Finding out who your neighbour rents through?

[Just Me]

Our neighbours have taken to playing really bad music until 9:30pm exactly so we can't call the cops. I swear they watch for our car coming & only put it on when we're home. GRR!

Have you checked your local council laws on playing music and times? I was surprised when I looked ours up that music is not allowed to be played more than 10dB above background noise between 10pm and 8am on weekdays and 6pm and 8am on weekends. If their music is louder than 10dB on the border of their property or played after 6pm on weekends, we can call the police.

Every council is different, but I would check out what your laws say. I have been tempted to print out a copy of our noise pollution laws and leave it in a couple of our neighbours' letterboxes with the appropriate bits highlighted.

[human bean]

Thanks for the support ladies - so sorry to hear that you are both in similar situations. TG I will definitely be looking up the local council laws and see what they say - we have been so tempted to call the police several times I guess if I know the laws I won't be so hesitant if they are breaching them. The other night they were all so off their trees in the backyard at about 3 in the morning DH and I didn't call the police but we should have - woulda scared the living daylights out of them I think. Plus made them pull their heads in a bit....we have regretted not ringing ever since.

I just realised too that I should ask the elderly lady across the road if she knows who they rent through....we have affectionately nicknamed her Mrs Mangle because she always seems to know what's going on but when we asked her about the house (the day we moved in and she popped out to say hello) she just said they were a young family renting.

Entreat....I don't think we have any HomesWest houses in this area....are they sporadically placed or are there normally a group? I've only been here a couple of years and not sure how the housing works here in WA?

To be continued..... and thanks again

[entreat]

We have a homeswest unit block next to our house & if it weren't for the certain people living in the back unit, you might not have been aware of it. The rest of them are quite fine, normal neighbours.

And you can get Homesweat scattered throughout suburbs. One suburb in Kal is quite nice & there are HW houses in there. I don't know who you'd contact to find out if it is a HW home, though.

The house that I spoke of before isn't HW though. but I don't think I have much recourse about their behaviour with the agent. Otherwise, they're ok (except we suspect they're peddling drugs to the dodgy HW residents...)

[Rach75]

you should be able to find out thru council I did when we had problems with 2 lots of houses in our street one was rented thru local real estate the other a commission property coucile happily gave me the details

[Erin_25]

Ring the local council, they should be able to help & they can even do something about the rubbish etc & seriously RING THE POLICE!!! whenever you want....it's your right & I am one person who is very much over inconsiderate neighbours!!! Lucky for us our rental had a "for rent" sign out the front when we moved in so we know who to contact when we have a prob & we have done so & rang the police. We have been here 1.5yrs & have already had 3 different lots of tenants grrrrrrrr.

[human bean]

Woohoo! Thanks - I will be ringing the council tomorrow!! Don't know why I never thought of it myself!! I'll let you know how I get on

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Call the police! The rental agents won't be able to do much out of hours. Go straight to the police, they're more likely to do something anyway.

Hope you get something sorted without the police getting involved but if not - CALL. If they're breaking the law when the police get there (eg loud music/shouting above certain volume) then you don't have to get involved at all.

Good luck!