Hi,
Bought a 30yr-old semi-detached 3-bed house with my girlfriend in Rathfarnham just before Christmas. The adjoining house has since been bought and is currently rented out to a family of 6 (two parents, three kids aged 5-8 and an infant). The family happens to be <ethnicity removed> (seemingly <religion removed>) and the parents don't have much English.
We have a number of issues with these neighbours, and we're not sure how to proceed - so any advice would be most welcome:
* We can constantly hear the kids screaming at eachother, jumping around, and banging on the walls. I hope it isn't the case, but it seems like the parents often leave the kids home alone to run riot. The infant regularly bawls for hours on end.
* When in bed at night, we frequently have to listen to screaming matches between the parents, or loud television in their main bedroom.
* Immediately after moving in, they erected *three* large satellite dishes at the back of the house. One of these is over a metre across, and is right beside our back bedroom window. All look unsightly.
I'm actually laughing as I read the above because it all seems ridulous - but it's all true. I'm typing this with headphones on, to get some peace! Note that the houses are well built - I don't feel that soundproofing the walls is the way forward.
We haven't approached them about these problems yet - I guess we wanted to give them a chance to settle in, to see if things eased off. Unfortunately I don't have a phone number for their landlord.
So what should we do - confront the parents and ask them to control their kids? Likely to be difficult with the language barrier. Perhaps we should ask them for the phone number of their landlord, and let him sort them out?
Wouldn't we be right to contact a community garda if we were sure that the kids were being left home alone?
Thanks - like I said any advice would be appreciated.
Bought a 30yr-old semi-detached 3-bed house with my girlfriend in Rathfarnham just before Christmas. The adjoining house has since been bought and is currently rented out to a family of 6 (two parents, three kids aged 5-8 and an infant). The family happens to be <ethnicity removed> (seemingly <religion removed>) and the parents don't have much English.
We have a number of issues with these neighbours, and we're not sure how to proceed - so any advice would be most welcome:
* We can constantly hear the kids screaming at eachother, jumping around, and banging on the walls. I hope it isn't the case, but it seems like the parents often leave the kids home alone to run riot. The infant regularly bawls for hours on end.
* When in bed at night, we frequently have to listen to screaming matches between the parents, or loud television in their main bedroom.
* Immediately after moving in, they erected *three* large satellite dishes at the back of the house. One of these is over a metre across, and is right beside our back bedroom window. All look unsightly.
I'm actually laughing as I read the above because it all seems ridulous - but it's all true. I'm typing this with headphones on, to get some peace! Note that the houses are well built - I don't feel that soundproofing the walls is the way forward.
We haven't approached them about these problems yet - I guess we wanted to give them a chance to settle in, to see if things eased off. Unfortunately I don't have a phone number for their landlord.
So what should we do - confront the parents and ask them to control their kids? Likely to be difficult with the language barrier. Perhaps we should ask them for the phone number of their landlord, and let him sort them out?
Wouldn't we be right to contact a community garda if we were sure that the kids were being left home alone?
Thanks - like I said any advice would be appreciated.
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