Neighbor keeps calling police for noise.

[nikkisman69]

First of all I live on the second floor of an apartment building in Michigan. Specifically in Hillsdale county. I am a 26 year old man with a four year old and a 1 year old.
The lady who lives below us has seemed to have a problem with us since we moved in. The first day that we moved in I was hanging up pictures on the walls and she kept pounding on the ceiling because I was hammering nails in. It was also around 3pm. The land lord talked to her and she hasn't done that since.
Almost two years has went by without a problem. About three weeks ago we were listening to our music and cleaning the house around 2pm on a friday after thanksgiving. The cops showed up and told us that they got a complaint about loud music. We told them that we had been cleaning and listening to music just like everybody else does around here. Even the lady downstairs will blare her music. I have no problem with it as long as it isn't at night. I also never knew that there was an ordinance all day. I thought it was from after 10 pm.
About 5 days ago she called the cops again and told them that our kids were jumping off furniture and making all sorts of noise. Again it was around 2pm that she had called them. Also this lady doesn't work and is always out and about around the complex all day long. I told the cops that there are times that the kids will get wound up but we always get after them when they do.
After the cops left my wife went downstairs to ask the lady why she had called the cops. She got three words in before the lady exploded on her. The lady was yelling and screaming saying that we smoked meth and marijuana. She was also telling people that my wife was a fat ***** and that she had hiv and all sorts of things. I was in someone elses apartment at the other end of the complex and could hear her clear as if I was standign next to her. My wife just walked away.
Two days ago she called them again and said that our children were doing the same things. We werent even home at the time that she said it happened.
My biggest problem is that you really can't yell at your kids all day for playing and being kids. We try the best that we can to keep the noise down but it must not be enough. We even told this to the cops who showed up and one agreed with us while the other told us that we need to do a better job and let the kids know that we are going to get in trouble if they keep being loud. We have talked to the landlord and filed a complaint for the lady calling the cops on us for our children.
I just want to know if this is some sort of harassment and what my rights are too. We have always kept to ourselves and never caused any problems while living here. With our financial issues right now, we don't really have the option to move. My wife is looking at a surgery on her head in the next month or so. Any answers would be appreciiated.


.....Sorry it is so long.

[icu650]

We get many posts on "Real Police' involving tenants who have problems with their neighbors not watching their kids or being too noisy. You are the other side of the coin, your mad that the neighbor doesn't like you making to much noise or the fact that you can't control your kids. Somehow you think it is harassment for a neighbor just to want some peace and quiet DURING THE DAY. You admit that you were blaring the music and stated that she does also. You admit that your kids get wound up. Of course they do, but that is what parents are there for to stop them from being a pain in the neck to your neighbors. You seem to resent that she doesn't work and is around the complex all day. This is none of your business she is not the one with uncontrolled kids. When I read a post like yours I know there is probably information you left out like you play a musical instrument, like a an electric guitar. Maybe instead of watching your kids as they are going crazy you are playing video games. However, to answer your question, in this case since you admit to blaring music and wound up kids I see no harassment just a woman that would like normalcy even during the daytime hours.