We are in a first floor flat. The new neighbour is also in the first floor in the next block and we are seperated by a narrow alley that leads to our gardens. Our front doors are either side of the alley.
Both adults sit on the front step or stand around their front door (which is also right by our front door) and smoke throughout the day and night. They probably have one every 30 mins over the two of them.
The smoke comes right in our window and the house smells really quite bad by the evening. I don't open the windows anymore if I can help it and shut them as soon as I smell one of them out there.
DP has spoken to them a few times about various things, they rent so don't have a copy of the deeds detailing the quite odd arrangement of the alley and front gardens. They had been smoking in the alley as they believed it was entirely theirs (it's shared by all of us including the downstairs flats) but this came straight in to the kitchen window and downstairs complained too - and they were leaving all their cigarette butts all over the floor. You could see they were putting out the cigarettes on our back door too. We have other issues with them such as other rubbish left in the alley, fences destroyed by the kids, them coming in to our gardens, leaving communal sheds unlocked, breaking the front gate, hitting cars and windows with their ball while they play in the midde of a busy road, the kids have set fire to something in the garden, we can hear them swearing all day and night etc so it's obvious that I don't like them and I wonder if this is clouding my view.
So I can't tell if IABU on this specific thing or not really. They have to smoke somewhere obviously and as it's a rental they aren't allowed to in the flat, but I just can't see why they don't sit in the back garden at a nice table instead of under our window. They know it's an issue because the downstairs neighbours complained too as it goes in to their daughters window, but they moved out some time ago now.
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Neighbour smokes under our window
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Windbeneathmybingowings · 20/07/2017 11:35
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