Neighbours are getting on my nerves already

[OneGreyBiscuit]

Had new neighbours in on Friday. They're privately renting and was told by landlord that it was a woman and her son, didn't sound too bad so I thought. Already it's people constantly going there (9am this morning), talking loudly. Now the son has been outside for the last hour bouncing a basketball and throwing it in a bin. I've just had to shut my bathroom window and can still hear it. I'm thinking they've only been there two days and I've had enough already. What would you do?

family visits mother and (I assume, young) son on Easter Sunday.

child plays outside in his new garden with a ball.

Awful behaviour. Hope you get it sorted soon OP.

Sounds like normal neighbour noise to me

I would go over and say hello. Ask them if they need anything to help them settle in. What are you going to do, OP?

I'd say it's not enough time to know what their routine will be but it's hardly neighbours from Hell!

I gather this is sarcasm?do you have experience of a basketball bounced on concrete constantly a few feet from your windows? Probably not but hope you get to experience it in the future. Most people behave themselves for a while when they first moved in, then the true colours surface. Thanks anyway.

I knocked yesterday to say id taken her new bins off the street, so I'm not a complete monster. I'm just worried things will get worse.

You could be right and I'm hoping you are.

Its easter and people will want to see their new home it will settle

Take the boy an Easter egg and try not to be a horrible neighbour.

Worse than people coming round and a kid playing basketball? Heaven forbid.

Anyway. What was wrong with people coming round at 9am?

Basketball noise cancelling be annoying, but equally part and parcel of living in an area with other people. Chances are he's been out there because the adults are getting the house sorted so he is keeping our of the way, enjoying a bit of half decent weather.

Pure torture. Torment. Thump thump thump. Sounds like they’ve moved straight in and already don’t give a flying fuck. Taken over.

A child is playing with a ball mid Sunday afternoon and they’ve had visitors. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing

this is a you problem and you need to relax otherwise you’re going to drive yourself mad.

It’s the Easter weekend and they are in a new home, not unusual to be having a number of visitors. Children playing out when the weather is ok, not unusual behaviour.

I do actually. We have a hoop in our garden and I have three children, one of whom plays for a local basketball team. They keep it to within reasonable hours and that’s the only rule, not too early or late but otherwise kids need to be allowed to be kids in their own homes and gardens.

Is that if? Hardly bouncing the ball off your window which is what I used to have to put up with from chavvy adults.

We lived next to people with teen boys. They had a basketball ring outside and played every weekend. Started about 8am and was on and off until around 6pm.

Tough luck for me that I liked an afternoon nap on weekends. However, they truly were doing nothing wrong.

I learnt to use white noise and sometimes a pillow over my head.

If it was 6 or 7 am I’d have had a word to the parents, but regular daytime hours really have to just be normal life.

You seem quick to snap . You will drive yourself mad if you get in a froth about stuff like this so quickly. Do nothing , be nice and neighbourly and see how it pans out

Why is it relevant that they’re privately renting, OP? Does it concern you they’re a lower class of people?
Honestly you are massively overreacting.

It can be a period of adjustment when new people move in because they will invariably have different habits to your old neighbours.

It’s just normal neighbour noise and not at unsociable hours so I think you’re being a bit unreasonable here, although I know how annoying ball bouncing can be.

I had a whole summer of my neighbours little girl singing Let It Go outside my window and that was pretty hard to live with but she was just a little girl living her best life so what can you do.

I would be very, very careful, OP.

The way you behave now towards your new Neighbour will set the tone in many ways for your relationship in the coming years. Be friendly and take it slowly.

I sympathise very much because noise really gets to me and I can’t manage loud noises or repetitive ones like this little boy is making. But, for your own sake, you must start off on the right foot with her.

They just moved in and it's a bank holiday weekend - I would be more concerned if they DIDN'T have people comign and going. I'd expect it's family and friends helping out or coming to see the new place etc.

As a parent of a basketball playing son, i sympathise on the basketball noise. We do insist that DS limits it to certain times and doesn't do hours and hours at a time, and our neighbours all assure us it's fine - hopefully becuase they appreciate us being considerate. And certainly, while i find it a bit annoying sometimes myself and have to close the windows, it is what it is.

If the idea is I'm some sort of snob who looks down on privately renting I'm going to quickly absolve you of that notion as I'm housing association so don't own either thank you very much. I mentioned privately renting as a go to if I'm having to listen to a basketball thumping for hours on end everyday. Which might or might not happen.

He's not a little boy, he looks around 14/15.

Well then, again, speaking from experience, once he's back into school etc routine, you MIGHT get basketball noise, but it won't routinely be early!