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While this kind of testing is a big part of the value consultants offers, it’s also a big reason people often don’t initially hire them. “Unfortunately it’s a little bit expensive,” Mr. Glotzbecker said, “on the order of a couple of thousand dollars.” And that is before any construction work is done.

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When Robin Eshaghpour, a real estate portfolio manager, combined five condominiums in New York into one 4,200-square-foot duplex for his family, he summoned Mr. Glotzbecker. “We wanted to sort of have the feeling that we are in our own world,” he said. Because the entire space was gutted, he estimated the additional cost of soundproofing at a 2.5 percent increase over standard construction.

Thomas works seasonally behind the desk at a construction firm and nights at a distillery, serving craft cocktails and steaming bowls of fancy ramen. It’s an uneasy balance, and one she maintains by hoarding wads of cash for the mud season. But it’s a life she’s committed to.

Jay Bialsky, a developer who has built in the Hamptons for 23 years, said he began using soundproofing in his new construction about 15 years ago. “Soundproofing and sound-deadening products have evolved as a trend,” he said. “Anywhere there is a chance for pass-through noise, we are soundproofing.”

Suddenly, we hear someone sneeze—right outside a side door to the boardroom. We hear hushed shuffling sounds too. “Folks listening,” Gibson speculates. Undeterred, we place a phone call to Patrice Horsley’s brother. Currently living in Georgia, Derrick Horsley is a retired army sergeant. “Our mother wanted the truth,” he says, on speakerphone. “She died with a heavy heart, not knowing what happened to her daughter. I want the issue resolved not only for me but for my other siblings, and for my mother. And for Patrice’s son as well. She had a little boy who was two or three years old when it happened.”

But the sound of the muffled barks still drove him crazy, he said, and eventually he was forced to move.

He visited troops on the border last week and reiterated that their job in the short term was to assist under-resourced Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and put up physical obstacles.

Part of the reason crimes in the Delta go unpunished is a phenomenon Lush calls “the magnolia curtain,” an old expression. Lush says he started using the phrase after seeing some remarkable magnolia trees in a cemetery north of Rosedale. “Those magnolias sweep all the way down to the ground, like they’re trying to cover everything,” says Lush. “There are people that know about some of the unsolved murders—but they aren’t gonna talk about it, to this day.”

A: Much as we love them, our homes are not always an oasis of calm — especially if we live in apartments or multifamily dwellings. The noise we hear from neighbors or even our own family members clomping above us or through the walls can be extremely distracting.