You’ve likely had your moments when you may have been an unpleasant person to live next to. Perhaps you were making a little too much noise, or the music was playing a tad bit louder than it should have. But as a sensible human being, you made it a point to apologize and not repeat the same mistake.
Of course, not everyone thinks the same way. Some may even up the ante in terms of being a horrible neighbor, as you will come to see in the stories you’re about to read.
Scroll through for the mildly infuriating accounts, as well as our conversations with a few experts.
#21
My parents' neighbour called the crows every morning around 7. She screamed so loudly that everyone could hear her. She was convinced the crows saw her as their mom and thought it was her duty to feed them every morning.
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29points
While living next to a neighbor from hell has some heavy drawbacks, you can’t just uproot your entire life because of the nuisance next door. However, there may come a point when leaving would be the next best thing for you.
So, when would you know if it’s time to move? According to property management expert and RedAwning.com founder Tim Choate, it’s when you feel threatened in terms of your physical safety and emotional health.
“Walking away isn’t defeat; it’s just wise to leave what harms you for the sake of peace,” he clarified.
#22
They said I was locked up like I was in a dungeon when I was 8 just because I wasn’t out playing in the road like their kids…I also didn’t have freinds and just enjoyed staying in. Then just before we left that house we realised they BROKE INTO OUR GARDEN AND CHOPPED OUR TREES DOWN ??? they would always argue with us about removing the trees because the leaves “got in their garden”…. Like yeah it’s a tree mate, one that had been there for decades and had a protection order on it, I ended up taking some of the logs from it because I loved that tree and we were leaving anyway so now it grows mushrooms on it !
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28points
#23
My next door neighbours when they first moved in use to shout “ praise the lord” at 2am so I blasted slipknot at 8:30 in the morning as a way of keeping me awake I’ll wake yoh
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27points
#24
I used to live in a flat above an old lady when I would pass her in the stairs she would hit me with anything she had with her shouting don’t talk to me.
26points
Leaving a home because of a difficult neighbor is a “cost-benefit decision in the practical sense,” according to Alves. And if the situation has led to increased expenses for repairs and legal fees, then it may be time to consider moving.
“The financial and emotional cost of staying often outweighs the inconvenience and cost of moving,” she stated.
#25
when I was a kid, our neighbours started feeding our cat. Eventually our cat started being over at their house more often than at ours. one day they came over to tell us, they "had to" put our cat down, because it was "sick". We never even learned what kind of sickness...
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26points
#26
a neighbor complained to the landlord about I cooked fish for dinner and she didn't like the smell . told me to stop cooking fish... I now cook it once a week
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26points
#27
I'm convinced my neighbors on the left are vampires. they moved in about 8 years ago. And I have legitimately, never seen them out during the day. i didn't know they had children until last year. the husband mows his lawn at 4 AM. I'm not kidding. i don't know what they do for work. I've never seen them grocery shopping.
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25points
Meanwhile, Kruse says a good sign would be if the neighbor’s actions have gotten so bad, you’ve deemed it necessary to document everything. However, he also urges getting the authorities involved.
“If their behavior is intentionally disrupting your rightful enjoyment of your property, or has become threatening, you should call the police or consult with legal counsel about things like a peace bond rather than suffering it,” he said.
#28
Neighbour trapped our cat inside and refused to give him back, threatened police as apparently he was eating bread.
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25points
#29
Used to call environmental health & the police on my tumble dryer. Apparently it was too loud despite repeated low environmental health noise readings and the police telling her to stop wasting their time she carried on reporting us. The police would turn up and say to the tumble dryer “stop partying so loud”, it was a weekly routine. She also called environmental health because my house alarm went off when a power cut happened and the battery ran out. Like I wanted to be woken up at 4am by the house alarm I couldn’t stop. Not once did she contact us or the police to ensure we were ok. Straight to environmental health.
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25points
#30
stalked me and my mom from me coming home to me leaving and then banging on our door at all hours to the point where my terminally sick mom got severe anxiety and had 5 plus attacks a day. only when I sent a restraining order to his HOME AND WORK did he calm down till we moved
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25points
#31
My 90+ neighbor has been hallucinating that my husband goes to her house in the middle of the night. She believes he pulls on her front door and looks in her windows. She’s called the police several times in the last two years. We never go in her yard and he’s sleeping all night.
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25points
#32
Used to constantly send notes through my door, one of them said that we turn the light switches off too loudly
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24points
#33
They sent screenshots of a poc who rang their Ring doorbell, saying it was so suspicious…… it was the postman
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23points
#34
We used to have a neighbour who demanded the entire street had to be silent when her baby went down for a nap. She would lean out of her window and tell everyone to be quiet and for the children to all go inside (during the day!)... Despite the fact she held loud parties until the early hours EVERY weekend. Parking is extremely limited and there are no assigned spaces, yet she decided she needed 3 spaces for her one car in the communal car park. She blocked the road with her car and refused to move because we all ignored the signs she put up 'claiming' all 3 spaces.
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23points
#35
old woman who lived next door decided that the best way to contact me was to scratch at my window screen like a gremlin instead of knocking on the door (ended up having to call cops on her)
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23points
#36
Mine called police because I am switching on the light in the building every time i enter at night... like hello i am also paying shared electricity bill?
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22points
#37
My neighbour put fireworks through my letterbox because my autistic son wouldnt stop stimming in the garden
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22points
#38
During lockdown my neighbour used to walk around my ground floor flat to whisper my dogs name "Missy" at all hours in the night. She'd wake me up growling. He'd stand near my back door or bedroom window outside, in the rain sometimes just wanting to see my dog. But never moved when I told him it wasn't a good time. Sometimes at 11pm, then 2am, 5am whenever he liked for 20mins. He'd claim he was taking his recycling out but the bag was always empty. I moved out so I could get some sleep.
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22points
#39
my ex neighbour complained over 10 times because my sons disabled ramp went 2cm on to her side of the joining wall
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21points
#40
They copied everything I did. In the end, I used to feed them lies and so instead of getting ‘x’ car, I’d get a different once after they’d purchased what I’d told them, but like EVERYTHING.
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21points
