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Alright, first I would like to say that I am not here to start a fight with anybody and I am not here to cause fights between people. I know that people can get pretty opinionated but all I really want is just some information on where to go next in this mess?  
 
Here's the basics: In mid-March this year, we moved into a new apartment. We discussed the rules with the landlord, were told it was not a party place and that the tenants upstairs were a couple that were quiet and generally kept to themselves and downstairs was an older gentleman who, also, kept to himself and was quiet. Not even a month into living in the apartment, we discover that neither are quiet. In fact, the gentleman downstairs loves to blare his movie surround sound so loud is actually shakes the entire level of our apartment. And the upstairs tenants well - that's just beyond bearable now. Almost every night, they are moving furniture around, thumping around like Africa misplaced elephants, arguing, blaring music, partying and so on. We've discussed with the landlord a couple of times the noise coming from upstairs and he speaks to them. Or, so he says. At first, it was so quiet we thought they had moved out. Wrong. They came back and are noiser than ever.  
 
Now, I've seen some posts about tenants and complaints. I know that at some point, living in the same building as other people, we are going to hear the other tenants. I know sometimes we'll hear their television set going, their music or them walking around. Understandable. We're even okay with the guy downstairs blaring his movies, because it's only once in a blue moon. Heck, we even try to guess what movie he might be watching. That's okay. If he's too loud, we simply thump on the floor (as we've done on prior occassions) and he simply turns it down where we still hear it but at least it's not rattling our apartment.  
 
It's the upstairs tenants we've got an issue with. I have two daughters, who are very young. They come visit me often. What does this have to do with the tenants? The fighting isn't just inside their apartment. One day, my daughters were visiting. My youngest and I are painting in the living room, as she loves to paint. The way the apartment is set up, if our bedroom doors are open we can see out the window onto the front porch. As we're painting, we hear blood curling screaming. I don't mean just normal relationship, couple arguing yelling. I mean this girl sounded like she was being full bore attacked. We look out the window to see that she's standing on the front walk way screaming bloody murder at her boyfriend. No words. Just screaming like a rabid banshee. This continues for about five minutes, but leaves the yard. She actually chased him up the back alley way, all the while screaming. At one point during this "screaming fit" she actually came over to our bedroom window, paced by it before slamming her fists against the window. Needless to say, it didn't just scare the crap out of my youngest daughter.  
 
This is what's going on. Now. If I go to my land lord, speak to him about it and he says he'll deal with it - if he doesn't - what are my rights as another tenant residing in the building? The very last time we spoke to him, at least face to face, was when she slammed her fists against our bedroom window. He said he would speak to them but very plainly said 'it was probably one of their friends'. But for the past week, off and on we'll hear the same screaming coming from upstairs.  
 
What on earth do we do to get even a little peace and quiet?  
 
Oh! Side note: I tried to address her when she slammed her fists against our bedroom window, but she looked at me like I had no business speaking to her and snapped "no" and walked off. In case anyone is wondering why I haven't confronted them - I'm not a fighter and like my head attached to my shoulders.  
 
Edited by Stef, 2010-04-29 23:12:26