First of all, my mother has Fibromyalgia, and she doesn't have that much trouble sleeping. Perhaps this woman has a much more severe case.
Secondly, I've lived in apts for years. There is always going to be some noise from your neighbors. That's just a fact of life in an apt complex. Personally, I'd say talk to the apt manager/landlord/super of the building. My last landlord had to make the crazy (literally) man who lived next door to me stop screaming my name up and down the hallway (he was eventually hauled off by the police because he missed his psychiatric appt). If my landlord can manage to talk to this guy, then yours should be able to handle one lady who likes to complain a lot.

Thanks guys for the support. I am planning to go talk to the apt manager today. I just pretty much want them to tell me what you guys just did. I could care less if she continues to throw things. I just don't want to get in trouble with the apt complex for being excessively noisy. If they say that i have nothing to worry about then I won't. She can throw tantrums all she wants.

The neighbor's being unreasonable. It's NOT your problem. If she had a problem with noise, she shouldn't have taken a middle floor flat. There's no way your cats could make soo much noise as to be a nuisance. They're cats! And sleeping on the couch-wow, that's waaay too nice. I wouldn't have done it.

As long as you're not throwing parties on a weeknight or listening to loud music and stomping around in combat boots, I think you're fine. She's just going to have to deal with the normal noise. If she can't sleep at night, she should get earplugs. (Maybe you can give her a pair next time she complains to you!)

I agree with TWG. Next time she complains, go to the super.

And that right there is why I don't live in apartment buildings.

I sympathise with you so much it hurts –
Last year I took a rent of the top floor of an old cottage. Obviously it had wooden floors, which tend to creak. A couple of months after I’d moved in, I got some new neighbours downstairs who did shift work. They were therefore sleeping during the day and evening and working at night/early morning. Not long after they moved in they began to complain that I made too much noise. They got cross ‘cos I watched TV in the evening at 7 p.m. (not loudly and not in a room above their bedroom) and had a bath when they were trying to sleep and because I cooked my evening meal in the kitchen (above their bedroom) at 8 or so at night. They also actually asked me to stop walking around my apartment in the evening! They also, being in during the day, used to take my post form the postman and keep it for weeks at a time. It got so bad that eventually I started setting my alarm for 6 a.m. at the weekend so I coudl get up early and do the hovering just to piss them off!!

Having lived in flats for years, with people making a noise above me, I’m a firm believer that you have to just put up with a certain amount of noise from above and below and if you can’t take it, don’t live in flats.

Why not go visit your neighbour and explain that you are being disturbed by strange noises coming from downstairs which sound a bit like something hitting the ceiling. Say you’re worried that the noise may be coming from her pipes or something and then when she says she’s throwing things at the ceiling, just look at her really, really oddly …. Or, alternatively, say you’ll go to the police if she keeps disturbing you by the excessive noise of things smacking against your floor from below ….

I don’t think you’re being over sensitive. There is pretty much nothing more annoying than being made to feel like you can’t live peaceably in your own home!!!

She knew of her condition when she took the apartment. i'm with you on this one. You've tried accommodating her. You've tried talking with her. The next complaint, go to the super.

cats=love. pet them. feel your blood pressure decrease. then consult a higher power in your apt. complex.