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New neighbour causing trouble

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hugsandpugs · 02/01/2025 21:06

We live in a house above a bedsit (council converted a 3 storey property to a house/bedsit years ago).

We’ve been here about 2 years or so. A new neighbour (a man) has recently moved into the bedsit a few days ago.

DH was coming home from work today and came in through back gate(we park the car out the back). The neighbour shouted over the wall asking him had he been throwing fag ends over the wall? DH basically had a polite conversation with him saying nope not us as we don’t smoke etc. He said to DH in a threatening way that he would be getting his brother to find out who’s doing it and ‘sort them out’. 😳Also randomly told DH he has a screwdriver in his pocket.

This is the first conversation my DH has had with him.

Anyway we were all sat watching a film earlier, me DH and the kids. Knock at the door and it was the police saying they had had a complaint off the neighbour that he had an heated arguement with DH and that DH had a knife. WTAF?!

I can only assume he’s mentally unstable …. Is there anything I can do? Feel like he’s gonna be a right PITA. We have young kids and having a neighbour like this is a bit of a concern as he lives directly below us.

OP posts:
Tricho · 02/01/2025 23:52

Keep an eye on your dog. No off lead, ever.

You just never know with people like this.

NotThisShitAgain121 · 01/06/2025 18:11

I would move house.

OkimADHD · 01/06/2025 18:15

RegulatorsMountUp · 02/01/2025 22:46

Too many people and not enough council houses. Maybe work to move out of council housing because there always seems to be the odd person around like this- as this is the sort of person council housing is aimed at really.

Wow judgemental are you!
I know loads of nice families who live in council housing.
I had a house and when me and ex split i had no choice but go to council.
I did have some families from hell near me and ended up moving to private but THATS NOT all the council house

smallglassbottle · 01/06/2025 18:19

It really shouldn't be like this. They should house all the troublemakers together where they can all take their frustrations out on each other rather than being allowed to inflict themselves on normal people. Some sort of ADX Florence supervised housing institution where dogs, loud music, alcohol and drugs are banned and they're not allowed to live anywhere else until they've learned how to behave.

Toootss · 01/06/2025 18:23

He might calm down. I’m not saying don’t be very cautious but he may not always be like this -maybe missed meds or something, I don’t think he should be housed near children but where are the Council supposed to put these people.

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