Someone IS living next door to me

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House next door converted to a HMO and I posted before as I was worried.

I've been hearing footsteps going up and down the stairs for a while and thought it was my imagination. No windows are open, no lights are ever on there is no sound of a toilet flushing and the bins are never put out.

Just after midnight a car was running outside my house across the drive. I turned on my camera and the door next door opened to accept a takeaway.

I have been off work for a week and have not seen anyone enter or exit.

Unbelievablely strange

I honestly don't see anything "unbelievably strange" at all, except for you monitoring your neighbours perfectly ordinary domestic activities so closely. Honestly, why do you care so much?

Someone is living in a place this is normal

I don’t think it’s normal!

No one coming or going, no bins out, no lights or windows - sounds like squatters to me.

Or a cannabis farm.

It is strange to never have lights on. Esp in a hmo as normally bills are part of shared rent

I never notice when my neighbours are leaving or arriving unless they're particularly noisy or I happen to be outside at the time. At this time of year, lights are off pretty much all the time as well as it's so light outside. I also can't say I've ever heard anyone's toilet flush

The windows not being open is a bit more unusual but loads of people never open their windows.

Maybe a safe house

You can’t know what they’re doing unless you are watching the house 24/7. How strange.

Eh? Squatters are very likely to come and go, open and close windows etc. What makes you think they wouldn't?
They're normal people.

Spooky

I dont mind a nosy woman, op, crack on

Speaking of crack, i'm going drug farm 👀👀

Maybe there is something missing from your story op. How is it strange someone is living in a house op.

Or they just moved in?!

Definitely not squatters, but how can you be up until midnight with no lights on? If you are getting a takeaway why not put out rubbish? The weather is great for drying, why not hang out your clothes and open a window to air the house?

I'm not nosey just aware of my surroundings as both properties either side of me have been empty for two years and someone is habitually in my garden at night.

Feels normal to me.

Up to a week ago, I hadn’t seen or heard my neighbour outside (detached) for a month. Don’t know if the car moved or not in that time either, as I never bother looking.

Found out he was at least semi alive, as I heard him coughing his lungs up in the back garden.

No drugs, the dealers only come to the HMO across the road

You can easily be up until midnight with no lights - especially main lights - lots of people prefer soft lighting and will use lamps or fairy lights instead of harsh, visible overhead lights.

I wouldn't put out rubbish from a takeaway until I was emptying the indoor bin, which could be several days after ordering depending on what else we'd been doing.

Get a life .. turning your camera on because there's a car outside is totally batshit. What a busy body you are. Do you have a very boring life.

How can you tell if your next door neighbour’s lights are on or off at midnight?

Someone is in your garden at night? That's worrying. Have you a camera out back?

wait, what ?!? Someone IS IN YOUR GARDEN AT NIGHT !!!

lead with that, that’s really ODD - who and why ?

I assumed she ment someone from her household is in her garden every night, so would notice any goings on next door

Get on with your own life, stop being a busy body.

Sometimes i go for walks early hours in the mornings
I also have food delivered gone midnight sometimes.

My neighbour would have fit this criteria for the last 5 years when he became disabled. He had low lamp lighting in his lounge and one of his sons used to take his rubbish at the weekend so he didn’t have to put the bins out. I knew he was there because I knew him before his accident and popped in/checked on
him when his son was unable to.

I have another neighbour that I’ve never seen more than the back of her head. I once noticed she put her bin out just before the bin men came so I assume she took it back in as soon as they’d gone.

I don’t think anything you’ve describe is totally bizarre, just people living differently than you.

Do you live next to my student ds?