I can't move in my own apartment

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

I just moved into a new apt. I've taken over the lease for a friend that has relocated to NYC. Now, I don't wear shoes in the apt., because she always had me take them off when I visited because of the squeaky floors. Well, apparently, the woman who lives in the bedroom below mine has hypersensitive hearing, because I cannot move across my bedroom without her banging on her ceiling.

I'm not moving furniture or anything. It's literally like I step off my bed and move two feet to turn my lamp off and it's *BANG, BANG, BANG*. What the hell do I do? I'm scared to fucking walk across my room. To fully lay the picture, I'm barefoot, 5'1" and all of 100 lbs. How can a single footstep of mine cause someone to feel the need to jump out of bed and BANG on her ceiling?

I can be move and cause her to bang, then I stop and stand still, take one step and it's banging time again.

[progmom]

1. Wow. You should bang back.

Just keep banging until she stops.
Wow.

[AlCzervik]

2. she needs ear plugs, people can't live on eggshells

because of her issues.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Apparently, the person below you is a piece of shit

and not worthy of being in the race called human.

What a hypersensitive *@(*^&$#. That's an issue I would first take up with her - to tell her to chill the hell down and learn to live with it. And, since that won't solve anything, I'd then go to the landlord.

[Cadence]

4. that's ridiculous

bounce a basketball.

[Lex]

5. Just ignore that banging crap

as if she's not even doing it.

Eventually she'll get the idea that you aren't going to stop walking around in your apartment.

Seriously, eventually she'll have to stop and she'll understand HER banging is NOT working like she wants it to.

[Elidor]

6. Bang back - and yell at her to stop it

Don't take any shit from pesky neighbors. Give them hell. The sooner you get them trained, the sooner you can relax and enjoy your new space. Call the police on her if she won't quit. I'm serious. You have as much right to peace and quiet as she does. You either stand up to her now or take her shit for evermore.

[Seldona]

7. That is terrible.

I would have a talk with your landlord, and let them handle it if they could.

Beyond that, I would call the police and report HER for the banging on the floor of your apartment.

As a last resort you could talk to her, pointing out that if she wants absolute silence, perhaps she should look into her own house.

If it were me, she would probably bang a hole in her ceiling with all the moise I would make on purpose.

I cannot stand people who have complete disregard for the fact that they are living in an apartment situation.

It is the main reason I bought my own house.

Not because of the neighbors noise, but simply because I got sick of one neighbor in particular who was exactly like yours.

Only she was fond of calling in law enforcement.

No way to live, that is for sure.

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. Start wearing high heels

and dancing a lot.

[realisticphish]

9. buy a drumset

and a double bass pedal. then just POUND the shit out if it, at 1 in the morning

:evilgrin:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[RevCheesehead]

10. Ha! I thought you had a "clutter problem" like me!

But your post brought back some strange memories. Like the old woman next door in California who came over and screamed at me because my TV was on after 11 p.m. I went over the next day to apologize, and her husband told me she didn't want to see me.

Then there was the apartment in Durham while going to Div. School. I must have totally aggravated my downstairs neighbor for pulling too many "all-nighters" when papers were due. But she was cool.

But the worst had to be (same apartment) when the guy next door started dating a "screamer." After 3 a.m. on a Saturday night, I finally banged on the wall (I had church the next morning).

Apartments: NEVER AGAIN!!!!

[cavanaghjam]

11. You are not in the wrong.

That's the first thing you have to realize. What I would do is remind her that silence is found only by the dead. Course I'm 6'2 and 220 so it would bring a different message. You might want to talk to your neighbors if you happen to strike up a conversation with them. Mention the downstairs neighbor problem. Even if they don't have any helpful advice, at least the problem is out in the open. Back to my first point - once you accept that you are the aggrieved party, a solution may then present itself to you. As said before, ignore it, but not more than a couple of days. Then, if it persists, talk to the super or landlord.

[elsiesummers]

12. I have the same problem. (1) You might get rugs (2) bang back at 2:00am

(3) If she calls the police after you bang back at 2:00 am do not answer the door (like you are asleep). Police have no right to enter your apt or to expect you to open the door (w/o a warrant).

I have enormous rugs because my downstairs neighbor complained.
I am the only person in my building with enormous rugs although there is a rug rule.

Then she called my coop board because I vacuumed at noon on Saturday.

After trying to be nice, repeatedly, and being as quiet as is humanly possible, and obeying all the rules scrupulously - I have given up.

She is a bully.

The last time she complained I woke her up in the middle of the night, by banging, deliberately.

She doesn't complain any more.

[LeftyMom]

13. Contact your landlord *in writing*

She's inhibiting the "quiet enjoyment" (that's the key phrase) of the apartment you pay for. It's illegal to do so and illegal for your landlord to allow it to continue. If he doesn't correct the problem in a specified period (varies by state and sometimes by municipality) you have a good justification for breaking your lease without penalty, but you should talk to your local housing advocacy organization before you do that.

If our landlord can't stop her form being a b**** and banging on your walls every time move you need to get a date and a squeeky bed, or just turn a porno movie up really loud then go have lunch someplace nice.

BTW Is this woman mentally ill or just bored?

[DS1]

14. Turn a powersander upside down and clamp it to the floor or wall

the ear-splitting buzzing should drown out any footsteps, and banging from below. You'll both be happy.

In all seriousness, she's testing you, test back.