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30 Folks In This Online Group Share How Their “Neighbors From Hell” Earned Their Name
Has anyone answered the question can’t we all just get along yet? No? Drats.
While there is surely a high enough chance that if you’re moving, you’re gonna end up with good neighbors, there is also a non-zero chance of having crummy ones, and alas this is a list of the latter.
Redditors have been sharing stories of the worst neighbors they’ve ever had, and believe you me, they cranked the dial up to 11 with this one.
Below is a curated list of the best stories collected from the now viral Reddit post, which has managed to get over 41,500 upvotes, 125 plus Reddit awards, and has generated a comment section that has reached nearly 11,000 comments.
Read the stories below, vote and comment on the ones you find the most daunting, and if you have your own nightmares to tell, please do in the comment section below!
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#1
Lived in a small apartment and my neighbours always cranked up their music to 11. Like loud, loud. And until something like 7am. Maybe later, but that's when I would leave 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 5am and turn it back on.
It was reported by heaps of people, 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.
Maybe I'm the bad neighbour in this story...
Rosemary Probert 4 years ago
I had a similar experience once. Antisocial neighbours several houses away played their music really loud, and when the man next to them complained they just turned the volume up. 2am half the street was banging on their door but nobody answered. Then the police arrived. Their knocking wasn't answered either so they banged hard on the window. An angry face and someone's butt appeared inside the window while a voice hurled a barrage of abuse.... at the officers outside. Oops! I went back home at that point so I didn't see what happened next. Suffice t say they kept the noise down after that, so it must have worked.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Yeah. Hard to play your music loud when you’re in jail.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Bet you wish you'd thought of jamming the lock to get the manager months earlier. Kudos for finally figuring it out.
Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
I remember a really loud party across the street. Everybody had their windows open because it was summer. The police arrived some time after midnight and the sound system was suddenly turned off....while a party-goers rhythmic screams (timed with the music that no longer played) continued. Time for a drug bust.
XOnlyX WickrMe 4 years ago
I hate that if it's day time, you can make high level noise period. Like idc if I am awake, no one wants or cares to hear your 6 hour band tribute etc. Or your stupid motorcycle!
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#2
When my wife and I moved into our house in the summer of 2019, the neighbors on either side of us warned us about the people renting the house directly behind ours. Apparently they had been known to cause trouble and blow things way out of proportion, bordering on paranoia of everyone around them.
We kept it in mind but had no issues for the first 6 months or so after moving in. Their house sits on a hill behind ours and so overlooks the majority of our back yard due to the elevation change.
Well one night (morning, technically) at about 3am we wake up to Ring notifications from our phones showing video from our front doorbell - there’s a man standing barefoot in a sleeveless shirt on our porch POUNDING on our front door.
We give it 2-3 minutes just watching him on the app thinking maybe he’s drunk and has the wrong house… essentially giving him the benefit of the doubt. But then we start to hear him say “come out you f!@#$%g p@#$y, I’m gonna f@#k you up” etc and he leaves the porch and starts to head around the side of the house towards our backyard.
Considering we had NO idea who this was, my wife now immediately calls the police as I move out of our bedroom towards the external doors to look/listen for any attempt of home invasion. At this point our neighbors directly behind us throw a HUGE spotlight into our backyard from theirs.. we’re thinking okay cool they know something is up and they’re trying to help us out by shedding light on our backyard.
The cops arrive several long minutes later and knock, we explain the situation and they head out back to look around and get the scoop from the neighbors with the spotlight. It turns out that the spotlight neighbor was the one on our porch, he had jumped our fence into our backyard and up into his yard and then threw the light on.
He told the police that several nights prior, I had let my puppy out into MY OWN backyard in the middle of the night and because I was in my boxers, that I was “trying to expose myself to his family” because they could look down on our entire yard from where theirs sits.
He then followed this up to the police with “evidence” which consisted of videos he had taken THROUGH OUR WINDOWS of my wife and I inside of our own home doing totally normal things like chores, watching tv, etc.. nothing inappropriate or scandalous (not that it would have mattered anyway, we were in our OWN HOME). Because of the elevation difference, if they went out of their way they could technically slightly see through our closed blinds due to the angle… so they had been filming us for no reason at all and expected the police to see this as reasonable?
The cops came back in and my wife was devastated, a huge breach of our privacy of course and totally unfounded accusations as we had never done anything to anger these people, we hadn’t even met them. The police told us “just don’t worry about it, if he tries something again just give us a call” which wasn’t the most comforting at the time.
They moved out a few months later without any additional issues, my wife and I celebrated like it was a holiday when we saw the moving van in their driveway.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
If this occurred in the US, then your right to “an expectation of privacy” from recordings is a law your neighbor broke. And the cops were complicit when they didn't arrest him for these unauthorized video recordings.
Yort 4 years ago
I’m pretty sure in a situation like this the cops know that arresting these clearly insane people is just going to make things much worse, so they just give a stern warning not to do it again and hope they don’t do it again.
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StarlightPanda! 3 years ago
The police didn't help me in a similar situation, but whatever. Good and bad everywhere.
Anders Magrioteli 4 years ago
That’s a really sad story. But I hope the “waving goodbye party” was worth waiting for.
Bonnie Sinclair 4 years ago
I would go to the hardware store and buy a vinyl film to put over the windows. They are easily removable. They allow light in but offer 100% privacy
Christy Smith 4 years ago
Well at least the police were completely useless, this has the United States written all over it, it also has white ppl all over it seeing how the police literally did nothing about it (about the neighbors)
#3
Definitely the s@#thead 19 year olds that lived next door to me when I was finishing up college that screamed at Call of Duty at the top of their lungs through paper thin walls every night when they got killed, who also threw a pumpkin on the roof of my car, causing $3k worth of damage which is considered felony vandalism in Michigan.
I finally got them to confess and basically gave him a "stern talking to" as a 22 year old that was just done with college nonsense at that point, and told him I wasn't going to press charges as long as his insurance paid for it.
Later that year when his roommate was flipping out about CoD and yelled something along the lines of "GODDAMNIT F@#$%^G HACKERS, EVERYONE IS F@#$%^G CHEATING, WHAT THE F@#K IS THIS BULLS@#T, I HATE THIS GAME, BUNCH OF F@#$%^G LOSERS AND CHEATERS", which was very clear through my bedroom wall while I was studying, so I didn't hesitate (since it had been months of that) after he got done with his tantrum and said:
"sounds like you just suck at CoD, bro."
I heard a crash of what sounded like a controller being banished to the shadow realm, and then didn't hear anything from him for a month. It was glorious.
Rage of Aquarius 4 years ago
Ugh, that's my brother on Fortnite every single night. I'm trying to paint, or play piano, or read, and he's screaming the most vile curses at his friends and keeping my dad up.
#4
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 to 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.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Oh, so that's fine, not a big deal... No drugs, just terrorism.
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Terilee Bruyere 4 years ago
The 'only bombs' line sounds awful, but meth labs result in a very toxic living area whereas bomb making materials are a bit easier to clean up.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
You only need these things to clean up a bomb explosion: Mop. Bucket Dispenser. Bin Dispenser. Broom. Laser Gun. Elevating Platform. Random Crap Dispenser. Paperwork Machine.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
We had a guy the next neighbourhood over who blew up his own house (I think he used a propane tank or something? It was a long time ago). The story goes that he did it as a botched suicide attempt - he was well known for having severe mental health issues - but it didn't work because he just ended up blasting himself straight through a window. The house was destroyed but he survived. I don't know what happened to him after that. I hope he got help.
deathrose 4 years ago
I rented a house in a nice neighborhood once. My neighbors were really pleasant and kind. They took care of my cat when I went to visit my dad in the hospital after surgery. I came home from work one day and there were cops and firemen at their house. I was worried something had happened to them but it turns out they had a meth lab in their rv out back and it had exploded.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Well, that was surely a relief. "Good news honey, that met lab downstairs? Turns out it's only a bomb factory. It explains why the guy was missing so many fingers"
Anders Magrioteli 4 years ago
Did the neighbour invoke The Second Amendment? “I gotta have them bombs for defending myself, your Honour.”
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
"Only" his bombs, I think I'd rather a meth lab....well maybe not both can at any time go big bodda boom.
#5
The people living across the street from me when I lived in Colorado. They owned eight vehicles and didn't have any room to park any of them in their garage. They parked most of them on the street taking up parking spaces for half the block. Their daughter (in her 20s) always parked her Jeep directly in front of my house. It annoyed me that she parked there all the time but I never complained because it didn't really hurt anything and I was trying to be a decent neighbor.
Things went to s@#t when my dad called and said he wanted to visit me for a few days. He was 71 years old at the time and had Parkinson's disease which made it difficult for him to walk. I walked across the street and knocked on the door to be greeted by matriarch of the family. I was polite, explained that my dad had limited mobility and would be visiting the next Friday through Monday. I pointed at her daughters Jeep that was blocking the sidewalk leading to my front door. I remained courteous and asked if her daughter could park her vehicle elsewhere during that period of time.
She became noticeably agitated and told me that was her daughter's parking spot. I explained to her that it was directly in front of my house blocking my sidewalk and that it was undeniably my parking spot according to the HOA rules. She told me that I should have my dad park in my driveway. I pointed out that my driveway was very steep and that my dad would be unable to safely enter or exit his vehicle there. She then pointed to a parking spot that was open about fifty yards down the street and told me that I would have to tell my dad that he had to park there. I f!@#$%g lost it and started ripping her a new a!@hole calling her a trashy, good for nothing, worthless bitch. Finally her husband screamed from somewhere inside their house that she just needed to "Tell your f!@#$%g daughter to park somewhere else for three days!".
Rosemary Probert 4 years ago
I am probably wicked for saying this, but when I see well people parking in a space for the disabled I hope one day they will know what it feels like themselves. It doesn't have to be something totally life changing, but just for long enough for the message to get through that this is how it feels when an a$$h0le doesn't respect common decency.
Laura Lou 4 years ago
I totally agree! I have an invisible illness and need disabled parking spots at college, and it always annoyed me seeing people parking there without plates or a tag. Which meant I had to park in places far from the door, and reach class exhausted.
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CanadianaKa 4 years ago
Sometimes I hate people. We had a jerk across the street from us who had a three-car driveway and three car garage but would park one to four of his cars on the street. Always spread out, so two took up four spots. He'd scream at you if you parked on *his* side of the street, but regularly parked on ours. Finally, one of our neighbours (we were a little cluster of little colleges) went to talk to the guy and explained we had an epileptic, someone with a broken foot and two frail seniors in our cluster and could he maybe leave the spots closest to us for us, or at least stop using two cars to waste four spots? Bet you can guess the choice words he gave back... F***er.
Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
9 yrs ago I developed neuropathy in my feet and hands. At the beginning, I could not walk without a walker and basically lived on my couch for several years. I got handicap plates shortly after I got sick. Well, after much physical work, medicine and acupuncture, I got better. Still have tons of pain and balance issues, but don't need a walker. I feel guilty for parking in handicap places because I know there are people out there worse than me who need them. Frankly, I try to look like I do not have a disability, just want to look normal.
Carmella Quintana 4 years ago
I also have a neighbor with about 6 cars and trucks plus a boat that he also parks in front of my house as only 2 vehicles fit in their yard. Only 2 people in the house drive. One day I parked my car where he usually parks and the asshole parked in front of my house.
Jaekry 4 years ago
Honest question, is it written right/duty that you have to park only in front of your property? Here it's sort of a nice thing to park near your home, but we can park anywhere we like/has place. (Except, privately owned places, disabled, or defined by law (not on corners, driveways).
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Cadmar Orion 4 years ago
If she didn't move her car, I honestly would've gotten her keep towed, I may be petty for that, but
#6
Their 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 loud as f@#k, got chickens that escape on a regular basis in our suburban neighborhood and are overall scummy people.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Only a piece of shït loser would hurt an animal over something their abusive keeper did. Don’t be trash.
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Def not Mr. C 4 years ago
My neighbor had a dog like that once. Me and my brother were just riding our bikes by their house. And their pitbull jumped over the fence and chased us. It gave up eventually; but my dad called the police on the dog. So the people had to keep it inside when they left for work. I just find that when people do not take care of their vicious dogs it causes a lot of hurt to others
Rosemary Probert 4 years ago
They owners are probably people who wouldn't think twice before shooting someone.
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BoredHuman 4 years ago
Why is BP re-posting this AGAIN. I literally read an almost identical post with 99% of the same submissions only a few short mths ago. Honestly I used to love BP but now it is just rinse and repeat over and over again.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I was fortunate to have lived in the neighborhood where I bought a house, but who else has that type of good fortune? After signing a mortgage, it's too late to learn you live next door to selfish people.
#7
We had some neighbours that used to leave their garbage out in plastic bags the night before garbage day - instead of putting it in a bin. Around here, that's just ringing the dinner bell for raccoons and other critters.
Sure enough come morning there's garbage strewn all over the neighbourhood. What the raccoons and skunks didn't spread around, the wind picked up the slack. Some of the people on the street kindly approached the guy and asked him to put his garbage in a bin. He told them to go f@#k themselves.
Thus began the Garbage Wars.
Every morning of garbage day some people on my street would collect all the half eaten and rotten trash from their lawns and toss it back into the dude's backyard. He would collect it, then dump it back on their lawns. Or cram it into their bushes. People started finding half eaten burritos and candy wrappers in their mailboxes. The street started to look like a slum. Police were called. Health inspectors. City by-law enforcement. Each side was calling in whatever authority they could muster to get their enemy in s@#t.
The dude and his family (amazingly his wife seemed perfectly pleasant) lasted about 8 months then moved.
Every once in a while I find a random margarine lid or piece of styrofoam in my hedge, and my mind goes back to those dark days of war.
Sky Render 4 years ago
Ugh, our current neighbors who live next door AND below us do that crap. The ones below us aren't so bad (it usually gets out to the bin within 12 hours), but the next-door jerks like to leave rotting meat and the like sitting on the porch for DAYS before they finally do anything. It was well worth complaining to building management about...
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
FFS, don’t these people have noses? Or do they smell worse than the garbage? Or is it like the monkey house at the zoo that stinks when you first go in, then after a while you get “nose blind” and stop smelling it? Personally, the stench of rotting garbage would make me puke every time I opened the door or a window.
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Bret Sander 4 years ago
It's a federal crime for anyone other than that mailman and the mailbox owner to open said mailbox. I'd have called the local post office and the cops and sorted that s**t post haste.
oof 4 years ago
It's basically illegal to put garbage out where I live the night before bc I'm in Colorado and there are bears. Putting it out the night before basically endangers the entire neighborhood to the possibility of bears and most people on my street own dogs. Also, my city has a "two-strike" program for wild bears. When a bear commits an offense and disrupts humans, it gets a little identifier thingy. After the second one, they get put down. Having the garbage out makes it more likely that a bear will commit an offense and possibly die because of it.
Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
WOW !!! There are some mentally disturbed people we share this planet with.
#8
We rented a house that had another apartment in the basement. The lady who lived below us kept to herself for the most part so we didn't see her much.
Part of our rental was a detached garage and she asked if she could put small deep freezer in our garage. We were using it for storage, so we were fine with it. After a couple weeks of having her freezer in there, it somehow got unplugged and she came unglued on us and wanted us to pay to replace everything. I understood her frustration, but we hardly ever went into the garage since it was only for storage. In other words, we definitely didn't unplug it and our landlord agreed. But she was PISSED.
She had a son in college who came home for the summer. During that summer he found a cat and brought it home. His mom said no cats inside, so he would feed the kitten outside. She was pretty wild. He left for school again in the fall and we noticed that the cat was getting very thin. We started feeding her outside in her usual spot. Around Christmas we bought a bag of cat food and I made a plate of cookies and left them both at our neighbor's front door. The next day they were both back on our porch. Rude. Whatever.
We continued to feed the cat because she obviously wasn't feeding her. A few weeks later the cat came to our door crying. She was trying to come inside. Super weird considering she was pretty wild and we had never let her inside before. I let her in and noticed she was pregnant and for sure about to have babies. I made her a little corner and she had babies the next day. We let her stay in the house with us but we knew we couldn't keep her. I went downstairs to talk to our neighbor. She said that her son's cat was a boy so the cat we had obviously wasn't his.
I posted on Facebook to see if anyone was interested in fostering a cat and her kittens because we couldn't keep her. Her son saw my post on Facebook and got SUPER mad at his mom. She then called the cops and said that I stole her cat and lied to her when she confronted me about having the cat in my possession.
It was the stupidest, most frustrating thing that had ever happened to me as far as neighbors go.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Original Reddit thread says the poor things ended up at the animal shelter. :(
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Angelar 4 years ago
What is the point is rescuing a stray when the animal is being euthanized in the animal shelter?
Imogene Cargeaux 4 years ago
I work with SPCA running a TNR feral cat program in Louisiana. the only way a cat would be euthanized right away would be if It were sick with something like FIV or it was aggressive. We try to place cats in no kill shelters or private rescues as much as we can n we also have people who take in friendly ferals to live as barn cats. we rarely euthanize friendly, socialized cats. but that's just my experience. my volunteers n I do whatever it takes to make sure these animals have the best chance of finding homes. I obviously don't know where this is but I've worked with dozens of shelters n rescues in dozens of states n things are changing with the rise of no kill rescues n shelters.. especially now that lots of places are working together to help end mass euthanasia. Obviously we have a long way to go still but it's getting better! So don't automatically assume that an animal is going to be euthanized just because it went to a shelter. Not every shelter does that s**t.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Hurt animals, you answer to me. And the great thing about medicine is, we know what kills people... slowly...
Random Anon 4 years ago
And this is why we cannot have nice things. Trashy people with questionable morals, or completely lack of, simply cannot be allowed the freedom lest they cheat, steal and harm others with it.
#9
Lived on the bottom floor of a two story Victorian. There was very little sound insulation between the two floors. When we moved in there was a friendly older couple that had a dog. We could hear it running around but honestly no big deal. Then they moved out and these three young guys moved in. Seemed nice at first but they turned out to be horrible.
Officially the rental agreement said quiet hours started at like 9pm. We basically told them, look, we're usually out of the house a lot and not home until late. As long as you're quiet by midnight during the week and 2am (bar time) on weekends we're cool. This seemed incredibly reasonable to me. Within a couple weeks of them moving in it was non-stop crappy techno music being blasted at all hours. As we had said, we weren't home much so that didn't bother us all that much. What did was the Tuesday night parties going until 4am. I'd go to their front door to ask them to quiet down and it would take a few minutes of ringing the doorbell and pounding before anyone would come down. Usually eyes were glazed over from either booze or drugs. I complained to their landlord multiple times but nothing really fixed it. I finally just started calling the cops and that would get them to stop for that night at least.
The final straw was they had a party with easily 60 or 70 people. Again, not a big deal, until it was 3am and the club music was blasting and everyone decided jumping up and down would be a great idea. I actually could see the ceiling flexing. I finally sat down and wrote a cease and desist letter detailing the city's noise ordinances and various other legal s@#t that would give me cause to sue them and put it in their mailbox. Sent it to their landlord as well. That stopped things. Should have done it months before that.
Finally the landlord had enough I guess because he came in and raised their rent to something insane like $6000 a month. We live in an expensive city but that was like 2x market rate at least. There was no rent control for this building so they were out within the month. Was pretty glorious to hear them yelling at each other about finding a new place to live.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
There are always a few who simply cannot find it within them not to be selfish, boorish a-holes.
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
I don't understand how (it sounds like) the noisy neighbors and OP had different landlords? Seems a house like that would have the landlord owning all of it.
Remi 4 years ago
Mostly our neighbors have been ok, but a few years back we had a couple of party animals living two floors below us. Thing is, both me and my partner can basically sleep through an explosion, but problem was that the neighbors one floor down thought the noise was coming from our apartment. First time we found out about "our loud parties in the middle of the week" was when our landlord tried to give us an official warning to be quiet or else. Luckily the landlord believed us when we told her the facts: 1. During the week, we never stay up after midnight 2. we both have anxiety and we never have had any visitors to our home, because it's our safe space. So while they didn't bother us directly, they almost caused us some serious trouble.
#10
Alright everyone sit down and buckle in becuase I have got a 15 year long feud for you.
My mom, dad and I moved into a condo when I was about 14, it's set up like an apartment building, so we we had a neighbor on our right and one below us. When we first moved in we met Trina our downstairs neighbor, she was an older woman (60's) taking care of her mentally challenged grandson (my same age but mentally a 6 year old with minimal language development) she seemed sweet and welcomed us. We had a few small issues but kept them to ourselves; she smoked A LOT, like 3-4 packs a day, and the smell would over take our house, and he grandson would "scream" a lot in the early morning but nothing serious and we never said a word. We were all friendly enough and life was fine.
About two years after moving in my mom bought a portable hose, to water her outdoor plants and clean the balcony off. This is when s@#t hit the fan. Trina lost it when my mom washed the patio for the first time, just water no chemicals, just rinsing the dirt off. Trina promptly started screaming about killing my mom for doing this. She then complained to the condo association every single day for years. She started to burn small fires in a coffee can under our windows in an attempt to smoke us out. She once saw my bedroom window was left open and literally flooded my room with her hose. She would call the police on every single noise we ever made, it got to the point that if she called the police and they showed up and there wasn't an issue she would be fined $50.
A couple years later I become pregnant young (18) and my boyfriend moved in and we had a baby. She told my boyfriend that I had a revolving line of men, and I was unsure who the father was but chose him because he was nice. (Completely fabricated) She continued with her nonsense for years and years, she once was driving down the drive way while I was getting my then two kids into the car; she literally tried to hit my oldest son with her car. I had to physically pick him up and throw him out of the way. When the police came she denied everything.
She harrased my family for years to the point of the condo association having to have private meetings with her and my dad, which nothing ever came of. The condo association was just as fed up as we were.
Three years ago my mom died suddenly of CJD and when she realized my mom was no longer around she laughed and told my dad and my kids that my mom deserved to die. She was an awful, awful woman. She recently fell I'll with Covid, and subsequently had a stroke. We don't know if she is still alive or in a home but my dad (who still lives there) says it's nice to be free of the constant harassment.
Xīngxīng Emmersyn 4 years ago
That woman must be related to the woman my parents live next to; she smokes, has a mentally challenged grandson and is nasty.
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 4 years ago
Last sentence, 3rd to last paragraph. 'When the police came she denied everything' she had witnesses and she still denied? stupid b!tch
Anders Magrioteli 4 years ago
That you folks aren’t convicted for manslaughter is nothing but a miracle.
#11
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 delievered 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.
Long story short, 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 me 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 include grand theft auto, domestic assault, drug dealing, and an attempted break in.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Not all convicted felons fall into this creep's category. So, since the landlord knew who he was renting to, I blame the landlord for not following up and really vetting this guy before allowing him into the building or at least acting on the disturbing information he was getting from the other tenants.
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Rens 4 years ago
I live in a secure building with controlled access, where everyone is either elderly, disabled or both. Both my boyfriend and I are young and disabled, and often housebound; we don't live together so he is my safe person to accept deliveries if I'm not in. I have had so many packages stolen, obviously by other residents! I lost 3 today! Driver has marked them as "handed to resident" so I have no idea who has them. I have very clear delivery instructions: deliver directly to my door, I have a Ring doorbell so I can see everything. I'm so fed up about people stealing my stuff!
Sarah 4 years ago
This is why I think it's terrible that Amazon just leaves packages at your door. In my apartment building, I walk by about 3 packages a week that are just sitting in front of apartment doors. One person lets them in the building so then any other deliveries get left too, whether those people are home or not. I walk by them and think "I could take that, and I could take that, or that..." Makes me happy I work from home and won't ever miss any that are for me.
#12
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 yelling 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 pounded 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.
I don’t know if he was arrested or committed but he never was back at his house and his family sold it a few months later.
Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
At 18 I would have been mortified. Hey what am I saying, at 60+ I would be mortified !!!! lol
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I had a stupid woman suddenly stop in the middle of a store parking lot and then, without warning, back up into me. Even though we could see her male passenger yelling and gesturing at her when she did it, he still joined her in yelling at us "Why didn't you get out of our way!?!" as if there'd been time🙄 If they'd have done more damage than just denting the heck out of my brand new license plate, I wouldn't have been able to just ignore them and leave. Crazy morons actually had the nerve to start getting aggressive about it 🙄😒
#13
Current neighbor. She has a small business practice out of her home. She had her customers park on 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, 2ft from my no trespassing signs… cops got called. I filled 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 dumps loads of gravel and sand in my front yard as their storage area, and a cement truck tore 18in 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.
The whole tree came down.
Dawson James 4 years ago
I know this is horrible but I would have "accidentally" dropped it on her porch
#14
Apartment building- The upstairs neighbours 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 future they said it wasn’t their dog and it must have blown over from somewhere else. What?
BoredHuman 4 years ago (edited)
I work in a condo and this is a huge issue. One couple let their dog poop on the balcony and it rolled off to the one below. The tenant tried speaking to them as did property management. No change so they called animal control. They were fined and the dog was temp removed. They would leave the balcony door open and let the dog poop and pee outside and not clean it up. The things I have seen thrown off condo balconies . People act like they are living in a house and tossing stuff from their back porch. My fave is when people throw buckets of dirty soapy mop water and maintenance panics because they think there is a flood somewhere when they suddenly see water gushing from the 15th floor..
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I think a person would know that they were being peed on directly thru the slats and not a breeze blowing liquid across the patio.
Viviane 4 years ago
A Great Dane missing a fire hydrant and projectile peeing?
Load More Replies... Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
I managed condos for 10 years. I do not recommend doing that, or OWNING a condo. I for one, think the idea behind condos was great (in theory only). Once ownership goes from developer to HOA, that's when the chaos can begin. When you buy a condo, you are married to their Declarations and By-laws (the rules and regulations) which can be 30-50 pages long, or more. No one reads them. What happened here is clearly against the rules and regulations of any multi-family housing, if not against other laws. Enforcing the rules can also get very expensive if attorneys are involved. The single biggest problem is mentally unstable people. The people who allowed their dog free access to their patio to defecate/urinate had no moral compass or reasoning ability. They knew their animal was doing this, but did not clean up after them and that people were complaining. Their children or family members should have stepped in and gotten professional help for them.
#15
Our neighbor was tossing bags of her vomit into my yard for about a year. Like 50 bags. Called the cops. Turns out she had an eating disorder she was hiding from her parents.
Axolotl King 4 years ago
That's sad and I hope she got the help she needed but at least this one somewhat has an excuse. Doesn't make it ok but at least it wasn't for no reason
Dylan Bess 4 years ago
I'm surprised the parents didn't smell all those bags when they went outside
Rosemary Probert 4 years ago
I hope you took them back and showed her parents, if only so she could get treatment.
Yort 4 years ago
For real, why WASNT she just vomiting into the toilet? Is it easier to hide it by stealing plastic bags, going into the yard, and tossing it, or just using the toilet?
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Moved into a crappy apartment in a building that was occupated 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.
Anyways, 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 the f@#k 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 f@#k off, and called the police.
Didn’t live there for much longer, I’ll tell you that.
Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
You get what you pay for. If you cannot afford it, make other living arrangement with family or friends.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Sugar, yes. Milk, no problem. I even borrowed some Arm & Hammer from my neighbor once (to fix a guitar nut I had overfiled). No pee. I thought I lived a pretty interesting life until I realized that no one ever asked to borrow my urine.
#17
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.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Says it happened when they were younger so who knows how many years ago was that and if that option was available
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Joanna Werman 4 years ago
Fireworks such and scare the crap out of my dog and me. I hate this dude
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Fireworks can be managed. Procure a 81mm M252 mortar and see how they like YOUR fireworks. The dog is an entirely different thing. That's personal.
Susan Widomski 4 years ago
Fireworks are the worst for me and my dogs. They are very frightened of them and I curse the day they were legalized in our state (one of the ones with a drought). They light them for every frickin' holiday. Thanksgiving?!! For the memorial of 9/11?!! I yelled out the back door that you light candles for a memorial - fireworks are for celebrations. Stupid,
#18
There’s a whole list with this one. We moved into an apartment complex and the neighbors right next door on our landing made our experience there extremely uncomfortable to put it lightly.
-Two weeks after we moved in, 20 armed officers showed up and breached the neighbor’s door. The cops said they couldn’t locate the person they were after and that’s all the info we got on the incident.
-Through our shared wall, we heard a man shout “If you don’t stop doing that I swear to god I’ll punch you again. Do you want me to punch you again?” Followed by a child crying. We called CPS- and then we were afraid because we were the only ones that could have heard, so they’d know it was us who called.
-Very often, we’d see strangers at the neighbors doorstep. When they’d knock on the neighbors door, it was easy to hear from anywhere in our apt and sometimes we’d think maybe it was our door. Many times, we’d hear a child next door answer, and then shout something like, “mom, so and so is ready.” I’d like to believe she was just giving haircuts or something (technically still against lease agreement), but based on the types of people showing up at the door, it seems unlikely.
-We were exiting the apartment at the same time as the neighbors, and lived on the second floor. Their 4 year old fell all the way down the concrete stairs to the ground level. We were horrified and moved to help. The mother stepped in and ignored us, yelled at her crying and definitely hurt child, and then quickly got in their car and drove off.
We moved after a year and never looked back. But I do think about those kids and I feel sad knowing that so many children are in abusive situations, raised by incompetent parents who were likely raised in the same terrible cycle.
snipergun 4 years ago
And nobody does anything for children while it's obvious... It's devastating to live in such a world. I know people around often try to help, but they also fail more than succeed and it's unthinkable that it's still possible.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Thing is, there’s the impulse to help, then there’s the reality of helping. The older I get the more I realize that, while the impulse sounds so nice and and Good Samaritan-ish, the reality of getting involved can often mean unwittingly inviting, into your own relatively well-ordered and peaceful life. a world of other people’s s**t that is nearly impossible to get out of. Just be careful how deep you go. (I have a strong “jump in and help” impulse too, and learned the hard way that there are people who take full—-and way over full—-advantage of the kindness of others.)
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Theresa McCreary 4 years ago
Very sad for the children. They are innocent and deserve so much better. This is how they can grow up with a mental imbalance.
#19
I lived in an apartment with slot of rotating tenants. and elderly lady 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 awhile and started to smell something real 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.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I feel sorry for the elderly lady - she clearly needed help with possible mental issues, but it seems her family didn't care too much for her. It's a sad reality too - a fair amount of people die and aren't found for weeks until after their deaths because they literally have no one in their lives. It's awful. :(
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
Sometimes there is nothing you can do as their family members. APS (adult protective services) is even more of a joke than CPS. My mom is very mentally ill and a hoarder. She has been charged with assaulting me for attempting to get her outdoor hoard in order so she wouldn't be fined by the city. I have had to cut ties very recently with her to keep my own sanity. It's very sad but there is very little family can do to help these people.
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#20
My neighbor was allowing their large dog to s@#t in my back yard. This happened day after day. I placed a shovel out by my firepit and when my neighbor was in his yard, I took the shovel and re-gifted it back to their yard. They got the message.
GlipGlop 4 years ago
Proximity is your friend when slinging sh*t with a shovel. Pun intended
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Lori Ballard 4 years ago
Years ago we lived in the only rental in a cul-de-sac and our neighbor was extremely OCD about his place being in perfect condition so he would just let his dog crap in our front yard and never pick it up. After 6 months we had enough so we collected all the piles and threw them against the side of his house. He called the police on us but after ttem talking to us and him he got fined for not picking up after his dog. Then he was doing it again so we videotaped him several times then we called the police and he was fined double for a second offense. After that he stopped.
Big Chungus 4 years ago
We had a bit of a problem with this in my old neighborhood, it was so annoying and gave my dog hook worm twice...not fun for anybody
#21
Just straight up rednecks who wanted the full neighbor experience without putting in any effort themselves. It was like they'd moved from some hillbilly commune where you could just demand things of your neighbors.
Every day when I got home from school, the three youngest kids would bang on our door until we gave them snacks. One of them, when denied snacks, came back and broke our glass door with a hammer.
They turned the shared side yard (legally ours but shared because we weren't necessarily using it) into a lumber yard/playground where they dug a massive pit for mud wrestling (no bulls@#t there - mud wrestling).
The second oldest kid (6 in total) had an old A/C air handling unit in the backyard that he was allowed to hit with a sledge hammer when he got angry. He got angry often and at some pretty irregular hours. I ran into him at a bowling alley years after they moved away/got kicked out/went bankrupt. He had a tattoo across his chest that said IMMORTAL DEATH in a black-red-black gradient. He also had giant scars all over his back, chest and arms - he said he woke up in the middle of the highway on Halloween night, all cut up. Who knows if that's true, but if it could happen to anyone, he was the guy.
Anders Magrioteli 4 years ago
I wonder if I shall get a portable A/C unit and a hammer, to ease my frustration. At work. Or would that look weird - since I’m a bus driver.
John Baker 4 years ago
I've known people like that. They don't have a damned thing of their own (mainly because they destroy anything they do have), and they think they're entitled to anything you have. Annoying as hell.
#22
I rented a flat with an ex and the upstairs neighbour was an absolute nightmare. Deadbeat dad who had his kid 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, nothing happened. Got child services involved, 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.
#23
Had one that would basically steal our mail and other stuff from our porch and yard. Caught her once to confront her and she started yelling at me to stop attacking her and tried to say I was stealing her stuff. Ended up with the police getting called and us filing a restraining order against her.
BoredHuman 4 years ago
I lived in a basement apt with the retired landlords upstairs. My mail came to me unopened until income tax season when they "accidentally" opened my bank statement and income tax refund documents. Everything went to paperless online after that.
Steffen Rehm 4 years ago
Every time i read something like restraining order, i wonder why this exist and then i read Storys like that and still wonder a little more over the world and the people. At what point in life does it decide if you will get one for your behavior?
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Restraining orders are for people who can't control their urge to bother someone else, like stalkers, abusers, and bad neighbors.
Load More Replies... Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
And then she tried to build an ark from refrigerator boxes under our back porch…
#24
Lived in a duplex and after a year a nurse moved in who went to work at like 3am. But she also let her dog out and that f!@#$%g thing barked at eeevvvrrryttthhing.
Then she went and got two more (huskies 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 s!@#$y 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.
BoredHuman 4 years ago
I call my neighbours dog Sir Barks a lot. First time we met i said 'ohhh you're the owners of Sir Barks a lot" They looked confused and explained the dogs name was Harper. Completely clueless. The neighbour on the other side actually stood outside one day barking loudly back at Harper and I almost died inside laughing.
Yort 4 years ago
Oh, please don’t do that. I hate people who think it’s just hilarious to bark at dogs. Dogs bark because they’re afraid sometimes. Having a stranger “barking” at them is distressing, it makes it even worse. People f*****g aggravate dogs, make noise, bark at them, and then bitch about the dogs barking, but they’ll also throw a huge fit if someone dares to complain about precious crotch goblins shrieking bloody murder in grocery stores.
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago
DON'T. GET. A. DOG. (ESPECIALLY A F*****G PUPPY) IF. YOU. DON'T. HAVE. TIME. FOR. IT.
Adam ray 4 years ago
I am a nurse, I work with a lot of other nurses.... Sadly, most are there for the money and not to be helpful
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Jo Davies 4 years ago
I currently have a neighbour like this. One of their many dogs is a Basset, king of the howlers. They leave for work just after 6am. I no longer need an alarm clock. They don't get home until earliest 12 hours later, oftenuch more. The slightest noise in the neighbourhood sets them off. They go away every weekend. Unfortunately, the police cam do nothing (or won't) iny country. We have much bigger problems.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Maybe you could try recording it while they're gone and play it back "for" them when they return? If they come over to complain, explain that it's their dogs and you "miss the noise when they come home & dogs finally go quiet". Maybe they'll get it then🙄😒
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[]v[]ELi *[]V[]iss[]V[]y[]V[]iaPie13 4 years ago
I don’t have any dogs, my nephew lives w me he has two. He’ll let them out to eat and drink and do their business, in the afternoon, if they start barking we know they’re ready to come in. They stay inside for the rest of the day/night We get a letter from the HOA saying someone complaining about OUR dogs barking sometime at night when the dogs aren’t even out. Every neighbor around us has dogs out all day and night barking. It isn’t ours. We’re going to get fined because of other peoples dogs.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The people two doors down from me have an older dog who barks sometimes (it's not a 'big' bark) when they are outside. The guy yells at the dog to stop barking, especially at night. I wish there were some way to tell these people that their yelling is FAR more annoying than occasional old-dog barking.
#25
Guy owned 6 cars and kept them all parked on the street in a very congested block of apartments. 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.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Or towed if those weren’t his assigned parking spots.
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Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
After him accussing me, I would've collected a bunch of leaves to put on his car
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 4 years ago (edited)
Where is this? I have a leafblower that I hardly ever get to use, and I wanna put leaves on his car. And sticks. And stones. And breadcrumbs to encourage pigeons to cr*p on his cars
#26
A bunch of things with my ding-dong neighbor. She had a large dog that hated my older, smaller dog. One day her dog ran into my yard and bit my dog. She did apologize for this one, did not happen again.
Neighbor dumped her lawn clippings into my back yard. Had to ask her to stop and clean up her mess.
She decided to build a fence. No survey. So I paid for a survey of my property. She started building her fence 3 feet over on my property. I had her stop and remove the fence. She was angry and never rebuilt it.
I painted my house. She painted her house, same color. I bought a new car. She bought a new car - same color, same configuration.
There's other minor stuff, but that's enough. Odd person. Very odd.
#27
I have a schizophrenic neighbor that has believed for years that I am hacking his electronic devices, scanning his phone, harassing/terrorizing him, etc. Over the years he has claimed I've held an old man hostage in my condo, allowed blood to drip from my patio to his, and that I'm a terrible racist. He leaves notes on the inside of his car accusing me of these things.
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
This is how schizophrenia works. People with it have severe trust issues. You cannot blame them for it.
Rachael Sampson 4 years ago
Thats why people with mental illness need to have affordable medication so they (we) can live normal lives.
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago (edited)
As a Schizophrenic myself, I am sorry that you have had to deal with that, however - that's what Schizophrenia is like, he will genuinely believe this to be true. It sounds like he needs help, really. (therapy and medication has helped me loads, after all. :P ) but I guess if you're in the US that may be hard to come by due to expenses. It's not your neighbours fault.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I checked and schizophrenia has the highest annual patient cost, not from meds but from associated costs of emergency treatments for episodes, implying that taking meds helps prevent emergencies (like arrests, suicide attempts, drug use). If you can't afford the treatment to get the meds ... Glad you are okay.
Load More Replies... Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
That poor neighbour - it must be terrifying living in his mind. Terrifying for OP, too, of course (goes without saying). What on earth is with the picture, though?
Deborah B 4 years ago
I had a downstairs neighbour complain to the landlord that my kitchen sink faucet was too loud and I ran it too much. Pipes ran behind the radiator, so you had to run it for 30 seconds or so before the cold ran cold. Annoying, but tried to be a good neighbour, so filter jug in the fridge. She kept complaining. Every time I used the sink, she would make a note of it, to "prove" that I used the sink "too often". The landlord got sick of it, and got me a new model of faucet, that was a little quieter, and I got a sink liner, but I think she could hear the pipes. By this time, I was anxious and getting paranoid about using the sink and upsetting her. Then she started complaining that I was spying on her thoughts and communicating with her by running the faucet when I disapproved. The landlord managed to get in touch with her family, and it turned out that she was schizophrenic, and needed her medication adjusted.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
My friend's meth head girlfriend was like this, constantly accusing him of spying on her. DK how he finally got rid of her, cause she refused to be thrown out.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
My roommate once accused me of starving his cat on a note crumpled in the full food dish. His first note re same was in the front door window where I couldn't miss it. I'm guessing the neighbor's notes were facing the reader with large dark letters.
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I have a few from the same neighbor who I'll call Linda. Linda would often have men outside the apartment building that she locked out screaming her name. But the best story regards a boyfriend Linda had who insisted my room mate and I call him "The Captain." About a week after meeting him, we came home to a wedding announcement for Linda and The Captain. Yes, his name was The Captain on the announcement. Exactly one week later still, The Captain was arrested outside our apartment building for public intoxication at 2 AM while screaming "I've made a huge mistake, f@#k you Linda! A huge mistake! I'm ruined!"
#29
Dude pretended to be a reverend but was actually just a filthy f!@#$%g 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.
Took months to get him evicted. F@#k that guy.
#30
I used to live in a house that was split into two apartments. My neighbors had the lower half, and I learned we had issues with the HVAC when their cigarette smoke came visibly pouring out our registers: stank up everything we owned.
Then one of them stole my car.
What do you think ?
Sky Render 4 years ago
At our previous place, we had good neighbors for about 3 years (or at least not-awful ones). Then The Jerks moved in. They were nearly every bad neighbor stereotype rolled up into one package. These guys smoked pot 24/7 (their stoop reeked of it and every time they opened a window or door everyone in the building had to close theirs to not suffocate). They had loud parties nearly every day, sometimes lasting into the wee hours. At least once a week there was a shouting match and a slammed front door some time around 1 to 3AM. Any time we called the cops on them with a noise complaint in the wee hours, they would turn the music up even LOUDER after the cops left (until the time they actually got fined for it because we called the cops right back). And the worst one was when they tried to have an all-nighter party during the early part of the COVID lockdown at a time when you could be heavily fined for doing that. 20+ people scrambled out the back when the cops got there.
BoredHuman 4 years ago
Was at work and get an emergency phone call and have to go to the managers office. It is my neighbour ( apt building) She is telling me that I had a flower delivery left at my door. But don't worry I opened the box and put them in a vase. they are from Frank and this is what the card says. So the flowers are safe now. I did not associate with this neighbour other then hello in passing. When asked how she knew where i worked she said she overheard me speaking on the phone and mention my job. So she googled the number. I was so embarrassed at work as everyone was concerned something serious had happened at home to received an emergency call. I told the neighbour off . She honestly thought I owned her a huge thank you.
ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ 4 years ago
I had the worst déjà vu whilst reading this, I swear I've seen it before but it was only posted the other day
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I think BP has done one of these before. There was one on bad tenants recently.
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
My neighbor continuously stole our water. Not from taking it from the outside spigot but would unhook our meter and tap it into his home using a water hose. I finally saw the hose and followed it to his home. He said he needed the water because they had a baby. My response was for him to get a job like everyone else and pay his water bill. His only means of income was selling meth. He had heavy traffic at all night long. They visitors were in and out in less than five minutes. After a year or so he was finally jailed but only for a day or two. He finally faced punishment when he stole a 97 year old mans electric meter in the dead of winter. They confirmed his home after finding a meth lab inside.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
He wasn't a very good meth cook/dealer if he was broke.
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StephVA 4 years ago
Not a neighbor, but an old roommate. This was before the internet; she would post personal ads and the stream of "dates" she brought home was endless and all days of the week. She would bring these men back to our apartment and turn up the music super loud no matter the late hour and my early wake up for work. She finally decided to move out and had all the utilities cut off before I moved, and stole my TV and other items from my bedroom. Cops got involved and I got my things back. She worked in the public school system as a counselor... I made them aware of her theft.
JessRS 4 years ago
Good, I hope they never let her close to children again
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Shelli Aderman 4 years ago
This is basically a shuffled and reposted post from a few weeks ago… 🤷🏽♀️
Gin Marie 4 years ago
I had a roommate who turned out to be a lying hypochondriac at best. She knew I was a vet, knew I'd been injured, and she Single White Femaled me. Plus she was a complete liar. I got blown out of my boots by a mortar in Iraq, got both rotator cuffs torn up in an IED incident (it was a dud that didn't blow up all the way), and have such bad nightmares I actually injure myself in my sleep. She'd grown and moan and snivel, but she forgot about the security cameras. When I wasn't around, she walked and moved normally. She'd thrown plates and utensils on the floor when she was done with them. When I told her to pick up after herself, she sneered, "Get used to it, _laundry maid_ ." She never cleaned her poor cat's litter box so I moved it into the bathroom. When I went back she had spread a puppy pad on the floor where the filthy litter box had been----with a scoop of litter on it. Then she tried to accuse me of being a tyrant or worse because I said, "My house, my rules."
niki.bordeaux 4 years ago
The most ridiculous thing that happened with a former shitty neighbour was the police showing up because of a fridge our neighbour claimed to be way too loud. I asked the policemen if they're going to arrest the fridge and we all laughed, but this was just the beginning of her complaining about EVERYTHING we did in our flat above hers. TV? Too loud. Talking? Too loud. Walking around? How dare you! Another neighbour told me, shitty neighbour was the one playing music at max volume in the middle of the night before she had a baby, slamming the door shut when the police showed up because she just shouted at everyone trying to reason with her. We had a war going on for several months in which I had a nervous breakdown every time the doorbell rang. In the end, she moved out and I had a party after I realized she's finally gone.
Sky Render 4 years ago
At our previous place, we had good neighbors for about 3 years (or at least not-awful ones). Then The Jerks moved in. They were nearly every bad neighbor stereotype rolled up into one package. These guys smoked pot 24/7 (their stoop reeked of it and every time they opened a window or door everyone in the building had to close theirs to not suffocate). They had loud parties nearly every day, sometimes lasting into the wee hours. At least once a week there was a shouting match and a slammed front door some time around 1 to 3AM. Any time we called the cops on them with a noise complaint in the wee hours, they would turn the music up even LOUDER after the cops left (until the time they actually got fined for it because we called the cops right back). And the worst one was when they tried to have an all-nighter party during the early part of the COVID lockdown at a time when you could be heavily fined for doing that. 20+ people scrambled out the back when the cops got there.
BoredHuman 4 years ago
Was at work and get an emergency phone call and have to go to the managers office. It is my neighbour ( apt building) She is telling me that I had a flower delivery left at my door. But don't worry I opened the box and put them in a vase. they are from Frank and this is what the card says. So the flowers are safe now. I did not associate with this neighbour other then hello in passing. When asked how she knew where i worked she said she overheard me speaking on the phone and mention my job. So she googled the number. I was so embarrassed at work as everyone was concerned something serious had happened at home to received an emergency call. I told the neighbour off . She honestly thought I owned her a huge thank you.
ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ 4 years ago
I had the worst déjà vu whilst reading this, I swear I've seen it before but it was only posted the other day
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I think BP has done one of these before. There was one on bad tenants recently.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 4 years ago
My neighbor continuously stole our water. Not from taking it from the outside spigot but would unhook our meter and tap it into his home using a water hose. I finally saw the hose and followed it to his home. He said he needed the water because they had a baby. My response was for him to get a job like everyone else and pay his water bill. His only means of income was selling meth. He had heavy traffic at all night long. They visitors were in and out in less than five minutes. After a year or so he was finally jailed but only for a day or two. He finally faced punishment when he stole a 97 year old mans electric meter in the dead of winter. They confirmed his home after finding a meth lab inside.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
He wasn't a very good meth cook/dealer if he was broke.
Load More Replies... StephVA 4 years ago
Not a neighbor, but an old roommate. This was before the internet; she would post personal ads and the stream of "dates" she brought home was endless and all days of the week. She would bring these men back to our apartment and turn up the music super loud no matter the late hour and my early wake up for work. She finally decided to move out and had all the utilities cut off before I moved, and stole my TV and other items from my bedroom. Cops got involved and I got my things back. She worked in the public school system as a counselor... I made them aware of her theft.
JessRS 4 years ago
Good, I hope they never let her close to children again
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 4 years ago
This is basically a shuffled and reposted post from a few weeks ago… 🤷🏽♀️
Gin Marie 4 years ago
I had a roommate who turned out to be a lying hypochondriac at best. She knew I was a vet, knew I'd been injured, and she Single White Femaled me. Plus she was a complete liar. I got blown out of my boots by a mortar in Iraq, got both rotator cuffs torn up in an IED incident (it was a dud that didn't blow up all the way), and have such bad nightmares I actually injure myself in my sleep. She'd grown and moan and snivel, but she forgot about the security cameras. When I wasn't around, she walked and moved normally. She'd thrown plates and utensils on the floor when she was done with them. When I told her to pick up after herself, she sneered, "Get used to it, _laundry maid_ ." She never cleaned her poor cat's litter box so I moved it into the bathroom. When I went back she had spread a puppy pad on the floor where the filthy litter box had been----with a scoop of litter on it. Then she tried to accuse me of being a tyrant or worse because I said, "My house, my rules."
niki.bordeaux 4 years ago
The most ridiculous thing that happened with a former shitty neighbour was the police showing up because of a fridge our neighbour claimed to be way too loud. I asked the policemen if they're going to arrest the fridge and we all laughed, but this was just the beginning of her complaining about EVERYTHING we did in our flat above hers. TV? Too loud. Talking? Too loud. Walking around? How dare you! Another neighbour told me, shitty neighbour was the one playing music at max volume in the middle of the night before she had a baby, slamming the door shut when the police showed up because she just shouted at everyone trying to reason with her. We had a war going on for several months in which I had a nervous breakdown every time the doorbell rang. In the end, she moved out and I had a party after I realized she's finally gone.
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