Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Hell is a terraced house with a hot tub, bar and outdoor tv.

337 replies

SorbetSarnie · 20/06/2025 23:59

Or more accurately, hell is what I'm going through living next door to this abominable set up.

Family from hell moved in not that long ago. Drunken pot smoking father who attended a house party in the mid 90's and apparently never left, a wife who to be fair seems like she's lost the will to live or smile, and an assortment of teenagers who like to invite all their mates round and shout about dildos and cumming in people's eyes.

The garden has slowly morphed into something resembling a butlins, which is fairly impressive as we all only have narrow postage stamp gardens. It started with a hot tub, progressed to an outdoor bar, and has culminated this weekend in some sort of wooden shack thing made of fences with a tin roof, housing an outdoor television.

The second the sun comes out it is thumping tunes ALL day, which to be fair sometimes gets turned down a little at 11 pm. Unfortunately tonight it has now been replaced by some shitty action movie being loudly played in the garden, as the family members converse in their usual dulcet yells. Must have affected their hearing with all that drum and bass.

Yes, we have tried talking to them. The father seemed to indicate through grunts that he had understood my attempt at communication with a primitive life form, however we were then treated to angle grinding in the street regularly for a few nights, as he loudly complained about the 'stuck up bitch next door' and proclaimed that I'd be 'having that'.

No, I currently can't move. I'm working on it but realistically not going to be any time soon. I'd imagine the house would be a hard sell at the moment too, most prospective owners would run a mile.

I guess I just wanted to rant, I'm so tired. I've actually found myself on the brink of tears a few times tonight, mainly from frustration. They went away last week and it was wonderful. The entire estate was practically silent, just the usual buzz of every day life going on made me really appreciate just what loud obnoxious bastards they are.

OP posts:
TeenLifeMum · 21/06/2025 00:32

God, I bloody love my antisocial neighbours who say a polite hello but all seem to go to bed at 9pm. One side has a hot tub but have had it 12 years so the novelty has well and truly gone and it’s rarely used. Someone at work was bragging they had a tv screen in their garden (terraced house) and I wasn’t surprised because they’ve always given me the impression they’re a selfish twat.

MuffinsAreJustCakesAtBreakfast · 21/06/2025 00:29

this sounds absolutely awful OP. 😭 It's the kind of frustration that seeps into your bones and worse , you feel totally helpless. A home is meant to be a haven and sanctuary.

this is also why sometimes people don't try to talk to neighbours first and just go straight to reporting. It's understandable to want to shield oneself from abuse/retaliation.

TheGreyMember · 21/06/2025 00:26

SorbetSarnie · 21/06/2025 00:23

I have tried on a couple of occasions to say hello but she just glares at or ignores me.

I feel sorry for her though, the way the husband and teenage sons speak to her is atrocious.

Get a radio in the garden to play Classic FM loudly on maximum volume every time they disturb you. I have a feeling they really, really won't like that. Maybe some lift music? Or even better, put some porn sounds on. No doubt the neighbours will all think it's them and complain.

SorbetSarnie · 21/06/2025 00:23

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

I have tried on a couple of occasions to say hello but she just glares at or ignores me.

I feel sorry for her though, the way the husband and teenage sons speak to her is atrocious.

OP posts:
TheGreyMember · 21/06/2025 00:19

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

SorbetSarnie · 21/06/2025 00:19

I'd be lying if I said murder had never crossed my mind. Especially on a night like tonight where the options are to listen to the show all night or boil alive (air con unit is being delivered next week to hopefully save us).

I also have to admit that I'm scared of reporting further. I did call to report an incident to the police a couple of months ago. The father and oldest teenage son were beating the living crap out of each other on the front garden as the rest of the family screamed. The police turned up and it quieted down.

The problem is after they left the father/son combo managed to put aside their fight for the greater good, I.e. harassing me for the next couple of weeks as they figured no one else had ever complained (to their face).

I know I could have kept calling the police back, but they didn't really do anything when they came out and I didn't want things to keep escalating. They went back to just being their usual arsehole selves after a while.

OP posts:
Corgiears · 21/06/2025 00:18

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 21/06/2025 00:12

You have a very different perception of Butlins than my memories of family holidays there.

It’s called hyperbole.

TheGreyMember · 21/06/2025 00:18

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 21/06/2025 00:12

You have a very different perception of Butlins than my memories of family holidays there.

Is this really the only thing that sprang to mind?

SailingWonder · 21/06/2025 00:16

Oh god I really really feel for you

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 21/06/2025 00:12

You have a very different perception of Butlins than my memories of family holidays there.

UmberJoker · 21/06/2025 00:05

YANBU 💐 Report ASB every time and then request a case review once you’ve made 3 reports

50Balesofgrey · 21/06/2025 00:05

Could you get together enough money to employ a hitman?