Tell me about your arsehole neighbours

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We live next door to the loudest most inconsiderate family of arseholes going. We've had a series of issues which has ultimately lead to the involvement of the police. Now every time I see one of them or hear them (terraced house and they've all seemingly got a bell in every tooth) it ignites a rage in me so great I literally daydream about doing them harm (obviously I wouldn't).

Talk to me about your shitty neighbours. Tell me i'm not alone 😫

I had 2, 1 on each side. 1 would scream all night for hours on end and wake me up at least twice a week. Nothing I did or said would get her to stop and it shattered my nerves.

The others would play music for 10 hours a day every single day that was so loud you could hear it throughout my house and onto the street. Hot tub, parties, loud voices, constantly brain rattling noise. Again refused to stop.

Oddly enough both were very sensitive to any noise from anyone else.

I had to move and it made me so sick it has taken me years to even start recovering.

I should have moved sooner. No amount of money lost is worth what I went through.

I’ve had a non stop stream of bad neighbours living in my area which is notorious for chav families. I’ve had to move house twice over my mental health because of neighbours making me unwell with their anti social behaviour. I’m once again living next door to anti social people who purposely make noise all night to wake us and throw things in our garden, so once again we are trying to move but out of the area for a new start. These days not many people have respect for neighbours or appreciate they’re living next to considerate people who deserve the same back.

Our neighbours are nice people but they don’t seem to realise how much noise their kids make
their stairs are on our lounge wall-thump thump thump every 5 minutes
dad can’t shut a door-he has to slam it-his front door is next to the sofa-at least 4/5 times a day
every weekend the kids are screaming in the garden,peering over our fence,climbing over it to get a football that they’ve kicked over,playing Xbox til3 in the morning-while screaming at their mates
they row-until the early hours,every night
they park in the street so we cant get into our street let alone near our house
the dog barks 24/7

the other side is batshit
one minute she’s your bestie,the next she’s gawping out of her window,watching everyone
she’ll come screeching out of her house to scream at people for parking wrongly or walking down the street
she refuses to take in the odd parcel but will go mental if you refuse anything for her
she hoovers at 3am and is always rowing with her bloke-but if you sneeze,she’s on your doorstep howling about how noisy you are-I’d say 3/4 of the street avoid her
her cats also shit in our garden but she went batshit when we took steps to stop them (water gun,spikes,sprinkler)
she seems to think our garden is for her cats to shit in and it’s not her problem to clean it up

I had one. He came in at 5.20am, slammed the front door and went upstairs to his flat where he blasted music from about 6.30am.

He'd sometimes get up / get in from work at 5am and couldn't do it quietly. Lost count of the amount of times I was woken up by him.

DIY at 8 / 9pm. I did once ask him to stop it. 5 minutes later, he started again.

He'd constantly play loud music. So loud that I couldn't hear my own TV. I used to be able to work out what he was listening to as well.

Complained for a good 18 months. He got kicked out of the area for fighting. Now have new neighbours and can only hear (they've apologised and said it'll be sorted once they've settled in) them do DIY during the day. Never at 6am or 8pm, thankfully.

My neighbours are lovely.. but they're very loud. He comes in from work at 11pm cue damming car doors etc.. then he puts the dog in the garden for an hour or so and it BARKS CONSTANTLY. I have dogs, dogs bark. But I don't put them out at 11pm at night and let them bark for an hour. Not sure why his wife can't put them out earlier but there you go. And their teen DD is going through a door slamming slanging match phase so that's fun at all times of day or night. But they're genuinely lovely, so it's hard to be pissed off.

I live in a terrace 😬

Side 1 is a rental and the current tenants are amazing, you don't even know they are there however a few years ago the house was rented to some nightmare neighbours. It was supposedly rented by a family but it had actually been rented by the parents for their 3 late teen kids as a party house, it went as well as you can imagine, it took the landlady ages to evict them and they absolutely trashed it, think ripped off door frames and smashed windows, they destroyed my fence and smashed the roof of my outbuilding.
Side 2 is owned by an absolute arsehole who likes doing things such as hammering huge nails through the fence so my kids get injured, he's an arsehole to everyone though, I especially enjoyed when there was a gas leak somewhere along the terrace and he wouldn't let anyone in his house to check, they had to forcibly cut off his gas supply with police present, I've never seen a grown man have a screaming tantrum like that (turns out it was his dodgy DIY that caused the leak). I've lived next to him for over 20 years so have lots of stories.

Oh god, too many to list. We ought to have much stricter laws on silence and privacy. When you think how small and densely populated the UK is, and how small and packed together the houses are, you'd think we'd have the strictest laws in the world. I'm not going to read the other posts in this thread because they'll make me too angry. You work hard, save your money, bring your children up to be polite and decent (do the right thing in other words) and then bang, some vicious chav moves in next door and ruins your life.

Probably the worst neighbour I ever had was a ghastly, weird, nerdy little tw*t who just wouldn't leave us alone. He wasn't noisy (thank god), but he was SO intrusive. The garden had no fence, just knee-high wire mesh, and every time I went out to the washing line, or threw some bread for the birds, I'd hear his patio doors slide open and see his stupid face poke out. He was one of those people who cannot keep their mouths shut. You know the type – no matter what the circumstances, they have to speak, and have to try and be funny. He would make idiotic jokes, or sarcastic remarks, then stand there with a smug look like he was Oscar Wilde. Also, his garden curved round so that when he put his bins out he could see into our kitchen. He only had the bins there so he could peer in.

And he never got it. No matter how cold or distant or rude I was, he'd still keep popping up and making jokes. I'd be in the garden reading, and within no time there he was. He would stare and wait for me to speak – as if I had a duty to entertain him. Sometimes, I'd pretend not to see him, but that didn't work either. He'd just ask what I was reading. To try and get rid of him, I'd mumble something and not look up. But that would then give him an excuse to jump over the fence.

Had he been meek and shy, I might have felt sorry for him. But he wasn't meek or shy; he was arrogant and aggressive. He even used to walk in this ridiculous, aggressive way, with his chest puffed out and his arms swinging by his side. He later married a horrible, passive-aggressive monster and had two of the most horrible children I have ever met in my life. Utter nightmare.

Heck I've got so many stories, we did not have good luck with our neighbours at our old house over 10 years...

The first lot weren't too bad, but when they moved out they dumped literally tonnes of rat infested rubbish over our driveway, it stank and it was awful.

Real trouble started with a couple with a teenage son who used to constantly flick joint and cigarette ends over our fence. Our spaniel puppy ate some and was really poorly.

They moved out and a new duo moved in. The lady was ok-ish, but her partner was a walking talking nightmare and so were their staffy dogs - that were kept outside - both hated living next door to another dog and barked and howled and went absolutely apeshit if we dared even open our back door - ripping through the fence panels to let our dog out for a wee. Not even exaggerating, it cost us hundreds to keep replacing the fence.

They eventually moved out and the next lot moved in with 7 dogs who all hated other dogs and hated us being in the garden so again we were confined to being indoors. These two were a nightmare beyond words, house parties all days of the week, shouting screaming swearing and domestics in the street, it was just horrific.

Having bad neighbours can ruin your life and if you're struggling you have my complete sympathy.

One time, I asked the upstairs neighbour if he’d mind turning down the music very late one night. He punched me in the face, told us we’d better sell up and played music so loud it was distorted 7pm-7am for a year. Proper fucking cunt. Worst year of my life. We had environmental health out who threatened to remove his equipment. We spent a fortune spending as much time out of the house as possible. We sold, full disclosure to the buyer who could not have cared less.

At uni I had upstairs neighbours in the first term who were really noisy when getting ready to go out and would regularly brings friends home after nights out ie early hours of the morning and blare music etc. I asked them to keep it down as we couldn't hear our TV but they would ignore me.

After new year of my first term there, I was back home and having a bath after a long day at work. Then a load of banging and stomping started. I just assumed it was these girls back so turned my music up loader. Two days later they came round saying they had been burgled and had we heard anything 😳

Mine are nice, but crazy loud. The daughter can meltdown for England, the mum screams blue murder at the kids, she may as well be in my house, its that clear. They do however apologise. Im hoping as the kids get older it will quiten down.

I live at the centre of a quiet village. It's not touristy, or particularly pretty, but it's on the doorstep to the most beautiful parts of north wales. It's the sort of village where the neighbours have been there since they were born, with ancestral connections in the naming of the streets etc.
One of the families have converted the old laundry house into two flats and filled them with obnoxious young men. On Friday nights it's like a 90s rave over there now and we've seen more police cars in the past six months than ever before. I'm so disheartened by it. These lads would be happier in town, the street stinks of weed and they are swearing up and down at each other's windows. The landlord seems to think it's all boys high jinks and harmless.

Used to lived in a flat in Brixton. Flats below, above, right and left. In front too over a courtyard and behind. Fairly thin floors but solid walls

Most I heard from the neighbours in the 15 years we lived there was a single vigorous shagging session when everyone had their windows open in the heat, some roaring when an important sports event was on and a 50th birthday party (we were invited so doesn't count really)

Suburbia sounds awful!

When we lived in a terrace, we had a neighbour that was a complete pain, and would play his music during the night right next to our bedroom wall, yawn so loudly you would have thought he was in our bedroom. We knew the LL, told him of the problems he wasn’t interested at all, until the tenant lost their job and was home all day playing loud music that disturbed him 😂 thank goodness our next property and the property we now live in is detached. Makes for a much easier life with neighbours.

Not so much a neighbour (they’re amazing) but one girls landlord.. 😱.
There’s a massive leak in her flat. This was identified in February. I had two plumbers out to my property (above the leaking one!) couldn’t find anything etc etc. They send a specialist leak company round, end of march. This lovely gent does his tests - including smashing thru tiles in my bathroom to confirm there is absolutely no water. Thanks buddy!

(in the mean time, they find a minor leak from a different flat, which is causing some of the damage, and this is fixed. However. The leak is still leaking)

My property was to be reinstated on April 18th, so again, another day off work. I phone about 10-15 asking how much longer they’ll be. The visit has been CANCELLED. By dickwad landlord!!!! He’s NOT my landlord. This is my mortgaged property.
and no one told me. Thanks gang!

sooo. This is rearranged for two weeks later, early May. The day before the visit, I ask leak detectioncompany whether they actually have access to all properties within the building, as they are not smashing mine up any further until they fix the damage caused in March. Turns out they don’t. So I spend all of my breaks that day phoning round the others, and checking they’ll be in.
Assured by the leak company that the landlords father will be at the leaky property.

Turns out they made their tenant (who pays more than DOUBLE in rent than i pay for my mortgage, for a home she can’t use some of because there’s so much damage) TAKE THE DAY OFF WORK!!

Not so hilariously, the company still couldn’t find the source of the leak.

so we’re back to square one. New leak detection company phones. “Oh we only have details for some of the residents in the building” I respond, “oh dear, what a shame. I refer you back to (dickhead landlord) who does have these details. And if he says he doesn’t, please advise him to look harder.”

like FUCK am I organising all of this for him again.
I also can’t afford to take any more time off work, genuinely. Its been 5 separate occasions I’ve had to: (my plumber. The plumber who BUILT THE BUILDING. The leak detection man once, failed visit, and then again more recently).
urgh.
sorry for the essay.

We have what my daughter calls “trailer trash” neighbours. They are not actually that close as we live in Aus where block sizes are large but their dog has barked non stop pretty much for five years since they moved in and they regularly go away leaving him alone even during COVID lockdowns where they were not allowed to leave the area. We have spoken to them nicely so many times where the guy refuses to accept the noise even when DH plays the recordings, left notes in their letterbox, Council have been useless, a few years back we explained that I was going through Chemo and their barking dog meant I couldn’t sleep during the day. Lots of promises but nothing done, they constantly scream at their kids, we ignore them now when we see them.

My neighbours were lovely when the woman was alive. She passed away at around 40 and her partner lost his shit, constantly drunk, screaming at his child, smashing his house up. He accused us of reporting him to social services I did and denied it..

They ended up making him get sober, take parenting classes and share custody with her family. A week with each. It's been 3 years and last week he apologised for being a twat and now he's not as shit

Oh and the other side we had to have environmental health out for 'feeding the gerbils under the shed' they were the biggest rats I've ever seen in my life

We have utter arsehole neighbours.

Regular DIY at 9pm
Park across our driveway because they like to be able to get their car off their drive without moving the other one
malicious reports to the council (acknowledged as malicious and no longer actioned)
Parties until 3am in their garden most of summer
Screamed at my child for playing in her garden with a football during lockdown 1, calling her a little bitch.
Slagging us of to other neighbours because we wouldn't pave our front garden for them to park on (we have 1 car, which fits on our driveway)
complaining our dog barks when their crotchgoblin bangs on the fence screaming at her.
accusing us of reporting them to the police for regular lockdown parties, erm no it was the people up to 3 streets away who you also kept awake.
accused us of reporting them for parking in a disabled bay in the local shop car park and they got a fine. Nothing to do with them parking in a disabled bay covered by CCTV when not disabled.

We have had a solicitor write to them to cease and desist and told our management company that any further contact we will be seeking legal advice re them too.

When I was a small child we lived in a terrace house with large sunny front gardens, the ideal placed for growing strawberries. My mum planted a load of strawberry plants, only to come out the next morning and find they had gone. My dad followed the, obvious, trail of mud up our garden path, down the pavement and down neighbours garden path, knocked on the door and asked for them back, where the neighbours tried to play dumb.

Another time my Wendy house tent disappeared overnight from the back garden, dad went round and demanded it back, where neighbours acted dumb, next night it reappeared minus one upright pole which from them on was replaced by an ill fitting wooden stick.

On one occasion dad went to report these neighbours to the police, not sure what for this time, and left the car (Austin Allegro - shows how long ago this was) parked in they police station carpark without the handbrake on properly, which then rolled down into the side of the building when dad was at the desk. My dad got a ticket for it, but I'm not sure what they did about the neighbours and all their pretty theft.

But what mentality of person steals strawberry plants and a 4 year old child's Wendy house?!

Mine grows lines of conifers plunging our garden in to darkness!
Likely devaluing our home.

Not really arseholes but my neighbours still have their Christmas decorations up in the window and have done for the last two years.

I understand your pain. Had a lovely old man live next door to us in the council house. We live in the end terrace and own the property. The dear neighbour passed away and Britain's worst family moved in. On the first day the mother came round scratting for goods as her children bounced on our trampoline in the back garden. Since then her mentally deranged boyfriend moved in and it all got much worse. After years of tresspass it all came to a head when the tool made threats to me, so I involved the police and local Councillors since the council themselves did sod all. We've reached a point now where we're civil, and the lady next door is actually a good person but her other half is simply a full blown prick who likes to use kids to fight his battles. Nevermind there are people in worse positions

Argh OP I feel your pain. We had lovely neighbours until the utter bullying inconsiderate pricks next door moved in just before lockdown. Issues with ours have included…
*trespassing
*hot tub annoyances, the sounds are so loud it sounds like an aircraft IN our house not to mention their dirty hot tub water flows into our garden when they decide to empty it🤮they don’t clean it that often and it has been a green soup for a long time
*lockdown bbq parties with water balloons that they didn’t pick up so blocked the drains
*screechy crotchgoblins who kick the rear fence and behave like little arseholes at every opportunity (now I do have a couple of my own shouty crotchgoblins to contend with however my tolerance for their brats is non existent as every time I give them the benefit of the doubt they do something which lowers my opinion further of them
*music…right let’s get this straight occasional playing of music at low volume is tolerable… if it’s louder then occasional parties/weekends etc fine however EVERYTIME the sun is out (which has been a lot recently) the guy plays the same oasis songs over and over and over again at a volume so loud half the estate can hear it and even turns it up further when he is pressure washing so you can imagine how loud that is, there is a thing called earphones that a grown ass man hasn’t got the concept. Don’t get me wrong I liked Oasis saw them live even learned a couple of their songs on guitar but now every time time I hear Alexa and fckin Liam G I get a sense of rage and have to reach for my headphones (I once made the mistake of asking him to turn it down a little… well they did for all of 5 minutes and then cranked it up louder than before the twunt!) I have heard other neighbours ask him to turn it down too. Friends have said just play your music louder however I don’t think that’s fair on my other neighbours who I have spoken to who also think they are morons.
*loud socialising at the front right outside my living room window fine yes occasionally or even just on a weekend but every single night is just kn0b behaviour especially when they are so loud the tv on full volume can’t drown them out however I think another neighbour called the council a while back and so they were quieter for a short time and have been even louder than usual now to prove a point
*a screaming boiler they have had 4 years to sort out but can’t be arsed
*privacy, they paved the back and in doing so lowered the fence so they would just stare into our garden and frighten my kids we had to put a bigger fence up so we could have dinner in peace
*rubbish, they have filled the back lane with rubbish upsetting an elderly lady who lives nearby and don’t recycle so the refuse bin is full a week before collection day and they have open bin bags in the front which seagulls steal from…raw sausage meat and used sanitary towels strewn on the drive makes a disgusting and distressing sight (I ended up making a makeshift fence at the front in the slight hope of keeping their rubbish on their side) which has not proven popular with them but you know neither is unwrapped sanitary towels rolling down the street🤮
*rats due to above
*Barking dogs that howl all day when left in their kitchen and bark at my kids whenever they are in the garden (we have a dog but she does not bark at them) in winter the yard is so full of dog excrement that when it rains a brown river flows towards the house 🤮

So there you have it. There is more but I am probably being unreasonable on some points but they have pushed and pushed us to breaking point and back.
Moving for us is not an option, we love our home… what helps is other people on the estate feel the same about these pricks like we do…they went on holiday once and the neighbourhood was glorious and like a completely different area whilst they were away, and I actually think they are oblivious to how many neighbours despise them…so in essence OP there are a lot of reasonable people out there who hate selfish inconsiderate arsehole neighbours…sending you a hug and hope Karma bites your horrible neighbours on the ass or they move out in the near future ❤️