I must first stress that we annoy them as much as they annoy us!
We only moved in three months ago and it has been a pain in the neck since.
It's a large converted Georgian house,split into two flats, they have the two lower floors, we have the two upper.
On our second day they knocked repeatedly on their ceiling when my DC's were doing nothing more than noisily playing. This was at 2pm.
They have continued to do this seemingly at random.
They leave their rubbish in the shared hallway, often overnight which means a huge stink whenever we open the door to go out. They also have a baby so this includes nasty nappy smells. This drives me crazy, the bins are just outside and we manage to take our rubbish all the way out even though we are two storeys above them!
They fill the hall with air freshening ornament thingys and at least three tims a day spray what seems like a whole aerosol of the stuff into the hall. It's not only a chokingly horrible smell, but DD has mild asthma so it's really not good.
They leave their (uncollapsed) pram in the hall at all times, sometimes dripping wet, yet on occasions where myself or our nanny have done so they have knocked on the door and told us it is an obstruction. (Once they even moved it onto the front porch where it stood for an hour before we realised)
I understand that perhaps the DC's are noisy, especially when they are charging around on the wooden floors. We also annoyed them by refusing to pay for the redecoration of the hallway, this seems fair to us as it was done just before we even bought the flat. We would of course shae costs in the future.
It may all seem petty but it is making our lives miserable at the moment. We are really pleased with the place but just wish they would move out! lol.
Can anyone advise us on what we should do to try and improve things for all of us?