Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Help me annoy our neighbours

287 replies

NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 20:48

Lighthearted (ish!)

I don’t say this lightly but we have the most truly horrible couple (‘young professionals’, although they don’t act like it) that I have ever met living beside us - even since the day that we moved in they have completely blanked us, anytime I have simply waved over or said ‘good morning’ I get ignored. In the 4 years that we have lived here neither of them have ever even made eye contact with me. It is bizarre and I have no idea what their problem is. I feel like they automatically see us as below them since we are renting (I have just gotten through a messy divorce, it is only my very sensible teen DD and I living here)

They have constant, wild parties going on into the small hours. It’s a 1930s semi so very poor sound insulation - we hear everything. I went round and politely knocked their door one Friday party night as DD had just had an operation and really needed her sleep - the door was slammed in my face. Their Range Rover (definitely heavily financed) is constantly parked right over the pavement, forcing buggies and wheelchair users onto the busy road.

They are vile people and I want a petty yet harmless way to get my own back when we move out in a few months. Any ideas?

OP posts:
beeloubee · 01/08/2024 08:17

Leave the house for the day starting from 5am on Saturday and leave music on full blast.

Goldcushions2 · 01/08/2024 08:11

So many inventive suggestions.
My friend years ago told me a story about her friend who had very loud annoying neighbours when she was renting as a student and they got into the habbit of throwing bird seed into their back and front garden and on their car.
She was an early riser and the noise was something else combined with bird mess on the car. Gave them a great laugh.
They also stuck a small potato in the exhaust of the car.
Stops it dead, but doesn't do any harm.

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 08:10

NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 22:26

The noise is genuinely constant whether it be parties, music, general squealing (have never heard adults like it in my life) - I had to invest in a good pair of noise cancelling headphones for fear of going insane when we first moved in. No, it’s not healthy but it’s reality.

Maybe they can hear you too, if the walls are so thin?

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 08:10

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 08:08

Schadenfreude doesn't normally invole setting someone up.

Nowhere is setting anyone up mentioned.

OP posts:
Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 08:08

DreamyCyanFinch · 31/07/2024 21:52

You obviously haven't had any antisocial neighbours.Sometimes a bit of tit for tat, schadenfreude does you good.People like this only understand this sort of response.

Schadenfreude doesn't normally invole setting someone up.

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 08:01

Focus on dealing with the actual issue, the noise, and not how friendly they are (neighbours don't have to interact) or speculation on how they pay for their car (who cares if it's on finance or not, it's none of your business). Environmental Health at your local council would be the place to start.

Lampslights · 01/08/2024 07:51

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 07:50

I have never come across people like it, the woman squeals like an excited child. It is bizarre

Yes, I work full time plus overtime thank you very much - hence it would be nice to actually be able to relax at home and not be woken up at all hours. Absolutely no need for nasty remarks, I take it you’ve never lived with awful neighbours before.

I’m living with them now. And quite frankly it’s a lot worse than this nonsense. They don’t say hello, own their house lease a car and squeal.

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 07:51

FumingAintTheWord · 01/08/2024 02:14

Op you're the problem here.

Please enlighten me as to how exactly

OP posts:
NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 07:50

Lampslights · 01/08/2024 07:30

They squeal constantly?? Ok.

op, do you have a job? Something to focus on rather than your neighbours?

I have never come across people like it, the woman squeals like an excited child. It is bizarre

Yes, I work full time plus overtime thank you very much - hence it would be nice to actually be able to relax at home and not be woken up at all hours. Absolutely no need for nasty remarks, I take it you’ve never lived with awful neighbours before.

OP posts:
Frances0911 · 01/08/2024 07:50

Disgusting but...wee in a bucket for a couple of days, keep it outside in a shed or covered up, as it'll soon start to stink of fish, then pour it on their doorstep in the middle of the night.

Or you could tip it out next to the drivers side of their car if you don't want to go near their property.

Frances0911 · 01/08/2024 07:49

Deleted as oddly posted twice.

montysma1 · 01/08/2024 07:47

Dear god, I would ignore you as well.
You clearly despise them and their car ( does anybody really say nouveau riche), so why on earth would you give or want a friendly wave or hello from people you disapprove of?

EdithStourton · 01/08/2024 07:39

They sound appalling, OP.
We have endured dickhead neighbours, so I feel your pain.

Lampslights · 01/08/2024 07:30

They squeal constantly?? Ok.

op, do you have a job? Something to focus on rather than your neighbours?

Sitdownrosa · 01/08/2024 06:57

My neighbor plays darts and his board is attached to the wall that adjoins our house.

When he decides to have his very regular practice session, i hear three loud thuds repeated every 45 seconds for an hour or 2 at a time.

It's slowly driving me insane . So i recommend you and dd take up darts.

FumingAintTheWord · 01/08/2024 02:14

Op you're the problem here.

HollyKnight · 01/08/2024 01:45

Buy some black electrical tape then "alter" the rear number plate on their car. Be sure to make it look obvious so it will draw attention and get them pulled over.

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 01/08/2024 01:21

A lovely paste of weetabix and milk left to dry on a hot day on the bonnet of the car 🥸

theoldrout01876 · 01/08/2024 00:25

OOh I had sucky neighbors for a many years, they just moved so I consider it a win. I put my compost bin right next to my fence but about a foot from their deck, stuff stinks in the summer here and dam, the flies it attracts. I had a mate, who owns a farm, supply me with nice ripe manure for my veggie beds right before their 4th of July cook out, I did this annually and my mate could deliver quickly when I saw the signs of a gathering so I always managed it. I rewilded the ground at the side of my garage, let it go totally wild. I cant see it from my window but its right next to their front yard ans totally noticeable from their front windows and ran the length of the property line. The vines were EVERYWHERE. I had wind chimes everywhere, and bottles of coyote pee.( we have ground hogs and the smell keeps them away) I planted thuja trees and bushes along my property line that took care of any sun hitting their pool deck eventually. Then I got bees.
Nothing illegal but I drove them crazy, these people were awful, used to call the cops on my kids any chance they had, put a bucket truck over my fence and took down 1/2 a tree before I got home and stopped them, called building enforcement every time I had work done even when they could see my permit in the window ( but those same building regs didnt actually apply to them). I was thrilled to bits they moved and Im sure they probably were too as I had made it my mission to be "that" neighbor

Anuta77 · 01/08/2024 00:25

BlimminCat · 31/07/2024 20:59

Throw bird seed or similar near and over their Range Rover! See how they like the white and yellow splats.

What a great idea! I definetely dont have enough imagination!

Anuta77 · 01/08/2024 00:23

NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 20:48

Lighthearted (ish!)

I don’t say this lightly but we have the most truly horrible couple (‘young professionals’, although they don’t act like it) that I have ever met living beside us - even since the day that we moved in they have completely blanked us, anytime I have simply waved over or said ‘good morning’ I get ignored. In the 4 years that we have lived here neither of them have ever even made eye contact with me. It is bizarre and I have no idea what their problem is. I feel like they automatically see us as below them since we are renting (I have just gotten through a messy divorce, it is only my very sensible teen DD and I living here)

They have constant, wild parties going on into the small hours. It’s a 1930s semi so very poor sound insulation - we hear everything. I went round and politely knocked their door one Friday party night as DD had just had an operation and really needed her sleep - the door was slammed in my face. Their Range Rover (definitely heavily financed) is constantly parked right over the pavement, forcing buggies and wheelchair users onto the busy road.

They are vile people and I want a petty yet harmless way to get my own back when we move out in a few months. Any ideas?

Can you not complain to the police about the noise?

As for revenge, after a party, they would certainly be sleeping, so its the time for making noise. My sister annoys her upstairs neighboors who listen to Bollywood movies in the middle of the night with loud classic music in the morning.

-Ignore them too.
-Put something sharp where they park their car.
-When you leave, put something close to their door that will rot and stink (someone I know did it to a vile neighboor)
-Use magick (tons of books on amazon), there are spells on quieting loud neighboors or even making them move. I would go with the latter, many people have success with that.

AInightingale · 01/08/2024 00:22

A bloke I knew who worked in a garage once mocked up a number plate with something very rude on it, 'WAN K3R' or something, and stuck it to the rear plate of someone's car. They drove about with it for a couple of days before they even realised.

CrikeyMajikey · 01/08/2024 00:12

A few tins of veg every soup over the Range Rover, make it look like someone has puked on it.

notprincehamlet · 01/08/2024 00:07

Revenge topiary

Help me annoy our neighbours
notprincehamlet · 01/08/2024 00:04

Their Range Rover (definitely heavily financed) is constantly parked right over the pavement, forcing buggies and wheelchair users onto the busy road
I believe that's the only way a range rover can be parked, other than in a bike lane or straddling two parking bays.