Ever watch a 70s/80s "apartment life" sitcom? The answer is simple: pound the ceiling with a broom handle. Just don't poke holes or your LL will charge you.

Do you know what the code is, or are you just hoping someone else will deal with this problem on your behalf? Apartment living comes with noise. If the building has "quiet hours", take it up with the manager. If the manager fails to act, consider moving. It really isn't worth pissing off your PM by calling out the Govt to threaten him/her. Remember, this person will be the one that gives you rental references going forward. Any quality company will insist on getting a positive reference from your current and past land lord, so this could impact your next TWO living spaces.

Not worth it in my view. Buy some noise canceling headphones from Amazon. $30. Problem solved. Or crank up your Iron Maiden's "Greatest Hits" and let your upstairs neighbors know how much you appreciate their racket. (*grins)

For the last several months, you've been posting stuff from other sites and pretending to be a landlord. There are a few others who do the same thing. Most of it articles from other sources that we have all usually seen. I figured all along that there was a problem with you.

I don't usually give advice to tenants, much less to tenants that want to make trouble because they don't like something.

However, here's my last piece of advice to you: Just break your lease and leave. Today!

No real landlord will care if a troublemaking complainer leaves. If there is a financial cost to your doing this, pay it. Be content that you have solved your problem. Landlords do not need or want people that make problems. You will be replaced, finger snap, like that with a better tenant.

There is no building code anywhere that says that laminate flooring can not be used upstairs

You could offer to buy your upstairs neighbor a nice thick floor rug, complete with padding. Yes, I am actually seriously suggesting this. In my first ever duplex apartment, (years and years ago) my downstairs neighbor regularly supplied a carpet pad and carpet to the upstairs tenant. They had lived downstairs for many years, loved the duplex, and decided to solve the noise transmission troubles this way. The apartment had lovely wood floors.

Menards, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Fleet Farm all sell remnants of carpets that can be gotten at a good price. The water resistant padding that can go under is also recommended, and actually gives the most sound-dampening.

Laminate floor does NOT get installed over padding, or insulation, depending upon manufacturer, not the landlord’s preference, or building code preference. Insulation is used to prevent transmission of heat and cold. Most insulation does very little to dampen sound.

Spending time out of doors, walking in the neighborhood will do wonders for your anxiety, the vitamin sunshine, exercise, and fresh air will help calm you. Buying a carpet for the neighbors AND getting exercise out of doors will give YOU the sense of doing some things in YOUR control, which helps reduce anxiety. Focusing on your anxiety , and trying to get others to change things both increases anxiety by increasing feelings of helplessness.

Btw, we have carpet remnant in our own living room, as we have a succession of old rescue hounds. Easy-Peasy to replace when the funky doggy smells do not want to come out. Looks just fine. Haven’t had trouble with the edges unraveling, though the padding sort of squished out on one side. I just lifted the carpet edge, trimmed padding back. The living room loose-laid carpet actually looks better than the installed carpet in our bedroom which needs to be re-stretched. I told my partner when it is time for new carpet in the bedroom, we’re going to just loose-lay it.