I thought I had it bad! My neighbors are pretty crappy too, though. We live in a townhouse so we share a wall with the neighbors who may not be straight from Hell, but definitely aren't a godsend either.

The neighbor is the typical spoiled kid, she's a new teacher in the NC school system, so she's making crappy money- fortunately for her someone in her family is loaded because she's living in an expensive townhome, driving a new BMW, had TV screens larger than our front door mounted on every wall, and the loudest surround sound system ever. Once and a while her folks will come down to visit (you can tell because they take over our small seven space parking lot with their oversized Hummers) and that's when the fun really starts.

A couple of months ago we woke up to someone hammering on the brick wall that separates our units at 12:30 at night. Woke my wife and me up, which was bad enough, but also woke up our then 15 month old daughter. I got dressed and calmly knocked on their door while my wife tended to the kid- the mom who was visiting answered and when I asked if they could stop hammering she told me that they "have lives too and will do whatever they want whenever they want". Well, at that I exploded- I don't even remember what I said, but I know it contained a lot of four letter words.

take a video camera, tape all the goings on, give tape to local news station, embarrass the crap out of them, then take the tape to animal controll, the police, and dept of human services and see if they can do anything about it..i personally would tape it, invite all the neighbors over, including the offenders, and have a "movie" night.

This has been discussed by my wife and I numerous times. I guess in the end we want to walk outside and be able to say hi, with a clean conscious. Maybe this is no longer possible in this case. Even tonight my wife had to call me to see if she should go tell the neighbors behind us (different than the rant neighbors) to turn off their HALOGEN Spotlight that lights up the whole neighborhood including our daughters room with the shades drawn.

Uggh...