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good luck.
The OP is renting so moving is an option. It was the option I chose many years ago in a similar position when I owned a flat and the downstairs neighbours would play Eddie Grant on repeat. The idea of spending a year or more making complaints and keeping records of every 'noise event' just sounds like a stupid waste of a year or more.
Those Laserlite earplugs are the business however, and thus far haven't been kept up (although my wife who doesn't like to wear them has - seems a simple question for the interim to me )
On a serious note you have my pity, we went through hell with a problem child down the road a few years ago, it was the worst time of my life.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
We own the house, the previous neighbour died and it was sold and converted to student lets. The landlord puts any little scroat in there that will pay her rent every week and they are left to their own devises.
Some years it's fine others are unbearable.
Last year we had to get the university involved. I'd gone round to speak to them, got a load of attitude and they got louder in protest that someone had dare challenge their entitlement to make noise so then the uni rep came and spoke to them, made no difference, so we started a log of every time we were woken up or loud music was played for three months on their advice then had a review with the uni. The agreed it was unacceptable so they went round and said if it didn't stop they would be thrown off their courses (that's what they told us they'd said anyway....but I don't think they'd want to loose 5 fee paying students personally). Stopped for a week then started again.
So I called the council, they came round and advised that I should have been logging everything with them, NOT the uni as this was little more than a delaying tactic on their part. So we'd need to start again, they told us to log everything "make a real pain of yourself" where her actual words. Then the council would install a noise recording device which would need to be switched on to record every time there was a disturbance for a month.
However, as a stroke of luck, when the Antisocial Behaviour officer came, she turned out to be an long since ex. of a pal of mine who I'd gotten on really well with years ago so she had a brew and assured me she'd take care of it.
She wrote them a letter explaining anymore complaints would result in confiscation of all equipment that could cause noise issues (stereos/iPod/laptop/tv/radio) and a 10 grand fine each and the landlord would be served with a 20 grand fine per student. Didn't hear a peep out of them for the rest of the year.
(formerly miserneil)
I use them all the time now, every night. Very handy when you go on holiday, too.
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If local enquiries draw a blank you can always go to the Land Registry web site and for a small fee (about £10?) you can find out who owns just about any property.
Luckily a job came up abroad and I left and the weight off my shoulders was huge, it was only then that I realised how much emotional energy was wasted on trying to manage the situation.
In short - move !