I live in a high-rise, and I am having trouble with my downstairs neighbor. Some background, I've been living there for about 3 years now. Since I moved in the couple below has been complaining to security. They were complaing very frequently about loud footsteps, since then I have always tried to be as careful as possible.
On 4 occasions it was defintely my fault, once for a party I through and 3 times for DVD surround sound. The party though had the music very low and they were complaining about ambient noise and footstep. When security check it out, they did not hear anything, but eventually cops were called but the party was over by then anyway.
One time the guy's wife called me (security gave her the number) and started chewing me out for my footsteps. I told her firmly she chose to live in a highrise and I was doing my best and if that was not good enough, then to damn bad. I also told not to ever call me again.
The complaints died down for a few months after that, but started up within the last few months again. Once I was woken up in the middle of the night by security because they had complained of noise. I was asleep alone, not too happy about being woken up. Another time I was vacuuming and they complained.
Finally, this past Friday after a long week at work I had gotten home and was hanging up a picture I bought. Took less than 30 seconds to hammer it in, but 3 minutes later I get a call from security saying they were complaining about the noise. Ok, I was a little peeved after that, I admit it. I also admit I did a very immature thing and started to sprints within my apartment from one end of the room to another.
About 5 minutes later, I hear my door bell ringing repeatedly, I open the door, and there's this angry old man there yelling at me. He says he to cut the noise about because he has a dinner party and that I should be making any noise. I told cust it 8pm and not within quiet hours. He said he did not care. I was very mad at this point. I told him now I did not care and would no longer give an consideration to them. The he said he was going to go up as high a level as necessary to do something about me and keep complaining. I told him he is welcome to try and to go f*ck himself.
I called security and let them know he might try to complain falsely in the future and to have that on file. They said they would put the harassment complaint on file.
Wanted to get y'alls opinion. Did I overreact?
UPDATE:
I ran into my neighbor as I was getting out of my car. He walked over and apologized and explained about have guests. I explained to him basically what I posted above, and he apolgized and said he wanted to shake my hand and wanted it behind us so we could be good neighbors again. I decided to be magnanimous and shake his had and apologize for losing my temper (but thats it
). So everything is status quo. I think he realized that I had them over a barrel and after an entire weekend of me walking as I normally do, they decided they had it good. Heh.
On 4 occasions it was defintely my fault, once for a party I through and 3 times for DVD surround sound. The party though had the music very low and they were complaining about ambient noise and footstep. When security check it out, they did not hear anything, but eventually cops were called but the party was over by then anyway.
One time the guy's wife called me (security gave her the number) and started chewing me out for my footsteps. I told her firmly she chose to live in a highrise and I was doing my best and if that was not good enough, then to damn bad. I also told not to ever call me again.
The complaints died down for a few months after that, but started up within the last few months again. Once I was woken up in the middle of the night by security because they had complained of noise. I was asleep alone, not too happy about being woken up. Another time I was vacuuming and they complained.
Finally, this past Friday after a long week at work I had gotten home and was hanging up a picture I bought. Took less than 30 seconds to hammer it in, but 3 minutes later I get a call from security saying they were complaining about the noise. Ok, I was a little peeved after that, I admit it. I also admit I did a very immature thing and started to sprints within my apartment from one end of the room to another.
About 5 minutes later, I hear my door bell ringing repeatedly, I open the door, and there's this angry old man there yelling at me. He says he to cut the noise about because he has a dinner party and that I should be making any noise. I told cust it 8pm and not within quiet hours. He said he did not care. I was very mad at this point. I told him now I did not care and would no longer give an consideration to them. The he said he was going to go up as high a level as necessary to do something about me and keep complaining. I told him he is welcome to try and to go f*ck himself.
I called security and let them know he might try to complain falsely in the future and to have that on file. They said they would put the harassment complaint on file.
Wanted to get y'alls opinion. Did I overreact?
UPDATE:
I ran into my neighbor as I was getting out of my car. He walked over and apologized and explained about have guests. I explained to him basically what I posted above, and he apolgized and said he wanted to shake my hand and wanted it behind us so we could be good neighbors again. I decided to be magnanimous and shake his had and apologize for losing my temper (but thats it
). So everything is status quo. I think he realized that I had them over a barrel and after an entire weekend of me walking as I normally do, they decided they had it good. Heh.
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