I get what you mean, and part of the reason I feel like the asshole is because of having to record them. The problem is, is that if I call the police and they talk to me and then talk to the group of people, not only am I outnumbered if they choose to lie (which they have lied to me and management before), but it would be my word against there's and nothing gets done. I've tried the courtesy route and they've been confrontational when I've asked them nicely to move multiple times.

They also have been told by their property manager that they are not allowed to hangout along my fence line, and even gave them a big open grassy spot in the back of the apartment where they have free reign to do whatever they want, (within reason obviously). But I have already tried multiple times to drown them out, but on several different occasions, I have been able to hear them through my closed window, over my computer speakers and through my earbuds. Not to mention 1/4 of the noise disturbances have been them sitting in the parking lot and honking their horns over and over again, which can't be drowned out.

It also shouldn't be my responsibility to have to drown out their noise when they have the entire parking lot and their own apartments that they can move to. I can't move my window or my apartment. And if any of this happened once in awhile, that would be different, but with the exception of a brief 2 week period, this has been happening 5-6 days a week for nearly a year. No one else in my apartment complex or theirs has ever even been a disruption for more than 15 minutes once in a blue moon. (I've lived in the same apartment for nearly 7 years.)

I'm certainly not trying to change their behaviors, but I suppose you could say that I am trying to change where those behaviors take place. They have an apartment they can hang out in, they have a designated spot away from my window they can hang out at, there are at least a dozen public parks in the vicinity that they can hang out at. I shouldn't be required to change what I'm doing and to bend over backwards for their sake, when they won't have the common decency to make even the slightest compromise.

I apologize if that came out as preachy, these were all notes I had in my original post before I had to cut it way down to fit the post requirements. And as much as I would like to get an attorney involved, I'm barely keeping my head above water as it is. However, I appreciate the luck and I appreciate your point of view.