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How To Be A Good Upstairs Neighbor (Ultimate Guide)
8 things you should never do if you have downstairs neighbors
Apartment dwellers know this pain too well: upstairs neighbors.
They’re invisible.
Until they start dropping objects on your floor at odd hours. Again.
It’s a harsh reality.
You either get lucky — or you get an asshole.
Growing up in creaky homes
A century ago, my family’s house was a bakery.
The old front door, designed as a “Dutch door,” partially opened at the top, while the bottom half stayed closed. The shelves once used for bread carry hundreds of books today.
The building consists mostly of wood. Across the first floor, the floors creak. Especially at night, I’d tiptoe around to prevent the floorboards from creaking so loudly that they’d wake up people in the adjacent rooms.
No matter where I live, I’m always ultra-aware of how much noise I produce, and whether these levels are acceptable, or excessive and keeping people up.
I assume no neighbor wants to hear me. I for sure don’t want to hear them.