March 16th, 2005

neighbors, but not for long

We saw our neighbors move a few weeks ago.

Or we thought we saw them move.

It now appears they did, in fact, leave the domicile. But they also appear to have turned it over to a group of college kids. Who are also loud. No, they don’t have the news turned up to 11 in the evenings, and they don’t (yet) appear to scream at each other all morning. But they’re definitely college kids. (And at least one of them appears to be a relative of the old neighbors. I guess they’re renting to their nephew or cousin or something. This might be against the HOA rules. Not that I would turn them in or anything. Probably not.)

Anyway, these kids (and it does feel sort of rude to call them kids, but they are) talk loudly, late into the night. I heard them last night. And I heard them the night before. Well after midnight. They were noisy. Mr. Angst banged on the wall, to no avail. We contemplated going over there in the middle of the night to tell them to knock it off. They are college kids. No one else in our condo complex is that young, and no one else in our complex has that many people living in their unit. (Hee! I said “unit.”)

I would probably be more bothered by this (and I am bothered, not to mention VERY TIRED), but we’re selling our house. I know this because we signed a bunch of paperwork to that effect last night. It goes on the market next week.

Now we just have to figure out where we’ll live if we sell quickly. Gotta find a month-to-month, I guess.

Update: They are not living there, they are just squatting during Spring Break (I think they’re here for some festival). In three days, they’ll be gone and our evenings will be quiet again. Thank God.

comments

Ha ha! Unit. I can empathize; we’ve got noisy neighbors now. They were thumping on our wall at 11pm one night last week while we were trying to sleep–or their kids were–but that wasn’t as bad as when the father went out into the hallway in front of our door for a loud cell phone conversation. Lucky you, we still have a few months before we can think about moving.