I've been a bit on edge lately and I really have no way to properly fight this.

My toilet went out for a few weeks about 4 months ago. There was a lot of noise from the tank refilling. I'd no idea the neighbor below me could hear the water running and it's my first property so really, just didn't know and didn't get it repaired fast enough.

Since then it seems like he has made it a point to base a lot of his life around being reactionary to noise I make. If I'm shaving or brushing my teeth and have my bathroom sink on, he runs over to turn on his shower fan. I don't really care, but I find it very strange. It's an old fan and I can feel a bit of the vibration in my floor. I can't play music even at a very moderate level for an hour or two mid-day without him cranking up his music loud in response.

The first thing he did when he heard the water was complain to condo management. He claimed to them he tried to talk to me first but I don't believe him.

If I want to move stuff around in my place to look for something I might need once or twice a week which might happen midday, the guy seems to start banging on his ceiling or stomping around. He sometimes slams his doors and screen door. Apparently no-one else has complained when I asked the condo manager. He also got some custom cabinetry installed high up on the wall in between our units he shuffles through a couple weeks after the toilet.

A few weeks ago I tried to talk to him. I knocked on his door and he came up and walked away. I left him a gift card and said sorry about the noise from the toilet and introduced myself and gave him an email address if he wanted to talk. He reached out and thanked me for the gift card, asked me a few basic questions. The amount of noise he made seems to have gone down.   


I am not in a position where I can sell the unit. I don't know how to deal with this.