...To think these PFBers are in for a rude awakening?

[LuvSmallDogs]

Friends of ours are arranging with their LL to break their lease early. Why? Because their downstairs NDNs have recently started complaining about noise they can’t help.

Our friends have no kids, a cat, jobs that have them both gone most of the day, and are often out in the evenings (not as in getting pissed, just hanging out or going on dates).

But their NDNs have been nagging them for noise from walking up and down the metal stairs to their flat (external entrance only) and walking into their kitchen after 2200. Because they have a baaaayby on the way!

The kicker is that their LL was happy for them to look for elsewhere, as despite them being good tenants he’d been thinking of bumping up the rent - uh, getting a family in.

DH and I think this is hilarious, as a family has far more noise potential than two CF adults and a cat!

People aren't very nice these days are they? Wouldn't it have been more constructive for your friends to have passed on the neighbour's concerns to the landlord (this is, afterall, their business and not yours). Metal stairs CAN be very noisy but as others have said, this can be resolved with rubber treads. And maybe they could put a mat in the kitchen? If your friends' attitude is anything like yours OP I'd imagine there's more to this than they're letting on.

Maybe the LL is having the last laugh. Who knows how many tenants the downstairs people have complained about.

Maybe he is happy for the ops friends to move on because he has had enough of the complaints and thought he would give them something to complain about.

Reminds me of my NDN who complained that we were opening and closing the bathroom door at night. I was 8 months pregnant so I just kept the door open when I needed a night time pee, but I was thinking "ok, but if you can't handle this, you wait until the screaming baby's here!"

I wouldn't be breaking off my tenancy early for any such silly reason.

I agree that these people could well be in for a rude awakening. But weren't most of us to a greater or lesser degree when having first babies.

Perhaps the cat is actually a tiger, or a lion. It roars when they are out rather than miaowing

Ooh, Russian techno. What's that like? (misses point).

Our old downstairs neighbour used to complain that we walked around, ran water in our kitchen and moved chairs

I think the building was terribly made to be fair, as the family above us had a toddler who regularly sounded like a herd of elephants destroying the place.

My friends neighbour complained about their disabled child walking too heavily bare foot on carpeted and rugged floors and that they could hear the hoover. To the point of slagging off said child's walking noise to all locally who would listen .

Child was out at 7am, back at 6pm. In bed by 9pm and not home at weekends. Said neighbour only finished work at 8pm...
Purely walking, no running, screaming etc

if the kitchen floor is poorly soundproofed that, with the metal stairs, probably makes a right racket and is incredibly annoying.

But then I don;t believe that babies has to equal loads of noise. Our neighbours hardly heard DD, and in turn we barely hear a baby on the other side.

Make sure you let them know the ll is planning to let to a family, then I would kindly give them some noise awareness lessons in preparation, a mini trampoline session perhaps, or you could buy the cat some really noisy toys to push around.