Crazy or annoying neighbor story

[Anonymous]

Please tell me one so I know I’m not the only one experiencing this.

I now understand all of those videos where the neighbors scream at each other.

[Anonymous]

What’s yours?

[Anonymous]

Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

I would send them a letter saying their son doesn’t have permission to enter your property, because of the dog. If he loses his ball, he’ll have to wait to get it back. If it happens again, send another letter and say the next time you’ll pursue trespassing.

[Anonymous]

I am literally moving next month because of this. Our neighbor is just ridiculously loud and our houses are SFHs but have very little room between them. His roaring up his driveway at 12:30am with his music blaring, slamming the car door, and yelling into his phone on speaker got to be too much (amongst many other things -- including putting his trash bins in front of our house and then leaving them there for 3 or 4 days before taking them back). I often have to leave for work at 6am and I'm a light sleeper and have issues if I don't get enough. His kids are loud as hell too, and totally unsupervised. Can't take it. Moving. Life is too short and I need more peace than I have living next to this guy. We have owned this house for over a decade and he bought the one next door about a year ago. Oh, I forgot the dumbest thing -- picture this: It is late at night. The whole neighborhood has gone to bed. Loud music, bad music -- like, I don't know, maybe NSync or something -- starts blaring from this neighbor's porch. He and new girlfriend (3 mos post divorce lol) are dancing away on the porch. Like ugly embarrassing Elaine Benes dancing. You can't make this stuff up.

Will be renting out my house. Would love it if the eventual tenant annoys the neighbor. Poetic justice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

Camera in your backyard and tell them they are not allowed to enter your back yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

Can you put a lock on the gate?

[Anonymous]

While we ultimately stayed in our neighborhood, we did have serious talks about moving due to a cluster of neighbors who really are that bad. It can be hard to understand or believe until you've lived it.

[Anonymous]

Neighbors and their friends sitting on the front stoop 24/7, drinking, smoking weed, playing cards, laughing and talking loudly all hours. Sometimes set up a card table on the sidewalk for their card games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

Lock your fence. Don’t you care about your dog?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine tried to get my historic chestnut tree chopped down because they were convinced of had termites. It didn't, but I had to spend $2500 for an arborist to certify it.

Their brat child throws his ball into our fenced backyard and helps himself to retrieve it, constantly letting our dog out because he doesn't close the gate. The dog could get hit by a car, and it's just a hassle to canvas the neighborhood searching for him

That's annoying but you sound like a grumpy old woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am literally moving next month because of this. Our neighbor is just ridiculously loud and our houses are SFHs but have very little room between them. His roaring up his driveway at 12:30am with his music blaring, slamming the car door, and yelling into his phone on speaker got to be too much (amongst many other things -- including putting his trash bins in front of our house and then leaving them there for 3 or 4 days before taking them back). I often have to leave for work at 6am and I'm a light sleeper and have issues if I don't get enough. His kids are loud as hell too, and totally unsupervised. Can't take it. Moving. Life is too short and I need more peace than I have living next to this guy. We have owned this house for over a decade and he bought the one next door about a year ago. Oh, I forgot the dumbest thing -- picture this: It is late at night. The whole neighborhood has gone to bed. Loud music, bad music -- like, I don't know, maybe NSync or something -- starts blaring from this neighbor's porch. He and new girlfriend (3 mos post divorce lol) are dancing away on the porch. Like ugly embarrassing Elaine Benes dancing. You can't make this stuff up.

Will be renting out my house. Would love it if the eventual tenant annoys the neighbor. Poetic justice.

We had a similar neighbor move in and the rest of us took turns calling in noise complaints. It seems to have had some effect.

[Anonymous]

My neighbor would sift through my recycle bin and count the number of wine bottles. Then mention it to me in conversation, also he would peer over my six foot tall solid wood security fence and complain about my grass not being short enough. BTW I never had more than 2 or 3 wine bottles in the bin

[Anonymous]

I have had good luck with neighbors since I started renting.

[Anonymous]

We bought a new construction house in a neighborhood without any HOA and the neighbor decided to do their own landscape design. They planted 15 different species of young trees randomly in the front yard, not in beds, just random locations dotted around the front yard. It looked crazy for a few years. We had to yell at the hired tree planter when they tried to also put random trees on our ride of the property line. Luckily we were able to keep them away by a few feet.

Then the neighbor went to sell and his realtor made him rip it all out for marketing. It’s looked normal ever since.