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A few months after my 1 year-old son and I moved in my new apartment, a young 20-something man moved in the unit directly below me. Our walls are pretty thick but he had a surround system that he would bump rap music. It was so loud, my livingroom floor was vibrating. At first, I decided to jump up and down and make as much noise as I could-hoping he would get the point. That only worked the first time as it only got louder and more ridiculous. So, I decided go talk to him directly and explain to him that I had a baby, was going to school and needed him to turn down his music. He apologized and turned it down. However, within the course of the next 3 months, I had to return to his apartment several times to ask him to turn down his music (I started documenting every time I went down to speak to him). He would always apologize every time and turn it down immediately. Luckily for me, he was kicked off the premises because he didn't pay for rent. However, he wasn't my only problem neighbor. I live right next door to the caretaker. She and her boyfriend are chain smokers and drunks. The hallway always smells like cigarettes and the smell just seeps into my apartment. When they're drunk, they get verbally abusive and loud. They've taken it into the hallway. So I ended up calling the police. However, by the time the cops got there, the caretaker and her boyfriend had already left. I finally saw the boyfriend a few days later when he was sober and coherent and told him they were extremely loud, rude and disruptive. Since then, I haven't had any problems with them.