Neighbour domestics

[camdenn]

I’m early 20s and live in a city centre apartment. Need advice as never dealt with something like this before. The people who live next to me seem to be a couple in 40s with school age children.

The male is awful and disgusting. When he first moved in, he would knock on my door at midnight just in his boxers to ask mundane things like “can I light his candle?”. He has also barged into my apartment twice, completely uninvited. Once was at night when I was in bed and I literally froze but told him to fuck off. Obviously I ensure my door is locked at all times now and we do not speak. Once, he accepted a parcel for me (I did tell the courier not to deliver to neighbours) and when I collected it from him, he literally booted it from his apartment to the corridor without saying a word, like it was a football.

The female is equally strange but I rarely see her. Maybe twice in the past year. I think she/the children stay elsewhere sometimes. He also has periods of not being at the apartment (which is bliss.)

For the past year, they have extremely heated arguments that last hours with a lot of smashing and clanging noises in the background. They are ridiculously loud, I can word for word hear them in my bedroom which is the furthest away from them, and both apartments are large. They shout in both English and Nigerian and have mentioned divorce and unhappiness. Sometimes I’m worried that DV is at play just due to her shouting, then clanging noises, then her being silent. Tonight they’ve been shouting so loud to the extent they woken me twice now. Aibu to contact the police?

what if the police attend and things have calmed down and they act like I was malicious?

Record inventors calling police mayb e

Before

Sorry forgot to add, as both of them are not always present at the apartment, it’s hard to say how frequent this is.

When they are at the apartment together, the arguments are a weekly occurrence at the minimum. He also spends time arguing loudly with people over the phone too. So generally when he’s here, there’s always some type of disturbance. I’d say like at least a dozen of occasions with each occasion consisting of hours of raging shouting

I have one recording actually

Can you move? I have lived like this and I dreaded going home.

i like where I live and ideally would move into a house next. My contract is up in August either way, so hoping we have enough for a deposit by then. I’m also hoping they F off sooner considering they’re not always here.

I'd call the police, whilst waiting for them to come out I'd also trying and get a recording of the type of noise level you are having to put up with. It's not acceptable, you could also be helping a woman who is facing DV.