Neighbours stomping habits?

i don't imagine she's as annoying as my neighbours were.

Then there was another neighbor who was manic depressive and often left off the meds and would invariably crank up his stereo with that Chris Isaaks (sp) song with the twangy guitars and black and white calvin klein model video on the beach until the walls shook. This must have been some kind of stereo, because that's not a racous song. One night he was on the balcony (in Calif., all the windows were open everywhere) screaming: "I'm going to jump, I'm going to jump!" One really wanted to shout back, "Please do, but would you mind doing it quickly and switching off the stereo beforehand?? Oh, and head first, please!"

I moved out of there. It was awful.

I guess this syntax doesn't really work. One can easily be both annoying and tidy, or even annoying because of being tidy, cf. Felix Unger.

Our incredibly loud downstairs neighbours who for the past two years have constantly trampled through the flat like a herd of fucking elephants just complained about us stomping. We were not stomping.

Doesn't surprise me, my downstairs neighbour complained about me making too much when he is basically the ONLY noisy person in the entire building

Some people must just be weird in the head. I can't work this one out. We weren't doing anything at all.

my new neighbour stomps, and she's beside us, not above us.

But she's a massive improvement on the last crowd so no biggie tbh

I think a lot of this is a result of poor and old construction, a lot of older structures that aren't properly sound insulated between levels (particularly before current codes came into effect) amplify the sound that bounces around between wood joists and subfloors.

amen to that, except our houses are maybe 15 years old.

Well, y'know, it isn't exactly unheard of builders skimping on insulation and sound isolation in areas that are covered up anyway.

My building has very thick walls but travels easily through the hardwood floors, so an entire hallway of loud apartments is no problem, but if the person directly below or above you is like that, you have a serious problem.

i have a couple of tiny twentysomething gals living above me now, but the way they stomp around you'd think they were sasquatches.

I never wore shoes when I had an apartment. My last apartment was some fifties high-rise deal so "stomping" was thankfully not an issue. However, I have had the complaining crowd, where they complain to the landlord if you drop something on the floor.

What's funny is how most landlords take the victim's side in stupid complaints like this.

Some neighbors truly are nutty, however. I mean subjecting your neighbors to obsessive / compulsive tendencies is worthy of complaint.

Unless she is a professional dancer or something.