Who knows? The reasons don't really matter in the end. For the past few years I've lived in a predominantly black neighborhood with SO. Our neighbors have had mixed reactions to me. Some are friendly, some are downright rude. (Mostly females) I have been told to my gave that they didn't like me because I was a "stringy haired white *itch stealing their men" Now we moved to a more rural,mostly white part outside of town,and it's no better. The people across the road from us had taken to firing their guns for no reason. Another neighbor told me when I asked about it that they were doing it because we were an interracial couple and wanted to scare us into moving away. When they did it again one day, SO solved the problem by firing HIS rifle into the targets behind our house until the clip was empty. We haven't heard anything from them since. On another occasion,we stopped by a local dollar store to get light bulbs and while waiting to check out, the man in front of us looked at us,said nothing,but reached down and rolled up his pants leg to reveal a huge tattoo on the back of his leg of a man hanging from a tree. Subtle. I think i preferred the direct approach we got in the more civilized city neighborhood. But in the end, as long as they don't cause any real trouble, or set foot on our land,who cares. The reason we moved out there was to get farther away from people anyway,and we have enough land to to just that. In your case, it seems to be causing you problems. I personally wouldn't care about the car wash thing, but if someone were leaving trash on my property,I would have a big problem with that, whether they were doing it because they were racist or simply because they are a-holes. Just remember, all racists are a holes but not all a holes are racist.

It's nothing you can do about kids playing outside in daytime hours. It's legal so let that go. The one foot of your property on the other side of the fence? If you are that worried about damage to that strip then move your fence. You can't expect kids to stop playing one foot from their side of the fence. It's unreasonable. You can make it a taller fence so you're neighbor can't lean on it. Now the noise at night? That you can do something about. There are phone apps that show noise decibles. Record it with a video of the decible reading. First, be a decent person and go to the neighbor and say, hey, your music, banging, etc is easily audible at midnight and i need to wake up in the morning. Can you please lower it at night? If they don't, keep recording and notify the landlord. A landlord won't want a neighbor that causes noise complaints especially if you notify said landlord that the next step is small claims against *him* about his tenants behavior. They won't renew the lease. Now, i am not going to automatically assume they are low income weed smokers as someone else did here. That's jerk assumptions. Some people just grow up in louder cultures than others. However, renters tend to move on and worst come to worst you only have a year or two of it.

I am really sorry for you. I don’t have a solution, but hope that the excitement of the new television is going to wear off sooner rather than later. I only have trouble on some weekends and when school is out with some boys riding their four wheelers for hours.

I can hardly find any posts online about my problem in this condo/apartment setting - probably because my severely disabled child is the quiet one vs the grown adult(s) in the unit above us! My child does have meltdowns periodically though we are blessed they have become few and far between as our past neighbors above us were only noisy in a reasonable "normal living" sort-of-way. Even when she would be up in the middle of the night in pain and screaming and crying we would try to get her out- if we could safely. They never complained they could hear her- maybe they are understanding considerate folk. NOW we have new neighbors (met one of them). The guy we met is a disgruntled grumpy person it would seem. My husband was very friendly with him and I tried to say hi as well. He was trying to get sympathy from my husband for his "woes" in life (about supporting his children, having to move from this nice area- he seemed to feel above us when we said we are grateful to move here from a very contrasting neighborhood). He divulged a lot of "poor me" information but was not otherwise friendly he rolled his eyes at me when I introduced myself, wouldn't acknowledge our child and was moving in at the middle of the night. We had to move in the middle of the night before due to my husband's work hours- but we always did so as considerately as possible- tried to cut it off at least by curfew, if had to be longer would be as quiet as mice. Not this guy & his roomie. They bang bash and smash while stomping across the floor. We tried bringing me up and got a "that's just how we walk" response. One of them stomps loudly when my kid was crying because she was exhausted from little sleep (due to their noise). They occasionally add loud music to the roster. The management here say he is "nice" as if that's true nor has anything to do with his actions. The thing is under our state law "quiet and peaceful enjoyment" in our lease is a grey area. We would have to prove they are being unreasonably loud and exercising vs walking etc. The management keeps sounding biased saying he is "polite" with them, (well so are we), and because he's a bigger guy (we've lived under bigger people before...) he gets pity. We have three people getting little to no sleep and a disabled child having disturbances throughout her day even though we pay out-the-nose to live here. We were told we could move to another unit nearby (and upstairs) but they upped the rent price on us in one day- are telling us we have to pay a second deposit, a whole months rent to live in the new place for 1/2 a month, plus fees and will have only two days to move or get penalized with more fees!!! It feels like we are being robbed and they are trying to say we are charged for breaking our lease yet we feel we are forced to do so to live our normal lives and get our money's worth! I'm trying to work with them to compromise so we can afford to just move (to the more expensive unit- we just had health bills crop up on top of slow season at work..). Do we have a case here/ leg to stand-on hypothetically??? Or are we screwed into trying to adapt to this madness for the last 9 months of our lease??! Thank you