Please help. My upstairs neighbor makes so much noise all the time and I don't know what I can do

[rockymountaindem]

Hello all,

I have recently moved into an eighty year old brick apartment building as I've started grad school. For such an old building, I have to say my spot here is pretty nice, except for one glaring exception. I don't know if it's because the wood floors are so old or what, but I can hear everything the guy upstairs does, all the time. For starters, it sounds like he's wearing ski boots every time he walks around. I can also hear every time he closes a cabinet door. What's worse, it seriously sounds like he's moving furniture around up there all the time. Like, every hour there are a couple long, very loud, scraping sounds coming from up there, like he's pushing a sofa across the uncarpeted floor.

This goes on all the time. I've practically had to adapt to this person's schedule. He's woken me up before seven o'clock on a couple of occasions (I've been living here for 10 days), which is really annoying because I only have class at 9 one day per week. It doesn't stop until about 1am every night. I can hear it over the TV, over my headphones plugged into the computer, and it makes my desk vibrate sometimes because it's radiating through the walls and *my* floor. I seriously don't think this person ever sits down. Whenever he's home, it's constant like he's giving his house a full cleaning all the time. Here's the best part: one morning he woke me up at 6:30 and I went up to find out if I could hear it in the upstairs hallway. Well, when I got up there I heard this jingling sound coming from behind his door like he was shaking a bunch of silverware around in a giant bag. Who makes that kind of noise before 7am? As you can tell, I've had my fill.

I don't know what I can do about it. If he's just acting normally, and it's just that the old floor transmits all the sound, then I'm probably stuck with this. If he's really walking around in ski boots and making ridiculous noise for no reason, how am I going to get him to stop? Anybody have any advice?