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!

They were harassing us. Started exactly two weeks after we moved in. For a few years. Many many different things.police were involved. Making my child scared to go in her garden. She had nightmares about him coming to kill us including the cats. They used to film her in our garden from their windows in their house. There were countless malicious referrals to children's services (some of things they tried to say were just laughable as well). It would take too long to go into everything anyway. But we Took them to court at one point.

But the happy ending is that they did actually move out!! They hated us so much 😆
But apparently we were the only people who had got cameras installed and had actually pursued things with the police. From what other people said, I don't think they liked that I was actually taking action on what they were doing you see, and not giving up either. (We were an easy target though cos I was a single mum and I had a child)
But Not only did they move out but the new neighbours couldn't really be better. My child is best friends with theirs now!

Can't describe how it felt for so long though
To not feel safe in your own home
To feel on edge all the time in your home and garden

I fail to understand how all these neighbours get your phone number or how you get theirs. My horrible NDN asked for my phone number and I told her it was for my friends and family and not some random stranger. "But Im your neighbour" "You are a random stranger who hapens to live next door".

I am so with you on this, I wish people who are considering getting a dog see this. It is soul destroying hearing dogs bark for hours and hours on end, I don’t think people realise how LOUD dogs barking is to neighbours.

we have two next door neighbours; one side fine and the other side hellish. They have one of those yappy dogs that I swear has gone senile, it bars constantly when they are not there (which is a lot), then they come home and shout at the dog, swear a lot (all the words, f, c etc), kids are now young adults and one smokes weed and we are very sure parents join in. Had drugs being delivered and for now 5 years one of the kids has mates round who drink; smoke weed, parties etc. However when grandparents / friends are over they turn into Hyacinth Bucket and Sheridan etc, and fuss and worry over the smallest thing and friends think they are such worriers and so lovely. If we are lucky they have a fight or scream at the tv. The other side of them have moved on a few times, when I have tried talking to them they see no issue.

financially we are stuck here for a little while longer sadly.

My neighbours have been having renovations done. I’ve never met them. The endless noise, sawing, beeping of some mini digger drives me mad. I came this >< close to putting a noise complaint in to the council. Beeping started at 8am today. And their stupid alarm goes off all the time too.

Our neighbours around here are basically ok but one chap did decide to burn an unwanted double mattress on his drive rather than pay to have it taken away. The mind boggles.

We had a horrible retired couple from Yorkshire as our neighbours. This was pre Ring doorbell days sadly. There were lots of incidents of damage to our property and verbal abuse.
Gradually they fell out with all the neighbours.

Finally they moved back to where they'd come from, blaming all the neighbours for driving them away.

Needless to say all the mysterious incidents have stopped.

The post is quite funny….use it as leverage! “We will take the parcels in quietly if you keep the noise down. If not we will hand them directly to your parents.”