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.

Guy in a flat behind us. Professional musician. Keyboards player. Did 2 hours practice every afternoon on a Hammond organ.

I have never hated a human being more in my life.

Mine’s more harrowing than anything. My former neighbour (elderly) lived with her adult daughter who died, but she continued living with her body for over a year. This was discovered when she wheeled what remained of her daughter along to our local mall to give the impression she was alive and well. I find it really hard to go home sometimes and am desperate to move.

Had an HMO of Polish guys next door for several years - like a poster mentioned above, an absolute delight. Polite, clean, friendly and civic-minded.

The landlord sold up to the council, and the place was refitted. A single mum was moved in because she had kids in double figures and the layout suited a large family. They actually started ok, the house was immaculate, and the kids were lovely.

But when the mother got a boyfriend and moved him in, it went downhill shockingly rapidly - he was involved in nasty things with scary people and the DV started as soon as he got his foot in the door.

It is staggering how one single person can change a whole neighbourhood. He managed to bring the whole place down into the gutter in mere months. He was eventually very violently assaulted for not paying money owed to one of the aforementioned scary people.(We know this because of the screaming while the assault was happening, that he would pay, he just needed time.) The single mum took the opportunity handed to her and vanished while he was hospitalised in a coma. We moved not long after.

A few houses later.......We had a neighbour who decided that simply because we didn't have a car and she did that our drive should be hers, and she parked there despite our objections (she had a small baby, dont you know) - She was convinced that we should just suck it up, and when we added a barrier to our drive, started a feud that should only really be reserved for warring royalty over the crown - not a scappy drive in a sad little town in the Midlands. She tried to poison our cats to' show us'

Then we had a little old lady who used to use our emergency key to let herself in after we left for work, fuss our cats and steal our little old dog for company and sneak him back home before we got in. We didn't know until she was dobbed in by her daughter because we had mentioned we were worried and paying for vet tests as the dog was so shattered in the evenings. Our diva of a cat Queenie, ended up adopting her, and they both lived together, doting on each other outrageously for several years. (No word of a lie, she bought the Queenie her own throne)

I bought a top floor maisonette as my first property. There was a flat underneath and a house next door attached.
The neighbours in the house had three kids and were crack heads. There was broken glass in their garden, dog shit everywhere. Always something going on, fights, kids screaming. They would ask to borrow money every week for petrol or food for their kids which on occassion I would give them some change. Mice would come through to my flat from their house so I got a cat. One day they set fire to their car which was parked outside my bedroom window. I was in the property at the time. Fire and police were called, they disapeared after that and I don't know what happened to them.

My last neighbour used to have people round every Saturday and when drunk would sing ( scream) on the karaoke, it would end around 1.30am , my now neighbours are so quiet I have to keep checking they haven’t moved out.

We had neighbours who turned next door into a massive drugs den for a couple of years. Every room in the house had been converted. We complained about the smell of weed on the streets for ages; it was still a surprise when the police raided it. They gave us all the empty plant pots for my daughter's gardening though, which was nice. Aside from random cars turning up at all hours, they'd kept themselves to themselves and been very chill (obviously 🤭)

Worst would be the neighbour we had to do Sarah's Law on because we felt uncomfortable with his behaviour around DD, who was only 3 at the time. Turned out he was a convicted peadophile and we moved house as soon as we could.

OMG the absolute arsehole. That is horrendous.

I've had a few bad neighbours but the most batshit is the silly cow who lives next door to us now

For context,we own our house and shes council

There is dp and I and she lives with her dp (claims hes her brother for benefit purposes and her two dds)

She was all fake friendly for about a year until she found the lay of the land

I want to add that we are quiet people and easygoing-we've never started any trouble in the 10 years we've lived here

One night she came round and screamed at us for darling to park in 'her' street and that she was 'gonna ring your fucking landlord and get him to kick you out!' (She doesn't know we own)

Rinse and repeat endlessly-at least once a week,she would be banging our door down,screaming at us and badmouthing us to any poor soul that listened (we dont really care as we keep ourselves to ourselves)

Then the music started-if I hear 'nothing compares 2 u' one more fucking time,I'm going to burst in and smash up her stereo-i hear it for up to 18 hours a day on repeat)

They left rubbish outside their house and have tried to use our bins for their overflow

She has one of those ring doorbells and as she doesn't work,she sits watching the bloody thing and screams at us for leaving our house

She sits at her backdoor,listening to any conversations we have so she can twist it and slag us off (had some fun with that one,I have to confess-she really thinks we are swingers/jehovah witnesses/planning armed robberies/planning our next shoplifting spree-she looks a bit silly when nothing happens)

During covid,she rang the police on us for not clapping but she saw us rush out of the house,in tears and putting suitcases into the car

My fil was dying and we where running around trying to get to him before it was too late

That was fun explaining that to the police

Her dog sits at our boundary,sniffing and shitting (they dont clean it up) and if we dare to use our garden,she goes mental for setting it off

It came to a head when she burnt her house down

She put up a gofundme with the sad face,2k to raise and laying it on thick about how her dds are autistic (they are not),shes a single mum (shes not) and that she was struggling (she was offered two flats by the council but turned them down as they where 'dirty' 'not in the right area' and 'I cant afford it as I'm paying rent on my first house so i need this one for free' and she went running to the tv and radio to try to force the council to give her another house/furnish it for free)

(Can afford a ring doorbell and expensive car but not insurance)

And she had the nerve to slag us off for not giving her any money for her gofundme (why should I?I pay for my house insurance-in wouldn't dream of going on the beg-she raised just shy of £500)

They moved back in a few months ago and apart from the music,dog shit and dirty looks,shes kept her head down to a degree

I get one more ounce of trouble from her and I'm reporting her and ill keep doing it until they get shot of her

A boast, but not a boast. I live on a private road and get on with my neighbours. Polite, considerate, helpful, friendly, it’s wonderful. No one has moved out since 2006. However, the people in the next road down are a royal pita. Constantly parking on our road, leaving litter, dumping SORN cars on our road, blocking our bin area when they full well know it’s bin day. Absolute bunch of peasants. One even attached CCTV to the side of the house and it was pointing at my house, my neighbour had words with them as I hadn’t spotted myself. They took off in the end.

Neighbour who lives on the opposite corner three houses up.

He has a corner plot so his front door is actually is another road but his drive and garage are diagonally opposite us at the bottom of his garden.

First became aware of him not long after moved in. He took it upon himself to buy a pot of yellow paint to extend the double yellows from the junction up to his drive so that no one could park down the side of his house.

Police officer living directly opposite reported it to the council who came and removed the paint ( you can still see it and it's enough to put people off parking there)

Now if anyone parks in the road anywhere near his house he comes out and shouts at them. Even his close neighbours will have him banging on their doors demanding they move their cars from his space.

We fell victim when my son parked his car outside one weekend. The first time he ever had and only because there were building works in our road and all other spaces taken up by builders vans.

Son's car was suddenly covered in bits of tree branch , scratches and his number plate had been stolen.

When we asked horrible neighbour if he had any ring door bell footage of son's car being vandalised he just started screaming at us and telling us we should not be parking outside his house. Us pointing out we live opposite just wound him up even more.

All the neighbours hate him but he is utterly convinced he owns the road all around his large plot.

I call him the angry parking goblin ( he reminds me of rumplestiltskin on the cover of my old penguin fairy tale book)

The dog breeders at the back diagonal to me are probably the worst especially as I cant do anything i tried the RSPCA after there was a huge fight the other dsy including dogs yelping screaming and just plain fighting for about an hour they demanded my name and address I refused as these tenants are unpleasant vicious and will make my life a misery if they find out ive reported them they said they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't give them details of who reported them they said they would encourage me to talk to them before they did anything about it so dogs being used for breeding and fighting having a sustained fight isn't a concern my name and address is....

He's smoking now the twat stinking my house out. I often go round there and complain and he pathetically lies and says its not him when you can see it and smell it and nobody else in our row of houses smokes. He tries to tell me he only smokes in the garden when the smoke is billowing out of the door.
I had to go round there at 5am one morning because got zero sleep from the stink and was due to do a 12 hour shift in the NHS that day.
He isnt allowed to smoke in the house but when she's away he's in there chugging away. He must think Im bloody stupid.

In our first house we had an extremely religious couple who’s entire front window was covered in posters about sinners going to hell, gays going to hell, the apocalypse being nigh etc. They were APPALLED by the fact that at the time DH and I were unmarried with a child. The woman used to hiss at me!!! They would post leaflets through our door. We moved back in with my parents in the end as it was so uncomfortable. They moved in a month after we bought our house so we had no idea what was to come.

We had one neighbour that complained to the council's noise complaint team about the fact that my cat, by sitting on my shed, made his dog bark.

He was absolutely appalled by their response to his complaint 😂😂

Was told or shall I say sneered at " we don't get many of your lot, round here" the day we moved in, next day we were burgled.

Previous house, older woman with 3 adult sons, each with their own list of convictions (car theft, burglary, drugs and violence amongst other things) and multiple feral children between them. Kids would be left with grandma whose idea of childcare was to chuck them out in the garden, lock the door and let them run riot. Our garden was completely unusable as a result, they would throw everything from food and broken toys to half house bricks over the fence and we had a dog and a 3 year old. That's before we get to the police being there every few days looking for one or other of the sons, the screaming and shouting at all hours and the frequent fights, usually between the sons.

Current house, woman with a drink problem, 3 kids, 2 large untrained dogs and terrible taste in men. Highlights have been dog completely destroying our fence, literally attacking it every time we or our dog were in the garden until she eventually broke/bit it to pieces, all-weekend parties, screaming arguments and fights with whichever man she's moved in that week and her running over her own cat drink driving

Once lived next door to a woman that dried her socks over the shared fence.

Most of my neighbours are absolutely lovely, but one is a huge conspiracy theorist who believes absolutely everything she hears; flat earth, vaccines are a tool for mind control, birds are drones, and so on. Getting caught in small talk with her is best avoided, unless I’m in the mood for a conversation that gets very weird very quickly. Brilliant when she pushes her ‘newsletter’ through the door though - how else would I have found out the local streetlights are actually infrared cameras used to monitor us in our homes?

We used to have a cat that would do this, he would sit on our shed roof idly licking a paw, while next doors dog was whining and yapping, very agitated, in their back garden. Im pretty sure our cat did it deliberately to taunt the yappy little dog 🤣🤣

Mine woke us up every night playing loud music, packed horse manure around our garage door lock (one of the ones across the bottom of the door), scratched every panel of my then H’s car and threw eggs in the broken window, torched my car, and threatened to kill me.

My nice neighbour was moved into a new housing association property (next door was council) because next door house wasn’t up to code, after the renovation a new family moved in with a nightmare son in that he constantly wanted to come play and then asked for food, he claimed that they only ate ham sandwiches at home 3 x a day, I fed him at first but was pleased when 3 months later they returned to their old home now up to code (only downstairs bathrooms but code requires upstairs bathroom), good I though then got pot smoking and pit bull type dog family, complained to council and they were removed quickly, within 6 weeks of me complaining (i wasn’t the first, they had been moved from property before) finally got nice neighbours, the kind of perfect housing association tenants you dream of, lovely family who had hit hard times, business failed, lost house, rehomed and now both working and paying off those debts but happy and pleased to have been helped by the housing dept. Still in touch 20 years later

Where do I start but probably the guy across the hall who dealt drugs in the communal hallway (it was a "naice" building too).

It's him versus the guy who, thank god only rented for a few months, held band practice at his. Drums and electric guitar. His band were loud and crap....

😁 Classic cat!

My neighbour disagreed with how we were voting in the Scottish independence referendum. We were no and she was yes

this resulted in a couple of years of abuse including

posting pictures of our house on social media and encouraging fellow yessers
to vandalise our home and cars

harassing visitors to our house, taking photos of them and posting them on social media

throwing rubbish in our garden and so on

the police had to get involved and we all had to carry attack alarms

children’s school had to have a plan in case of threats to our kids

twice me and the kids had to leave our home to stay elsewhere as the police were worried for our safety

we had to get cctv and security lighting installed

DH was followed in the street and threatened by a group of men

Got to be our old neighbours about 18 years ago in Canterbury - lovely 3 storey terraces and they spent several years at it digging their basement out with full on drills ( nearly all weekend every week) doing it themselves -whilst coming round and shoving their fingers in their ears at my H playing his acoustic guitar ( and he’s professional level) for maybe an hour at a time - I’m sorry but a bit of Crosby stills and Nash against a constant building site- no contest