Bring in da noise

I moved to new city back in August. I was so excited about my new apartment. The first week I was camping out on a blow up mattress until my stuff arrived. I love the location and the views. All was going well for about the first week and then right before my stuff arrived, I was in the master bedroom and was woken up by a loud banging noise. Keep in mind, it was about midnight and I heard this noise over the wall-unit A/C.

At first I thought it was my next door neighbors getting it on...but if that's what is happening no one is having any fun as there is no real rhythm to it. You get a few "bangs" and then a break for like 5 minutes and then a few random "bangs".

The management of the building offers a lot of assistance and support except in my noise case. I have complained at least once a month consistently since I moved in. This last time I was pleading with them as it is seriously ruining the quality of my life. Every flipping morning and evening I hear this noise. I find it very difficult to believe that no one else hears this noise but me.

Management response is due to the face that the noise happens during the hours when they are not here there is nothing they can do about it. Basically they can't do anything if they can't hear the noise to try to identify it. It is not my next door neighbors because the room that is on their side is used as a study only, nothing more. Also, they have heard the noise occasionally but they don't use that room that much.

Needless to say I'm very upset. I pay a considerable amount of money for this place to have it be ruined by this noise and I feel a bit like the Princess and the Pea - I don't think management really believes me about the noise.

I've been trying to figure out a way to record the noise - this morning it was awful. To top it off, I'm sick. I can barely sleep anyway because I'm so congested I can't breathe. Now I get woken up by loud banging.

This is all leading me to make the decision that I will move when my lease is up. *&)*(&)*&)*&^&^%^&%^$%^&^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am pissed. I HATE moving. This time I will have to move myself - it's not like I will have packers and movers and blah blah blah. I'm so upset. Sigh...and frankly even if I can record the noise and have management listen to it, odds are they will say there is still nothing they can do about it!

All this has lead me to not want to finish decorating - why bother. I'm leaving in 8 months. But the other part of me wants to use my hammer at 2am and hope that the noise of it reverberates down through all the apartments and the entire community complains! ARGH!