I live (F27) live in a city and an extremely light sleeper. This is an issue that I have had my entire life and has always been an issue. My apartment is normally really good at noise until my newest upstairs neighbor moved in last summer. Since then, he has consistently been hammering, having music playing, and talking in all hours in the night. Last October/ November, I had to have two different complaints to my landlord asking upstairs to be quiet. The next day, a note was taped to my door, saying to text him if he was being loud.
Every night, there are several banging and running tha lasts from midnight to 1 AM. Last night, after a roughy week long migraine, I sent the following text “Hi HIS NAME! This is MY NAME from apartment one. Do you mind trying to walk quieter around this time? Around midnight every night there’s a lot of banging and running and it wakes me up almost every night”. He responded that it is most likely his cats (we aren’t allowed animals), he can’t do anything, and for me to grow up because this is absolutely ridiculous.
I want to mentioned this to my landlord and my roommate told me not to.
Am I the asshole for wanting a quiet sleep?
EDIT: Alright yall I just woke up and last night was better! Maybe the cats weren’t as active but who knows it was better.
Let me clarify a few points I saw. 1) WE ARE NOT ALLOWED ANIMALS. So when I heard little rumblings every night I am assuming maybe he is playing a game or doing some kind of exercise? I did not say “stop living in your apartment” I simply asked if he could try to be quieter.
2) The text was sent as midnight. Sorry for not making that clear.
3) Me issue but each time I where ear plugs they tend to fall out while I sleep. If anyone got suggestions, I’m all ears (get it lol)
4) he has had parties in the October/November. That was the original complaints were about. And both were on weekdays until 5ish am if you want more details.
5) he gave me a note that directly said to text him if there was a noise disturbance so he could handle it.
