It's a condo. I own my unit. The unit below mine is owned by a man who lives offsite and purchased it for his son. The son and girlfriend are the offenders. I've tried to deal with the father as the owner of the unit; he referred me to the son. I've tried to deal with the con; he ducks me. I brought up the noise issue at the last condo association meeting; the son was there and wouldn't look at me. It's been quiet since then; this is the first I've been disturbed in a while.

But I've investigated recourse via the condo association--fines and such--and the language about noise is too vague to be enforceable. When I broached the subject of making the language enforceable, the entire association pushed back. I live in Seattle, where confrontation is so anathema that people will have a confrontation about avoiding it. ::sigh::