How To Deal With Noisy Upstairs Neighbors: 8 Clever Tricks To Keep The Peace

Shortly after they were married, Brittany H. and her husband moved into an apartment in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood. With Victorian houses and vintage flats dotting the tree-lined streets, they assumed their new home would be a peaceful spot to build their life together.But the couple got more than they bargained for. At all hours of the night, they heard strange, loud sounds coming from the neighbors upstairs.“It was midnight, and the loud upstairs neighbors sounded like they were dropping bricks on the floor," Brittany says, vividly recalling her first night in the unit. "Our ceiling light fixture rattled from the loud, noisy pounding.”When their lease was up, the couple promptly moved to the top floor of a different apartment building. Brittany was so scarred by her experience with noisy neighbors, she says she'll never live anywhere but a top floor again.As a renter, you have to be ready for some day-to-day noise—that's just part of living in close quarters with other people. So, how can you reduce noise from upstairs neighbors?What causes noise from upstairs neighbors?If you've lived below noisy upstairs neighbors like Brittany has, you know the sound: the relentless st...