[TheSalesman]

alright...
right now i can't listen to music with bass AT ALL in my OWN HOUSE and when i watch movies...i have home theatre system....spent tons of money on it.....and when i watch movies....i cant even turn the sub on!!!!!!!!! that thing was expensive...the stupid neighbores wrote a letter to city hall and they sent me a warning....for creating too much noise??
soooo.....i read in other threads that i hafto turn off exessive noise after 11PM?
but when i listen to music or nething its usually around the day time....like 12pm to 8pm?
well now that i got that warning....the neighbores get mad about any little noise i make....
i was working on my car today and had to disconnect the battery
so when i reconnected the battery....the alarm went off....and the neighbores came over and said if they hear that alarm 1 more time they are gonna call the cops....what the hell is that? can the cops do anything? this was during 1pm-3pm...not in the middle of the night when everybody is sleeping......
what do you guys think about this?

pretty much all the money i spent on audio has gone DOWN THE DRAIN
also i got car audio because i can leave her....but when im coming home....when im parking....they are already there telling me to turn it down when i just came home!!!

[skidmark]

The criminal code offence of mischief applies at any time of the day or night. If you prevent someone from enjoying their private property by making too much noise for whatever reason, you could be in trouble here.

Not all people sleep from 11 pm to 7 am. When I worked night shift I had to sleep during the day and would not have appreciated a blaring stereo at noon.

Bylaws may have times of effect in them, or they may not. You would have to read the noise bylaw that governs the area you are in.

[TheSalesman]

what about the car alarm going off?

[Iceman_19]

if they are getting mad at you cause your call alarm went off for like 5 secodns, i would have told the neighbour to go to hell. sounds like your neighbours are just harrassing you because they can.

[[ jay ]]

if i can hear the sub coming from your HOUSE, that's too loud dude...i dont care what time of the day it is

and i guess im more mature now but playing your system loud in your car in a residential neighborhood is not cool

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by freakyshortguy
if i can hear the sub coming from your HOUSE, that's too loud dude...i dont care what time of the day it is

and i guess im more mature now but playing your system loud in your car in a residential neighborhood is not cool

its not even THAT loud...its because the stupid neighbores dont have insulation in their walls...but that shouldnt be my problem....
its not my fault that their house is 100+ years old....

[SkinnyPupp]

Umm :rolleyes:

[Spidey]

bass doesnt have to be "loud" to be heard.. but its also something that wouldnt keep you up from sleeping since the tone is very low.. its not like youre blasting the vocals to your music... theyre just fucken stupid. car alarms go off everyday and ppl deal with it. its not like you were doing it on and off like some idiots do when they are testing their alarms. if i were you id tell them to fuck off. if they do call the cops, im pretty sure the cops would pretty much do NOTHING.. u should just be an ass to them everytime the make some type of noise. retaliate. thats what i would do... how long have you moved in to the house you are in. unless they are the new home owners. honestly i would be the type of prick that would make their life so much hell that they move out.

[EuroTRASH]

how close together are the houses?

[[ jay ]]

ok i dont know the exact situation, maybe they are picking on u, i can understand since i got picked on when i rented in Kerrisdale

but ur house should have insulation, i mean, seriously, someone in their own house should not have to hear bass coming from inside ANOTHER house, that's ridiculous, i mean maybe from a passing car or if it was an apartment building, think about man

blueG2, cops will do something, if they drive by and actually hear noise, they will write him up a ticket for noise violation

[OpeningGambit]

unless they showed up at your door when your alarm went off in their Pjs

I would have told them to go to hell

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by BlueG2
bass doesnt have to be "loud" to be heard.. but its also something that wouldnt keep you up from sleeping since the tone is very low.. its not like youre blasting the vocals to your music... theyre just fucken stupid. car alarms go off everyday and ppl deal with it. its not like you were doing it on and off like some idiots do when they are testing their alarms. if i were you id tell them to fuck off. if they do call the cops, im pretty sure the cops would pretty much do NOTHING.. u should just be an ass to them everytime the make some type of noise. retaliate. thats what i would do... how long have you moved in to the house you are in. unless they are the new home owners. honestly i would be the type of prick that would make their life so much hell that they move out.

yeah i should......everytime i come home late at night i should honk a couple times or something....haha just to piss them off....ill jus say i accidently pressed it...=)
w/e...they moved in.....and i cant listen to music anymore pretty much....except when its really really low......=/

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by freakyshortguy
ok i dont know the exact situation, maybe they are picking on u, i can understand since i got picked on when i rented in Kerrisdale

but ur house should have insulation, i mean, seriously, someone in their own house should not have to hear bass coming from inside ANOTHER house, that's ridiculous, i mean maybe from a passing car or if it was an apartment building, think about man

blueG2, cops will do something, if they drive by and actually hear noise, they will write him up a ticket for noise violation

they live next door...my house has insulation but theirs doesnt..if a cop was driving by.....he wouldnt hear it...cause i went outside myself....and i hear nothing much at all....its like a little hum noise...a fucken fly is louder then that....

[Scott 89t2]

go next door and kick their car tires till their alarm goes off then start yelling at them :D

[TheSalesman]

i should throw some garbage at their car and set off the alarm and yell at them....or when i hear them talking(which i ALWAYS do) i should stick my head out the window be go...SHUT THE FUCK UP...OR IM GONNA CALL THE COPS....hahaha
cause they always have ppl over and they eat outside and its real loud....

[EuroTRASH]

alright i got it, everyone on the board with a loud muffler meet up and cruise past the house.

[impactX]

When they can hear it, then it's too loud.

If you had spent tons of money on the system, why didn't you spend more to carpet the walls, floor and ceiling? It's your responsibility to keep the noise down, not your neighbors' responsibility to insulate their houses more to keep themselves from the noise you produce.

[TheSalesman]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by impactX
When they can hear it, then it's too loud.

If you had spent tons of money on the system, why didn't you spend more to carpet the walls, floor and ceiling? It's your responsibility to keep the noise down, not your neighbors' responsibility to insulate their houses more to keep themselves from the noise you produce. [

you can only hear it when its COMPLETELY silent....
its not my responsibility to insulate my house...
because nobody else complained about it before until these stupid neighbores moved in....
my house is insulated....and the home theatre...its closer the the neighbores on the other side of my house...but they dont seem to be bothered at all....

[Spidey]

if its the neighbours that moved in , you should really bitch at them and be like " shut the fuck up, youve been here ___ months, who are you to say im too loud". seriously, make these ppls lives a living hell.

[Volitaire]

well one of my neighbours came over @ 11:30pm kicking on my front door very hard to yell at me because they thought my dog was barking, threatened to call the cops, call citycall and have us fined.. i swore at them like crazy, told them to get off my property or I would call the police, called them morons, and they went away and never complained in person again, they left 1 letter at our door...

and it wasn't my dog barking.. it was my neighbours..

we've had our dog for like 5 years withour complaints.. these renters come into a neighbourhood where every 2nd house has 1-3 dogs and complain about barking.. go figure

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by Volitaire
well one of my neighbours came over @ 11:30pm kicking on my front door very hard to yell at me because they thought my dog was barking, threatened to call the cops, call citycall and have us fined.. i swore at them like crazy, told them to get off my property or I would call the police, called them morons, and they went away and never complained in person again, they left 1 letter at our door...

and it wasn't my dog barking.. it was my neighbours..

we've had our dog for like 5 years withour complaints.. these renters come into a neighbourhood where every 2nd house has 1-3 dogs and complain about barking.. go figure


thats pretty much the exact same situation with me....except its music...its fine usually....i hear subs pounding like everyday....a few cars drive by....it doesnt bother me at all.....these damn neighbores.....it was fine b4 too....

[2k1Rice]

I cant imagine it being that loud. I have a decent home theater in my house, and my neighbours would really have to strain to hear it even when it is turned up pretty loud.

Play your music how u want, within reason, and when they come knock on your door to tell you to turn it down, remind them they are trespassing and that you are gonna call the cops.

Problem solved.

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by 2k1Rice
I cant imagine it being that loud. I have a decent home theater in my house, and my neighbours would really have to strain to hear it even when it is turned up pretty loud.

Play your music how u want, within reason, and when they come knock on your door to tell you to turn it down, remind them they are trespassing and that you are gonna call the cops.

Problem solved.

they wrote a letter to city hall already and city hall sent me a letter saying if they get 1 more complaint....i will be charged for excessive noise
and its not very excessive either.....

[Selanne_200]

Can't u apply for an appeal for the letter city hall sent you based on ur other neighbours' opinion and not just them?

[Ferra]

Originally posted by Druggie
they wrote a letter to city hall already and city hall sent me a letter saying if they get 1 more complaint....i will be charged for excessive noise
and its not very excessive either.....
Don't think they can actually charge you just becoz of some complaint without any investgation at all...
but if that's the case, write a dozen letters to cityhall and complain the same thing, saying they make excessive noise...!

A more constructive thing to do is just to talk to the ppl at city hall, say you did not do that, and just say your neighbor complain becoz they didn't like you... ;)

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by Ferra
Don't think they can actually charge you just becoz of some complaint without any investgation at all...
but if that's the case, write a dozen letters to cityhall and complain the same thing, saying they make excessive noise...!

A more constructive thing to do is just to talk to the ppl at city hall, say you did not do that, and just say your neighbor complain becoz they didn't like you... ;)

i just dont bother because it wastes a lot of time......=D
i jus like to let my alarm go off and leave it on now and turn my system up right when i start my car and let it warm up a bit then drive off
only when they are home tho.....and hopefully their baby is sleeping
=D
i can always hear their f*ckin baby crying n stuff.....can i complain about that? like cmon....im taking a shiet and then i start hearing a baby cry...and in my room sometimes when i take a nap i hear a damn baby crying again....=O hahahaha

[Alphawolf]

I'm starting to wonder WHO is the bad neighbor here....

[Truenosan]

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[AtomicKityn]

Don't want to be the b---ch here, but I have neighbours who play their subs way too loud, so I can kind of sympathize with them. So loud that things in my room start to rattle. I work night shifts as well, so this is the last thing that I want to hear when I'm trying to get some sleep. But I don't know you and I don't live next to you, so I can't say if yours is that loud at all. This has been going on for about 2 years (since they moved in) and I haven't complained to them yet, trying to respect their own rights. But one of these days...grrrr. Why couldn't your neighbours have just told you nicely that your music is too loud? I hate people who make a huge scene, expecting you to give in to them. Just wanted to add my two cents.

[CORDV6]

Im with Druggie on this one. I have a neighbour that moved in maybe a year ago, we have been living here for over 10 years and got along great with everyone here. This bitch comes out and complains about EVERYTHING!! I wash my car, she complains. I listen to my music at an average level, she complains. I have friends come over with their cars SHE FUCKING COMPLAINS. While her damn dog barks all night, she yells at her kids, Her husband starts up his 30year old sports car with one of those cherry bombs at 4:30 in the morning. I never say anything.

In the summer, my parents got some people to come in and clean our carpets, Id have to admit those things are pretty loud, but what can you do? So she comes over and tells us its disturbing her reading. I go fuckin ballistic on her.. get off my property.. if you dont like it MOVE! so on and so on.. to the point it made her cry. Never heard or spoke to her since. She doesnt even look at me now. hahahha but occassionally just to piss her off i wave to her and say good morning. hahaha

[TheSalesman]

Originally posted by CORDV6
Im with Druggie on this one. I have a neighbour that moved in maybe a year ago, we have been living here for over 10 years and got along great with everyone here. This bitch comes out and complains about EVERYTHING!! I wash my car, she complains. I listen to my music at an average level, she complains. I have friends come over with their cars SHE FUCKING COMPLAINS. While her damn dog barks all night, she yells at her kids, Her husband starts up his 30year old sports car with one of those cherry bombs at 4:30 in the morning. I never say anything.

In the summer, my parents got some people to come in and clean our carpets, Id have to admit those things are pretty loud, but what can you do? So she comes over and tells us its disturbing her reading. I go fuckin ballistic on her.. get off my property.. if you dont like it MOVE! so on and so on.. to the point it made her cry. Never heard or spoke to her since. She doesnt even look at me now. hahahha but occassionally just to piss her off i wave to her and say good morning. hahaha


hahaha nice....
well like man...there was a house being built like 2 doors over from them and 3 from me....its loud as hell....but they dont complain to the building companies and im VERY SURE its at least 3 times louder then my music....cmon....all they hear in their house is MAYBE a lil humming sound but building a house for a few months and breaking it down n everything at 6am in the morning..and they say im loud....damn

[TheSalesman]

back from the dead,
ok 4 years later and my neighbores are now complaining about my car being too loud. This is the same car i'v been driving for the past 5 years and they said I have to change my exhaust because its too loud. wtf is that? they were coming out everytime i came home and said they are telling me nicely to change my exhaust because its too loud. I just told them to fuck off because it's not like im sitting outside my house revving it or anything. I just drive home and park the car and they run outside and start saying shit. wtf? stupid ass neighbores....they said they are gonna call the cops and i told them to doit...they havn't done anything since. maybe ill get another letter or get a fine or something.
anybody know how much these fines are?

[underscore]

Excessive noise fines are something like $100, we got one at a party once. If you get one, I'd invite the cop to check out how loud you play it, and how little it can be heard outside.

[!Yaminashi]

Wait, so these neighbors of yours complain about being able to hear your music, yet they cause just as much of a rukus with just their voices and/or friends?

[Mr.HappySilp]

call the cops on them saying u thinkg they are drugs dealers and u saw them havign guns int heir house. Do it every few months from different pay phones to avoid being track. Sooner or later they will move out.

Jokes aside. I dont' see how they can complainw hen it is around daytime. I sometimes heard my neighbours playing thier music int eh day time and I dont mind. I mean if it is like after mind night then yea but come on daytime who cars.

If your neighbour complain again tell them them go away and u have been doing this for yrs and no one ever complain expect them so it iis thier own fault.

[boxeraddict]

The criminal code offence of mischief applies at any time of the day or night. If you prevent someone from enjoying their private property by making too much noise for whatever reason, you could be in trouble here.


This should also read "If you prevent someone from enjoying their private property by scrutinizing every aspect of their lives that makes noise, you could be in trouble here".

People buy single family homes in many cases to enjoy the freedoms that they afford. I live in a condo and I can't have pets or a BBQ. If I moved into a house so I could enjoy those "luxuries", I would not find it reasonable if my neighbor complained if my dog was barking occasionally while playing in the backyard or if people were gathering around enjoying a BBQ in the evening.

Where does it stop? What are the definitions of "reasonable" and "unreasonable" noise?

Surely in the OP's case a gas powered lawnmower would be "excessive". Perhaps if he likes working on his car he has an impact gun - that would be "excessive" according to his neighbor too. If he was a carpenter and had a workshop in his garage with power tools, I guess that would be excessive?

Compared to most apartment buildings, a single family home on a residential street is a MUCH quieter place to live, even when your neighbor is making some noise. I live in a decent building, it's not a run-down shack, but I can hear my upstairs neighbor's bed creak and him taking a piss in the toilet.

I also have a home theater system and even tho I have asked my neighbors if they can hear it and they have said no, I am sure they can. Tolerance is a part of living in the vicinity of other people.

[boxeraddict]

It's your responsibility to keep the noise down, not your neighbors' responsibility to insulate their houses more to keep themselves from the noise you produce.

I partly disagree with this.

If his neighbor's house is 100 years old as he states, then it might not feature the same level of sound insulation as newer homes.

While I do think that the OP should take precautions with his home theater (if it is in a dedicated room, then install extra insulation, for example), as I said before when you live in the vicinity of other people there is a certain amount of "give and take" that must exist for everyone to be comfortable.

[boxeraddict]

Not all people sleep from 11 pm to 7 am. When I worked night shift I had to sleep during the day and would not have appreciated a blaring stereo at noon.

Understandable, but would you go as far as to complain about your neighbor mowing their lawn?

[TheSalesman]

hey guys, the problem is not with the music anymore but its a problem with my car coming home and parking. thread is a few years old.

[b-dub]

This reminds me of my neighbor that has a F430, sometimes he wakes my ass up at 8AM. Sure, the first few times I looked out the window and I was like COOOL!, FERRARI! but it kinda gets irritating after a while. Anyways, I understand where he is coming from cuz I too am a fellow enthusiast so I guess it's one of those things i'm going to have to live with or change my exhaust to wake his ass up too;)

OP should tell us where he lives so we call all drive by with our music blaring and rev the shit outta our cars in front of his neighbors house :thumbsup:

[TheSalesman]

^ lol yeah all my friends know about my neighbores too so they honk the horn a few times everytime they get here even tho im already downstairs walkin to his car and honks a few more times when we're leaving. Started doing too because my cousin out front pressed the horn and the neighbore ran outside of his house to tell him not to honk his horn when he arrives. My cousin just rolled his window back up and ignored him.

[Soundy]

Holy ancient thread bump, Batman!

Just a thought on this:

The criminal code offence of mischief applies at any time of the day or night. If you prevent someone from enjoying their private property by making too much noise for whatever reason, you could be in trouble here.

From the sound of it, the bitchy neighbors were (and still are) the ones making too much noise, by yapping and whinging and just generally bitching about anything and everything everyone else on the block does. THEY seem to be preventing ALL of their neighbors from enjoying THEIR own private property as well.

Maybe the OP should go to the other neighbors and get them all to write/sign a letter stating that the OP isn't and never has been annoyingly loud, and that these other neighbors simply complain about everything. Next time they go to the city, and the city comes knocking on your door, show them the letter.

Not all people sleep from 11 pm to 7 am. When I worked night shift I had to sleep during the day and would not have appreciated a blaring stereo at noon.

I've been in that situation. I have plenty of friends who've been in that situation. You can ask the noisemakers to keep it down, and if they're nice they might, but you can't expect everyone else in the world to stop their lives because of your CHOICE to run your life on a different schedule. And yes, there always is a CHOICE - in this case to get a different shift or a different job. The alternatives may not be pleasant or desirable, but there is ALWAYS a choice. To coin a phrase from a favorite TV show: "There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's hope. If not .."

Bylaws may have times of effect in them, or they may not. You would have to read the noise bylaw that governs the area you are in.

If the OP is not actually making that much noise, and nobody else has a problem with it, maybe he should actually look up the bylaw, make sure he's within in, and then when the neighbors complain, tell them yeah, go ahead, call the cops... when the cops come, they'll see that the neighbors are being unreasonable, and eventually they'll just stop coming when those people call.

[zulutango]

I often thought that the ultimate "karma" situation (I love..."Earl") would be for the guys who hold all night loud parties...to have a new neighbour move in next door...and he ran a chainsaw repair shop in his back yard. Can you imagine the payback to a severely hung-over partier as at 7.01 am the guy next store began a 17,000 rpm tune up on some Macs and a bad bad boy Husky? :)

[TheSalesman]

If the OP is not actually making that much noise, and nobody else has a problem with it, maybe he should actually look up the bylaw, make sure he's within in, and then when the neighbors complain, tell them yeah, go ahead, call the cops... when the cops come, they'll see that the neighbors are being unreasonable, and eventually they'll just stop coming when those people call.

i did tell them to call the cops and they havn't said anything since. but the thing is that i might get a letter from the city thats all. and if i do...i should just let my car idle for 5mins before i turn it off just to let them know that the more they complain, the louder its gonna get. I could understand if i was revving my engine or something at 3am in the morning but the fact that i just come home and parking my car is something they cannot deal with, that pisses me off.

[bensta]

Fuck, what a pile of shit. You should bounce off rev limiter before you shut it off :D.

[TheSalesman]

Fuck, what a pile of shit. You should bounce off rev limiter before you shut it off :D.

it won't hit the rev limiter in neutral, but it will be bouncing off the launch control. lol

[b-dub]

i should just let my car idle for 5mins before i turn it off

Technically, the new by-laws says you can only do it for 3mins or else you CAN get a ticket. Just do it for 2:59 secs and you should be fine, just to let you know as your neighbors might actually call the cops to ticket you for the idling violations LAWLS.

I know this is for Vancouver for sure, not sure about the other cities, maybe someone else can confirm.

[XtC-604]

how about...you get a whole bunch of friends with masks to use airhorns around the guys house, then keep an eye on whether or not they call the cops, when they do scatter=0

[underscore]

Just think of all the fun you get to have when you move. When I went back to my old house to grab a few cords and stuff still there, I revved like mad past my asshole neighbors house, because he alwasy complained about our "driving too fast" ie loudly but not cars that actually drove fast but were quiet. He came and stood at the end of our driveway so I just ignored him when he left. Then when I went to leave I bounced off the limiter a few times outside his house and did a nice smoky burnout. He came running out the door yelling away as I went around the corner.

The house is now lived in by members of the local football team. I wonder how that's going :lol

[Soundy]

^I lived in a basement suite once, and a couple guys from a rugby team moved in upstairs... most of the time they were quiet, but when they decided to party... it was LOUD, and it was ALL NIGHT.

Fortunately we had the breaker panel for the whole house in our suite... a couple minutes in darkness usually calmed them down pretty quickly. We also had the central furnace... a little piece of wire jumpered across the thermostat wires could make it uncomfortably warm for them within 15-20 minutes ;)

[!Yaminashi]

^I lived in a basement suite once, and a couple guys from a rugby team moved in upstairs... most of the time they were quiet, but when they decided to party... it was LOUD, and it was ALL NIGHT.

Fortunately we had the breaker panel for the whole house in our suite... a couple minutes in darkness usually calmed them down pretty quickly. We also had the central furnace... a little piece of wire jumpered across the thermostat wires could make it uncomfortably warm for them within 15-20 minutes ;)

LOL must've been awesome to have all the power in the world over them

Definitely must've been fun:haha:

[MegaMx]

are you in a townhouse or duplex? this doesn't sound like a house beside a house

[nipples]

dude, just suddenly develop a lawn fetish and keep mowing your lawn like everyday. start it at 630pm or whenever their friends go over for dinner. and do it without the bag the first time. then go back over again with the bag to pick up the clippings. that'll drive em nuts.

and be totally anal with your weedeater. make sure it's ALL level!

[underscore]

mega bumped again.

PS soundy thats awesome haha

[Anjew]

ya lawn mower is the way to go. i know it pissed my neighbour so much and it was kind of a hassle doing it everyday for 2 weeks... but they never said anything after

[cho]

so did his spelling of "neighbores" not bug anyone else?

[DJ Milk]

are you in a townhouse or duplex? this doesn't sound like a house beside a house

It's a detached house

[simsimi1004]

edit* wtf.... 03 thread