Everyone wants to live in a peaceful environment. Where the neighborhood is safe for everyone; kids can play freely, dogs can play around, and adults can just chill and do their own thing.
However, these people don’t know about it! Hang on tight because you’re about to dive into stories of people being their best mean personalities towards their neighbors. You might want to increase your patience level!
1. Unexpected Fall
He came home from the bar with his friend, both drunk. They were screwing around with a pistol and accidentally shot through their floor - down into my apartment.
I got hit in the stomach. I was sitting on my couch with my legs out to the side. Called 911, and when the ambulance was taking me away, my panicked fiancé was getting ready to leave.
The EMTs told her to follow instead of riding with me. My neighbor came down and was like, "What happened? We heard a commotion!" Cops were called, and he got arrested.
narcolepsyinc
2. The Dumper
My old neighbor used to walk his dog on a leash to poop in my yard. My mom had me throw it back in his yard once. He called the police and claimed he never did that.
A few months later, my family and I were going out of town, and after we left our house, my mom realized she had forgotten something.
We turned around only to find our neighbor standing in the middle of our yard with his dog on a leash, dropping a nice dukey in our front yard. All I remember is my mom winding down her window and yelling, “Screw you, Don!”
thewikemeston
3. Got You Good
I once had a neighbor in college who would knock on my door and ask for money. I would just say I was a broke student and couldn’t spare anything.
It was weird as heck and a weekly occurrence, at the least. She was in her 50s and working.
One day, I got fed up when she knocked on my door (I think I was stressed about exams), and I said, “Yeah, I got some money for you.”
I asked her to hold out her hands and gave her maybe 2 dollars worth of nickels that I had in a change jar. She never bothered me again.
ItsOfficiallyME
4. Mad Ex
I heard a really loud banging one evening and walked outside to see a fire extinguisher on the floor and a woman on her phone. I was puzzled, but I put the extinguisher back and went back inside.
A few minutes later, I heard the banging again and opened up the door to see the woman trying to beat down the door across from mine with the fire extinguisher.
Apparently, this was the ex-girlfriend of one of my neighbor’s friends, and she was trying to find him even though he was quite clearly not there. I called the police, and interestingly enough, my neighbor told me she got a DUI that night in an unrelated incident.
TheBioethicist87
5. The Garbage Tracker
A retired woman on my street follows the garbage truck and moves the garbage cans off the street while the rest of us are at work (because they are an eyesore).
This would be fine, except she would leave them in the middle of the driveway, and there is no stopping on our street during rush hour (bus route).
So you either need to park a block away to move the garbage can and then go get the car or risk getting a ticket while you move it.
Since the houses are quite close together, we found out the first time by turning in and hitting the garbage can because it was just far enough back that you couldn't see it until you turned.
GrumpyKitten1
6. Wooden Floor
Lived above a guy in a really old fourplex and I guess the wood floors squeaked really loudly when I walked around. It's not like I was stomping around either but the dude would constantly come upstairs and bang on my door and yell at me to stop moving around.
I felt badly for him in the beginning because he seemed genuinely frustrated but he didn't seem to understand or believe that I wasn't slamming my feet on my floor/his ceiling.
I called my landlord several times, asking if he had a solution. I couldn't move because I was locked into my lease, but my landlord just said, "Buy a lot of rugs."
It got to the point that I couldn't take the constant yelling, and I was literally either tip-toeing around or hopping from my couch to my chair in order to get out of my living room so that he wouldn't be standing at my door yelling at me.
Finally, I went downstairs one day and asked if we could talk about the situation because I felt like maybe if I looked him in the eye when he was calm and explained that I wasn't doing it on purpose and that there was literally nothing more, I could do he would maybe understand.
So I went downstairs and very nicely explained, and he seemed to be listening. And then he said, "I'm about at the point that if it happens again, I'm going to show up at your door with a really big knife." And then he just stared at me.
I basically ran out of there, called my landlord, and said that I was more or less being threatened, and a month later, the guy moved out. And then, as soon as I could, I did too—super crappy situation.
ElleTheFox
7. Frustrating Situation
I had the worst neighbor in a condo I rented. It was a low-story, wood-framed building, so I assume the sound carried really well.
She complained about people stomping around the day we moved in. I had surgery, so I was off work for a week and spent most of my time on the sofa.
I got a written noise complaint for that week, saying there was banging and stomping around. I couldn’t lift anything, so I’m not sure what the noise was.
Before I moved out, we had a formal letter to meet with the condo board to resolve the issue. So glad I moved. I wonder how she’s doing now with the noise. The new family that moved in after I had two kids and the parents were on the heavier side.
Formalgrilledcheese
8. Too Disturbing
In the middle of the night, strange noises would come from their apartment, like an owl mating with a German shepherd. In another, if I breathed too heavily, they'd come up and ask me to be quieter.
I once told them that I was literally sitting on the couch reading a book and had no idea what noise they thought they were hearing.
Another burned something in his oven. Rather than open his windows to get the smoke out, he opened his door to the hall and set off the whole building's alarms.
We had to all stand out in the cold and wait for the fire department while he watched from his apartment. The fire Department opened his windows and told him he was an idiot.
We still had to wait outside for them to do mandatory checks of everything to make sure it really was just him being stupid. It was January. In New England. During a cold snap.
Dagonus
9. Headphones On
During my first semester of college, I lived in an apartment complex that specifically housed college students just a little ways off campus.
In mid-November, the fire alarms in the building went off and let off an incredible screech. I got up from my PC, looked out the window, and saw a bunch of confused faces.
I didn't smell smoke and saw no fire, so I just put in my headphones and went back to what I was doing. It turns out the apartment directly under mine caught fire, and half of the unit got fried. I didn't learn until later that night that there was a very real threat. It was wild.
IkoYamamoto
10. Don’t Ya Dare
We moved into an apartment, and our neighbor informed us that she owned half of the driveway. Cool, whatever. It was a huge driveway and more than enough room for all of us.
After a month or so of living there, she divided the driveway in half with a bunch of rocks. Still fine as we had plenty of room.
Over the course of two months, she slowly moved the rocks closer and closer to our apartment until we would have to physically move them out of the way to get in and out of our driveway.
The landlord finally got a survey done and found out that she didn’t own ANY of the driveway! There was no more off-the-street parking, so she had to park on the road.
quilles
11. Shameful Entitlement
As a surveyor, I see this all the time. My favorite, though, was when a woman called us with a complaint about her neighbor's garden being on her property.
She was pissed at her neighbor and told us how nasty she was. We eventually met the neighbor, and she was the nicest person.
She told us she would be willing to move her garden but was waiting for the survey to be completed. We staked out the line, and it went right through the woman's shed who was complaining about the garden.
She screamed at us, pulled our stakes out, and tried to hit us with them. The woman with the garden was so happy that she was right. She was almost in tears. She made the lady move her shed and installed a large fence. I love it when the good guy wins.
evanford
12. Fence Concern
Our backyard fence was very old and falling apart when we moved in. When we got a new fence put in, we had it built with enough space outside of us to be able to walk around the outside of it to maintain it and keep back the invasive wisteria vines that surround us on two sides.
Shortly thereafter, our neighbor on one side cut up part of our old fence, which we had intentionally left standing, and used those pieces to construct a fence that blocks us from getting around to the side that adjoins our property.
I told him that he had to take it down. I waited a couple of weeks and took it down myself. Then he called the police and tried to tell the officer that I had destroyed his property.
When we pointed out the survey marker to the officer, clearly showing that the entire area in question was within our property, my neighbor said he had been maintaining the area for years and was now claiming it by adverse possession.
In the end, we had to put up a second fence with a gate to access all of our property and keep the neighbor off of it. I won’t tell you about the guy with the leaf blower on the other side.
bansheeroars
13. Unlucky Times
We moved into a brand-new house and noticed an old toilet, garbage, and a broken-down hot tub in the neighbor's front yard. Okay, I made cookies for all the neighbors and went over to introduce ourselves.
He laughed and slammed the door in our faces. Ok. I am out landscaping our new yard with my husband and laying some bricks. My husband is on his knees, making sure they are level while I stand and hand him the bricks.
A neighbor walks by and yells, “Well, I can see who wears the pants!” My husband and I look at each other, perplexed. Ok. Get a puppy.
Our other neighbor let us know she witnessed the neighbor’s grown son throwing lit cigarettes over the fence at our puppy when he was in the backyard. We found about 50 cigarette butts in our yard. We do not smoke.
Then she also had to call the police because his other son broke the lights on her garage and defecated on her Welcome mat (all captured by her Home video system).
About six months later, get a complaint for dog barking with a $500 fine. It was ridiculous. Our dog never barked unless someone walked by or came to the door.
We had letters from all 16 surrounding neighbors attesting that our dog never barked, what great neighbors we were, and how crazy the complainant was.
The letters were not admissible. Since there were two pathological adult sons and the neighbor’s word against ours, sane, working adults, we lost and had to pay. We sold the house and moved shortly afterward.
ToeSchmoe
14. Loud House
I had this one downstairs neighbor who lacked any respect for the fact that our building wasn't sound insulated. He would listen to loud music mostly throughout the day and sometimes late at night.
I'm a patient person, and I tried to ask them to be careful. Sometimes, I banged on the floor when I just wanted to sleep. This lasted for months, but nothing had yet been done with the landlord.
One day, though, I think he "discovered" that he really, really loved Gnarles Barkley's "Crazy." He decided it was appropriate to play it half a dozen times in an hour, and I just had it.
I really blew it. So, being a karaoke jockey and having my equipment on hand, I showed him what "loud" was. I connected my speakers to my computer through my console.
Then I searched for the absolute worst "karaoke cover" of that same song. I vividly remember that it was this creepy, fat basement dweller in his late 40s who dedicated the cover to a random 14-year-old girl on the internet, and it was horribly tuneful.
The voice was this annoying falsetto. So I played it. With the speakers flat on the floor, he'd get the full brunt of it. I played it three times in a row loud enough that he would definitely suffer the consequence of his lack of respect.
And, wouldn't you know it, he never played that song again, and he started being much more conservative in his volume levels. He left that summer, and I had never heard "Crazy" again from his collection. I wonder why.
eslachance
15. Can’t Blame Gravity
She wants us to tear out our driveway because gravity and water roll downhill. She’s a loon. When the driveway was put in 25 years ago, it was all done by contractors and up to code.
She’s threatened to sue us because her yard is at the bottom of the hill. We’re in Georgia, and last year, we had a BUNCH of rain. More than normal. So, of course, she had 3 inches of standing water.
She said she talked to a lawyer, and her case was solid. And that she corroborated everything with our builder neighbor across the street.
When intimidation didn’t work, and hubby basically told her to back off, we came home to a fence separating our properties.
Guess it was supposed to offend us? Anyway, that was the best fence ever! Guess what they say is true... great fences make great neighbors, and we haven't talked to her in a year.
IanandAbby
16. Brat Neighbor
They insisted that we pay to have a gate installed between our backyard fences so that they may use our above-ground pool as they please, preferably when they invite friends over.
When we denied it, they threw a hissy fit and found an excuse to "punish" us. You see, the pool was going through some (expensive) issues with leakage into the yard.
They threatened to call the fine-happy HOA because the water was (barely) leaking into their yard, they rarely used it, and their dog was getting sick from drinking the water. (It wasn't)
Not wanting to deal with that crap and also wanting to clean our own backyard of the pond that began housing frogs, my father spent his birthday day off from work in the Texas heat digging a trench and installing a pipe so that the water could drain.
The neighbors came outside and berated Dad the entire time he was digging the trench, telling him it would've just been easier to install the gate.
Vinyl-Bread
17. Annoying Laugh
My across-the-hall apartment neighbor is married, has two kids, and he is so weird. It's just overall off-putting. I leave my sandals out next to my door( no shoes in the house) every night. It so happened one night.
I had to meet my best friend, who came over to the front in the dead of night since she didn’t know my place very well. I catch him caressing and smelling my sandals as I open the door.
I freeze and just mildly freak. He saw me staring, did a weird geisha giggle, and said something about his kids calling him. Then he yanked me into this weird side hug. Now I leave my shoes in a box inside my house. Ugh.
MsAtomicBomb97
18. The Bikers
It wasn't to do with me but my parents before they had children. When buying their first house (our current family home), they arrived on their motorbikes to view the house.
After deciding to buy it, they greeted the neighbors. The neighbors expressed how thankful they were that the 'biker couple' didn't buy the house, then proceeded to rant about their dislike towards bikers (not knowing my parents were the biker couple)
As you can imagine, it didn't go down too well when the pricks noticed the bikes. Anyway, to the more interesting bit. A few weeks/months after their initial chat with the neighbors, my parents were sitting in the living room minding their own business when they heard an explosion.
They ran outside to find both on their bikes engulfed with flames. They called the fire brigade, which put out the fire. One of the Fire people approached my mom and pointed out that there were matches lying around, and this was more than likely an arson attack.
My mom didn't pursue it with the police for god knows what reason, but while in her fit of rage, she told my dad, "Whoever did this is going to break their right leg." Coincidence or not, a week later, one neighbor came home with his right leg in a cast.
Georgiecookiecat
19. Old Troll
We had a neighbor of ours—a retired police officer in his 50s—doorbell ditch us for around a month. The crazy thing is we never knew it was him.
Apparently, he was mad at us because we had a dog that would bark and disturb. He never told us about this, so I don’t feel too bad. He also keyed the car to one of my houseguests at the time.
Finally, one day before we were moving out, the doorbell ditched us. My wife and I looked at each Dead in the eye, and without a word, I sprinted out the front door, and she took off out the back.
We had this unspoken thing where we were like, “Let’s trap this jerk!” I’m more impressed that we did this and were so tight that we didn’t need to say anything to one another.
I caught up with our shirtless neighbor, and he put his hands up and said, “Okay, you got me.” I said, “Dude, what the heck? Why are you doing this?”
He was drunk as all heck and then proceeded to tell me about my barking dog. He apologized and said he should’ve told us about it.
[deleted]
20. The Creep
My first apartment had a creepy old man who lived on the basement floor and this equally creepy kid in his early thirties on the top floor. Both of them regularly sat out on the porch entrance at varying times of the day and would catch me whenever I came home.
I lied to the old man (we’ll call him George) about my name in a moment of panic, and when he found out that it wasn’t my name, he started getting more aggressive in greeting me with my real name to show me how I’d done him wrong.
He would circle the building when he realized I’d started using the back exit and sit on the back steps. I told my landlord twice, and all they did was tell him not to talk to me, which made matters worse because he was still doing everything he had previously done but with a vengeance.
He ended up stealing the wreath off my door ‘because nobody else had one on their door’ and threw it in the trash. At this point, I no longer cared about causing my landlord grief, so I asked them to pull up video footage.
Turns out he’d been coming upstairs several times to see when I left for work and would stand in front of my door. He ended up getting evicted.
This was all happening while the kid on the top floor was still there. He was weird but I didnt pay him much mind. After the whole George thing I wanted to be on good terms with the other tenants so I started saying hello when I came through the entrance or in the hallways.
About two days later, I went to take my trash out and passed my window, which was facing the alleyway. This dude was pressed against my window.
He was sliding his face around the glass, trying to see me. He saw me and tried to play it off, but the situation was already for him. I called the police, and he was arrested.
Obja
21. The One Downstairs
When I get home around 12:30 AM, I’m exhausted, so I kick my shoes off and throw them and my duffle bag wherever they land (usually on the floor right by my apartment entrance).
So, when I first moved into my apartment, I always heard banging from the neighbor downstairs. I never thought anything of it. I was always like, “Is this person serious? They’re working on their apartment at 1:00 in the morning?!”
It wasn’t til maybe three weeks ago that I realized that he/she was getting upset about the banging that I was doing over their heads. Our apartments are set up differently, and their bedroom is directly under my living room.
I’ve become more conscious of the noise I make when getting home and started gracefully taking my shoes off and placing my belongings on the couch. Regardless, the person who lives down there has never actually come up to my apartment to address the issue.
But, I find it hilarious because I picture them laying in bed cuddled up with a broomstick or something similar and waiting for the slightest pin drop to jump on top of their bed and start stabbing their ceiling.
fuckjohnn
22. Abused Kindness
Two houses over. We were good acquaintances, probably almost friends. The relationship had been going downhill pretty steadily for a while. I worked for the guy for a little bit.
The last time this came up, I talked about how he stood me up and never answered his phone or door when agreeing to help me move my couch onto a trailer.
So I have another example: he was my boss at the time this happened. I notice he's really big on using people's stuff when they aren't around; he used a guy's garage and table saw/woodworking tools when he was gone.
I told him multiple times, at least five times, "Hey, I'm cool with you borrowing my stuff, but just make sure you ask. I also don't like unscheduled visits. Call or text if you wanna stop over." I just want to let him know where I stand if he wants to borrow some more tools from me or whatever.
I had let him borrow a 17mm impact socket from me. 2 weeks go by, and I assume the freaker probably lost it. Whatever, I won't agree to lend it out again.
Well, after another few days, he says, "Hey, you weren't home, so I returned the socket and borrowed another." Yes, he hopped over my fence midday while I was gone and opened my garage door.
He returned the socket he borrowed, which was very scratched and marred up, and helped himself to some of my other tools. He tells me all this a week after it happens, out of the blue as if it was no big deal.
That was the breaking point after dealing with other crap from him. Told him to stay the heck away from me, my house, my family, my property.
username2256
23. Not Me, Neighbor
My upstairs neighbor, who was quiet and respectful for the entire year, decided to crank his music during finals week during my senior year.
Knocked on the door twice and asked him to turn it down, only to have him crank it up minutes later. Windows were shaking from the bass.
Finally, on the third try, I called the cops, who issued him a citation. After the cops left, he decided to bring 3-4 friends to try and knock down my apartment door. It took pointing a pistol at them through the window to make them go away. I was happy to be done with college.
lowbetatrader
24. Anonymous Destroyer
There’s no proof that my neighbor did this, but I highly expect that he did it. I reported my downstairs neighbor for a noise violation because his music was shaking my apartment, and then a bunch of things happened to my car for the next several months.
My windshield got bashed, my tires were flattened, and then my car got in a couple of times, and some items were stolen.
It stopped when I was talking with maintenance by his apartment door when I suspected that he was the person doing the things to my vehicle. I’m 99% sure it was him, but I have no evidence of him doing anything.
[deleted]
25. Notorious Ones
One time, when my family came home, our dog was so excited she ran out of the house. Turns out the neighbor’s pit bull was on the loose and bit our dog's neck and shook her around.
Thankfully, she survived thanks to surgery, and she’s doing great for an 11-year-old. I won’t forget what the neighbors said when they saw our dog: " Just put some Neosporin on it.”
Another time, the neighbor’s daughter was pulling her out of her garage and dented our car pretty badly. Legend says that even she said to put Neosporin on it.
mistermayn
26. Craziest Neighborhood
I live in a townhome. We’re all connected in groups of 3s. Right now, there is a family behind us that makes noises all day and night. Honking their horns at each other outside for 30 minutes.
Playing loud, bass-heavy mariachi music all day into the night. And then, every night from about 10 pm until 3-4 am, it sounds like they’re just throwing their couch against the wall.
I mean, it’s loud enough to shake our ENTIRE HOUSE. Everyone hates them. Everyone complains. Nothing ever happens, and they never stop.
I also once accidentally gave a crackhead who lives in my neighborhood a ride. I didn’t know he was a crackhead until he admitted to it while in my car as we were DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD.
He was also really pushy about wanting to stay in said car and ride to work with me (??). Finally, he bought a showerproof Bluetooth speaker for $5 so he could get some “McDonald’s,” and he proceeded to get out.
The cops showed up there 2-4 times a week for about a month afterward, and I don’t know why. But they don’t live here anymore.
braaahms
27. Greedy Man
My family has owned a cottage on one of the finger lakes in Western New York for 18 years. About six years ago, a small convenience store opened up at the top of the hill above our cottage.
At first, it was an awesome perk because we no longer needed to drive 20 minutes into town if we forgot anything, and the store had awesome sandwiches. We quickly became friends with the owner of the store, who was just an all-around awesome dude.
After his store grew more and more popular, he decided to put a bar on the back of his store and blast live music off his back deck.
Our neighbors (sweet little 80-year-old Jewish couple) complained, saying they didn't want the bar on the back of the store as it devalued their property and the music was way too loud. The store owner went off the deep end.
He called them Jewish slurs, kicked them out of the store, and just made their lives a living hell. My father saw what was going on and stuck up for our neighbors.
We were also getting a little sick of the bar and its obnoxious customers. The store owner did the same thing to our family that he did to our neighbors.
Being the stubborn bastard that he is, my dad fought back and found that the store owner had violated some zoning laws in the creation of his bar. It got shut down. Thus, a massive war between my dad and the store owner started.
The store owner found that he owned about 5 feet of lawn in front of our cottage (that we maintained for 18 years), cut down the trees, and left 6-foot stumps in our yard. He refuses to let us park cars there and leaves garbage cans with no purpose, just sitting there.
My dad took a stake out of the lawn, and the owner called the police and tried to have him arrested. It's starting to get so bad that the entire town knows about this feud, and my dad was actually just interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about it.
2agrant
28. Good Match
I got a puppy ~ about two years ago, and because he was still learning not to pee in the apartment, my mom decided to put the carpets in the closet until he learned to pee outside.
A month later, my downstairs neighbor started complaining that the dog walked around the apartment and that it was impossible to stand that noise (yeah, sure).
He also complained to other neighbors, but my dog doesn't bark, so they don't mind it. One night around 10-11 pm, he rang my bell as if his life depended on it. I open, and I immediately got yelled at by a man much bigger than me (I was 16).
I proceeded to tell him that I couldn't chain my dog to the table so he wouldn't go to eat or drink water, so I closed the door because the puppy got scared and started to bark a lot.
He slams his fist on the door, yelling that he is gonna smash my and my mom's heads, etc. My mom got really scared and called a long-time friend of hers who is the size of a 3 door wardrobe to come and teach him not to act like he owns the building.
He came furious, and we went to talk with my neighbor. I will never forget the look on his face when he opened the door and saw me and the giant guy next to me. "I heard you were threatening him and his mom. Can we have a talk?"
I could barely contain my laugh when I saw how scared he was. He tried to play the victim card (it didn't work), and there was no fight, but after that, he avoided me however he could.
Avionax
29. Party Responsibly
I had crappy neighbors for years. Lots of noise berating. One night at 1:30 am, they decided to party in the front yard with music, a fire, and booze.
I called the cops on them, hoping they would end it before my kids woke up. The cops came and left. I was watching from a dark window to see if they listened to the cops and wrapped it up.
Instead, after the cops left, two of them - ADULTS - came to my porch, pissed on my door (knowing it was me who called)... and left. I went to the police the next day and called their landlord. They were evicted the following week.
PoorMrX
30. Horrible Dog Owner
I️ can tell so many stories about my current next-door neighbor. One time, she decided she didn’t like the bush next to my mailbox, so she tore it out.
She has four dogs. None of them are EVER on leashes. So they run over to everyone else’s yards to do their business, and she doesn’t bother to pick it up.
She also allows them to run in the streets and gives people dirty looks when we need to slam on the breaks to avoid hitting the dogs.
I recently got a puppy. When I take him outside, I ️ have him on a leash in my front yard. If her dogs are outside, they’ll come charging over, scaring my dog, and he’ll run up the steps to go back inside.
I have asked her to put her dogs on a leash so they don’t come into my yard. Her response? “They don’t like being on a leash,” and “Your dog needs to get used to other dogs.”
MeIsmash
31. No One Listens
I lived in a loft apartment on the top floor of a warehouse. The heating company that rented the big warehouse below my bedroom moved out, and a biker gang rented the space to “store their equipment,” according to the landlord.
It was actually their party space. They would blast music all night, even on weekdays, then get on their bikes and roll out, usually around 6-7 a.m. We had regular “Jerry Springer” moments on the street outside.
When I complained to them, they blew me off. The landlord did, too. When we called the police, which we did often, as did many of the neighbors, they also blew us off. Weeks of nightly calls resulted in the cops showing up once.
Finally, one Friday night, I got home from work around 1:30 am, dreading the inevitable crap (by that point, they were renting out the space and providing ‘security’), and it was strangely quiet.
I go up to my apartment, and my roommates are laughing and drinking a beer. “Hey! b0ingy! you missed the fun!” they then told me in detail how a bunch of police rolled in, cuffed everyone at the party, and hauled them out in wagons. “Do you know why?” I asked.
They both smiled and passed me a flyer for the party they found. It said “Christmas In July!” and was a picture of a dollar bill with a snowman on it. Never heard from them again.
b0ingy
32. Psycho Guy
I currently live next to a 70-year-old man who HATES my family. We have done nothing to this man other than maybe cut a little bit of his grass by accident.
He has thrown cigarette butts on my hot tub cover, causing the cover to be riddled with burn marks and holes. He has egged our cars, cut my brother's cloth-covered roof of his convertible, played very loud music, and pointed the speakers at my house.
He has thrown trash, bricks, and anything else he can over to our property. I once got sick of this and confronted him about why he hated my family.
And all he said was, "I think yall are a bunch of freaking rednecks." I'm currently saving up to get a good wireless camera system to catch all of this.
ZoomZoom0
33. Unfair Treatment
My husband and I were going to have a yard sale. We shared a driveway with our neighbors, and I asked if we could use it for a few hours for the sale. They are retired and never go anywhere.
At first, they said yes. One day, I came home from lunch, and they were waiting for me outside, and they had been drinking. They said they couldn't agree to it anymore.
I asked why, and they said they would need to leave in an emergency. I said we were going to park our car down the street so that we could drive them somewhere in an emergency.
They continued to say no but shouting it at me. My neighbor is a drunk and has driven over my bushes and hit my fence, and I have never said anything.
So I said, "I feel you are having a very difficult time for a few hours. And I never point out when you drunkenly destroy my property." They shouted, "Screw you." I had the yard sale anyway.
geogirl22
34. Change Of Heart
About a decade ago, we met our future next-door neighbors in an area where my family was gonna build our new house. They were nice enough at first but changed drastically when they found out our house would be blocking part of their sea view.
They caused us hell during the whole building process, trying to take us to court for any minor thing they thought could stop the building process.
When we eventually moved in, we found they were really "keeping up with the Jones" type of people. When they saw we were building a pool, they built a pool. They started sending their son there when they figured out I was going to a pretty expensive school, too, etc.
I'm also pretty sure they even had another kid just to compete with us (their only son then was about 17; we had a pretty young family where my youngest sister was 4). They were also really violent. The mother used to always threaten us (the kids) that she'd make their dog attack us.
TheRealDTrump
35. Too Much Smoke
I had a neighbor who liked to burn his garbage. We had moved in during winter, and he’d made some bonfires outside. Nothing major, not a big deal.
Well, summer rolls around, and I swear to God, he’d gather garbage all week just to get hammered and burn it all—at night, during the day, first thing in the morning. He was a burner.
After weeks of this happening in 100-degree weather, my wife and I had enough. We couldn’t afford AC, and had to leave open windows at night. We’d just had a baby, and smoke would literally billow into our house.
I ran out and told him we’d like it if he stopped burning his trash every day. “My property, I can do what I want.” Needless to say, this didn’t fly with us.
I secretly photographed him dumping trash in his yard for the next couple of weeks and burning it. Then, I sent it to the fire and police departments.
They showed up two weeks later, when he was starting a fire, and issued him a citation. I wasn’t the only one sick of his crap, and they had numerous complaints about him. He separated from his wife and moved out a few weeks later. He never had another fire or smoke issue.
OrganicDozer
36. Invalid Opinions
When my fiancée and I first moved to Düsseldorf, we decided to break in our new appliances by inviting our neighbors over for a barbecue.
It went swimmingly, except for one old couple who were openly discriminatory and obviously very disapproving of our interracial relationship (I'm a white Westerner, and she's Filipino).
We held these barbecues every other Sunday, and I'd often times invite my friends, who were mostly black, West Asian, and West European.
The couple would constantly make discriminatory remarks. You know, the kind and they'd try to get others to agree with them. Eventually, I told them unceremoniously to knock it off, and they mostly stopped. We still host those barbecues.
rabbidpichu
37. Off Limits
Our neighbor wanted to put up a fence and had the property line surveyed. It turns out our driveway extended about 6 inches over her property line.
We found out when we came home one day and found her with a jackhammer taking off 6 inches of our driveway. There wasn't anything we could really do despite that being incredibly annoying.
She built her fence directly on the property line against our driveway. We bang car doors on her fence all the time because we have kids, and they have almost no space to get out.
She gets mad if something of ours touches her fence because she "wants to keep it nice since it was expensive." A few weeks ago, she yelled at my husband about having a pile of rocks too close to her fence.
He told her that her tree overhangs our driveway and constantly drops leaves and branches. He started gathering them up and dropping them in her yard. He has considered taking a chainsaw and cutting down the limbs crossing our property line.
London568
38. Best Fight
The neighbor had a grumpy dog with heart issues. We had three puppies who were in the process of potty training. He'd freak out if we let ours outside while he was out, and he was almost always out. If they gotta go, they gotta go, so they were all out pretty often.
At first, we tried to be understanding, as all the dogs would bark and run, and his dog had a chance of a heart attack if he got too wound up. We'd always be out with them, distracting them and getting them used to his dog.
He'd only come out to yell at us, never once trying to comfort his dog or take him inside. Came to a head one day when a neighbor threatened with, "If he gets through that fence, I'm not stopping him. He'll tear those little crap up."
My SO responded, "If he gets through that fence, I'll just call mine inside, pat your poor dog, who could obviously use a little love, and then tear you up." A neighbor picked up a shovel and started over.
SO picked up a rock and nailed the shovel almost out of his hand. Smiled and walked inside, saying, "You don't scare me, bud, you're as harmless as your dog just needs a little love.”
We have never had an issue again. The dogs get along fine now. His dog loves us more than him. Our dogs are now three times the size of his, and we secretly don't yell at them if they bark at him.
BoredsohereIam
39. Out Loud
The neighbor was a rich army vet; he would play blasting music on his loudspeakers, and we all got to hear. We would sometimes bang on his wall, and the sounds would get louder.
Calling the police did nothing. This happened for a while, and we just got used to it. One time, we had visitors coming in, and the neighbor had a party on their rooftop.
His adult son decided to pee on our side of the house. I was directly underneath him, welcoming our visitors. I shouted at them and cursed and challenged a fight. His son apologized, but his dad was shrieking with laughter.
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40. Hunting Violators
My parents bought a 55-acre plot of land at auction. The county had seized it for taxes, and the family that had lost it thought they'd be able to get it back for pennies on the dollar, but they were outbid.
They were horrible neighbors- even tho it was posted that there was no hunting, they would hunt on the land, and gunshots were common.
They would target shoot into the woods (away from any houses, but still onto our property), and one day while hiking, my sister and I stumbled onto a bunch of bones on the trail we'd hike. It was so disturbing.
stefaffi
41. Unsolved Case
Every year, a group of us order one of these Thanksgiving dinner packages. Everyone takes a dish and cooks it. This year it was delivered on Tuesday.
The person who was supposed to get the package told the driver to leave it in the lobby and that she would come down to get it.
By the time she got off the elevator, the package was gone! Now, we have to wait until building management is open on Monday to view the recording and see who stole it.
P is heartbroken and wants to pay everyone back out of her own pocket. I am just pissed. No one was in the lobby when she got down, and we don't know who was there when the delivery driver arrived. Since none of us drove, we could not get a replacement turkey. Thursday was so fun. No pie, no turkey.
Fibro_witch
42. Anger Issues
Had an insane neighbor below who was always complaining about our walking around and that we parked our cars in the parking lot.
These spots were just first come, first served, and not reserved. He would scream, yell, slam doors, and bang on his ceiling.
We called these tantrums, and they happened several times a day. Cops were called on us every week. Management had seen his hissy fits in person.
He would go into the office every day and yell at them about us, threatening to sue everyone. When we were moving out, he came up and apologized for his behavior.
ayannauriel
43. The Karen
The day I moved into my apartment, it smelled like I was living next to r/trees. I was excited to have chill neighbors. The next day, a crew came to move my bed into my upstairs via window (realities of having a 'cute' spiral staircase).
They asked if I had met Krazy Karla yet. I had not. So began two years of late-night screaming, ranting at our door aimlessly about her personal problems, and psychotic episodes.
The WORST of these was last year. It was 3 am, and she was outside yelling at cars as they drove by our apartment, "Screw you jerks!"
She disappeared inside, and I momentarily fell asleep until she was banging on my door, yelling for 10 minutes on and off until the cops could get there. She got committed for a week after that. They assured me it would be better after that. It wasn't.
Same crap for two years until last week there was a gorgeous eviction notice nailed to her door frame. And all was quiet.
24jamespersecond
44. True Colors
I had a great experience with my neighbors until my niece and nephew came over one day. They are both biracial and introduced themselves to her kid, who was playing outside.
She broke it up and ushered her kid inside. I later found out my neighbor is a known discrimination jerk.
Since that second or third month, there have been a lot of "violation" reports on our house.
Well, they won't even look at us. At this point, I put up a massive wall of trees to separate us, and I am content not to talk to them.
untamedtoplay99
45. Keeping Up With Schedules
I was pregnant, and they always had a problem with us mowing our yard because we didn't mow at the same time as them! We did it every other weekend and did not line up with theirs.
The day after I had my child, we came home to the yard, which had been mowed. Okay, no problem. Maybe they were being nice since they knew we had been at the hospital.
NOPE. They came over 2 hours after we had been home with our newborn, saying we now owed them $40 for mowing our yard.
My husband laughed, said we didn't even know, much less agree to that, and slammed the door in the old man's face. Screw those people
KingKongsBitch