My wife and I live on the second floor of an apartment complex. Numerous times, we've had the downstairs tenants come up and complain about our walking. Yesterday we had 2 friends over for dinner and a movie - and the cops came to our door! (One of our friends is very heavy and the other has a handicap and walks with a limp.) The cops told us that they could hear us stomping around, when it was just our friend getting up and going to the bathroom. They told us our friends had to leave and threatened to arrest my wife and I for a noise complaint!

Is this legal? Is it illegal if we just don't answer the door? What can we do? Help us!

(It costs $3,000.00 to break our lease and they don't have any other apartments available to transfer to that are in our price range.)