and “or so” from your vocabulary.

+1 We've done this - have been to the neighbors multiple times for their barking/howling dogs and loud parties. Didn't make any difference so now I call the police emergency number. The police have been very responsive.