"Hello neighbor, please keep your dogs from barking through the night...."

If you left a note for a neighbor you don't know, would you sign it with just your 1st name and your phone #.......or leave it anonymous?

I'm interested to get your input.

Own that isht, Clem.  Hopefully the neighbor will take the note in the spirit in which it was written... friendly, neighborly, we all have to live here together spirit.

where do you live?  me and the muscle could go over there for you.  ;-)

for a price, of course.

OH! Yeah I have a crazy old lady neighbor that knocked on someones door and told them this! She said they slammed the door in her face! But she's crazy... Caught her going through our garbage when we first moved it....

Anonymous, unless you friends with them and frequently talk to them and know how they will react.

Interesting Mary....point taken!  I just wish I could know ahead of time whether or not she's not a psycho.

I'll wire you the info and the cash KG.

do that.

jinx David!

I think I'll write it as if I'm signing it....but leave it anonymous. At least I'll write it nicer that way ;)

People are nucking futs these days. I'd be afraid to sign it.

Have you spoken to her in person?  During the day when things are calm. 'Hey, neighbor.  Is there any way you could get him/her to stop? Anyway we can help her? Say treats, an old blanket, muzzle?' Muzzle comment is optional.

Worst case/loss of patience need some relief now...Perhaps if you went to her home in the middle of the night as the dog is barking and said, 'Uh, good evening. Its o'Dark thirty at night and we can't get our baby to sleep/we can't get to sleep due to your dog's barking. Is she/he unwell, scared, lonely?  Is there any way you could get him/her to stop? Anyway we can help you out? Say treats, an old blanket, muzzle?' Muzzle comment is again optional.

We have a neighbor that is the Pres.  of the HOA by default (no one else would do it).  He and his wife are fanatical not just to us but everyone with incessant minutia such as, "you didn't pick up your newspaper, your dog pee'd in the parkway next to the property,  you didn't bring your garbage cans in until the next day".  Unfortunately they never speak directly to the person that is involved.  Instead they call the police,  make formal reports to the HOA forcing them to send violation notices etc.  If they had just said in person  "hey...."  it would be received better.  Instead,  everyone hates them and a petition is going around to force them to resign.

I'm sure there are others in the neighborhood that were abruptly woken up at 4:30 this morning by their damn dogs, too. It'll write collectively for all of us. Maybe someone else will shit on their doorstep.

Patrick will shit on their door step if you give him enough money for a 40oz

Things seem to go better in these situations if you talk to them in person and bring it up casually.

Why not just knock on the door with some other concerned neighbors and discuss it? If you don't approach them in a hostile way, maybe they won't give you hostility back. Anonymous notes just seem like a cop-out to me.

Thanks for all your input!

I may even throw in a pack of Sudafed for Patrick. (I keed.)

Patrick and are are like on the same wavelength.

I've never met this neighbor, maybe a "hello" once. I don't want to catch her off guard, and would like to give her time to process a note in her own time. . . It'll be a friendly note w/ some helpful suggestions (muzzle, gentle leader, training, walk yo damn dogs once in a while...) and won't start w/ "Hey bitch!"

There are two ways of doing this. One is to go talk to the neighbor or leave a note with my name and phone # in it. 2nd is to inform the apartment manager and have them talk to the neighbor on your behalf. I have tried both ways and the 2nd one worked better. They did not appreciate it when I talked to them and were arguing with me. At another time the same neighbor's dog was barking loudly at wrong times of the day. This time I called the manager to complain and asked my name to be withheld. The manager sent them a quiet letter and investigated why they had a dog in their unit when their lease did not include a pet. They represented to the mananger that they were just "watching the dog for a friend temporarily". I then told the manager they had had the dog barking for the past 3 months so I don't think it was "temporarily". So the manger contacted them for lease violation. So they moved out soon after.

Claire, I wish my landlord was that cool.
I told my landlord that my upstairs neighbor had cats, when it clearly says no pets on the lease, and they never even responded to my phone call. I wrote a letter about it, too, and again, they never responded.
Turns out you can have pets if you have a letter from your doctor, even if the lease says no pets. Something about tenants rights and shit.

I have this crazy battshit crazy neighbor who if she gets mad at you for whatever reason (say you park your car in front of her house) she will call the SF building inspectors on you and say you are doing illegal construction....WTF is that about?

Adrian - Was the upstairs neighbor's cat bothering you though? In my case the upstairs neighbor's dog was barking like crazy as it was a poppy so when they left for work at 6 am it started barking and I normally don't get up till 7 or 8 am. The landlord has the obligation to ensure the environment is "habitable" for the tenants. And one of the things that defines "habitable" in California is that they are entitled to quiet environment so they can sleep at night. I am renting an apartment and am a landlord at the same time. So I make sure I take care of my tenants, as well as my landlord takes care of me. If my living environment becomes so hostile and inhabitable I will try everything I can, legally, to fight for my right.

sftu.org

Maybe that'll help some of you. (thanks, Val)
haha!

^that link is totally SFW btw, and potentially helpful.

OK, I did it. I left the note but didn't sign it. Call it a cop out if you will. I call it avoiding potential psychoness.

I hope the neighbor snaps to and you all get some peace and quiet, Clem.

call the authorities, let them deal with it.  ya never know what a psycho neighbor might do.

I feel the yelp love, Patrick T. Thanks!
You too Mary!