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What can home owners do about noisy tenants?

littlemissbliss · 2024-05-04 16:12:45

Hello - I have finally purchased my first property and now on the property ladder. I moved in only a few days ago and already have neighbour problems. There are tenants upstairs, with a young son running and jumping around and it’s so loud! Is there anything home buyers can do about this? (I know tenants have their own…

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theoretica Posts: 12,372 Forumite

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It reads to me as though you have a degree of buyer's remorse. This is not at all unusual after making a big purchase and usually fades in a little while.
I find my brain copes best with annoying outside noises if they are not intruding onto silence. Playing very familiar music quietly gives my auditory processing something to follow along with and I find other noise much easier to tolerate. Not drowning the nasty noise out, just listening to something else that I know well enough to fill in any blanks.

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