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vonDrehle

Just wondering what other apartment people though of this. Today I got a call from one of the people at the office with a noise complaint. Thinking it was maybe something to do with my tv, though I don't keep it loud, I was like ok. She then said that the guy under me can hear me walking around and can tell when it is Candy and that doesn't bother him but apparently my walking aloud is to much for the guy. So they pretty much asked me "Yeah... We are going to need you to relearn to walk because the guy underneath you can hear you." If it was something I actually did or could fix by turning something down, so be it. But saying I walk to heavy... WTF?

Ender

That is pretty random. Luckily, I have no one above or below me, just on either side. I hope they don't truly expect you to start walking on eggshells in your own apartment. Maybe they just had to appear to be doing something?

Dakota Spirit

I live in an apartment and have been faced with a few noise complaints in the past as well. Sometimes it's legit and some people just like to complain. I don't really see the purpose in making a big thing out of it so I usually just try to be better and move on. If the complaints persist then you can address the problem more in the sense of speaking the super regarding the man's sensitivity.

Pepper

Yeah me and my mom are pretty lucky.
Pepper has separation Anxiety, so I can only imagine what she sounds like when I'm gone...but luckily our neighbors beside us are really cool and make more noise then she probably would ever make!

Criosphynx

HA! Exact reason i've only rented downstairs.

I was visiting som'one and theirs was upstairs and the nieghbors complained about me "walking too hard". Im 120lbs. I don't walk hard.

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Shaina

Yeah...living in apartments sucks. I was in one for about two years. For the first 20 months, all was lovely (at least neighbor-wise), then I got a new tenant in below my place. He moved in on like a Tuesday, and the following Tuesday I had a noise complaint filed against me for over the weekend. The funny part? I was gone all weekend, and no one, human nor dog, was in our apartment. When I mentioned this, saying that the only way there would be noise would be if someone broke into my apartment, they asked him about it and he changed it to say that the noise occurred Thursday night

My guess would be that he just wanted to file a complaint regardless to keep "the people upstairs" in line. He seemed like that kind of guy.

K8IE

I think you just can't win either way in an apartment because if you are on the ground level so you don't have to deal with stairs, you are under someone loud, and if you are on the top level you will end up over some hyper- sensitive jerk who says you need to tip toe all over the place all the time. I personally would just keep walking the way you do, it is the fault of the builders if a normal person walking disturbs the person below.

And I have to say, I would live in a car before I will ever live in an apartment again. We had to rent one between our first house selling and our new house being built. It was the most horrible 4 months ever!!!!! We had a psycho upstairs from us that really was way too loud. He was always having loud parties and would actually lift weights at 2 or 3 in the morning and instead of setting them down he would DROP them as hard as he could on the floor and wake us all up, including my son who would be terrified and would wake up crying. The management never did anything about it and we just had to deal until our house was ready. My nerves were totally shot by the time we got out of there.....

jbray01

that sucks

i really think its because people just like to complain. but thats what happens in EVERY apartment. you can always hear the person above you!

i have lived in two apartments, one under some really quiet people and another one under two 300 lb brothers who blasted carrie underwood music all day long. they honestly made the same amount of noise! if you dont want to hear it, either move to the top floor, or buy a house!!! haha

ELmostl

do you wear shoes inside?

could be that , just wear socks then =D

if not then..yeah ..get a little scooter , and scooter around the apt. that may help. or rollerblades...or just crawl around. =/

Criosphynx

Im with you there.
Our nieghbor sharing a wall would set their alarm clock and let it go off for about an hour each morning. You could hear it plain as day through the wall.
I guess they slept through it. Annoying as hell.

Annamarie

if you're wearing shoes then yes that can be bothersome. I lived in an apartment where we never heard any of our neighbors for a year, then some new ones moved in upstairs and they all wore shoes and they walking around at various times between 6am and 3am so it was constantly keeping us up. during the day i didn't care but at night it drove me nuts.

if you're not wearing shoes, nothing you can do really. other than maybe buy an area rug?

AkiraleShiba

The highest wins I know my boyfriend would make the neighbour downstair suffer if he had the idea to do such things, he would have the speakers blasting an hour long song facing down ! But in the adult world, you try to make less noise but you don't try too hard either and if the tenant below can't stand hearing people walking well he should relocate to a Cabin in the sub polar circle

vonDrehle

Wish it was a shoe thing but I wear flip flops 95% of the time and take them off at the door. This is an older complex and I am the first apartment at the top of the stairs and I always know when somone is coming up because when I am sitting down the floor is literally bouncing, but I'm not sticking my head out asking if they could be a little more light footed. But I figure if he complains again I might start doing about 200 jumping jacks every night around 2, just give him something to actually complain about.

Annamarie

take up tai bo lol

vonDrehle

Lol, was just walking Candy and he came out talking on the phone. I was going to wait until he was off and apologize for any noise I made but through my ease dropping of him on the phone I decided he was an a-hole and came back inside.

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