Neighbors are supposed to be the family that you come across in life. They are supposed to be the people you can share a meal with and discuss life matters with. This is assuming that you get along with them of course.
These people you are about to read about, however, absolutely do not get along with theirs. In fact, these neighborly relationships are so bad, that most of them are borderline toxic. Don’t believe me, how about you read these stories and find out?
1. Sleeping At A Festival
I lived in a small apartment and my neighbors always cranked up their music to 11, like really loud until something like 7 am. Maybe it lasted until later, but that's when I left for work.
It was so loud that I couldn't hear my own TV over it. My neighbours and I would bang on the door but they would never open the door. It was like trying to sleep at a festival.
Then at some point, I found out they often left for a bar across the street but would just leave the music on, so I would pull the breaker for their apartment, but they would just come back at 5 am and turn it back on.
Heaps of people reported it, but nothing was ever done, so at some point, I would jam their lock when they went out so their keys wouldn't work anymore and they had to get the property manager in while the music was blasting inside. After a couple of times of that happening they were evicted.
Time_to_reset
2. Bring The Party Home
My neighbor's son used to go out partying all week, bring his friends back, and then party at his place till 5/6 am. The issue is he would party upstairs in his bedroom, music blaring and yelling. If it was just constant noise I could sleep through it but not that.
I was running on no sleep and had to be up at 8 to go to work. I was getting in trouble at work for being exhausted and no one believed it was because my neighbor wasn't letting me sleep... It was hell.
After trying to talk to the jerk, we posted a note through the door. His mum worked nights. She got home and all hell broke loose. The note was reasonable, we asked them to move the after-party downstairs because we couldn't sleep through all the noise. We didn't intend for his mum to get the note.
Wow, she was so mad. When my alarm went off an hour or so later he was angrily yelling that it wasn't fair that my alarm woke him up every day. Yes, an alarm going off once or twice before work was totally unreasonable and his music blasting all night was. The parties stopped though.
Zanki
3. 23 Hours Of Noise
We had an upstairs neighbor who would make noise 23 hours a day. Nice for him since he was retired and didn't need to keep to a schedule, but rough on me and my husband because we're still working.
He'd blast music all day and watch TV- either cable news or some kind of NCIS-style procedural- all night, all at maximum volume because he had significant hearing loss from his years working in the sound/recording industry.
He would also play music with an amp that was sitting on a hard floor with no rugs; one morning, it was so loud that I could hear the tune perfectly clearly over the sound of my hair dryer as I was getting ready for work. I would often try to sleep in the backseat of my car just to get some viable rest.
We tried asking him nicely, we tried going through management (They told us that we didn't understand how hard their job- sitting collecting money that other people earned- was, and they couldn't possibly do anything), but nothing worked. His behavior deteriorated fast, and he'd send us the most unhinged text messages when we weren't even at home, he'd lurk outside our windows and throw fits, he'd go into the office and have screaming meltdowns at the staff.
Eventually, they moved him to a ground-floor unit, but it was a miserable five months and I was incredibly unimpressed with the lack of action.
Unsaferaisin
4. My Poor Dog
My neighbor’s dogs got into my backyard and attacked my dog. My dog ended up ok but it was a long recovery and he still doesn’t walk right. He was and is the happiest dog ever so to see him on the ground covered in blood was the worst thing ever.
The dogs were able to get through because their kids at taken a plank out of my fence (they didn’t have a fence). I left a letter on their door explaining the situation. They showed up at my door to tell me that it was my fault for not having a stronger fence and that they wouldn’t be paying any medical bills.
After a lot of them yelling and me calmly explaining why they actually would be paying, they eventually complied. They did build a fence, backwards, with the flat side facing them. They are also very loud, have chickens that escape regularly in our suburban neighborhood, and are overall scummy people.
Wolf97
5. The Criminal Next Door
When I started my first job post-college, I was thrilled to live by myself for the first time in my life. I had this beautiful 1 bedroom apartment in a solid part of town.
Everything was great until 6 months later when new tenants moved in next to my unit. I had a package go missing (a phone case). Amazon had posted a photo of it at my door, so I thought that it was just a fluke. Then it happened again, and again, and again. The office wouldn’t accept packages, so I had to get my items delivered to friends’ places instead.
Overall wildly inconvenient and the police didn’t care in the slightest when I reported it, so I just figured I’d deal with it. Fast forward a few weeks, and I come home after being gone for less than an hour, to see that my doorknob and front door were scrapped up and the knob was barely hanging on.
I had been parking in plain view of this guy’s window, so he was able to tell when I was home. I am 100% convinced he tried to break into my place, and that my coming home early interrupted him. I googled his name after I moved (I got it off a package at his door) and found that he was a convicted felon with charges that included grand theft auto, domestic assault, drug dealing, and an attempted break-in.
Ladyringo
6. Take Your Dog For Walks!
I lived in an apartment building. The upstairs neighbor's dog peed on their patio and it dripped down onto me while I was sitting outside reading.
I yelled and ran to shower and when I texted them to ask them to take their dog out to pee in the future they said it wasn’t their dog and it must have blown over from somewhere else.
ClubWithAJungleTheme
7. He Wanted To Take Advantage
The first apartment I lived in I had a neighbor that would try opening the door. Didn't hear it myself because I worked nights but I came home early one night around 2 am and he was trying to get inside. I had a huge argument with him and he stopped doing it after that.
I'm guessing he thought it was just my two female roommates living there because he never tried anything after he knew I was there as well. Kinda opened my eyes at the time to the sort of crap women have to deal with.
Frontal_pin
8. Kudos To His Wife
We live above a really angry old man who hates kids. Well, we happen to have one lol. He’s left really nasty, mean notes for us. He’s knocked on our door to wake us up early. He’s complained to the HOA. He’s written notes to our neighbors about us. He’s taken us to court and tried to sue us.
We talked with him in a mediation room and discovered that he absolutely hates women. He refused to call me by my name and referred to me as, “that one”. He also told my bf that he, “needs to get control of me”. I feel so bad for his wife, she’s a mail-order bride from another country. I personally couldn’t put up with his crap, kudos to her.
TellYourDogISaidHi88
9. The Retired Cop
I had a “retired cop” living under me and gave me a lot of the same grief, but not as scary as trying my door knob or threatening to damage my car. However, he managed to take a chair on the strata council and suddenly had way too much power.
He was going up on the roof of the building (not a proper safe rooftop, but an open and unsafe asphalt rooftop with no railings) and he would peer down into the residents’ patios and windows to see if anyone was violating the strata rules, like wrong color drapes or an a/c unit.
I had a wicker basket chair on my patio and suddenly I got a strata letter not just warning me, but FINING me for improper outdoor patio furniture. I ended up having to appeal and defend myself, luckily ended up winning but after that, he had it out for me. And I was living directly above him. His one-sided war against me began and ended with me SELLING my unit to get away.
Endless letters, noise complaints when I wasn’t even home, etc etc and it was all stuff I was able to successfully defend myself but ended up having no quality of life because I was constantly on eggshells.
PM_YOUR_LOWHANGERS
10. False Accusations
I had one neighbor, not as bad, but still annoying. It was a family. One morning I found a note shoved under my door that accused us of slamming our doors during the night and also smoking pot in my apartment. Us being me and my children.
Here's the thing. That night we were watching a 2-year-old who didn't want to sleep. When she finally went down we didn't leave the apartment. There was no door slamming going on. There was no noise coming from us at all because we needed her to stay asleep.
As far as the pot goes. I'm a truck driver. I'm not risking my CDL and my whole career on that crap. It's still illegal where I live and even if my state legalized it I'm pretty sure as a trucker I can't partake.
CloakedGod926
11. Noise In An Empty Apartment
I moved into a second-floor apartment above a neighbor that was insane. They were constantly calling the front office and cops because of the "noise" we were making. Except the cops believed them and took their side.
It got to the point where the office was threatening us with eviction and the cops were threatening us with arrest because we didn't answer the door when they came knocking. Except, we didn't answer the door because we literally weren't home.
They were calling in a noise complaint about an empty apartment. There were other times that we'd get woken up from a dead sleep by the cops banging on the door. I don't know if they were hearing noise from a different upstairs apartment or what, but eventually they moved.
Not sure if they left the complex or just moved to a different apartment, but the harassment stopped. We definitely didn't renew our lease.
RallyX26
12. The Elderly Lady Across The Hall
I lived in an apartment with a lot of rotating tenants and an elderly lady who moved in across the hall from me promptly started hoarding. I started to figure it out when her deck/porch started to fill up with odds and ends furniture including but not limited to a roll-top desk. She also yelled at me once for taking her key out of the front door and putting it in the mail slot.
Anyway, after a couple of weeks, I started to realize I hadn’t seen her in a while and started to smell something really weird. Turns out she had died and no one knew about it for a week hence the smell. Her family came and cleared out all her stuff about a week after that.
This is Wisconsin in the winter and I had my good Doc Marten workboots outside my door because they were wet. They used one of my boots to prop open their door while they moved out and then stole them when they were done.
According-Height-866
13. Daily Noise And Weekly Arguments
I rented a flat with an ex and the upstairs neighbour was an absolute nightmare. He was a deadbeat dad who had his kids every weekend and left them screaming all the time.
He'd blast music until sunrise every day even when he had his kid. Got the council involved, but nothing happened. Got child services involved, but nothing happened.
He used to argue every Sunday with his ex about how he wasn't paying child support. They'd argue right outside our door (we were on the ground floor). The guy was unemployed, owed the landlord a lot of money, and only left his flat to get groceries or drugs.
He kicked off at me because my cat meowed loudly once.
[deleted]
14. Fake Reverend
The dude pretended to be a reverend but was actually just a filthy freaking hoarder. He insisted on wearing sandals all of the time, and whenever he left his flat, the entire stairwell would stink of century-old unwashed feet.
Eventually, the beetles that had infested his flat crawled up and into our kitchen and then everywhere. It took months to get him evicted.
_Nick_2711_
15. Creepy Neighbours
I moved into a crappy apartment in a building that was occupied by basically the worst people in the area. Pretty rural small town. Junkies, alcoholics, etc. I moved there because I don’t have a driver’s license and I needed to live close to my new job at a café (no buses in the area, except school buses,) and it was relatively cheap.
Anyway, one night when I came home from work, I met two of my neighbors by the entrance to the building. These two were living wall-to-wall with me, and I had listened to their drugged-up saturnalias more than once. They started following me up the stairs, not saying a single word, just following me.
I rush inside and lock the door when they start hammering at it. Yelling, hammering their hands at the door so hard I thought they would break it. I yelled back at them “What do you want?? Leave me alone!”
They stopped their hammering and the man said, with a fragile voice; “We were just wondering if we could borrow your pee for a drug test tomorrow” I not so politely declined, told them to go away, and called the police. I didn’t live there for much longer, I’ll tell you that.
DoodieMcWiener
16. Car Obsession
There was a guy in our neighborhood who owned 6 cars and kept them all parked on the street in a very congested block of apartments. He spent hours tending to them, and they somehow always looked rustier when he was done.
If a leaf landed on one of his cars he would accuse the neighborhood of intentionally placing leaves on his car to annoy him.
Vampilton
17. Crazy Neighbors
My current neighbors will randomly light bombshell fireworks in the middle of the night during the middle of the week as if some of us don’t have to wake up early for work.
Also when I was younger and living in a different city our front neighbors stole our dog from our backyard one day and we didn’t find out it was them until a few months later when we saw our dog in their yard. They denied they stole it and wouldn’t give it back to us until we got the police involved.
Duhveed6
18. Anger Issues
I had a neighbor a few houses down who kept to himself. One day he was turning onto our road and I happened to be behind him.
Some kids were cutting across his yard so he stopped to yell at them and I couldn’t go around so I was stuck. He then started backing up but I had only a little room before backing into a very busy road. He then hit the front of my car and yelled at me.
I was maybe 18 at the time and was legitimately terrified. I was able to make it down the block to my house, called my mom and she encouraged me to make a police report. The officer came, was super kind, and offered to go to the house of the man who hit me to get his insurance information. The man refused to answer and the officer made a report and called to check in later in the afternoon.
That night the neighbor ended up taking a shotgun and pounding on a few neighbors' doors, presumably looking for me. The police were called and quite a few officers responded. They could not find the man so had everyone on our street shelter in place until they could find him. Officers ended up finding him under a boat in his backyard.
Hawt4teach
19. Nightmare Neighbor
I lived in a 3-story apartment building on the middle floor. The bottom floor was basement apartments. It was a very quiet building and a lot of people were older and lived there 10 years or more. Then this weird creepy jerk moved in below us.
He would play music loud all night and I had to be up for work at 5 am.
He wouldn't answer the door so we could ask him to turn it down. So I had to jump up and down until he heard it.
He had pissed off girls banging on his door screaming for hours and he was home but wouldn't answer. One of them ran out and poured nail polish all over his car. His apartment was a basement but he had a huge window that was right next to the stairs to get in.
He never closed the curtains and you would see directly down into his living room where he had built a sex swing with bondage stuff hanging on it. Had to explain what it was to everyone that came over even to my mom.
Then one day a cop knocked on the door he was holding about 20 pairs of women's underwear and asked me to pick out mine. It was like 3 pairs and the cop said to throw them away the downstairs neighbor had been wearing them because he was stealing them out of the laundry room.
I guess the upstairs neighbor was walking into the building and saw her underwear hanging on the sex swing and called the cops. So they arrested him for stealing our underwear, The landlord evicted him.
When he got out of jail he was so pissed he was getting evicted that he went and bought a bunch of sand and covered the whole apartment in the sand and turned the air conditioning all the way up and left it after he switched the electric back into the landlord's name. He was a nightmare neighbor.
Truisluv
20. Shared Space
We shared a split house with a couple, them upstairs us downstairs. They said they knew that the noise insulation was low and asked us to let them know if it was ever too loud. We texted maybe 10 times to turn down their TV at 3 AM directly over our bedroom during weekdays over the course of two years.
On the final time, they snapped back about how HARD it was for them, how HARD they tried to please us with the situation, and how they "even stopped using their surround sound system".....in their >500 SQ/FT unit At 3 am.
On top of this they constantly moved and on one occasion broke our stuff in the basement storage to the point we eventually stopped using it, frequently put shoes in the new dryer to the point it melted rubber on the back, broke said dryer by overstuffing it and leaning heavy equipment against the door so it'd stop popping open.
They even "accidentally" stole packages from us on several occasions, and filled up the other shared space we had with their own stuff so we couldn't use it.
Honkdogs
21. I Almost Got Shot
One of my neighbors almost shot me when I was a little kid. I was playing in front of my apartment building when my neighbor got into an argument with one of these other guys from down the street.
Not sure what exactly the problem was, but my neighbor didn't like it so he pulled out a pistol from his front pocket and fired a couple of bullets. A stray flew right past my face, damn near hit me. My mom's friend from the next floor down grabbed me and pulled me inside
Cubsfan630
22. Why Doesn’t Anyone Like Me?
I lived in a small building that housed 5 apartments years ago, and one day a Fred Durst lookalike moved in with his wife and daughter. I like to keep to myself but I could hear them having trouble moving their things inside, so I offered to help. They seemed really nice that first day.
Discount Fred Durst would play CoD at all hours of the night, which wouldn't bother me at all but the walls were worse than paper and there wasn't a single night he didn't end up screeching racial slurs (And I don't mean sentences, I mean just the individual words screamed repeatedly).
On more than a few nights he had enlightened moments and in between the curses and insults I heard him scream things like 'WHY DOESN'T ANYONE LIKE ME', which was freaking golden.
Despite this, they would call in noise complaints every single month. I worked a night shift and I would get annoying messages from the landlord about how I was apparently 'Blasting music' or 'having parties' when I was working and no one was home.
The-BIG-Plant
23. Invasion Of My Property
My current neighbor has a small business practice out of her home. She had her customers park in my yard (easement, technically) despite the town telling her she couldn’t. Despite all the times I told her to stop, she never did until one person parked facing my house, 2 feet from my no trespassing signs… cops got called.
I filed a complaint against the customer. (Never saw that car again, btw.) Then she tried to lease my front yard. Then she tried to buy my house while we lived in it. She told contractors that they could access her yard through ours, they dumped loads of gravel and sand in my front yard as their storage area, and a cement truck tore 18 ruts in my yard.
A tree on the property line was infested with termites and a huge branch fell on a mutually owned fence… she demanded we pay to have the limb removed because it was damaging the (horribly dilapidated) fence, but she didn’t want us to cut down the tree because of the shade it provided her back patio, that was installed at the expense of my yard.
2020onrepeat
24. Time To Go
I used to live in a bad part of Queens, NY until 2004. The house that we owned there was owned by my family since the early 1900s and it was known throughout the surrounding as my family’s house.
Unfortunately, not everyone in my family was a good person. Some of them are involved in gang violence. My siblings and I weren’t allowed to play by the windows so we wouldn’t end up in the crossfire of gang violence.
The deciding factor of us leaving that area was when someone broke into our neighbor's house, mistakingly choosing the wrong house and asking where OUR family was, looking to settle some issue. My parents decided it was time to leave.
bigoopsieenergy
25. Bomb Builder
My downstairs neighbor was building bombs and accidentally detonated something that was in progress and wrecked his hands. A nurse at the hospital notified police that the wounds were suspicious and they came to investigate.
I was woken up by police forcibly entering his apartment. Shortly after an officer notified us that we needed to evacuate as there was a likely meth lab in the apartment. There wasn’t, it was only bombs.
DrOddcat
26. Toxic Environment
My SO had a neighbor show up with a nail-studded baseball bat and try to enter his house to look for the drugs someone stole. But my favorite was the drug house in which the owners were doing some excessively shady things.
These owners were always high. It didn't matter if you ran into them at 9 am or 9 pm - they were always so high that just breathing near them gave one a contact high.
Anyhow, lots of fights and screaming on the front lawn, it was actually worrisome when there wasn't a full-blown screaming fight. But my favorite was the last party they had. It was so extreme that cops busted the whole house and we had about thirty people handcuffed face down on the front lawns, including ours, all in -30-degree weather.
I come out to walk the dog and one cop looks away from the guy he was talking to talk to me. The suspect gets to his knee to try and run and the cop knocks him down, next handcuff suspect tries to get up and gets whack down. It was cop whack-a-mole night.........lasted for hours.
Thank God they bulldozed the house and now it is just a nice bunch of families who haven't had one drunken all-out fight on the front lawn yet!
Monkeymonkey150
27. Wrong Apartment
I had a neighbor who was.... an "entrepreneur" *wink wink*. He was an alright guy, and I didn't care what he did as long as it didn't affect me.
Well, one day when I was home in the middle of the day (I was 20 at the time and living alone) I got a knock on the door. Being that I wasn't expecting anyone, I peeped out of my window upstairs (it was a loft/townhome) and looked down at the door below to see a large man wearing latex gloves, and talking on the phone.
Assuming it was a maintenance man who had the whole unit, I didn't get too scared at first but I did grab my gun. I heard him start tampering with my window, and that's when I called 911.
Watching through the window, I saw him leave, and then come back with a toolbox. He marked my gate with some powder that looked like chalk, then went back to the window. Once I heard drilling noises, that's when I began shaking and crying, hyperventilating thinking he was about to come in and kill me.
I told dispatch I was going to shoot if he came in, and they said that was ok. He goes back to the door, kicks it about seven times, and leaves. Turns out, he took a screwdriver to my window, then a glass cutter. Cut out the corner and marked the gate so he could come back at night and rob whoever was inside.
Being that I had nothing but myself to offer, we figured he was after my neighbor who had illegal substances and plenty of cash... but got the wrong apartment. To this day I shudder thinking about what would've happened had I answered the door, or if he got in while I was inside.
Fartylatte
28. Notorious Kid
The lady tried to claim my dog bit her kid. Admittedly my dog did growl at the kid, but only after the kid had repeatedly slapped him on the butt/hind legs. She said the bite marks she claimed were from my dog sure looked like they came from a human, possibly mid-30s at the time.
She also tried to sue a neighbor because their cat scratched her kid's arm and part of his face. In the cat's defense, the kid had walked over picked up the cat by its tail, and attempted to sling it like a slingshot before the cat had curled up or something to start scratching the kid.
Whatnameisnttaken098
29. The Dog Owner
My neighbor lets his dog roam around free-range. His dog has killed a few of my free-range chickens (on my own property). He has also gone to my other neighbor's to ask her not to feed her cat outside (literally on her own deck) because his dog is eating the cat food and getting fat.
We have no bylaws about dogs here (very remote, rural area), so there's not much anybody can do unless they're willing to shoot the dog.
MizElaneous
30. “They’re dogs, get over it”
I lived in a duplex and after a year a nurse moved in who went to work at like 3 am. But she also let her dog out and that freaking thing barked at everything.
Then she went and got two more (husky puppies) one of which must have been a terror and she left it outside while she was at work and it would just sit by the door and howl for hours and hours at a time. The number of times I was woken up and couldn’t go back to sleep after was maddening.
I left notes and tried to talk to her about it but she would just make some crappy comment “They’re dogs, get over it” and walk off.
I called the police about the noise when they came out he said that there had been other calls and they had been out before. Not sure what they did but it worked. She only lived there for about 4 months and moved out. But what a long 4 months.
[deleted]
31. Difficult Neighbor
This was almost 10 years ago when my husband and I were still dating and we moved into our first apartment together. There were 4 buildings of apartments within walking distance of each other and my run-in was with someone in a neighboring building.
We had a dog and my husband worked all different shifts while I didn’t so I was the regular dog walker. I was coming back from a walk with her when this guy came out of one of the other buildings. He starts walking towards me, pitching a fit about the fact that I’m walking my dog.
He says he’s seen me just leave her poop on the grass and just walk away. A lie, 100%.
He says he sees her squat all the time and I just keep walking. I was dumbfounded. I said, “My dog is a female, that’s how she pees.” He then just continues going on and on and on and at one point says, “I’ve been watching you..”
Again, I’m dumbfounded and I just go, “You’ve been WATCHING me?”
I remember going back to my apartment and calling my husband at work and just crying because I felt so scared and alone. We had been at that new place for only 1 month so we had 11 more to go.
We talked to the manager(s) and they were absolutely no help. They said yeah, they knew who we were talking about, he’s had multiple complaints against him and they think he sells illegal substances. Oh, and if he does that again, call the cops.
Calym817
32. Complaints Competition
The property next door had an exotic animal farm that failed due to their incompetent management.
Soon after they sold off their animals and retired, they began laying complaints against our livestock dogs (whom they spent hours teasing through the fence) for NOISE COMPLAINTS (barking).... on a livestock property. On top of that, they began nitpicking exact council ordinances, marshaling their local harassment network of neighbors, which comprised the three properties on either side of ours.
This went on for 8 years, to the point where I got to know the local council guy who would come out and placate the neighbors and chat to me basically just running through the motions of the complaint because he had to. Eventually, the neighbor who initiated the problem's husband died. On her own, she would still lay complaints, but her networking was gone because she was insufferable on her own and no one seemed to like her. She was instigating the issues, and sending her husband out to recruit his friends previously.
As she continued this war, and the neighbors on the other side maintained their support, we got sick of playing nice. We started noting the various obvious violations of council ordinances on their properties and started being just as litigious. Reported their bees to the apiary society (unregistered hives), their paddocks were full of weeds and long fire-hazard grass, which was reported to our contact at the council.
We started using trail cams to capture footage of pest animals running from their dens on the neighbor's property and reporting that too. Funny - in a few short months, the harassment ended and the problem neighbor moved out, the other neighbors now live in an uncomfortable truce where we don't acknowledge each other, where previously we were relatively amicable.
[deleted]
33. My New Car
We bought a new car. The kids next door started kicking their soccer ball against the new car. I asked them to stop and to please be more careful.
I looked out my window an hour later to see them playing soccer in my front yard using our new car, literally, as the freaking goal. I went out to confront them, and they ran off with grins, implying they knew exactly what they were doing.
Luckily, their mom drove up at that moment; I walked over, told her exactly what happened, and told her "We HAVE to protect that car!" I didn't care whether she assumed lawsuit or violence, it 100% worked either way.
Whiddlekitty
34. We Had No Idea
We lived next door to a group of ladies who “worked the night” and shared a bedroom wall with one of their rooms of work (condo building). We would be woken up at regular intervals each night by obnoxious screaming - even through our concrete walls. Forget leaving a window open in the summer.
Apparently, the building was known for it, but we had no idea before moving in. The neighbors had a whole system in place. Their handlers would wait down on the street and flag the next gentleman caller to enter after receiving payment from the satisfied customer. They had at least five units rented in the building for this purpose.
The police knew but preferred them in a building rather than on the street so they wouldn't do anything about it. The condo board and building manager knew but never brought it up during official meetings so it wouldn't be recorded in the minutes and tank property values.
LowFlyinLoafLion
35. They Lived Carefree
My ex-neighbours were awful. It was a couple with a 3-year-old & later a baby. They were addicts. They had a dog that had 4 small puppies.
They left the momma & puppies locked in the house. We called the RSPCA when we realized they hadn't been back in a week, the mum was nonstop barking. When they finally got them out the mum was so skinny & the little puppies were tiny, so upsetting. They came back like nothing happened.
The last straw was the smoke alarm going off for half an hour one night. All the other neighbours were awake. Someone called the fire brigade who nearly had to break the door down. Out they came with a small baby who they said slept through it, sure!
Apparently, they couldn't hear it, sure! He'd put a pan on the stove & fell asleep! They're gone now thank God.
Penguinsrcoolaf
36. So Many Complaints
A couple moved in. The first day after they moved in they called the cops on the elderly couple next door to put in a noise complaint for their TV being too loud. It was 8 pm on a Saturday and they hadn't even tried to knock on the couple's door to ask them to turn it down. They did this quite often.
My mom was friends with the property manager and she told us that the jerks started calling her with noise complaints because the cops told them that if they called emergency services for a non-emergency again they'd be charged. So they started putting in complaints about everything. They were downstairs from us and if we so much as shifted in our beds at night it got a complaint (that's not an exaggeration - they genuinely complained that my bed made too much noise).
They complained if we got up at night to piss, and that we made too much noise in the morning. Complained that our cat meowed too much. Complained that people drove through our parking lot outside of "quiet hours." Complained that other people had lights on while they were trying to sleep. Complained that people talked to each other on the sidewalk.
They left after 6 months and I hope they moved to a cabin in rural Alaska since that's the level of human association they wanted. Good luck putting in a noise complaint with the local moose.
shiguywhy
37. Shady Neighbors
Our neighbors across the street from us in the place we were renting were part of some sort of gang and would sell some illegal substances out of their house. Multiple times we saw the little girl and boy walk out to a car that just pulled up, hand them something, and then go back inside.
They were the 2nd house from the neighborhood entrance and they would still peel out of their driveway and go 30mph the 150 ft to the stop sign, then do a burnout as they drove out of the neighborhood. The best part was they bought the old crown vics at the police auction and “pimped” them out with horrendous rims and loud awful stereo systems that rattled the whole frame of the car. You could hear them coming from 2 miles down the road.
They played their music so loud at all hours of the night that we called the cops almost every weekend and it never even phased them. It was so loud that it would rattle our windows and I was actually able to Shazam a song from sitting on my couch.
We survived renting that house for 6 months before we broke our lease because of them.
Ernichern
38. Death Threat
The very first night my wife and I moved into this townhouse our neighbor had a fight with his girlfriend and we actually saw an ambulance come to the scene. Every night at around 3 in the morning he’d start banging on our walls waking us up, yelling at us to be quiet. We were always dead asleep.
I confronted him when I finally saw him and things got heated. He was so crazy. Later he threatened to kill my wife. We moved out after the death threat.
The police wouldn’t do anything about it.
Hobbit_Feet45
39. The Barking Dogs
My neighbors would bark at my dogs, and then call the cops for a noise complaint. Also, they would get mad at us if we started a campfire in our fire pit, claiming they got smoked out because their window was open. Our fire pit was across the property, so if they could see the smoke or the fire, they would be leaning on our fence.
Our house has a gate to a park, and that's where they would bark and growl at them. Their house was 3 houses away and across the park. We got several videos of proof they were barking at our dogs to cause them to bark when we got into a court case about it. I even caught them spying on me, and we've never heard from them since.
Minecraft_molly5
40. Dangerous Adventures
So back when I was about 5 years old, we had some neighbors next door who were basically hoarders of everything. There were car parts out the wazoo in their yard that leaked all kinds of stuff (which is how my cat died). So basically they had a kid who was around 18 that was always in trouble, shoplifting, fires, whatever basically you could get in trouble for around that age in high school.
One day he decided to light a fire near an 18-wheeler tank filled with gas that they had in their yard for some reason. You can probably see where this is going, and yeah, IT BLEW UP, AT 2 AM. Police came, arrested him, and then they moved shortly thereafter.
Bapponukedthe_jappos
41. Comfort In Burning Home
At our old apartment, there was a woman below us who had serious substance abuse problems. One night, I was off at class, and my wife was home alone. She smelled smoke and then the alarm went off.
She and one of our other neighbors went to investigate and found the smoke coming from downstairs from under this woman's door. My wife banged on her door while the other neighbor called 911. After my wife had knocked repeatedly, this lady opened the door and smoke came pouring out.
My wife told her that she needed to come out because there was clearly a fire in there, and this woman, clearly high and drunk, just slurred "No, it's okay." My wife kept pounding on the door and telling the woman she needed to come out.
Luckily, both the fire department and police department were literally less than a quarter mile away, so they got there very quickly. The cops and firefighters finally got into the apartment and pulled the lady out. It turned out she had popped pills and washed them down with booze and had fallen asleep while cooking rice on the stove, causing the rice to burn.
Apparently, this kind of thing had happened a number of times before, she had been warned, and so, she got evicted about a week later.
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42. Double Trouble
Two guys moved into my apartment building over a year ago, and they throw parties pretty much every freaking night. It was like a frat house. People coming and going all day long.
I found out that one guy was a bartender and the other one was a dealer. This is in a decent coastal neighborhood in California.
The whole building and I started complaining about their ridiculous partying schedule. Management does nothing. Complained to the city and narcotics department, but nothing happened.
Then COVID happened and I was stuck at home all the time. Bar Tender moved out but the drug dealer guy was way worse. We found crack pipes in the garage and many cigarette butts.
Bonbot
43. Adult Bullying
I was living alone in a first-floor studio apartment in a city where I knew basically nobody. The neighbors above me had two toddlers who would run from one end of the apartment to the other from 6-8 am every morning. They weren't that bad, though. The woman across the hall - a senile, racist, elderly, shut-in, cat lady - HATED me.
This woman banged on my door to tell me to "quiet down" every evening. After the first 4 or 5 times of this, I knocked on her door and explained that I wasn't the one making the noise, and even pointed out that the yelling and music she was complaining about was coming from her upstairs neighbor, obviously, as I was standing right in front of her.
She was so sweet and kind and said "Oh my mistake!" and let me know that we would be friendly from then on out. It's like that conversation never happened though, as she started to literally hiss at me if we ever crossed paths on the stairwell. She would leave notes on my door saying "Stop scaring my cat", "I know what you did" and "I've alerted the police."
One time, I had my long-distance boyfriend over for the weekend, and when she saw us driving out of the parking lot together, she threw the trash she was carrying to the dumpster at my car and yelled "freaking jerk" at me. Well that was enough for me to finally tell my landlord about the abuse I was experiencing, he let me know that she struggled with mental health issues and, unfortunately, there was nothing he could do about it.
That this wasn't the first he had heard of her, and I would just have to put up with it. I lasted 5 months before moving out. My landlord charged me a giant lease cancellation fee.
Like_so_cute
44. A Forced Wife
I was having a bad dream where a woman was screaming for help and I needed to save her. When I woke up, the screaming continued. I left my apartment and met the old man who lived across from me in the hall. We both immediately realized the screaming was coming from the middle unit where Charlie lived.
So we knocked on Charlie's door and he answered as he usually does, all smiles. Behind him, I could see a woman tied to a chair in his living room. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, 'Making dinner for my wife'. I said, 'Charlie, you aren't married'. And he told me he found himself a wife but she wasn't too interested in him yet.
The woman is begging us to help her and Charlie just excuses himself to go back to tend to his pot of Mac and cheese. So the old man told Charlie he needed to call the police and Charlie let him use his phone. The cops came and they had me stay with the woman until Victims Services arrived.
She was so scared she just clung to me and they had to pry her off me when the victim services arrived. The police took Charlie away without a single complaint or resistance of any kind.
desertchoir
45. What Goes Around Comes Around
I have been living beside a single family with a large backyard and, apparently, a very active daycare business. I've only really talked to them after torrential hail blasted our respective gardens to shreds in 2017, but otherwise, we keep to ourselves. Well, except for the routine screaming from their outdoor play haven.
Anyway, they have a (crappy) wood panel fence between their and my side yards, so while I don't see the chaos directly when I'm outside, somehow it gets crazy enough over there that used diapers roll down the hilled side of their driveway, under the fence, and into my shrubbery.
Yes, dirty diapers magically appear on my property with alarming frequency. Okay, so it's happened twice, but for adults to allow stinky poo pouches to trespass into my lawn a nonzero number of times is concerning. Based on the sheer amount of other junk they let float into my yard (plastic bottles, papers, a lot of toys never retrieved), I don't think they care at all.
So my solution has been to stab the poo-poo bundles with a stick and fling them back on their driveway when they're away.
KittenTitterBums