I have a couple that lives above my apartment and the guy regularly workouts in his apartment. His workouts happen 4-5 times a week sometimes twice a day. Weekdays he’ll do a workout 630am and play electronic music at the same time. Sometimes he’ll workout again 530pm.
I know the sound I’m hearing are the result of dumbells/barbells bouncing on the floor because he’s doing 6 reps and dropping the weights on the last one. He will do a few sets. Workouts last anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
I’ve tried getting the attention of building management but they don’t seem to want to get involved. When I initially complained, they reached out via email to my neighbor and he responded that he was away on vacation.
As retaliation, for the past week I started blasting music all day (we both work from home) right when he starts he workout. I can hear him scrambling trying to find a way to soundproof the floors. Him and his girlfriend can’t get into bed until I turn off the music. So far I haven’t had any of the other neighbors complain about the music (I hardly see them).
For the record, I’ve never seen/met him in person.
Anybody that lives above other people and drops any heavy item on the floor intentionally is a dick, there’s no maybe involved here.
The sheer number of unacceptably loud neighbors I’ve had above and adjacent to me makes me wish this wasn’t true, but it is. If I can hear you peeing, that means you can hear me peeing. So of course you’re keeping me up at night with your booming subwoofer and random 1am furniture rearranging. People are assholes.
I’ve come to believe it’s not always intentional, but that doesn’t make it any better, it just shows a distinct lack of empathy and disregard for other people around you. I fucking hate living in apartments…
Oh, and if you live in an upstairs apartment with hard floors, and keep your shoes on or walk around in heels all day, stop doing that. Your downstairs neighbors definitely hate your guts.
If you can hear them peeing, that’s not an apartment. That’s a paper cell