I have been considering getting one of these townhomes that are being development inside the loop. The thing is I am a little worried about sharing the wall with the neighbors. Whats your experience or thoughts about sharing a common wall. I know its can be bad in apartments but these will be townhomes and usually the maxiimum walls you would share would be two.
I hated sharing common walls when I lived in apartments. I was always next to or underneath someone who either played music I hate at ear splitting volumes, or f*cked like rabbits at ear splitting volumes. I'm glad I own a house. The noise that is made is all my own!
I never really had a problem with sharing walls with my neighbors until the people next door have a HS aged girl who BLARES her music to get up at 6 in the morning. But that situation was easily corrected with a nice conversation at 6:15 am. I do, however, have a problem with the guys that live downstairs from me. I ALWAYS hear their music from downstairs especially at like 3am! It comes up through their ceiling/our floor!
I HATE common walls. The last apartment I lived in, the guy next to me has a sound system and played music every single night until about 4am. I moved to a garage apartment in The Heights just so I wouldn't have common walls with anyone and I love it. I'll never have common walls again. I'm buying a house this summer. I considered a townhome but I don't want to chance it.
does anyone own one of those urban lofts are a similar townhome? most of the newer townhomes inside the loop are three levels and the walls you would be sharing are the side walls. it seems most of you have had problems in an apartment or condo where u can share up to 4 walls. of course all the developers tell you the walls are insulated but of course i dont trust them. if u are paying over $200,000 for a place it better keep the sound out.
after we were married and in our first apartment...the first next-door neighbor was attractive...and had many suitors...and she frequently would wake us up screaming their name late at night. our second one was a freak show. a lady who had very serious mental problems who threatened to kill herself and/or her boyfriend all the time. that made for fun nights.
Last July we bought a condo - and the common wall thing was a concern, but luckily I have never heard a single noise -- not a TV, Radio, Scream or anything. They are so well insulated that the only time you hear neighbors is if both of your windows are open and the sound travels outside through the windows. Our condo's are really well built though. They have concrete block walls two stories high.
it's like living in an apartment, except more expensive! check out http://www.houstonarchitecture.info they have really good forums and there are a few posts concerning shared walls and the lovely condo's built inside the loop.
I've generally been able to hear my apartment neighbors relatively easily, but I lived in a duplex a couple of times and could never hear my neighbors. Now, it may be that I just had quiet neighbors in the duplexes, but they did seem to be better insulated. When I've looked at townhomes around here, I always thought they were fairly overpriced for the market. One could find a larger house with no shared walls for just slightly more money in my neighborhood, generally speaking.
I can concur. I've never heard anything, though both my neighbors seem to be fairly quite people in general.
I've lived in two townhomes over the past two years and luckily both were designed so that the only common wall ran across the staircase, so I only heard the neighbors when walking upstairs or downstairs. Yeah, both of the townhomes I lived in were two townhomes attached as neighbors sharing a wall, and that was it. There were like 50-100 of these dual-attached townhomes scattered across the property. Works very well.
