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In the wake of the financial crisis it can be a real struggle to find a bank that is willing to offer a mortgage advance at reasonable terms, but what if that is the least of your problems when considering moving home?

Moving into a house or apartment with someone who is learning to play a musical instrument can be extremely taxing to say the least.

Booming drums that shake the whole place, screeching violins reminiscent of a cat in dire distress, and out of tune clarinets are just a sample of what we might have to go through.  It is easier to deal with would be musicians who are part of your family because you can make a few rules and hope that ‘rock star hopefuls’ stick to them. If they don’t, you can, of course, yell at them.

If the music practise comes from neighbours in flats, apartments, or nearby houses, it can be almost impossible to live with. Teens using the garage next door to rehearse their heavy metal band, and would be electric guitarists can quickly make you certain that you have the very worst neighbours in the world.

It is not always easy to find out if your prospective neighbours are ‘wannabe’ musician, and you usually have to wait until you move in to discover that four times a week, the teens have a practise session and then while their parents are out, break out the beer and treat the neighbours to ’50 Cents’ at full volume. (Now there’s a musician you really would not want to live with, albeit only on CD.

There are ways to help avoid these problems, by visiting the neighbourhood at different times of the day and night before agreeing to buy a property for instance, or talking to people already living in the area.

Another way to avoid these problems in most instances is to contact a company like Sacramento Property Management and find out about the neighbourhood and your prospective neighbours before you actually decide to move. There is probably a note somewhere on their files about anything that is likely to cause difficulty, including the area’s budding musicians. They have to learn somewhere, but you don’t have to listen to it.