What's the worst thing a neighbor has ever done to you?

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What's the worst thing a neigbour has ever done to you?

I'll go first: he tried to block the sale of my home at the last minute. We were 50% freeholders, with him owning the other 50% (technically our homes were masisonettes but I always referred to it as our "house"). He didn't like the person we were selling the house to (based off a brief description) so attempted to block the sale and said that he was "sorry and good luck when you put your house back on the market". Our lawyer wrote him a letter to remind him that although he was 50% freeholder, he was not entitled to say who we sold our 50% share to based on personal preference (you can't hold auditions for neighbours!). He was shocked that we got lawyers involved (it's almost as if he didn't realise buying a house is actually quite a serious legal commitment!). Very nearly lost us our sale and caused us a LOT of stress. But all worked out in the end when our lawyer threatened to pursue a breach of contract on his part when he refused to sign some paper work over a personal preference on who would be buying the property. Then had the audacity to say we were ruining his life - you chose to buy a 50% freehold, mate, no-one forced you!

But I got my (very petty) revenge: Just before we moved out, he put up CCTV on his property looking into our (private!!!) garden and on to OUR drive - presumably, so he could keep an eye on the new neighbour once they moved in. It was one of those ones that activates and sends an alert to your phone if it detects movement. I am an early morning outdoor exerciser so would make sure to do all of my starjumps and lunges on MY drive at 6.30am right in front of the camera and was always very amused to see the little "activated" ring light up, followed by the lights coming on as he clearly checked for an intruder - I hope you enjoyed the 6.30am wake up alarm a few times a week, Mr!

Probably can't compare but our neighbour is a bit of a car fanatic, changes cars like underwear. Currently owns a 4x4 monstrosity. Anyway when he got his previous car they owned 3 cars in total. They have taken the liberty of claiming 2 parking spaces on side of their house as their garage and our garden (which is on the side of our house) leaves some room. Now instead of parking the 3rd car in front of their house they decided to nick MY parking space by our garden! At first I didn't know whose it was (as it was the new car) so thought was some visitor, but the car kept staying there for weeks. So it got to the point where I was looking out the window waiting for it to move so could put my car there. Had to park my car in front of our house in the meantime which don't have a front garden just the street so can easily get hit by speeding cars whereas where I usually kept it is a safely off the road. Naturally reversed as close as possible to it and saw them laughing about it a few times. When I managed to get my space when the car was gone saw it parked in front of their house (which they hate as put angry notes on everything parked in front of their house). Bear in mind didn't know this was his car at the time! After several weeks of faffing about he apparently sold his car and put the new one in front of his garage which is when I clocked as to what was going on.
I'm not a petty person but believe in common curtesy and this really wound me up. Remember how I said he was a car fanatic? He kept working on the new car for weeks and when he finally took it for a ride one evening half an hour later we noticed a breakdown vehicle bring it back. Safe to say my first thought was "karma is a b". snigger

We rent. Ndn convinced us the wall out the back was his and he was going to half the height.. Big concern as we have ddogs and dc. 6 months after he had mentioned it every chance he got i clicked due to the colour it was more likely ours... Contacted listed building dept. It was ours...
Took dc to school one day. Came home and he was smashing it down with a sledgehammer!! Sent his number to the landlord who rang him and demanded he stop. I rang ll and demanded they sis good the huge gap in the wall. We now have a shite fence across a humongous gap.
That ndn has to look at. Planning permission is needed to repair. Ll won't do it and ndn can't.

Played Islands in the Stream on permanent loop one summer. Loudly.

Our NDN had a lot of work done on their house when they bought it, and when they were having their roof done their builders damaged some of our roof tiles and knocked the gutter out of place so it was hanging down rather than still attached. It was on the boundary between the properties and it caused rainwater to run down starting on our side and going kind of diagonal to their side of the property. They have a white house so it left green stains as our gutters are a little mossy.

They tried to invoice us to get the house repainted to get rid of the stains, even thought it was THEIR builders who had knocked the gutter out of place in the first place. We didn't pay.

Ripped out the (perfectly fine) garden fence between us and all the plants in the border, then started installing new fence nearly 1m into my garden....That was fun to come home to unexpectedly.

Constant harassment towards us so me and my child don't feel safe
Still going on

When we bought our house, there was a massive hedge on one side of the boundary with next door. We wanted to fence it, but our solicitor told us that it was the NDN's boundary and not ours. Our NDN used to trim his side of the hedge, and throw it all back over. We asked him repeatedly not to as we had small DC, said we had a brown bin out the front for garden waste and if he asked us, we'd take it round and collect it.

We'd spent a whole weekend tidying the garden as we were hosting the wake for my grandmother that week, got home from the crematorium with a house full of guests and found a garden full of rubbish thrown over. I was sobbing my heart out while trying to make teas and coffees, and we ended up having everyone in the house which wasn't what I'd planned (it was summer). We took a chainsaw to the hedge that weekend, and left them with our kids and dogs running into their garden until they put a fence up. We opened a bottle of champagne on the day they moved.

RubyTuesday I cheered at your chainsaw move. So glad you did that!

In my mid-twenties I used to rent the upstairs flat (with then boyfriend and some friends) in a big converted Victorian terrace. The downstairs neighbours, who also rented, were a couple with two primary school aged kids. They were freelancers in a creative industry and worked on and off from home and they argued CONSTANTLY - big screaming fights. We would often see them out in the back garden shouting at each other, or see the kids out in the garden while the parents were arguing. It was never physically violent, but they said some truly horrible things to each other, all of which we (and their kids) could hear.

This was awful enough, but they then started stealing our post. I worked in a similar industry to them, and had expensive subscriptions to some key industry publications. I needed them for work, but could only just afford them. They started disappearing so I knocked on the neighbours door to see if they had any of our post by mistake - they brought our all of my post - including my publications plus important stuff like bills - which had all been opened and said it must have "got mixed up with their stuff" when they brought it in. I asked them to please sort the post in the hallway to avoid this happening again - very polite (I have confrontation). They started to be actively rude to me after that - once even shouting at me on the street. Once I came home and they were sitting on the front steps of the property. I was too scared to walk past them and ended up just walking around the block for about 30 minutes until they went inside . I was so happy when they moved out.

Gah! Typos!

they brought out our post

I hate confrontation

Three eggs at our door, screamed across at us every time we went out, scratched our car.
Followed 2 oldest kids on way to school. I could go on

Threw eggs

An anti social neighbour from hell. Smoked weed everywhere so the whole block stunk of weed, played loud drum and bass music 24/7 from 6pm Friday to 6am Monday every single weekend without fail. We had passed out druggies in the communal garden all of the time. The worst during lockdown one when one of the druggies was obviously having a bad trip and ripping all the plants out of the communal garden and started clawing at the brick walls of the building and trees. We got the council and police involved which then made us a target. Everytime we stepped outside of our house to go out we got abused even when our children were with us. Threatened constantly with violence etc...... police did nothing. We complained to the landlord over and over again. She did nothing. Then the neighbour stopped paying her rent...... so the landlord wanted to evict her. She lost 5k in rent, cost her 3k in legal fees, and the neighbour absolutely trashed the place which cost her 20k when she sold the place as she had to sell for a loss over what she bought it for. That to me was karma, neighbour got evicted, landlord suffered a big loss and we sold our place to a lovely couple and have moved to a lovely house with amazing neighbours!

In our previous house, a neighbour had a big pile of household rubbish in his back garden. It was a hot summer and the stink was horrendous.

Anyway, after 4 stinky weeks, the pile went.

We had an awful rat problem for the next couple of years and when we did building work, they got into our house.

Our neighbour sold up and I was chatting to the new owner who was renovating the house. He told me that the weird hillock of earth in the back garden that I had assumed was a compost heap, was infact lots of black bins bags covered with earth.

He said that when he first dug into it, rats came pouring out

My neighbour didnt like how I kept my garden, in that he was obsessive out there with nail scissors trimming any stray grass and I work full time and was mid twenties so out most of the time.

Anyway, my then partner(now DH) is a motorbike police officer and he had new tyres on his bike. So he has to ride a certain mileage before the bike can go into service so he come down to see me to get those miles in quickly rather than the few days it would take just riding around the local roads. As a joke, when he left, he lit up the light pole briefly as I waved him goodbye.

The next day I get a call from my letting agent saying the neighbour had reported me for a wild party that was out of control and police had to attend (on a tuesday night). Thankfully they believed me and not his batshittery. He continued hounding me for another few months after that until our house purchase went through. I sometimes still see him now, he lives in the same little maisonette I do wonder if he bugs the new neighbours too.

Neighbour ( four doors away) Squatted in our summerhouse for two weeks
( without our consent) after his wife kicked him out. Filled our back garden with all his rubbish
Actually opened our garden gate and made himself comfortable . We barely knew the man
We were on holiday at the time

My Mums neighbour reported her to the police for opening a letter addressed to her that my Mum had opened by accident (she was very elderly and just assumed it was hers as it had come into her house). Mum immediately realised what she’d done and took it round next door and gave it to the neighbour and apologised. Neighbour seemed okay about it but that evening Mum had police knocking on the door because the neighbour had reported her for opening her post! Mum said she wished she had just put the letter in the bin!

My ex and I lived next door to a family who had some kind of outdoor oven in their garden. They burned wood in it and used to go to the local picture framers to get their offcuts/old frames. These often had nails in them. The youngest son of the family (age 8 or 9ish) spent a lot of time in the garden and one of his favourite things to do was to throw these bits of wood over the wall into our garden. The gardens were quite small so when he threw them over, the wood and nails in it would often miss us by inches. We tried speaking to him, his parents and the older siblings but they would either deny it or pretend that they didn't understand what we were saying. One day I was hit by a piece of wood and the nail in it, so we decided that enough was enough and went to the police. That only made the family more livid - they accused us of having reported them because we were apparently racist. In the end my ex and I split up and I moved away, so I never found out whether the child stopped or not.

I had 2 of the worst people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. One was a cokehead, part time predator, part time prostitute. She used to scream every single weekend in the early hours for hours on end. She had absolutely no shame.

The others played very loud music 12 hours a day every single day all through lockdown, had parties, would stand and stare at me and tried to ruin my open day when I was selling the house. It was so odd. I've never understood what they got out of it.

It was the worst year of my life.

Stole my identity and complained to the council about all our other neighbours posing as me. I only found out when the council phoned me about one of my 'complaints' and I had no clue what they were on about. To this day one of our neighbours still thinks it was me who complained about their building work (which was for lovely improvements which I wholeheartedly supported).

Fortunately he did a runner but we still get bailiffs round looking for him as he used our address for various things.

23 months of continuous building works, accompanied by bullying, intimidation, foul mouthed builders and repeated trespasses into our garden. It made wfh/DS trying to do gsce exams during the pandemic …interesting . Work is ongoing - can’t work out why (it’s only a small house) but we’re really happy. NDN didn’t realise that their build made it more likely that the LA would grant other permissions in an area where they’ve been reluctant before. Now a developer has approached us and offered ££££ for ours; they’re looking at a development of at least 5 town houses. This was our forever home but it’s been ruined so we won’t feel any guilt about the NDN getting a taste of their own medicine. Karma.

Made a false accusation which led to one of us being arrested and charged with a potentially life-altering crime. It was blatantly a load of crap, but the police for whatever reason decided to run with it.

The police were also at fault for a variety of reasons, including choosing to ignore a huge number of red flags pointing to the fact the neighbours were lying cunts.

It cost us thousands of pounds to defend and it was not guilty, with the judge heavily criticising the CPS, the police and the fact that they tried to push on when the cunt neighbours didn’t turn up to court. The really terrifying thing is that if we hadn’t had enough money to get a good defence, we would have been utterly fucked.

If one of them appeared on our doorstep needing urgent medical attention, I’d shut the door and hope they died.

@Goatjumpers

Made a false accusation which led to one of us being arrested and charged with a potentially life-altering crime. It was blatantly a load of crap, but the police for whatever reason decided to run with it.

The police were also at fault for a variety of reasons, including choosing to ignore a huge number of red flags pointing to the fact the neighbours were lying cunts.

It cost us thousands of pounds to defend and it was not guilty, with the judge heavily criticising the CPS, the police and the fact that they tried to push on when the cunt neighbours didn’t turn up to court. The really terrifying thing is that if we hadn’t had enough money to get a good defence, we would have been utterly fucked.

If one of them appeared on our doorstep needing urgent medical attention, I’d shut the door and hope they died.

Oh my god this makes me really worried Our neighbours are harassing us in many different ways including malicious referrals to social services about me And i can't help thinking about whether they'll make up more lies about us

Painted my front door white.

Thrown their vine prunings into our back garden! We had just moved in and the place had been empty foot ages before, but still! We threw them back.