Dealing with a noisy neighbor

[jhirsh5280]

Want to get some thoughts before I take any action.
I have a neighbor who is causing a lot of stress with my family right now. I have 2 boys (4 and 2) who are typical hyper full of energy kids. My wife is a stay at home mom and I usually dont head to work until the afternoons so we are around in the mornings. We also live in a townhome with shared walls. When my boys run around, play, laugh, scream, typical boy things we feel the instant need to correct or curb their behavior because we fear our neighbor will turn up his music and rattle our walls with bass out of spite for my kids. He has even gone as far as accusing us a abusing our kids (which we would never) without any proof other than noise. Our kids noises dont last but a few seconds or minutes, but when he fires up the bass it can last anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. He claims he works from home as well, he's either a day trader or a pot dealer, not quite sure which at this point. All communication attempts fall on deaf ears, from texts to phone calls to knocks on the door. My neighbors on the other side dont ever complain about our noise levels and the neighbors on his other side can hear the same things we do. Ive thought about writing a letter to our HOA but I feel like they wont do anything and Im two seconds away from just calling the cops but dont really want to waste their time on a noise complaint. We cant afford to move at this very moment but honestly think about taking a loss on the house and renting just so we can get away and let our kids be kids. Believe me Ive thought about just pounding on the walls or getting some kind of revenge but my wife keeps advising against it because she doesnt want to give him any kind of leverage. Anyone have any similar experiences or advice?
Thanks!

[davsel]

Soundproof your adjoining wall(s).
http://www.soundproofingcompany.com/...roofing-walls/

Let you neighbor know you are doing it in order to reduce the noise level he is subjected to. He will probably appreciate the effort and be less likely to complain about any future noise.

[Wulf202]

Ignore him. If he turns up his bass look up your cities noise complaint laws and if he's breaking them call him in. Otherwise keep ignoring it.

I've got lots of noise stories.

[Firehaus]

Call the police every time for documentation, then approach the HOA.

[Sawin]

Complain to the HOA that the walls were insufficiently sound-proofed. Get your noisy neighbor and the one on his opposite side to do the same.... get the whole neighborhood to have a more general conversation about the shotty walls and hopefully something can be done that way.

[pdr240]

Documentation and lots of it: times/duration of noise, attempts to reconcile face to face.
Have video of any f-t-f dealings and sound recordings from inside your home if possible.
Many Police Departments have a 'community relations offier' so as not to waste the patrol officers time.
Also document any interactions with the HOA - they should care about this.
I know it can be counter-productive to have to keep logs and stuff, kinda makes it worse to deal with.
Had a situation with a neighbors barking basset, sad to say I ended up moving, it can be very detrimental to quality of life.
Hope this helps a bit - God Luck!

[funkymonkey1111]

Or maybe keep your kids quiet? Ever think of that?

[Justin]

A Google search for HERF devices might be fruitful...

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[Sawin]

Kill him with kindness. Buy your neighbor a nice set of sound proofing headphones as a peace offering if you can't keep the kids to normal kid levels?

[newracer]

Contact the HOA and the police. All else fails move.