Tell me about your shitty neighbours

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So before 9am this morning, after a lovely soak in the bath, I thought I would potter out into the garden with a cup of tea and listen to the birdsong. No chance of peace and quiet. My neighbours two doors down were out with their constantly screaming/crying young boys and playing loud music. What is wrong with people?

If it's not them making noise, my next door neighbour is out playing whatever loud on her phone and then my other next door neighbours often blast music. There's no peace!

I am on a mission to move next year though.

My neighbour is batshit. She drove me mad over a period of about 3 years regarding the rota for cleaning the stairs - constantly policing who was and wasn't doing it properly, knocking at my door asking me how we were going to deal with another neighbour who just wasn't doing her share. This just went on and on with neighbour throwing regular strops and rewriting the plan, banging on my door when I hadn't washed the stairs in winter (they are external stairs) when it was minus fucking 10. We aren't supposed to wash them anyway when it's below 0 - it says in the house rules.
Anyway, at some point I got thoroughly pissed off with her and said from that point on I'd be refusing to discuss the stairs with her and she would need to take any issues/complaints to house management. So I eventually got some peace from that.
But, when ever she cleans the stairs she bangs the brush and/or mop against the stair railings, huffs and puffs, and bangs my door with the brush.
On top of that she has regular loud screaming conversations with various people on the phone - usually in the mornings. She also crashes and bangs around in her flat occasionally if she's in a bad mood.
She's sometimes overly friendly and says one thing, then a week later she's saying the absolutely opposite and blaming me for something and saying I "misunderstood".
And on top of that she has two small dogs which she doesn't seem to walk any more and she lets them shit on the balcony - which is only separated from my balcony by a 6 foot high wooden partition. I can smell this fucking stinking shit - sometimes she doesn't even bother cleaning it up for hours. And I'm actually quite afraid of her because she's so volatile so I can't broach the subject with her.

My neighbours are fine but there us a guy at the back who periodically cleans his cement mixer by running it and chipping away the bits with a screwdriver...for hours at a time.😱

Our neighbours, on the hottest day of the year, decided to light a fucking fire pit. We had to shut all the windows, it was already 31 degrees in my baby's room with a fan on.

We're in a semi detached home. My whole house this morning EVEN MY TEA TOWELS stink of black smoke.

Inconsiderate wankers

The neighbours opposite us sit at the front with a can and weed whenever the weather's nice. With music playing in the living room - very, very loud.

They start at about 8am and finish about 11pm. So thankfully not when we want to sleep, but it's incredibly annoying. I'm glad it's overcast today so we get a bit of peace.

Post this again when you list the house for sale!

EDIT this was for the person who’s downsizing after being in the same place since 1984

Our current neighbour gets drunk on her doorstep and physically abuses her 9 year old DD, she's come round screaming at us several times about perceived slights, the police have been out to her house 7 times this year about domestic violence between her and her partner who she always ends up taking back after they beat the hell out of each other. I was friendly with her at one point then her teenage son sexually molested my younger son. Now she still thinks she's an innocent victim who has done no wrong and of course we're not about to point out what her child did, we just have to sit and hope all those kids get the help they so desperately need but it never seems to happen.

Yesterday I shouted at the neighbours. Felt bad but their young daughter literally SCREAMS everything at the top of her voice. Nonstop, for hours, whenever she's in the garden. It's excruciating.

I had been quietly gardening all afternoon and finally decided to take a break and relax but the screaming and shrieking was giving me a migraine. I only shouted 'can you PLEASE stop screaming!' once but I'm pretty sure her parents heard as the noise did reduce over the rest of the afternoon.

I honestly have no problem with normal 'kids playing' noise, but this was at a level where I was contemplating digging out my son's noise cancelling headphones just to sit outside...

Threads like this really make me appreciate our neighbours - who are all perfectly normal, sane, considerate people lol.

The worst issue is one of the neighbours who leaves for work early (shifts) and sometimes needs to run his car for a bit to defrost it in winter. That's it.

The worst issue is one of the neighbours who leaves for work early (shifts) and sometimes needs to run his car for a bit to defrost it in winter. That's it.

Posters will be on shortly to tell you he is inconsiderate and breaking the law.

I have a shitty neighbour - but can't mention her because her disabilities excuse everything.
Above her is almost as bad, with no disability. (Weed. Dog shit.) And has turned one of the few friendly neighbours against me.
Living here has destroyed my mental health - and now my physical health as well.

Fortunately we've moved but in London were next to a squat of junkies.
One morning on the way out of the door , I saw one actually shitting on the doorstep. Perhaps she was locked out or perhaps the others weren't rousable but all she said when I made audible gasps, "got any tissue ?"

I live next door to a trap house. Do I win?

Steady stream of junkies coming and going at all hours. If no ones home they bang on the doors and windows and shout.

Fights and arguments pretty much daily. Police are called regularly.

Windows and doors smashed in. Police raids every now and then.

Aggressive dogs, loud music, rubbish strewn everywhere, and overgrown garden.

Some highlights include ripping all the tiles off the kitchen wall then taking them outside and smashing them at 3am. A woman being taken out on a stretcher after an overdose. Spray paint and graffiti all over the front of the house saying 'grass' 'snake' etc. Its still there 2 years later.

I'm desperate to move but can't afford private and who would do a mutual exchange to move next to that?

Next door is a pothead. No judgment, but he is relentless. Whether I want a 9am coffee and brioche on the decking, or to have a late night glass of wine in the dining room with the window open, it is accompanied by a cloud of smoke and the stench of weed. Grim.

The wife and dog are alright though 😁

Neighbours 14 year old son has his bedroom next to ours (terrace house). Every weekend he sleeps all day and then spends the night talking and yelling on phone/computer until 4 in the morning. School holidays are even worse. We have banged on the wall in sheer frustration and complained to his parents. They just shrug and say its because he is wearing headphones and doesn't realise how loud he is.
Great parenting, I would be concerned that he isn't sleeping and who the hell is he talking to!

My neighbours kids constantly running through the gap in the hedge they made due to their right of way apparently (they haven't)

Neighbours kids also play football in front of the houses and smashed my wing mirror for the 4th time but parents refuse to take accountability

Basically they are the most entitled shits I've ever come across.

I've installed security cameras in back garden now as I have a £1500 bill to fix my fence as it got smashed somehow.

Newly moved in to a semi. Set my phone alarm to wake me up 7am, three mornings in a row. It's not loud at all. I switch it off after maybe 3 seconds. Friday evening woman next door knocks and says her husband can hear my alarm.
Tempted to shrug but offer to change tone. Maybe he is sensitive to frequency etc. Monday evening, she's there again, her husband can still hear alarm. I offer to move it away from party wall. Turn it down lower.

Following Friday 7.02am, man next door is hammering on my front door, screaming abuse, calling me an effing bitch etc etc. Has completely lost it, hurling himself against the door, trying to get in. 😯I ring the police.

Thankfully they moved. Then I did. I live in a detached house now, closest neighbours (lovely) are 100ft away.

We live in a small terraced house. There is a man on the next street down who always has the attic window open, shouting "f you" loudly

I'm sure they will

Neighbours next to us moved in a year ago. They have a dog that is allowed to shit all over the back garden because they don’t walk it. Obviously this isn’t the dog’s fault. After a neighbour complained about the smell she just sweeps it all to the end of the garden nearest us…lucky us!

I’m seriously considering buying a load of those horrible cheap air fresheners and hanging them on the fence so she gets the message 😂

I always find it baffling when people get dogs yet don’t want to walk them or clear up after them…that’s what you sign up for!

She also used to leave cigarette butts out the front all over the place until we asked her to stop 🙃

Plays loud music and has friends over on weeknights when her kids have gone to bed. There’s also been screaming and shouting by her or her ex out the front with the children present. I teach at the youngest child’s school so therefore have an obligation to report any concerns…you’d think she’d think twice about having Eastenders style shouting matches on her front door but nope!

Fortunately, all our other neighbours are great and we get on really well.

We’ve gone from one extreme to the other with one of our neighbours. Small cul de sac, part of a small-ish development. Almost everyone who lives here is middle aged or older, only one resident child now on the whole development.
Previously, woman across from us (primary school headteacher) went through a horrendous divorce- she and the ex fought like football hooligans night and day. Eventually he moved out and returned at set times to collect their two young dc for access. Collection and drop off always accompanied by hysteria from mum, both dc and DGM. DGM also took dc to school each day, again hysteria every morning as they left. This went on for more than a year. Unbearable.
Divorce resulted in sale of house. New neighbours moved in. The husband always wears a hat, which he raises to every woman he encounters in the cul de sac. Peace reigns. Bliss!

We live in a detached house with only one neighbour who is lovely but her other neighbour loves the sound of his own voice which is very irritating. He calls me a cunt and so does is gf as i called the police when he was physically assaulting her in the garden. Though he is all talk as when he walked through my garden I have him a telling off and haven't been called a cunt since 😂😂😂😂 I am sure he is growing something in his shed.

YANBU: kids can play without shrieking or screaming.
We have neighbours nearby with 2 sports mad boys (football, rugby, basketball etc) They play without screaming. They are told off if they do basketball too early or if they get too loud. We often don't realise they're away for the day. 2 doors down from them are a boy and a girl, both within a few months of those boys respectively (which is about 11 and 9). They shriek an/or scream constantly. The boy more than the girl. They are never told off. Ever. They are very loud. We notice when they are away.

I have lived in this house 20 years. Low level harassment from NDN since I moved in. First trespass by her workmen. This was followed by attempts to steal mail, fly tipping and whinging to the LL about things which had nothing to do with the lease. I reminded LL who was paying her mortgage and she blew them off.

Basically there has been a series of things over the years which in themselves are trivial incidents but as a collection constitute harassment. Some incidents like the fly tipping were caught on cctv. I was then able to scare them with threats to contact the police and a reminder that it was a criminal offence.

I subsequently bought the house from LL in a private deal when she went to live abroad. No for sale signs. It was two years before NDN found out. You should have seen her face when I told her.

My gardener came to dig the foundations for a new patio and she poked her ugly snoot over the fence to ask what he was doing. "Digging a grave for nosy neighbours" he told her,

She had just replaced the boundary fence with something that was made from shabby recycled panels and was hoping I would give her half the cost. Instead I had my gardener put in a new fencing run to maximum height just inside the boundary. Now she can no longer see over.

High fences make for good neighbourly relations.

Have you told social services? You don't have to give your name. Do it

I can’t. Mine bakes me cakes! 😋😋😋