Everyone always wants to have peaceful mornings and evenings. A time when they can rest their tired bodies and souls after a long day. In order to do that, living in a peaceful neighborhood is one of the keys.
However, imagine yourself being so tired for so many reasons when you suddenly remember you have the worst neighbor. Well, these people from the Reddit Community shared their neighbor's nightmares. Check these out!
1. The Faker
This isn't even everything that went down with that neighbor, just some (not so) brief highlights. My mom had this neighbor who pretended to be weak from cancer/chemo so her landlord couldn't get mad at her when trash bins were full and the lawn was filthy.
She even went as far as shaving her head and faking a limp, cane and everything.
Mom baked her some cookies and offered to take care of her bins and lawn, but the neighbor spilled about her scam.
My mom, now enlightened about my neighbor's The Fault in our Stars crap and tired of the trash blowing into our yard, called the landlord.
My Neighbor wasn't happy and would blast music at ungodly hours of the night/wee morning to get back at my mom. Mom would get frustrated because she worked late and left early and filed a noise complaint to the police.
Police arrive, and the neighbor claims my mom punched her in the chest.
Neighbour wants her arrested, mom shows cops our security cam footage, no mom punching, instead finds crazy neighbor kicking her 9-year-old daughter out in the middle of the night. 9yo is banging on her door.
My mom comes out to check on the noise and tries to bring the hysterical girl inside (it's like 2 am). The neighbor comes out and sprays her with the hose.
Neighbor taken away, daughter sent to live with dad.
walkinginthewind
2. Cruel Lady
They tried to get rid of my dog because it was a "death dog." She was a white lab and very sweet.
We had a large fenced-in backyard. My dog wasn't terribly loud. She wasn't aggressive at all. She was just the size of a lab, and my neighbors, specifically the wife, thought that made her evil.
They called the cops more than once, saying my dog was terrorizing the neighborhood.
The cops came, met the dog, and we explained that she was always in her yard. They left, saying just make sure she stays in the yard.
Well, the neighbor called two more times to complain, and eventually, they went and spoke with her about her ludicrous complaints.
Here is when she started taking matters into her own hands. We noticed our dog was getting sick a lot. It's really sick.
We took her to the vet, and the vet said we needed to stop feeding her human food, which could be bad for dogs. We had NO CLUE what she was talking about.
We went back home and decided to keep a closer eye on her. Turns out our neighbor had been dumping all manner of vile things over our fence. Food scraps, mop water, and god knows what else.
We went and spoke with her about this, and she denied it. Finally, we caught the witch on video and made sure she saw us recording her.
Later that night, the husband comes over, apologizes for his wife, and begs us not to call the cops. He promises he'll ensure our dog is left alone. We agreed but said we would press charges if anything happened to our dog again.
Thankfully, she stopped coming after our dog. She moved on to our landscaping. She climbed over the fence more than once to trim our hedges and a few saplings.
She even pulled all the flowers we had just planted out of our flower bed. We went and spoke with her husband, who was the more sane of the two.
Same conversation as with our dog.
There were more random things that we could never prove. Eventually, she fell very ill and passed. Her husband was like a different person. Invited us over for barbecues and all.
Eventually, he even got himself a little dog.
Ireallyjustcanteven
3. Messy People
My neighbors in the crappy apartment I moved to after I moved out of my parent's place were hoarders to the extreme, as well as alcoholics.
We started getting roaches in our apartment about 2 months after they moved in.
Then came mice. Then came RATS.
About once a month, we'd call 911 on them because we'd find one of them passed out in the parking lot, on the doorstep, or on the stairs. They came over and asked if it was us who kept calling 911.
Then they cussed us out because they didn't have insurance and had to take out numerous payday loans to cover the ambulance costs.
We broke our lease and moved out after "someone" took a dump on our welcome mat.
Not_A_Good_Gardener
4. Cat Lover
In an apartment. This lady lived on the third floor. She must have let her cat piss everywhere bc the entire building reeked like cat piss. The smell entered my apartment frequently.
When I passed her in the hallway, I would have to hold my breath bc she smelled so bad. I dealt with this for 2 years with multiple complaints to the office until I eventually called animal control.
Turns out she had 30 cats in her apartment.
Throwawayca91
5. Just A Jerkward
I live on a farm, and we had one guy who was a real prick. He was known to have definitely stolen sheep from us. In some cases, he had shorn the wool off them, sold it, and returned the sheep, sometimes eating the sheep we suspect.
He demanded that we front the bill to fix the fence despite it being between our two properties and refusing to split the costs.
He also had someone else's bull jump onto his property and used it to service his cattle for two years, and when the owner tracked it down, he demanded to be paid the agistment costs, or he wouldn't return it.
He had a house on the property that he rented to his farmhand. The farmhand found him in there one day, going through his things and telling him he wasn't allowed to leave the property under any circumstances while under his employ.
The guy quit straight after that and wanted to work for us.
goondalf_the_grey
6. Bad Owners
My neighbor has 3 dogs, which they let outside twice a day to poop. The dogs are friendly and not very loud... except they always dump on our lawn.
My husband and I have actually seen our neighbors encourage their dogs to use our lawn... they physically lead the dogs to our lawn or discourage them from going on their lawn, etc.
I finally had enough, so I got my garden trowel and flicked all their dogs' dumps onto their lawn. Today, my husband went outside to mow the lawn and caught the neighbor encouraging their dogs to go onto our lawn.
The neighbor acted like nothing was wrong but quickly called the dogs back.
[deleted]
7. Best Revenge
Our neighbor had a giant lab that took dumps that had to be 3 lbs each time.
The dog would always come into our yard. I'd spoken to him and his wife about it several times. It'd stop for about 1 week and restart.
I started scooping it up and keeping it in a bucket as far from my house as I could and right next to the shared fence. It stunk like hell. After it was full, I dumped it in their driveway.
The guy asked me about it, and I told him it would stop once his dog stopped.
Never happened again.
excusemefucker
8. Mister Fire
My first apartment, living away from home, was in a small complex filled with retirees. My neighbor across the hallway was a man my ex and I nicknamed Mr. Fire.
He'd constantly glare at me and complain whenever I was sitting outside. He hated my cat and always assumed I was a smoker.
Old man: Young people and their cigarettes. You better not smoke around here. The lady down the hall from you is on oxygen and can smell it."
How he got his nickname: Once, I was walking to the bus stop before class, and X and I saw a garbage can smoldering in front of our building.
It wasn't flaming, but there was a hole burned through it, and the plastic around the hole was melting. It had been a dry spring, so we were worried it might start an actual fire.
X ran inside to get the apartment manager (who lived one floor under me). When she came outside with the maintenance guy (who removed the can), she yelled at the neighbor's window. "HEY YOU! What's the deal here?"
Apparently, this old man with the beginning stages of dementia was cooking a steak in his kitchen. When the meat lit on fire, he didn't know what to do, so he threw the entire pan in the garbage.
But then, the can starts melting, so he thought it'd be a good idea to throw the whole thing out the window onto a garden full of wood chips.
He was eventually taken away to a retirement home after flushing his diapers down the toilet, bursting a pipe, and flooding the laundry room.
[deleted]
9. Too Many Eyes
When I was a kid, our neighbor built this giant deck on his house that actually went over our fence. We ended up having to go to the city to force him to make it smaller.
We went to a family reunion shortly after, and when we came back, he had a sign on his fence facing our front door that said, "Peekaboo, I see you, Sborado's," and he had set up a bunch of security cameras on his house that all were all aimed at our house.
We pretty much just avoided him from then on until my parents divorced and sold that house.
sborado
10. The Lone Man
The guy next door was a hoarder (junk on the front and back porch, door that won't open) and never cut his grass. After a couple years of the city not enforcing lawn care, neighbors on either side started cutting the front lawn for him.
But we couldn't mow back for him because he always had two large dogs who only understood Polish. The grass was always 6' tall in the backyard, and that plus trash meant the mosquitos along the fence were horrendous, rendering our otherwise pleasant shade garden unusable after any rain.
At one point, he was stealing our water, which drove up our water bill. We suspect he didn't have electricity either. He hung out at the library all day most days. Near the end, he slept in his truck in his driveway sometimes, possibly to avoid going into his hoarding-ruined house.
Eventually, he died. He was very sick. His house is in probate. Now, someone mows every month or so.
His son came and tried to clean out the place. However, after dozens of truckloads to the dump when the beer cans and fast food bags were still hip, I think he finally admitted defeat and quit coming out to clean every weekend. I think it will take a professional crew to clean it.
Thank goodness we are renters, not owners.
LitlThisLitlThat
11. Unexpected Good Side
This is a bad neighbor story that was fixed by a good neighbor.
My grandma, who passed away recently, lived in not the best part of town. She worked at my dad's laundromat there (refused to leave and loved working there for 30+ years).
10 years ago, some new neighbors came in and decided to pick on my grandma (the entire family, young to old). They would steal carts, throw crap at her, steal money when she wasn't looking, etc. I had no idea what was happening, and my grandma was too prideful to tell anyone.
However, one day, another neighbor who's been washing his clothes there for 20+ years saw this. I am pretty sure he is a dealer, but I don't judge. I played baseball with his kids.
He told my grandma to wait inside, picked the littlest one up who picked on my grandma, hung on a fence post, and exchanged words with the father before picking him up by his neck.
The entire street watched.
They moved out the next day after he smashed all their car windows. To this day, not a soul has bothered my grandma. I didn't hear this story until her funeral last week.
It's amazing how terrible and great people can be.
alansupra94
12. Volume Up
I had a neighbor who would bring women back every weekend. Usually, it was cool. I'd hear the bed squeak for 20 seconds, stop, silence, and then laugh.
I'm not the jealous type in any way, but when he constantly played German house music at 4 in the morning, I started getting pissed.
After talking to him about it, he essentially told me to back off.
So the next time it happened, I YouTubed "babies crying" and put it on full blast through my speaker, which I had sat up against the wall.
Needless to say, it stopped after that.
[deleted]
13. Mom’s The Seed
We had one house on my old street growing up, which had just changed owners. Seemingly nice couple, and their kids move in, and they are okay at first.
Kids were kinda annoying, but they were like 6 and 9, so the rest of us on the block ignored it. We were all between the ages of 13 to 16. The kids began screaming profanities at us and throwing stuff.
We just started avoiding them because they were nuts. So they told their mom that we were being mean.
We then learned that she was freaking crazy and would ride her bike up and down the street telling parents what their children had done wrong to their boys (mostly lies, but some truth).
None of the parents would take her seriously, and she was told to back off many times.
We had an empty lot on the street where we would dig tunnels and build paintball fields. Every single morning, we would find everything destroyed on the field. We find suspicious attempts at traps made and all kinds of crap.
Boards with nails laid behind my neighbor's tires. I'm certain the mom was sending her kids out on missions to get back at us and the parents.
The unprovable damage went on for about a year. Peace returned when she moved, and then we all grew up.
Sizzalness
14. The Poor Dog
I live in an apartment. I pay my rent on time, I don't break a lot of crap, sometimes I laugh a little loud with my sister or friends, but overall I'm a good neighbor.
This guy and his gf move in. She gets pregnant. They decide to get a dog. She decides that she doesn't want to walk or play with the dog, so she puts him out on the balcony all day. The dog barks ALL DAY.
This went on for about 2 months.
The city I live in has a noise ordinance, but the cops really don't enforce it much. The property manager said, "We've talked to him, and the dog isn't out much during the day." I was at my wit's end when I finally contacted the property owner.
Told him I had been here for several years with no incident and that the neighbors had a dog they kept on the balcony so the smell of dog dump and piss was horrible, and I couldn't sit out on my balcony in peace.
He got in contact with my property manager and told them to either evict them or move them away from me.
Before they moved out, he got drunk and smacked her around. I called the cops on him. They took him in, but she refused to press charges.
Not sure what happened to them after they got moved to another apartment.
Karmas_burning
15. Too Much Energy
My parent's next-door neighbor, a lady. They don't have a big backyard, but she had two dogs, a boxer and a rottweiler. She rarely walks them, so they are usually pent up with energy and not well socialized.
Whenever people or dogs walked by outside, they would go nuts and jump/tackle our mutual property wooden fence separating us. Every year, the fence needs to be replaced because of the dogs. Not only is she never willing to pay for the replacement, but she is never willing to even split the cost.
My parents would end up footing the entire bill for a new fence each year, with my dad not wanting to make a big deal.
She also has this very tall tree in her backyard that we tried to get her to trim and maintain in case strong winds would bring the cross branches down, damaging the surrounding houses and people walking by.
But she would ignore us.
Eventually, one very windy day, a branch snapped from that tree, and it crushed and fell on the dog (it passed away). Ever since then, the problems with the fence destruction and aggression stopped even with the rottweiler still around. So, I guess it was the boxer that was causing all of the problems.
But to this day, she still seems like a witch of a neighbor and a very subpar dog owner.
sackofmangoes
16. A Momzilla
I used to be good friends with a girl next door from when we were ten till HS started, even though she treated me like crap. Her parents were obviously alcoholics, so I felt sorry for her more than anything.
My little brother came along with me over to her backyard one day, and he accidentally tripped and fell into their back porch door. Her mom, who had daily naps from all of her drinking, was woken up and stormed outside to scream at my little autistic brother, who could barely speak.
When he didn't respond (duh), she burned him with a cigarette on his arm. It's not as crazy as some of these other stories, but she still knowingly burnt a 6-year-old autistic kid.
missfulls
17. Unwell Kid
I was living next to a foster home that had tons of boys living in it...
Found out my mom had allergies to our cats Rat and Trixie, so we let them outside, and everything was fine for about 6 months. I'd go out every morning, call their names, feed them, and spend some time with them before heading off to school.
Then, one day, my cat, Rat, doesn't show up after calling for her, but Trixie does. I don't think too much of it, she's probably out doing cat things. I go to my aunt's house for the weekend to study with my cousin... I came back home, and there was still no sign of Rat.
I started calling her name around the neighborhood and asking if anyone had seen her. Nope, no sign of her. Meanwhile, Trixie is suffering from seizures all of a sudden. We get them under control and keep her inside to keep an eye on her because she was still like... Lethargic.
Flash forward about 2 weeks later, and I had basically thought maybe someone ran Rat over or took a liking to her and kept her for themselves as she was a super smart and loveable cat... Cue knock on the door.
My dad opens the door to a young boy holding a plastic bag with, you guessed it...
Rat inside of it.
He said she was in their hedges, and he had a feeling he knew what happened to her. They had gotten a new foster kid who he said 'wasn't right in the head' and had a gut feeling he had something to do with it.
My dad thanked the kid but went over and talked to the head of the house about it because he also had noticed someone 'accidentally threw a fish over the fence' a few days before.
Our dogs were almost gonna go for it.
Apparently, that kid had been causing a lot of trouble for them and was known to poison animals. :/ Sad to say Trixie didn't make it out ok either
Manta209
18. Nightmare of Past
My husband's ex-wife...
It had been six years since their divorce, and out of the blue, she called him up at his work. You know, just to chat, catch up, whatever. Fine, fine, he isn't going to be a jerkward or anything, but he definitely doesn't want to talk to his ex.
Then, she started showing up at the store repeatedly. Talked to everyone in his store and shared her "story about the two of them" with all his employees. Claimed she was just showing up at the store to hang out with "her new friends."
Asked his assistant manager out on a date. Moved into the same apartment complex as us. Started showing up at our door. Left little notes and letters on his car or on our door.
We moved as soon as our lease was up.
DCRogue
19. Left Traces
A few years back, our neighbors were getting kicked out because their mortgage was 8 months behind (how they even got a bank to loan them the money in the first place is still beyond me).
The week before they left, they ripped out everything to sell: bathroom fixtures, oven, doors, paving stones...if it could be removed, it was.
When they finally moved out, the only things they left behind were the dog, the cat...and the kid.
chosenamewhendrunk
20. Weird Karen
She was just nuts. We built our houses around the same time (I was 10-12 in this situation), and it started out ok. Her husband and kids were awesome... then things started to go wrong. It started with the fence.
They wanted the paneling on their side, and we said whatever.
Having the support or whatever on our side meant that my siblings and I could climb the fence. They wanted a more expensive fence, whatever. We came in under budget with the house.
They wanted the fence moved 1 meter onto our property... no way. Man, did we pay for that?
It only happened when Mum and we were home, but what would happen is just a little crap to start with. Like getting pebbles thrown over the fence when Mum was in the garden or knocking on the fence and pretending it wasn't her.
It started escalating when she'd yell abuse at us. Everyone but my then stepdad, who, of course, didn't believe us.
When we came home from school, we'd have to wait for the garage door to close fully before we could get out of the car, or she'd be out in front of our house screaming at us, holding a broom or a rake.
She was nuts!
Finally, my stepdad caught her when she was poking a hole in the fence (so she could watch us) and was whispering abuse through the fence, thinking he was Mum.
She shat herself when he smacked the fence right over where she was making a hole. We got out of that house quick... which sucked because that was the house of our dreams.
There were also missing pot plants, mysteriously pulled-out plants, and fronds missing from palm trees, and we could only guess how she ended up with a brand-new palm tree...
97Chocoholic
21. Dog Person
A lady moved in and LIED that her dog was a "service dog" because these apartments did not allow dogs or cats but can't deny a service animal.
This dog was no service dog; it didn't even have basic obedience training, and she would turn it loose all day long in the communal gated courtyard.
Never cleaned up after it, and it was annoying as heck because it would (playfully) chase everyone and harass everyone. After all, it was starved for attention.
She got tons of complaints, but because she kept claiming it was a service animal, there was nothing to be done.
She eventually got evicted after getting a second dog she let run feral and dump everywhere, too (which she never cleaned) because, obviously, no one has 2 "service animals" that are literally never inside with the person.
Landlord found out when she left she was also one of those hoarder people and left her apartment packed full of all kinds of crap and filth, including bags of clothes she had been stealing at night from those charity donation bins they set up in parking lots.
She was just a vile individual.
bluebirdgirl89
22. The Watcher
He stalked my roommate and me.
From the get-go, day 1, when he first moved in, and we met him, we both had bad vibes. There was no reason for it at the time, but our gut feeling said he was no good.
And then, literally for over an entire year, almost every time we went out the door, he'd come out to our house to try to 'hang out.'
We couldn't even walk across the road to check our mail in peace. Then he'd walk up the road and stand in front of our house, staring or pacing in front of it in the road.
Then he started knocking on our door in the middle of the night (we never answered as we in no way wanted him in our house ever, but especially not at midnight, and only knew it was him because we confronted him later, and he admitted it).
We'd go out together and get home, and he'd be sitting in a chair in our yard like it was his house. Then, he started showing up at stores and other places we were in town and trying to follow us around there.
It was freaking ridiculous, and we went through this for over a year.
Got to the point that we hated even going outside and couldn't hang out in our own yard because we just felt like we were being watched and were just counting down the seconds until he popped up because he always popped up.
Complained to our landlord multiple times, he warned our neighbor multiple times, and it still continued and probably would still be continuing even now if the dude hadn't gotten behind in his rent and been kicked out, which happened late last year.
He messed up the house he was renting so much that it's been getting renovated for months (there were holes in the walls, the floors torn up, and according to the landlord like, hundreds of empty liquor bottles, burnt foil, used needles, and all sorts of crap up in the house) and we're supposed to be getting our next neighbor moving in sometime soon.
We're just freaking dreading it so much.
LemonFake
23. Connecting House
In this apartment my uncles lived in was connected to the neighbors by the bathroom, so they shared the bathroom.
The neighbor lady was crazy, and some mornings they would wake up, and she would be in their apartment doing some creepy, weird crap.
One morning, they recall they woke up, and she was standing over them, over their bed, watching them sleep. That was the breaking point.
They got the hell out.
themummyonbluray
24. Nightmare Below
We lived in what seemed to be a mansion-type of house, rented out to three different families. My family lived on the bottom floor, and a family of 6 lived above us: a mother, father, and 4 daughters aged from 4 to 13.
Every morning, they would stomp around the house like little elephants and make as much noise as possible to wake each other up so they could prepare for school.
After they were ready, they would often refuse to go out the door to go to school, screeching as loudly as they could until the parents decided to let them stay home.
Since we were on the bottom floor of the place, we had free reign of the backyard, whereas the other two families barely bothered to use it.
They would frequently dump garbage and other random stuff off of a balcony into the yard and never bother cleaning it up, which we'd have to tend to daily since we had two dogs and an outdoor cat at the time.
It was all a nightmare.
When the landlord eventually kicked them out, she asked my Mother to clean out the rooms/floor they were living in.
She told me there were over a hundred two-liter soda bottles scattered throughout their place, as well as mold growing in multiple rooms with foul odors everywhere.
Though the oldest daughter was the same age as me, and I had a huge crush on her (she was a very polite and clean girl, which is saying a lot considering what her family was like), we talked with her family about letting her move in with us while the rest of them left.
I feel like it would've been better for everyone if she had stayed with us, but it never happened. I really hope she doesn't live with her disgusting family anymore.
I truly felt horrible for her.
wblss
25. Victim Wannabe
There's a particular type of person who seems to feel like they're the only thing standing between society and complete collapse, and about six years ago, my downstairs neighbor was one of them.
She was aloof and paranoid, and she'd imagine threats from almost everywhere... which made the fact that she thought of herself as some kind of secret agent all the more annoying.
Said neighbor was always trying to get me to move out of the building. She'd stage loud telephone calls with "headquarters" about the alarming behavior of the other tenants - like my tendency to get home after nine in the evening, which was clearly scandalous.
Frequently yell at the people who'd stand on the corner to smoke. On one occasion, I heard her shouting at someone over the placement of a flowerpot in their window, which was obviously an indication that they were selling illegal substances.
Then, one afternoon, I found an edited notice taped to a wall in the stairwell.
It was perhaps the most ridiculous attempt at an official document that I'd ever seen, and I'm including the time that my friend Jonathan - then nine years old - made a flyer for bodyguard services.
The atrocious grammar, poorly Photoshopped seal, and a distinct absence of any legitimate contact information made the "notice" about as realistic as a scene from NCIS.
Furthermore, the reference to "the past two years" seemed to indicate me as her primary target since I was (as far as I knew) the only resident who had been there for less time than that.
Still, since the notice was clearly meant to scare someone, I decided to return the favor by taking a page out of my neighbor's own playbook and standing outside of her apartment while staging my own fake phone call:
"You should see the notice; it's terrible! Hah, yeah, it's like they didn't know that impersonating a federal official is a felony! Anyway, the real FBI are on their way, and they're going to dust for fingerprints. Whoever made that notice is looking at a lot of jail time!"
I went back inside my apartment after that... and within seconds, I heard my neighbor's door open. There was the sound of hurried footsteps rushing towards the stairwell, followed by an equally hurried retreat.
When I went out to check five minutes later, the notice was gone.
I've since moved away from that location, but for the rest of the time that I lived there... the lady never bothered me again.
RamsesThePigeon
26. Power of Salt
I have SUPER religious neighbors. They hang signs for the local church camp on their property, etc. They kept putting our garbage cans in our driveway.
While it was stupid and annoying, it became more and more aggressive. They would trespass on my property and do damage to my house.
But I could never catch them in the act.
So I did the only thing a sane person would do: I put on my velvet ritual cloak and made a show of putting a salt circle around my property, chanting and carrying on.
Never bothered me again.
amazonkass
27. Nosy People
We have a beautiful pit bull/boxer mix that was stolen out of our backyard by our neighbors and given to a shelter for pit bulls.
We looked for our dog for WEEKS, all day and night. Just as we were about to give up, my mom checked local adoption ads and found our dog.
The shelter she was given to was literally a block away from our house, and they informed us of the people who brought her there, who turned out to be our neighbors.
So we got our dog back, and the neighbors continued to try to get our dog taken away from us by calling the police for animal abuse multiple times, even when we were playing with her in our own backyard and very obviously loved her.
thebabyslayer
28. Power of Eavesdropping
My first apartment was a real dump in a seedy complex, and I had two people who I'd consider "neighbors from hell." The first was the lady who lived above me, who let her small dog piss and dump all over the balcony, meaning we basically couldn't open our back door in the summer because of the stench.
She also smoked constantly and asked to borrow money several times. When they moved out, they had to tear up all the carpet and thoroughly clean the whole place.
She had no teeth, too, which was weird.
Another was a guy who lived a few spots down from us. One night, I could hear him fighting with his girlfriend through my window, so naturally, my girlfriend and I were content eavesdropping on it until we heard a loud smack. Immediately, I called the police, and off he went to jail.
When he returned for his stuff, it's my understanding that he got a Grade A ass-whooping from several of her friends who were there to welcome him home.
panascope
29. The Rock Star
A guy lived across from me, and he'd spend all weekend blasting rock music and singing along.
This would go on all day and all night.
He was a drunk, so while blasting his music, he'd be drinking. And then he'd start coming out into the hallway and screaming at other tenants for perceived wrongs, like not giving him a freaking toonie for something or other.
I called the cops On him twice and complained to the landlord at least a dozen times, and absolutely nothing was done about it.
Eventually, I found a new apartment in another city. When my landlord tried to tell me I'd have to pay for 2 months instead of the 1-month notice I'd given, I sent him a long e-mail (with my dad's help) about how nothing in the apartment was up to code.
He'd ignored my requests for him to deal with Jay, so did he really want to press the issue with me? Turns out he did not.
Sochitelya
30. Same Crappy Routine
Every Friday, my former neighbor would drink beer, blast music, get into it with his girlfriend, slap her, go directly to jail, and get out on Monday. Rinse, repeat.
He was the kind of guy who drinks Budweiser, wears an American flag bandana, and those sunglasses that construction workers and trashheads wear. These.
And you always knew he was fixing to get arrested when Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me would start playing.
It was like his anthem.
[deleted]
31. Pet Obsession
Pet hoarder next door. Unkept yard. A MONSTROUS amount of feces was kept in a garden shed on their property's edge, right beside our deck.
We always wondered what was going on over there, and then a flyer showed up in our mailbox: lost male iguana.
Aggressive and will bite. Do not approach. Please, yadda yadda number.
A few days later, animal control arrives with trucks and vans. They get into this house and pull out hundreds of animals.
Exotic birds, lizards, cats, dogs, it was insane. All were sick or injured. She had specific rooms for them, like a blind animal room or a pregnant animal room.
No word on that aggressive male iguana. It might still be creeping around that neighborhood. Aggressively biting children, perhaps.
Bonbonmelandeau
32. Selfish People
I've only had two apartments in my life. My first apartment was when I was 18. I lived in a Section 8 apartment building; a neighbor had some sort of mental disability, and his wife was completely blind. They would constantly file noise complaints and bang on the walls.
My roommate and I were never even that loud.
We would watch TV at a reasonable level, and if we started laughing... BANG BANG BANG. Dude would scoff at us from his balcony when we were walking to and from the apartment and call us names.
He filed his third noise complaint when we had a couple friends over for Thanksgiving. Cops came to the door and were like..
"Uhhh, sorry to bother you." On that third one, we got evicted, but we didn't fight it because our lease was almost over anyway.
In the second apartment, I'm 24, and the neighbors above me are loud. I mean raging parties until 3 or 4 in the morning. Beer pong, loud bass music.
Asked them many times to keep the noise down, but the dude always got in my face, saying he has a "right to do what he wants in his own house." Threw tons of cigarettes off his balcony and blamed it on my girlfriend and me.
They finally moved out, but I will never live in an apartment again.
LedZacclin
33. Got Busted
We had a noisy neighbor for a while. The guy liked having parties. Once or twice a week, we could handle it, but he started having them more often. Then, one week, he decided to have loud parties every night, which wouldn't have been much of an issue.
Still, he liked having them in his bedroom and kept his music blasting and his friends making a racket until 6/7am. I couldn't sleep through his crap, and for a week straight, I had no real sleep apart from that hour lull between 7 and 8am.
I was getting in trouble at work for being exhausted when it wasn't my fault. After a few days of this and getting nowhere with him, we wrote a letter and posted it through his door just before the time his mum got home.
It turns out it all went quiet at 7 because that's when she got home. She found the note on the floor and read it.
I was happy to be woken up by her screaming at him. If he had been smart and kept his parties downstairs, everything would have been fine, and we even stated it in the letter we sent them.
Parties didn't happen very often after that, and he moved out a few years ago.
Zanki
34. Just Some Envious People
They called the police on me because I was watching television muted with closed captioning with the windows closed and the blinds shut in my own home at 7:00 on a Friday night.
When we had moved in, my roommate brought the neighbor a plate of cookies and all of our phone numbers and names and said to always feel free to call us any time of day, and we'd do what she needed.
Our neighbor said, "No, we'll call the police instead." And boy, did she ever.
We actually started throwing parties because the cops were going to come anyway.
sweetrhymepurereason
35. Lady of Headache
My neighbor is an elderly Asian woman who pretends that she can't speak English.
Anytime my dad or I try to tell her what she was doing was bothering us, even though we've heard her having a full-blown conversation in English with the landlord.
I have even had my girlfriend, who speaks the same language as her, try and talk to her, my gf gets called a wh*re and race traitor for going out with a white dude. Almost every day, she waters the plants in the complex at 5 AM. The faucet that she uses is right below my window. My bed is under my window, so I get woken up at 5 am almost every day to the sound of screeching metal and water pressure.
Then, at 6 am, she goes back into the apartment and starts banging on something every day for 5 hours the bangs happen about 5 seconds apart and are consistent.
I believe a machine or some type of other device is responsible for them. The banging can be heard anywhere inside my apartment.
While the banging noise is going on, she watches her Asian TV shows at a retarded high volume that early in the morning.
I don't mind it too much in the afternoon, but it is uncalled for at 6-9 am. She has also had her Christmas lights up for the past 7 years and turns them on every night until 1 am.
I have no clue when this woman sleeps. But what she does that offends me the most is this: she feeds the stray cats.
She then was told by the landlord to knock it off, but she did not knock it off. The landlord gave her a second warning with the threat of eviction (we rent monthly, so he only needs to provide a 30-day notice).
She decided to start putting the food she fed the cats in front of my apartment.
This is when I found out that she is feeding the cats crap they should not be eating, rice, beans, bread, some type of pastries, and no meat whatsoever. You would think a cat is smart enough to stop eating food that's bad for it, but no, no, they are not anyway.
The landlord catches on after yelling at me a few times but insists that since he can't prove she put it there that a court would side in her favor, and he does nothing further, so now I have about 5 stray cats who think that I feed them.
We've asked the landlord to tell her to knock off the other behaviors several times over the past few years. He talked to the last week, and there has been no change so far.
If I get woken up at 5 am, I am going to open my window, and she will be screamed at by 270 pounds of unflattering fat rolls that desperately want to get 8 hours of sleep before he has to go to work.
Vengeance_Core
36. Dug Their Own Grave
When I was a kid, we lived next door to an awesome dude and his wife. One day, they moved out due to losing the house to the bank. Next thing we know, a skeezy. Trucker (I know not all truckers are bad; I was one) who would routinely fight with his wife in the front yard.
They built a fence all the way around the property immediately.
Fast forward a few years of antics and shenanigans by these people, we get a knock on the door. My father was arrested for the destruction of private property because they said we hit their fence with stuff and broke it.
Now, this is where the story gets good. In court, they presented blatant pictures of a completely different fence as evidence. My father had pictures of their fence, and the judge sent the sheriff out to take his own pictures.
They were found in contempt of court for cussing the judge and falsifying evidence and got arrested on the spot for threatening a judge.
Dad immediately sold the house, and we moved out, but he got the last laugh as he sold the house to the bailiff of the court they were in.
So, now his next-door neighbor is the man who arrested him.
buttermebritches
37. Living in a Game
Drinking beer out on the front porch on a Saturday evening. Called the police. We were all of age, so the police told us to keep it down. This happened multiple times. The cops stopped asking for ID's.
Their dog would be left off-leash in the front yard. When completing our runs, the dog would charge around the corner and bite one of us. They said we should know better.
Complained when people would park near their houses. Threatened to tow multiple cars.
Macabalony
38. Karen Across The Road
One of my friend's neighbors is absolutely crazy and racist. My friends are Muslim and Pakistani, so their neighbors are always looking for excuses for calling the police on them.
One of the most memorable stories was when their eldest son, who was fourteen at the time, broke his leg at school and could not walk.
His dad was on a business trip, so only his mother had to bring him home from the ER and help him in. Given that he was over 6 feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds, this was much harder than it seemed for his barely 5'5" mother.
To make it easier to help him in, she parked the car on the lawn right in front of the door so she wouldn't have to drag him across the sidewalk.
All of this seemed too shady for the neighbors. Instead of using their eyes or just asking, they called the police for suspicious activity.
So now the poor mom had to deal with her broken son and the police showing up at her door to investigate.
Along with this instance, the neighbors call the police on them whenever they have a party, even though their parties have no music, no drinking, or anything to warrant the police. But every weekend, they blast music. themselves and rowdy backyard parties.
Because of them, my friends are looking to move.
ifonlyicouldsay
39. Naughty Hands
When my daughter was five, we rented the top floor of a two-family house. The owner gave the bottom floor to her sister (recovering from substance abuse problems, trouble holding down a job, two kids, and an absent father).
One day, my daughter's tricycle went missing. Found her kids on it an hour later. I confronted her about it, and she said my daughter was spoiled and my family didn't deserve to have anything her family didn't have.
(My husband was on disability recovering from a life-threatening injury, and I was a school teacher. So... Not exactly the Kardashians!)
When the thirty-year-old woman began to taunt my daughter and take her belongings, that's when we terminated our lease.
ligamentary
40. Fitting The Puzzles
My neighbor in my apartment complex always tries to stop and talk to me (usually when I'm running late for work), which isn't awful. The awful thing is, I'm pretty sure he looks out the window and waits. He always manages to open the door and come outside as I happen to be walking by, and he goes in promptly after I tell him I'm running late for work.
The same neighbor came outside at 11:40 one night as I was putting a new window decal on my car, practically climbed in, and insisted on helping me. Then proceeded to try to talk to me afterward.
Another time, I was backing out of my parking spot, and he was pulling out of his in my blind spot.
He honked his horn, so obviously, I stopped before I hit him. Instead of pulling forward and leaving like a normal person, he parked his car, came over, knocked on my driver-side window, and asked me if I even looked back before I started backing out. It was really aggressive.
He's also jokingly said to me that he's seen me bring a lot of men into my apartment.
I really don't like that guy. He's very creepy.
[deleted]
41. Chemical Ingredients
I moved into a new housing development a few months ago. My backyard has a slight slope to it, which leads to a neighbor's house down the hill.
I had my car in the back of the driveway washing it one day when I noticed a downhill neighbor lady taking pictures of me (and my gf) with her iPhone through her window.
I thought this was strange, so after I finished washing the car, I knocked on the door and calmly asked why she felt the need to take our picture.
She launched into a yelling, cursing monologue about how we were psychopathic jerkwards who were trying to poison her dogs with car soap.
So basically, She thought that 3oz of car soap, diluted by ten gallons of water, then diluted again by rain, would wash down into her yard, settle in her grass, and then somehow be toxic enough to prove deadly to her dogs via fumes.
I tried to reason with her, but she just kept yelling that soap was made of "chemicals" and that I was a jerkward, etc.
She called the police while I was standing there, and they literally refused to come.
nocaptain11
42. Taking Over
I live in a very old house with a very old garage. In fact, the garage was built as one structure with a dividing wall, and the adjoining section of the garage belongs to the neighbors.
Think: one structure, two garages, two properties.
One day, new neighbors move in. Before we got the chance to say hi, we got a letter in the mail from the attorney of our new neighbors. The letter explains that the neighbors will be assuming ownership of our half of the garage.
They will be kind enough to pay for maintenance, and we can use it even if they are not. We have our lawyer write them a letter kindly asking them to back off into the sunset.
That's that, or so we thought. One day, the sport next door decides he's going to paint a portion of our half of the garage.
We went out the next day and painted back over.
The neighbors eventually defaulted on their mortgage and had to move out. Kinda a surreal experience.
obligarchy1
43. Insensitivity Sucks
Our current neighbors are great contenders.
There are the little things, like how they always park right in front of our house instead of their own or how their boys are constantly throwing balls and toys in our yard. Plus, the dad is a grade-A asshole, to begin with: he is constantly yelling at his young boys when he feels that their baseball practice isn't up to his standards.
But the worst is that for the past two years, we've had to deal with their trees falling over in storms, landing in our yard, and destroying our stuff. (Under the law, it doesn't matter who owns the tree - the yard it lands in is responsible for the damage).
Last year, one of their trees took our fence and garden. A few weeks ago, another of their trees crushed my favorite tree and damaged our chicken coop. That one cost us $850 to clean up. We got a halfhearted "sorry" for that one.
I truly despise them.
jennifer1911
44. Like The Movies
We lived in Baltimore City for a long time. My parents finally had enough money to buy a house out in the suburbs, where they believed everything would be much safer and more stable.
Cut two to three months later: The entire block sitting out on their front porches as the DEA is busting the house two doors down from us. All the other families were freaking out, never having dealt with something even remotely similar to this.
My mother and father kicked back with a bottle of wine to watch like it was Masterpiece Theater. They joked it was nice to see some of Baltimore City bleed out into the County.
mattchuman
45. Motor Irritation
Need to rev their straight-piped bikes to 10K RPM for long periods of time to "tune them." Never mind that they have the idle set so low, and they run so rich (I can smell them from inside my house when they drive by) that if they don't rev them every few seconds, they'll stall out.
Also, if he's going to ride it, he has to "warm it up" first by sitting in his front yard and revving it up for 10 minutes.
One of them has a bike that is so chopped and low that he has to pedal it down the sidewalkwith his feet for about 200 feet before he finds a driveway shallow enough to take it off.
Mind you, all of this with his hand on the clutch, and the engine revved to a constant 5000 or so rpm.
We have some sport bike riders down the other side of the road that like to do much the same things and ride all manner of unlicensed four-wheelers and scooters up and down the road at 4AM.
h00paj00ped