So my downstair neighbors are really ticking me off....

[Fountain79]

Sometime in the spring I got a complaint in my mailbox about making too much noise in my place. I figured out it was my downstairs neighbors. I went ahead and talked to them very casually and told them that they can come to me if there are any problems with the noise. Now lately it seems like all I have to be doing in my apartment is walk around and I hear a "thud, thud, thud" coming from their place, basically telling me that I am making too much noise. Today their is an airshow going on nearby and it is making quite a bit of noise. I can't help but smile about it to myself.

[Pithlet]

1. Sorry about your neighbors.

People have to realize that if you get a downstairs apartment, you're going to hear your upstairs neighbors. That's why I always got a top floor apartment. Usually my downstairs neighbors were cool, but every once in awhile I'd get a PIA who demanded total silence.

[Fountain79]

2. Yeah...and to be honest...I'm pretty much a nerd in my place...

I don't really enterntain, I don't have parties, and I really do much more than be a bum in my place, so it really shocks me that they have such a problem with me. I will admit I walk kinda heavy but that's just kinda how I walk.

[China_cat]

3. So freak them out totally

Come home with your leg bandaged and crutches.

[Fountain79]

4. They wouldn't see me, I leave in a high rise...I would have to physically

go downstairs and knock on their door.

[China_cat]

5. So you're making extra noise

when they thud, you confront them on crutches and make them feel like dogshit.

[amitten]

6. Are you very fat?

Because I used to live underneath a VERY noisy person in an apartment complex. I would swear to God the guy was dropping bowling balls on the floor several times a night...drove me INSANE.

I was on his floor once and saw him exit his apartment--he must have weighed like 350. So, he couldn't really help all his noise, and I didn't ever mention it.

[Fountain79]

9. I am a little heavy-set....

about 230 pounds but I carry it pretty well(large frame). Mainly I walk kinda heavy, I have my whole life.

[amitten]

10. Well, then that is not your fault.

Your neighbors will just have to learn to live with it. Though I guess you can try to walk more quietly if you know it is bedtime...

[Fountain79]

14. This has been during the day....n/t

[Kali]

13. I lived under a family of flamenco dancers

that had a pony that fetched bowling balls. At least that is what it sounded like.

[Stardust]

15. Sumo wrestlers with squeaky LazyBoys lived above me. Grrrrr

[Kali]

18. Ha. That's good.

I presume they had weak bladders and were consequently getting up from the LazyBoys to stomp over to the bathroom all the time?

[alarimer]

7. Are you the one making all that noise???

Knock it off.

Seriously though, my upstairs neighbors called the cops on me the other day. I had a movie on- Walk the Line and the music was much louder than the talk. I even turned it down when they banged on the floor. But it wasn't good enough so they busted me. Of course there was no noise when the cop got here. For good measure they banged on the floor at 7 am the next morning too, for no apparent reason.

neighbors are a pain, aren't they? Especially in apartments.

[ganeshji]

8. I hate neighbors

The last time my neighbors called the cops reagrding the "noise" I was making, I waited a few days and called our property manager and told him that our neighbors were so quiet that we were getting worried about them. I asked had he seen them and told him the last time I saw the old man he was carrying a case of vodka and we had not seen him since. The cops who showed up went off on the manager and the neighbors. Beautiful and I win!

[Darth_Kitten]

11. To be fair to those (like me) who live below people......

sometimes outside noises can SEEM to come from upstairs?

Regular noises like the guy moving about his place don't bug me. I know whenever he's having a shower because I can hear the water in my pipes......doesn't bug me.

only thing that bugs me would be any vibrations from bass. But I haven't heard that from him in a long time. :)

[caty]

12. I don't know what would be worse.

Having to listen to someone walking around upstairs or having to tip toe around so I wouldn't bother any one. All you can do is take your shoes off at the door and then get on with your life. I wouldn't cut down how much I walk around my own home just because the neighbors don't understand that they will have to live with a certain amount of noise. And, if they woke me up just to make a point--I'd put my shoes back on and slam a few doors for a day or two. Then maybe they would appreciate it more when I got considerate again.:evilgrin: :dilemma: :evilgrin:

[REP]

16. I Am A Downstairs Neighbor, And Very Few Things Bother Me!

I've only had to ask one neighbor once to please do something, and that was because they had 2 Jack Russells that barked 24/7. I'm not exaggerating - it drove everyone crazy, but me especially since it was RIGHT OVER me (and it made one of my nervous cats very sick). I waited until the dogs did it for 3 weeks - animals can take time to adjust and I figured three weeks was enough (and they might not have known that their dogs were so distressed when they were gone). But besides that - I live in an apartment! People are going to walk! Sheesh! Normal walking - even "heavy" walking - is to be expected!

[Broken_Hero]

17. sorry to hear...

thats one of the reason why I hated living in apartments...My wife and I have been house bound for over two years...and we love it. NO neighbors giving us guff over just how LOUD my damn metal music gets...:hi:

[bikebloke]

19. I once had downstairs neighbour

...who was so elephant footed, I could track her wanderings in her flat from above. And the floors in the building were concrete. She was petite in stature, too.

[Crazy Dave]

20. Flush the toilet about a dozen times an hour all night long

:evilgrin:

[FILAM23]

21. I was the upstairs neighbor

and the folks who used lived downstairs frequently played their music too loud.
The neighbors were a middle aged woman and her teenage son,
the son was very nice, if you asked him to turn it down he would apologize and do
so, Mom would get rude. She told me once that she paid rent and could play it as loud
as she wanted, I replyed that I paid rent and could not be forced to listen to her music.
This went on and on for several months, management was of little help. It got to the
point that every time the music went on my wife literally started dropping a bowling ball
on the floor, eventually they moved and on their way out the son apologized for his mothers
behavior.