We have been living in our new house around 10 months now and it has been awful..
The fence here is old and we are not able to replace it due to money and saving for our baby that is on the way.
We have a dog, the first day we moved in and let our dog out the neighbours dog smashed its head through the fence trying to get to ours. We have had to push our bins against the fence to stop it getting through. In summer they left their backdoor open all day, so i couldnt let my dog out without theirs smashing against the fence again. At one point i was fed up and decided it wasnt fair mine being in all day so i took my dog out to play and just ignored theirs the best i could.. their dog broke through a fence pannel onto my front garden and then kept trying to smash through our gate. I eventually had to go knock on my neighbours door and tell them their dog got out and their response was "oh it doesnt like other dogs" and took it back in.
Now its colder and their back door isnt open as often we check to make sure it is closed before letting ours out. Ours runs in circles for the first 2 mins whilst barking in excitement at the fact he has finally been let out, their dog hears as they always have their kitchen window open, it starts barking, so they toss it out.. resulting in their dog smashing into the fence more.
Their eldest son is about 18ish.. one night when fetching washing in for me the fella could hear him constantly booting a ball at the fence, his mum shouted out for him to stop kicking it at the fence for him to reply "i dont give sh*t, its there side" and continued.. she did nothing.
They also leave months worth of dog poop on their back garden and it stinks.
At times they have the music on full blast with their windows open, so much i can hear it whilst mine are closed.
People are constantly coming and going to the house all through the day and night and they arent quiet about it. (this is all during lockdown)
They have yelled at each other on the street at 3am some mornings waking me and my children up.
Our household doesnt smoke, but when we moved in i noticed lots of fag ends outside on the back and front yard, mainly near the fence.. i assumed the person who lived here before smoked.. i spent most of one morning clearing them all up and was very thorough.. about a month or so later i noticed they had reappeared.. about 50 of them..next door smoke..
I just tried to let this wash over me and not affect me.. but then one day when walking downstairs i saw a little black bag outside the window of my door.. i opened my door to find a poo bag full of dog poo..this took me over the edge..due to lock down, not being able to vent my frustration to family and friends and being 15 weeks pregnant with severe morning sickness whilst homeschooling.. i posted a picture of the poo bag and its location on my facebook and wrote how its one thing to toss fag ends over someones fence but poo is another & wrote how im sick selfish of inconsiderate people etc.. i mentioned no names..its all private.. i have 60ish friends.. but its a small town and they eventually heard what i put..
Their eldest son came to my door asking if i had been "btching about them on facebook.. i said i wrote that i was fed up of finding fag ends and poop on my garden yes but no names.
He then got very aggressive, started yelling and swearing at me.
His mum was the other side of the fence, stating its not them as they only smoke on the back, which my response was i find them there too.. she said they use a pot, and use one here too (pointing to one on the front even though she said they didnt smoke there)
She said if the poo bag is theres it got there by accident..(which is impossible due to the fact the weight and gravity wouldnt make it fly over a fence and land outside of someones door)
eventually they left.
The reason i never went to their door to talk about the things bothering me was because i suffer from anxiety and the police have been over at there's before, when someone dropped a birthday card through our door they called us and told us the police said to the man next door someone is thinking of pressing charges against him, he just shrugged and went inside.. so they're an aggressive family and i do like confrontation.
I then got a camera doorbelll so that it would hopefully deter this from happening or at least help me gain evidence its them and so i dont have to answer if they knock on my door again as they are aggressive.
They obviously were not happy about the doorbell camera as 3 days later they also went and put one up and whilst doing it the man that lives there stared straight at mine with this huge grin whilst ringing his and laughing.
I feel like i cant do a thing to protect my property without feeling harassed or that it will have repercussions.. does anyone have any advice? am i being too sensitive about all this? I thought i would feel all happy finally owning our own home but it has been awful.