Post #307078 by TikiJosh on Thu, May 17, 2007 2:36 PM

All the stories have reminded me of some neighbors that live next to my folks. While my brother and I were building tiki bars a few years back during the summer, she actually came over to complain once or twice about the noise. Now, we were only working during the normal daylight hours, usually starting around 9:30 or so, and finishing up at about 4:30 or 5. All the tools, shade awning, etc, got packed up and put away. You wouldn't have even known we were doing anything. But she comes by one day-- how much longer are you going to be doing that? We replied, Gee, all day.
Sorry.
She never tried calling the cops, but it's not like we were doing anything illegal.
Un-tiki neighbors do suck, but I second all the opinions of those that encourage courtesy and politeness.
My missus and I had this downstairs neighbor, and this lady called the cops on us like 5 times accusing us of "moving furniture and making noise" at like 10 at night. Of course, we weren't actually doing anything like that. Most of the time, I was just grading papers. Cops showed up a couple of times, I let them in, acted all polite and everything, and they'd leave, wish us good night, and all that. No problem. The cops were actually really cool with us, especially since the same ones came by more than once.