Balcony Bitches

I lived in apartments for decades before residing in a home now. I totally relate to your needing to express your feelings on just how scummy neighbors can be. I could go on for hours about all the different devils that were my neighbors over the years. It really all comes down to a couple simple concepts. One of those concepts is the selfish, self obsessed, self important and entitled attitude people like those you described exhibit. Realistically there is very little one can do to halt the behavior of these type of individuals. First thing that I desire is to inflict as much physical violence upon them that I possibly can carry out. Of course this is NEVER the actual retaliatory response which I act out. But in my mind I am exterminating them much like I would cockroaches. An actual response would be to call the police or apartment management. This is another area that I don’t want to get involved in because then the offenders are likely to become angered or butt hurt because someone actually went against something that they want to do no matter if it’s 3 or 4 am and they are screaming and pounding on the walls and shrieking even though they know full well that all their surrounding neighbors are just poor hardworking folks trying to make their way through life quietly without hurting or bothering anybody. This now gives the offenders the “right” to slash your tires, steal something out of your car, key your car….you get the idea. So now you have one set of people in one apartment that are negatively impacting possibly 3 or 4 different sets of apartment dwellers that are unlucky enough to be their neighbors. There should be a law on the books that protects people that are effected by sociopaths that happen to be your neighbor, with penalties that include immediate eviction and monetary fines that are of high value. And any retaliation attempted by the evicted dirt bags would result in even higher fines and jail time. Video camera security systems could supply all the evidence required as well as any audio recordings of the party/smashing noises at 4 am. And forget about going up to knock on the door of the lunatics apartment at 4 am or even at a reasonable hour the next day. This might lead to their hypersensitive egos to be bruised or feelings hurt which would lead to all the horrible scenarios described earlier. So since you can’t take the law into your own hands and give the offenders a full hands on beating since that will send you to prison and they won’t listen to reason, there really is only one solution and that is to contact the authorities and of course everybody has to grow some courage and not be afraid of making the tough laws and enforcing them. Most people of even moderate intellect would surely recognize that it is often one rotten greedy person that impacts so many other good people and I am just over it. I wouldn’t feel sorry or guilty or whatever excuse an “abnormal behaviorist” would spew out in order to excuse and perpetuate the unacceptable bad behavior.