Needed to rant. This takes place in Australia as I'm living with just my Dad. We lived here for probably five years now while he's retired and I'm working. Before all this, We had a nice neighbor who minded his own business, sadly passed away due to old age.

New Neighbors moved in and everything seemed to be going well. They renovated on what seemed to be a shed at first into an actual home with actual fencing and we seemed to live in peace. They occasionally have parties but they were respectable and end them on time. However this all changed the moment they owned a dog.

Firstly, We never really paid mind to the dog. Even our dog doesn't start it's territorial barks. What started this downfall was another neighbor of ours. She's a nice old lady who's constantly caring for her sick husband and likes to take her small dog for a walk. Because the old neighbor had passed and these new ones moved in with all their fences, Her only shortcut to the main road and away to disturbing other dogs in the street was gone. We however offered to let them walk through our yard. Basically turns a fifteen minute walk to the main road into thirty seconds.

As this happens, The new neighbor's dog would bark. couple of days later, I've been informed that these neighbors apparently shouted at her in OUR yard. How bad was it? Well they made the poor woman cry on her way home. My dad who noticed all this confronted them, calling them out for their blatant rudeness. They seem to think they were in the right, making up excuses like they were just protecting the old lady's small dog from their friendly dog, thinking they will kill it.

After this confrontation, We no longer speak to them as vice versa. The old lady tried to continue walking their dog through our Yard but his wife was such a petty slob to insult her as she walks away. Unfortunately she had to stop coming to our house like the new neighbors had basically scared her away.

Cut to Present, My dad still visits her now and then, especially this week as her sick husband had sadly passed away. They wanted to keep talking back in my Dad's shed so they proceeded to walk back to our house with flashlights due to it being dark. Here's the new neighbors again, Butting in but worse. My dad had to send the old lady and her daughter away while this neighbor had threatened physical harm towards my Dad. Luckily my dad showed restraint even when armed as we now reported this incident to the police.

But seriously, What the actual hell? They act like they own the entire street or something and it's really starting to become a headache for the both of us. I worry it's actually going to escalate.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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

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’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

Context: very rural, the county sherrif does animal control. They will show up in 3 hours or 3 days and say well the problem animal isn't here right now, I can't do anything, you know you could just shoot it on your property. They don't care about video. Only "catching the perp red pawed" . Video apparently a civil complaint.

NFH had 2 large breed unaltered dogs that turned to 12 as unaltered animals do. Some died. A pack of 9 terrorized the hood. Killing livestock chasing pedestrians, spreading garbage. Ultimately something sacred these assholes and they hauled off 8 dogs.

Peace for 3 months. Today I say a random stray pit bull breeding their OG Mastiff. WTF. WTF. WTF. What a pile of human garbage lives 5 acres away from me. They are not too poor to spay, I've offered the 50$ Vet clinic and my own money. They drive fancy cars, have landscaping every year, and told me to fuck right off. They just don't care about the dogs or the neighbors.

So we’ve posted about once a week for the last several week about our neighborhood battle going on.
Its like a real life sitcom that is funny to follow along but we are living it and it’s stressful.

So the sheriffs department called me Thursday last week about this feud we have on our hands wondering what the heck is going on down here... of course the Karen has played innocent and acting like people are threatening them. No proof but claiming it. lol.

They wanted to talk to the neighborhood so I gave them the contacts for all the houses and said they are more than willing to tell you what they know.

I spilled the beans on what’s going on down here and got the sgt’s info to send them evidence. I started looking on our camera storage and discovered some crazy videos.

In one day alone they are chasing our neighbors into their driveway with a car, outside lurking around our property, spitting on a sign as a family, calling cops on us on video while they were spitting, cops come&go, 4 mins later they are back looking for our cameras, then return two more times to try to destroy the cameras with golf balls! They also yelled and voiced what they were doing during this. It’s real damning. Then they returning home to blow horns at 10pm and 10:30 their in a vehicle on our driveway sitting.

We have more but I hope it’s enough for them to finally act on these people. We are getting golf balls thrown at our vehicles and rocks at our kids.
It like a mini version of the summer of love down here and that family is the mostly peaceful protestors assaulting our two families on the corner.

We have shown some friends the videos and they think it’s as crazy as we do. These people are aggressive and laws don’t seem to matter due to their entitlement issues.

What do y’all think? Will they fall through the cracks and be back to harass us after the heat is off them?… or will the cops actually do something about this behavior? We feel targeted in our own homes.

My mum has lived in the same house for 12 years. For the first several years there were no significant issues with the neighbours, but over the last five years things have changed dramatically.

There was an incident where our neighbour believed my sister (or one of her friends) keyed her car. There was never any evidence of who was responsible. My sister has always denied doing it, and my mum has never claimed to know what happened. Despite that, Mum even offered to contribute towards repairing the damage if it would help draw a line under things and restore a good relationship.

Unfortunately, things seem to have escalated rather than improved.

Since then there have been repeated reports to different organisations over what feel like increasingly minor issues. These have included complaints about our family dog barking while visiting (despite plenty of dogs barking in the neighbourhood), complaints about daytime music while family, including children, were visiting, a report to Universal Credit questioning how someone who can't work could spend time gardening (my mum is agoraphobic and gardening is one of the few things she is able to do), and a report claiming my sister had moved back into the property when she has her own home.

None of these things in isolation necessarily seem outrageous. If a neighbour genuinely believes there's a problem, they're entitled to raise it. But after years of repeated complaints, it starts to feel like ordinary day-to-day life is constantly being scrutinised. To the point of bullying and what feels like targeted harassment.

The biggest impact has been on my mum. She now feels anxious in her own home and worries about doing perfectly normal things. My sister has two young daughters, I have a dog, and we've both found ourselves worrying about visiting because we're conscious that normal family life could become the subject of another complaint. Mum relies on us for company and support due to her health, so that's been particularly upsetting.

Outside of our visits, mum sleeps for most of the day, struggling to sleep at night with chronic pain and anxiety, plus the recent addition of a spinal fracture. The insomnia was worsened due to the additional anxiety caused by the last complaint and she rings us having panic attacks.

We're putting together a timeline using Subject Access Requests, correspondence and Ring doorbell footage simply to understand the full picture, because looking at each complaint individually doesn't really reflect what the last few years have felt like.

I'm not really looking for legal advice. I'm more interested in hearing from people who've experienced something similar.

Have you ever had a neighbour who repeatedly reported you over a number of years? Did it eventually stop? Did anyone ever acknowledge the pattern, or did every complaint just continue to be treated as a separate issue? How did you cope with the stress of feeling like you were constantly being watched?

I recently moved in to a duplex, and I’m not sure what to do about my back yard neighbor. I tried introducing myself when I first moved in, but he wouldn’t say anything except “oh” and never offered his name. He is often yelling incoherently or very aggressively yelling the same disturbing phrases over and over again. My guess is either schizophrenia or Tourette’s syndrome. The problem is that what he is saying is quite violent and he is often yelling the n word as well as very vulgar things about women. I’ll be sitting outside reading and it, at times, seems to be when he comes outdoors and begins ranting. Whenever he is ranting I can’t see him, so I’m not sure where he is in his yard or if he can see me. I’m not sure when I should involve any authorities or organizations, or if I should just make a report so it’s on record. If it is Tourette’s I understand it’s not something he can control, but as a woman living alone it is quite alarming at times. Any advice would be great. Thank you!

I could really use some outside opinions.
I own my home, and I share a driveway with my next-door neighbor. For years, their property has been neglected, and it has only gotten worse. As you can see in the photos, the backyard is overgrown with weeds, vines, and brush, and there are structures that appear to be falling into disrepair. It’s become an eyesore that I have to look at every single day.
I’ve spoken with the city multiple times and have filed complaints, but the situation either doesn’t improve or only gets temporary attention before it goes right back to the way it was. I’ve even been told by one official that I should help my neighbor clean up their property, but I work full-time and go to school. I barely have enough time to maintain my own home, let alone someone else’s.
My biggest concerns are:
The overgrown vegetation attracting rodents and other pests.
Potential fire hazards from the neglected yard.
The effect this has on nearby property values.
Having to live next to what feels like an abandoned property.
At this point, I’m frustrated and don’t know what else to do. Has anyone dealt with a situation like this? Were you able to get your town or city to take action? If so, what worked?
I’d appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thanks in advance.

TL;DR: neighbors placed camera to watch our backyard. So we put up a fence for privacy and they moved the camera to a higher window to see over the fence. I want to take legal action based on the many moments of harassment and false claims to the police made against us by them.

Context: All of this has been going on over the course of 6 years that we’ve lived here. We live next to an couple in their 60’s that are retired. I’ll call the husband B, and the wife L. Me and my husband have two young children and a dog. I’m not exaggerating when I say we’ve done nothing to these people. It’s been one sided harassment for 6 years but we’ve given them the benefit of the doubt up until now. For two of those years, L has pretended to be friendly with me, my children, and dog. Here’s a list of what they’ve done.

- L puts note in our mailbox warning us not to mow in her yard around the telephone pole. (Fair enough)
-L gives my dog rotten frozen marrow bones that ended up making my dog violently ill. (Yes I took them in good faith believing she was being friendly)
-L accuses me of stealing her flower pots. (I didn’t…)
-L was captured on our cameras in the OPPOSITE side of our yard snooping. Not even near her property. She went to the other side of our house and around to the back. (Don’t ask why we didn’t call the cops. We were young and dumb)
-L complains that our dog peed in her yard and burned the grass. (My dog didn’t, but I moved my dogs tie out further away and just apologized to keep the peace.)
-L&B call the city on us for a blight violation. (City officer said we’re fine and there was no violation.)
-L&B have their lawn service guy mow around a tree on the property line, which made him cut into our landscaping project twice.

This now brings us to the current situation.

So my husband calls to ask them kindly to let their lawn guy know to not mow in our yard. Well they start accusing my husband of being a drunk. (We don’t even drink) And they hang up on him. So then L texts him saying her lawn guy mowing our lawn was just “tit for tat” and accusing my husband of being drunk mowing our yard. So I go out to my backyard to place logs on my property so the guy can’t mow into our yard. That’s when I see L recording me in her window with her phone. So I flip her off. Then I call the cops to make a complaint that she’s recording me, and I guess she had already called them to complain about god knows what. That same night I hear someone at 10:30pm outside my window banging on my air conditioner. We run out and find a dead mouse on the air conditioner that had been dead for a while because it stank. We called the cops again knowing it was B, but we didn’t have proof. Cops told us to put up cameras or get a fence for our peace of mind. So we set up security cameras again since we had taken them down a few months ago to save money. A few days later we notice a camera in the same window L was standing in to record me on her phone. It was facing our backyard. So we start building a fence to block their camera. Then we get a permit warning from the city. Apparently they complained that we were feeding birds in our backyard, too. God forbid someone has a bird feeder. So today we applied for the permit so we could continue building the fence and guess what I see. They moved the camera from the spot it was in, to a higher window above their porch door so they could see over our fence. Mind you, they already have a camera covering their backyard facing the other direction so there is no need for this other camera in their window other than to spy and harass us. Mind you, I have CHILDREN that play in our yard and will be in diapers and underwear at any given moment to play in water. So them watching my kids is beyond inappropriate.
We’re having the police come out again to file a complaint about the moved camera. But this whole ordeal has been so stressful and emotionally distressing, I want to take legal action. I’m going to obtain the police report she filed against me to know what false claims she made. I’m scraping for anything I have legally against them. And I’m kicking myself for not calling the cops when she was snooping in our yard on camera two years ago. WWYD?

Edit: Thank you everyone for all your suggestions- the serious ones and the snarky ones 😆 we will be reading through them all and any new comments. We appreciate all the validation. A cop came out today and was able to suggest they move the camera and that it was concerning us since our kids play outside. They said they would think about it only if we moved our side camera first. Our side camera is not pointed directly at their yard and only got some of the yard in the background. They are also never in their yard ffs. But fine, we tillted it down more. So I will make an update in a few days or so if anyone is interested in this drama.

My late FIL's home has a parking lot that is half on his property, and half on the neighbors. The neighbors home was sold, and is rented out. The renters are AWFUL.
They kept creeping into my father in laws parking spaces. To the point where, they started yelling at our family for parking there! My husband told them to get over it, the border is obvious. ( there is a fence line in their back yard that goes through the parking lot). The renter got loud and stupid. Cops were called. They had a survey done showing they had even LESS PARKING than they thought, and the owner put in this wood strip to keep US on our side( LOL)
Now, the renters are ignoring it, and once again, taking up all of the parking.
The spaces are clearly marked with house numbers.
My husband went by yesterday morning, and they had to move cars for him to park. He said something about the survey, and they said yeah, we know all about it.
He left and then I stopped by a few hours later with my son to mow the lawn. They had MOVED THE CARS BACK. I had no place to park, and had to use another neighbor's spot, across the street. Police were called, but didn't show while we were there.
I am heading back over now, and will call the cops AGAIN if they are parked in his clearly labeled parking spots.
This is really getting old.

Hello everyone! Not too sure if this is the right place to talk about this but I wanted to rant and also get some advice. Some background to my issue: we have been having issues with our neighbors for a couple of months now, at first they had two small dogs that were always outside and constantly barking at my dogs and anyone who stepped into the backyard these dogs would be outside until midnight no matter the climate or if the dogs themselves wanted to be let in.

A few months ago they got two Belgian malinois puppies and the alarm bells immediately started ringing in my head. These puppies are outside the whole day, constantly barking or crying to the point another one of our neighbors had to complain about the noise. Just last night the two puppies broke through the fence and went into our yard (one of them was actually stuck but broke free) my mom was outside when she saw them and had to run inside because they were going up to her and barking. I went to my neighbors door and knocked (very strongly) and no one answered for more than an hour even though all their cars were up front and even their lights were on. I tried again later and they finally answered (but only after the puppies trashed our yard lol) and they went and got the dogs and told us that they’re very playful, that her daughter was watching the dogs and that they thought they were just under their shed. We told them they need to get a fence and they agreed but I don’t have much faith in them since everything they have done has shown that they do not understand how much work it is to have a working dog nor do I think they care that they’re affecting the people around them. I am worried not only for those puppies but for my own dogs especially my reactive dog, he is always supervised and on a long leash when he is outside because I don’t want him getting close to the fence and there being an altercation.

What do you guys think my next steps are here? Should I notify animal services or do you guys think I am blowing this over proportion ? I want to minimize future issues as much as possible.

Trying to get legal advice against a neighbour that abuses the system and I fear for my life & my sons because of the people that are coming around here. Revolving door all day and night with his guests who constantly make noise, attempt to open my door and actually successfully opened at 5am one morning. Lived here over 20 hrs never needed cameras now they are everywhere.

i feel like a prisoner now.any advice greatly appreciated

My neighbor hates women and hates me. I bought my house 8 months ago with my husband and he has been a nightmare neighbor since day one. He manipulates and lies. He’s encroached. He lies to my neighbor on the right about me.

I’ve asked him to fix drainage issues he’s caused before with his janky hardscaping that altered the original lay of the land making it flat and all drain on my side. None of our convos are productive because he doesn’t listen to or respect women. He called the cops and said someone broke into their house and that the only enemy he has is me so they suspected me. The cops called bs because he has cameras everywhere yet had no footage.

This guy has serious issues. He’s asked me to tell my husband to come outside as if he intended to fight him to which my husband stood his ground and told him to leave us alone and stop bothering us. Cops have been called in the past by my other neighbors I get along with that live on his left side and have issues with him as well.

Our neighbors across the street also have had parking issues with him and told him not to park near their garage. Another neighbor said he stares at her daily when she’s walking into her house and she feels harassed. So he obviously has multiple neighbors that dislike him because of his odd and selfish behaviors.

Anyway early today I walked around to look at his daughter’s car because she always parks it at the apron of my driveway making it difficult for me to get out. Mind you, only 3 ppl live there. Him, his wife and daughter. But they have 5 vehicles . They also have a 2 car garage and a 3 car driveway yet they only park 1 vehicle in the garage and 3 in the driveway so the daughter parks by my driveway carelessly daily.

Anyway he has a ring camera facing my side and he must have seen me observing how I was going to get out without clipping her and I guess he didn’t like that so he parked his other car with the front bumper sticking out into my driveway tonight. Mind you it’s about the principal.

He has enough space to back up nearer to his driveway but he is doing this purposely. I can easily either park my car into that spot when he moves it again, start placing my trash bins there or call the non emergency line so they can ticket him but I feel like all of these would just escalate his retaliation against me. He might start parking in front of my house on the other side of my driveway.

I already have an ongoing HOA dispute with him regarding his fence being on my gate by 2 inches (again it’s the principle because I’m trying to extend my fence from my gate and I can’t use my own post because he built his fence on my post that he didn’t get permission to build on). Oh yea he lied about that too and photoshopped the survey and sent to the hoa saying he bought the house that way. He made several modifications to his home without hoa permission including extending his driveway to 3 cars which needed a permit from the county. That driveway is causing drainage issues to his neighbor on the left because it’s impeding the flow of water.

Whenever I go outside to garden or water my plants, he comes out like 60 seconds later to water his lawn and grass too. When I hired a landscaper to design my lawn and separate it with stone from my neighbors, he started landscaping the front of his house too and the front of my neighbor to the rights house. I mean I could go on and on about all his odd behaviors. He’s just unreasonable so is my only remedy to move ?

I have more of a question I spoke with her finally after not being able to sleep and getting massive anxiety from the vibrating and humming noise. And she agreed to keep it off at night. Since she was so lovely I’m considering buying her a standing fan since hers sits on the floor but are standing fans any better when it comes to the vibration/ humming noise I don’t wanna buy her a standing fan just for it to cause the issue all over again

UPDATE: they turned it back on just moved locations. I don’t know if they thought I wasn’t gonna notice. At this point, how do I approach me trying to buy them a new fan because the one they have is driving me crazy or a silencing mat at this point I’ve looked into a quiet fan and I’m OK with buying them both. it’s 80 bucks 100% worth my sanity. And SLEEP