[Update] This weekend we finally snapped

[u/Mother-Associate1654]

So earlier this month I posted about how my upstairs neighbors have completely ruined my apartment due to their excessive stomping and banging. Management has basically offered us 2 paths to fix this issue: call the cops every day or move to a different unit in our building on a lower floor and no longer facing the water, while still paying the same rent. I was very close to taking this deal but Reddit made me realize that is totally bullshit, so we are still in the original unit.

Anyways, this weekend my partner and I had our 2 year old at his grandmother's. We finally had some time to spend with just one another, and around 10pm on Friday our upstairs neighbor got home and began stomping extremely loud. This completely deflated our mood. On Saturday morning, we were awoken with the loudest stomping and slamming yet, starting at 8am. This noise literally went on non-stop until 11pm last night. This isn't just someone walking loudly. You have to literally go out of your way to be this loud (and destructive, we can literally hear the ground cracking and our walls shaking). Today, it was the same thing, with the addition of a thunderous sound I can only equate to picking up a fully packed luggage bag and dropping it above your head onto our ceiling. That is exactly what it sounded it, every 20 minutes or so.

Now, my partner did a much better job at handling this mess than I did when it began. But we are stressed, sleep-deprived, and yesterday her friend came over and was exposed to how bad the noises are. When she was awoken early today by the noises, she was not having it. After a few hours, she snapped. She grabbed the broom, smashed our ceiling back, and yelled "SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THE NOISE". Somehow, this worked. The noise completely stopped and has been quiet for hours now. I am sure it will return, probably even worse, shortly. But good for her. We are done sitting back and letting this person ruin our lives.

Today, she also sent an email to our manager saying we need to be let out of our lease immediately, citing the noise and us having to wear headphones to sleep. She is only 110lbs but this issue has her like a rabid dog, and I love it. I will update when we hear back from management about breaking our lease.

[u/whysperfyre]

We ran into this problem with a bad neighbor below. It finally escalated one night where my son had grabbed a pop tart from his desk and opened it and she lost her ever loving shit. Over a pop tart wrapper. She had done something to her ceiling where she could hear that in my son’s room below her.

We called the cops when she kept banging for over an hour under neath us. We recorded the banging and sent it to the police officer. The apartment security came by 3 times that night and she refused to answer the door each time.

But I reported and recorded every incident.

The one incident that actually got her kicked out? She followed me and my son out to my car and flipped us off and yelled at us. I recorded it and sent it to the apartment for threatening us and for sexually explicit messages towards my son.

She got evicted~~

[u/Serious_Engineer_338 → u/whysperfyre]

Hang on she did something to her ceiling to hear that? Did she have listening devices?

[u/whysperfyre → u/Serious_Engineer_338]

We don’t know. When she moved out, the apartment complex spent about 3 months repairing the unit before they put a new tenant in there and now there isn’t any complaints. I assume she did something though to be able to hear a poptart wrapper crinkle.

[u/-K_P- → u/whysperfyre]

Could have been as simple as her ripping out the insulation in her ceiling for some reason. That absorbs a lot of the noise, and without it there's like a mini-echo chamber between floors to amplify the sound.