Neighbors from hell, part deux

A while ago, I'd mentioned some problems our neighbors downstairs.  Seems the drama continues.

We've been in this apartment for a year and a half, and most of the time, we haven't had much of a problem.  Some of the people around us smoke, and it can come in through our slider, but we traced it to one person and the problem had gone away.  Then we had a neighbor who always thought our TV was too loud and would bang on the wall some, but that problem went away.

But then, back around September, we had the neighbors from hell move in downstairs from us.  They were constantly in and out of their apartment, always slamming the front door.  When they slammed the door, it would shake the floor in our living room.  We'd be sitting on the couch at night, and feel the couch vibrate as they slammed the door.  And it was constant... like every five minutes, someone was going into or out of their place.  It was driving us nuts.  And then one night, my wife had gone to bed, and I was still up when I noticed the smell of weed trickling in.  I followed it to the air vent in our front bathroom.  Apparently, they were smoking it in their bathroom and blowing it out the vent, thinking it would just go away.  Nope, it goes up and straight into our bathroom!  After that, I complained to the office.  Told them about it, and she said she would look into it, and never heard anything else.  Then about two weeks later, poof, the guys were gone.  In late October, we realized we hadn't heard anything from them in about a week, no cars in their parking spot, and no lights on in the apartment.  We thought we were freed.  Either they moved or were evicted, don't know which.

We had peace and quiet for a good month, and then two nights ago someone new moved into the apartment below us.  Wednesday night, our living room was a little warm, so I opened the slider for a few minutes to cool it off.  I go back into my office for a couple of minutes, and when I come back into the living room, it is reeking of weed!  I go out on the patio and look down, and I can hear some rustling and see shadows moving where the guy was smoking on the patio below us.  Nice!  Their first night living there and they are already making our place smell of weed again.  And then on Thursday afternoon, I was home working and went out into the kitchen for a drink.  When I came out into the living room area, noticed something was smelling like an ash tray.  I go and open the slider and hear a couple of people out, being all loud on their patio, all smoking cigars.  Thanks!

We are definitely looking forward to moving.  Had gone driving past a couple of places that were available and called on a few.  This latest happening and really motivated me to take action on finding a place and getting going on a new lease, somewhere else, and to rent a house (no more apartments!).  I just want to be able to start a countdown on my whiteboard, so that anytime a door slams or I smell smoke/weed, I can look at the countdown and be content that it will all end soon.  Additionally, if we are trying to have kids, I don't want even the smell of smoke or weed anywhere near my wife.