Condo Courtesy

I'm trying to think of all the cliches to describe condo living.

"Take the good with the bad"
"You can't win 'em all"
"Keep your chin up, kid"
"It is what it is"

While its great to not have to deal with shoveling the walk and having a workout facility 100 feet away, sometimes the conveniences seem to come at a steep price. Consider the following.

After coming EXCEEDINGLY close, yet failing, to making a new HD TV purchase and contributing to the Black Friday epidemic, I found myself in want of..something, ANYTHING. Once my Id kicks in, I have trouble stopping it and end up having to make some grand purchase to get my psyche back in check. To solve it this time I purchased a boxing heavy bag and stand and boxing gloves. After a short two hour assembly I found myself banging away.

As I'm taking out my aggressions on 70 pounds of padding, however, I'm becoming increasingly nervous about annoying my upstairs neighbors. You see, my new boxing station is directly underneath their bedroom.

To ease my fears I've set up two rules for myself with regard to use of the heavy bag.

1. Don't hit the bag after 8 pm or before 10 am
2. Don't workout for more than 45 minutes

I know they can hear me when I'm working out in the garage. I also know they are of the opinion that when you pay a lot of money like we both did for a condo that you expect to not have to deal with noisy, disrespectful neighbors. I'm of that opinion too. Conversely, I paid lots of money for my place and want to be able to do WHAT I want to do and feel this falls within reason, especially when my rules of courtesy are employed.

But what do you think? Are my rules reasonable? Is this sufficient courtesy or am I being a bad neighbor?