Your fault. I'm sick of hearing about people complaining because the house they knew was 2 feet from their house - has noise issues. |
Winner!! |
So many unhinged people out there! About a decade ago, a friend’s FIL was shot and killed by his neighbor over a property dispute. Something like the neighbor was angry at the man for crossing the property line while mowing his lawn (the neighbor was mistaken). |
Kid climbs fence, falls, breaks his arm. His parents sue. Ask me how i know |
Did you actually lose? |
No but i still spent a lot of time and attorney's fees that i will never get back |
Remember the liberal / progressive conspiracy-theorist neighbor in Arlington?
His house exploded, taking the neighbors house with it (its a miracle no one was killed). Don’t ignore crazy liberal neighbors; they can be dangerous. |
Even famous/powerful people are not immune from unhinged and violent neighbors:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/prosecutors-reveal-why-rand-paul-was-attacked-neighbor-n839366 |
He was not liberal/ progressive, he was schizophrenic and delusional. |
One time our next door neighbor decided to attack a hornets nest in a bush with a shovel. I'm serious.
We watched in amazement and horror as he got stung multiple times. My wife graciously went over later to see if he was ok and offered him a can of wasp spray. |
He was a leftist / progressive: https://dallasexpress.com/national/meet-the-reported-owner-of-the-exploded-house/ |
x We have a neighbor like this. Moved in two years ago and all they do is complain about everything all the time. They take they approach of "well this should have been fixed years ago before we even moved here" which is baffling because if they thought the community had so many issues, why did they move here? Anyway, a lot of the problem is that they don't understand the context of anything and when people try to explain it, they get angry and defensive and accuse people of ganging up on them. Like they threw this big fit about a metal gate in a community area that has peeling paint and were demanding it be repainted immediately. People explained to them several times that the gate will be removed this summer as part of a larger improvement project that has been budgeted and planned. They think this is stupid and that this [decorative, non-functional] gate needs to be repainted immediately before being scrapped in two months. They have been roundly overruled but will not accept it. There are many examples similar to this, where they think they are making demands to "improve" the neighborhood but because they haven't been here very long, they don't understand there are good reasons why certain low priority improvements might be skipped. They also don't seem to understand that if we were to do everything they demand, everyone would have to pay like double our current HOA fee, which no one wants, including them. They voted against a very modest increase in HOA fees last year! While also demanding a laundry list of expensive upgrades including hiring a full time landscaper (!!) for the summer months to keep the grass on community property perfectly trimmed at all times. They also have this idea that because they paid more for their home than most of the rest of us (due to having bought in 2021 whereas most people have been here for anywhere from 8 to 25 years), they are more entitled to make demands. Again, people have explicitly told them that the premium they paid on their home all went to the previous owner -- it's not like the community takes a cut. And I paid twice for my home in 2014 than my neighbor who bought in 2001, and it's never occurred to me that this means I'm more important than she is? It's just a weird, entitled attitude, but they don't let logic or basic human decency get in their way. At this point I think many of us are hoping they just get so frustrated and mad they move, but it also feels just as likely they will escalate. They've screamed at neighbors and send a multitude of lengthy screeds to the HOA via email. Alternately refused to come to HOA meetings (fine, it's easier without them), tried to send a proxy without following proxy rules, and shown up to meetings and then disrupted boring, necessary business with their rants. Until this, the idea of the crazy, miserable neighbor was a construct to me, something that gets exaggerate for drama in a TV show or something. I didn't realize how insane people could be in real life. These are just otherwise normal white collar professionals with normal jobs and backgrounds. I remember meeting them after they moved in and thinking they seemed nice and reasonable. I had no idea. I think the husband may have had some kind of psychotic break. Or potentially a personality disorder that he was able to conceal for the first few months they lived here. I tell my kids to stay away from their house and we avoid making eye contact if we see them out and about. |
Seriously? I hope that homeowners’ insurance helped with at least some of this |
I think I know this neighborhood and this guy. One of my friends moved from someone who meets this description and thinks of himself as a "pillar of the community". It is amazing that you still live there, though I suppose you can't let the terrorists win, so good on you. |
I don’t live in the DMV anymore so it’s not me, scary to think there are two of them!! Not related to the dispute but we wound up ripping out the bushes to put ones that are denser in. Left it empty for a while and watched him freak out over “his” lack of privacy. That was fun. |