Tell me about the worst neighbour you’ve ever had

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I’ve been generally lucky with neighbours.

The ones I have now are the worst though (not a nightmare thankfully) …. Did a full renovation that went late into the night for over a year and their builders hid waste in my bins, left their empty water bottle littering my driveway, the neighbours themselves have thrown stuff over their fence into my garden.

I can tolerate them now due to their renovation being over but ultimately they are very petty people.

Mine has just been convicted of category A child abuse image offenses and given a suspended sentence because he pled guilty. I have a four year old and a two year old 😭

Mine accused a couple of neighbours of rape, all proved to be false. Police constantly at her address, constantly harassing other neighbours.

Turns out before she had moved here she had done similar to her old neighbours. She was put on a managed move to another area by the housing association.

She was in the papers for threatening girl guides with a shot gun (boyfriend is an elderly farmer)

I believe she is in the process of being deported.

''The neighbours themselves have thrown stuff over their fence into my garden''.? Wouldn't expect such behaviour from even an HMO !

Neighbours son sexually assaulted my son. Police involved but never went further as DS was 8 and neighbours son was 12 at the time.
She's now upset that rumors are going round that her son is a paedophile. He's 16 and was called out by another teenager on our street for showing porn videos to his younger (8 yo) brother. The 11 year old daughter has been removed from 2 schools for being violent including threatening people with a knife. I don't know how she still has custody of any of them with the amount of abuse that goes off in the house especially verbally and physically to the daughter.
Makes me absolutely sick that we're stuck here next to them but apparently they are trying to get a move to escape all the bullies on the street.

Jesus Christ, these first few posts are a real kick to the groin. I was hoping for some light-hearted tales.

The people in the flat above me were running a cannabis farm. It was identified by the police using a heat seeking camera to show the amount of heat coming out of the property. It was good for my heating bills though.

That’s awful. What are you going to do? You can’t live next to him surely.

For the last 4 years and 5 months I've put up with Spitting.flytipping.damaging my flowers,the thing that made me see red was he has put a padlock on the communal gate,I have told our social housing landlord, hopefully he will sort it out.

Years ago had a neighbour who would play hyper loud music at all hours, he was also a drug dealer who employed a family of thugs to look after him, he even went to neighbour and threatened to burn their house down, waving can of petrol in front of them - they were pensioners, Police did nothing, their advice to us all was to stay clear of him.
We think he was an informer at the time, hence lack of action, either that or he was buying them off.

We sold up, at around 30% less than the surrounding market rate

He was eventually jailed for grooming under age girls for sex in return for drugs but it took many years for the Police to act against him.

This was a rural village in an AONB

Vile decrepit neighbour whispered in my 5yr old sons ear while he was playing with his little toy cars on the path between our houses.. "I'm going to get the police to take your mum away and lock her up in prison forever if you dont move"
My son was terrified and ran inside. Took a while for him to tell me, neighbours child confirmed he'd said it.

My then dh came home in the nick of time as I was about to pounce and literally carried me over his shoulder back in the house.. I saw all shades of red and wanted to hurt him. The one of very few good ideas from ex dh was that police were a better idea than me going for the neighbours throat in broad daylight.

Constant smell of weed, screaming and shouting at all hours, police knocking the door. So glad to now live in a sleepy little town where not much happens.

Not the point but how is your neighbour decrepit if they have a child?

Assuming said child was infact a child.

Yeah I would say the convicted paedophile was probably the worst…

A couple rented the house next to me for 6 months and moved their 3 teenagers in while they stayed in their own house. Its as bad as you'd think that would go, endless early hours parties, drunk teens smashing my fences, sheds and even the roof off a brick out house. It was left terrible inside, even the staircase had been smashed and the owner sold it as a fixer upper.

Another neighbours child confirmed...decrepit was auto corrected.. meant to say despicable.. not sure how it got there, my inaccurate typing clearly.. and you're right again, not the point of my response but thanks for noticing and taking the time to question.. 😊

There was one HMO next door on the attached side. They had about twenty blokes in there plus a beds in sheds thing out the back.

They nicked parts from my bf's motorcycle and cousin's car. That was really annoying.

Nothing like these! A very religious lady with a sign out saying CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THIS HOUSEHOLD who absolutely hates us and we can't understand why as we've barely spoken. Very funny about parking. Occasionally rants about things in my general direction. A lot of glaring.

Thank god we're detached.

We moved from our last rental house mainly due to the neighbours - we just couldn't stand it anymore and found somewhere else. They did the following:

Thought that the communal carpark was solely for their 6 vehicles and 'stole' several empty garages off neighbours to store other cars and parts. They tried to steal ours by 'finding' the lock broken off and alleged that we'd abandoned it - it had our garden furniture/toys + bikes in it;

Never recycled their rubbish so even with just 2 adults+2DC they easily filled up 4 huge wheelie bins each fortnight (we all managed with just 1) and when a neighbour moved they would sneak round to the vacant house as the removal van was leaving and steal yet another wheelie bin. They stored them in their back garden and used them for the extra rubbish generated at Christmas;

Kept getting dogs that they would leave outside in all weathers. The dogs would bark continuously for hours outside until they let them in. Occasionally they'd open the door and shout shut up at them. Eventually the dogs would disappear and they'd tell the DC that they'd run away - their poor kids would poster the neighbourhood with lost posters for them because they didn't know;

They built a huge outbuilding in their back garden without planning permission and held noisy weekly family parties all summer - we called it the party barn. They added in several hot tubs which they'd empty against our fence so the water flooded our garden;

They got chickens. They rarely cleaned them out and when they did they would put the dirty straw down the drains. Rats then started appearing in everyone's gardens attracted by the chicken food and waste. The chickens were very noisy and gradually the noise reduced as the poor things died until one day there was complete silence because they all died in their pen. Lazy fuckers then left everything as it was for more than a year - the stench was horrendous. They only cleared it all away (down the drains we suspect) when they decided to build the party barn;

The rats having run out of chicken bodies to eat then invaded their house and used the loft/walls/foundations to move along the row of terraces until we all had rats. We left when our loft nearly caught fire from the rats chewing the electrics.

On the day we moved the male neighbours came out and asked if we were moving. DP said we were. Neighbour then asked "is it something we've done?". DP said "Yes!" and walked off leaving neighbour speechless. As we locked up I could hear his wife mouthing off about how I was a hoity-toity stuck up bitch through their window so I just smiled and waved at her!

We’ve had a few awful ones - the drug dealers weren’t amazing. They were replaced by 3 polish builders who couldn’t have been nicer and it was such a shock to have such lovely neighbours. They baked us a cake, and when they wanted to throw a housewarming party messaged us every hour or so to check it wasn’t too loud. I miss those guys!

The drunk farmer whose sheep escaped every other day and ate our garden was at least entertaining.

The students who had wild parties until 3am on a weeknight were also not ideal. I cured them of that habit by popping round every morning at 7am on my way to work and waking them all up to ask if they’d enjoyed their party.

When I lived with my exh, we lived next door to a woman who hated 'living' things like flies, bees etc. We could often hear her getting herself worked up into a state of hysteria over a tiny fly in the house and would phone her dad screaming "There's a fly in here daddy - rescue me. I demand that you come and get it out of my house now!!!!!". She also thought that my cat would eat her baby and built a barrier on top and below the fence out of cocktail sticks to keep him out. He never went in her garden because he was terrified of her ear splitting screaming at anything and everything. Once the baby became a toddler, she'd get him to join in with her screaming - poor kid.

Couple who moved up to Scotland to retire. They started off nice as pie but then complained about everything we did - with no grounds. Our washing lines were cut, wing mirror "knocked off", piles of fag ends left on our doorstep etc etc.

We knew it was them but no proof (pre Ring doorbell era) and an elderly neighbour who saw them in action wouldn't speak out in case they harmed his cat.

Over 10 years they fell out with 95% of the neighbours. They moved back 2 years ago blaming everyone else for driving them away.

I can't believe how much my MH has improved.

Blimey the campaign against our extension with house to house recruitment of neighbour objections, the opening of imaginary boundary disputes, rude emails, calling the police, and frankly some batshit behaviour, which were just a massive tantrum, seem quite mild compared to these!

My worse neighbours were friendly.
My best neighbours were drug dealers.
My now neighbours i say hi if i see them keep to our self's very quiet.

NDN is a serial parcel thief. Her daughter and I both suspect she is in some sort of mental decline but she keeps passing examinations, but her behaviour has just changed so rapidly.

I've had to ask couriers not to leave parcels in safe places or deliver to neighbours because I will just never see them again.

Neighbour over the road is an elderly fellow who lived in the bungalow with his mum and took over the tenancy when she died 20 years ago. I think if he were assessed today he would have been found to have learning disabilities, he has never worked in his life, he does daft things like pouring boiling water on his icy windows, and ramp from the front door, and is always in a pickle. We have to keep a close eye on him, but they're like traps because once you step into the trap he just wants to talk about his penis.

His NDN is a lovely chap, he put up a fence for us completely free, wouldn't accept gifts or payments, really wanted to do us a favour then told everybody on the street we had told him never to darken our doorstep again. We did absolutely no such thing! He did ask us if we had any spare wood and we said hang on a second by the gate because the dog is roaming in the garden, and we will bring it out to you, and we think he's misheard or misunderstood but he was absolutely sobbing one of the days we walked past on the school run because he genuinely believes that's what we had said, but even though we apologised and reassured him that we really would never wish him any ill will and he's always welcome round, he still carried on telling the neighbours how horrible we are.

His NDN so like a steep diagonal to us used to wave hello to us, and would get DS an ice lolly on our way back from school. Then when it snowed in April this year, and I walked past she said something like I need to get to Derek's house (no idea who Derek is? Not real name btw), I said oh it's much too icy, if I were you I'd wait an hour or so and see if the sun melts any of it away, see you later, then she rang all the immediate neighbours to tell them I'm a bitch because I didn't offer to walk her over to Derek's house. 1. She didn't ask, it was more of a general statement about what she was doing today and 2. I have mobility issues too. It would be like the blind leading the blind. Since then she ducks, yes, ducks behind the wall when she sees me walking past and she is outside. One of the days she stood in waiting to blow cigarette smoke in my face as I passed.

All of these neighbours are elderly as I live in the only house on a bungalow estate, and I've always tried really hard to be nice to the elderly around me. I have had it drilled into me that they really struggle with loneliness, and it is a big killer of elderly people, but my neighbours are making it really hard to care about their loneliness.

The tramp next door. The woman is ok but her boyfriend is a disgusting cocklodge. She is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with him. Some women will date any bile male rather than be alone.
He doesnt work, smokes 60 a day and stinks my house out, stays up all night chain smoking so my bedroom stinks like a 1980s east end pub, he gaslights everyone, his teeth are black and he stinks.
He just painted all their fencing black and it looks horrendous. I cannot stand him.