crony

Here's my situation... I live in a bottom floor apartment, underneath a couple with a two and a seven year old. The kids just loooove to run back and forth their apartment incessantly and it's getting out of hand. I can handle the occasional stomping, but it occurs non-stop for periods of over 30 minutes. Very politely asking the parents to calm them down didn't work. "What do you want us to do, they're kids." Now, I don't know about you, but when I was a wee lad, my ass got beat for running in the house. I invited them down so they could hear the ruckus their rugrats were causing for themselves, but they would have none of it. "We've been here for three years and nobody's every complained," is what they constantly tell me. Yeah, well I'm telling you now stinknuts. Being here for three year doesn't give you tenure. I tried to talk to them again tonight, only to have the husband tell me to "call the office," just before he slammed the door in my face.

Now, my question to you guys is this. Should the parents be responsible for keeping their children quiet, especially in a living enivronment such as an apartment complex, or is it something I "should just deal with" because they're at such a young age?