Location: Austin, Texas The owner of the house next to us has rented the home since day 1 of the house being built, which was against the HOA bylaws for the first 5 years - we didn't say anything because COVID hit and people need to make money. It's been 5 years now so it's moot. Each of the three tenants have been a NIGHTMARE to live next to - HE even hated them because they damaged the home so much he lost money on the last 2 tenants. Here we are again, he's renting to a single mother of 5 kids that clearly does not have any concern for their neighbors. Part of me feels bad because clearly she's overrun by kids, with no help. But she also won't accept any. I've offered to mow her yard because it's overgrown, and she basically told me in a racially phrased way to never assume she can't take care of her yard. They're literally the only ones that cause a ruckus in the neighborhood for at least 5 or 6 streets. You can stand outside at almost any time of the day, and you'll only ever hear them because no one else really makes any noise unless mowing or driving through the neighborhood (occassional music bumping - but nothing big). They are inviting friends over that don't live in the neighborhood and using ANOTHER neighbor's basketball hoop so often that they politely "gifted" it to the gang of kids to get them away... it went from across the street to right next to us. It was already loud and obnoxious, and now the ping of basketball bounces and backboard bricks ring through our house and it's literal torture, causing a chinese water torture effect driving us crazy. I spoke with this neighbor and he said he wanted them gone, he couldn't handle the noise after 3 days of a constant barrage of screaming. He also then made it clear he wanted nothing to do with the situation and would not get involved in anything. He literally dumped the problem in my lap and brushed his shoulders off. Prick. We live in small lots, and we've tried to ask them politely to keep down after 5-6 hours of constant yelling and screaming EVERY DAY. We've talked to the landlord and he says "as long as it doesn't break the lease, I can't do anything"... but it does say in the standard lease that they must not be a nuissance and cause excessive noise. Anyway, anytime we interact, we're bombarded with aggressive racist hate speech and told to go back in our house like we're trash, and not allowed any rights to peace or reasonable privacy. I can't enjoy my home inside or out. Anyway - What the hell am I supposed to do? In Austin, cops will NOT show up for noise complaints - they simply do not care. I've tried to do reverse lookups by phone number and address, but everything is through a shell real estate company. Our home is under constant attack of harassment We've started trying to record things, but aside from them running into my yard and setting off my human ai detection alarms I don't have recordings of them hitting me, accosting me, or being aggresively racist towards me. The kids are under 18, so of course I would never lay a hand on them, the mom is lying saying her kid never hit me but he did about 40 or 50 times - he's just too weak to have actually done any damage to me so there's no proof. I'm pissed. Do i have a valid case to even bother a lawyer, or am I just royally screwed? I feel helpless and like my home is now doomed to be under attack and that they'd sabotage my ability to sell the house in a desperate attempt to bail. HALP!