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Ive been living in a 4th floor condo in a 5 floor building for about a year and a half now. There is an older couple (50-65) living above me, the man is a fulltime teacher at the local college of which i attend, and the woman is a fulltime floor-stomper. I spend most of my time at home studying and have had much time to become familiar with the patterns of stomping. When i first confronted the couple about the lady's stomping via phone call, she had no idea that she was making noise at all and promptly arranged for her to come into my condo and me to go up into hers while on the phone so i could stomp around and show her what i deal with from anywhere from 6AM-2AM. So i went up there and stomped like there was no tommorow, asking 'do you hear that?' along the way. She claimed she couldnt hear a thing. I later spoke to the husband who informed me that his wife was not all there in the head, not so say shes disabled or anything, she is just extremely quirky. I asked why live on the top floor if u know this happens, and he said,'we always live on the top floors'.
That was about a year ago, and since then there has never been a day free from my floor shaking and my mistaking her stomping for thunder outside. I have given up my diplomatic approach and have resorted to the broom to the ceiling routine. Since starting the brooming, i have begun to receive hand written letters under the door. up to 5 pages of chicken scratch, mostly incoherant rambling about excuses of why she'll be making noise this particular week. I'm beginning to lose my patience with this situation and i am leaning towards taking the next step. i know my downstairs neighbors and they say if they didnt know me personally, theyd never have known anyone lives above them, so i dont see why i have to suffer with the nutcase upstairs. the property management knows about it and tell me to call security when this happens, but i refuse to waste his time.
WHAT CAN I DOOOOO??????


Good Questions: How Do You Quiet Your Neighbor???
4/13/11 3:12 PM