Bought my first home March 2024 and shortly after moving in is when it started. Their pool is positioned close to the shared block wall between our backyards. The grandchildren of my neighbors are in the pool screaming all day and into the evening. It’s more like a screeching though. I mean it actually sounds like someone is really getting hurt over there.

I had two roommates and their bedrooms were on that side of the house about 10 ft from the wall. They said it didn’t bother them that much but one of them was in poor health and he would come home and try to take a nap after work with all that screaming going on. And it’s clearly audible from inside with the windows closed. There was some other problems with the roommates and they moved out but I can’t help but think the noise was a factor.

I’ve since made one of those bedrooms into an office but I guess I shouldn’t have because I can’t really get any work done while the screaming is going on.

I’ve talked to them multiple times about how loud it is and they just deny they’re being loud. I’ve recently told them I’m going to start documenting the screaming and parties, yes they also have parties now that happen about once or twice a week. This is a newer trend that has started this summer. And I told them I plan on filing a law suit if they cannot keep it down.

Honestly I’m all for having the grandchildren over and letting them have fun etc if it wasn’t everyday. But it is everyday. For long periods of time.

Is there anything else I can do to improve the situation?

My house is kind of a fixer upper, it can be really discouraging to put so much money and effort in repairs and improvements while I know I’ll never be happy living next to these people.

I’m also very mindful of the noise coming from the work done on my home. The loudest thing by far has been the tile saw before I even moved in and I know these loud neighbors weren’t even here for that. They were actually the first people I met on the street. They were packing their travel trailer the first time I came “home” after closing. Kind of cold and awkward first impression from them but didn’t think much of it because I was so excited. What a nightmare they’ve turned into.

When it gets too cold for the pool, there’s a play set on the other side of the yard and the screaming moves over there. It’s still very audible even from inside my house but it’s better.

I’ve talked to the neighbor on that side and she literally hates them. They look into her yard and accuse her of all sorts of bizarre things and have even called the police on her… yes the loud neighbors are the ones calling the police on her.

Looking forward to the replies and suggestions thank you!

EDIT: I forgot to mention the town I’m in has a 24/7 noise ordinance and gives decibel level to follow! Kind of important and the only reason I’m actually considering a lawsuit. The decibel read is ordered should be here tomorrow. So far I’ve just been documenting the start and stop time with some audio recordings.

Had this neighbor move in 4 years ago. Seemed polite enough at first - young guy in his 30s who just bought his first house. I noticed after a few weeks that his yard was unkept. I politely pulled him for a chat, talking about pride of ownership and even offering him help with the yard work.

The guy flat out tells me “I’ll take care of whatever the town enforces, but I don’t care about the aesthetics. If it bothers you, I’m sorry.”

What an attitude, right?! At that point, I couldn’t really so anything except call the town whenever his property gets overgrown. So he does take care of it now and then, but that doesn’t change the fact that it looks unsightly 75% or the time.

Things start to get worse as this neighbor’s hobby seems to be accumulating mechanical trash… lawn mowers, 30 year old cars, even a non-running tow truck! He has a trailer for a crappy “racecar” that he parks in his driveway with all the junk (even though he could hide said trailer next to his garage).

He also did a burnout in his driveway (I’ll admit not long - it was however long it takes for a garage door to open ) which woke up my wife, but apparently is okay since it was 5 PM.

Things took a turn for the worst when he was working on his race car one day (which apparently involves idling incessantly).

I politely asked him to refrain from doing this (it’s illegal in New Jersey), explaining how the fumes bother my wife and I when we’re trying to enjoy our backyard. The little twerp immediately got nasty with me, telling me to call the police and that it’s “his property.” I tell him it’s a residential neighborhood and he should find somewhere more suitable to repair vehicles.

The police did come (multiple times now), but they told him that he’s not breaking any laws since he’s working on the vehicle (WTF?!) Apparently it’s okay to make both noise and air pollution if it’s a “hobby” now ?

Now my neighbor will talk badly about me and my wife to our other surrounding neighbors, even if we’re outside and clearly in earshot.

The neighbor has also made multiple Wi-Fi names “Eyesore Junkyard” and “Socialist Property Value Destroyer.”

The neighbor decided to double down on this “junkyard look” by adding signs typically seen in public or industrial buildings (No Idling, Caution, No Mechanic Work etc). Stuff obviously in retaliation to us calling the police…

I feel like we are being bullied passive-aggressively at this point and have no recourse. The police won’t do anything about it and our neighbors are friendly with the guy.

It’s one thing when people are trash and breaking laws/social norms out of ignorance, but this guy is a stereotypical liberal brainwashed millennial going out of his way to lower his property value, just to spite us and anyone that doesn’t agree with his beliefs.

Here is to hoping that he isn’t a bigger problem when it comes times to selling our house. Who wants to live next to a residential junkyard owned by a pot smoking degenerate?

Rant over !!!

*edit* lol I’m actually the neighbor with mechanical trash but I’m glad the comment section went the way it did

Hi, wondering if there’s anything I can do about this.

Just moved into a walk-up and we have both spots in a two car garage out back. Neighbors have no garage but use that same area on their back property to park.

Along our garage on their side is some shrubbery.

Two trash cans are placed on either side of our garage. Our neighbors haven’t said anything to us but they keep moving one trash can or shifting them both so they line up with the edge of the garage, effectively blocking the garage so I cannot park. I need to move the cans every time to be able to get in.

The garage is very small, so even just 1-2ft is enough to block my entryway.

Although the trash can does go just a bit over their property, I’m just so frustrated because all it does is go 1-2ft MAX and it only “blocks” the shrubbery. It does not block where they park or walk—unless they literally mount the bush and walk on top of it.

I don’t know which neighbor it is(3 separate floors of tenants). No note has been left ever, they just keep shifting them.

What can I do? I’m just really annoyed at how un-neighborly they’re acting, I’d be happy to consider if they have some sort of reason why they need that space, but from my perspective it quite clearly doesn’t do anything at all to them. Additionally, our neighbors on the other side have a similar situation, and we happily let them shift their cans onto our property since it only blocks shrubbery! No discussion or mention of it at all needed there.

They’ve now resorted to moving the second trash can to the other side(now the full 3-4 ft in front of the garage), completely blocking the second car in the garage (also ours, but not used multiple time a day right now like mine is). Any advice appreciated, thanks!

ETA: thanks for the advice, it’s been resolved! I’ve moved the can off the left neighbors’ property and moved the right neighbors’ can off my property to fit my can, so I guess moving their cans to park is their problem now. I think I was caught up trying to make everyone able to move their cars with ease, but I get encroaching on others’ space can be taken as a “you give an inch they take a mile” situation too. Thanks!

My husband and I bought a home together going on 3 years ago. The driveway is shared with said neighbor which is important. Upon moving in our neighbor invited us over for coffee. She discussed she's disabled and chatted us about stuff for a minute or so and asked for our numbers. She explained she goes to New York half the year and wanted to text us when she'd come back so she could have the driveway. She said the rest of the year it's free for us but because of her disability she'd prefer we let her have the driveway. Seeing no issue we agreed and exchanged numbers.

Come winter of year one. Neighbor left and our area of PA got slammed with snow. Feet of it overnight. We piled the snow where we could which was the driveway. We received no call of warning when she came home. She came to our door demanding we move the snow which is now a pile of ice so she could park. We told her she was supposed to contact us and that there was no where to put the snow so we did what we had to. We helped chip away some snow because we felt bad but she had another neighbor snow plow it for her.

The snow also destroyed our outdoor patio set we didn't put away in time. Canopy knocked over and all sort of stuff. Our neighbor, in the spring starts taking pictures of our backyard which we have on camera. She also started coming into the property and bringing other people with her to show her all the destruction. She complained we were horrible house owners and that shed call someone about it.

We proceeded to hang up signs that stated do not enter and that it was private property. There is clear distinction from our side and hers when it comes to the shared driveway. Also that she was being monitored on the camera and ignored that. She continued to come into our property yanking our plants she said she was allergic too and overall being an ass.

So I called the cops. I said she's trespassing on our property and that I don't want her old ass falling on my porch and me being responsible for it somehow. Cop spoke to her and she had nothing valid to say outside of we were horrible owners and and openly admitted to trespassing and ignoring us when we told her to stop through the camera. Cop came back to us and said she's 75 and that if she continues to call again. We got a number for the incident but that was all.

Over the past 3 years she keep complaining about how we park. We have a roommate who parks in front of our neighbors home because our neighbor has the driveway and uses it. But she's complained he can't do that. We ignored her. He parked across the street and she complains he can't do that because she can't back out of the driveway as well. We ignored that too. We let her use the driveway. That's the only kindness we allotted this woman.

Now going on 3 years later she still has a bug up her ass. Mind you we do not engage with this woman. We don't talk. We don't do anything. She approached my husband today regarding weeds. She said she's contacting a lawyer because we are unfit for our home and take horrible care of it.

Admittedly we do have weeds but we don't really have a front yard only two big bushes that are fine and some overgrown dandelion and maybe some thistle. I know even if she does call a lawyer we get a warning if our weeds are over 10 inches but we intend to yank them but like what the hell.

Id hate to instigate her further but I don't want to go yank a dandelion or two because of this woman! I know it's small but jeez nothing we do is good for her. We don't even really go outside either in fear she will be there to complain. Our house is fine. We keep letting her use the driveway. But like she just wants to control our home. I don't even know what we could do in retaliation if it's even worth it. We have camera and recorded evidence of her trespassing and being an overall pain in the butt but like when should enough be enough? What could we even do?

Update: thanks everyone for listening to the vent. Parking and driveway wise we are still fine parking directly in front of our house for now but thank you for all the advice. It's nice to know we aren't missing something and here.

I’m a college student who lives at home with mom and siblings and we rent a small house in ct. We’ve been renting for about 8 years now and have never had any issues up until now. We have admittedly have fallen behind on rent and utilities a couple of times, but our landlord has been patient and understanding and has never had an issue with us being late as he knows he will always get his money. My neighbor announced to us that she was selling her house about a month ago and a week after, nobody bought it immediately like she wanted. Ever since then, she has been saying that nobody wants to buy her house due to the fact that our backyard looks “crazy”. She has been harassing my mother, uncle and landlord to remove the things she deems bad and has gone to our town hall to formally submit a complaint, and has even called another department on us. She has told us that someone will come by to look at the house but nobody has said anything to us yet. She has been texting and calling my mom frequently and has stopped her on her way home with my younger siblings to complain about how she’s so upset that she can’t sell her house because of us.

When we started renting, there was a tiny-home like structure in the back and everything was overgrown and visually unappealing. My uncle (mom’s brother) decided to kind of take over the backyard and uses it as a workshop of some sorts and has added a couple of things since then. He doesn’t pay rent or anything, but has a good relationship with our landlord so he has permission from him to do as he pleases. I’m not sure if he has permits for some of the things back there but they’re minuscule things such as having a tent over the grill & propane tanks (for the grill), plants, and a couple of quails (in the tiny home structure). I did some research and everything back there isn’t in violation of anything except maybe this greenhouse-like structure he has for his plants. I also think it’s necessary to mention that he usually maintains the yard to stop it from looking crazy.

We also have an above ground pool that we haven’t used since mom and I are too tired to clean and maintain it constantly, as well as a trampoline and a playground for the kids. All which are not in violation of anything, but somehow neighbor has also blamed the pool for her house not selling and in her words “what if the rust from it seeps into the ground and kills my trees”. The pool isn’t even rusted? There are no fences to fully separate the property lines, and there were trees there but she removed them since they were a hazard and could’ve fallen on her house. Though there’s no physical barrier, the property line has always been respected by both parties.

Her house has 4 bedrooms and 5 baths and we live in a really nice area, but the interior is super outdated. I personally believe that it’s the reason why her house won’t sell. It was built in the 90s and it honestly still looks like it’s in the 90s. She’s a stubborn lady and has told us way before all of this that she loves her furniture the way it is and will never get rid of it. To top it off, she wants 500k more than what its worth. According to her, buyers have hesitated to put in an offer because of the “neighbors next door” and that they think we’re “making drugs or something” under the tent we have for our grill (I think it’s also appropriate to mention that we’re Mexican). We used to host a lot of bbqs and parties that we made sure never bothered her but we had to stop anyways because there was always a problem. My mother and I are aware that we aren’t required to do anything for her, but she would rather avoid any issues altogether so she complied with her requests. We removed the tent over the grill, as well as the tables and chairs that were there, all of which was a lot of work. My mom is a little older so this was a little bit of a struggle for her. We moved the propane tanks out of sight as well. Unfortunately, this was not enough and neighbor proceeded to trespass and inspect our property and texted mom a picture of her in our backyard calling her a liar. She trespassed again a couple of days later and my mom & sibling watched her walk in & out of the yard.

I’m so sick and tired of this lady harassing my family and I have been wanting to go to the police and make a report but I’m honestly not sure if I should. I’m too nervous to talk to my landlord as we are behind on rent again and maybe he’ll get upset with us or something. I’ve tried speaking to her on the phone but she just spent 20 minutes ranting about how she never did anything wrong to us and that we’re basically fucking her over and honestly there’s no reasoning with her. I don’t know what to do, someone please help

I never thought I’d have to post about a neighbour but here we are, strap in for some pettiness.

Context: UK
My next door neighbour is an absolute Karen, everyone on the street despises her. She takes it upon herself to police parking (parking is plentiful and no one struggles for a space or cares). She doesn’t drive but kicks off at anyone who parks in the space in front of her house.

She knocks on people’s doors when she thinks someone isn’t doing their bit to ‘up keep the appearance of the street’. E.g telling another neighbour to paint his fence.

She also managed to scare off my other next door neighbour who was renting on the other side of me by threatening legal action because she was smoking cigarettes in her own back garden.

She recently shouted at me for having a bbq in summer as she wanted to have her windows open. I did have it placed as far away from the property as possible down the end of the garden.

I have always tried to remain neutral and polite even though I can’t stand her.

THE ISSUE AT HAND CURRENTLY:

A month or two ago I asked if she minded if I painted my side of her fence, as she technically owns one side of the fencing in my garden. She agreed and said that’s fine. Fast forward to last week and she decides she’s going change all the fencing (: it now is a completely different colour to the fencing on the other side of my garden.

I have a clematis climbing one of the fence panels so had to unpin it while the change was taking place, and then I bought new paint so I could paint them to match the fencing on the other side of the garden again.

The other night I went out just to paint the one panel my clematis was on so I could pin it back up. She shouted from her window that she was going to buy some ‘nice natural stain’ for it and whether I could wait before changing. I said ideally I want both sides of my fence to match and needed to get it done before my clematis started dying. Her issue was that she said she didn’t want to paint to seep through, so I told her that I would be careful and she can come down and check that none is seeping through on the one panel I painted, and to let me know if there was an issue- I heard nothing.

The following day I began to pin my clematis up, when she calls me over to show me a Google search outlining that I do not have the right to do anything to her fence including painting. I asked what her problem was exactly as we had discussed the day before, but she just walked off. Weird.

Anyways, I feel like it was a low key threat of legal action if I was to continue, because that’s the kind of woman she is. Where can I go from here? I’ve now got completely mismatched fences with only one painted on her side. It’s the pettiest shi ever.

Half of me wants to start retaliating but I have a cat who is my world and I’ve read horror stories about people harming people’s pets etc. I just don’t really know what to do or what to expect from her moving forward.

All this over fences, Jesus Christ

I have very annoying neighbors that are very noisy all times of the day and night. Playing loud music to having yelling fights with their spouse. Yes I have called the cops a few times but they have done nothing. Normally I would not care but when I ask nicely for them to turn it down sometimes (someone in my house works nights) I’m always met with hostility. I’ve only asked like three times because of this. So I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a good bt speaker? Any suggestions is greatly appreciated

I live in a 5 unit townhome/apartment building and we all share 1 washer and dryer. I notice some people always leave their pet hair in the washer and don’t clean up the lint catcher.

I told my landlord and they sent out a reminder to everyone to keep the washer/dryer clean but I think 1 person is still not doing it.

On top of that I notice there’s a foul mildew smell because of the pet hair and because of leaving the washer dryer closed. So I wrote a very friendly note saying

“Hi all, I noticed there’s a bit of a mildew smell in the washer. I ran a clean cycle and read online to leave the door open between washes to let it air out properly. Sharing in case this helps!”

I checked the next day and someone did laundry without keeping the door open or cleaning the pet hair in the drum. Am I overreacting about this? I have a pet too so I understand but I wouldn’t want someone else’s laundry to have all my pet hair or be washed in potential mold?

I just feel weird because I’m one of the newer tenants and really don’t want to cause problems. My next door neighbor has been living here for 20 years and has already been snarky to me about other things.

This is an update to a post that I made 2 years ago.

Honestly, it feels too good to be true. A couple of days ago, my NFH acted up again, and I recorded the whole incident. I sent the footage to the landlord and threatened to send a cease and desist letter within the next 72 hours and withhold my rent until the issue was resolved. I didn't expect anything to come from it, but he replied the next morning with screenshots of him notifying my NFH that he has 90 days to vacate the premises. I'm surprised it took so long despite the mountain of evidence I showed my landlord over these two years. Better late than never, I suppose.

My mother lived in her house for 60years. Ten years ago or so, the neighbor sent his landscapers onto her property to remove her “volunteer” trees that were blocking his sunlight in his backyard. When he knew she was out of state for the winter months. When she came back, she sued him and won. He had to replant the trees. She never spoke to him again.

She passed away and now her house is on the market. The questionably unethical neighbor has asked our agent to show him the house. We have an agreement with our agent not to dual represent and he says he has different agent.

Do you NFH redditors see any red flags here? Should we just assume he has no nefarious objectives and that his money is as good as anyone else’s? It’s hard to trust someone who acted as he had.

Neighbor filed a lien against my house because I filed a complaint to the county for violating a county ordinance.

To be clear, I have never contracted with them for construction work/services and don’t have any contracts in place with them or debt owed to them of any kind.

How is this a valid lien? I am now being forced to hire a lawyer to defend myself and don’t really have the financial means to do so. It really feels like I am GUILTY until proven innocent and not the other way around.

UPDATE: the lien in the county clerk and recorder office is listed as “Right to Lien” can anyone confirm if that is an actual lien?

Looking to see if anyone has any guidance or experience. I live in the states and I moved into a unit (townhouse corner unit) about one year ago. I instantly put a work order in for cat urine smell, i initially thought it was the previous tenant. After a few visits of them pulling up material, applying enzymes and sprays only for the issue to continue. After the 4 or 5th visit they tell me they are going to investigate the neighboring unit, they spend 2 weeks in her unit removing carpet, wooding and wall material. The smell goes away for two weeks and then of course the smell returns. I then request managers and more maintenance to come to my unit to smell the odor. One manager lets it slip that she has 5 -7 animals in ONE unit. All agree they smell it but tell me there is nothing they can do but apply odor block, I then bring up the lease and how they only allow 2 pets per unit. They then tell me they are replacing my baseboards and applying caulking to hopefully stop her odor from drafting into my house. I explain to them i have kids and asthma and this is not okay, they basically shrugged and told me hopefully this works and if not to put another order in. AM i NUTS? How is it healthy for any one to smell this? Especially consistently. And why is it fair for my home to smell when i have no pets? She is a very nice lady and able to move around, what would your next step be? Ive put about 7 work orders in at this point. I think i might actually be going crazy.

Edit: there are many more details to this but moving is out of the question for the next couple months simply due to lack of support to do so. HOWEVER, i did look up my local ordinances and see that it is my landlords responsibility to handle this. I will be submitting a written letter with this highlighted ordinance.. they are required to have 10 days to comply before i can take it to the next step. Thank you all

I have some horrible neighbors who rent a house across from me. They are pretty trashy; broken cars on the front lawn, loud, lots of people coming and going. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were drugs involved. One of them has falsely accused me of stalking. This is very, completely untrue and this person has been arrested for making a false statement to the police before in a totally unrelated situation. So definitely not the first time this person has lied. They harass me every time I go outside and have tried to break into my home before. It’s been a nightmare.

The house went into foreclosure in Feb/March and was bought by a bank. The house was put up for sale this Spring, but then the listing was taken down. I thought they would be moving at the beginning of the Summer and this would all take care of itself, but they are still there and show no sign of leaving. I’m not sure if it is because of tenant rights and they have to wait until the lease is up (I live in New York State), but I’m terrified they are going to remain there indefinitely even with the foreclosure. I saw another reddit post where the same bank possessed a foreclosed home and the resident remained there for over 3 years.

Is there a legal way for me to tell when they have to vacate the premises? I don’t understand why a bank would sit on a house for so long unless there was some kind of legal/tenants rights issue. I’m half tempted to reach out to the bank and pretend to be an interested buyer to see if I can squeeze out any information.