Loud and shady neighbor bothering my tenant

[Todd Kozak]

I have a couple great tenants in my house in St. Louis city. However, they are dealing with my not-so-great neighbors. SFHs but not much distance between houses.

I know that I can check the noise curfew and I know that I can try and have a civil conversation with the neighbor. Wanted others thoughts on what to do.

Here are the complaints...

Kareoke in backyard, loud and late at night

When a female comes over....

Multiple hours of sex during day and being loud enough to hear in the house

a mysterious jeep shows up to the front of house and honks, then to back of house (alley) and honks and this has happened at least 5-6 times always at 10am

Every time she is there, the guy that lives there removes the license plate from her car and either leaves it blank or temporarily puts another license plate on

Feels like something with drugs, prostitution, or something else shady

This is a decent part of the city (Dogtown).

[Nathan Gesner]

Definitely sounds like something shady going on, but it's not your issue.

Tell the tenants they need to document the behavior and report it to the police. If it's loud karaoke at 10pm, call in a noise complaint. If they remove/swap license plates, take pictures and report it to the police. If they have loud sex, particularly during the day, then I would try to document whether the sex is occurring with different visitors, record the cars and sex audio, then report it to the police.

You can't control the neighbors. Just educate your tenants on their options. If nothing is resolved after a month, you could always write a letter to the home owners with your complaints and threaten to sue them if they scare your renters away, but it will probably fall on deaf ears.