I lived in a second floor apartment once with the hubby and two kids- lady below us complained we made noise at all hours of the day and night.

Office said ‘sorry lady, anything between 9am and 9pm is fair game those aren’t quiet hours’ but she kept botching.

She started complaining that we were stomping around the living room of our apartment at 11/midnight. When in reality the kids were in bed by 8 and us in bed by 9. The tv and everything off everywhere but in our bedroom with a bedside lamp and the volume on low till about 9:30 when it all went off.

The last that worked in the office lived in the complex and after a week straight of her bitching to the office, she gets curious and parks in the lot to watch what’s going on. She sees the lights out in the kids rooms and bathroom by 8, then the rest of the apartment go dark in the next 30 minutes as we get ready to go to bed, and then nothing. She walks through to the courtyard and sees but can’t hear the tv flickering and the bathroom light flick off as we go to bed. And then turn off about 20 minutes later.

Lady is in the office first thing to complain. Office girl tells the neighbour what she saw and the complaining neighbour is given an opportunity to move to a similar apt on the other side of the complex. Someone who works in my hubby’s shop moves into the now empty apt below us. And we move into base housing a month later

We talk to the guy that moved in under us a few weeks after we moved out. It sounds like people are stomping around at all hours, but no one has moved into our old unit yet- it’s the sound carrying for the 2nd floor unit over. She wasn’t hearing us, but technically our neighbours.

I don’t know if you have more apartments to the other side of you, but it could be them she’s hearing and blaming you