Neighbours...is it just me with the neighbour from hell

[BextheBambi]

Just a thought and a bit of a rant about the worlds nost annoying neighbours.

We moved into our house 8 months ago and we went round and said hello to all the neighbours, warned them there may be a bit of noise as we get everything sorted, just a general how'd you do sort of thing.

The next door neighbour, a lady with a face like a slapped arse (not just me she gave "evils" to my mum for getting out of a car) just shut the door on our face. We thought it was very rude but decided to ignore her.

Our lanlord is fantastic and had previously warned us about her, said that he had to remove the side gate and board up the path, as she had a thing about trespassing on the property and having a nose round the garden and a good look through the conservatory windows.

Since then she has venbtured out the house most mornings after we've opened the curtains to see the state of the house, which isn't always in the best condition (hey im 8 months pregnant i need a break sometimes). We know this because she stands in her garden to bitch about us, so we can hear her.

A list of things she mentions:-

1. "the bitch next door is lazy, she satys at home and that house is a tip rubbish everywhere" I must mention i clean up almost everyday as im a bit of a clean freak.
   
2. "There were a group of hoodlums outside the house intimidating me", 3 of us were standing and looking at a good friends new car with our backs to her house.
   
3. "they gave a child a gun, they're pikeys" We gave DP neices a nerf gun to play in the garden with.
   

Anyone else have neighbours like this?

[AnxiousLand]

you and i have the same neighbours Bex lol

[tortoiseonthehalfshell]

Mine's utterly batshit, too. Fifty-something woman with indeterminate number of grown children (indeterminate because they all seem to move out and then move back in, not because there's hundreds of them).

Has lived in the area back when it were all fields around here - literally, I mean; I live on a stretch of road on which, ten years ago, hers was the only house. Now there are houses either side of her, and along the road behind us as well which used to be rural.

Has never come to terms with this. When our house was built (not by us) she wrote a 26 page letter of complaint to the council. We know this because it's the first thing she told us when she came to "welcome" us to the area. I gather that amongst other complaints, the house "restricted her view of the moon".

The previous owners left us a "how this house works" letter, including the fact that the security light is kept off because it shines into the neighbour's bedroom and she complained. Fair enough, but I later worked with the previous owner, and she told me that by 'complained' what she meant was that the neighbour had come over and smashed in the lightbulb. Without having ever mentioned the issue before, obviously.

Friends of ours built a house behind hers a couple of years ago. By 'behind hers' I mean, her block extends steeply down to a creek, then their block extends steeply up the creek; both houses being built at the top of their relative blocks means that they're nowhere near one another. This didn't stop her writing another 48 page letter of complaint, and when that didn't work she crept down to the creek one night, clambereed up the slope to their place, and scrawled over their building sign in black marker; Go Back To Where You Came From We Don't Want Your Awful Cheap Houses Around Here.

a) "where they came from" is one suburb away
b) their house won a building award for design
c) she told us this herself, adding "I felt much better after that".

Batshit. Truly batshit.

[Claw3]

My neighbour knocked and complained that my ds MIGHT throw stones into her garden and smash her windows!

[lal123]

My Mum's old neighbour reported her to her landlord for "not keeping the front door-knob shiny enough". Mum got the last laugh though as her wee dog at the time used to trundle happily up the road and have a shit in the neighbour's garage every morning.....

[SeaTrek]

LOL Claw3

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Our neighbours are barmy. They have an indeterminate number of cats and an ongoing argument with each other. This is mainly the woman shouting at the man, the man crying and the woman throwing glasses at him. Yesterday there was an altercation in the back garden which included him getting naked and turning the hose on her. They are much better than the cunt who lived upstairs to us in Switzerland. She used to dangle a mirror on a bit of string from her balcony to ours to check up on what was happening. Mad, utterly mad.

[mumbar]

Ours are disrepectful. I live in a new built estate. Have locked bin sheds which kids climb into and jump on the bins. Right outside my lounge window. When I asked them to stop, they told me they could do what they liked as its council property

Something tells me their parents tell them to come play in the HA flats, garden as 'council property' is fair dos for vandalism.

[Saltire]

I know all there is to know about mad neighbours.
We lived for 3 years next to mad cow, and have gone out of the frying pan intot eh fire with 2 of them round here. Thankfully ,unlike mad bitch, they don't live next door (the people either side are lovely) but, these 2 are bonkers.
When Dh leaves the RAF I shall write a book,about all the idiots I have encountered

[maize]

My neighbours are so noisy, all the time. I have no idea how many people live there because there are just random people in and out all the time.

They drink all day and nobody seems to have a job or anything to do all day. I pulled up yesterday at 4pm and a man was sitting on their wheelie bin drinking out of a pint glass?

They play music incredibly loudly and sing along with it as well, which is just beautiful really because drunk people always always sing in tune

They intersperse the drinking and singing with fights in the street.

Bastards. They make me soooooo angry that they don't give a shit that other people have to go to work in the morning. Obviously when we are up at 7 they are fast alseep in bed

[BextheBambi]

Wow, some of these are truely the weirdest neighbours i've ever heard of.

A friend of mines neighbour likes to invite himself round when they're in, as his lonely, he then proceeds to tell them all about the episode of Farscape his been watching. He's a very strange man but doesnt do any harm, i think he's just a tad lonely.

[AlCrowley]

We have tiny gardens. The neighbours behind us have a 'chavpoline' shoved right up against our shared fence. Come the holidays, they add an oversized (10 foot) pool with a noisy pump and pretty much chuck the kids and their army of friends into the garden for 6 weeks straight.

I then get bouncing heads appearing over the fence asking me what I'm doing and calling me a bitch if I don't respond! Oh, and ice cream wrappers chucked over the fence too.

Still, at least it's better than the climbing frame they had before as bouncing up and down takes more effort than laying on the top of the frame looking at us so tends to bore them faster

Looking forward to when they become teenagers and spend the summer inside on games consoles and we can finally enjoy a summer in our garden! :)

Neighbour to one side is nice but her 40-odd year old Son is a grumpy sod. He lived there for a while while his divorce went through and decided that 11pm was the best time to start drilling holes in the garage wall for shelves even though the garage is physically attached to our house and the noise vibrated all the way through. He also moans about cars parking opposite their drive as he then can't pull off apparently. Probably because he is an awful driver. The drives are on a very slight slope but you'd think it was the foothills of Kilimanjaro the way he over-revs the engine to get off!!

The only neighbours we don't have problems with are the ones we are actually attached to on the other side!!!

[Claw3]

Alcrowley, you didnt knock and complain that my ds MIGHT throw stones and smash your windows did you!

We have a 'chavpoline' and did have one of those massive big pools that previous owners had installed!

[TheBeast]

We have really nice neighbours on either side and the people on the opposite side of the road are lovely, too.

Does that mean we are the weird neighbours?

[EleFunTess]

I don't want to alarm you, but I would keep a diary of all the nasty things this nutjobber old dear says/does. It might come in handy one day....

[bruffin]

Our estate backs onto the school field, which also has a scout hut.
The old witch lady who lives in the house next to the field, regularly rings the police saying there are yobs running riot on the field

She also came storming round when we were having an end of year picnic on the school field as she claimed that the yobs were throwing things at her house. The fact there is a gully and two rows of trees bushes and a fence between her house and and the school field and it was impossible to throw things at her house seems to pass her by.

She told the scouts/beavers/cubs that she would get them banned off the field. The HM of the school grinned and said "we could use the field as much as we liked"
She just hates seeing children enjoying themselves and has been really evil to my DS who everyone else considers is a really lovely boy (has been given scout awards, been house captain at school and just generally harmless)

[AlCrowley]

:) Claw, no I've never complained about possible thrown stones.

As I said, our gardens are tiny so the massive trampoline and the (inflatable I think, def not permanent but too big to fill everyday) pool fill their entire garden. They've paved the lot now as the two things kill all the grass every year.

[Claw3]

Phew thank god for that, i was hiding in the kitchen just in case my neighbour was a mner.

Ours was a 15ft thing, sunken in the garden with decking around it. We have taken it out now, just have a 15ft hole to fill in!

[AlCrowley]

Gardens are only 3 and a bit fence panels wide so what's that? About 20ft? I'm sure they'd love a sunken pool but it'd never fit.

They're only 'chavpoline's when they're wedged into undersized gardens btw. If we actually had the space, I'd love a proper trampoline. My DC's are still pre-school though so are happy with the tiny square ones with the handle for now.

[Claw3]

Not sure, i think the fence panels range from about 4 to 6 ft wide. Our garden isnt massive and looked even smaller with a 15ft pool and 15ft foot trampoline in it!

Previous owners must have spent thousands on the pool and the trampoline (not a penny on the house though!)

We need a trampoline for ds, part of his sensory therapy, although i would like to down size eventually.

[Lovesdogsandcats]

All you lot with bad neighbours! I must be lucky then as all mine are great. Both sides are lovely, we can pop to each other for loo roll, sugar etc any time. No nosiness, lots of respect and just a general feeling of friendliness.

Do you think its how things are handled when first moving in? Mine either side were here before me, when I moved in I went straight away and introduced myself to both neighbours. Whereas I know people who move in and wait for the neighbours to 'welcome' them which then usually never happens..could that be it?

[Claw3]

Lovedogs, I did the same, introduced myself etc.

Whenever we have had building work going on, skip on the drive etc, i have knocked and apologised for inconvenience in advance. Thanked them with a box of chocolates when work is complete. Christmas i deliver box of biscuits and a card etc.

Neighbour one side is lovely. Neighbour the other side is one who complained that ds might throw stones (ds has SN's, but has never thrown a stone in his life and is very well behaved, polite. He never goes into the garden unsupervised and is a very quiet and shy boy.

[ttalloo]

Lovedogs, I'm sure first meetings with neighbours are really important in getting things off to a good start, but if you're dealing with the totally irrational there's not much you can do.

On my first day in my first flat we'd barely parked the car on the drive before the downstairs neighbours shot out and told us we had no right to park there as the drive was all theirs - I said we had shared access, they demanded proof, so I presented them a couple of days later with the deeds, which confirmed that I was right.

After that I had constant complaints about footsteps and noise and visitors. It was only when they got drunk just before Christmas the following year, and she walked out, and he decided to hammer on his ceiling (i.e. our floor) to tell my sister to shut the fuck up because he could hear her, and then decided to try to kick our door down because he was going to fucking kill her, and she called the police, who gave him a caution, that they stopped bothering us. And sold their flat six months later.

The astonishing thing to me was that they seemed perfectly nice and respectable if you didn't know them - he was a primary school teacher and she was a social worker.

[AnxiousLand]

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[lovingmomof3]

Try living next door to your ex and the girlfriend he cheated on me with, as well as the ex in laws from hell. Ive lived there for last 13 years and received nothing but abuse, lives, domestic abuse and general snidey comments about my mothering skills its a nightmare. But there is one thing to be learned i guess never buy a house next door to your in laws xxxxx