AIBU to ask what your silliest complaints from neighbours are

[Brockaslass]

We have had a load of complaints from one neighbour, her issue was originally boundary issues with our social housing landlord but then she started with us. But here is a few of the silliest.

1. That our rabbit is making her dog bark 24 hours a day. Even though he comes inside part of the day. Supposingly he stamps and makes her jack russel bark. Who is left outsdie all day.
2. That despite having a 3 bed property with room to expand and only 1 child, we had baby clothes on our washing line indicating I was pregnant and she rang the landlord to demand they move us if we are having a baby. "They were actually my DS' dolls clothes". Our housing officer supposingly offended her by telling her we could have 3 or 4 more in that property before we run short of room and didn't clarify that I wasn't pregnant.
3. That we watered her garden one hot summer while she was in hospital
4. That my then 2 year old had walked on the snow on her driveway as we walked him around the cul de sac stamping in fresh snow. (He was about a cm over the boundary, which couldnt be seen because of the snow)
5. That when we are away we allow workmen who work for landlord to park their van on our drive depot is too far away and workmen lives down road with no parking suitable.
6. That her cat likes to sit under the shelter our sons play house creates and wont come in when it rains if he is comfortable, she thinks we should go out and chase him.
7. That the mushrooms growing in her wooden bark border, must be coming off our concrete patch adjoining her garden. Despite the obvious lack of growing medium.
8. That in a meeting we has with housing officer about her complaints, we used sign language because my husband is deaf, she claimed we could be insulting her, despite our housing officer explaining that wasnt the case as he also signs, and us speaking at same time for her benefit. She then decided housing officer was in on it all too.
9. That her 32 year old son is always singing kids songs all day and annoys her because his bedroom is next to my 6 year olds who plays them on his xbox and they get stuck in his head. (Not sure why she can't just tell him to shut up)

10. Funniest of them all is todays, she has rang our emergency repairs line even though hers is private to complain that at dinner time we were cooking meat and she could smell it, and as she is a vegetarian (which I didn't know till now) we must be doing it delibrate. She then complained that the call handler wasn't taking her seriously when she was told that the repairs line is only open on a Sunday for valid emergencies. An inspector rang us shortley after to let us know another complaint had been made, and struggled to tell us for laughing about it.

So come on what's your funniest and silliest or prettiest complaints from neighbours or anyone in fact.

Woman up the road called me once to complain my cat was hiding in her garden and wouldn't leave. In fact he was hiding from her massive, aggressive rabbit which was on the loose and the same size as the cat and looking very interested in eating him.

My friends neighbour once reported her to the police because DF had thrown a brick at her window. Except she hadn't, and was actually on holiday thousands of miles away.

My neighbour has a lawn full of mini windmills, lamps, gnomes, every kind of what is - to me - tat. However I have said nothing about it, accepting her taste is different to mine. I like to keep my lawn as plain as possible, she thinks this is not 'caring for' the lawn.
Our lawns are each fronted by a low wall. Mine has moss on it, which I like. She thinks the moss is an eyesore, and moreover 'may spread' to her wall and 'cost her money to remove'. BTW this is only one of her cheeky complaints, expressed quite aggressively.

I do wonder if she is lacking somewhere (brain), and more seriously the number of even worse cases mentioned on this thread is making me wonder if we have an epidemic of petty paranoia in the country.

Wow she sounds unhinged op
At an old house I lived in short term a neighbour complained to the estate agent she could hear my 3 year old brushing her teeth and it was waking her cat... yes I’m serious
Current neighbour thinks I knocked down his fences and replaced them with cheap ones overnight hiding all evidence and sound, all 5ft 1” of me by myself

Not a complaint but made me uncomfortable - when DH and I moved into our current house, the guy across the street told us not to worry about intruders because he was retired and home all day and had a 9mm and a .38 which would take care of any "troublemakers".

Next door ( now moved) said he was going to report my dog, he was unclear who he was going to report him to
The dog didn’t bark or anything but he could sometimes see the dog if I came out of the front door to take him for a walk at the same time as the neighbour was going out and he didn’t like dogs so didn’t want to see one, ever.

My PIL, who lived at the end of a cul-de-sac, used to get complaints by a neighbour in the next street about their security light turning on. It didn't turn on very often because...they lived at the end of a cul-de-sac. The icing on the cake was when she complained that it went on at 2am for ages disturbing her. Apparently the fact that was their car being nicked wasn't a mitigating circumstance!

We were once accused by a downstairs neighbour of having our toddler ride his tricycle around the communal garden "in a threatening manner"!

Our neighbour got most annoyed when our LL decided to have some solar panels installed on the roof of our house. The 2 panels at the end jutted slightly over onto the roof of the neighbour's house, & she was most put out by this. She used to ring our letting agent daily, as well as calling round to ask us for updates on when the situation would be resolved. And apparently it was all our fault for allowing the LL to install them... like we had any say in the matter.

Same neighbour complained to us, then to our letting agent, that we'd "put flies in her bins". Apparently we did this by having a compost bin. Letting agent rang to enquire what the issue actually was, we informed them that any increase in fly activity was a result of the hot summer we were experiencing at the time, & the recent change from weekly to fortnightly bin collections. We'd tried to explain this to the neighbour but she was having none of it!

One of my elderly neighbours came to my door and complained that she didn't like the way my daughter looked at her out of the window. My daughter was four at the time. Our neighbour was one of a gang of elderly entitled women who lived near us and they had stopped speaking to the woman who sold her house to us because she'd sold it to a family and not a single person, even although it was a three bedroom family home. This was before we'd even moved in. It's a few years ago now and all the elderly people are now deceased. They all disliked children, not even keen on their own children who clearly moved out of their family homes as soon as they were legally able to. All liked dogs though and used to fawn over any dogs that came into their vicinity.
Fortunately now our current elderly neighbours are great and we really like living across the path from them.

keep the curtains shut most of the time in winter to keep the heat in, and Hyacinth Bucket neighbour complained with ''Please open your curtains at a reasonable time, it looks common to keep them drawn''.

I work nights and was told this by a neighbour, I explained that I need to sleep during the day and need a dark room and was told to get a different job then because it wasn't acceptable.

In this house I get a complaint about once a month from neighbours across the road about me blocking their drive with my car. It doesn't matter how many times I say I don't have a car or drive. Same neighbours also complained to the HA that I was having all night parties regularly, and it got a bit serious with the HA saying if they got another complaint I could get an anti social behaviour warning, even though I wasn't having any parties- apparently the neighbours had CCTV proof. It stopped when I offered counter CCTV evidence that on the dates of these alleged parties I was at work, and on camera, and no one was actually in the house.
Boils down to the fact I'm a single parent in social housing and they pay my rent apparently.

Complaint that our dog had chased their rabbit - which had escaped into our garden because they were too lazy to take it out of the run and put it in the hutch overnight.

I told them they were lucky it was our soft-mouthed gundog breed, who would just carry it if he caught it (he's done this with wild rabbits and hedgehogs before) rather than one of the numerous foxes that live near our village.

Our next door neighbour is currently on remand awaiting trial for murder, as is his brother who lives a few doors away, so life is very much more peaceful than it has been since we moved in.

My neighbour knocked to complain that my cat was worrying his budgy by looking at it through his patio door.
I said I’d speak to my cat about his behaviour as soon as he got home 😂

We recently moved house (thank the lord) but in the last few months, our downstairs neighbours became a real pain the arse.

They were very angry that our two year old son was 'running around' at 8am at the weekend. In actual fact, we used to keep him in his bedroom on the next floor up from 6am for hours, just so we didn't disturb them too early.

When we told them we were moving, they emailed to tell us they would like us to pay for extensive soundproofing for THEIR ceiling before we go, to make the next few months more bearable - and so they could have longer lie ins. At great cost to use - thousands of pounds.

We sold the flat to a young couple who DEFINITELY seemed as if they liked a good party. Hopefully all-nighters.

Toddler ain't so bad now... huh.

Not long after we moved in to this house, a neighbour collared me as I was pulling into my drive to complain that our garage had affected the drainage in the lane (an un-made dirt track) and was causing puddles. He wanted me to demolish it.

The garage was built thirty years ago.

My neighbour is nosy and a moaner.

He complained he can't see into my kitchen anymore to see if I'm in because I put a blind up and now have a frosted back door panel. My cat goes into his garden (I don't have a cat), my car is parked outside my house so his friends have to park further along (I don't have a car). When I'm smoking it makes his washing smell and gets into his house (I don't smoke).

I don't bleach my footpath. I don't sweep up the leaves (mostly conifers in my garden - leaves are from garden on opposite side to him). Rubbish and leaves blew into his garden. He never knows when I'm in or out because I don't have a regular schedule (there is no reason for him to know my schedule or whether I'm at home). Who are my visitors? What was in my parcel?

The latest complaint is I don't have the outside Christmas lights turned on all the time.

Wow reading this thread makes me grateful for the neighbours I have, I'm a bit sad it's over though it was very entertaining reading about these crazy people

Somebody reported us to the council for running an illegal food business from our flat. . I still have no idea who or why. I barely cook for myself never mind others!

Last year we bought a house that hadn't been lived in for about 40 years. We're in a remote part of the UK and it's not easy to get tradesmen. My neighbour is adamant that I should have come and talked to him before I booked any trades, because he knew a guy who would have done everything for me (electrics, plumbing, joinery, decorating etc. etc.) and had it finished in three months.

Call me old-fashioned and picky, but I like a qualified electrician for a full re-wire and a qualified plumber for a new central heating system and adding new bathrooms...

That our sprinkler made a noise against OUR fence.

That we've painted our render too dark.

When our house flooded the neighbour came round to complain that OUR floodwater was running into his garden. Never mind that it was 8 inches high inside our house 🙄

What a lot of people aren’t mentioning is how they reacted to being pulled up by the batshit neighbours. Some of these I would have had to have been held back!

My ex had a bin fire (arson) at the side of his house which melted the conservatory, wrote off his car and could’ve been very nasty. The neighbour came round first thing to complain that the fire has burnt his fence down and wanted it reinstating by the end of the day

Old batshit neighbour complained when I cut the grass and some grass cuttings (possibly twenty individual blades of grass) blew on to his path. He wanted me to come and sweep them up. I didn’t.

Incredible stuff here.

What age is that woman OP, she sounds totally nuts.

Does she have much family living within her that could get her to cop on?

Does she complain about any other neighbours?

Neighbour downstairs. She doesn’t live in her property, just visits everyday at lunch time to vac her drive and leave food out for her cats that have now turned feral.

1. we are trying to turn her cats against her and should be ashamed for calling the RSPCA when she left them out in the snow with no shelter. We didn’t call
2. called the council to report I attached her when she asked me for the access rent.
3. she owns the property below us. She tries to charge me £600 a month to access my front door. That’s more then my rent from the council
4. sends her son round to threaten me into paying said £600
5. bangs on my door daily when she arrives and leaves to ask for money
6. called police and social services claiming I was beating my child right in front of her. Kids were all at school and I in hospital when she claimed it happened
7. we need to pay for her ceiling to be repainted because it part of our property. Even sent fake solicitor letters try to get us to pay.
8. we need to spot leaving our bin at the end of her drive on bin collection day. Apparently we need to leave the at our front door. I could go on for ages if I got my diary’s out.