Nate Armbruster
Living in a shared building has its downsides. One of them is that you’re bound to deal with a certain level of noise. Sometimes it’s a noisy neighbor. Other times, it’s noises you have no control over, but that comes with the territory, unfortunately.
One mother is dealing with a neighbor who is complaining about the noise coming from her apartment.
She explains in a submission to Mumsnet, “We’ve literally just had a knock on the door from our downstairs neighbor. We live in a maisonette, we’re in the top flat, he’s on the bottom. He said ‘listen, can you tell your kid to be quiet and stop running around?’”
She wants to know if she is being unreasonable for being upset with the neighbor.
“Downstairs neighbor complaining about child making noise”
Hi all. Wondering if I’m BU to be hacked off?
We’ve literally just had a knock on the door from our downstairs neighbor. We live in a maisonette, we’re in the top flat he’s on the bottom. He said ‘listen, can you tell your kid to be quiet and stop running around?’.
I am honestly speechless. We have a three-year-old and a newborn. Yes, she was running up and down the hallway and laughing, but she’s 3 and doesn’t understand she needs to be quiet at certain times of the day. We’ve lived here for four years, and never had any issues or complaints from other neighbors or the ones who lived below previously.
I am absolutely fuming but I don’t know if I have a right to be. To me, if you live in a shared building you run the risk of hearing noises. And it’s not as if we’re playing music or running the washing machine. You know, a noise you can prevent or limit. Does he expect us to gag and tie up our child?
Am I BU or is he?
Many commenters say the mother is being unreasonable in this situation and that the neighbor is justified in their complaint
Others showed support for the mother and say it is the neighbor’s problem
