re: lousy apartment neighbors

[doc1]

Originally Posted by sam23

Walking to put your robe away in the bedroom closet and you get a bang on the floor from below. This is a genuine experience of mine with apartment living. It sucks!! No parties, no visitors, we work all day, hardly ever home, skinny not heavy people, but our neighbors don't want us to "WALK" in our own apartment. We know the floors are creaky, but tough luck, thats apartment living for ya. I joke that I'm going to install one of those cables with the handle bars to hang onto and glide around the place without my feet hitting the floor. Anybody have similiar experiences? I mean people nowadays? We are so, different than the person sitting nex to us, it's crazy. So people have no common sense or consideration for others.

When he starts that nonsense put on the heaviest pair of boots you have and jump up and down. It will help him keep things in perspective.

[Viralmd]

Actually, I once lived in an apartment where I thought Babar and Celeste lived upstairs from me. I could hear EVERYTHING - when they went to the bathroom, when they went to the closet. And this was in a pre-war, plaster-walled NYC apartment where the board required carpeting. They had absolutely NO idea how heavily they stepped. Even the cats used to stare at the ceiling with the pounding from above.

[SkipChurch]

The rule is, up to 11PM ordinary noise from an apartment above or below is just something the other tenant has to live with. After 11PM, a greater effort to be quiet should be expected. Now I live alone, do not own a TV, have never had anything in my apartment that could be remotely characterized as a party, and spend most of my time reading or listening to lectures on tape. But if I'm listening to the radio after 11PM, or a lecture on tape (to which I am devoted), my upstairs neingbor has been known to bang on his floor. Okay...I turn it down. But since the radio is in the kitchen and is playing either NPR or a tape of a lecture, I don't see he has much to complain about.

My upstairs neighbor, I have noticed, likes to shower at 1AM, and generally gets home about 10PM. I surmise he's on some weird shift. But I can't complain that the guy showers in the middle of the night.

At least he doesn't practice bass guitar, like a neighbor in NYC used to do until all hours.