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.

Not my next door but two or three houses away. Complained three times to the council about my dogs barking "because I left them alone all day" They were not and I didn't. Came to my door shouting about my dogs barking but shut up and left when I told them I had webcam footage. In the end I took advice from the police and contacted the council to tell them what I had done and that I wouldn't hesitate to involve a solicitor if they used the council to harass me again. Department head assured me that I wouldn't be contacted again. I think they just needed someone to bully because they were sugar sweet to my neighbours until they realised that I wouldn't be bullied then they turned on another couple and got arsey with them. Eventually they moved away. Even if you are tough outside it has its effect. For about a year afterwards a letter from the council would make me feel sick until I had opened it.

when I still lived at home Neighbours on one side were horrendous parties every night all night from about 6pm till 6am If anyone complained they were met with Vile shouting I had never heard such language i was about 7/8 when they moved in They liked too have Bonfires as soon as my mum or neighbour other side of them put washing out Their children were ferrol and not very nice at all They even tried too poison our Dogs and Steal our Dogs and Cat we were so happy when they moved

Fast forward too now I live in an upstairs Flat block of 4 one of downstairs neighbours is a Druggie and people come all hours of day and night Lady opersite him is mainly a Hermit She has multiple indoor cats and whenever she opens her front door the smell is Horrid it makes us retch

My ex. He bought the house right next door to me. Where he still lives 8 years later.
I had an injunction against him at one point

I still live next door to them now, but a few years ago the couple next door lost the plot and broke in under my house (cut the lock) to turn off my underfloor fans that they were convinced caused the wife's breast cancer !?!?!?!?!??!?

Then they sprayed weeds in my back garden (there's a 6 foot fence they had to spray over) and my dog ate some of the grass and nearly died. That cost me a lot of money and traumatised the kids and I. I don't speak to them at all now.

They're getting old, so hopefully soon........😂

First owned property, downstairs flat, neighbours about our age upstairs. Got on fine til he lost his job, punched me in the face for asking him to please turn down the music one late night. They then played music 7pm-7am for a year, police and council worse than useless. A year of hell. We were ecstatic to sell-having divulged everything. We’re finally moving to somewhere quiet soon.

Old lady next door contacted the council (who tried to organise arbitration) to say we were stealing her electricity and gas (house was on key cards) and that we’d broken in and taken everything out of the fridge and arranged the contents on her dining room table. At one point, she was removed from the house by multiple men, I think maybe she was sectioned, never found out. We spoke to her daughter who said there’s 2 sides to every story. We are genuinely quiet. She also told us that the former owner climbed her 6ft fence and stole her ginormous koi and put them in their washing up bowl size ‘pond’. The woman in question was minimum size 24 (I was size 26, fence was not sturdy, it would definitely have crumpled had I tried that!)

I notice the house next to a local paedophile has just sold. I bet they haven’t mentioned their neighbour was put away for SA of a minor (I know because he was at stable I used to go to). I know you don’t have to mention this when you sell.

Lived in a terraced house. Next door neighbours were a woman (primary school teacher), her 17 yo old daughter, and 2 sons 15 & 13.
They were loud aggressive to each other all the time.
15 year old fell out with his dad and attacked his mum with a knife so was sectioned.
Daughter got pregnant & had baby
Mum started spending more time at boyfriend’s house leaving younger son & daughter at home, she moved out when youngest was 15 leaving him, daughter & baby living in house.
The lad that had been sectioned was let out, daughter moved out so we had an angry 17 year old & a 15 year old living there. It quickly became party central for every gobby boy racer in that part of town.
They trashed my car, threw one of their friends through a double glazed window, stole stuff and generally upset everyone on the street.
We sold the house for 1/3 less than we had paid for it to get away.

Not too bad, but old house backed onto a river. We had neighbours only for a few months, who were a young couple, and they would argue all the time. One sunny day I was sunbathing in my garden, and heard a couple of loud splashes from the river, then could suddenly hear one of them on the riverbank behind me, crying hysterically and shouting. I quickly realised she was on the phone to her mum, and she was saying “she’s throwing my stuff into the river!” I shifted my position to look upwards and lo and behold, her partner was throwing all sorts of things out of their bedroom window into the river. I saw a handbag, clothes etc. The poor girl on the riverbank was hysterical. I asked if she was okay and she told me to piss off and mind my own business. They moved out not long after!

Elderly couple with two small, white, yappy dogs, who are constantly getting out into the road (through their side gate that they never remember to lock), where they proceed to hold up traffic and bark their heads off at anyone who tries to walk past. The elderly couple hear none of this as they’re deaf, and their house is a little further from the road than ours, so I have to go out and march their horrible dogs home (and when I ring the doorbell, they’re always so unconcerned, which I find bizarre). The dogs are going to get hit by a car and killed some day, and I won’t be sorry when they do.

My neighbour sounds positively sane and mild in comparison to some of these! I mean, I’m glad that I no longer live next door to weed-smoking teenagers, performative sex participants or couples who participate in daily screaming arguments, but he is deeply unpleasant. He is of the opinion that he is God, that he owns the lane, and likes to attempt to rule the neighbours with a mixture of fear and intimidation… to the point that he tried to bully his favourite neighbour into moving next door to him and they refused, so I got it instead.

He hates women.

He enjoyed using my garden as a car park until I blocked his access with what the neighbours called “The beginning of the Great Wall of China”… and staring through the windows at me, while I was busy minding my own business.

His dog is permitted to use my garden as its own personal loo, but he will not pick up after it. I admit that, in frustration, I’ve thrown it over his fence in the hope that he steps in it. I have been instructed that my own dogs are not to go in my garden because it distracts his, so they are sent out to wee freely whenever he isn’t around.

Part of his garden backs onto mine. I regularly get glared at for butchering his garden in the spring and summer, because I do not appreciate a wild mixture of thorns growing into my garden, suffocating my plants and looking untidy.

He has had a go at everyone on the lane, and is the only one left out of all of the neighbours’ events. He has been known to scream at the children on the lane, for sledging in the next field. He doesn’t own the field, and the owners are happy for the children to play in it when it’s free of livestock.

He decided that he would like a puppy, so allowed his dog to mount a neighbour’s very young and unneutered bitch. She ended up in-pup.

He has been known to scream at delivery people and throw parcels at them. For some reason, they all seem to favour leaving parcels at the only house with no name on the gate. Also, as he does not do online shopping, nor should anyone else; we should buy everything locally. The fact that we live several miles from the nearest shops is irrelevant.

He has barred anyone and everyone from going into his garden or house. It wasn’t until an electricity meter person forcibly entered (with the landlords) that the presence of rats were discovered in the kitchen… including in the drawers. He’s also had squirrels and wasps nesting in the loft, which was fun for the roofer who was allergic to wasp stings.

The potholes in the lane are not to be filled, because it encourages people to drive slowly, and the lone streetlight is not to be fixed, as it shines over his unused driveway. (It’s unclear as to whether or not it is a private lane- not owned by him- or to be maintained by the council).

We are not to park near his cars. He is far too special to park in the allotted parking spaces, and you get told to move if you happen to be obstructing his Chosen Parking Spot of the day, even if you’re on a tip run at the time (I’ve had this one).

Despite this, he expects us all to be polite and wave to him as he passes…

He doesn't know that we were all enthusiastically wondering if he was dead when nobody had seen him for a few days. We were disappointed when he turned up again.

Last relationship before we split next door (terraced) were pleasant enough and friendly most of the time but big coke users and she had a drink problem. When the relationship broke down and her partner moved out she moved her brother in and it was awful. Police called 2-3 times a week, he was dealing and incredibly volatile. Smashed up mirrors and furniture left on the front every week. Bags overflowing with takeaway wrappers the urban foxes got into and dragged all over the street (gotta live city living!).

the saddest thing was her little boy was just turfed out all the time to play in the road, made a big fuss and caused complaints because he was neglected and even started deliberately throwing his ball into our yard and letting himself in to collect it if the door was unlocked. Best bit? She was at uni training to be a social worker 🤯

Oh and my friend used to live somewhere her neighbours complained constantly about her dog yapping. They had had her for years and no complaints from other neighbours. He reported her to the council for noise disturbance but when she called about it the person she spoke to said “we have to send you a letter but don’t worry, we have a file inches thick on this guy and his wife’s complaints.”

Unbeknownst to them her husband worked at a security company owned by his Dad and they rigged up the garden with cameras. The dog had a doggie door for when they were both at work and when she was going out to do her business they were spraying her with the hose and chucking buckets of water on her in her own garden until she barked!

i am feeling blessed based on this thread ;-)

we did have a neighbour a gazillion years ago who was absolutely fine and lovely until her relationship broke down. then we had over a year of every time he had the kids, she'd go out and get drunk and then come home and play justin timberlake's cry me a river on repeat from midnight to 3 or 4am. neither of us can hear that song now without flashbacks 😭

Mine tried to abduct my then 3yo dd 😱

Current neighbour trashed and vandalized my garden, including throwing his own shit over the fence. Shouted abuse, peed through the fence, caught on security camera with a gun.
Trespassed and vandalized another neighbours garden whilst naked (yes, he takes and sells drugs!).
Neighbour the other side took out a restraining order as he threatened to stab the husband and was creepily obsessed with the wife.

I now don't even go into my garden in he is out there. Hoping I can outlast him though!

Ours started car wars
they had a larger corner house and had a huge front garden which they had built a double garage and also a paved drive big enough to fit 4 cars. We didn’t have the room for a drive or garage so parked on the street. They had 3 cars so all comfortably fit on their drive. We had 2 cars we would (if free) park both in front of our house this meant about a quarter of one car was in front of their wall. Not their drive or dropped kerb. Just the wall. We couldn’t park further back as neighbours on other side had a drive we would have been blocking.
They would repeatedly come round and ask us to move despite the fact anyone can park on a road. Once th y hammered on my door (and tried it) at 1 am and I was alone with two toddlers. I rang the police (I didn’t find out it was neighbours til next day)
Really pathetic people I was glad to move away.

When we moved into our previous house, Colin, a single middle-aged man lived next door. He told us about his nightmare ex-girlfriend Cindy, and how awful her and her daughter were. Lo and behold 3 months later, ex-girlfriend and daughter move back in. He was right she was a nightmare. Id not long had a baby and every time he cried she'd scream through the walls and then turn the music in their house right up. It was horrendous.
Anyway , NDN man went away for work for a week and a we kept seeing another neighbour, Kevin, going backwards and forwards to her house (end of dead end footpath so definitely not just walking past). Except one afternoon Kevin didn't walk back. I know this because I could hear them shagging through the walls, and then saw Kevin do the walk of shame the next morning. The continued shagging loudly the whole week, making us complicit in their fuckery.
Kevin even stood loudly shouting between our two houses saying he "didn't give a shit who saw" him going into her house.
Colin came back and Cindy carried on as if nothing had happened - until Colin went away again... And sure enough Kevin started loitering again, followed by nights of loud (fake, I presume from the theatrics) orgasimc sex.

We moved away soon after (12 years ago now) but I hope Colin unceremoniously binned her off.

The worst neighbour I ever had told me I was "only a tenant" and by that phrase she made an enemy for life. She stole my mail, sent workpeople to trespass on the property, and had her husband dump litter on my garden.She was constantly whinging to the LL who told her "I dont like tittle tattles". Her husband died of a heart attack and she has developed dementia and lives with her children so karma has played a hand. The house next door - a 4 bedroom detached - has now stood empty for 3 years. That suits me fine.

I did have a "care in the community" neighbour who cut off my door knocker with a bolt cutter and cut my phone wires (that was when I got my first mobile). He could be very violent and was arrested for attacking a man in the city center. However he did have mental health issues and shouold not have been placed alone in a tower block with no support.

What's more worrying is that this clearly unhinged woman has been allowed to breed and keep the child who will surely grow up as unhinged as it's mother.

My nasty previous neighbours put an alarm thing in the shared drain cover that went over our shared drive so they knew when we were in or out (another neighbour told us they had done this).
They also made malicious reports to the police resulting in visits which were very distressing but ultimately found to be false.
We moved.

When I was a student I lived on one of the roughest estates in the city. My immediate neighbours were students and "new age travellers" and were ok. There was a lot of drug use and guns firing off at weekends in the vicinity of the nearby club. There were shabeens (pay parties) every weekend too. The film series Cracker was filmed there while I was a resident.

I moved to a tower block where there was a drug dealer on the upper floor. He was always very polite to me. One day one of his clients threatened me in the lift. I told the dealer and he said he would "sort it out". Next time I saw the client he apologised and looked very scared. Sometimes prostitutes used to get in and shag on the stairs. They sometimes shat in the bin room.

After that I moved to a new build HA where the walls were like paper. My downstairs neighbour liked BOOM BOOM music. I left after a year and moved into a detached private rental which I later bought from the LL.

I now have as little as possible to do with my neighbours. Not because they have done anything to me. I just prefer to keep neighbours at arms length because of experiences in the past. Collectively they are the best neighbours Ive had. Its a very diverse area and most are non drinking cultures so there are no noisy boozy parties. Im one of the few white people on the estate.

My God, I thought my neighbours were bad, but apart from the evil witch downstairs, they’re perfect compared to what some of you have had to tolerate. I’m going to count myself lucky.

We’ve been very fortunate with our neighbours for the most part. Our current neighbours are wonderful and we’ve developed a nice, distant friendship with them
😂 Perfect for an introvert like me.

Haven’t always been so lucky, although my annoyances are MILD and I’m aware of this.

Moved into a quiet four-in-a-block flat with H (at the time) DD6months and dog. Both downstairs neighbours lived alone and were very quiet. We got on really well with neighbour directly downstairs. They were very forgiving of our normal family noise. We tried really hard to be as quiet as possible.

Neighbour directly next door was never there as was always staying with partner. They moved out and someone with a lot of LOUD friends moved in. They never played loud music or TV etc but sometimes there would be a large group of people talking/laughing loudly from noon one day until AM next day! Very frustrating and inconsiderate.

Other neighbours were fab but their visiting family pissed me off. We had completely separate gardens but the visiting family member would demand that I take my dog inside so theirs could go outside because their “dog was scared” of mine. Also once witnessed them pouring the remnants of their drink can over the fence into my garden, which is a very inconsequential thing but felt so disrespectful.

Ideally, I would love to live without (nearby) neighbours but I can’t afford that yet!

Not the worst but this guy was my neighbour last year - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86l327l5yqo

Would have to call the police regularly when his girlfriend would scream as he hit her. POS

The one that had parties any day of the week finishing at 5am blaring music this went on for years and the council were useless.
I reported to social services when I heard heroin addict boyfriend shouting at her child and the child being upset outside at 11.30 at night whilst they had a row which started off indoors and ended up outside.

These charmers. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/neighbour-hell-scots-author-admits-35895377