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Thank you! We are actually quiet for the most part... even though my child is high energy we are outside most of the day, if she wants to sing loudly we make her go outside (in the yard, not on the deck because it's too close), we hardly EVER watch tv. It baffles me that this lady complains as much as she does because I can only think of a few instances during the day when we are actually inside and could have made some sort of loud noise. She wants complete and total silence, and I'm sorry but you can't live in a creaky old house on the first floor and expect that. Exactly....SENIOR LIVING FACILITY!
Really?
You think someone in their mid-50's should be in a senior living facility?
You chose where you live. You knew you had a high energy child. You chose to live on the second floor of an old house. (Did you ask the landlord who was downstairs? Had he said, "A single older woman." I'd have thought about that before moving upstairs with a high energy child.) I don't know what the solution is. But I think you need to own the fact that you are where you are because you made the choice to be there and not just decide the 50-something should be in a senior living facility.
I'm an old bag of 52...while I would not relish the thought of having a high energy child living above me...I also know it would be my tough luck...I'm pretty sure that between the hours of 11pm and 9am you may have to keep it down...but if your landlord rented to you knowing you had a young child...I think I would very nicely remind the downstairs neighbor that she too was once a mother and should recall how hard it is to be in your position...otherwise unless your landlord is complaining to you...screw her...that's life in an apartment...
The senior living facility was a joke made by another poster. I'm 40, so I don't actually believe that 50 is 'old'. But sometimes, people can certainly 'act old', despite their age. Anyhoo...thanks everyone for your replies!
The senior living facility was a joke made by another poster. I'm 40, so I don't actually believe that 50 is 'old'. But sometimes, people can certainly 'act old', despite their age. Anyhoo...thanks everyone for your replies!
That was me who made the remark about a senior living facility, and I do believe anyone who is going to complain every time somebody walks, breathes, or farts in the next apartment needs to find someplace more suited to their liking instead of demanding a 6 year old walk on tiptoe and talk in whispers.
Even if it was just the OP and her husband, sounds like that lady would STILL find something to complain about. She complained about SQUIRRELS dropping birdseed on her deck. The kid isn't the problem. The neighbor is. Some people are never going to be happy and always going to find something to complain about, and I sure wouldn't give myself high blood pressure trying to cater to their insatiable demands. As long as the child isn't violating any noise ordinances, the woman would just have to suck it up and deal with it. It isn't like the OP is deliberately letting her child run rampant through the building at all hours. She's trying to be considerate. The bat still complains. Let HER move.
While I would never let a child run or jump in my home, you were there first. I think you should not move, just ignore the neighbor. Next it will be your music is too loud or something else she's trying to control.
She should have known there would be noise above her when she signed her lease. It's her problem, not yours.
That was me who made the remark about a senior living facility, and I do believe anyone who is going to complain every time somebody walks, breathes, or farts in the next apartment needs to find someplace more suited to their liking instead of demanding a 6 year old walk on tiptoe and talk in whispers.
Even if it was just the OP and her husband, sounds like that lady would STILL find something to complain about.She complained about SQUIRRELS dropping birdseed on her deck. The kid isn't the problem. The neighbor is. Some people are never going to be happy and always going to find something to complain about, and I sure wouldn't give myself high blood pressure trying to cater to theirinsatiable demands. As long as the child isn't violating any noise ordinances, the woman would just have to suck it up and deal with it. It isn't like the OP is deliberately letting her child run rampant through the building at all hours. She's trying to be considerate. The bat still complains. Let HER move.
I agree.
You just can't please some people. My daughter had a downstairs neighbor that once called the police with an excessive noise report. She & her room mate and two friends were playing cards at 9:00 PM. They weren't playing any music and had taken their shoes off (because the neighbor had complained before about too much noise). The only thing that they could figure out was that they were laughing too loud and the neighbor must have heard them.
Sounds like your daughter isn't being overly energetic and noisy, a bit of running and jumping during daytime hours is perfectly acceptable and as long as its not happening at night then you should just try and ignore your neighbour. Some people just love to complain, she'd probably be more unhappy if everything was quiet as then she'd lose her favourite hobby of moaning!
I had older neighbours when my daughter was a newborn. They would bang on our wall in anger whenever she cried! They'd also do it when she was asleep just to wake her up and **** us off. Some people really shouldn't be living in flats/apartments.
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