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The comments here are both comforting & depressing. I ,too, live in a "sandwich" apartment. I can hear
everything from the apartments above & below me.
But, I am sure they hear me too & I feel sorry them as I have to get up @ 3am to go to work.
Our landlady has ripped up all the carpeting and it is all hardwood floors. Sure they look good but these
buildings were designed to be carpeted. There is no insulation between the floors just wood & a single sheet of drywall. I can hear conversations as though people are sitting right next to me. I hear people
using the toilet,snoring,chopping veggies,having sex,
sneezing,walking,dropping all sorts of objects,cats walking about,huge-ugly-heavy wooden closets opening & closing w/o relent, tvs,stereos, and on and on. I am not perfect but I believe I am as considerate as I can be. My floors are carpeted, I never wear shoes in the apt., I try to keep the tv low,I never let my door SLAM shut,I shower @ night so as not to disturb my neighbors in the am. with the worlds loudest water pipes.Even with all this I am sure my neighbors
can hear me walking around.The floors SQUEAK & SQUAWK
so bad it drives ME crazy in my own apt.
Mu landlady refuses to believe that noise is a problem.Why should she care ? She figures you will just have to move or, if you are one of the less fortunate who cannot afford to move, you will just have to put up with it. There is a clause in the lease that requires 80% of the apt. be carpeted.
Not only does she not enforce it, she has now taken the % out of the lease so you can meet the requirement with a throw rug in the kitchen.They don't care at all about your comfort.There will always be someone to rent the places.
I feel for everyone out there.