Annoying Neighborhood
By rsa101
@rsa101 (37952)
Philippines
August 6, 2018 9:09pm CST
I live in a condo on the 5th floor, we were living peacefully in that unit until one day a new residents occupied the unit below us and of course being new transferee you would expect the noise and the clatter while they are settling down. After settling down about a week or so, I could hear who the occupants are. We could hear it because our unit is blocked by a firewall that any loud sound reverberates to our unit.
One thing that annoys me with them is their mother and her daughter. She speaks so loud and shouts at her toddler daughter. Every morning or evening when the mom arrives she would shout at her daughter and the daughter would cry out loudly or hysterically. This is the scene almost daily in my condo. My wife is even tempted on reporting to the building admin and she did actually. The building admin said they will try to talk to the occupants below us and hopefully it would at least be minimised.
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@Friendlypink (3805)
•
7 Aug 18
We also live at a condo and I had the same problem with the new tenant's kids. They befriended my kids and everytime they ask my kids to play they command my kids to bring chips or chocolate to eat. It is okay if they all will share but when I checked and watched them play. They are playing tricks on my kids they will play pretend jail station. They will ask my kids just to stay at the stairs while they finish the food because they are the police and my kids are the bad guys that needs to be put in jail. Too bad.
But now we have our own house. My parents gave it to me as a gift.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
7 Aug 18
@Friendlypink, Those young kids have inherited bad attitude perhaps to their parents or peer. I pity your kids.I am happy you have now a house of your own.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
9 Aug 18
If it's irritating for you who live in a floor above the new occupants of the condo, I can just imagine how those living in the same floor with them would be annoyed. What your wife did in reporting the matter to the building manager was the right thing to do because if it was you or other tenants of the building confronted the newcomers, it would cause trouble. At least the building manager would be more in the position to remind the new comers of the building rules.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
9 Aug 18
@rsa101 Good to know that. I think it's adjustment period for the baby too of their new environment.
@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
7 Aug 18
@cacay1 I certainly agree with you. Toddler is only a very young child that needs love and attention from their mothers. Why would you shout at your daughter who just needs your love and attention and besides the toddler still doesn't understand being scolded if they are in a tantrum. I believe the mom has no patience being a mom.
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
10 Aug 18
I sympathize, as I have also at times have had noisy neighbours that are so disturbing. I hope your situation will be taken care of.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
Hopefully they would really be considerate. I sensed that they have quieted a bit. But just a while ago i heard the mom starting to shout again at her daughter. The toddler seem to seek attention by crying but the mom seems to annoy her further making the toddler more frustrated and cries even louder.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
@hereandthere yeah she does that mostly at nught where the admin is out of the building.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
@rsa101 then she shouldn't be surprised if the other residents complain again and she gets a visit again from the admin
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
22 Aug 18
@RubyHawk Yesterday was all clear. I can hear the mother as calm and plays with her. The child every now and then does tantrum as like normal children are but I can sense peaceful neighbor yesterday while we are having our holiday yesterday.
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@Letranknight2015 (51515)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
We don't know what's going on their family. Maybe you should try and get to know this neighbor. What your wife did was a good decision so that they can be reprimanded.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
Yeah they quieted a bit and I seldom could not hear the mom from shouting. I think the other residents also complained because when my wife reported the admin had kind of anticipated it already and promised us that they will contact the occupants about this.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
@Letranknight2015 Yeah I guess the neighbors downstairs would be disturbed by her voice. We were a unit above theirs more so when you are beside them.
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@Letranknight2015 (51515)
• Philippines
10 Aug 18
@rsa101 good to know that you weren't the only one who complained.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
14 Aug 18
i hope the situation is already fixed
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
16 Aug 18
@ridingbet That I really do not know anything anymore since their unit is below ours, we do not see each other in person. We could just hear her voice from below and that is all I know about them
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
16 Aug 18
@rsa101 is the mother working? or a stay-home mother? by 'arriving', you mean she is an office woman?how old is she? maybe she has many problems at work and she is projecting her anger from work to her kid.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
15 Aug 18
Well I came to this place first before them. I think I will stay here and try to report to the admin if things gets out of hand again. There were slight changes in their house anyways though they have not completely silenced but at least it is less frequent that it used too be.
@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
25 Aug 18
Oh no so sorry to know this has happened to you those people loud.
Did the building admin do anything?
Here in my place we are also living upstairs and the new neighbors well they are causing problems. And admin for building does nothing.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
20 Aug 18
That is indeed a big disturbance not only to you but other near occupants. 
I hope that will be stopped soon, not only because it disturbs you all but because of how she treats her daughter. She could be complained to Bantay Bata should a neighbor would like to.
I hope that will be stopped soon, not only because it disturbs you all but because of how she treats her daughter. She could be complained to Bantay Bata should a neighbor would like to.1 person likes this
@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
20 Aug 18
Yes that is true. The family below us seems unaware that the noise they create can be heard because our condo units are quite small and any noise from one door can easily be heard especially if you have open door or window. But as I said this has been partially resolved as they have toned down their voices. I guess the building admins have informed them already.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
17 Sep 18
There was slight change though but the shouting still exist. In fact just recently my wife could not tolerate that she had to report that to the bldg admin. The bldg admin called the unit below us and the mom even got mad and asked who is complaining and she said that it is her way of disciplining her child. She needs to be taught how to be a good mother. Although after we reported it she tries to lower her voice and we could just hear her baby crying loudly. Everytime she cries loud that is when we know that mom is there and is doing her thing with her daughter.
@nitirrbb7 (4317)
• India
24 Aug 18
I doubt there would be any changes in them, I have gone through this situation nothing changed
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