I need help.

Currently I am in a big apparently but it’s an old building with pretty much card board walls you can hear everything, I’ve met everyone in the building gave them my number because my 18 month old likes to stomp and scream. But what my problem is. She has to be pinching my ear to fall asleep. Most the time she screams until I pick her up when I’m trying to clean or do anything. If I let her cry or put her in her room for a time out she screams like I beat her and I’m scared of people thinking that of me. Or feeling sorry for the poor baby screaming I’m trying to move into a different place. But what is the best way to get her use to not being picked up do I just let her scream I don’t know what to do I’m so stressed out with trying to keep my place tidy and have her happy at the same time ???