u/Ceiling-Crawler

Eng-Neighbour complains about normal household noises constantly, claims it is anti-social behaviour, what can she or I realistically do?

I have a downstairs neighbour who complains about literally every noise, doors closing, chairs moving etc. We live in a block of flats where you can hear everything, I also hear noise from the people above me all the time.

I live with my dad but am on my own a lot of the time and the noises she complains about are literally just the noises of me walking around, cooking, going for a piss etc. I'm not playing music or having parties in there. I've had her several times knocking on my door where she looks almost hysterical, telling me to stop "slamming" doors and walking around MY OWN FLAT. She has also started going outside the block and ringing my buzzer very late at night if she happens to hear a noise which is infuriating.

Just last night I was eating my dinner at half 11, got up from my chair to get a glass of water, she somehow heard it and went outside the building again to ring my buzzer, ironically slamming her own doors in the process. There was another time when I accidentally dropped a plastic cup on the floor around midnight, she rang the buzzer and I woke up to a 2 minute long voice note from her saying I should be evicted for anti-social behaviour.

My worry is that she's going to report me and heavily exaggerate the noises she hears, does she have a leg to stand on? Is there anything I can do as it seems to be bordering on harassment from her now? She seems like she might be quite mentally ill, she's a single woman in her 30s and in the 2 years I've lived here I've not known her to have any visitor to the flat, not a friend or a man or nothing, which is a bit of a red flag I think.

Annoyingly, my dad is a bit of a pushover and just lets her do this, even saying I am somehow in the wrong for accidentally dropping something or walking around "too heavily" (I am already on tiptoes the entire time because of her) I just don't feel like it is at all acceptable for me to be living in fear of the next time I drop something or move a chair too quickly for her liking.

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u/Ceiling-Crawler — 1 day ago