Actually he or she isn’t stomping, but it certainly sounds like it. Start typing “my upstair” into Google and look what you get.
Click on any results you get from Google and all upstairs neighbors swear they’re not stomping but walking regularly. The downstairs neighbors will get annoyed any time the upstairs neighbors moves throughout their unit (which they have every right to do) and soon a contest in passive aggression begins. Having a loud-walking upstairs neighbor is common, but how loud are they? In the five weeks I’ve been living in my second level condo, I know that my upstairs neighbor is loud and also a psychopath–this I’ve observed directly and gathered through eye-witness accounts. But about his walking specifically; when he walks it sounds like he’s stomping, but he’s walking as a shoe has trained him. He doesn’t know his gait sounds like a stomp, and doesn’t know what to do about the complaints.
To you upstairs neighbors annoyed with your downstairs neighbors who claim you’re stomping and who are retaliating by blasting loud music, please read on. To my fellow downstairs neighbors dealing with alleged stompers, this is for you, too. Continue reading




After releasing a revised edition of Jaden Baker late in 2012, I submitted it for the eLit Awards. It was the only award I submitted it for, finding the eLit best described how the book was made and sold (an independently published eBook).