Honestly, even from my perspective, I'm amazed the HOA allows laminate flooring to begin with.I've looked into ways of soundproofing, or significantly mitigating noise transmission from my condo, and from what I've heard, even the most dense, best impact absorbing underlayment for laminate flooring won't do much in a poorly built building.

California building code has a minimum standard for noise transfer between floors which is at least 50 STC (sound transmission like voices, tv, etc) and at least 50 IIC (impact noise, people walking or jumping). 

Yes , I would agree that it signifies folks who can not save for a home down payment, making renters, but on the other hand- transmission goes on vehicle, medical bill and untold other daily happenings makes for late or no rent. yes/no.

We are looking into how to reduce the sound transmission between floors.The ceiling had been furred down with 1x3s had a 12x12 ceiling tile installed over it.

The city has already done a lot in the community and the businesses coming into the area around Allison transmission seem to be good long term tenants.

Almost like taking your car to a garage for a tune-up and getting you transmission flushed.Ooops, but, make sure that the drop service line is adequate to carry the higher load.

Jon, knows, Any facsimile or electronic transmission of any signature required shall have the full force and effect as the original signature.Been done for about twenty years.

We are trying to reduce sound transmission between our ground floor and the second unit apartment, both of which are completely finished.

It can be mattress mayhem, but sometimes it is just the working class, joe six pack crowd that may not fit the high end apt demographic; they may be the change your own oil(or transmission) in the parking lot crowd, or  need a backyard for dog or pit bbq..etc... 

From the pool of inquiries, there would have been much more applicants except I let people know that there were already too many applicants AND that they MUST meet my criteria of over 700 Credit Score, 45 times monthly rent AND have a healthy savings account to weather the lockdown.I chose the best applicant who made $200k per year and had $200k in savings as well as over 700 FICO.Apts like mine in buildings like mine are incredibly desireable now.Basically, there's a huge problem with skyrises and Pandemics.People are afraid that if they get into an elevator that they could be trapped in a small space with someone that has the virus, which will then transmit it to them.Also, the management for the skyrise buildings are not permitting IN PERSON showings AND many are not allowing moving in or out of the building because of the risk of increasing the transmission to vulnerable tenants within their buildings.That narrows down the amount of available apts.Buildings like mine, non-Elevator walk up buildings which are low density and separate Garden Apts, are now the most desireable buildings to own in a Pandemic in NYC, as I am seeing anedotally.However, this is only true if you are in the right kind of City, where most of the buildings will be very large skyrise elevator buildings where there are huge amount of renters.Adding to the attractiveness of low density buildings is the fact that NYC is the EPICENTER of the COVID-19 pandemic.Yes, this is one single datapoint.