Tell me about your annoying / horrible neighbours.

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I have a feeling that we have moved in into a snake enclosure. There are some really grumpy people in our apartment block. We don't produce much noise but children occasionally talk loud and say things to each other. I think it's normal for siblings and we try to keep the noise down. The neighbours below us want us to tiptoe. Another neighbour attacks other people who walk on the grass and swears at them. Don't dare to put washing on the balcony. It will be reported to the Management. Some neighbours put balcony privacy screens as you cannot always keep washing inside. It doesn't dry properly. Anyway, some of them are just so pathetic. They feel like they own the place but it's owned by other people as well. Or do they think that because they're over 70 then they have right above us as more mature and much "wiser "?

I have this with a couple of residents in my block, although none of them is over or even close to 70. I've taken to peering through my spyhole and stealthily making a decision between the lift or the stairs all the while thinking up an excuse in my head of why I cannot stay to chat about whatever tedious complaint a neighbour has today. I try to keep my head down but sometimes people just suck you in I'm sure they have nothing better to do.

I can only recommend ignoring them and hopefully they'll find something else to moan about.

What's wrong with washing on the line? Surely you can't get evicted over that.
My worst neighbour was when I lived in a block of flats and they were drug dealing, fights, stabbings etc an absolute nightmare. The neighbour up above watched porn with volume up full, I was glad to leave there.

unfortunately we are the annoying neighbours. ds is autistic and sometimes is exceptionally loud... and there is nothing one can do to shut him up that will not annoy social services!

we are trying to manage the allowed to play but not picking all the heads off the flowers. or scooting on the grass and taking divots out.

flat opposite is getting new tenants, poor sods, ds was exceptionally quiet during the viewings. they are in for a shock.

We used to live next door to a house with a string of nightmare neighbours. It was a brothel at one point and then soon after was being used as a marijuana farm. After that the real fun started as all the council “problem” tenants were ditched there so we had a stream of generally not very nice people using our garden as a fly tip/toilet. The huge out of control dogs chewing through our fence to have a pop at our cocker spaniel was fun too. As were the arguments out in the street night after night, the continual police visits and rubbish being dumped outside our house inviting rats to our property which then made a home in (and chewed through wires) in my car causing £££ worth of damage. So yeah, I can relate. We moved out in January after saving for a long while for a deposit for a house in a much naicer area and now my mental health is much improved. 💕🏡💕

The reason why we cannot use the balconies for putting the washing out is I guess because it spoils the view or makes the building look less attractive. It stays in the lease that no washing should be put on the balconies. However, the Management isn't doing their job properly like doing repairs etc but accepts such pathetic complaints. We have bought the privacy cover and started putting washing outside as well. It's pathetic isn't it as we may complain as well about their flowers.
I can see that there are really big issues like loud sex, porn, drugs, parties, violence but in our case the neighbours are just a bunch of bullies.

Flumplet, I hope your new place is very nice .

Man in so glad I don't live in a block. Sounds like loads of fun OP!

I only have one neighbour an every summer I avoid her like the plague. We share a garden at the front when the kids ripped the fence down at the boundary. She kept banging on about digging up the bushes so she could have one flat patch of grass for her grandkids. I like the bushes because they attract loads of bees which she also doesn't like.

So I gave her my patch of garden to do what she wants with it on the understanding that she was responsible for anything she wanted doing... It was hers. Every single year she collars me bitching about these bushes wanting me to dig them up, on and on and on.

Fuck the fuck off man dig them up yourself!

I can't wait to move out of our block of flats. To be fair the neighbours aren't too bad but yiu do get shouting and swearing sometimes. One set neighbours have very loud sex too (awkward when parents are visiting )

I hate my neighbours! The family above us have their kids running around until midnight regularly and up to about 3am. They run as if they are being chased and jump off the beds onto the floor for hours. If my daughter behaved like that and we were in a flat with people below us I would be mortified, especially after I went up there at 1am when I had a 5 week old baby who was finally sleeping and their kids keep me up for hours. I guess some people are just so inconsiderate. I can't wait to live in a house! One day....

When we moved into our house,Mr Next door was leaning over the fence and struck up a conversation,seemed pleasant enough...somehow after 20 minutes or so managed to turn the conversation to his testicles ...grim... and how he has had one removed and then OFFERED TO SHOW ME 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

Over the past five years, there's been a lot more boundary crossing, but nothing has quite come close to that first encounter 😂😂😂

I had truly dreadful neighbours where I lived before and even now I wish them nothing but harm and misfortune. It is a special kind of hell to have bad neighbours and you don't know what it is like unless it has happened to you. Home is supposed to be one's sanctity, a place where you go to be safe and secure. The feeling of violation in what is supposed to be ones place of safety is absolutely dreadful.

My profound sympathy to anyone who has bad neighbours.

BlackeyedSusan - living next door to someone autistic is so far away from the same thing as some of these stories so if your neighbours think you're "from hell" because of your son then they are very much the problem!

I honestly have the best neighbours now.

However before I moved here I lived beside the raciest busy body who demanded keys to my house all the time for several reasons and the weirdest Middle Age guy who wouldn’t acknowledge your existence it made me nervous to go out if he was in his garden. Tbf he lived with his mum and lost her not long before we moved in so he could have just been consumed in his grief.

The raciest what a typo that’s meant to be the nosiest lol

how I dream of a detached house ...

RustyLeaf, me too. Hope it comes true one day.

too true foxy.

Our neighbour on one side never puts anything in his wheelie bin.....

Believe me even with a detached house neighbours can still be awful!

Really MrsGotobed? Tell me more. My dream is in tatters.

We live in a detached house. Doesn't stop our mad neighbour spraying our hedge with weed killer every few days as she doesn't like it growing through the chain link fence into her garden

Having bad neighbours is truly awful. People don’t understand how much it can affect you until they experience it themselves.

When I lived at home, we lived in a close that had a few neighbours from hell who would tag team to make everyone else’s life a misery. They let their kids run wild damaging peoples cars and gardens, they used the communal parking area as there own personal playground and would refuse to move if you wanted to park or leave. The adults would have screaming matches outside, I remember one argument about who should take the blame for a stabbing....

They parked wherever they wanted, in your space, blocking you in - whatever they wanted.

Was hell, glad when we all moved.

Also lived in a flat and was above someone. The person below was elderly and her family used her flat as a doss house. Loud parties, drugs, sex - constant noise of doors banging - but if we dared to make any noise they would bang on the ceiling!

Now living in a lovely area in a lovely house, only real issue is the neighbours don’t look after their garden but I can live with that

We moved to a 3 bed house and were so happy, for 24hrs. Moved in on 22/12 and the neighbours called the police on 23/12 complaining there was a party going on and they are disabled and so frightened. The noise was me and the kids giggling watching elf. The police laughed and did nothing, so it continued. The police seemed to find the whole thing hilarious. It was the worst 3 years of my life. The vandalised my car, stole anything from our garden, videoed and photographed dc repeatedly (police did nothing when they filmed 6 and 8 yo in paddling pool), dumped dead animals on our property and did a variety of identity and insurance scams against us. I lost all faith in the police.

When we put the house up for sale, the police warned us that if we mentioned the neighbours behaviour to prospective buyers, we were committing a hate crime. When we moved we put the house on the market we advertised £10k below market value and refused offers until a Very tough family put an offer in. Dealing with them during the sale was hell but hearing that the evil neighbours had finally been dealt with was lovely.

The only constructive advice we received from the police during this was that DH (a 6 foot 6 rugby player) should have, and I quote, 'sparked him out' the first time the neighbour verbally abused me. Yes, the police said a 6'6 able bodied man should have punched and knocked out an obese disabled man.

I live in a detached house with fields on 4 sides now.

When we moved we put the house on the market we advertised £10k below market value and refused offers until a Very tough family put an offer in. Dealing with them during the sale was hell but hearing that the evil neighbours had finally been dealt with was lovely

^Respect.

A great reminder that revenge is a dish served cold.

Poster with the autistic child you are not the neighbour from hell please don't think that.