My annoying neighbors downstairs

[Red Squirrel]

Take a hole saw and punch a hole through the ceiling, spray them with a super soaker, then put the round piece back, and go on with whatever you were doing.

When the floor is looking like swish cheese it's time to buy a carpet, roll it on, and move out.

Glad I never did the apartment thing. I can watch a movie full blast at 5am if I want to and nobody is going to hear it or complain about it. Funny thing I sometimes use powertools late at night, but my neighbors still comment on how quiet I am, so that's pretty good.

Powder actuated nailer at 4am was maybe pushing it though.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You should practice your tap dancing every night at the stroke of midnight.

when they tap with the broom, tap back the same pattern of taps, make it a fun game!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This may sound crazy, but have you considered talking to them about it? I mean, I know it's way more fun to be paranoid and angry and passive-aggressive, but in my experience, it's far more effective to talk to someone and discuss the issue from both sides. If you can make them aware that the thinness of the floor/ceiling means that you can hear everything they're doing and the simple act of walking create more noise than one would expect, maybe they'll get it and be more understanding (and less broom happy).

That said, if they don't get it, I'd file a noise complaint every single time they used the broomstick. Call the cops, tell them you're hearing violent sounds from downstairs and you're scared that something terrible is happening. Give them the option to do the right thing; if they want to play hardball, fuck 'em.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Do you know if they may be using a metal broom by chance?

2 words: Giant magnet. (less destructive than the hole saw idea. )

May as well have some fun with this.

Also, get a roomba, schedule it between 1am and 6am. Even if they were to complain, I highly doubt you can get in trouble for doing regular cleaning/maintenance.

 

[rh71]

if they're banging on their ceilings every time you make noise, I'd return the favor and do the same thing every time they make noise.

simple as that

 

[SlickSnake]

This is why you usually pay more to live upstairs in an apartment or condo.

I even once had a couple of female psychos downstairs pound on my door and window screaming and yelling and waking us up and calling the cops on us in the middle of the night for loudly walking on the floor. In spite of the fact that everyone in my apt had been sound asleep for at least 4 hours. But the people across the hall from us were moving in and going up and down the stairs in an adjacent apartment that wasn't even above hers. After that crazy incident, which we reported to management, she declared war on us and started banging on the walls and floor every single time we walked on it. So we complained about their ongoing harassment a few more times, and they were evicted shortly after that.

So when the next people moved in, we asked them if they ever heard us walking on the floor, and apologized for it if they did, and they said they could hardly hear it and they only ever really heard us walking up and down the metal stairs outside.

But cray cray neighbors just gotta be cray cray anyway.

 

[SlickSnake]

So the walls (and floors) are very thin in my apartment complex. You can hear conversations between floors fairly easily. I know this because the couple (now family) who lives downstairs used to fight all the time. Never filed a noise complaint against them. Now they have a kid who I cries every night.

Fortunately, none of this bothers me. Unfortunately, the sound of me walking at any hour past 11pm causes them to use the ol' broomstick on the ceiling. They did knock on my door once around when I was watching youtube on my PC without my headset. But anyways, all I have to do is walk, and I get the broomstick. The fact that they're fobs, argue frequently, and have crying kids in tow and still have the nerve to be uppity about the 'noise' I'm making makes me want to go apeshit on them sometimes. That, and I think they keyed my car, but I don't know for sure.

Anyways, I'm about to move soon, so me and my car will be in a secure location. Any friendly suggestions from ATOT?

EDIT: Also, the reason I'm up late most of the time is because I'm either studying or doing research. These fucking jerkoffs...