living in an aprtment sucks when....

[Whisper]

I actually feel for the people below me, and try to walk very quietly around my apartment. Unless, of course, I am moving something.

I do the same, as much as could reasonably be expected. I'm not a "heel-walker" to begin with, but I do make a conscious effort to walk more quietly than normal when I'm at home.

Then again, things like footsteps, opening/closing doors, vacuuming, etc., generally don't bother me very much; for some reason, it's only music/TV/etc. that does it.

 

[rockyct]

Is he actually being unreasonable, or do you just have no sound insulation? He has every right to walk around whenever he wants to.

Yeah, this isn't playing video games or loud music so it's not something he can just turn down. He's not going to make a plan of what times he can walk around and combine tasks to make it more efficient. It would be nice of him to try to remember to walk softer, but I doubt the police are going to give him a ticket for noise violation.

 

[SandEagle]

Better approach. Stance of dominance.

Better yet. Dance of stompinance. stomp up and down all night until you get tired, then bang your head on a wall until you pass out... then snore as loud as you can before going into an emo rage and crying until morning.


or just complain to the landlord

 

[Gibson486]

the guy just moved in. this was never a problem with the previous people up there. I got fed up today and I just contacted my landlord company. They just said, "We will look into it". Oh well, another night with the broom hitting the ceiling.

 

[Iron Woode]

I live on the second floor of a 3 story walk-up and I have been dealing with a bad upstairs neighbour. She or they decide at 2:00AM to start playing extremely loud crappy dance music. Eventually the police were called to deal with them.

Last Wednesday they started again at 4:00 PM and by 5:00 PM I complained to the Landlord about it. Its been quiet since then and I am hoping an eviction is in the works for them since they haven't paid all of their rent yet.

 

[shopbruin]

Yeah, this isn't playing video games or loud music so it's not something he can just turn down. He's not going to make a plan of what times he can walk around and combine tasks to make it more efficient. It would be nice of him to try to remember to walk softer, but I doubt the police are going to give him a ticket for noise violation.

With the guy upstairs from us, it's like he'll pace nonstop for 10 minutes at three in the morning. We couldn't figure it out. Or why he couldn't frickin pace in the living room.

My husband got earplugs, I think I'm finally starting to sleep through his stomping at night.

Hopefully he leaves in january as promised. Second hopeful thing in our favor: discovered the new community manager lives down the hall from our unit. If the idiot above us pulls his soft rock at 300db again, hopefully he'll be home to hear it.

 

[RESmonkey]

could be worse....you could be hearing the sounds of moaning sexual ecstasy mixed with clucking of chickens.

sig worthy

1)Mount Subwoofer to ceiling
2)Find super low LFE test MP3 on AVS
3)Loop
4)VICTORY

refreshing ATOT response, ha!

Better approach. Stance of dominance.

STANCE OF DOMINANCE NEVER FAILS!!!!

 

[Raincity]

I feel your pain. I have a trashy family below me that make so much noise and leaves their mess everywhere. Loud rap music, The CW blasted until 4 AM, doors slamming, Kids crying. The older daughter loves to hang out at my front door with her boyfriend smoking weed and drinking forty’s and getting loud. When I confronted the dad about the noise and mess, this is the response I get, you dont pay our F'in rent up in here and we can here you walkin around on top of us. I tried renting a place in a retirement community but no luck due to my age.

 

[thomsbrain]

God, apartments just suck period. I don't think you can reasonably expect a group of strangers to live together without pissing each other off in one way or another. No one wants to hear each other but no one wants to tip-toe around, either. When I've lived in them I felt like an animal living in a kennel. I always try to find in-law and side-house places since my last apartment experience. Not sharing walls makes a huge difference, and you don't have hundreds of strangers walking past your door and your car all the time. The landlords are far more selective, but that's a good thing if you're the type who usually makes the cut. It usually means that you get to live in a neighborhood that's a lot nicer than you would otherwise be able to afford, because it's nice single-family homes or semi-rural and quiet.

 

[zanejohnson]

Better yet. Dance of stompinance. stomp up and down all night until you get tired, then bang your head on a wall until you pass out... then snore as loud as you can before going into an emo rage and crying until morning.


or just complain to the landlord

omfg rofl i dont know if it's the beer or what but i just laughed out loud literally to this post.


great job.

 

[oiprocs]

Sound proof the ceiling?

 

[Sea Moose]

throw poo at the ceiling!!!


At least the smell will distract you from the noise

 

[dawp]

throw poo at the ceiling!!!


At least the smell will distract you from the noise

flinging poo, sounds kinky!

 

[dabuddha]

the guy above does not seem to remember that people live below him. WTF....it sounds like this guy is about 400lbs with every step he takes....but he is actually around 150 pounds. Why can't he just sit down for 30 f'n minutes. I no longer need an alarm clock because this guy keeps me up all night. I swear, it sounds like he loves doing jumping jacks through out his whole apartment. I talked this guy one and he just gives me a "well tough" attitude". When will resorting to retaliation be justified?

The second he said well tough.

 

[rh71]

the guy just moved in. this was never a problem with the previous people up there. I got fed up today and I just contacted my landlord company. They just said, "We will look into it". Oh well, another night with the broom hitting the ceiling.

find out their phone number, and call it in the middle of the night once in a while. Better yet, give it out here.

 

[Saint Nick]

My recent problem with the people who live below me, is that it sounds like they are tearing down walls or building a house INSIDE their apartment at 8:30am. I normally wouldn't have a problem with it, but it has woke me up almost every day last week, and then this morning. I typically sleep until 10:30am or so, so I am getting pretty run down about it.

 

[Blunc]

the complex I live in has at least 3 apartment tenants that treat the complex like their own daycare, letting their chilluns run around screaming all the time, screwing up the sprinklers and then driving their 'riding toys' through the grass which is then turned to a mud bog, no adult supervision at all, throwing rocks from the landscaping areas!!!!!

sometimes I feel like sabotaging the riding toys they leave out in the common grass area...

I had a day off from work and those brats were out there all day! I had to turn up my TV so I could here the dialog.

GGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

 

[PepePeru]

first, compliment him on his masculine step.
once you've buttered him up with the compliment, suggest that he use a more feminine step.

 

[D1gger]

When my wife and I were first married, we moved to Vancouver and while our house was under construction we lived in a four story wood frame apartment building. Our neighbors were either fighting or screwing like rabbits. The sound travelled so easily through the paper thin walls that it seemed like they were in the room with us. I'm not sure what was worse, when they were screaming at each other or when they were moaning like sick cows.

It was a long four months until we could move out.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Don't even need to read the thread...

Living in an apartment sucks. All the time. No matter what. Apartment living is dreadful. Never again!

 

[IceBergSLiM]

lesson learned: always live on the top floor.