Explore the world of troublesome neighbors as we highlight the most frustrating habits. From arguing to evil revenge plans, all you can think of is here!
1. Mind Your Business
A few years ago, I lived in a bit of a tract home situation. In my cul-de-sac on trash day, everyone would line their trash cans up on the curb where the trash truck with the mechanical arm could easily get to them.
My crazy neighbor would get upset if everyone didn't pull their trash cans in immediately after the truck came. Trash day was on a weekday so I couldn't bring my cans in until after I got off work. Needless to say, this totally pissed her off.
It started with her just spinning the can around, or moving it in front of my garage. Eventually, it escalates to her knocking it over or pushing it across the street into a small park. I'm at work, lady, what the hell can I do about it?
So eventually, I had enough. I bought a tube of marine grease for my grease gun. For those who don't know, it's intense stuff. It's made to stand up to all conditions and is difficult to get off your skin without a strong solvent like kerosene.
So I lather up the handles and take the can out with a pair of gloves then head out for work. When I came home the can was moved a few feet and sure enough, her stupid little hands had left a big imprint in the grease. She never touched it again.
addennis
2. Crazy But Quiet
My old neighbor was perfect, quiet, and always had a nice chat when we met outside our flats. He was obviously dealing substances but he kept all the customers in line, they were quiet as well when they were knocking on his door all hours of the night.
Then, he messed with two guys that came to his door. The hallway was covered in their “liquids”. It was crazy. Still, after he got sent to prison, a new guy moved in that played music constantly as loud as he possibly could. I'll take ol' stabby back any day.
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3. Hiding Secrets
A bunch of old folks moved out and some new neighbors came in. They met us once to ask permission for a barbecue. That was literally the only time I saw them. They'd never come out. You'd never see them morning or evening.
They were never at the local shops and when they moved in, we did they had like 15 mattresses for a 4-bed house which raised some red flags but we didn't think much of it because they were quiet. Turns out they were running a brothel in there.
cpl1
4. The Saviour We All Need
We have had several sets of crazy neighbors but my favorites were J & Y, an old Cuban couple who got drunk and fought loudly every night. One time, we were late on our water bill, and in the U.S. the water company can cut off your water if you don't pay.
The truck came and the guy got out and opened the door on the sidewalk, shuts off our water, and drove away.
Immediately, J explodes from his house with the largest wrench I have ever seen in my life (bigger than a small child), screaming curses in Spanish at the retreating water company truck.
Runs to in front of our house, throws off the door on the sidewalk, and turns our water back on. Then walks back to his house, still muttering, and walks in, slamming the door behind him.
rbkc1234
5. Getting Mad Over Nothing
The next-door neighbor sent us a letter through the mail asking us to never park in front of their house after I parked there once.
The kicker is, a couple of years later they seem to have started some illegal home business with employees and every single day there are at least three cars parked in front of our house.
sheepinwolfsclothes
6. Not Interested
A very religious neighbor came to pick us up for church every Sunday morning. We kindly declined every time and never made a big deal out of it.
Sold the house, the new owners got a judge to issue a no-contact order, and the overly religious neighbors were not even allowed to walk by the house anymore.
schilpr
7. Something You Don’t See Everyday
I lived in a complex of sorts with stacked townhouses and a communal backyard. One night, I went out for a smoke and heard a commotion. There is a cracked-out middle-aged woman who is yelling at her upstairs neighbor for stealing her raccoon.
Yes, she yelled that it was her raccoon because she left a bag of sugar out for it which is apparently a delicacy to raccoons.
The raccoon was on the upstairs neighbors' balcony, so to get it back, she constructed this ramshackle stairway of garbage (upturned garbage cans, broken chairs, etc) and tried to climb up while wielding a hula hoop.
She managed to get to the top of the garbage mountain and somehow thought she could trap the raccoon with a hula hoop (????). Another neighbor came out and a fight ensued with the upstairs neighbor biting the crackhead. Police were called. The raccoon was never seen again.
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8. He Deserved Better
A couple of years ago, there was a mentally ill man who lived a few houses down. We have horrible mental health care in my area, and he really should've been monitored 24/7. He used to stand outside and yell at passing cars.
He'd call people the N-word (he's black), yell that whitey was gonna come for them, he'd yell about Jesus's second coming, etc. He'd hang outside my house and would take cigarette butts from my ashtray (I used to smoke).
When I caught on, I'd leave full cigarettes on my porch for him. He was very grateful and wrote me a barely legible check for $30 written out to "Carrot", as he called me, and a bag of candy. I didn't cash it, of course.
I had to call the cops once because he chased some young kids who were walking by into the street, and it was a busy street. When the cops came, they stopped to talk to me and told me that there wasn't much to do since the mental health facility closed.
They told me that his son was supposed to be with him to watch him. A few months later, he tried to burn down his house, but thankfully, was unharmed. I don't know what happened to him, I moved shortly after. It was pretty sad, he obviously needed care but wasn't getting it.
booofedoof
9. Becoming A Thief
My neighbor came into my backyard when she thought we (university students) had gone home for the summer. I still lived in the house. In fact, I was sitting by the window when she entered our backyard. I thought nothing of it - I chalked it up to her looking for her cat.
I went back to reading my book and completely forgot about her until I saw movement out of the corner of my eye some while later. She was walking out of my backyard with all our plants.
She stole our garden. I was so astounded that I just sat there and stared at her. I never even tried to stop her.
VandWW
10. The Side Effects Of Drinking
When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who drank all the time. He would even drink and drive. One time, he hit our house when pulling into his driveway and just left his car in the front yard against the house.
He then told police that my dad drove the car into our house. The guy was arrested. A week later, the police raided his house and he was sent to jail.
BackDimplez
11. That’s Not What I Meant
I used to work a lot from home, and in the place I was staying back then, my neighbor used to go out for a run, take a shower, and get dressed at her window right across from me every weekday at exactly the same time.
I started opening my window to make it more obvious I was sitting there, working. She responded by having her window open, too.
7hr0w_4w4y_
12. Weird But Nice
I have had my share of really crazy neighbors, but the winners would have to be the "couple" who lived above me in a railroad tenement building in New York.
They were a middle-aged son and mother who lived together like they were husband and wife and had every single centimeter of their walls (in a very narrow apartment) covered in paintings they found discarded and then carefully framed.
Their apartment felt like a gallery from Alice's Wonderland, but not in a "this is cool" kind of way, more like an "I've got to get out of here and will eat or drink whatever you give me to make it happen" kind of way.
However, other than being extremely nosy and gossipy, they were very nice neighbors.
They even helped me, a very poor student at the time, furnish my apartment with all sorts of fascinating "found" pieces of furniture, including a pair of gorgeous but bizarre carved mahogany lounge chairs that were upholstered in striped orange silk.
zazzlekdazzle
13. Crazy Lady
When I lived in a high-rise, there was a woman who rode the elevator on her scooter day and night and wrote down "violations" in a notebook. She would read this notebook at the condo board meetings.
It was stuff like "2 am-Unit 2203-Door to the unit is dirty; 5 pm-Unit 605-I can hear the television through their door"
One day, I came home after a happy hour slightly buzzed and feeling good. I get off the elevator and this woman on a scooter is driving right at me yelling something. I yelped and ran to my condo. Scared the hell out of me and nuked my buzz.
Onid8870
14. The Dog Issue
My neighbor called the cops on us because our dogs were outside barking in the middle of the day. When the cop showed up, we explained to him that our dogs only go outside during the day and for 10-15 minutes at a time tops.
He tells us that it's not a problem and he thinks the neighbor has been drinking.
Just then, the neighbor stumbles by our house on the sidewalk wearing what looks like some kind of moomoo-style pajama shirt and shouts "NEIGHBOR TIME!", as if she's about to rally the troops against our obvious tyranny.
Our neighbor on the other side told us she was trying to get him to complain too. The problem is, he's lived next to us for 10+ years and has dogs too.
BighouseJD
15. Getting Revenge
My poor grandma lived next to the same women since the end of World War 2. They had some sort of feud, even visiting when I was little if I got too close to her house she would start screaming at us.
She would keep calling the police on my grandma for her dog barking, and the police would never do anything.
However, my poor grandma was mobility-limited so she would have to get up and open the door. I think my neighbor actually got a fine eventually for harassing the police.
To get revenge, my uncle salted her lawn and killed her grass, that'll show that witch!
ooo-ooo-oooyea
16. I Don’t Wanna Hear That
Our downstairs neighbor has been dubbed "Moany." At least once a week, he unleashes a series of anguished, banshee-esque wails, always after midnight.
Eventually, my next-door neighbor (Drunky, different story) called the cops. He thought Moany was in some manner of trouble.
The cops were pounding on the door. Moany keeps a-moaning. One cop is interviewing people in the building. Moany keeps a-moaning. Finally, the officer gives an ultimatum: open the door or we bust it down. Moany...stops a-moaning.
Turns out Moany is fine. Just INCREDIBLY vocal when engaging in self-pleasure.
eyes_are_grey
17. Too Many Weird People
My roomies are a mixed bag of weirdos. One likes to suck his toes at night. I know this because I asked him what the noise was, and he responded "I'm sucking my toes."
I didn't ask why. Another plays his music at all times during the day. Without headphones. He has taped his phone to his chest before just because he didn't have pockets.
LifeguardPenis
18. Immature Prick
When I was a kid, maybe 10, my friend was over at my house and we were riding our bikes off of this ramp in my front yard, pretty slow because we were 10.
My neighbor across the street starts yelling at us calling us cowards and telling us to go faster. This dude who is in his mid-50s and dresses like he is Amish is yelling at two ten-year-olds.
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19. Hypocrisy
Neighbors claimed our 80lb dog crawled out a hole in our fence the size of a softball, then climbed their 6ft fence, bit their dog, and then came back to his own yard.
He had to spend a week in quarantine at the animal shelter even though there wasn't a mark on the other dog and even the officers agreed the neighbors' story was crazy. He was never the same after coming home.
They would also stand right at the fence at midnight and yell at him and hit the fence, causing him to bark at them and call the police and report that he was barking all night.
Once, they "accidentally" poured gasoline on him over the fence. Supposedly they didn't like that he was a Staffordshire Terrier (pitbull). We rented the house out for a while and when we moved back they had a pitbull and they like the dog we have now.
HIM_Darling
20. He Needs Help
He is about 5 foot 4, ripped, and covered from head to toe in tattoos. I was eating pizza on the front porch when I had the pleasure of observing this individual try to break down the door to his own house, get hit in the head with a beer bottle by whoever was trying to keep him out, and then run around screaming in a rage while profusely bleeding from his head.
He ran around the back of their house and I walked around back to see what he's up to, and he's screeching furiously while punching out windows with his bare hands, blood flying everywhere.
He had been wearing nothing but white basketball shorts but they were completely covered in blood at this point along with his face, head, back, stomach, and obviously hands. He looked like something out of a zombie movie.
He then walks back around to the front of the house and directly into the fairly busy street there. He started throwing himself on the hoods of cars and smearing blood across their windshields while screaming and moaning incoherently.
After several minutes of this, my neighbor heard the police on their way and decided to handle this by laying down a spread eagle on the median and screaming "Heeeelllp meeee!" over and over very loudly.
liquify_all_humans
21. Too Many To Count
First one, the girl was screaming for someone to help her because her boyfriend was messing with her. He was arrested but back in a few days.
Another time, a neighbor pissed on my front door. Another time, a girl upstairs threw her boyfriend's stuff all over the front lawn.
Another time, I looked out back and saw a SWAT guy walking by. Moments later, they burst into the neighbor's place for substances. That's about it I guess.
GalacticHeimat
22. Insane Neighbors
I lived in an apartment building with a "cursed apartment" at the end of the hall. The first guy who lived there got robbed in the alley on his first night. The people snatched his wallet and attacked his face for no reason.
The next people were smoking something that wasn't weed most of the time. One night, one of them had a major breakdown or a bad trip or something and started smashing furniture and generally freaking out.
I had to call the cops and he was taken away ranting and raving on a stretcher completely naked. The people who moved in after were super shady. People pounding on the door at all hours.
shakycam3
23. Make Up Your Mind
My neighbor hates dogs. Hates them. He lives next to two on the left and two on the right. His garden backs onto mine and I have 3. One time he was digging his garden and my dog ran to the fence and he turned the hose on my dog.
The next day his hose 'accidentally' turned into our garden when the dogs were out and soaked me because I was hanging washing. I let my dogs out once and he told me to "shut them the hell up because he feels like he's living in a freaking kennel".
He then came over to my house to tell me he never swore at me and to not tell anyone he did.
Then he put notes around all the doors of dog owners in our area saying if he hears one more dog bark he'll be phoning the SSPCA saying we're all neglectful dog owners. Oh, and he got a dog 6 months ago.
BartokTheBat
24. What A Nice Surprise
Never met the guy but this was 2 weeks after I moved into my new house. I was 17 at the time and it was in the summer so without having anything better to do, my buddies and I went to pick up some pizza and beer.
It's only like a 10 min drive so it was pretty quick. On the way back , we see a literal SWAT van with a turret mount parked about a block away from my house.
We all agree it's weird and keep driving. As we pull up to my house, we see about 5 heavily armored SWAT guys along the house next to mine, seeming to take cover behind it.
The lady holding an M16 closest to us just points at our house as if to ask "You live here?" And we all slowly nodded.
I had locked the door so we had to go through the garage, and waiting 10 seconds for it to lift up with 5 people holding rifles just staring at you was one of the more awkward situations I've experienced.
Apparently, when my dad came home, they had arrested the guy 2 houses down and he heard them say something along the lines of "You're under arrest for drug trafficking."
Before getting out of my car, one friend inquired if we shouldn't bring in the beer in front of cops, to which I responded: "I think they have bigger things to worry about."
MeestorGomez
25. The Next Hit Sensation
The current neighbors get together on Friday nights and get wasted. They then proceed to discover that they can sing... and they film audition tapes for the Voice.
Spoiler alert - they don't sing well. At all. But the drunker they are, the more impressed they are with each other, so by 2 am they're freaking out about how they'll be the next huge hit sensation.
Then they forget about this and come next Friday, the cycle begins anew. The only reason I know all this is because, while they don't sing well, they sing very, very loudly.
Nosynonymforsynonym
26. We Wish You An Early Christmas
The neighbor who, in September, decorates his yard and the exterior of his house with copious Christmas lights and displays, then turns them on each night, starting early October - long before Halloween.
The kids go to his door for trick-or-treat candy and pass by electric carolers singing Christmas music over loudspeakers as they make their way to the front door.
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27. Car Problems
I woke up to the noise of a car starting at 3 am. It was my neighbors' van. They were revving the hell out of it and they were speaking Spanish loudly (they're Hispanic btw and so am I). I went outside to ask them what was going on.
I only speak English, I don't speak Spanish. One neighbor said "Theeee Carrrr", and then the other neighbor looked at me and said the same thing. I didn't know how to respond to that, so I just turned around and went back inside.
AstroApliiq
28. I Hope They’re Safe
A couple of guys lived next door, we figured out they were a couple but never made a big deal about it because well it's their business. The one guy's older sister lived with them and walked her dog every day so we would chat occasionally. Seemed like nice people.
One day I'm working from home and hear a horrific BANG and my home alarm goes off. What the hell? One of only two times I've gone for my gun (the other was years ago when I had an actual break-in attempt).
The house is secure, then I hear them yelling next door. Oh well, people fight no biggy, the noise set off the motion sensor downstairs.
The next day the one guy has left, the brother is still home and comes over to apologize for the noise. The noise was his partner throwing him down the stairs.
He left soon after and has a restraining order. Sorry for any distress. We told him to dump the guy if that's how he behaved. He says he already has.
We never saw the partner again, the guy and his sister moved out a few weeks later. Hope they're both doing OK.
zerbey
29. Noisy Situation
I had a neighbor move in next door. The first night we heard her doing the deed.
She was an indoor “madame” and got paid with bottles of vodka. She had lots of enemies and would often wander around out in the street swinging a golf club around.
I'm pretty sure her 2 sons were mistreated by their uncle when he was babysitting them. She got kicked out eventually and moved to the next village.
Lord0fPotatoes
30. Just An Appearance
The old apartment I used to live in. My wife and I rented one of two upstairs apartments, but we'd sit down at the bottom of the stairs on nice days and relax.
One day, we heard shouting from our neighbors, but we tried to ignore it. Suddenly a body drops from the second floor and lands splat into the grass. And laughter. Lots and lots of laughter.
We called the cops because we didn't know what was going on, and that body wasn't moving.
Our neighbors got busted for drug possession, and apparently a lot of it from what we heard. They seemed nice enough and we never had a problem with them, but we legitimately thought that person was gone. Nope, not gone. Just super high.
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31. Need A Reality Check?
I have a neighbor who gets irrationally pissed off when he sees people with dogs simply WALK by his house since he is overly protective of his lawn and garden.
I learned this because I made the mistake of walking my dog by his house once, he caught me, stormed out, and gave me a 5-minute speech about how I shouldn't let my dog walk by his house.
He has done this to several people, including a 9-year-old girl, whom he made cry. Yeah, he's a really pleasant guy.
MemeLord_____
32. Disgusting!
My friend's upstairs neighbor has a dog, but he never takes him for a walk or out for a poop. So the dog just does his business on the balcony and when it dries, he shoves it off the balcony onto the cars below.
Then throws water on it to clean it up and the poop water drips down onto her balcony. She has called the landlord, the city, the maintenance company. No one will do anything about it.
We have shouted at him while doing it and he stops for a minute but continues when we are gone. If you knock on his door, he won't answer.
billbro_swaggins
33. Take Care Of Your Dog
The downhill neighbor had a wide-open view of our beautiful lower yard. They got a barky dog that they left in their backyard all day. The dog tore down our fence trying to get out and get to our dog.
We built a new solid wood fence and then they complained, now that they couldn’t see our yard, that we were spying on them from our yard. Whatever.
Then they built a raised deck so that they could see over the fence. We planted a row of bamboo and haven’t seen them since.
They called the building department about our fence. The building department came out, said it was legit, and cited them for their illegal deck.
Aromadegym
34. Chill Out
We had a shared driveway. Outside at 4 am with a laser pointer trying to find property lines, wants to put a gate up blocking the driveway and we would have to knock on her door to come and go.
She would turn around on our property and almost crush our sewer line. Tried to sleep with my husband. Party on her roof. Kick down our signs and shoot bbs at our dog. Tons more things I'm choosing to forget. Screw you, Shannon!
Inotawhatwhat
35. Bugs Everywhere
I didn't really interact with my upstairs neighbors when I was in my first apartment, but their religion prohibited them from killing anything...including roaches.
Their apartment became a breeding ground and the roaches would spill into the rest of the building, including mine below. It was a horrible experience and felt so hopeless because it didn't matter how clean we were or how diligent. The buggers were always everywhere.
SharpTenor
36. Stay In Your Lawn
My parents’ neighbor owns a landscaping company, so he has a dump truck. His house is set further back from the road than theirs, so his driveway, which is right on the property line, extends past their house and next to their backyard.
My dad noticed the neighbor turning the dump truck around in my parents’ backyard when the ground was very soft from some recent rain. He went back, and sure enough, there were giant ruts in my parents’ yard.
When my dad confronted the neighbor about using their backyard to turn around, the neighbor responded by saying, “I’m sorry, but if I turned it around in my yard, it would have left ruts in my lawn.”
So he knew it would leave ruts, didn’t want them in his yard, and left them in my parents’ yard instead.
livecaterpillarflesh
37. Some Kind Of Revenge
I had a neighbor who let his dog run free, it would get into our yard give our dogs fleas, eat all the food, and teach them how to escape. No matter what my mom said, the guy denied his dog was getting out.
So being fed up with the situation my mom dyed the dog purple and sent it on its merry way. The neighbor kept his dog contained after that. Note the dye was a nontoxic semi-permanent dog dye. No harm came to the pupper.
lorelei_fluss
38. He Deserves To Be Locked Down
My neighbor hated cats so put out cat traps (the type which crushes a leg) which my cat got caught in and dragged home. It crushed his leg and pelvis so he had to be put down.
The neighbor was given a warning for messing with animals and was later charged due to his treatment of his own pets. Hated that guy.
tmaegan
Pexels, Krysten Merriman
39. They Have Some Issues
I was living in a crapy part of town at the time. I had a couple of older neighbors who could have stared in a hoarder's marathon. The garage door was bowing out and splitting into areas due to the amount of stuff forced into it.
To top that, they had hundreds of feral cats with horrible defects. They kept the front door open 24/7 so the cats could come in and out of the house, at least the ones that lived long enough too.
I would have to crawl under my house to remove the gone ones so my house didn't reek every few days.
Arrendersi
40. Take Your Meds, Lady
My sister passed away and we had everyone in our entire family staying and meeting at our house, lived in a townhouse and had two carports plus there were a number of visitor parking spaces.
The day before the funeral, we woke to find all our cars had the tires deflated, our neighbor was crazy as hell, had a son who was just as crazy and vile as she, and couldn't prove it, but they were the culprits.
Called the cops and they did nothing. When we first moved in she gifted us with a decoration for our backyard, we displayed it and it mysteriously disappeared 1 month later, we saw it hanging in her backyard. She kept picking on us and we did absolutely nothing to her.
nellabella27
41. Not Careful
My neighbor accidentally discharged a gun, and the bullet went through our sliding glass door and ended up in the pantry. We were alerted when 80% of the glass in our sliding glass door fell on the floor. I'm 5'7 and could walk through the sliding glass door without opening it.
The round was found in a box of pancake mix about 6 inches over my head so the odds of it hitting me had I been in the kitchen or walking around my house the odds of being hit were very high.
[deleted]
42. What A Way To Live
When I still lived in Germany, a Russian family lived across the street. About 7 people, no one worked, they spent all their time sitting outside, smoking, arguing, and having friends over. All year round.
One December night, they had a barbecue outside, sitting around a fire while it was snowing. Nothing bothered them. But they bothered everyone else.
When you tried to talk to them, they acted like they didn't understand German. No matter where I live now - it's quieter.
ariellann
43. Irresponsible Mom
My neighbor locks her kids outside no matter the weather and she doesn't answer the door. They're probably 3 and 5. Just one example.
We were having a huge evergreen tree cut down in our front yard, maybe 7 feet from the property line. I told her, "You might want to back your car into the street so it doesn't get filthy." She moved the car but locked her 3-year-old son outside the entire time. I mean…
myboyiscoy
44. They Finally Moved Out
When living with my dad in a duplex, the downstairs neighbor was a family of I think 8 people in a 2br house.
They were all on pills, sat on the porch 24/7, none of them had a job, frequently had police because of fights...oh, and they bread chihuahuas, so the constant sound of dogs barking and yelping.
At the same time, the neighbors on the same floor as us ( Very thin walls) were a family of 3 where the 2 kids constantly fought for whose turn it was on the Xbox. I could hear them crap-talking people over the mic all the time.
One time I put my guitar amp against the wall at full volume… I usually play unplugged or with headphones because the volume at 2 shakes the floors. They were quiet for a little bit, but it never stopped. So glad I moved out.
derpado514
45. Trashy Situation
We had two neighbors get into a feud. They loved tipping over each other's trashcans and scatter trash in the yard.
Oh and since we lived between them the trash mostly wound up in our front yard and they refused to pick it up. Even when our neighbor recorded them scattering trash across our yard they denied it.
One also borrowed our snow shovel and tried to throw crap at the others' car. They missed, hit Mom's, then said we did it to frame them since our shovel had dog crap on it.
CrazyCoKids