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.

My neighbor once came round to complain that my cat was in my garden meowing. At 5pm.
Having read this thread I now conclude I've got off very lightly.

Alcoholic, prone to violence neighbour came banging on our door asking if we had complained to the council about his antics. It wasn't us and people complain about him on a regular basis. OH was polite, said it wasn't us and shut the door. He then staggered off to another neighbour to complain that my OH had shut the door in his face.

That in the fall leaves fall off of the tree that is actually not on our land. It's a beautiful tree that defines this part of the road. It's next to our garden and we get most of the falling leaves and blocked sunlight (no matter, big garden, can sit somewhere else) but he is the one that hates it. We have decided to ask the council about buying that piece of land so that the lovely tree is safe before he decides to ask the council to cut it down. We have jointly asked to protect the tree if our request is turned down. The man is very old and has a severe hartproblem. He won't live for long anymore so I don't understand why he wants to get rid of a beautiful 50 year old tree that is loved by the rest of the neighbours.

He is quite nice but a bit batshit about that tree.

we have his at the moment neighbour has young babies and apparently my children turning over in bed and going to the toilet is waking her babies. Understand how horrible it is when little ones are woken up but not a lot i can do about it

My accros the road neighbour has said that my OH job isn’t good enough for us to live on this street and that we don’t ‘deserve’ to live here.
She’s been nasty in many other ways but this was said to me at my house, while drinking my wine and eating my food at our village’s book club. It was a real tumbleweed moment

OP your neighbor needs sectioning under the MH act! 😱

About 12 years ago we lived in a rented house next door to an elderly man in his late 80’s/90’s. At around 3am most nights we would be suddenly woken by him banging his walking stick on the wooden floor and metal pipes whist he was shouting and swearing at god knows what to shut up and be quiet. After around 2 months of this I called the care team that went into him in the day time and requested they check on him/ screen him for tinnitus because he was waking us in the night regularly. They said they would look into the matter. A day or so later I was called and told that it was in fact me that was keeping him awake at 3am! He was of perfectly sound mind and had no hearing issues. I calmly informed them that we had 2 young children and that we were sound asleep at 3am as were the children and we got up for work in the morning. Apparently whatever the noise was it was loud and squeaky and made banging noises. I said I have no appliances running through the night. It was likely to be when his central heating went on and due to his house being in a state of disrepair it’s likely his pipes were needing to be replaced and were squeaking/ popping. It’s also likely that he did in fact have tinnitus and that the ringing in his ears were the thing waking him at 3am. The care team seemed not to believe me. Either that or they couldn’t be bothered to assess him and it continued until we moved about a year later!

@consfusedandlookingforwine it's a criminal offence to pretend to be a solicitor s.20 Solicitors Act 1974. You could report her (SRA, not police who don't care) if you wanted to make trouble....

Neighbour across the road wrote a note with a picture of my car on it, complaining I was blocking his view.

We live on a surburban street, no views of rolling countryside to block. I had parked there for one day whilst a tradesman used our drive.

He said he sat in that room most of the day. Initially I felt bad, thinking He was housebound. Have since seen him and he is anything but. Still I don't park there if I can help it, trying to be a good neighbour.

OTOH, we are having work done next year and I may have to park there a few times, just to see if I get more notes....

Neighbour across the road complained to the council that she could see our wheelie bins.
Council were sent a folder of evidence that included close up photos of our front door and drive.
They came to see me and said I had done nothing wrong but if I had any problems from anyone across the road (weren’t allowed to tell me what neighbour) regarding bins to let them know as I would have a good case for harassment.

My neighbour is a pain recent complaints have been

1: the dog is barking in the evenings and annoying him (the dog was rehomed 4mths ago because my partner no longer works with dogs and the dog is a working dog)

2: theres too much banging late at night (my children are all under 5 and go to bed at 6.30pm and are asleep by 6.45pm, i have been ill for weeks and have been going to bed with them and watching netflix on my tablet and DP has been working nights)

3: our christmas lights are to bright (we have a tree in our bay window which he cant see from his house)

4: He got woken up by the ambulance we had to call for my asthmatic 4.5yr old

5: he banged on the wall then came round swearing and shouting because my 2.5yr old was screaming so loudly. She fell down the stairs and bumped into the wall and hurt herself, screamed instantly then cried for 5mins max whilst i checked her over and cuddled her. He claimed she was screaming for 20mins.

6: that we dont shut our front gate

7:that we bought cat deterrent sound things that stop his cat coming into our garden and using it as a litter tray (doesnt affect the cat anywhere else unless it comes into our garden)

8: that i hoovered at 5.50pm

9: that my car door was opened whilst i strapped my child into her seat despite the fact i shut it to let him past

10: that my mum has been visiting too much

I was woken by the stupid cow next door screaming at her other half. They regularly have loud shouting matches and their massive mastiff dog barks and howls for hours.

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!

Well, in our case, the neighbours came round to moan at us face to face about our allegedly barking dogs. We told them we didn't appreciate them having loud, expletive-laden screaming matches in the street in front of small children, either. We were then informed that we were making them ill and they were going to have to move because of us.

In fact they were having to move because the landlord was terminating their contract as they were making his life a misery too.

The night before they left they were vacuuming at 3am, bashing the Hoover into the skirting boards along the party wall. We laid in bed listening to it grinning all over our faces.

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Gutted I missed this thread in action! My old neighbours complained that we often had the bedroom windows open. Not a noise thing but rather that it ruined the street's aesthetic because all other windows were closed at night.

Still, less bonkers than the neighbours on the other side at the time who believed we were appropriating half a metre squared of their land with our wheelie bin placement. They never complained, choosing instead to fence in our bin while I was in hospital having a c-section. Classy. They were wrong. It didn't get to the legal stage because I really am a solicitor (albeit a fairly shite one when it comes to matters litigious).

Bumping for more stories. Love a crazy neighbour thread.

I'd love to tell you what my neighbour whined about but I'm bothered she could be on here so I won't.

Needless to say it was a very happy day for us when she fucked off in a removal van

She did complain about the noise of her neighbours to the other side of her. Completely ignoring the fact that it was her and her husband that made the most racket with their arguments and noisy shagging. We hardly heard their kids but those two. Jesus!

My downstairs neighbor would bang on the ceiling if I mopped the floor on sathurday morning around 10 o’clock. Or when I was for example cleaning out a cupboard and one jar accidentally dropped on the kitchen floor. She had done the same thing to the people who had lived there before me.
She’s an alcoholic and wants to lie in until 11 in the morning.

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Come to think of it, my in laws are those types of crazy neighbours except they don't actually say it to the neighbours, just us and anyone else who'll listen.

On Christmas Day FIL was perched at the window as usual watching the street when he got all angry about a person he didn't recognise being on the street. She was standing outside with a neighbour, her son and their dog and FIL was appalled that this woman was just standing their petting their dog and talking to them. "But why's she there? Who is she?! She shouldn't be touching their dog!" I told him she could be anyone and it still wouldn't be any of his bloody business. It's not surprising to see visitors going to people's homes at Christmas!

FIL and MIL have ranted for years (and still do) that the people across the road built their own fence instead of the two planks high garden surround that the housing association built. They would eagerly tell me, "Oh yeah every year when the fences get repainted they're expecting theirs done but the housing won't do them! Nope! They won't do them! But every year they expect it!"

Except they don't. There is absolutely no indication that the neighbours want anyone at all to paint their fence for them (they do their own) but the in-laws will make up any story, no matter that they have no clue what the truth is, just so they can rant about them.

I'm still hearing about the fact that her at number 27 got a new sofa even though she'd only got a new sofa two years before!

And apparently them at No.25 lied to the housing to get that house because "these houses are for families! FAMILIES!!!"
Even though it's a man, his GF and their two kids and it was his family home (albeit Housing association), for 21 years before he moved his GF in and his mum left. And my in laws? In a "FAMILY HOME!" is just those two. In a housing association 3 bed yet they're refusing to downsize.

They will make up complete lies about people they see on their street just to fit their imagination. The two women with red hair who are often seen walking their dogs past their house? They leave their dog shit everywhere apparently. Even when I point out that they have bags with them and come back with full baggies, "Oh that's just for show! They leave their dog shit everywhere! Never pick it up I tell ya!"

That we DON'T have a cat is an issue for our next neighbour one over. Their cat (and others) all love to sun their lazy selves on our shed roof. This neighbour seems to feel spurned by their own cat in liking our shed. And longs for us to get a cat so it would keep.other cats away. If I'm really honest I thought most cat owners rather enjoyed being ignored and overlooked by their cats .

Not my neighbour but a tenants. God that man lived to complain: to the tenant, me, the council..... Some of the highlights.

1. The tenant's cat was crapping in his yard. (The incredibly expensive pedigree indoor cat)
2. The tenant parking her car on the street. The previous tenant didn't have a car and they'd got used to having 2 spaces.
3. The tenant had done a flit. Nope on a residential training course.
4. Rats that were apparently tenant's fault. No they weren't.

The next tenant's were a couple and the presence of a man seemed to shut him up. He did write them a very formal letter to inform them of moss in the gutters.
I was glad when he moved....

No direct issues with neighbours so far/thankfully but we do have a couple in their, I would guess, late 70's/early 80's who live with their 50something son. Every time one of the three leaves the house, the other two stand at a separate window (one living room, one in a bedroom) and emphatically wave goodbye. The person leaving waves as they go out the garden and then again further up the street. A lot of the time they return 10 mins later with shopping.

Just realised the thread is all about complaints rather than bonkers neighbours... sorry, brain not engaged right now 🙈

That my dh sleeps during the day. Dh used to do night shifts And would be home at 8 am where he would sleep. Apparently it's antisocial behaviour to have curtains down during the day and she claimed she could hear the snoring trough the walls first she called landlord to complain, then council when landlord didn't take her serious...

That our kittens were winding up their dog by sitting in our garden and grooming themselves. She asked if we could train them not to do that