No. Mind your own business.
Obviously if he ever does get abusive or dangerous then you can inform police, or leave. But he hasn’t done anything yet to suggest he is dangerous, in fact you even say in your OP that the opposite is true, he seems harmless.
Live and let live.
When you call 911 to report the noise, the operator will ask you what kind of noise it is. If it’s arguing, the police will respond because someone might be committing a crime.
Claverhouse, there may be worse neighbors, but living close to someone who is dealing drugs can be a dangerous proposition. For example, in my situation, the downstairs neighbor was attacked when she asked one of the asshole’s friends to please move his car so she could get out. She was nice about it, but the friend took offense and pulled a knife on her, and the asshole got nasty about it. (That information came secondhand from the neighbor; I wasn’t home at the time.)
Yeah, the worst thing about this situation is you sometimes have to get someone to move their car? That’s not the worst neighbor imaginable. If that’s really the biggest issue, I’d let it go. And if he’s just selling one person’s prescription, that’s not a major drug dealer where I’d expect things to get worse.
If I was reasonably friendly with the dude I might casually suggest that he keep the deals inside – safer for him, and better for the neighborhood. Of course we’d have to be friendly enough that he didn’t take it as a threat or blame me when the cops did come.
Frankly, the yelling late at night would bother me a lot more, since I’m a light sleeper. I’d be more likely to get the landlord on his case about that.
Some do, and it makes me cringe every time I hear it. I LOATHE the name “Meemaw” for reasons unknown even to myself.
If I were you I would move. Just because he’s 120 lbs soaking wet doesn’t mean he couldn’t end up being a psycopath who ends up hurting you for reporting him.
Do not report him to the police just move.
It doesn’t matter how much time is on your lease, and you don’t need noise complaints. Any illegal activity is a breach of his lease and grounds for eviction. Let the landlord know he is dealing, the landlord will probably not want him there. If the landlord gives him notice of eviction for it, you don’t need to be the obvious one to have ratted him out. It is the landlords property, he could have witnessed some of the behavior himself.
Maybe you will need to call the police to have a report to back things up. However I don’t think the landlord needs a conviction to have grounds to evict the guy. It might take a month, but there is a decent chance that you can report the guy and have him move, not you.
Well, to be clear I was making a joke regarding the penny-ante, po-dunk, two-bit nature of the “drug dealer” in question. I’ve only heard the words Meemaw and Peepaw in movies, but I think it is an American South thing. Or Texas. Or somewhere down there.
I knew a kid in Arizona who called her grandmother “Meemaw” …barf.
Meemaw was a not-uncommon name some kids called their grandmother when I was a kid in Oklahoma, in the 70s. I thought it was odd at the time.
I think my neighbour here’s dealing; well, he’s definitely doing something interesting, 'cos the police have done at least two late night raids in the last few months, waking me up in the process…
Have been woken up at 3am by someone banging on our door (and just about to start throwing stones at my window, in a sort of ‘wake up’ way, not a 'smash glass way, but still annoying) 'cos they got the wrong house. The actual dealing doesn’t massively worry me, but I do object to being woken up.
I could be wrong though- I mean, maybe he’d invited them round for 3am tea and cake because he was having trouble sleeping due to worry in case the nasty police showed up again…
Your primary responsibility is the safety of your family, not stopping your worthless neighbor from selling drugs.
The first thing I would do is try and get out of your lease. Don’t give the real reason; make something up. If that doesn’t work, stick it out for 10 months. That’s the safest thing to do.
Oh, and you said you had a 9 mm? Get a concealed carry license (if your state allows) and carry it at all times.
How is the landlord going to get proof of the drug dealing?
Telling the landlord or police “my neighbor is dealing drugs” will likely result in these two events occurring:
- Nothing will happen to the neighbor (due to lack of evidence or whatever)
- A very pissed off neighbor
You do not want the slimeball pissed at the OP. The OP’s primary responsibly is the safety of his family, not trying to stop someone from illegally selling drugs.
As I stated in my post, a much better option is to try and get out of the lease without letting on the real reason. If that doesn’t work, the OP should stick it out for 10 months.
My kids call their grandma “Meemaw”. She was originally from South Carolina, but we live in Wisconsin. I’ve never heard it before my kids called her that, so I don’t really have a negative opinion. But it is wierd. Peepaw? No way.
It might be possible to move to a new unit in the same property, thereby enabling a move without having to get out of a lease. I’d call the cops anonymously. Living next to these people, your family is in jeopardy, from your neighbors, their customers, or from cops busting the wrong house. I wouldn’t stay there.
Yup; be “on your way” to somewhere else when you dime him out. Preferably have some “overlap” on your lease and make sure your mail is already going to the “new” place before you leave the old place, so he can’t track you by name and retaliate.
Your biggest concern should be the safety of your wife and kids; do NOTHING at all unless you feel confident in their safety from any potential retaliation.
If you go the gun route, make sure that YOU are up to it mentally and emotionally, do it legally, get yourself trained properly, and above all, be safe with it in your home and around your kids. Your sock drawer or nightstand drawer are no place to store a firearm.
And when I say “go the gun route,” I mean to say that you actually elevate it from “occasional plinker kept unloaded in a lockbox” to “loaded and ready to use to defend myself and family.”
Completely agree. And that’s why I advocate NOT going to the landlord or authorities. Sure, the scumbag might promptly get arrested or evicted. But the odds are much greater that nothing at all will happen to him, especially in the short term. And then the OP and his family will be 10X more danger. 
As I mentioned in my posts, the only way out of this situation is to figure out a way to quietly move. Or stick it out for 10 months.
Get some bed bugs and put it in their apartment under their door and of course hope they don’t move to your flat 
Seriously, a landlord will easily tell the person who made the complaint about them.
The cops in a major city won’t care much. I live in Chicago and stuff like this is common. We had a lady in a building or in my building that would be screaming “Help I’m being raped.” This went on for years. I live in a building with close to 50 flats, next to another building with a few flats, in front of another building with many flats.
I could never tell WHO was screaming this from what building at 2am. I felt at first I should call the cops, but it happened for YEARS. I personally think the woman’s husband probably came home drunk and wanted sex and she didn’t and was screaming rape.
And even if I did call the cops she never screamed it for long. What am I to do? Call the cops wait five or ten minutes for them to get here and say “I heard it but don’t know where it came from?”
This is part of city living. I can see drug dealers in Palmer’s Square in Chicago just blocks away from the police station. If I can see them, certainly a plain clothesmen could.
This isn’t to say cops don’t care, they do. But there’s so much crime there’s a time and a a place for every arrest.
So keep your mouth shut and start looking for legal ways to move. Break a few water pipes or something so the landlord will have to keep repairing it and maybe then you can say something along “This place is going downhill, I want out.”
Good luck
Yeah, I’d start with the landlord but definitely bring up that not only is the neighbor selling drugs, he is stealing them from his MiL and that puts the MiL at risk.