Downstairs neighbor micromanages tenant's noise levels, so the tenant starts doing their laundry at 6 A.M. as a morning wake-up call: ‘They can do nothing about it’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Feb 7, 2025 12:00 PM EST

Apartment living is great. You have neighbors above, below, and on either side of you at all times! What could possibly go wrong? Sure, you might get noise complaints from folks who go to sleep at 2 P.M. and wake up at 10 P.M., but that's what the housing market calls for nowadays, baby!

I live in a garden-level apartment, and a piece of me withers away with every 20-minute spurt of stomps and rattles on my ceiling… but I'll never do anything about it. That's just the way life goes, and it could always be worse! However, you can always carve out time for some revenge if your neighbors start micromanaging everything you do, especially when they start complaining about completely normal noise levels at appropriate times of the day. 

The tenant in this story enacts revenge on his downstairs neighbor when they report a one-time noise level issue to their apartment complex company, and the tenant receives a "Disturbance of Peace" letter in the mail. The neighbor lied about the tenant to the company, claiming they were using their laundry machine at all hours of the night. So, now the neighbor gets a 6 A.M. laundry wake-up call every Sunday! 

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    "But if they want to be childish, I'm going to be childish..."
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    "I am too loud at night? How about Sunday at 6?"

    So, this story is not something super interesting, but I wanted to share it because it makes me happy.
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    I live in an apartment complex on the highest floor. When I moved in, I was short on time and painted the walls up until 2AM. The ladder made
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    some sound and my neighbours knocked, we were almost done anyways, so we called it quits and thought everything is fine.
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  • The tenant made a bit of an oopsie by painting until 2 A.M.

    However, as they write, they thought it was water under the bridge after that one instance. What the tenant doesn't know yet is that the neighbors will strike up a vendetta against them and continue to micromanage everything sound they make in their apartment. People drop things; folks trip over furniture—noise is inevitable when you're a human and living in close quarters with others. But what happened to talking it out?!

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    A month in and I get a letter from the company that owns this building that says something along the lines "Disturbance of Peace - We got a
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    complaint from your neighbours about construction sounds and regular use of the washing machine in the middle of the night. Please be
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    respectful towards your neighbours and don't be too loud between 10PM and 6AM." I was p ed, since the "construction sounds" were only ONCE
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    and I never used my washing machine in the middle of the night, especially not regularly. But I didn't want to start an argument with the company or beef with my
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    neighbours so I thought, since I wasn't doing that anyway, I would just ignore it and if there's an other complaint, I'll reach out.
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    A few weeks ago, I had my sister over on a Saturday and we watched some TV at night and she accidentally kicked over a glass bottle, happens.
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    Instantly there were three loud and angry knocks coming from below, which somehow ticked me off really bad. Now, since I am obviously too loud, I
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    decided to strictly adhere to the rules and time my washing machine in a way, where it ends exactly at 10PM and starts at 6AM, especially Sundays.
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    Usually I did laundry at around 5PM, but I got a change of heart and hope that my neighbours are annoyed when my machine wakes them up at
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    6 in the morning on the weekend, just like they obviously wanted me to and they can do nothing about it, since I'm not breaking any rules ③
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    Edit: I get that they are probably trying to sleep and I know that the 2AM painting session was a mistake. I am upset, that they reacted with complaints to the company and banging on the ceiling instead of talking to me.
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    People are clumsy and drop stuff. I heard other neighbours vacuum and drop things at night and I simply don't care, things. happen. But if they want to be childish, I'm going to be childish.... by sticking to the rules
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    Emotional-Ebb8321 "Dear Landlord, I was walking quietly in my home one evening when I suddenly heard loud banging, as if someone in the apartment below was repeatedly banging on their ceiling (ie my floor). Please could you treat this noise complaint seriously and advise them to cease this activity."
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    glenmarshall Long ago, my downstairs neighbors played their TV at high volume. My response was to turn on a canister vacuum cleaner and leave it running on the floor. They got the hint.
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    Fiber Optikz Sounds like you need to host line dancing every Sunday at 6am
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    MightyDeekin "...there were three loud and angry knocks coming from below..." Sound like you need to make a noise complaint!
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