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I live on the first floor. My second floor neighbor lives with her mom and high schooler son, but every Friday her brother takes his son and stay on second floor until Sunday. Yes, the boy runs, jumps, and makes a lot of noises. On top of that she brings about ten people including 4, 5 kids on Saturday. They stay up to 12:30 am.
My family is in the hell for the time. It has been years. My husband and me complained to management office, they said they couldn't stop family visit.
This apartment building is very old and noisy. Is there any coop rules about noise issue from visitors?
There should by House Rules or provisions in the proprietary lease
on use of premises that forbid behavior that prevents the quiet enjoyment of apartments.
"Quiet enjoyment" is a very difficult balancing act. One practical suggestion is to check your proprietary lease or house rules for mention of the 80% carpet rule. It may also be a Dept of Buildings regulation. It basically says that if a downstairs unit owner complains about noise from the apartment above, the upstairs apartment owner is required to cover 80% of the floors in question with carpeting and a thick under-padding. This usually resolves most noise complaints. Any further noise abatement is the responsibility of the downstairs apartment.
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My experience is that you probably can't do much about the noise from upstairs because it falls under the category of "living." Boys run and make noise. It's what they do.
You'll also have a tough time preventing them from bringing other family members for a visit.
There are usually general co-op rules that state that noise must be kept at "reasonable levels".
You mention 12:30 on a Saturday. If that's the only day of the week that it happens, you're probably out of luck. If it happens during the week when you have to go to work, then that's a different story.
One thing you'll need to do to have any hope of changing things is to note the time and date of when these noises occur. Any type of action to make them change their ways will require detailed documentation on your part to support your claims.
Noise issues are difficult to navigate because different people have different tolerances to noise.
Good luck.
P.S. What did you mean when you said that the apartment building is noisy?
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