Our neighbours are a group of young professional guys who don't think neighbours should get in the way of their lifestyle. Acceptable party nights can be any night of the week. Most recent one was a Tuesday.
After months of stress, lost sleep, and trying to discuss it with them, basically, we've gotten to this point:
- they make as much noise as they want until 11pm which they've decided is an "acceptable" time to make noise until. We don't agree but attempts to persuade them otherwise have gone pretty badly (shouting). Noise is thumping music and loud shouting.
- They turn the noise down (but not off) at 11, and not always graciously (we've had shouts from the garden at 11pm telling us to go fuck ourselves as they turn it down). Most of the time though they do turn it down at 11-ish but there is usually still a fair amount of noise.
- If asked to turn the noise down before 11pm (which we can do by text), they've shouted abuse from their garden at us, most recently telling us to "get out of your fucking house".
- Once after we asked them to turn it down before 11, the next day they frightened the children by screaming swear words through the wall at them early in the morning.
I'm frightened of one of them, he has a real temper and is not good at controlling it.
Council ASBO team were really good, and strongly recommended we report them to the police but we are nervous. It will make them very angry. My nightmare is that we report them to police, police go round and have a "lads will be lads eh" chat, and then they're angry at us for reporting them and then I've got my children living next to a group of aggressive and angry men.
They are private tenants, and no, their landlord could not care less.