It's Times Like These That I Wish I Had....  

Maybe you should try to look for another apartment or maybe you could just wait for the daughter to come back and complain. Gather other neighbors that actually is disturbed and annoyed by that certain family's activities. If alone, I think you could do nothing to change things because as you said the owner of the apartment have the hots for the woman.

Hi pyewacket, that's certainly a bit of an ordeal to go through and you should have taken measures earlier. Collect the water coming through your ceiling and get a huge man to carry it back upstairs and give it back to her, wait till she sleeps then attach your vacuumn nozzle to the ceilings, snap a picture of her looking her worst and attach to this building persons doors. Imaginative thinking is required.

As for neighbours they can be the bane of ones existence, I checked out the area thoroughly back in the UK before moving, stalked the place at night to check no late night parties nearby before I signed up for the mortage, perfect, 80+ year old lady lives next door, perfect neighbour. I think she died about a month after I moved in and her family got the builders in 24/7 to do it up to rent it out. AHHH.

Oh yes I have had azzzholes as neighbours! I have lived in many rented places before I got married and have come across all sorts believe me. I think I mentioned the ones that had a punching bag attached to my balcony; they lived below me and if loud music all night during the week wasn’t enough, they would use their punching bag then too causing me to wake up to what I initially thought was an earthquake!
Was I happy when they left!

I don’t really know what you can do about this Pye especially if moving is out of the question, besides why should you move because of a painful neighbour? I quite like Thea’s suggestions (LOL) and I can’t think of any more that would keep you on the right side of the law.

Do you know anyone else who speaks her language that could translate for you?

sorry you have to go through all that. I am blessed with great neighbors here in my condo. Does this woman ever go out or go to work so that you can get a sanity break and have some peace?

Hi Pyewacket,
Sounds like you are putting up with a lot there.
We are lucky, our neighbours are all pretty good, apart from the one next door, she leaves her dog mess for days, in the garden, and last year, we got a fly infestation, in the back room of our house, so i called pest control in, and they blamed the dog mess,....it was hot outside, and they were attracted to it, then they were nesting round my patio doors...
I asked her to clean up, but she did not seem so bothered.
They only speak when they feel like it, so i tend not to bother with them, apart from that, our neighbours are lovely.
I hope things improve for you, must be very annoying....hopefully the family upstairs might move out, and give you some peace!

Hi Pye,

It must be so awful for you living there, it doesn't sound a very healthy place to live with all the problems you keep having surely something could be done to help move you to a another apartment? Neighbors like that would drive me insane! Am very fortunate to have a housing association house, there is only one neighbor who can be a big pain but that is for the minute little things, but don't let them bother me as he picks on other neighbors too...LoLo

I have just started the process of taking a neighbor to Small Claims Court and suing her for $500.00 the cost of replacing a section of my back yard fence. She has planted Jasmine vine in her yard and has allowed it to grow wild and it had destroyed my fence. Over the years the vines have grown to a diameter of approx 5 inches and split my fence in into pieces.

Some neighbors are like that. I have to say that Lacey's place that she rents the people are always complaining about the neighbors but like I told them, I can't do anything about the neighborhood. The neighbors all own there property or are renting houses over there so if they have a problem they have to talk to them or the police. Have you looked into buying a mobile home? I know they have some in areas where you can get them on 1/2 acre for like $350 a month. You may want to look into one. My brother just did get one and put it on his own lot for $220 a month brand new. The prices are not bad and I am sure you would like it better then staying where you are.

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That sounds like a real pain in the a$$. I do own a home (my first one at age 60) but most of my neighbors are really nice. Most are retired military. But I do have one two doors up that have a bad habit of leaving a window open so their cats can come and go at will. None of thse cats are spayed or neutered and they roam the neighborhood just looking for trouble. They stalk the birds under my bird feeder and have managed to get into the crawl space under my house. I just had to spend $200 to replace the vent hoses to/from the heat pump because they tore the old ones up. A couple of us have told the man that if they don't do something we will start trapping the cats and turn them over to the shelter. He said that is ok with him. Grrr.