(NSFW) What level of naughty noise do you tolerate from your neighbors?

I would tolerate it but I find it rude. Although, if it was really loud and late at night ..I might slip a polite note under their door.

I have never heard a neighbor having sex. Only my roommate on multiple occasions. I just chose to be a little louder when it was my turn.

@Vunessuh See, I think this is my response, too – I’d rather occasionally put up with some of their noise and then be allowed to make my own noise every now and again than have everyone be really courteous of others, but no one’s really happy. Especially since in my current apartment, the walls are unbelievably thin, so regular levels of noise (toilet flushing, tv, walking, cell phones vibrating) get through, so I feel like everyone attempting to always be really quiet doesn’t solve the bigger picture.

Until 2–3 AM is fine [ I can sleep with noise and lights around ] but after it’s rude.

I live in the country, so I can’t see any neighbors from my house, nor have I ever heard banging.

@MyNewtBoobs That is the only way to be in an apartment just let people live their lives and they should let you live yours. It seems to work that way for me in the years that I have lived where I have. But the walls are rather thick here but we share balconies and you have to be tolerant of others that smoke and thing like that.

Never been an issue, it’s all the other noise that is bothersome. Shouting, banging & ranting & that’s just for starters. Yeah, our immediate neighbours are pricks!

Like @Hibernate I will give you X time. If by 1:30am you are not done, I’m coming to your door.

Check my question and the responses here.

Anything until 90 dB goes.
Or when i hear them say my name, eavesdropping and excited in the same sentence.

My nearest neighbor is 1500 meters away. If I can hear them, I’ll be a little frightened.

My wife and I were confronted with this same situation, except it was in a hotel. Not us, the people in the next room. We tolerated it one time, but when seconds came around, i banged on the wall.

They heard the banging warning and stopped.

It would not have been so bad, if their bed were on the other side of the room. But, their bed nd bed backed up to each other.

I can’t hear my neighbors over my own screams.;)

^^woah, haha

We are pretty spread out here. I don’t complain about my neighbors’ gunshots and they don’t complain about mine.

I live in a dorm where everyone knows each other and can hear everyone’s business, so it’s kind of amusing actually . . . like small-town gossip. “Oooo, someone’s having an awful lot of fun while their boyfriend is studying abroad . . . ”

That could be a juicy gossip in my neighborhood. I don’t mind at all. But if they keep their TV and radio in ear-piercing volume then I’ll call them and let them know.

As loud as they want. Why should anyone have to harness their sexual relations just to appease some other non-involved person?

Sorry, didn’t know we were being that loud. :P

As long as it doesn’t keep me up for distract me from some task requiring a lot of attention, I’m cool.

@Facade Generally the same reason you have to harness your tv watching and fighting and stereo listening – keeping it below a certain level of noise.

I was fine with it until I had a neighbor who did it hourly all night long. I know it might sound like an exaggeration but it is not. After putting up with it for a week or so then asking them politely to tone it down, we gave up and moved our bed to another room. True story.

I’ve lived in apts. where the adjoining apt’s bedroom was on the other side of my own and yeah, it could be annoying if until all hours of the morning but more often than not, we were happy other people were having a good time like we were. I’ve also shared apt’s with another couple and it wasn’t a nuisance, again, we were happy other people were having as good a time as we.

In my house, I’d rather hear happy sex going on than barking dogs, screeching children, leaf blowers, table saws or cupboards banging open and shut.

Well at my house I can’t say that has ever happened. In the hotels on the other hand, it is a pretty regular occurence. As long as I don’t have to try to explain to my kids what is going on next door, I actually don’t care at all.

I confess, my wife and I are the loud neighbors.

As far as I can recall, we’ve only heard any of our neighbors going at it twice. We never care at all. Besides, given how rarely we ever hear anything, they probably really need it if they’re getting loud enough to be overheard. Way better than crying babies, loud televisions, and screaming matches (each of which has been so prevalent at one of our apartments or another that it should have been down in the contract as a feature).