MEGA APARTMENT RANT

sophhabobopha

So Fi and I live on the second floor of a three floor apartment. Above us is a family with two kids. They run and jump ALL GOD DAMN DAY EVERY DAY UNTIL FUCKING TWO IN THE MORNING SOMETHINGS. 

 First off, WHO LET'S A FOUR AND THREE YEAR OLD STAY UP THAT LATE. 

And I know "it's the price you pay for apartment living blahblah" and that kids are hyper and active. 

BUT SHIT. Do they have to be JUMPING UP AND DOWN for hours at a time? Do you give your kids crack?

If your kids are wanting to be running back and forth for 12 hours straight, maybe, oh, I don't know, TAKE THEM OUTSIDE.

But they're really nice becides this.

AddieCake

Eeeek.

Cookie Pusher

I live downstairs from a hoarder who likes to bring home toothless, homeless "lady friends". I would trade what I have to hear for what you hear in a heartbeat!

sophhabobopha

I swear to God they must drink a pot of coffee each.

sophhabobopha

Cookie Pusher said:

I live downstairs from a hoarder who likes to bring home toothless, homeless "lady friends". I would trade what I have to hear for what you hear in a heartbeat!

pinkshorts27

Top floor for the win. Vaulted ceilings and no jumping kids. But in college I shared a wall with a screamer who brought home the same guy at least fivE times a week

Bubblegum5586

I live on the third floor of a 3 floor apartment, we got a note from a new neighbor that moved in below us asking us to quite down from the "incessant pounding well into the night". lol we go to bed at 11pm so I assumed it was my 2 20lbs cats.... well being cats! I apologized but there really wasn't too much I could do about.

My story doesn't help your situation, but just that living below people sucks... and probably a lot more if they have kids (vs cats)

sophhabobopha

bubblegum1309 said:

I live on the third floor of a 3 floor apartment, we got a note from a new neighbor that moved in below us asking us to quite down from the "incessant pounding well into the night". lol we go to bed at 11pm so I assumed it was my 2 20lbs cats.... well being cats! I apologized but there really wasn't too much I could do about.

My story doesn't help your situation, but just that living below people sucks... and probably a lot more if they have kids (vs cats)

Hahaha that's hilarious! And at this point I'm just impressed at how long they can keep it up.

arrippa

My neighbors like to smoke pot in their apartment. To each their own, however, I wish it wasn't the bad smelling skunk weed but I guess it's better than having kids in the apartment building.

SeaCaptainOtter

Wooden floors? They are the worst for echoing sounds to the downstairs, and then directly into your ear drum. 

Can you record it for your landlord? Most leases have something about being quiet after 10pm or 11pm. Maybe he/she can send them a letter. That situation is ridiculous, sorry.

sophhabobopha

SeaCaptainOtter said:

Wooden floors? They are the worst for echoing sounds to the downstairs, and then directly into your ear drum. 

Can you record it for your landlord? Most leases have something about being quiet after 10pm or 11pm. Maybe he/she can send them a letter. That situation is ridiculous, sorry.

I'll look into that! Amazballs.

arrippa ugh. I hate weed smell.

cupcait927

Oh I am so sorry. I can commiserate - not with the small children part but I lived on the basement level of a three floor building in college that housed mostly girls that were part of the sorority across the street. I called the cops I don't even know how many times due to music being so loud it shook the walls, bottles being thrown off of balconies, and there was constant stomping around at all hours of the night. Awful. Years later when I started dating FI, I was SO happy that he had an apt on the back of a B&B - no neighbors, no stomping, no loud noises - all the convenience of renting an apt without having to deal with the people.

pinkcow13

Oh my... yea, that's the price to pay for apartment living! 

Last spring before FI moved in one of my neighbors (she lived down the hall from us. The way my building is set up, her living room is directly behind my bedroom wall) I think started becoming senile. She used to scream at the top of her lungs in the middle of the night. She used to yell out "LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  for hours around 3AM. Other times she would sob REALLY loudly in the middle of the night. Another time I think she knocked over a bookshelf and sobbed.

One day on my way to work I heard what sounded like security at the other end of the hallway. As I waited for the elevator I peeked over, and saw that she was dressed in a coat, curled up on the floor in front of the neighbors door, having a casual conversation. I guess the neighbor was on her way to work when she saw the old lady there and called security. 

Needless to say, I was terrified at night and didn't sleep well for months. This is what I pictured each night when I went to bed (especially on the nights she screamed):

sophhabobopha

pinkcow13 said:

Oh my... yea, that's the price to pay for apartment living! 

Last spring before FI moved in one of my neighbors (she lived down the hall from us. The way my building is set up, her living room is directly behind my bedroom wall) I think started becoming senile. She used to scream at the top of her lungs in the middle of the night. She used to yell out "LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  for hours around 3AM. Other times she would sob REALLY loudly in the middle of the night. Another time I think she knocked over a bookshelf and sobbed.

One day on my way to work I heard what sounded like security at the other end of the hallway. As I waited for the elevator I peeked over, and saw that she was dressed in a coat, curled up on the floor in front of the neighbors door, having a casual conversation. I guess the neighbor was on her way to work when she saw the old lady there and called security. 

Needless to say, I was terrified at night and didn't sleep well for months. This is what I pictured each night when I went to bed (especially on the nights she screamed):

SITB

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. That's not okay.

pinkcow13

Yea, it was horrible. I'm pretty sure she got taken away over the summer. There were a bunch of maintenance bills, then eviction notices, etc and eventually her apartment was evacuated. A new girl lives there now. So far she seems normal.

JCbride2015

pinkcow13 said:

Yea, it was horrible. I'm pretty sure she got taken away over the summer. There were a bunch of maintenance bills, then eviction notices, etc and eventually her apartment was evacuated. A new girl lives there now. So far she seems normal.

Until the ghost gets her.

sophhabobopha

JCbride2015 said:

Yea, it was horrible. I'm pretty sure she got taken away over the summer. There were a bunch of maintenance bills, then eviction notices, etc and eventually her apartment was evacuated. A new girl lives there now. So far she seems normal.

Until the ghost gets her.

emmyg65

I used to live above an older disabled couple. Every Sunday, the man would watch religious TV and yell along with it. "You MUST WALK the path of THE LORD! PRAISE JESUS!"

sophhabobopha

emmyg65 said:

I used to live above an older disabled couple. Every Sunday, the man would watch religious TV and yell along with it. "You MUST WALK the path of THE LORD! PRAISE JESUS!"

That's fucking hilarious.

I would have yelled back "AMEN!!!!"

daria24

H used to live below a hooker. At first we thought she and her partner just had a very active sex life and then decided there was no way any couple was having sex more than a dozen times per day, every day, for months straight. 

We used to live next to a little shit who's parents let him run wild in the apartment-he would bounce basketballs against our common walls. He would jump rope and land so hard that books came off our shelves. There was a park literally next door-that is what they are made for.

sophhabobopha

daria24 said:

H used to live below a hooker. At first we thought she and her partner just had a very active sex life and then decided there was no way any couple was having sex more than a dozen times per day, every day, for months straight. 

We used to live next to a little shit who's parents let him run wild in the apartment-he would bounce basketballs against our common walls. He would jump rope and land so hard that books came off our shelves. There was a park literally next door-that is what they are made for.

SITB

What the what! I seriously can't believe that. 

daria24

sophhabobopha said:

daria24 said:

H used to live below a hooker. At first we thought she and her partner just had a very active sex life and then decided there was no way any couple was having sex more than a dozen times per day, every day, for months straight. 

We used to live next to a little shit who's parents let him run wild in the apartment-he would bounce basketballs against our common walls. He would jump rope and land so hard that books came off our shelves. There was a park literally next door-that is what they are made for.

SITB

What the what! I seriously can't believe that. 

Yep. Our whole common wall was shaking, we had books, cds and dvds falling off. The kid was about 9 or 10. 

MamaAlly89

A couple years ago my FI accepted a job out of state and they wanted him to start 2 weeks later. We found an apartment online, but we weren't able to check it out before hand because of the time crunch. Well, that was probably the most horrible idea we ever had because we ended up living above these people who i'm pretty sure were drug dealers. They would have random people banging on their door all day and night long. One afternoon I left to go to work and there was blood splattered all over their front door and the hallway. I was so freaked out, I sprinted to my car and called the cops. To make matters even worse the landlord wouldn't let us out of the lease, even though we didn't feel safe, so we had to spend another 6 months there. Horrible.

lkristenj

I lived on the 2nd floor of a 3-story apartment building a few years ago. It must have been poorly constructed or something. I had new upstairs neighbors and I swear it sounded like there were elephants upstairs. I could hear every footstep, every flush, and sometimes could even tell what movie they were watching. I don't think that kind of sound transfer is normal. I felt sorry for my downstairs neighbors who had to deal with my rough-housing dogs.

Now, we live in a two-story townhome apartment. The dogs can run upstairs and down all they want... until we move into our house in August.

I'm sorry that you're having so much trouble. Maybe it is just poor construction causing it to sound so loud? Otherwise, I'd definitely bring it up with those who can do something about it.

climbingsingle

Apartment living is the pits. I once rented the downstairs of a house. The owner and his wife had screaming fights every night. It was insane. And it went on for hours. One night, the LL was drunk and cornered me in the driveway. He complained to me that his wife never had sex with him and he wanted to find a girlfriend like me. Ugh. I broke that lease early.

I also once lived below a family with the loudest kids. I swear to god, it sounded like they were dropping bowling balls on the floor every night.

NavyBlue143

I rented half a duplex in college, and not only were our neighbor's kids so loud that we resorted to banging on the walls to get them to shut up (diplomacy failed) but they also used the communal washer and dryer 24/7, often plugging them into our outlet instead of theirs. We had to do laundry at like 3 am and still had to move their clothes out of the machines to do it. I get kids are messy, but does a family of 4 really need to keep the laundry running all day every day?

The people across the street would also throw parties all the time and people parked in our driveway. We called the cops so many times they recognized our number. Finally we just called a tow truck and claimed the vehicle was abandoned on our property. They stopped using our driveway after that.

Chipmunk415

We live in a townhouse in an apt complex. On one side, the wall between our place and the neighbors is reinforced- we only occasionally hear the washing machine that backs up to our laundry room. 

The other side, however, (the side the master bedroom is on, of course) seems paper thin at times. We've heard conversations, phones, tvs, alarm clocks (highly irritating when mine is set for an hour later), and babies. Most of the time its muffled. 

Up until a month ago, we had a couple with 3 daughters, aged 3 to 8, and a baby boy who was born while they lived next door. We didn't mind the girls running around behind the building in the grass, occasionally making noise. The youngest girl had a set of lungs though. Whenever she started having a tantrum in the house, we'd hear it through the wall, look at each other, and say, "J's upset."

All three girls liked our kitties, and I'd occasionally hold one for them to gently pet. J once scared the crap out of me- we had the sliding glass door to the back open, with the screen keeping the bugs out. One of our cats was lounging in front of the screen, enjoying the fresh air and outside noises. I'm on the futon, reading, when suddenly I heard this creepy low voice say "hi kitty". It was J, just saying hi to my cat, but totally was NOT expecting that voice!

Chipmunk415

If we're going to play the "who has the worst neighbors" story time, I'm submitting my parents' situation for consideration.

My folks retired to a condo community 2 years ago. Most everyone in this complex is 60+ (there's a few 50 year olds, and one 20 something living with her folks while she finishes school- the town has a very well regarded medical school and center, and she's pre med, working as a surgical tech, so not your typical young person).

8 months ago, a couple (in their 60s) moved in. We will call them A and B. When younger, they had adopted a sibling group and raised the kids together. Of these children, one daughter lives in a complex across the street. The other daughter and her husband were killed in a car accident 3 years ago. The sons are not in the picture.  The deceased daughter and her husband had two boys, C and S, whom A and B adopted and are caring for. C is about 8; S is roughly 14/15. 

Most of the time, C and S are well behaved. But they bounce basketballs in the condo and down the hall. At all hours of the day. It's highly annoying to the retirees who want peace and quiet.  The grandfather is completely ineffective and passive; the grandmother refuses to see a problem.  The kids don't pay attention to simple safety rules in the community (such as no diving in the shallow end of the pool) C likes to talk to my Dad (Dad sits outside to smoke cigars, and will tell C all sorts of stories and listen to him). C recently told Dad how much he likes spending time with the condo's "stray" cat, Cleo, because "that cat is just like me- he's got no friends." It's heartbreaking.

C and S aren't really the problem here. Their cousin T, who lives across the street with his mother, is.  Since T started visiting C and S, the complex has had multiple problems. Bikes a resident had for her grandkids disappeared. The pool furniture was thrown into the pool. The clubhouse was trashed. T rode bikes around the complex, and cuts close to the old ladies, acting like he will hit them and then turning at the last second.  He's been caught climbing all over the overhangs, and Dad once caught him looking at cars to break into.

Things have come to a head with T. He accosted the 20 something pre med girl (she's very good looking) and made comments that made her very uncomfortable and frightened her. He was caught hiding in the complex's wooded area when cops came to get him for truancy. 

The latest is he broke into his grandparent's condo via a ladder onto their porch, and was found by police hiding under the bed (grandparents had taken C and S to their other house 45 miles away to get them out of there for the summer and hopefully have a cooling off period for some of the complaints). T was arrested, and is not allowed on the property without escort by his grandparents in theory, but Dad's looking down the road of experience and is foreseeing T causing all sorts of trouble. I'm hoping for T's sake he doesn't try breaking into my parents' home (Dad is the most outspoken about having him banned from the property given his behavior, and has experienced some juvenile revenge attempts), as Dad is a Marine Corps combat vet with a concealed carry permit. T would not survive that encounter.

tigersgirlgv

I don't have too many complaints about my apartment, but the person above me was vacuuming above my bedroom at 11:00 the other night. Why do you need to vacuum at that hour? And it wasn't like really quick, we knocked over a plant and need to clean up, it went on for at least 15 minutes... I also used to hear my neighbor's alarm clock going off incessantly. I could only hear it in my bathroom, so it didn't wake me up, but it would be going off when I woke up and still be going when I was ready to leave an hour later... The first couple of days I was worried the person had died or something, but then I heard them moving around.

penguin44

I have had the opposite problem. We live on the 3rd floor of a 3 story apartment. Our downstairs neighbors complained about our dog barking for less than one minute at a time around 4 pm. So the apartment management made us get rid of our dog. Luckily FI's parents were able to take her for the time being. 

We even recorded her during the day. She barked when the UPS guy came to deliver things. And sometimes she would bark at other dogs barking (that were so loud outside that you could hear them on the recording). 

Luckily we are moving soon! 

smalfrie19

We are on the first floor and our patio is two feet from the common walk way (and all our windows face out toward it) and the children of the building will stand almost on our patio and play and talk so loudly ...and its right outside of our living room/ glass slider.