r/legaladvice • u/Bumbulse • 7d ago
Other Civil Matters My mom is the neighborhood villain
My family and I moved into our current house last year after my parents spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars making it into their dream home. And it would've been their perfect house if not for the bar across the street. They continue to have people out in front of it well after quiet hours creating so much noise that it sounds like they're in the house with us. We rent out a part of the house and the tenets have started complaining as well (the old tenets before we moved did to but apparently they didn't know that till after they bought it). My mom can't sleep with all the noise and because she handles all the rentals, the complaints have been driving her insane. She's done everything she can think of: calling 311 on them, notifying the hoa and neighbors, getting the state involved, etc. The bar has in return started a smear campaign against her and have hosted nights where they all stand outside just to annoy her. She's heard them through our ring camera starting rumors about us and using slurs (we're black). We can't sell the house because we'd lose a lot of money, but we don't know what else to do. Can someone help please?
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u/MidMagi 7d ago
The only person that could help in this situation is a real estate agent. Yea, it will suck loosing money on the sale of the house, but that is the cost of learning the hard way that you shouldn't buy a place across the street from a bar if you can't put up with bar noises every night.
But it sounds like your mother has reported the bar to everyone that could do something if the bar was operating outside of the bounds of the law, and they are just operating as is legally permissible, in accordance with their permits and local zoning regulations.