Neighbors Complaining About Toddlers Making Noise

If your neighbors are having issues living in a FAMILY complex then they need to move into a complex that is for adults only. If they also have kids then they should know that kids will be loud and cry sometimes no matter what time of the day or night. You are not violating any of the rules or regulations so there shouldn't be anything to worry about as far as being evicted or them telling the landlord, after all the kids are on the lease/rental agreement. Maybe the landlord should consider offering to put them into another apt were there are not young children near by. Hope everything works out okay for you Lynne.

I would tell them where to go and how to get there. If neighbors don't like toddler noise, they can move. When they tell the landlord, do you actually get in trouble? I would really like to think people could understand that kids are noisy.

That is ridiculous. Children are children and people have to get over it- it's not like you can turn off the TV. If it makes you feel any better, we have the rudest neighbors on the planet. I am 34 weeks pregnant, we have a 20 month old, and our neighbors wake us some weekends from 3am-7am playing loud techno music, throwing up in their backyard and overall acting like they are in high school. I think that is uncalled for, who lives like that with such small quarters? unfortunately we are going to have to move. But, in your case, what can you do? children are children. If you ever worry about your neighbors complaints, remember that you could be partying all night and keeping them awake, and that is far worse! I hope that makes you feel better. People are amazing.

I had a neighbor under me complain about my 2 yr old even though they had 2 little ones....there was nothing i could do....she didnt wake up a lot at night...and i put her to bed at 8:30...if they are in bed by 9 it shouldnt be a prob....just dont let them jump off the couch.

Not everyone chooses to live in an apartment... some people can't afford to buy or rent a house. It is up to each tenant to be respectful of each other. I lived below people who would let their kids jump off the couch, kick balls inside, run around etc... and it was LOUD. Just as you would not want to have your kids awakened at night by someone playing loud music, banging on doors, etc.... your neighbors don't want to be awakened either. I would suggest adding things like chairs, curtains, stuffed animals and other plushy items to your childrens room to absorb the sound as much as possible. In some complexes, if enough complaints are filed the manager has the right to ask you to leave.

Yup. (And the reverse... we also lived in "FAMILY student housing", and college kids WITHOUT kids would move in -for the cheap rent- and party until all of us with kids complained enough to get them kicked out. There was a loophole in the Student Housing that would let brothers and sisters move into family student housing apts.)

Most of the time though, we lived in a regular apt. I'm super conscientious, so I had to "get over it" as far as how noisy my infant/child was. Children ARE noisy. That's all there is to it. Living in an apartment is noisy, even without kids. If someone doesn't want to deal with hearing their neighbors rent a house! Or move to an "adults only" complex. If you're in a regular complex, you've CHOSEN to be there. And that means babies crying in the middle of the night, and temper tantrums at dinner time, and peals of laughter, and "doop doop doop doop doop crash!" of little feet running, and toys that get thrown into the wall, and zeeewooop-thunk, zeeeeewooop-thunk, of sliding in the bathtub. A hundred kinds of noises that follow kids around.

Another thing about living in an apartment is that YOU get to choose where you live. If you can't stand the noise above you, live on the top floor. If you're like me (and lose vertical stability...aka are a clutz) or just like to be able to jump around...live on the bottom floor... but then you can't complain about hearing noise above you. It's all about choices. They made theirs and they're trying to make YOURS, too? Get serious.

If your neighbors aren't smart enough to have chosen WHERE to live IN the complex, that's not your fault. And if they're doubly dumb to not be able to stand the noises of childhood and yet live in a family complex... that's on them.

<Laughing> The irony for US is that we finally bought a house (and our last complex had the BEST neighbors)... live within walking distance of a University, that is 1/2 & 1/2 college kids and young families (read *noisy*, but super friendly neighborhood)... and our retired neighbors complain CONSTANTLY about the noise. It's not like the neighborhood has changed, the University has been here for over a hundred years. College kids and young families have been here the whole time because it's where we can afford to rent and buy and it's near the school we attend or work at. 8 o'clock at night in the summer and 95 degrees and 5 kids in the pool, and parents sitting around chatting, and they're shouting out the windows for US to keep it down. When a block down the road there's a frat party kicking off that we'll be listening to until dawn. Sheesh. And why exactly do *I* feel guilty? People.