Apartment living sucks ass.
So my downstairs neighbors are assholes. Not very ladylike of me to say but totally true. How can you possibly expect to live in a first floor apartment and have total silence at all times?
My dogs like to play. Their version of playing is running up and down my hall and wrestling. They're dogs, that's what they do. They don't bark like crazy unless somebody knocks on the door.
I don't throw crazy loud parties. I don't blare music or TV. I don't slam doors or yell and scream or hammer stuff after 9:00 at night. I think of myself as a good neighbor.
Yet my downsairs neighbors have banged on my floor (their ceiling) at least three times tonight. Did I mention these are the people who complained of a noise violation on a night that neither my dogs nor I was home, so unless Zoe threw an obscenely loud kitty party while I was in Ft Myers for the weekend the complaint was unfounded, thus leading me to believe that the jerks below me would be pissed off if I left my shower running for too long and they had to hear the pipes running.
I don;t know about you but I move into apartments EXPECTING noise. You share AT LEAST one wall and AT LEAST one ceiling or floor with other people and very rarely is the insulation what it should be, especially in a 25 year old building like mine.
I have Chloe locked in her cage now and I don't think it's fair. I pay over $900 a month to live here and I shouldn't have to walk on eggshells (and make my 50 lb dogs walk on eggshells too) just because somebody was stupid enough to expect unbroken silence in a first floor apartment in Orlando, which by the way, is largely inhabited by students and 20-somethings who very rarely are silent at all times.
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Maybe if the people below me turned on a tv or a stero every once in a while they wouldn't be disturbed by the occasional two minutes of dog play overhead. just because they sit in amish silence every day doesn't mean i should have to.
My dogs like to play. Their version of playing is running up and down my hall and wrestling. They're dogs, that's what they do. They don't bark like crazy unless somebody knocks on the door.
I don't throw crazy loud parties. I don't blare music or TV. I don't slam doors or yell and scream or hammer stuff after 9:00 at night. I think of myself as a good neighbor.
Yet my downsairs neighbors have banged on my floor (their ceiling) at least three times tonight. Did I mention these are the people who complained of a noise violation on a night that neither my dogs nor I was home, so unless Zoe threw an obscenely loud kitty party while I was in Ft Myers for the weekend the complaint was unfounded, thus leading me to believe that the jerks below me would be pissed off if I left my shower running for too long and they had to hear the pipes running.
I don;t know about you but I move into apartments EXPECTING noise. You share AT LEAST one wall and AT LEAST one ceiling or floor with other people and very rarely is the insulation what it should be, especially in a 25 year old building like mine.
I have Chloe locked in her cage now and I don't think it's fair. I pay over $900 a month to live here and I shouldn't have to walk on eggshells (and make my 50 lb dogs walk on eggshells too) just because somebody was stupid enough to expect unbroken silence in a first floor apartment in Orlando, which by the way, is largely inhabited by students and 20-somethings who very rarely are silent at all times.
ps
Maybe if the people below me turned on a tv or a stero every once in a while they wouldn't be disturbed by the occasional two minutes of dog play overhead. just because they sit in amish silence every day doesn't mean i should have to.