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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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
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
Today, I got a noise complaint about "loud stomping" in my apartment disturbing the tenant below. I guess I'm supposed to tell my sweet children that they are no longer allowed to play in their own home. FML
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
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
Today, after having to call in a noise complaint about my downstairs neighbors talking loud past midnight, the managers fixed the problem. Now all I can hear is two little girls who like to throw a basketball at the building for hours. FML
Today, after months of peace and quiet since January, a new family moved into the apartment below me ten minutes before I was about to go to sleep. They've been here for 30 minutes and already they're stomping and banging doors all over the place. FML
Today, my new neighbours moved in. I had always thought my bedroom wall was soundproof, because my old neighbours never complained about my loud night terrors. Turns out they were just stone deaf. The new ones can hear everything. FML
Today, sick of the unfiltered noise we hear from our neighbours in our upstairs apartment, as we're above their fence line, we signed the lease on an apartment downstairs. While I was downstairs, my partner clomped upstairs, opened the bathroom door, and took a piss. I heard EVERYTHING. FML
Today, my fiancé and I moved into a new home a few houses away from our previous one. We were excited about not hearing our roommate's dog howling non-stop anymore. We can hear him from the new house. Very clearly. FML
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nyrangersfan9 13
On the bright side, if you throw a party they can't complain about the noise!
RedPillSucks 33
Perhaps a nice civil discussion with them will solve this issue
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Comments (53)
PoisonedLiquor 17
Become like Mr. Heckles from "Friends".
worldclassrager 41
That's too bad...hope they move out soon...
eternal_malaise 10
Get some foam earplugs. I use them whenever I sleep around people who snore.
tgbvfr 8
Bugger, I know the type. Complaints just run off them like water off a duck's back. Suggest you start hunting for a new place, in a single-storey building...!
The_Paladin 16
Just talk to them about it. They may not even realize how loud they are.
baref00tmama 15
Since you're clearly not new to apartment living, you ought to have realized by now that ambient noise is part of the package. If your building has some sort of noise policy or quiet hours, complain to your landlord. Otherwise, invest in earplugs and a white noise machine and suck it up.
love_me_electric 20
We live on the ground floor of our apartment, but luckily it's so well soundproofed we never hear anything from our upstairs neighbors. And hopefully they don't hear us...
CaptTeemo 10
I have the same problem. First day of college a girl decided to jump out of the 2nd floor window onto mattress. She broke her foot and now jumps around every where
Ashley868 10
I have that where I live They stomp so loud at night. I talked to them about it, and now they're louder.
ladydemoon 8
If you dont want to hear your neighbors don't live in apartment. People walk and some people will walk more loudly than others. I have lived down stairs most of my life and that is a reality. I thinks it's crappy when you are not being obnoxious like cranking up music past 10 or letting your kids jump and run after 10 and your neighbors complain... Upstairs neighbor pay rent too what do you expect them to float?
TechFire 25
Yes, because OP is clearly living in an apartment by choice and can buy a house whenever she wants. Real talk, that first sentence is in the top 10 dumbest things I've read on this site.