Apartment neighbor issues

[Quiet Man]

That is the most pathetic-reading "**** you" in history.

Ha! I'm not a man to be messed with.

 

[Quiet Man]

You expected something different from a guy with the handle "Quiet Man?"

This is well played.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Well, my name's not "Loud *****" so I figured there was some leeway with that.

Well it shou....er, I mean, that's true.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Lived in two apartments. Lived on the bottom floor in one, the top in the other. The apartment above mine in Lexington was empty the entire time I was there.

 

[Chef2]

When it comes to neighbors, always try to find the good door.

.....stoob just read this and remembered the good old days.

 

[spikechiquet]

In college we had two girls live upstairs of us in an old house converted into apartments.
One of the girls bedrooms was above our bathroom, their living rooms was above my bedroom...real ****ed up setup for both places (we had two bathrooms in ours that were back-to-back rooms, they had one...no clue who redesigned the place).
We became pretty good friends and would be pretty open and frank about anything...sex, drugs, etc.
Anyway, I got home from the bar one night and was dropping a duece. I could hear the girl in her room with a guy going at it. She gave a pretty good performance...made me stick around the waterclosest longer than expected anyway.
So, they finish...well, he does anyway...the walls are thin mind you (I "heard" his vinegar stroke, in a sense)...and he leaves pretty much after that. Within 10 seconds of him walking down the stairs I hear her get back in bed and a loud buzzing sound followed.
The next day I went up to tell her I heard it all. We both had a good laugh, especially when she said she called her vibrator "The Silver Bullet" in the conversation.

As for ****ty neighbors...never really had any...but I had to share the bullet story.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

In college we had two girls live upstairs of us in an old house converted into apartments.
One of the girls bedrooms was above our bathroom, their living rooms was above my bedroom...real ****ed up setup for both places (we had two bathrooms in ours that were back-to-back rooms, they had one...no clue who redesigned the place).
We became pretty good friends and would be pretty open and frank about anything...sex, drugs, etc.
Anyway, I got home from the bar one night and was dropping a duece. I could hear the girl in her room with a guy going at it. She gave a pretty good performance...made me stick around the waterclosest longer than expected anyway.
So, they finish...well, he does anyway...the walls are thin mind you (I "heard" his vinegar stroke, in a sense)...and he leaves pretty much after that. Within 10 seconds of him walking down the stairs I hear her get back in bed and a loud buzzing sound followed.
The next day I went up to tell her I heard it all. We both had a good laugh, especially when she said she called her vibrator "The Silver Bullet" in the conversation.

As for ****ty neighbors...never really had any...but I had to share the bullet story.

 

[spikechiquet]

In college we had two girls live upstairs of us in an old house converted into apartments.
One of the girls bedrooms was above our bathroom, their living rooms was above my bedroom...real ****ed up setup for both places (we had two bathrooms in ours that were back-to-back rooms, they had one...no clue who redesigned the place).
We became pretty good friends and would be pretty open and frank about anything...sex, drugs, etc.
Anyway, I got home from the bar one night and was dropping a duece. I could hear the girl in her room with a guy going at it. She gave a pretty good performance...made me stick around the waterclosest longer than expected anyway.
So, they finish...well, he does anyway...the walls are thin mind you (I "heard" his vinegar stroke, in a sense)...and he leaves pretty much after that. Within 10 seconds of him walking down the stairs I hear her get back in bed and a loud buzzing sound followed.
The next day I went up to tell her I heard it all. We both had a good laugh, especially when she said she called her vibrator "The Silver Bullet" in the conversation.

As for ****ty neighbors...never really had any...but I had to share the bullet story.

Yeah...like that. But I was sitting down. LOL

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Well, my name's not "Loud *****"

Maybe to you.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

My downstairs neighbor in college once complained to me about my roommate and his "nightly ****in' rodeo" with his girlfriend. I never heard them.

 

[Care Bear]

I once had a downstairs neighbor complain to our landlord that my alarm went off at the same time every morning. He wasn't upset about the duration of the alarm. And he didn't mention the volume of the alarm. He was just annoyed that it went off at 7:30 five days a week.

 

[imjustagirl]

I once had a downstairs neighbor complain to our landlord that my alarm went off at the same time every morning. He wasn't upset about the duration of the alarm. And he didn't mention the volume of the alarm. He was just annoyed that it went off at 7:30 five days a week.

CB, you and MMII might be the only people on here who can place this (maybe 93D) but I moved into the Lofts at Canal Walk (19th and Main, I think? one block over from the Have a Nice Day Cafe) and I had one of the top floor lofts, so it was the entire width of the building. I could see the James River out one window, and the courtyard out the other side.

Anyway, 20 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, glorious. Loved it (until it changed management). Except my neighbors had an alarm that would go off at like 5:30 every morning ... and would go off for sometimes 30 minutes. No snooze, no nothing. Just alarm beeps nonstop. I knocked on the wall, i went to their door, I called the complex, nothing. Eventually they moved out. But that SUCKED.

 

[93Devil]

That was a great location.

Did you ever think about about setting up an "I'm home" alarm to go off 30 minutes before you thought your night shift would end?

 

[imjustagirl]

I wasn't working night shifts at that point. Well, not really. But I sure wasn't getting up at 5:30.

 

[Dyno]

I've lived in apartments for 20+ years and have been really lucky to not have any major problems...until now. My across the hall neighbors for the past 9 months have been a young couple. My problem with them is the insane volume of their laughter - crazy-sounding, maniacal laughter that comes from their apartment at night. What's weird is that they don't laugh together - only one laughs at a time - and I don't remember ever hearing any loud laughter during the day. Both of them almost scream their laughter. It's hard to describe. The guy also claps when he laughs. There's also not much of any noise coming from their place during the day, even when I know they're home. I can hear the laughing when my bedroom door is closed and my TV is on. It even woke me up once.

They've been incredibly unfriendly the few times I've seen them. When I've said "hi" in the hall, I've either gotten averted eyes or what seemed like a really forced half-smile from her and nothing from him. I've been hesitant to say anything to them, because of that, but it's really frustrating. I pretty much can't sit in my living room and read because the laughter is so distracting. Besides, it's not like asking them to turn the TV down.

(And before any of you ask, I don't think they're getting high. I've never smelled anything.)

 

[Versatile]

So I got home from work around midnight last Thursday, and within 5 minutes, there was a knock at my door from my downstairs neighbor complaining that I was being too loud. Confused, I asked him what he meant, since I had barely taken off my coat (TV wasn't on; I wasn't on the phone; I didn't have any visitors).

He said that I was walking around too loudly and waking him up. He said the next time I woke him up, he was going to call the police. I asked him what his complaint was going to be, and he replied, "Disturbing the peace."

Not wanting to laugh in his face, I told him to go to bed, and I closed the door.

Couple things here: 1. I'm not completely up to speed on nuisance law, but I'm pretty sure I can't get in trouble -- let alone arrested -- for walking around my apartment. 2. If you're living in an apartment building, don't you have to expect a certain noise level? I'm not excusing loud TV/music or late-night parties, but with that many people in one building, you can't expect complete silence all the time. If you want that, buy a house out in the country -- or at least don't rent a first-floor apartment.

This is just me, and I'm not a nice person, but I would ****ing slam the door closed every night when I get home and play music. I can hear my neighbors vacuuming occasionally at 9 a.m. I have no problem with it because they don't seem to have a problem with me occasionally playing "For Whom The Bell Tolls" at 4 a.m. If they were to complain, we'd have a problem.

**** this neighbor. You're not doing anything wrong at all. You're way too sensitive to his demands if you change your behavior to suit him. Why the hell does he think his sleep is more valuable than yours?

 

[Moderator1]

The Queen and I lived in an apartment for seven months in 1990 after our first house sold. The second house wasn't ready.

Young couple lived upstairs. You could set your clock by their, um, marital activities. 11 p.m., 7:30 a.m. EVERY SINGLE DAY. Didn't sound like they had much variety. The "music" would start and last about two minutes.

We see them in the hall one day. I'm not small by any stretch, though I was a bit smaller then. These two make me look like twiggy. And The Queen, in a very un-Queen like moment, asks me to please move our bed. "They're coming through one time, count on it."

Didn't happen while we were there. It was a bunch of fun trying to explain the noise to the kids, who were 7 and 4 at the time.

"Dude's gettin' busy," didn't quite paint the picture.

 

[txsportsscribe]

lived below a girl who wasn't exactly easy on the eyes and she and her boyfriend would go at it with lots of moaning. i could've handled the thought of them doing the dirty if she was hot but the visuals i was left with instead stunted me for years. ugly people shouldn't have sex.

 

[qtlaw]

MM, clearly given your history at the building, its the new neighbors who are the problem.

As for apartment living, most awkward moment is hearing the "nighttime activities" one night from upstairs and my wife knowing that the upstairs wife is out of town. Great, there went another golfing buddy.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

I used to live in a converted old clock tower. Huge ceilings, thick, brick outside walls, crap for inside walls.

I heard the couple next door going at it every night, followed by a fight, including one where he yelled afterward, "I let you fu*k two guys last night and you still want more?"

Very ugly couple, by the way. Very.