'Screams all night': Neighbours from hell torment renter

A frustrated tenant has revealed he is close to losing his mind, living next door to the neighbours from hell.

The resident has explained that police can do nothing to help, despite one who continues to “scream and rage” until 3am.

He needs to wear headphones and play white noise to try to block out the commotion, but has reached his wits’ end.

The man says he has found “ways to cope” with the disruption. “After months of gathering evidence for the relevant authorities, all I got in the end was ‘just move’,” he says in the desperate Reddit thread.

“My current neighbours, one of them is a gamer who never sleeps and just SCREAMS and RAGES constantly until 3am; the other neighbour has just started a routine of playing music at 9pm til 11pm. I can’t…take it anymore.

“I want to bang on the walls and yell at them to shut up, and the only reason I haven’t is because I am now convinced they will only double down to spite me.”

He explains that he is due to move in a few months time but is “close to losing it”.

“It is absolute torture,” he says in response a comment, asking which authorities he has approached. He details how the council handles noise complaints and have only advised him to shift addresses.

Another Redditor responded in support, saying they are enduring a “Karen” upstairs who stomps her feet and blasts music and has persisted despite $2000 worth of noise disturbance fines.

In Australia, councils can infringe residents and businesses for disturbing the peace but these can be appealed.

An application for a noise abatement order can also be lodged with a local court, along with evidence and, in New South Wales, a filing fee of $83.

Each state and territory has its own definition of excessive noise in residential areas and the decibels that cannot be exceeded.

For example, in NSW, music is prohibited between midnight and 8am on Friday, Saturday and any day before a public holiday. It’s also restricted from 10pm to 8am on any other day.

Even living on a noisy street can be harmful to health, according to the World Health Organisation.

People who reside on busy streets, near rail lines or beneath a flight path are at greater risk of collection of health worries, a WHO report in 2018 showed.

Heart disease, tinnitus, sleep disruption and cognitive impairment in children were among the potential risks posed by living with an extreme level of noise, according to the paper.