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.

  • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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    7 hours ago

    So while I hate the solution I’ve been given by my management in how to handle these things. You’re going to have to go to the police on this one. There is actually someone who is like a residential officer of some kind, someone who isn’t the one that has to be dealing with more serious crimes other officers have to. I have a card to one of these people.

    You’re going to have to build up a case against this person for noise. Record, document, report. Get a few police reports, bring all of this to management and make it so that they can’t ignore it simply.

    However, you’ve complicated this because you’ve retaliated. You’ve given this guy something on the table to use against you and now it’s going to be a matter of constructing a timeline and going to have to be a bit more thorough so people can figure out what started first and who started when. But I’m just saying, he has something now against you for the music so you better be up to a lot of bickering and whatnot.