Time to move out

By Anonymous - 13/08/2020 08:01

Today, I'm spending $1,400 on rent each month to hear my upstairs neighbor walk from one end of their apartment to the other, and then back again. This occurs pretty much all day and all night. Yesterday I woke up at 3:30 a.m. from the banging of steps. My other neighbor played his music so loud, I felt it through the wall. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/03/2015 15:56 - United States - West Babylon

Today, I found out my upstairs neighbors filed a noise complaint against me for banging on the ceiling every night. They conveniently left out the part where they constantly stomp, shout, and do stuff that sounds like they're dropping bricks to the floor every night. FML

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By soon to have a fist shaped hole in my ass - 23/01/2016 07:49 - Canada - Cornwall

Today, my neighbors in the apartment above me yet again had a loud fight, well past midnight while I was trying to sleep. I stood on my bed and pounded on the ceiling to shut them up. And now I'll have to explain the two fist-shaped holes in the ceiling to my landlord. FML

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Elephants upstairs

By Anonymous - 23/05/2023 10:00

Today, yet again, my upstairs neighbor can’t stop stomping. It’s troubling. There are random noises and thuds at 3 a.m. I've emailed the leasing office several times to no avail. I even told the leasing office that I didn't care if my neighbor has insomnia, I really don’t, I just have to be up at work by 6:00 a.m. every day. FML

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Keep it down

By howsthisforaname - 24/05/2012 12:59 - United Kingdom - Kingston Upon Hull

Today, after my old downstairs neighbor, who would come upstairs to bang on my door and yell at me every time she heard a sound from me at all times of the day, had finally moved out, it became clear that my new downstairs neighbor gets drunk and yells at the TV in the early hours of the morning. FML

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Noise annoys

By guiltyschuldig49 - 28/05/2020 14:00

Today, and for months, my upstairs neighbor has been stomping on their floors, hard enough to shake our walls. We thought it was their child, but found out it’s the mother. She took up running, and due to the pandemic, she does it in the living room. She's already been told to stop. Repeatedly. I work 12-hour nights. FML

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By fineillpissthebedthen - 07/02/2013 22:56 - Denmark - ?lborg

Today, my downstairs neighbours screamed at me for making so much noise that I woke their children up and made them cry. The noise was the sound of a loose floorboard shifting as I crept to my bathroom, and again on my way back to bed. They've sworn to get me evicted. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/09/2013 05:06 - United States - Caldwell

Today, I realized how nice it was that, after moving into my ground-floor apartment, I no longer have to worry about being too loud walking on the floor at night. Today, I found out that my upstairs neighbors do not have any qualms about shouting or stomping their feet loudly at night, either. FML

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Like it or lump it

By jupiter - 13/11/2021 14:00

Today, I live in the basement and as far as I can tell, my parents spend every day rearranging the furniture upstairs and slamming every door in the house, all day long. If I complain or even mention the noise, they threaten to kick me out onto the streets. I’m not even old enough to move out. FML

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By Ughh! - 20/02/2013 20:40 - France

Today, the people living below me have been blasting their music so loudly that I can hear every word as clear as day. The people next door think it's my music and feel the need to bang on the wall and blast their music just as loudly in revenge. I have two very important exams tomorrow. FML

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By mdsfkljsfsdrewr - 03/06/2014 19:01 - Lebanon - Beirut

Today, less than a day after my cranky downstairs neighbor passed away, I woke up to banging sounds against his apartment ceiling, like the ones he used to make whenever I walked around during the night. I'm shitting myself in fear. FML

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Jaymail 18

Thursday 13 August 2020 9:19

It’s doesn’t make sense to live in a Multi-Dwelling-Unit and then expect not to hear other people. Best you can do now is to talk to them NICELY. And if that doesn’t work then it’s time to get the Police involved. You may even have to go one step further and file a complaint at your City Hall building. People really take notice when you go to City Hall. I’ve done it. Didn’t want to have to go to City Hall. But I’ve done it. Or move. I wish you a lot of luck.

Shzusuziq 16

Thursday 13 August 2020 14:43

Try earplugs for sleeping, (I’m a light sleeper), maybe also a white noise machine. During the day when I want quiet I put on my noise cancelling earphones. I had to report my neighbor below me. He turned his tv on at 2 am so loud, I actually woke up and thought someone broke into my apartment and was yelling in my living room the first time it happened! The police came and could hear it outside a block away. People in apartments need to be respectful of their neighbors. If they want to blast music (try headphones), thump around in their place, or let their kids run wild, they should get a house'

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Jaymail 18

Thursday 13 August 2020 9:19

Elizabeth Burley 22

Friday 14 August 2020 4:29

Before calling the cops, I'd get the landlord involved first. If talking to the neighbors nicely doesn't work at first, see what the landlord can do. If that doesn't work, then maybe get the cops involved. However, I feel like taking something like that to City Hall is a bit much, but *shrug*, you do what you have to do. Also, for $1400 a month, OP could get a nice place like a townhouse where they don't have to worry about neighbors above or below them. So moving is an option if possible.

Breana Kaitlyn Leary 10

Thursday 13 August 2020 10:06

So do you not expect them (the upstairs people who are only walking across WHERE THEY LIVE) to actually live where they pay rent?? I have a downstairs neighbor who is a complete asshole and expects the same from us. I have 2 kids. I am constantly telling them to not run or stomp. We have been super respectful and he is still a twat. So we stopped caring. Maybe next time you should get an upstairs apartment if it bugs you that other people need to live too..

DarkAngelsBlade 25

Thursday 13 August 2020 12:16

1400 rent seems like they could have afforded to build a more sound deadening building. Oh, and if you can hear normal footsteps, the floor-ceiling doesn’t give much confidence in being sturdy.

Taylor Caldwell 10

Thursday 13 August 2020 17:03

Not true I’ve lived in basement suits up to specs with proper sound barrier and fire wall and you can still hear people walking, tony dogs rubbing, people chopping in the kitchen. That’s just a reality of living in a multi-dwelling complex.