Tell me your bad neighbour stories

[ButteryKeith]

Particularly ones that got better/had a happy ending!

We moved last year partially because we had an unhinged neighbour. However, we've now got a nightmare at the new place and Police are involved.

Anyway, I won't go into details but I'm feeling pretty down and isolated so it would be nice to hear from others who have had issues...and if you decided to move in the end did you take any steps to check out who you'd be moving next to? My biggest fear is to keep house hopping into bad neighbour traps!

Yes, my neighbor Mrs Stones. Well that's what we call her. She comes in our garden when we are out and digs up plants and takes them. She is very brazen as we have now a security camera up to watch he. My hubby can't believe her cheek, but you can't change what you can't change and as mum would say, practice makes perfect. So we put all our best plants where she can't get them. She actually is nice to talk to and has bags of money, being a teacher but that's Mrs Stones

Do you want the neighbours opposite who blare music constantly, have had police raid their flat, dogs taken off of them as they weren't being looked after, stolen bikes removed and various drug offenses or the ones a couple of doors down who blared loud music and were eventually kicked out their social housing due to a murder/manslaughter?

I often think that I am the unreasonable neighbour due to television volume, terraced house and not the thickest walls. If I watch stuff on my own it tends to be quieter with subtitles on!

Ach, my previous message is under review.

In it I said I used to live next door to a knocking shop set up by a postman. It was a really ordinary 2-up, 2-down house with poor sound proofing 😱

I linked to the news story which reported him getting caught, which is why I think my message might be under review.

I was going to contribute but then saw you wanted stories with a happy ending.

My neighbours are sill my neighbours so no happy ending for me, yet.

😒

Yeah being able to vet them first would be good - could try wandering around the area at different times of the day/evening and seeing if there's excessive noise, bad parking, dangerous driving etc.

We actually rented our current house before we bought it, so had the option to leave if the neighbourhood wasn't nice.

Our ex next door neighbour did the towel thing! He also cut the grass around the edges of his garden with scissors. Batshit!

The thread was about telling us about the bad neighbours from hell.
Not outing yourself as the bad neighbour from hell.

I think your DM was. If the neighbours paid for the fence and she contributed nothing to the costs of it, why should she get the nice side?

Love this. I honestly don’t know who people think they are x

I've had some foul neighbours. To be honest it's boring though and won't help you at all..
It's probably more uplifting and pleasant to hear good neighbour stories.

You're probably right but I was hoping the stories of others might make me feel less alone!

If you mind your own business and leave me alone I am an ideal neighbour.

I dont care if you are black, white or purple with orange spots
I dont give noisy drunken parties
I dont smoke weed that leaks into your house (I dont smoke at all)
I dont come borrowing things or asking for favours
I dont have a barking dog or any other pet
Im not into noisy DIY or constant renovations
I dont run a car so Im not going to block your drive
I wont ask you to take in my parcels (but I wont take in yours either)
I am polite to delivery people
I take very little interest in what my neighbours do if it doesnt concern me.

But If you aggress against me I will make your life miserable.

@cinnamonbiscuit your neighbour should get a Darwin award for that. Did his car hit the other person’s car or did his antics divert it? 😬

Where do i start with have an unhinged (and that is being polite) woman next door to us.

Been following this thread and thought i would add a few of what we've had to put up with over the last 3 years of harassment and it feels good to offload it here

Her behaviour worsened last year but there was weird shit that started happening after her being ok with us for 5 years. I will never, ever get involved or overly friendly to neighbours ever again and just keep myself to myself. Its obvious she is unwell and has had a relapse of some sort but the harassment has been weird and unhinged and its affected my mental health as she befriended me . At first it was subtle then built up. It is going through the asb team but not mych has been done apart from warnings

1. accosted me outside for digging up a plant in my own garden and giving it someone else in the village and not her.

2. complained about us moving our washing line to a complete normal place in our back garden and shouting and swearing about it .

3. fell out with us over helping another neighbour for fussing their puppy and started shouting at me outside at top bedroom window saying we shouldn't be doing it

4. hacked our hedge at each end making it look ridiculous then rang our landlord saying we are not maintaining the hedge numerous times all times our landlord shot her down

5. sat and watched my husband maintaining his car on our drive with a cup of tea in her hand, then rang the police saying her he was intimidating and scaring her with spray paint(yes you read that correctly) and also that we are causing criminal damage to her hedge (its our hedge) and that we bang on the walls of her house (we are semis and not attached to her)

6. watches our every move, comes outside every time im outside alone, and has a ring camera facing into our garden and the asb team havent made her move it. She also blatantly copies every thing I do and sticks things where I can see them showing me shes copied (for a reaction again )

7. throws things at our hedge and bangs around outside to make a point shes there when we are just trying to enjoy our garden

8. Theres loads more but the most recent unhinged thing was she reported my fairy lights in my garden as causing a distraction to the asb team who quickly shot her down and told me they have never had such a petty complaint. After this my hedge got hacked at again, really damaging it and it has just started to look better.

9. laughs at my son who has autism when hes outside tries to intimidate him

10. also more recently we have been having screws thrown where we park and my tyres have been affected 3 times, its now logged with the police as suspected criminal damage and we have a new better cctv .

Theres loads more, its not violent or criminal (yet :( )but its the unhinged behaviour and constant complaints for a reaction that she never gets that has been awful. Sorry for long post

I would agree but apparently you always give your neighbour the good side. Having the ‘bad’ side indicates that’s your boundary. That’s according to DM though who is not to be trusted and is mad enough to flip a fence.

How would you do that. I'm looking for tips 😂

He also cut the grass around the edges of his garden with scissors. Batshit!

A lot of people do this. I do and I prefer a wild looking garden to a manicured one! Sometimes, needs must.

The neighbours on one side scream and shout at each other - it's the young girl that I am worried about most - eg it happens at 9pm.

I am working on the 'happy ending' bit...

Neighbour got a new boyfriend. Almost like clockwork our heads would hit the pillow and we'd start to hear the moaning. Unrealistically quickly followed by screaming. It was a performance, not genuine. We'd phone her to ask her to quieten down. It helped a bit. Luckily (although not for her), she got pregnant within a few months, the sex stopped and the boyfriend was never seen again.

Not really bad persay, but the old man opposite me before he moved would corner me everytime I was on the street to talk about his conspiracy theories about the government, flat earth & no moon landing. Every single time.
I was very glad he moved out!

I have a lovely neighbour who is very animal friendly, she had 3 cats of her own but puts multiple bowls of food out for the neighbourhood cats. Sometimes we can have 20 cat in our tiny cul de sac. It’s awful and stinks. She has been known to feed rats too.

Her next door neighbour is hated by everyone in the street apart from me. I get on well with the family but they can be a bit too much. They leave huge oil spills on the road. Kids whack footballs up and down the street damaging cars. In the summer relatives takeover the street in caravans etc..

The one I dislike the most is a couple of doors down from me. I was in bed during lockdown watching tv and she she was hammering on my door because I didn’t go out to clap for the NHS. Wtf! She’s not spoken to me since and snarls me if she sees me. Silly cow.

I have had some batshit neighbours over the years when I mostly lived in tenement flats. One upstairs neighbour was a sleazy old man and (I have no idea how) had a string of girlfriends. One came round when another was there and they had a giant hair pulling fight on the landing! One was in her nightie!

He once tried doing some plumbing in the middle of the night and it flooded the flat downstairs, I heard them screaming an yelling and came out to find a river of water descending through their ceiling and flowing into the common stair. I put their electric off, phoned the water board emergency line and swept the water into the street with a broom until someone was able to stop the flow.

The flooded neighbours weren't the best either with their midnight arguments followed by loud fornication (which could be heard even over Oasis playing) but they were friendly enough when you saw them.

Better than the drunken man next door who used to lob his rubbish and bottles of piss into the garden. I found a letter, so I could give the housing department a name. It was from the parole office saying he had not been attending his anger management courses. It confirmed my suspicion that it would not be a good idea to speak to him.

Caught another neighbour throwing rubbish in the garden, but he lied and said he was trying to clear it up, so I grabbed a bin bag for him and held it open while he picked every scrap of rubbish up. Oh, he was seething! I kept up a steady stream of sprightly chatter about what a good neighbour he was trying to keep the place clean, while others were such dirty antisocial bastards. 😆

Sunshine on Leith... ☀️

We once had a neighbour who used to pass out drunk, her young children used to climb over our wall and walk in our house, they were probably 3/4 we had to walk them back round and knock till the mum woke up, yes we do contact dad and social services, we were young no kids in our house so it certainly wasn't a child friendly place for them to be entertaining and was always a surprise when they were, lucky we were nice people.

Your drinkem
man story was excellent @ChaToilLeam 😂

I had a neighbour who doesn’t work and would drink every single night, she has an autistic son who would be screaming and shouting all night as well. She would sit outside in the front garden with her friend with loud music, talking at the top of their voices, shouting at her son, banging around the house, this would go on until 5ish in the morning. I was at college at this time and would literally fall asleep in my lessons because I was so tired. I would ask her to keep it down but was met with horrible abuse from her and once she knew it was bothering me she got worse on purpose. We lived in council houses and I complained so many times but was told there was nothing they could do.

it made my life a living hell!