TIFU by making our neighbors believe they have rats in their walls.

We live in the end unit of a condo, so we only have neighbors one side and we share the wall on that side. When we had just moved in we found out the previous tenants were hoarders and had created a rat problem in our walls. The way they scratched is burned into my brain. That’s all solved now thankfully.

Before the current neighbours there were two families, both of them with teenagers, one of them with a kid with autism that their mom told us he screams and throws stuff, both families have two big dogs. NEVER heard a peep from them in our house. Nothing. Nada. Like the house next to us was unoccupied.

The family that’s living next to us is just a couple and their young kid, maybe 5-6 years old. And yet they are the noisiest people I’ve ever met. They seem to be moving furniture around the whole freaking day, we can hear them stomping, we can hear their TV, they yell at each other constantly, it’d be funny if it wasn’t so annoying.

Two days ago while I was watching TV they started their shenanigans and I unconsciously started scratching the wall the way I remember rats scratching the wall and that made the noise stop.

I did it again yesterday and it worked yet again.

Today we woke up to the sound of drills, saws and smashing on their side of the wall. I’m pretty sure they’re looking for a rat they’ll never find.

TL;DR Found out the sound of scratching their wall like a rat made noisy neighbors stop being noisy. Cause them to tear down their wall.