I have a neighbor below me who has been harrassing me since he moved in about the noise level from my apartment late at night. I am very respectful, and accomodating to anyone that I might be causing grief, even if it is within reason for my rights as a renter to open my closet, walk around, shower, have sex etc.

I have been getting text messages from him telling me he can hear me walking, and can I please keep it down. I am flabbergasted by this because I swear to god, I walk around the creaky floor boards, and think about ever step, EVER TIME I WALK NOW! Day and night! I spent $2000 on rugs and foam padding to make him feel better. The texts start as early as 9:10pm....and average around 11:30pm.

I have 15 witnesses who have heard alex banging on the ceiling because I opened closet after getting home from work at 2am to get my night clothes, or from walking to the bathroom and about my room while trying to unwind from work. Never saying a word because I am alone.

I play zero music. I hush anyone in my apartment, to a whisper anytime after 11pm. My friends think I am overreacting when I make them tiptoe and whisper, and change in the livingroom, until they see a text come up from the guy below me. They seriously look at the text, think about the "noise", and cant believe that the guy is serious! I accomodate him too, and he has no idea I try all the time, and worry like hell that I am bothering him.

He specifically stated to myself and 2 witnesses when he rang my doorbell at 11:11 one night that he doesnt hear any talking....just walking. He specifically responded to my question of "are we talking to loud" by saying "Its just the walking around" and I responded quickly by saying "Can you hear us talking or is the walking all you can hear?" He says "I never hear anything other than the walking, and the closet sometimes, oh, and sometimes you must leave your cell phone on the floor cuz I can hear it vibrate when you get a call" WTF!

I apologized and gave him my cell to text anytime I was causing discomfort. His discomfort is bull! It is killing my quality of life here and I need to know how to stop it from getting me in trouble.

My parents and gmother have been here for the week and I notified the neighbor. We got home a little after 11pm tonight from dinner, and the rest of the week spent it in my aptment with my new baby, but in the livingroom unless my parents were getting ready for bed. I get a text asking to keep it down cuz we kept him up all week and he was exhausetd. The only noise in the room was my mom changing into her night gown, and putting the jeans in her suitcase. The rest of the week was the same. I told him he was out of line, and he is threatening me.

HELP ME!! What do I do?

I wrote a long letter to the landlord stating the facts and had done so when I gave him my cell too.

Block his number from your cell phone, and live in your apartment as you want.

If he doesn't like the amount of noise you make, he could always move. However, he is not allowed to dictate the amount of movement you have in a place you are paying to lease.

He sounds like a nut....

Explain to him nicely that he is free to re-engineer your apartment building to add the appropriate level of sound buffer between you both.

Other than that, there is nothing you can do about it since you didn't design and or build the place.

I went through years of this when I did live in an apartment, it wasn't my upstairs neighbor's fault, but that is just the way it was. I heard everything and she stumbled off of a small step ladder in her kitchen one day and all of my pictures fell off of the wall.

Ignore him, stop tip-toeing around and if he threatens you again call the police and file a police report. The creeking is a landlord problem that can be cured by hammering long nails into the floor.