“Ok, so background info: My guy and I just moved into a new apartment a couple of months ago. We are quiet people and try to be considerate of our neighbors.
About a week or two into us living in the new place, I was making dinner and had the kitchen fan on to vent steam (was making pasta). It was around 6 or 7 pm when we heard a knock on our door. My partner put a mask on and opened the door and our downstairs neighbor was outside without a mask and asked us to turn the kitchen fan off because it was making too much noise and he was about to go to bed. Personally, I thought it was a pretty early time to go to bed, but we turned the fan off and he left.
A couple of weeks later, we get a call from our landlord asking us if we had been arguing in the middle of the night. We had not and I’m actually pretty sure we went to bed early that night because we were both working early the next day. We told that much to our landlord and he just told us that he had received a complaint. We thought it was weird but brushed it off as echoing from a different unit.
Later that week, I was home alone doing some dishes again around 7 pm (it gets dark where I live around then this time of year) and turned the fan on because it was a little humid in the kitchen. I had been doing dishes for maybe 15 or 20 minutes when I heard a loud knock on my door. I checked through the peephole and it was the downstairs neighbor again not wearing a mask, so I didn’t answer. It was also dark and I am a smaller gal and didn’t feel comfortable opening the door to a stranger.
I had finished the dishes, so I turned the fan off, but he kept knocking for 10 minutes, and I was honestly a little freaked out because I’ve had someone break into a past apartment when I lived alone before. He left eventually, but I was unsettled for the rest of the night until my partner got back. Anyways, my partner calls the landlord to let him know that the downstairs neighbor should not be knocking for 10 minutes without a mask when it is dark. We haven’t had him knock on the door since.
Mind you, throughout this whole time that we have been at the apartment, the downstairs neighbor has been stomping and hammering together furniture anytime between midnight and 6 am, which has seriously disrupted both my and my partner’s sleep schedule. These past few weeks have been especially awful and I don’t think either of us has had a full night’s sleep. We just sent an email to our landlord about it and are waiting on a reply back.”
