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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think we do know for sure that the neighbor is badmouthing OP. We've only heard that from her, and what if she is just paranoid or otherwise cognitively compromised? People like to declare that they "know for a fact" on little to no actual,  firm evidence.[/quote]

DCUM is not the place for "firm evidence." This isn't court. You can either accept an OP's premise or not, but there's zero point in trying to sleuth out "the truth" of a situation if you are skeptical. You won't get it. The neighbor isn't on here and even if he was, he'd almost certainly massage the facts in his favor too.

If you want to weigh in on what she should do, you pretty much have to take what she's offered you here at face value, which is that her neighbor dislikes her personally even though she has not, to her knowledge, done anything to them. And that her neighbor has repeatedly disparaged her to others in the building to the point where they have alerted her to it, and that these comments have included criticism of her being a single, middle-aged, professional woman.

That is the premise. Take it or leave it. I personally believe it because I've encountered people like this before and while I'm married and have a kid, I'm middle aged and have specifically encountered men who took an instant dislike to me because they just had some kind of issue with middle-aged women (mommy issues, probably). I wouldn't want to live next to one either.[/quote]

Wow. Every decision in life should be made according to the evidence. I hate this post-truth mentality.

There is a (probably) crazy person who proposes to cause a young couple in her building (who may or may not be actual jerks... we don't know because OP may actually be the one with the odd fixation) a lot of trouble and possibly cost them a lot of money if they move because they can't take her harassment anymore. So many of you are giving her the harassment tips she is seeking instead of reminding her that mature adults don't harass. 
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The fact that you think you can suss out the truth if the situation (which might not even be a real situation, or might be intentionally presented differently from the truth to maintain anonymity) based on a few posts is ridiculous. Do we know the couple is young? Judging a woman for being single past a certain age actually says retirees to me. We don't know any finances of anyone here. OP specifically asked for "legal, safe" suggestions that lean against harassing behavior. Most of the suggestions are very benign things like hanging wind chimes or putting up annoying door decor, not harassing behaviors.

Your overreaction to this is much more revealing about you than OP or anyone else involved.[/quote]

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