Neighbours keep slamming doors

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I live with my boyfriend on the bottom floor of an apartment building. But we are surrounded by annoying neighbours who are always in and out and slam doors behind them. I don't mean their front doors so much, I mean more the door into the building and the second door from the lobby. They open the door as wide as they can, come through, and let the door swing shut behind them so that it makes an annoying SLAM, then do the same with the second door. When I walk in or out the doors I shut them quietly, they don't need to be slammed. I know sometimes you can't always help a door banging if you're carrying stuff or are in a rush, but this isn't the case, as I hear the doors slamming several times a day (up to 20 times or more sometimes). There aren't even that many people living in the building.
When the doors slam it shakes the whole building, and feeling the noise is sometimes more annoying than hearing the noise.

I feel I can't say anything though, in case people think I'm being petty, or it might make them become petty, as we don't know our neighbours too well (they're not that friendly). I was going to anonymously stick a piece of paper up on the front door saying 'Please Do Not Keep Slamming The Doors' or something, but I am afraid that might make them just slam the doors even more. People can be horrible like that.

Is there anyone else here who live in an apartment building and get annoyed or distracted by your neighbours noise?

Can the landlord not help by adding something to the doors so that they close quietly? I'd be asking them to do something about the doors. Hopefully they'll act!

I was going to post something along this line


I know what it's like to live with annoying neighbors cuz our neighbors have a powerful sound system along our wall & watch & listen to lots of things with the base on high & the walls don't have insulation. We don't want to be downstairs when it's high & it can give my girlfriend a headache. I've had to go there & ask a few times for him to lower it. The last time he lowered it before he answered the door. Said he was tired of people telling him to turn it down, especially us & that it wasn't that loud. He turned it back up after I went back inside. Me & my girlfriend highly suspect that he sometimes turns it up on purpose nowadays when he knows we're downstairs but other times it's just loud as soon as we get home or whatever. There's no point in us telling property management because the property manager acts like he's too busy to do a damn thing he's supposed to do to keep the place up. We told him about broken things a couple months ago that haven't been fixed. He won't schedule inspections & things till the last minute even thou state law requires that we get 48 hours notice. Our lease ended at the beginning of November & we asked a month before then if we could pay month by month because we're trying to move cuz of health issues(the stress of all this is really negatively affecting my girlfriend's mental & physical health). We haven't heard back but we never got in a lease renewal. We just found out that we won't get the place we were trying to get so now we have to look around & get added to waiting lists. We're afraid to complain too much to property management cuz he might try to evict us since we're no longer under a lease. We're just royally stuck at the moment.