If you wanted to legally and safely annoy an apartment neighbor,

[Anonymous]

You people are nuts. How do you have time for such drama?

I'm gonna say it: if you had had families, you wouldn't think any of this pettiness was worth your limited time and energy. You clearly just have too much time to stew about this and no one in your life to remind you to put nonsense into appropriate perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Wind chimes.

They are actually illegal in my apartment complex! So is watering plants out on our patios to the point where water drips below.

[Anonymous]

Sign the address up for lots of junk mail. Also sign him up to receive questionable things like info on STDs, free condoms, free lube, HIV information, etc.

If you can find it on your local LDS church website, sign them up as interested. The missionaries will visit nonstop until they make contact.

For people who think that takes too much time/effort, pffft. All of that can be done during a productive lunch break!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. How do you have time for such drama?

I'm gonna say it: if you had had families, you wouldn't think any of this pettiness was worth your limited time and energy. You clearly just have too much time to stew about this and no one in your life to remind you to put nonsense into appropriate perspective.

What is the proper perspective to have on a next door neighbor who badmouths you to others in the building and is openly hostile to your face? I have a kid and am curious because that seems like a reasonable thing to be upset about.

[Anonymous]

Play “Muskrat Love”over & over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. How do you have time for such drama?

I'm gonna say it: if you had had families, you wouldn't think any of this pettiness was worth your limited time and energy. You clearly just have too much time to stew about this and no one in your life to remind you to put nonsense into appropriate perspective.

What is the proper perspective to have on a next door neighbor who badmouths you to others in the building and is openly hostile to your face? I have a kid and am curious because that seems like a reasonable thing to be upset about.

But is that really happening or does OP have some kind of weird paranoia? Paranoia seems more likely to me given her proposal of a harassment campaign. It is nuts.

[Anonymous]

Install a camera that points at his door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Develop an addiction to curry and cook it all the time. Of course you and all your clothes will smell bad too.

Ah this… but some curry that smells good so you end to avoid that. For maximum effect you must buy and sauté /hard fry some “Devils Dung” that stuff will make you you sick to your stomach, permeates walls and is a stink you can not get rid of without removing all of your furniture and Kilzing the walls… of course it will also make your apartment stink….but how desperate are you?

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Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. How do you have time for such drama?

I'm gonna say it: if you had had families, you wouldn't think any of this pettiness was worth your limited time and energy. You clearly just have too much time to stew about this and no one in your life to remind you to put nonsense into appropriate perspective.

What is the proper perspective to have on a next door neighbor who badmouths you to others in the building and is openly hostile to your face? I have a kid and am curious because that seems like a reasonable thing to be upset about.

But is that really happening or does OP have some kind of weird paranoia? Paranoia seems more likely to me given her proposal of a harassment campaign. It is nuts.

Annoy and harass mean different things. Putting up tacky decor on your balcony or inviting your loudest friends over for a dinner party is annoying and make you want to move, especially if you're already kind of a grumpy person who dislikes your neighbor for whatever reason. But it's not a harassment campaign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Install a camera that points at his door.

This would be creepy AF. Don't do this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Two words: bed bugs

1) That's often a single, compound word.

2) Bedbugs would bite OP herself or himself in the a$$, too (as well as everyplace else on his/her body).

I think OP sounds like a sociopath.

nah a sociopath wouldn’t need to ask for advice. They’d have a long list of proven methods to pull from.

Op is just passive aggressive and blowing off steam. They will ultimately do nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. How do you have time for such drama?

I'm gonna say it: if you had had families, you wouldn't think any of this pettiness was worth your limited time and energy. You clearly just have too much time to stew about this and no one in your life to remind you to put nonsense into appropriate perspective.

What is the proper perspective to have on a next door neighbor who badmouths you to others in the building and is openly hostile to your face? I have a kid and am curious because that seems like a reasonable thing to be upset about.

But is that really happening or does OP have some kind of weird paranoia? Paranoia seems more likely to me given her proposal of a harassment campaign. It is nuts.

Annoy and harass mean different things. Putting up tacky decor on your balcony or inviting your loudest friends over for a dinner party is annoying and make you want to move, especially if you're already kind of a grumpy person who dislikes your neighbor for whatever reason. But it's not a harassment campaign.

1) The balcony decor idea is merely annoying.
2) Noise-making ideas could easily move into harassment if it is intentional.
3) How old are you? This is incredibly immature. OP is either childishly stunted or mentally ill.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you like them? Are you prejudiced? Did they wrong you somehow? If they’re not doing these kind of things to you, why can’t you get along? Perhaps you’re not cut out for living with a shared wall.

They don't like me, and it is rooted in prejudice. They say nasty things about me to all our neighbors and never speak to me and glare at me whenever I see them. It makes me uncomfortable but there is nothing they have technically done to me. But I'd like to make it unpleasant for them to live there until they move. There are several reasons why they probably don't like living here, I'd just like to help them along and hopefully get a neighbor there who is less hostile towards me. They make me uneasy.

So now you want to give them justifiable reasons not to like you? OP you don’t sound particularly bright.

I think OP sounds mentally ill.

I think OP is a man who is angry that an older, female, unattractive to him, neighbor is living her life not in awe of an aspect of his lifestyle or his existence.

OP here and the reality is more the opposite. I am a singe, middle-aged professional woman and my neighbors are a younger couple with very "traditional" values, and the husband in particular has taken to making very disparaging comments about me to other neighbors. Multiple people have told me that he has brought me up in conversations with them totally unprompted and then made comments about my age and that I'm single. He's asked several people if I'm divorced or if my husband died, and he says critical things about my appearance, including that I have gray hair and do not dress in a way he approves of (I dress in comfortable professional clothes, think Eileen Fisher, and he calls me "dowdy" and "witchy" to others). He is consistently rude to my face, interrupts conversations I'm in with other neighbors to speak to them without acknowledging me, getting irritated by minor things like a package of mine being placed in front of their door by mistake (something I didn't even do). I used to try to be friendly, smile, etc. Even dropped off some baked goods the week they moved in and introduced myself. I don't do that stuff anymore.

Several neighbors (who also cannot stand him) have let me know about the things he's saying, because he clearly absolutely hates me and the intensity of his hatred makes them uncomfortable.

I have lived here for 15 years and am close to paying off my mortgage. I do not intend to sell until I retire in a few years, and I'm not going to sell now during a bad condo market just to get away from this guy. But if he's going to hate me and be hostile anyway, I wouldn't mind annoying him and maybe accelerating the process of them moving (they complain about everything in the building and have alienated pretty much all our neighbors, including the condo board who are completely fed up, so I don't think they'll be here longterm anyway).

I don't buy this. I'm a middle-aged woman myself, so I can't imagine having the desire or patience to harass neighbors, even those I don't like or who I may feel have "wronged" me one way or another. Women are just too busy keeping the world running for that $h!t. Your mileage may vary somewhat in that you only have yourself to take care of, but still, I can't imagine a woman our age indulging in such pettiness.

You mentioned a down condo market yourself. How do you not understand that selling under unfavorable terms could have serious financial consequences for a young couple just starting out.

You still sound childish if not downright unhinged to me.

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We middle aged women do not think like this.

BS! I’m a middle-aged woman with an AH as a neighbor (in a townhouse), and I’ve had to resort to petty to put him in his place.

OP, you are justified.

[NP]

Yeah a certain type of man gets off on bully single middle aged women. No man in the house makes you an easy target.

You gotta make him afraid if you.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you like them? Are you prejudiced? Did they wrong you somehow? If they’re not doing these kind of things to you, why can’t you get along? Perhaps you’re not cut out for living with a shared wall.

They don't like me, and it is rooted in prejudice. They say nasty things about me to all our neighbors and never speak to me and glare at me whenever I see them. It makes me uncomfortable but there is nothing they have technically done to me. But I'd like to make it unpleasant for them to live there until they move. There are several reasons why they probably don't like living here, I'd just like to help them along and hopefully get a neighbor there who is less hostile towards me. They make me uneasy.

So now you want to give them justifiable reasons not to like you? OP you don’t sound particularly bright.

I think OP sounds mentally ill.

I think OP is a man who is angry that an older, female, unattractive to him, neighbor is living her life not in awe of an aspect of his lifestyle or his existence.

OP here and the reality is more the opposite. I am a singe, middle-aged professional woman and my neighbors are a younger couple with very "traditional" values, and the husband in particular has taken to making very disparaging comments about me to other neighbors. Multiple people have told me that he has brought me up in conversations with them totally unprompted and then made comments about my age and that I'm single. He's asked several people if I'm divorced or if my husband died, and he says critical things about my appearance, including that I have gray hair and do not dress in a way he approves of (I dress in comfortable professional clothes, think Eileen Fisher, and he calls me "dowdy" and "witchy" to others). He is consistently rude to my face, interrupts conversations I'm in with other neighbors to speak to them without acknowledging me, getting irritated by minor things like a package of mine being placed in front of their door by mistake (something I didn't even do). I used to try to be friendly, smile, etc. Even dropped off some baked goods the week they moved in and introduced myself. I don't do that stuff anymore.

Several neighbors (who also cannot stand him) have let me know about the things he's saying, because he clearly absolutely hates me and the intensity of his hatred makes them uncomfortable.

I have lived here for 15 years and am close to paying off my mortgage. I do not intend to sell until I retire in a few years, and I'm not going to sell now during a bad condo market just to get away from this guy. But if he's going to hate me and be hostile anyway, I wouldn't mind annoying him and maybe accelerating the process of them moving (they complain about everything in the building and have alienated pretty much all our neighbors, including the condo board who are completely fed up, so I don't think they'll be here longterm anyway).

I don't buy this. I'm a middle-aged woman myself, so I can't imagine having the desire or patience to harass neighbors, even those I don't like or who I may feel have "wronged" me one way or another. Women are just too busy keeping the world running for that $h!t. Your mileage may vary somewhat in that you only have yourself to take care of, but still, I can't imagine a woman our age indulging in such pettiness.

You mentioned a down condo market yourself. How do you not understand that selling under unfavorable terms could have serious financial consequences for a young couple just starting out.

You still sound childish if not downright unhinged to me.

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We middle aged women do not think like this.

BS! I’m a middle-aged woman with an AH as a neighbor (in a townhouse), and I’ve had to resort to petty to put him in his place.

OP, you are justified.

[NP]

Yeah a certain type of man gets off on bully single middle aged women. No man in the house makes you an easy target.

You gotta make him afraid if you.

When you live alone for too long there's this feedback loop that develops. "Making someone afraid of you" is actually a pretty crazy thing to do.

[Anonymous]

If someone doesn’t respect and is hostile to you at some point you need to come out swinging. Not with violence but it’s essential to not quietly take it.

Find a weakness and exploit it,
be vocal and loud. Nothing wrong
with good old fashioned fear of what you might do to put a bully in his or her place.

And I don’t live alone. But I know plenty of women who do. And they are all capable of being loud, cunning and ferocious when they need to be.