Wow..and I thought of starting a thread for this.........same problem fro ma neighbor upstairs...I dropped a note to them, they threaten to go to police with my note saying i was trespassing ( was like wtf? ) and the note was nicely written mind you.....assholes walk like elephants...keep dropping things and dunno doing what upstairs and worst part, they don't sleep till 4-5 am.....Neighbors downstairs I know how to deal with by doing what they did to me back to them but upstairs, I can't knock on the ceiling given that I have plaster ceiling installed but there are still part of the ceilings which I can poke but I am not resorting to that yet.

Talked to the fucking management, they asked me to record down as evidence but if you guys know it, it's not gonna be loud through recordings, it's not drilling sound which is obvious, it's all those knocking sound and walking that annoys the hell out of me. And how the hell am i suppose to time when to record.......dumb fuck managements....

I live in both landed and condo......

Problem with landed and condo are different when it comes to noise. Landed do have their own problems with noise. It doesn't come from above but it comes in the form out outside or just plainly neighbors playing music loud. It's not as bad as condo and in the grand scheme of things, I would say it's only 20% of what people staying in condo suffers.

Base on the suggestion from a member within here, I've got a recording through "smart recorder" and have captured ONE of the noise cases on my phone. It was surprisingly clear and loud at 2.15ish am and lucky the phone was able to capture it. Does anyone know how to enhance and filter it? I would want to use this as one of the evidence for the management to approach them.

Thanks for the feedback. I am planning to do multiple days to record the other noises but the fact that he's running a motor/pump upstairs and it's on every now and then ( not fixed timing )is disturbing to us given that we are working from home now. I actually had the guard come into my house and sit for an hour but so happen that night he was relatively quiet so we did not get much but noise usually comes later so I did not hold the guard longer than the 1 hour he was already in my house. If they can dedicate an audience from 11pm to 2am daily for a week, I am sure they will capture all my pain points.

Thanks for the advice. As of now, I am just using the phone mic as I don't think I should need any professional devices to really capture the problem, if I do, it might not be a problem for many. .......the phone records whenever it detects an elevated level in noise hence it's not always recording but it does record some static now and then which can be used for baseline ( if you're interested, I can WA you what I recorded last night )

I don't need them to be in my house during the day. Although there are noises during the day but I am not inconsiderate like that. I am okie with noise during the day as I might be guilty for some as well ( my GF walks like an elephant at times and sometimes when I lift the chair and put it on the floor, there will be some sound but keyword is lift and not drag ). I don't mind offering them some money for 3 hours a night for a week but then again I am paying Rm400 for maintenance already so shouldn't that be something they would need to help me if there are complaints?

There's no way the neighbor can see the guard cause he's upstairs though I have a sneaking suspicion that someone does let the neighbor know if I ask the guard in charge come to my unit; then again, it's just my suspicion and hold no basis so I won't ride on that for now.

If upstairs how?
You prop up a guard there
Chances are the neighbors on that floor will complain their privacy is affected
And would you let a complete stranger sit in ur living room ? While you sleep
I suppose he is single
But for Married person your wife would surely oppose to security guard see her in pyjamas

What do you expect the security guard to do when the noise starts? Is he going to be able to force the neighbour to quieten down? Even police can't do much and I don't think the neighbour will be intimidated by a lowly paid security guard with no enforcement power.

But can you trust the guard not to steal anything ?
While y r asleep
Also security co And MO may not agree
Resident committee also may oppose to the proposal
For the reason they don’t want to be sued
If anything untoward happens
I would feel very uncomfortable having a complete stranger sit in my living room while I am asleep

No biggy, I'll check on the feasibility of recording for 3 hours which means I have to be out of the house during the MCO time which can be challenging as I don't know where to go. lol.

I'll let you know how things go. I am planning to ask for an audience with the JMB to check with them on how we can sort this out. Upstairs is just a rental tenant for now and not an owner so not sure if it makes things easier.

Awesome......

A twist in the whole saga.......the tenant decided to move out in 2 weeks time. Let's hope this is for real. Can't wait to sleep more than 4 hours a night again...