Hi everyone.
Really at the end of my tether with my neighbours and don't know what to do.
We're mid-terrace and the neighbours are renters. They've always had the occasional noisy night - sometimes all-nighters - but because they weren't that often we just ignored it.
Since the landlord's put their house up for sale, they've gone totally wild. Always having friends over. It's been going on for at least a month now, but has been particularly bad during the Easter break.
It's a group of young lads in their 20s, one girl and two small children. They have parties every other night. A dog that barks at all hours for ages and ages without relenting. Their kids seem to go to bed at around midnight and scream the place down. The music is really loud and can start at any hour. At the start of the Easter break it started at about 11pm and was nightclub volume until around 2:30am, then it lowered to a volume I could still easily hear through the walls, but at least was less, until about 4am. A typical music night would be music starting at about 11pm and finishing around 2-3am. If it's not music then it's loud lad's voices. Shouting up and down the three flights of stairs (we're in terraced Victorian townhouses), swearing, screaming.
Last night was the worst so far. We had loud lad's voices from about midnight until about 4am. At which point the music STARTED! and music continued for about half an hour then stopped. Then it was loud voices, laughter, etc, until about 5am-ish. They've gone totally nocturnal!
There are often arguments. We hear frightening fights in the streets right outside. A week ago someone put a brick through their front window. It was boarded up for 3 days then repaired as though nothing happened. I've heard shouts that someone is pulling out a knife before.
I know they do drugs. I think they're dealers (although this is just a hunch) and that's how they make their money without going out to work.
To be honest I'm frightened of them. I'm afraid of confronting them. I'm frightened even of phoning the landlord (not that I have the number). I'm worried it would be obvious that it's me that's complaining and there might be repercussions. It might get worst, or there might even be violence against us. I have three young children. I wish DH would say something to them but even he is afraid of what might happen and he keeps saying the landlord will sell soon and then we'll be rid of them. But that could take forever - the landlord's set the price really high.
No idea what to do and I feel like I'm going mad. I'm getting no sleep with the constant worrying of when it's going to start. My only hope at the moment is that it might return to semi-normality when the Easter breaks ends.
Thanks for listening.