We live in a beautiful historic neighborhood with lots of cute older homes. It's super quiet, lots of retirees and young families and we live directly opposite a Catholic church. You get the general idea. Anyway, my neighbor's house has an apartment attached to it that faces our house. The new tenants are well, er, rough and ready to say the least. They come and go at all hours of the day and night and have at least 3 cars in the driveway.
Last night, at 2.30 am they arrived home very drunk and very loud with 2 guys and proceeded to yell, scream, smoke and drink on the porch. They woke us up from being complete dicks. This morning, my H found cigarette butts all over our lawn and my cat's grave. He is fucking fuming mad. He has had to get up at 3 am both days this weekend for work and those guys put him over the top. He just called me from work to inform me he is "filing a complaint" with our neighbor the landlady.
I can't wait to see this. You do not cross my H when he is tired and pissssed.
There is probably a noise ordinance. Next time call the cops and they will come talk to the unruly neighbors. After a couple times of this they will likely stop.
I second what GoDawgs said. I'd call the cops. And a lot of cities/towns have noise ordinances starting at like 10pm on weeknights, 11pm on weekends. I would call without hesitation. And if they're being loud and disorderly, the cop could possibly even cite them on disorderly intoxication/conduct.
4. Getting even. You wake my kids up at 2 partying, I come and knock at your door when I get up at 5:30 to say good morning. I come back at 6:30 before I leave to tell you that oh-so-funny story I forgot to tell you about at 5:30. H makes sure to mow the strip of lawn outside your bedroom window at 7:30. If we're not sleeping, NEITHER ARE YOU.
When my parents were newlyweds they lived in an apartment building with a lot of college students that partied all night. In response, dad would blast his stereo and stomp around, make all kinds of racket in the kitchen with pots and pans, etc starting around 5:30 in the morning. Don't get mad, get even.