A woman was left at the end of her tether after realising her downstairs neighbour had an awful daily habit and wouldn't stop doing it, even when she confronted him. She said he was impacting her "mental sanity" as she worked from home, and every single day he would play his saxophone out loud.

She explained that he "practices about four to five times a week for two to three hours at max volume and sometimes with a backing track. He doesn't use a sax mute and has no noise-dampening precautions whatsoever," so she said it was "insanely loud" in her apartment "when he plays".

She shared that she moved into the apartment during Covid, and it bothered her "immediately" that he was doing this; however, she didn't want to make enemies of the neighbours as soon as she moved in, so she kept her lips sealed.

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But it got so much worse. She wrote: "About 2 years after moving in, I mustered up the courage to introduce myself and ask him if he could not play during a 1-hour window the next day because I had a job interview scheduled. I explained that I work from home, and his playing is really loud in my apartment.

"Just as I feared, I was met with a really hostile, uncompromising, and rude attitude. He said he could not accommodate my request or even play at a lower volume because he was teaching a lesson to a student, and he had a right to practice in his apartment. Sure enough, the next day, when I was midway through my interview, he started to play".

Fast forward a few months, and the woman was working from home with her headphones on, yet she could still hear him playing, and her "floor was shaking". "I gave several loud knocks on the floor in an attempt to see if he would turn the volume down, but he continued to play.

"After a while, I went downstairs to ask him to play more quietly. He didn't answer the door, but instead we spoke through the door, and I was met with a very defensive explanation again that music was his livelihood and he had the right to practice in his apartment," she explained.

She then tried to tell him she was trying to work, which was her livelihood, trying to come to some sort of compromise where he could be a little quieter. However, the man said he "could not do that" and continued to play his sax at the same volume as he had been.

He then came round to her apartment later, offering no solutions once more, except saying she should "get a co-working space," as nobody had ever taken issue with his saxophone playing previously.

Because the man was making no effort to come to sensible conclusions, she "sent an email" to her landlord to raise it with them. However, her landlord seemed to take the side of the sax player, saying: "If I have such a problem with it, then they will release me from my lease, and I can move somewhere else. Why would I have to move if I’m not the one being a nuisance to others in the building?"

She referred to her neighbour as a "narcissistic j****** who doesn't give a s*** how loud he's playing," and as a result, she had no idea what to do. She'd kept a log of how loud her apartment was when he was quiet compared to playing, and still her landlord didn't care, even though it broke the NYC Noise Code.

"My landlord won't do anything and just dodges my emails and calls. I have put down a thick rug pad to help dampen the noise (which does absolutely nothing), and I've even moved my work desk into my bedroom, where I can at least shut the door. I’m bending over backwards to try and have some f****** peace in my apartment, and it’s not fair," she fumed.

The woman said that she didn't want to call the cops, because then she'd feel "unsafe" living where she did. "He is violating my Right to Quiet Enjoyment every damn day, pretty much, and no one is taking it seriously," she seethed.

In the comments, someone suggested petty revenge may be the best way. They wrote: "I’m a 'talk it out like adults' kind of person, but someone like this would make me get some bagpipe CDs and a loudspeaker aimed at the floor.

"You have a right to conduct a cultural exploration of Scotland just like he has a right to practice. During non-quiet hours only, of course".

"My husband just suggested a continual loop of ice cream truck music. Lol," another penned.

However, someone warned: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. My experience as I learned this the hard way. I made noise, and they made more noise back.

"When I got tired, they did not. I got in trouble with the authorities and management, and the noise continues, but it is worse now".

One man shared: "It sounds like you already know what options are available to you, but you don't want to pursue them. Instead of playing loud music, try setting up a system that will play back his own music with a slight delay. Very distracting. Search Delayed Auditory Feedback".