Naw. S'okay. I'm quiet and I mind my own business so you can mind yours too.

If you hear a strange percolating noise all night it's just my 150 gallon tropical fish tank and totally not a clandestine ecstasy laboratory.

10 pm is too early, can we make a concession and make it 3 am? Can I get paid or make my lease less for dying at 3 am every night?

Cuz God knows I hold races from one end of the apartment to the another at 5 am.

Might be a lost cause I,Anon. If it were that easy, you wouldn't hear so many complaints on this topic.

You're completely in the right I'm guessing. You simply can't count on people taking other people's concerns into consideration. All you can do is bring it to their attention. That may not change anything, but at least you've said your peace.

Good luck!!!

Sounds like a motherfucker needs to be cleaning up their credit to buy themselves their own goddamn building/ house.

And / or you bitch never lived in a basement growing up. Sucks to be you *jimmy..



*crack some corn as we don't care.

I'Anon,it is already in the lease the quiet time. Valid point, but it is apartment living and you deal with it. If it is too rowdy or possibly dangerous, talk to management.

There are not many sound proof apartments. I love apartment living,and do not have to get to know the neighbors. Sometimes we are too noisy in the wee hours so we give our loud neighbors a break. You should too.

If you rent, buy earplugs. Dogs and younger children are nearly impossible to control, and "no fucking after 10pm" is insanity.

When baby-goes-boom-boom, ain't-no-wayta-stop!

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The tiny houses are adorable and inexpensive. If you don't have kids that is. I can see why some are on wheels and selling like crazy. Had enough of apartment living?

I totally agree with the original post, which was written with humour but does address a basic issue - a little consideration, please. Some apartment dwellers act like they're the only ones in the building; it would be helpful to be a bit more considerate of their neighbours (especially the floor below). I'm sure the poster was using humour to describe a series of ridiculously loud mystery noises from above that are very annoying to someone who has to sleep so they can get up for work the next morning but instead has to listen to what sounds like broods of racing wildebeasts stomping the ceiling.

Inner Portland- the land of diminished expectations.
At best, you can save up for a house the size of a garden shed and a unicycle. The new apartments are really cheap construction, because the city planners are too busy blowing developers to regulate them. Slums of tomorrow- today.

I completely agree with the original post as well, as a current apartment dweller with inconsiderate upstairs neighbors. For me, it all boils down to common sense. I understand you have two kids under the age of 6 – they're loud, they jump around and make a lot of noise. During the day, I can tolerate it (even though I work from home and sometimes it drives me nuts). Life happens (though I do question why these kids aren't in school – if they're being home schooled that's a lot of laughing, bouncing of balls, etc.).

After 11pm, why are the kids still up and running around? I thought kids were supposed to go to sleep earlier than this. And why are the parents moving furniture, vacuuming, and playing guitar until 2am? Common sense. You know we live under you. We said something about the jumping at midnight four months ago. It's not like you did anything about it, but you know we can hear you. We're trying to be understanding and considerate so we're not rushing to management (or child services about the kids not in school) but you just don't seem to give a crap. I feel like we need a support group for this.

Move to a condo, then you can legally harass renters and "enhance" your neighborhood with some fucking pop-up twee teahouse that sells vintage (i.e. stained) dresses.

But I've heard that in the "future", "everyone" will want to live in dense multi-family units near transit. Living on top of each other is the way of the future and in no way ever gets old.

With my experience living everywhere and moving a lot, what happens is this: The kids annoy you, you annoy the 2 floor guitar man with your BBQ smoke in the weekends, the 2 floor man annoys the 3rd floor woman with his guitar playing at 2 am, and the 3rd floor woman annoys the 2nd floor living man with her sex parties at 3 am, and everybody annoys everybody in some way in a building doing something.

A roommate who needed to be up for work at 5AM each day once left an (admittedly very passive-agressive) note to the unemployed party animals who lived below us about their all-night ragers. They sent a representative up with an "angry joint" to smoke while we argued, and their rep. presented Mike with the following proposal for a compromise: "Maybe you should man up and stop being a little bitch."

And this is why I choose creative spite as my means for dealing with shit neighbors. It might not be more productive, but it's DEFINITELY more entertaining.

Ok. I lied. It's an ecstasy lab. And sometimes 2 4 5 trimethoxyamphetamine.