Please tell me about your annoying neighbours.....

Myneighboursdomyheadin · 2021-02-27T10:10:05+00:00

I think I have had the worst neighbour luck ever. In the last 20 years we have had 1insane guy reporting us to police for “theft” 2noisy music guy 3build extension over border on our land guy 4 officious involving self in my business guy 5 cutting down tree in our garden guy who is married to screaming and shaking fist blame-the-victim woman Can anyone beat this? There are plus sides, honest!

Paranoidandroidmarvin1350 · 27/02/2021 11:38

Nope. All my neighbours have been awful. Then we moved and had lovely ones. And I cried the day the first sale board went up. And yes I guessed it horrible neighbours. A bit better now they have split up. But the dog howling all day is horrible to hear. I really want to live in a house all on my own in the middle of the countryside. With no other houses around.

Last one we had the police outside a few times when she finally kicked the guy out. Not a horrible neighbourhood either. I’m just unlucky.

One old friend of my had new neighbours. They are now like sisters and their kids treat both houses as their own. So much fun and love. I envy her lot.

Stirmecrazy · 27/02/2021 11:47

Oh God so with you. If I had the energy I would move. First bit of sunshine in for ever and I remember why I want to live on a remote island. I can hear the young boy next door kicking his ball repeatedly at his wall on one side . The other side has got the power tools out. Welcome to the sound of the summer!

ItisLikethis · 27/02/2021 11:58

I have a predatory male living next door.

sweetnessnfight · 27/02/2021 12:01

My neighbours were nice but became progressively nosier, literally hanging over my garden fence and having a good look around my garden then gossiping about it to their relatives that were bvisiting. Peering through my windows regularly and then recoiling when they realised I could see them. I knew they were keeping tabs on my every movement when I bumped into a relative of theirs who said 'oh I hear you're only walking your dog and not doing much else at the minute' it was lockdown which is why my activity was low but they had a housefull all the time. I started to avoid them like the plague, if their lives are that boring that they take such huge interest in my comings and goings.

amusedbush · 27/02/2021 12:22

Our current neighbour is so bloody nosy - it has reached the point where I stay in my car until she goes back inside when I see her in the garden. She has an opinion on everything and it’s draining.

Not helped by the fact that she reported us to the council for having rubbish from the renovation in our back garden. Fine, it was an eyesore but we moved in right before the first lockdown and I’d already spoken to her about the fact that there were no uplifts and the dumps were all closed

We paid through the nose to have it cleared the second we were able to, which had been our plan all along. I didn’t particularly enjoy looking at our Steptoe and Son back garden either!

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Myneighboursdomyheadin · 27/02/2021 18:25

Thank you that was cathartic reading.
From next-door-but-one on it’s all good -in fact brilliant -but we’ve had rough luck with the immediate neighbours.

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LondonStone · 27/02/2021 19:11

Our previous neighbours were health freaks with crazy work schedules. We lived in a badly soundproofed flat that had an adjoining mezzanine floor.

Cue blender with ice inside squealing anywhere from 4am (early start) to 2am (late night). Thumping hour long workouts on the mezzanine level anywhere from 4am to midnight. TV blaring at any and all hours. Bringing their colleagues home after all the bars had closed on random weekday nights. She was physically incapable of closing anything (kitchen cupboards, front door, internal doors, windows) without slamming them with the force of She Hulk, again, happening at all hours of the day or night.

We spoke to them multiple times and nothing improved. We complained about them and she threatened to sue us. We also couldn’t speak her boyfriend without her being present as she “represented” him as his lawyer. We moved four months after they moved in.

LondonStone · 27/02/2021 19:16

I say badly soundproofed... we actually lived there for three years previous with two different sets of neighbours and never heard a peep from either of them. Once one of them had a Halloween party and I genuinely think the party was less noisy than She Hulk preparing a smoothie.

IggysPop · 27/02/2021 19:25

Yeah. I will join. Selfish and self-centred masquerading as ‘reasonable guy’. Example:

Him: do you mind if I do x in communal area
Me: yes - can I think about it
Him: well I am going to do it and if it’s still a problem we can talk about it

He’s one of those people that is very chatty about him. Eyes glaze over at any conversation not centred on him or his family. Doesn’t listen.

My previous neighbours were amazing.

mbosnz · 27/02/2021 19:40

Neighbour who was an insomniac and would do the dishes on the shared party wall (our bedroom/their kitchen) at 3.00am in the morning, muttering loudly as she went. Or would go sweep the driveway, muttering loudly. We asked her to please do these things when we were a little less likely to be trying to sleep. She sent her bully boy policeman thug round to tell us to stop harassing her.
White power drugdealers whose rottweilers escaped and killed my cat in front of me, dragging it off the fence. They later stabbed my other cat. Twice. Bastards.
Boys who threw noisy parties, built a half pipe, and threatened to rape me when I asked them to tone it down.
Batshit crazy woman who thought I wanted her boyfriend (I was foolish enough to intervene when they'd got to the point of pushing and shoving each other, he was a son of a family friend, and I'd told him to go sleep it off in our sleepout). Noisy parties, drunk as skunks, high as kites. absolutely hopeless.
Daycare centre in a residential area, with screaming owners, let alone kids.
Individual that played Ace of Bass, 24/7 on loop. And their neighbour who stabbed them to death. (Provocation was still a defence at the time).
Neighbours who argued and beat each other up so bad that all the other neighbours and us called the police, the police turned up and they rounded on the police!

andannabegins · 27/02/2021 20:22

I was coming on to complain about the dick next door who has built a massive gazebo type thing completely against planning regs and has shitty house music blaring till gone midnight every weekend but some of these are much worse

TheCanyon · 27/02/2021 20:23

Most of our neighbours have been brilliant. Our current next door neighbour keeps our car in his after our bedtime, he knows we go to bed 10pm ish usually and he's up til midnight.

Our old tenement downstairs neighbour who had schizophrenia, he was insanely clever but by fuck did he do some interesting things. Swapped the pelican crossing lightbulbs with various coloured ones, removed all the drain covers on the street and stuck wooden poles with fucking massive radioactive warning signs in them, spray painted Radio GaGa across the whole tenement front, asked to borrow a corkscrew then chased and tried to stab dh and dd with said corkscrew. It's been 10 years and I often wonder how he's getting on, he often had young lads round treating his place like a party pad who I'm sure exacerbated his behaviour, I hope they've all moved on.

Snowymcsnowsony · 27/02/2021 20:26

Ndn convinced me our adjoining wall was his. Wound me up for 6 months he was taking it down to halfway.. Actually started dismantling it.
Listed building that belongs to my landlord. Wall and all.
Now a still half dismantled wall with trellis along the top.

Ladywinesalot · 27/02/2021 20:26

We are the annoying neighbours.
We talk loudly to each other, and shout at kids.
And we swear (adults) in conversation.
Our garden is a mess.

We are loud.

HTH

Springersrock · 27/02/2021 20:30

My neighbour opposite has been building an extension for the last 2 years - he’s doing it himself and as he works full time, he’s doing it evenings and weekends. Just noise and skips and dust and mess all the bloody time.

One of my other neighbours has appointed herself Covid police and is so bloody nosy. During the first lockdown she counted how many times I went out in a day (I have horses I need to see to twice a day, a dog that needs walking, plus working) and kept knocking on my door to tell me what an idiot I was

Another neighbour has a security light that shines right in our living room window. We’ve asked him several times to change the angle of it slightly but he won’t. It’s ok in the summer as the greenery/leaves on trees, etc hides the light but in the winter it’s awful. I’m going to take an air rifle to it one day

MrBullinaChinaShop · 27/02/2021 20:36

We’ve only ever had one bad neighbour... a woman who wrote us a 5 page letter the day we moved in letting us know the ‘rules’ for living next door to her (we apparently weren’t allowed to walk up and down the stairs with shoes on or put our toilet lid down after 9pm). All the rest have been fine. Some a bit noisy at times that are inconvenient to us (kids go to bed at 7pm so anytime after that really ) but they’re just living their lives, which they’re entitled to do.
Kids in the house behind us are still out on their trampoline but sound like they’re enjoying themselves!

RedLlama · 27/02/2021 20:47

@TheCanyon

Most of our neighbours have been brilliant. Our current next door neighbour keeps our car in his after our bedtime, he knows we go to bed 10pm ish usually and he's up til midnight.

Our old tenement downstairs neighbour who had schizophrenia, he was insanely clever but by fuck did he do some interesting things. Swapped the pelican crossing lightbulbs with various coloured ones, removed all the drain covers on the street and stuck wooden poles with fucking massive radioactive warning signs in them, spray painted Radio GaGa across the whole tenement front, asked to borrow a corkscrew then chased and tried to stab dh and dd with said corkscrew. It's been 10 years and I often wonder how he's getting on, he often had young lads round treating his place like a party pad who I'm sure exacerbated his behaviour, I hope they've all moved on.

Your current neighbours keeps your car in his after you go to bed??? What does this even mean? I can’t make head nor tail of it 🤔

RedLlama · 27/02/2021 20:49

One of our old neighbours tried to stab our dog through the fence with a pitchfork. She used to wind it up so it would bark at the fence and then called the council and the dog warden on us. When that didn’t work she tried to stab the dog.

Her husband had a punch up on the drive with my dad and the police were called. We moved, they still live and apparently are still cunts

blowinahoolie · 27/02/2021 21:00

Last night was woken up by next door neighbour and his wife talking and laughing loudly. Near 1am. Was livid. Had been in such a great sleep. Have had to report them numerous times to police or local authorities for noise pollution over past five years or so. They have long spells of being quiet but all of a sudden they are very loud. All alcohol induced. They drink heavily most nights though.

TaraRhu · 27/02/2021 21:01

We have Weed smokers downstairs . It stinks. Comes through all the cracks in the floor. Police can't do anything without proof that they are smoking it. The pungent smell isn't enough. The landlord is a better. He warns them then it stops and starts.

blowinahoolie · 27/02/2021 21:04

Also they had folk taking photographs of their property in December last year but the house hasn't been put up on the market. No idea what that was about. Looks like they are not moving. Been doing renovation work in their home, all the crap has been left in their front garden. Since December!

Greenandcabbagelooking · 27/02/2021 21:07

My downstairs neighbours came up to complain about the noise we were making. That would be because I fell over the doorstep, dropped a load of tins, landed on the floor and broke my elbow. They were more concerned about the noise as I lay groaning on the floor, and my flatmates tried to work out if I needed an ambulance or I could get on the bus (I'm the only driver).

Today they came up to ask me to stop hoovering. It was about 10 am, not too early at all IMO.

My old neighbours from uni hated students. We were very quiet and respectful. They had three children who used to be on the trampoline from 8 am to 9pm yelling "3, 2, 1 bounce" over and over and over again. They called the police when I went round and asked if they could be a little quieter as we were all trying to study for finals.

They als

1990s · 27/02/2021 21:07

Used to have an actual brothel upstairs. Prefer it to current neighbours, loud electric guitar playing and karaoke.

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Myneighboursdomyheadin · 27/02/2021 21:11

“We are the annoying neighbours.
We talk loudly to each other, and shout at kids.
And we swear (adults) in conversation.
Our garden is a mess.

We are loud.

HTH“

None of these are bad!

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subsy1 · 27/02/2021 21:16

Our NDN came bashing on the door at 2 am. I'd have been well angry but we were fortunately still up practising our bagpipe and fiddle duet. (Joke!)