Nasty Witch through the wall

[fedupwitharses]

I moved into new flat at beginning of lockdown last year and it’s been hell. Most neighbours here are nice but real nasty one through the wall - who acts nice outside in front of other neighbours meanwhile she bangs constantly on wall, has her dogs cage hooked to party wall so every time he moves the cage bangs. Her 16year old son sings (screams) at top of voice for hours on end, and they have almighty arguments where they scream and swear at each other. After being woke out with their screaming and banging on wall at 3am I told them to stop, now it’s worse. They have a set of things they do every day, from hitting a ball off the wall constantly, singing at top of voice out of tune (honestly, I know he’s a child but it’s sooo loud and sooo bad) the dog constantly howls and barks (left up against party wall), and now they’ve taken to playing something that is like a low frequency that causes our ears to hurt and vibrates through wall. I’ve heard her screaming at neighbour on other side. It’s driving me mad, when I speak to her she just ignores me - any ideas on how to make her stop? Btw typical passive aggressor smiles sweetly when we pass each other grrr I want to punch her lights out we’re so seriously deprived of sleep I could cry - just what do people get out of being this nasty?

Report them to the council, the police and the RSPCA. Is it social housing?

@VodkaSlimline has the right suggestions. Please don't compare her to witches though, that's unkind to them.

She has a private landlord, I’m trying to get the landlord’s name but he doesn’t seem to be registered - I have recordings I want him to listen to. She doesn’t seem bothered when I say I’ll report her if it doesn’t stop - it just seems to get worse. I’ve told police but they didn’t do anything. I think she may have done this to previous owner as they sold it to a property developer really cheap and they renovated it and sold it to me for double (things I should’ve researched). She has the boy well trained, as soon as he’s home he starts annoying dog, then goes into bathroom and sings (it’s so bad I find it hard to call it singing as he is screaming at a level he can’t even hold a note) she proudly tells everyone he’s an actor/singer. If we have telly on or music the banging gets louder and the frequency stuff starts - you can feel it more than hear it and my ears hurt 😔

I think bitch-bastard is the proper description for trouble makers like them - I’ve been told not to retaliate (so bloody hard) and to try to ignore them - do these people even know how difficult that is? I’m sure she knows it’s impossible - the council are inundated with complaints and don’t have the staff!!

Report her. And call the police immediately next time you’re woken up in the middle of the night by their screaming.
They sound like an utter and complete nightmare. I also wonder if the device they’re using that is making your ears hurt is legal? Causing fysical pain is definitely some sort of assault.

Environmental health, do a log, get the recording equipment. This sounds intolerable.

I don’t know what it would be but it’s awful and I’m sure it’s illegal. Walls seem really thin yet it’s old stone building. I had something on YouTube (a fan sound) to try to drown it out and get some sleep and the volume was going up and down randomly. DD and I were puzzled, as if something interfering with it - we had to put it off because my aim wasn’t to put something louder on it was to soothe with white noise (hoping to cancel noise out). At my wits end - why would anyone want to do that? It’s happened since first day before we’d even met them - she takes a drink (by the sound of her DS he’s pissed too) tho’ only 16 and surprised at the things he calls her, really obscene

Is there any way you can find out if she did drive out the previous residents and, if she did, whether the developers knew - because if they did, and if they didn’t tell you, you might have a case against them. Sellers are supposed to disclose this sort of information, aren’t they?

Other neighbours seem hesitant to talk - I was so surprised at the price she sold for and it was puzzling me, I asked a few neighbours I’ve got to know, only thing said was that she looked ill and was painfully thin, they thought she was very stressed and nervous but I’ll keep asking. Would the police or council have that info and would they give it or would it affect data protection?

Have you looked at sound proofing the party wall? IME these arseholes always get away with being dicks.

I know they do seem to know they’ll get away with it - they just tell you to ignore them. It’s really expensive to do that, I’m in house with high ceilings walls are so long (which helps the echo) but it’s an idea whenever I get back to work