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In our last apartment, the elderly man who lived beneath DH and I would always watch porn with the volume turned up really, really loud. He had hearing aids so I assume that is why, lol. This particular apartment had very thin walls, floors, you name it. So whenever he would pop a good 'ol video in, we could hear it clear as day in our apartment. Very distracting for a then-college student trying to study!!!

In our first apartment, our next door neighbor would constantly berete/ drop the f-bomb to her 5 y/o daughter. It was sad, and there was a couple of times I almost called the cops/child services on her.

I've been pretty lucky. We can hear everything our upstairs neighbors do, watch, or say (thin floors/ceiling??) but they aren't that bad. I mean, they are loud, and they walk SO heavy you would think they weigh 600 pounds but they are actually average sized, but they don't do too many obnoxious things. The worst was during the republican debates when they would scream at the TV when they disagreed with something one of the candidates said. We still imitate it sometimes-- LIAR!!!! It was pretty funny to be watching the same thing and getting their commentary live.

In one apartment, our neighbors across the hall fought a lot. From the comfort of our living room, we learned that she "wasn't satisfied and didn't feel like a woman because he never wanted to be intimate", and "it wasn't his fault, he's just only turned on when she's on the rag". Sometimes I wonder if they were just putting on a show... or maybe I just hope that?

Gunshots!

In college, I lived in a smallish (9 unit) apartment building. Everyone who lived there was a student, except for my next-door-neighbor, Peter. He was always sending out building-wide emails about things that bothered him, which included such benign things as cooking (didn't like the smells) and doing laundry. Seriously. We'd get emails like "I noticed a lot of you have been making dinner lately around 6 o'clock, and it is really bothering me. Could you please keep it to a minimum?" What the hell are we supposed to do, then? Starve?? Get takeout each night??

He also didn't like the way people's laundry detergent and fabric softener smelled, so he asked us to not use our building's laundry facility. Umm, where are we supposed to wash our clothes, then? One time, my roommate was coming back up the stairs after switching loads, and Crazy Pete comes bursting out of his apartment (perfectly timed to coincide with her return, no doubt) wearing a WWII-era gas mask, pushes her off to the side of the hallway, and runs out the building.

As if that wasn't weird enough, he also never left the house, and sat inside all day playing online chess. He got really into it, and would yell and scream and bang on the walls (frequently knocking down things on shelves in MY apartment).

I'm pretty sure he was mentally ill and not taking meds the whole time. Or he just did way too many drugs in the 60s. When I did see him outside of the apartment building, he tended to just wander around, muttering to himself.

Definitely the weirdest neighbor I've ever had.

My least favorite apartment sound is loud sex above me (thankfully, not an issue anymore). Once we had a couple of guys move in upstairs and sometimes in our living room we'd hear REALLY LOUD CRASHES--sounded like the were jumping off a table onto the floor, and I'm not sure what else could make that sound. I also hate when the apt. next door leaves an alarm on and you can hear it beeping for a loooong time.

@mrbee: When we moved to our condo I wanted to name our wifi FBI but DH wouldn't let me =P

I never heard anything too crazy. The neighbor above us at one of our previous apartments loved to find God in the early morning hours.

When my BFF and I shared an apartment in Albania, there was a shorter apartment building next door. We had a clear view of it's roof from our window, and there was this very old man (80-90) that used to go up there every single morning, totally naked, and feed the birds. Great breakfast view. Ick.

Sex. And my downstairs neighbor frequently blasting "Gettin Jiggy with It" many many many years after that song that came out. Disturbing.

omg yes! we had a a crazy old lady who woul wake up at four in the morning and vacume in her heels and stomp at 4am while blasting her tv.... i think she did it on purpose. she also claimed that we were using her washer/dryer (shared basement where tentnats pt their washers at) we had our own, why would we use hers. when we moved out she told our friend who took over our apartment that we would drive down there just to use her washer and we would leave change on it and thats how she knew we were using it..... she was certifiable lol.

Where we used to live we had a neighbor who thought he was Luis Miguel. Blasted Luis Miguel music and sang along LOUDLY. We thought it was funny. Also in another building it sounded like someone had chickens. Sorry for all the Mexican stereotypes!

I heard the guy across the hall from me get arrested for dealing drugs out of his apartment. I'm not sure who called the cops on him about that, though.....(cough)