Ours were two women who moved below us with their baby. Almost fr the outset they began to harass us with texts complaining about basic household noise with details of their child’s sleeping schedule and additional details of how very tired they were. I have never met such an entitled, self centred pair. They honestly had no thought for anyone’s needs or circumstances but their own. I have no idea why they chose to live in a basement flat.
We did our best to be accommodating, asking DS to stop playing with a particular toy and even asking DD to get out of bed more quietly in the mornings! However the texts continued and progressed to banging on the door in the morning asking us if we could PLEASE keep the noise down even though we were tiptoeing around by that point!
The final straw was a couple of weeks before we moved out we went away for the weekend and our teenager had some friends over. The younger one, who was an unfortunate combination of not very bright and deeply spiteful, contacted our landlord to complain, regaling him with tales of how dreadfully tired she was, because of course, when you have a baby the world must revolve completely around you and your needs and everyone should tiptoe around in silence. She also claimed we were having karaoke parties late into the night which was just completely untrue - luckily the landlord was on our side!
The absolute irony of it was that throughout this they’d been having work done on their flat. Whining drills and banging all throughout the day and into the weekends, and not a word of apology or acknowledgment from this selfish pair to us or the other neighbours.
I was so happy to leave them behind when we moved. I have never met anyone so self centred and entitled.
to anyone living with awful neighbours.