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[Big Nake]

I have made a lot of noise in my place over the past year-plus.  Floors being ripped up, lots of pounding, nailing, etc. and right now my new counters are being installed and it's loud AF.  I know that the neighbors are getting a lot of this noise.  There is no question.  The people on both sides of me have been great and have not complained one time.  Do I get them an Amazon card and put it into a card that says "Thanks for your patience while I made an unbelievable amount of noise?"    A small thing to help keep the harmony in a townhouse complex?

[Augie1991]

Most definitely! Or a gift card for a great local establishment! Good neighbors are a blessing!!

[Ineedacatscan]

That'd be a nice gesture or a food item or something.  We gave out pastries at xmas this year https://www.kringle....HxoCKPQQAvD_BwE

 

 

Or you could burn horse feces in your yard and really set the tone for your relationships

[Augie1991]

Once you start having ladies over to show off your place the neighbors will be faced with an all together different type of noise. Good to butter them up now.

[Big Nake]

This project puts me very close to the end of the work and the noise, generally.  There will probably always be some kind of project but a good 95% of it will be done soon.  The really LOUD stuff is done.  I think I'll do it and let the neighbors know I appreciate their patience.  

[TonyBrown]

most of the work is being done while they are at work away from the house correct?  have they been inconvenienced by any of it??  can't hurt to offer a gesture tho, good neighbors are worth a lot really.  maybe make a special batch of beer for them?  something nice and bottle conditioned, RIS or an aged barleywine?? a thought...

[Big Nake]

Their hours are strange.  The one side (Linda and Ken)... I think she's retired and home all day.  He works from noon to 8pm so he's gone for part of the day.  On the other side, (Andy and Robin) I think they have some kind of partial WFH situation because their cars are here some days and gone other days.  When they're gone, one comes home around 3-4pm and the other one around 6pm.  So I feel like ALL of them are around for some part of some days.  Then there are the weekends when some work has also been done.  I have no idea if ANY of these people drink.  I know we're a bunch of drunkies who assume that everyone drinks but I'm coming in contact with more and more people who don't and it's not just dry January.  So I don't know that beer is the answer... at least for them.    I was thinking Amazon gift card.  Maybe $100.  Seems like a small thing to do.  I envision them sitting and having dinner while I hammer away.  Or maybe they just got in front of a movie and then there is loud banging.  I know it would annoy me if I didn't know it was coming.  I have joked with them when they see me, "Hi guys.  Sick of me yet?" and they just laugh and say everything is good.  

[Vagus]

 I know we're a bunch of drunkies who assume that everyone drinks but I'm coming in contact with more and more people who don't and it's not just dry January.  

Fucking disgusting. Look, there are people who drank until they could no longer hold water. I get that and respect it. They put in their time.

 

But then there are the ones who don't like the *feeling* of their espohagi being stretched to capacity during repeated high-volume slams. Those revolt me. You see someone like that, you get them a lead pipe to the face. TO THE FACE.

[BrewerGeorge]

Gift cards are a fecking scam.  Invite them over for a cocktail party once the work is finished.  Presumably they have similar floorplans and age of everything, so seeing what you did should be interesting for them.  Serve your beer and bring in a little catering from a good local place.

[Vagus]

Gift cards are a fecking scam.  Invite them over for a cocktail party once the work is finished.  Presumably they have similar floorplans and age of everything, so seeing what you did should be interesting for them.  Serve your beer and bring in a little catering from a good local place.

And then hide their bodies beneath the floorboards.

[Big Nake]

Gift cards are a fecking scam.  Invite them over for a cocktail party once the work is finished.  Presumably they have similar floorplans and age of everything, so seeing what you did should be interesting for them.  Serve your beer and bring in a little catering from a good local place.

I can see that but I can also see them thinking that this kind of social interaction might be as bad as the noise.  I say that because no one here seems to be overly social.  No one.  I talk with different people but there isn't a lot of warmth coming from too many of these people.  I also don't like the look of me saying, "Come look at my work and my cool place".  I hear what you're suggesting and I like it but I'm not sure how it would play with them.  I have thought about setting something up for warm weather and putting my BGE outside and asking people to come and hang on a Saturday afternoon... grill, music, beer, etc.  But I wonder if it would be just me sitting there.  A lot of these people keep to themselves.  Example:  I know the one guy Todd across the way and have talked with him many times.  Another guy Ron is very cool and I have talked with him many times too.  Both of their wives are absolute hermits.  Stay in the house all the time.  Drive by me and don't even look at me.  I haven't spoken one word to either one of them.  

[siouxbrewer]

To the OP, that's way more thoughtful of you than is necessary. I'd avoid inviting neighbors over to hang, keep em guessing as to what's been going on over there.

[Vagus]

I can see that but I can also see them thinking that this kind of social interaction might be as bad as the noise.  I say that because no one here seems to be overly social.  No one.  I talk with different people but there isn't a lot of warmth coming from too many of these people.  I also don't like the look of me saying, "Come look at my work and my cool place".  I hear what you're suggesting and I like it but I'm not sure how it would play with them.  I have thought about setting something up for warm weather and putting my BGE outside and asking people to come and hang on a Saturday afternoon... grill, music, beer, etc.  But I wonder if it would be just me sitting there.  A lot of these people keep to themselves.  Example:  I know the one guy Todd across the way and have talked with him many times.  Another guy Ron is very cool and I have talked with him many times too.  Both of their wives are absolute hermits.  Stay in the house all the time.  Drive by me and don't even look at me.  I haven't spoken one word to either one of them.  

I've invited all my neighbors to gatherings. None of them have ever come to have a beer with me.

 

EXCEPT my former next door neighbor. Brewer, englishman. Gentleman. It was a loss when he moved.

[Dave McG]

I like George's idea, but instead of calling them Andy and Robin, you need to start a hot spot thread and use everyone's initials in a 9000 word post. Then we have a contest to see who does the best job keeping everyone straight.

[Brian72]

To the OP, that's way more thoughtful of you than is necessary. I'd avoid inviting neighbors over to hang, keep em guessing as to what's been going on over there.

 

Dont hide the sex swing though. Let them know you're the boss!

[Big Nake]

I kind of feel like I could annex this entire complex and turn it into my own personal playground and no one would say a word.  You might see someone grilling on their balcony or working on their car for a bit but people seem to open their garage, pull out and drive away and then come back, pull into their garage and close the door never to be seen again.  Everyone's window treatments are closed... always.  I feel like trying to create a social environment would be very challenging for some of these people.  That's just a guess.  They seem fine when I have contact with them but that's very short.  I'm outside all the time... working in the garage, grilling, brewing, washing cars, playing music, etc. but most people here are hermit-like.  There is one couple (Jeff and I think her name is Aggie) where they turned their garage into what looks like a bar.  There's a TV and maybe a ping-pong table in there.  My kind of people.  They have chairs and a firepit on their driveway.

To the OP, that's way more thoughtful of you than is necessary. I'd avoid inviting neighbors over to hang, keep em guessing as to what's been going on over there.

I've hinted that I built a crematorium in the basement.  Honestly, I don't think they mind or care. 

[Genesee Ted]

Have you joined Nextdoor?

[Stains_not_here_man]

Neighbors are the worst!

[SnowMan]

 There is one couple (Jeff and I think her name is Aggie) where they turned their garage into what looks like a bar.  There's a TV and maybe a ping-pong table in there.  My kind of people. 

 

 

When's the ski trip?

Neighbors are the worst!

 

 

Some truth to this.  Why I live in the middle of 139 acres. 

[toonces]

A fiery cross in their front yard?