We've been in the apartment for a little over a week now, and I can say with confidence that the neighbors already can't stand us living here. We live in a four-unit house, so we have the upstairs part of one side, and the neighbors in question live directly below us. We share an entryway, but that's all. We rarely have seen them, except when they're complaining to us about our behavior.

During our move-in, they complained that we were being too loud...at 2 in the afternoon on a Tuesday. The next day, I was home alone, taking a shower, and the same neighbor knocked on my door to complain about the noise. Again, this was a bit later in the day, probably around 11. I was wholeheartedly unimpressed. If the shower is too loud I don't know what else to say. I wasn't even singing or anything. Just the sound of the water was too much, I guess. A couple days later, they complained again because we shut the door too loudly, again it was in the middle of the day, not early, not late, and in terms of loudness, it wasn't that bad.

We've been trying really hard to be good neighbors. We've been cradling the door back into the frame every time, so it makes virtually no noise at all. We've tried to stay quiet upstairs as well, but there's really only so much we can do. It probably doesn't help that our smoke detector is quite sensitive. We've set it off everyday, and can't find out why. Today, I was boiling a pot of water, and it set it off for five very tense minutes. It's to the point where we can't cook anything on the stove-top without having two fans going and every window in teh house open.

At this point, I'm not really sure what to do. If you guys have any advice, I'd love to hear it, because I'm quite exasperated and at a complete loss.

I'd love to hear from you :)