Ugh, in a bad apartment/neighbor situation.

[jhbball]

So, I found a nice loft through a local classified add. Hardwood flows, new appliances, and it's in a nice location. It was a beautiful place, so me, and 2 other roommates decided to take the place. Unfortunately, what the landlord didn't tell us, that was there was a tenant directly below us, and that the hardwood floors are extremely thin, with no insulation below to prevent them being extremely loud.

So, the first night we moved in about 2 weeks ago, I get a knock on my door, and the neighbor says we're "walking too loudly". I was shocked of course, because we weren't doing anything interesting, or crazy. Just walking around, as usual. This is was at midnight or so. I shrugged it off, and tried to be more quiet, and have told my two other roommates to be as quiet as possible. But, every day, even when we're walking around as usual, at normal hours, the neighbor hits the ceiling like we're throwing a party or something. And tonight, while walking to the bathroom, he hits it again. At this point, I go down to talk to him, and he's extremely rude. I explain to him that I'm trying to be as reasonably quiet as possible, but he says "just be more quiet", and closes the door in my face.

I've also tried more than one time to sit down and talk to him, and figure out what his work schedule is, etc, but he won't have any of it. So, now I'm at a loss what to do. I contacted my landlord, and told him I was feeling uneasy about it. I really can't do anything else, except go to bed at 9pm every night. My landlord is going to give him a call tomorrow. But I'm sure that won't really help, and the neighbor will just hate us even more.

So, what to do? I'm just really frustrated, and starting to regret signing a lease for this place.

Update:

So, this issue has been mostly resolved. I spoke to my landlord, and he basically told the guy to stfu. Apparently he's getting a sweet deal on the place, so he has no right to complain. What's funnier, is that a couple lives BELOW this asshole, and he complains about them as well. So, he's complaining about people above, and below him. What a dick.


Cliffs:

-Moved into a new loft, has hardwood floors
-Neighbor lives below, apparently it's really loud when we (3 roommates) walk
-We've tried to "walk quieter", but he hits the ceiling every day
-Tried to work something out with him, but he's really rude
-Contacted the landlord
-Feeling uneasy about singing a lease now
-Apparently he's complained about the neighbors BELOW him being too loud as well

 

[jhbball]

Mods, move this to ATOT, my bad. Though, gamers can comment on this as well

 

[biggestmuff]

take off your shoes in the house and buy several throw rugs. that's about all that you can do.

 

[mugs]

With shoes off and/or rugs on the floor, he shouldn't be able to hear you.

 

[jlee]

Tell your downstairs neighbor that, if he buys them, you'll put rugs down.

 

[Maleficus]

Tell him to buy the rugs, you're being reasonable and trying to accommodate him, he wants more he can pay for it.

 

[rudeguy]

take up tap dancing

 

[LemonHead]

Tell him to wear ear plugs and to piss off.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: LemonHead
Tell him to wear ear plugs and to piss off.

I favor this suggestion. The jerk is being unreasonable. Ignore his ceiling banging.

 

[rezinn]

I must ask, are you 200+ lbs? I have a similar situation except it was the people above me that I heard all the time. I complained with some success, but eventually had to get the landlord to threaten them before they really got quiet.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
take up tap dancing

Greet neighbor at door carrying your shotgun. Ask him if he has any close family members. Invite him in and skin a rabbit in front of him.

 

[Chaotic42]

I had the opposite problem. I was in a second floor apartment and the guy below me played his music so loud, I could see ripples in glasses of water on my tables.

All you can do is walk in socks and get some rugs. Human beings aren't meant to live in apartments.

 

[Jeff7181]

Have Taco Bell for dinner and sit on the hardwood floor for the rest of the night, relieving pressure as necessary.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: rudeguy
take up tap dancing

Greet neighbor at door carrying your shotgun. Ask him if he has any close family members. Invite him in and skin a rabbit in front of him.

Good call.

If you can't even take a dump without this guy freaking out and he won't talk to you about, then its really his problem. I recommend cranking up your stereo to cover up the sound of him banging on the floor.

 

[Jeraden]

I had a similar thing happen a year ago when I was in an apartment with hardwood floors. The lady beneath me would always be banging on her ceiling. She even left me a note once to please keep it down. I tried to be quiet as much as possible, but a lot of times it was just ridiculous, like she'd bang on the ceiling when I'm simply walking from one room to the next. One night I was just in a bad mood and she did it and it just ticked me off since I was already completely sick of her, so I started jumping up and down and stomping as hard as I could to piss her off. Of course, next day I get a call from the management about how she's filed a complaint and I'm making too much noise. They said I should put area rugs down. I'm like, there is no way I'm buying enough area rugs to cover the whole apartment, how she does it when I'm walking, etc. etc. So the management lady was understanding and didn't really say anything else about it. After that incident I pretty much stopped caring about her banging and just lived my life normally. You can't make everyone happy.

 

[LemonHead]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: rudeguy
take up tap dancing

Greet neighbor at door carrying your shotgun. Ask him if he has any close family members. Invite him in and skin a rabbit in front of him.

LOL That's fucking awsome!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: mugs
With shoes off and/or rugs on the floor, he shouldn't be able to hear you.

It depends on the floors.
Back home, it was a damn symphony when you'd walk anywhere, everything creaked. There was pretty well nowhere anywhere that you could step without the floor making noise. If you were anywhere in the basement, you could tell if someone upstairs would so much as shift weight on a chair, or do so at the sink while brushing teeth in the morning.

It was just something we came to live with.


This guy sounds like he'll be a pain in the ass for as long as he lives there.


Fun suggestion: for the long nights of fapping to porn, or if you have a girlfriend, all the better - find a really creaky spot on the floor, and go to town. :laugh:



I love that about this place - no one else lives here. It's me in my half of the building, and the store gets their half. I can be awake at 4am, and if I want to use the blender, or maybe the vacuum cleaner, no one will complain.
Now if I could just shoot out the tires (and stereos) of idiots who park their cars outside the window when the store's parking lot is full and blast their loud, irritating music. It's sufficiently loud that I can easily feel the vibration in my chair. Or do it to the dipshits who love revving their loud motorcycles at 2am as they pull out after buying a soda at the machine.
Or maybe I need some deployable spike strips instead, hooked to sound sensors.....

 

[child of wonder]

Originally posted by: jhbball
So, I found a nice loft through a local classified add. Hardwood flows, new appliances, and it's in a nice location. It was a beautiful place, so me, and 2 other roommates decided to take the place. Unfortunately, what the landlord didn't tell us, that was there was a tenant directly below us, and that the hardwood floors are extremely thin, with no insulation below to prevent them being extremely loud.

So, the first night we moved in about 2 weeks ago, I get a knock on my door, and the neighbor says we're "walking too loudly". I was shocked of course, because we weren't doing anything interesting, or crazy. Just walking around, as usual. This is was at midnight or so. I shrugged it off, and tried to be more quiet, and have told my two other roommates to be as quiet as possible. But, every day, even when we're walking around as usual, at normal hours, the neighbor hits the ceiling like we're throwing a party or something. And tonight, while walking to the bathroom, he hits it again. At this point, I go down to talk to him, and he's extremely rude. I explain to him that I'm trying to be as reasonably quiet as possible, but he says "just be more quiet", and closes the door in my face.

I've also tried more than one time to sit down and talk to him, and figure out what his work schedule is, etc, but he won't have any of it. So, now I'm at a loss what to do. I contacted my landlord, and told him I was feeling uneasy about it. I really can't do anything else, except go to bed at 9pm every night. My landlord is going to give him a call tomorrow. But I'm sure that won't really help, and the neighbor will just hate us even more.

So, what to do? I'm just really frustrated, and starting to regret signing a lease for this place.

Cliffs:

-Moved into a new loft, has hardwood floors
-Neighbor lives below, apparently it's really loud when we (3 roommates) walk
-We've tried to "walk quieter", but he hits the ceiling every day
-Tried to work something out with him, but he's really rude
-Contacted the landlord
-Feeling uneasy about singing a lease now

Tell the neighbor below that you and he should contact the landlord together and demand he do something to insulate the floor/ceiling between your units. If the landlord won't do anything just tell him you're not going to tiptoe in your own apartment for the rest of the time you live there and if he wants to be mad at someone it should be the landlord for putting you both in such a shitty situation.

 

[Balt]

It's a part of apartment living that he needs to accept. If he can't deal with it it's his problem and he can move.

That's not an excuse to be a bad neighbor, but it sounds like you guys have done all you can to accommodate him.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Tell the neighbor to eat a dick. It's that simple. That's the breaks of him living below somebody.

I'd have been nice to him initially, as you were, but since he's turned out to be unreasonable, screw him.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Tell the neighbor to eat a dick. It's that simple. That's the breaks of him living below somebody.

I'd have been nice to him initially, as you were, but since he's turned out to be unreasonable, screw him.

My opinion exactly. You've done everything reasonable to try and be nice, I'm sure the last people who lived there had the same problems with this idiot. I have people above and below my apartment too, I be as quiet as I can at night and so do they, but if they have a party now and then I don't turn into a dick about it.

Next time he comes up to complain tell him to fuck off and shut the door in HIS face.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: JLee
Tell your downstairs neighbor that, if he buys them, you'll put rugs down.

:thumbsup:

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: JLee
Tell your downstairs neighbor that, if he buys them, you'll put rugs down.

But only if they really tie the room together.

 

[summit]

thats why hardwood on the top floor is bad

 

[jhbball]

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm not sure rugs will do the job. This place is an old building that has been renovated, and the floors are really creaky. One catch in telling this guy to fuck off, is that it's pretty easy to get in my apartment, if you have access through the front door. The layout is as follows:

Sturdy front door with key access > mail area (all tenants of the building have access to this) > stairs > my apartment with a flimsy glass door. So, if he wanted to, he could basically push the door to my apartment hard and break in if he wanted to. I'm afraid if I piss him off too much, we might risk seeing some retaliation of some kind.

Lastly, I contacted my lanlord and told him about everything. He's on my side, but I'm not liking the way this might turn out.