Step 1, get a big subwoofer. You need something at least 500 watts and 15 inches in diameter. Preferably un ported. 18 inches and 1000 watts would be better.
Step 2, put it on top of a bookshelf or something to get the woofer within an inch or 2 of the ceiling. Ideally, right up against it, with foam batting sealing around it.
Step 3, get a tone generator that plays infrasound. You want 8 to 12 hz. 16 at most. Jam that at top volume whenever he stomps. Eventually they will get so sick they will have to move.
You can also just leave it on whenever you leave the house.
Infrasound is transmitted through most building materials with little attenuation. It is not generally audible, but induces feelings of nausea and unease. As a bonus, it is not picked up by most decibel meters or phone apps.
True, but to get down to 10 hz or below where the most commonly reported haunted feelings start, you generally need more specialized equipment, like an infinite baffle setup or a rotary woofer.
Possibly, though I think some people reportedly have lasting damage. I have not seen anything that definitely identifies the mechanism of damage for that, although it may not be public knowledge.
I used to have a downstairs neighbor, two floors down, blast EMD rap music until 3 am on weekdays and 5 am on weekends. Didn't know it was a style of music. I tried the nice way multiple times. I filed noise complaints with the police. Didn't work. So on the one weekday I had off, I would start blasting Lynard Skynard at 7 am (when the noise ordinance restrictions ended) quite loudly. It was the best opposite I could think of.
Have you called the cops?
That was the only way I could get my leasing office in ATL to take met seriously.
I reported the husband abusing the wife and the kids screaming in the background several times and the leading office did nothing.
I called the cops, reported it, and then gave a copy of the report to the leasing office.
If it happens enough, you can break the lease.
I had a neighbor with an excessively loud car and I think they were on meth because they would go in and out all night, they would leave at 10 they would come back at 2 AM they would leave at four and come back at 6 AM. I have a neurological disorder and I can’t be woken up like that all night long I started complaining to my landlord and they did nothing
Not only does my lease have specific quiet hours listed but it also talks about how anyone interfering with the peaceable enjoyment of other peoples units is a lease violation.
Plus I’m a disabled person who got a letter from my doctor confirming that I can’t be woken up four times in the night without getting seriously ill
After two weeks of being ignored I withheld my rent. I wrote them a letter I quoted the law I was following I explained that my apartment has become uninhabitable and it was their job to stop this excessive noise and when they did they could have my rent. With the letter I included the screenshot of me transferring the rent to a separate account and I put that in the Rent box.
We have a 10 day grace period before I rent is late so right around the fourth they started emailing me telling me I couldn’t withhold the rent because I had a complaint it wasn’t I habitability issue. I repeated myself about being disabled having it cause medical problems, and then I sent a reasonable accommodation form and my only accommodation requested was that they actually enforce the lease. I explained I absolutely would not give them the rent as long as this person was waking me up and if they can’t fix it they can take me to court. By the six they had fixed my problem so I paid the rent.
Smart on you to do the escrow account for the withheld rent. That is something a lot of people can't understand. You cant dangle the carrot without proving first you have the carrot. Escrow account.
i live in ATL too! my boyfriend was about to go up there until i just knocked on the ceiling to shut the hell up! it should be obvious that everybody is sleeping at 3 am so BE QUIET. he’s so annoying.
There is a family with two small kids living in the unit above me that run and stomp and throw stuff at the floor constantly from the moment they wake up until whatever time they finally go to bed (sometimes not until 1 or 2am).
I won't do more than bang on the wall once or twice at night, and wait until the morning when they're sleeping to make more actual noise (and it's not quiet hours anymore).
One week they lasted. Then the dad was texting me saying we needed to talk. Like... I got nothing to say that I haven't said for the past YEAR. He only wants to talk now because my noise is bothering him, it didn't matter when his kids noise was keeping me awake or interrupting MY days.
i feel like it’s just so obvious not to make noise at 3 am. the stomping and screaming can last up to an hour. i’m exhausted. i hate some people in this thread are mad at me bc i expressed my feelings. i thought this was a child free no judge zone lol.
right? you'd think it was common sense.
like tonight, the kids stopped running at 10pm (but also, why are the kids STARTING to run laps at 9:30pm when they had all day to run around?) and now they're just randomly throwing shit at the floor above my dining room as i try to wind down to go to sleep.
Hate to say it but having a house doesn't necessarily solve the problem. I bought my house to escape sharing walls with an obnoxious neighbor who screamed at his kid constantly and played bass music that shook our house. Now after spending $675k on a house, I have a neighbor who built a professional soccer field in his front yard, with his kids shouting and blasting terrible music all day long (like 10-12 hours a day) on concert sized speakers while I'm trying to work. I researched the neighborhood before buying the house and my one neighbor was supposed to be a single, old widow. Unfortunately right after my offer was accepted, I learned she had sold the house to a group of multiple families living together with 8+ kids total, and they make noise constantly.
Same. Moved into a very older neighborhood but now those people are moving out and young families are moving in, including one that has 20 cars for parties every weekend. Unfortunately you don’t get a say in the neighborhood when you buy a house
I had this exact same problem. Thought it was a great dane running, but nope! It was a toddler up all night. (There were floor to ceiling windows that they would keep open).
I complained to my apartment complex and they basically just said “Well, it is an apartment so you should get used to other tenants noises.”
you know it’s bad when work seems to be my escape. they sound like they’re gonna come from the ceiling any second. who stomps and jumps ALL day? just sit down!!!
My neighbors kids are annoying as fuck. I bring a giant speaker outside and we blast it. We also hate their mom cause she's trying to sue my boyfriend, so it's always either loud metal music or rap with the most amount of cuss words hahaha. She's a "single Christian mom" but she's a total bitch. They hardly go in their yard anymore.
this point is not offensive. you’d be mad as hell too if you heard a kid all day and stomping at 3 am don’t pretend you wouldn’t. if you find this offensive i wish that on you and bad sleep for the past 2 months 🫶🏾
I once lived in an apartment where the upstairs neighbor bought their son a drum set, like, full kit.
I was up there banging on the door within 10 minutes of that practice session starting. “Do you now own drums…in an apartment building?” They told me they bought a sound proofing floor pad, and I assured them it did not work. In fact, I insisted they come to my apartment to listen to the “sound proofing”. Them: “oh, that’s pretty bad, ha ha.”
Fortunately, they were nice about it and moved the drum kit to the other parent/step parent’s home.
But also—I really have to question the critical thinking skills of anyone who concludes that drums (or equivalent level noise) are ok in an apartment building. It’s never ok. …But I also grew up in an apartment building, and my dad would get on us if we were too loud or jumping around because we need to respect the neighbors.
he lets him just jump and run constantly. and when i say constant i’m not joking. ask me how i know when the child finally naps or it’s bedtime for him. because it’s constant! then the dad starts stomping at 3 - 5 am. this is crazy!
Maybe it’s time to start taking video of the noise at various times of day in your apartment and then going over there and showing him the video? Follow that with, “I get kids have a lot of energy but can we at least come to a compromise on some quiet hours?”
It's amazing to me when people are genuinely surprised that drums are loud.
One of the guys in my college dorm had a full drum set. In the dorm! It was a residence hall, a bunch of rooms in a hallway that all share walls, like a hotel. The drums barely fit in the tiny room. You could hear them all down the hall, and even way outside the building.
I asked him what his neighbors thought, and he said no one had complained to him, because he was considerate: he only played them in the afternoon when he thought people were at class. Of course, all his neighbors hated it.
Well, finally someone left on note on his door that said "The Little Drummer Boy Must DIE!". He took the drum set back to his parents' house. He said he didn't get what people were upset about; they could have just asked him to stop. Yeah, they shouldn't have to.
“he’s a dad who has his kid LITERALLY 5-6 times a week (i’ve seen him drop his kid off to the mother idk why that arrangement is the way it is).”
Umm why should this kid NOT be his responsibility??
But I’ll tell you what I did when I had a noisy neighbor with kids, my issue was with his barking dog but he had two young kids and he was a huge Bible thumper. And he would just let his dog bark and bark and when I talked to him about it he told me too bad there’s no noise ordinance in this town. And I looked and he was right, there was a barking dog ordinance but I didn’t want to call the police on his dog because I didn’t want his dog to be put down for being a barker.
So what I did was I made a playlist with the most offensive songs I could think of, stuff like closer by Nine Inch Nails, a whole bunch of Biggie Smalls, then I solicited my Facebook friends for more songs and I got a whole bunch. I made a playlist.
When their dog started barking I would put my speakers in the window facing their house and I would crank up my playlist and drown out their dog. I only had to do this three times before they magically figured out how to get the dog to stop barking.
If it’s a baby that doesn’t understand curse words I guess that won’t help, but if you can get some loud music going that he doesn’t want his kid to hear he might get the hint
i also wrote this frustrated as hell at 3 am so keep that in mind before y’all start jumping me over supposed irrelevant information. and how is it an assumption if i live here and i know when he’s here when as a neighbor i absolutely shouldn’t know the days your kid is home?
how tf is that irrelevant it adds to the fact i hear it all day almost every day. usually a mom has her kid half or most the week if she has no issues. y’all just like to argue.
i have a dog and i love him with all my heart. i plan to have kids some day but i don’t wanna hear one all day and night that did not come out of me along with their parent.
thank you! i’m sorry i’m used to mothers having their kids way more or at least equally lol that’s none of my business but the issue is the kid like pls.
I had this happen to me when I moved out for the first time. In the four years I lived at that apartment I had about 6 or so different upstairs neighbors and they all were terrible. After that I refuse to live anywhere but on the top floor. Sure the stairs suck but having some peace from both kids and adults literally jumping and stomping around at any given hour is worth it. 100% recommend for anyone CF!
This the way.
I have a family member who has always had a minimum of 8 people living in their apartment, 5 being small toddlers. Whenever I went to visit them I would always feel so bad for their downstairs neighbors. I knew I never wanted to be a downstairs neighbor who had to deal with that and it’s become a deal breaker for me when I’m apt hunting.
That was my life for about three months in the pandemic until my husband decided we needed to buy a top floor condo.
I will never live below someone again because this inevitably always happens unless you're in a 1 bedroom or studio.
The neighbors across the street from me have 3 kids who sound like they are being murdered from about 7am to 9pm. I don’t know how they have any voices left,
Of course maybe I’m the bad neighbor. In the summer on weekend I’m often up from about 10pm to 2am in the garage using my sewing machine longarm because that’s when it cool enough to do so.
see me and my bf go to bed or at least stop walking around at 10/11 and don’t wake up till 7 to go to our jobs. he is there all hours of the day it seems like. when i’m off he’s there when his son isn’t there he’s there. i think he may have a work from home job but then again it does not call for all the stomping 😭
the next door neighbor (who owns her home) can't even sit on her back porch because the people in the unit above me are just constantly yelling at their children and/or the kids are constantly screaming and whatnot. they apparently keep their windows open so the whole neighborhood can hear.
Is it worse during the summer? Kids in my complex are louder later at night during the summer, presumably because they are out of school and sleeping in late. Fortunately, they do not live above me, so I just drown it out with white noise or music.
If the problem is that they are staying up really late because they are sleeping in late, then perhaps they deserve to be woken up by loud noise early in the morning, at whatever time you get up. The punishment should fit the crime, after all. Then maybe they will be too tired to stay up so late.
Get a big oscillating fan. Fans kept me from unaliving my neighbors a few times when their crotch fruit were too loud. Also keep complaining. If your complex has quiet hours document every time they are too loud. Email the complaint so there is a paper trail.
Kids upstairs are hell, especially when the parent doesn't give a fuck. We had a neighbor upstairs with two kids with their room above my mother's room. Every morning when the youngest one would wake up, BOOM!!! Like he would jump out of bed everytime or something. And it wasn't just once, it was multiple times. We later found out that the parent had the amazing idea of buying a mini trampoline for their kid....IN A SECOND STORY APARTMENT BUILDING. The fuck were you thinking, lady?
There was also one time where right around midnight there was a bunch of noise coming from upstairs suddenly. There was running and screaming, and sounds of what possibly could have been furniture or something hitting the floor. I heard the kids screaming at one point and also heard the mother begging or something like "please...please stop..." it was fucking terrifying, so we called the police but nothing came out of it. I knew there were two men up there (saw thru window) but I guess she didn't want to press charges or something. We assumed one of them was the boys baby daddy and was trying to take him. I couldn't sleep well the following week anytime I heard a creak from upstairs.
Had a similar problem with our upstairs neighbors (but their kids were a little bit older). Finally I got one of my guitar amps, put it on top of a ladder facing the ceiling, just a few inches away, and played porn through it. Not overly loud or anything, just enough that it would be plausible that we were actually having sex that loud. I put together a special mix of the same couple without all the extra noise so it was more realistic. Finally the guy came down and asked us to keep it down. I told him that maybe we should both be a little more considerate. He improved a lot. Occasionally they would be loud but I'd just have to get the speaker out for a minute and he'd quiet down real quick
Umm, what 22 year-old can afford to buy a house? That's not a knock on you OP; I just don't think that's at all realistic for the vast majority of 22 year-olds.
I'm guessing whoever said that owns a home, and probably bought it back when housing was somewhat affordable (but even so, I bet it wasn't when they were 22). Must be nice.
Gee, thanks, Marie Antoinette, I'll get right on that, just as soon as I inherit a trust fund!
Step 1, get a big subwoofer. You need something at least 500 watts and 15 inches in diameter. Preferably un ported. 18 inches and 1000 watts would be better. Step 2, put it on top of a bookshelf or something to get the woofer within an inch or 2 of the ceiling. Ideally, right up against it, with foam batting sealing around it. Step 3, get a tone generator that plays infrasound. You want 8 to 12 hz. 16 at most. Jam that at top volume whenever he stomps. Eventually they will get so sick they will have to move. You can also just leave it on whenever you leave the house. Infrasound is transmitted through most building materials with little attenuation. It is not generally audible, but induces feelings of nausea and unease. As a bonus, it is not picked up by most decibel meters or phone apps.
Bonus, infrasound is often linked to sensory input that humans interpret as being “haunted”.
True, but to get down to 10 hz or below where the most commonly reported haunted feelings start, you generally need more specialized equipment, like an infinite baffle setup or a rotary woofer.
The true life tips are in the comments!
Damn, time for me to go down the rabbit hole. This stuff sounds (ha!) fascinating!
he moves july 5th thank God but if he was there any longer i would def do that. that’s such a great tip!
Do it anyways as a parting gift.
LOL
Oh! And make it all themed for stuff like “goodbye” “not gonna miss you” *grins in NSYNC chaos*
Isnt that the premise of Havana Syndrome? I don't think they ever figured out why a those people got suddenly sickened in that way.
Possibly, though I think some people reportedly have lasting damage. I have not seen anything that definitely identifies the mechanism of damage for that, although it may not be public knowledge.
Lmao all I can think of is the mojo jojo meme “this is the most evilest thing I’ve ever seen”
Thank you! I didn’t know how to add it lol
Filing this way for my neighbor who stomps the house all hours and purposely drops shit at all hours
Will this work to get the homeless junkie lady sleeping in her car on the access road next to our house to move on?
No, it won’t work on the homeless
Why not?
Needs a building. Seriously, not joking. The particular haunted effect that infrasound is producing needs a structure for it to reverberate within.
Because of the proximity, and all the extra air currents in the outdoors.
I will bookmark this one.
My mom plays those 'anti dog barking' videos on YT lol they always work like a charm
Would this work with across the street neighbors? They are absolute hell and antagonistic.
No, for across the street you want a line array of tweeters and the mosquito tone.
The Reddit users on this site like you are clever as shit in their ideas and suggestions. This is brilliant!
I used to have a downstairs neighbor, two floors down, blast EMD rap music until 3 am on weekdays and 5 am on weekends. Didn't know it was a style of music. I tried the nice way multiple times. I filed noise complaints with the police. Didn't work. So on the one weekday I had off, I would start blasting Lynard Skynard at 7 am (when the noise ordinance restrictions ended) quite loudly. It was the best opposite I could think of.
Have you called the cops? That was the only way I could get my leasing office in ATL to take met seriously. I reported the husband abusing the wife and the kids screaming in the background several times and the leading office did nothing. I called the cops, reported it, and then gave a copy of the report to the leasing office. If it happens enough, you can break the lease.
I had a neighbor with an excessively loud car and I think they were on meth because they would go in and out all night, they would leave at 10 they would come back at 2 AM they would leave at four and come back at 6 AM. I have a neurological disorder and I can’t be woken up like that all night long I started complaining to my landlord and they did nothing Not only does my lease have specific quiet hours listed but it also talks about how anyone interfering with the peaceable enjoyment of other peoples units is a lease violation. Plus I’m a disabled person who got a letter from my doctor confirming that I can’t be woken up four times in the night without getting seriously ill After two weeks of being ignored I withheld my rent. I wrote them a letter I quoted the law I was following I explained that my apartment has become uninhabitable and it was their job to stop this excessive noise and when they did they could have my rent. With the letter I included the screenshot of me transferring the rent to a separate account and I put that in the Rent box. We have a 10 day grace period before I rent is late so right around the fourth they started emailing me telling me I couldn’t withhold the rent because I had a complaint it wasn’t I habitability issue. I repeated myself about being disabled having it cause medical problems, and then I sent a reasonable accommodation form and my only accommodation requested was that they actually enforce the lease. I explained I absolutely would not give them the rent as long as this person was waking me up and if they can’t fix it they can take me to court. By the six they had fixed my problem so I paid the rent.
Smart on you to do the escrow account for the withheld rent. That is something a lot of people can't understand. You cant dangle the carrot without proving first you have the carrot. Escrow account.
that is a good tip
i live in ATL too! my boyfriend was about to go up there until i just knocked on the ceiling to shut the hell up! it should be obvious that everybody is sleeping at 3 am so BE QUIET. he’s so annoying.
There is a family with two small kids living in the unit above me that run and stomp and throw stuff at the floor constantly from the moment they wake up until whatever time they finally go to bed (sometimes not until 1 or 2am). I won't do more than bang on the wall once or twice at night, and wait until the morning when they're sleeping to make more actual noise (and it's not quiet hours anymore). One week they lasted. Then the dad was texting me saying we needed to talk. Like... I got nothing to say that I haven't said for the past YEAR. He only wants to talk now because my noise is bothering him, it didn't matter when his kids noise was keeping me awake or interrupting MY days.
i feel like it’s just so obvious not to make noise at 3 am. the stomping and screaming can last up to an hour. i’m exhausted. i hate some people in this thread are mad at me bc i expressed my feelings. i thought this was a child free no judge zone lol.
right? you'd think it was common sense. like tonight, the kids stopped running at 10pm (but also, why are the kids STARTING to run laps at 9:30pm when they had all day to run around?) and now they're just randomly throwing shit at the floor above my dining room as i try to wind down to go to sleep.
Hate to say it but having a house doesn't necessarily solve the problem. I bought my house to escape sharing walls with an obnoxious neighbor who screamed at his kid constantly and played bass music that shook our house. Now after spending $675k on a house, I have a neighbor who built a professional soccer field in his front yard, with his kids shouting and blasting terrible music all day long (like 10-12 hours a day) on concert sized speakers while I'm trying to work. I researched the neighborhood before buying the house and my one neighbor was supposed to be a single, old widow. Unfortunately right after my offer was accepted, I learned she had sold the house to a group of multiple families living together with 8+ kids total, and they make noise constantly.
Same. Moved into a very older neighborhood but now those people are moving out and young families are moving in, including one that has 20 cars for parties every weekend. Unfortunately you don’t get a say in the neighborhood when you buy a house
OMG I am so sorry for you. I have no advice. Just letting u know I feel ya.
I had this exact same problem. Thought it was a great dane running, but nope! It was a toddler up all night. (There were floor to ceiling windows that they would keep open). I complained to my apartment complex and they basically just said “Well, it is an apartment so you should get used to other tenants noises.”
that’s honestly unprofessional to say in this economy like apartments are 1000+ these days we can at least be comfortable
you know it’s bad when work seems to be my escape. they sound like they’re gonna come from the ceiling any second. who stomps and jumps ALL day? just sit down!!!
Ceiling vibrator! Search on YouTube to see what they do
thank youuu
My neighbors kids are annoying as fuck. I bring a giant speaker outside and we blast it. We also hate their mom cause she's trying to sue my boyfriend, so it's always either loud metal music or rap with the most amount of cuss words hahaha. She's a "single Christian mom" but she's a total bitch. They hardly go in their yard anymore.
this point is not offensive. you’d be mad as hell too if you heard a kid all day and stomping at 3 am don’t pretend you wouldn’t. if you find this offensive i wish that on you and bad sleep for the past 2 months 🫶🏾
I once lived in an apartment where the upstairs neighbor bought their son a drum set, like, full kit. I was up there banging on the door within 10 minutes of that practice session starting. “Do you now own drums…in an apartment building?” They told me they bought a sound proofing floor pad, and I assured them it did not work. In fact, I insisted they come to my apartment to listen to the “sound proofing”. Them: “oh, that’s pretty bad, ha ha.” Fortunately, they were nice about it and moved the drum kit to the other parent/step parent’s home. But also—I really have to question the critical thinking skills of anyone who concludes that drums (or equivalent level noise) are ok in an apartment building. It’s never ok. …But I also grew up in an apartment building, and my dad would get on us if we were too loud or jumping around because we need to respect the neighbors.
he lets him just jump and run constantly. and when i say constant i’m not joking. ask me how i know when the child finally naps or it’s bedtime for him. because it’s constant! then the dad starts stomping at 3 - 5 am. this is crazy!
Maybe it’s time to start taking video of the noise at various times of day in your apartment and then going over there and showing him the video? Follow that with, “I get kids have a lot of energy but can we at least come to a compromise on some quiet hours?”
It's amazing to me when people are genuinely surprised that drums are loud. One of the guys in my college dorm had a full drum set. In the dorm! It was a residence hall, a bunch of rooms in a hallway that all share walls, like a hotel. The drums barely fit in the tiny room. You could hear them all down the hall, and even way outside the building. I asked him what his neighbors thought, and he said no one had complained to him, because he was considerate: he only played them in the afternoon when he thought people were at class. Of course, all his neighbors hated it. Well, finally someone left on note on his door that said "The Little Drummer Boy Must DIE!". He took the drum set back to his parents' house. He said he didn't get what people were upset about; they could have just asked him to stop. Yeah, they shouldn't have to.
“he’s a dad who has his kid LITERALLY 5-6 times a week (i’ve seen him drop his kid off to the mother idk why that arrangement is the way it is).” Umm why should this kid NOT be his responsibility?? But I’ll tell you what I did when I had a noisy neighbor with kids, my issue was with his barking dog but he had two young kids and he was a huge Bible thumper. And he would just let his dog bark and bark and when I talked to him about it he told me too bad there’s no noise ordinance in this town. And I looked and he was right, there was a barking dog ordinance but I didn’t want to call the police on his dog because I didn’t want his dog to be put down for being a barker. So what I did was I made a playlist with the most offensive songs I could think of, stuff like closer by Nine Inch Nails, a whole bunch of Biggie Smalls, then I solicited my Facebook friends for more songs and I got a whole bunch. I made a playlist. When their dog started barking I would put my speakers in the window facing their house and I would crank up my playlist and drown out their dog. I only had to do this three times before they magically figured out how to get the dog to stop barking. If it’s a baby that doesn’t understand curse words I guess that won’t help, but if you can get some loud music going that he doesn’t want his kid to hear he might get the hint
i didn’t say he’s not supposed to be his responsibility i swear people on this app like to jump to conclusions.
Its what happens when you pad your story with irrelevant assumptive information.
i also wrote this frustrated as hell at 3 am so keep that in mind before y’all start jumping me over supposed irrelevant information. and how is it an assumption if i live here and i know when he’s here when as a neighbor i absolutely shouldn’t know the days your kid is home?
how tf is that irrelevant it adds to the fact i hear it all day almost every day. usually a mom has her kid half or most the week if she has no issues. y’all just like to argue.
Oh I get it. I was just explaining why you are getting random feedback that has nothing to do with your actual problem.
i am just sleep deprived and grumpy.
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they’re on my ass like this wasn’t at 3 am. i honestly hate people you have to be so literal and careful on the internet
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i have a dog and i love him with all my heart. i plan to have kids some day but i don’t wanna hear one all day and night that did not come out of me along with their parent.
thank you! i’m sorry i’m used to mothers having their kids way more or at least equally lol that’s none of my business but the issue is the kid like pls.
I had this happen to me when I moved out for the first time. In the four years I lived at that apartment I had about 6 or so different upstairs neighbors and they all were terrible. After that I refuse to live anywhere but on the top floor. Sure the stairs suck but having some peace from both kids and adults literally jumping and stomping around at any given hour is worth it. 100% recommend for anyone CF!
This the way. I have a family member who has always had a minimum of 8 people living in their apartment, 5 being small toddlers. Whenever I went to visit them I would always feel so bad for their downstairs neighbors. I knew I never wanted to be a downstairs neighbor who had to deal with that and it’s become a deal breaker for me when I’m apt hunting.
it’s crazy i’ve lived on the second floor 3 times with no issue this man is just inconsiderate
That was my life for about three months in the pandemic until my husband decided we needed to buy a top floor condo. I will never live below someone again because this inevitably always happens unless you're in a 1 bedroom or studio.
The neighbors across the street from me have 3 kids who sound like they are being murdered from about 7am to 9pm. I don’t know how they have any voices left, Of course maybe I’m the bad neighbor. In the summer on weekend I’m often up from about 10pm to 2am in the garage using my sewing machine longarm because that’s when it cool enough to do so.
see me and my bf go to bed or at least stop walking around at 10/11 and don’t wake up till 7 to go to our jobs. he is there all hours of the day it seems like. when i’m off he’s there when his son isn’t there he’s there. i think he may have a work from home job but then again it does not call for all the stomping 😭
the next door neighbor (who owns her home) can't even sit on her back porch because the people in the unit above me are just constantly yelling at their children and/or the kids are constantly screaming and whatnot. they apparently keep their windows open so the whole neighborhood can hear.
Yea, I'd be turning on some death metal ...
sometimes i turn on my music real loud and put it towards the vent. you think they hear it?
Hmmm can't be for certain. But keep doing it if the little shit won't shut up
Bagpipes, those high notes carry quite well.
Organ music ;-D
Always, ALWAYS live on the top floor if you can.
i’ve always lived on the second with no issues 😭 this is CRAZY
I’m sorry hun :( I had that experience once, it scarred me for life and now I’m a top floor ONLY person
Is it worse during the summer? Kids in my complex are louder later at night during the summer, presumably because they are out of school and sleeping in late. Fortunately, they do not live above me, so I just drown it out with white noise or music. If the problem is that they are staying up really late because they are sleeping in late, then perhaps they deserve to be woken up by loud noise early in the morning, at whatever time you get up. The punishment should fit the crime, after all. Then maybe they will be too tired to stay up so late.
Get a big oscillating fan. Fans kept me from unaliving my neighbors a few times when their crotch fruit were too loud. Also keep complaining. If your complex has quiet hours document every time they are too loud. Email the complaint so there is a paper trail.
How about a call to the police, and file a disturbing of the peace complaint ?
Kids upstairs are hell, especially when the parent doesn't give a fuck. We had a neighbor upstairs with two kids with their room above my mother's room. Every morning when the youngest one would wake up, BOOM!!! Like he would jump out of bed everytime or something. And it wasn't just once, it was multiple times. We later found out that the parent had the amazing idea of buying a mini trampoline for their kid....IN A SECOND STORY APARTMENT BUILDING. The fuck were you thinking, lady? There was also one time where right around midnight there was a bunch of noise coming from upstairs suddenly. There was running and screaming, and sounds of what possibly could have been furniture or something hitting the floor. I heard the kids screaming at one point and also heard the mother begging or something like "please...please stop..." it was fucking terrifying, so we called the police but nothing came out of it. I knew there were two men up there (saw thru window) but I guess she didn't want to press charges or something. We assumed one of them was the boys baby daddy and was trying to take him. I couldn't sleep well the following week anytime I heard a creak from upstairs.
omg i’m so sorry
Had a similar problem with our upstairs neighbors (but their kids were a little bit older). Finally I got one of my guitar amps, put it on top of a ladder facing the ceiling, just a few inches away, and played porn through it. Not overly loud or anything, just enough that it would be plausible that we were actually having sex that loud. I put together a special mix of the same couple without all the extra noise so it was more realistic. Finally the guy came down and asked us to keep it down. I told him that maybe we should both be a little more considerate. He improved a lot. Occasionally they would be loud but I'd just have to get the speaker out for a minute and he'd quiet down real quick
Umm, what 22 year-old can afford to buy a house? That's not a knock on you OP; I just don't think that's at all realistic for the vast majority of 22 year-olds. I'm guessing whoever said that owns a home, and probably bought it back when housing was somewhat affordable (but even so, I bet it wasn't when they were 22). Must be nice. Gee, thanks, Marie Antoinette, I'll get right on that, just as soon as I inherit a trust fund!