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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
Enslaved 38
I was always warned about ground- floor apartments. They're usually the first ones that get burglarized. And where I live, we have floods.
TheDrifter 24
We get floods here too, that's why we put the in laws suite in the basement.
golden_warrior 23
If you know a buff guy friend then tell him to go intimidate them. All he has to do is introducing himself as the new tenant
psiloveyou15 12
No one ever realizes how loud they actually are until they're on the receiving end of the noise. Jut politely ask of they could tone it down a little. If they don't comply, then you do have assholes for neighbors.
iluvpeanutbutter 22
That sucks OP. I've lived with both situations; the woman above me in one apartment wore high heels in the apartment (floorboards, yay), and in another apartment, my flatmates and I were told we were too noisy, even though we were walking normally. The acoustics in that second apartment were weird though- we could hear the downstairs neighbour peeing!
deusraps 8
You can always ask them politely to keep it down.
jw90 18
I have this problem as well. Neighbors stomping up stairs at wee hours of the night. It gets old and annoying when one is trying to sleep.
LindsayxMoore 18
thats exactly why I hate living under people.
BeYourOwnPet 10
I feel your pain OP my upstairs neighbors sound like they're constantly bowling :(
TheDrifter 24
It seems very few apartment building owners have caught onto the trick of insulating between floors or laying dynamat under hardwood to kill sound transfer.
judea95 16
Karma for being a lousy neighbour to others
ifailsobadly 18
Did you read? She was conscious that she was walking quietly to not annoy her downstairs neighbours last time, and the new people above her aren't...
Raum 19
What makes you think OP was a lousy neighbour to others?