Shitty neighbor stories

When I was in college, I lived in an apt where the people upstairs would vacuum at 1230am and move furniture around at all hours of the day and night.

Op is the shitty neighbor in his story.

OP should scratch obscene graffiti onto the shed doors.

I live in the most obnoxious part of Los Angeles It's called Housecowandoafville. It's in the SGV. EVERYTHING is about "the children." No seems seems to work. There's always someone at home at all times 24/7. The latest blabbing is about getting new street lights with brighter bulbs because "the children" had a hard time trick or treating. I can't wait to move.

I have a story about the shittiest neighbor in history, but I won't tell it

My neighbors adopted two Russian kids who are now adults living with their parents. I pulled into my driveway on Halloween and the daughter was sitting on the lawn in a witch costume with a big bowl of candy. She pretended to be engrossed in her phone rather than nod hello. Cunt.

I had a tweaker bitch who let her two year old kid run around the neighborhood in a dirty diaper. Said neighbor also stole packages off people's porches.

my neighbors would shit on the stoop

Regarding R1, isn't frequent furniture moving some form of OCD? I once had a co-worker who lived with her brother and he would move the furniture around late at night, and I think they got in trouble with the landlord over it. The co-worker seemed a bit off as well.

I live in a sketchy building in a primo ocean side location. (Only reason I have stayed) This is in the northeast and I cannot tell you had bad the building is- It was probably built in the 1940's-1950's and its the type of place with no insulation, sound proofing- and when people walk above you, it sounds like the ceilings will cave in. And the ceilings are very, very low......

Anyway, I have worked from home since the time I moved in a few years ago. The woman above me is in her 60's and really should be in a mental institution. She looks like deaths door, is balding, and walks around in a daze. Its kind of jarring because the rest of building are young surfers or old as balls like her- but normal/nice.. I am 43, so well on my way. She walks around in circles all day long, so I have basically stopped using "my nice room" which is kind of a dining room/mixed use area. (Its clear she has hardwood floors up there) In my bedroom, I am blessed because she apparently has carpeting.

Initially, people would drop off groceries for her. And I would hear things like "You didn't bring me brie cheese for my apples" and the response would be- "GO TO THE STORE YOURSELF!!!!!" so I knew she was not an invalid. Eventualy they all stopped coming.

She has a car here that she never drove. And over time, she stands outside my window where I work making endless phone calls hustling- The woman goes up and down the stairs 10-15 times a day (the phone service inside of the building is really bad). I learned that she has family around here, but it appears she is disowned. She does not leave at the holidays and just started using her car. I have noticed that no one brings her food anymore. And she has started going to the store herself.

Just the site of this poor woman gives me anxiety, and I suspect that she is an older lady with borderline personality. She is utterly miserable and I have wanted to call my management company and warn them that this lady just is not right- but I don't want to fuck with some HEPA (whatever it is) laws.

As I type she is walking down the stairs now... Just her vibe is off putting. And I actually love old people- this lady is bad news.. I feel bad because she is always alone, but I will not feel bad when she burns the place down. I actually increased my renters insurance because of her. She should be in some sort of Assisted Living, I feel.

^^ And One day , she was clearly calling some state agency about inheritances/probate or something.. So I suspect that she got in a squabble with her family over money over a dead parent^^^ And I can see why no one would want to be around her. She looks like a mental patient.

Anyone who has lived next to pitbull nutters wins. Thread closed.

Fortunately, they are no longer my neighbors. A few neighbors ago- younger guy in SSI, married to an older woman who looked like a skull with hair (think Rif Raf) and her boyfriend, named Wolf all lived in the little one bedroom behind me. Wolf, being a wolf, would howl at my dogs through the wall. They would shut off all the lights at night and play hide and go seek. I had to steal their 3 cats and put them in rescue. When they moved out there was a (kidding not) 3 foot by 6 foot mountain of cat shit in the basement. They didn't use garbage bags, just dumped the wet and loose garbage in the bin. The cockroaches and smell.

Also no longer neighbors, across the driveway. Single guy, 2 daughters. Never once spoke, the entire family yelled at all times. Guy knocked up a chick who hated the girls. so she moved in. Had the kid. Moved out, meth toothed lesbian mother of the daughters moved in, she hated the kid who wasn't hers. They set up tents on the front lawn. They moved on from tents to setting up tarps from the roof to cover the yard like a giant tent. Still never once spoke, all of them screamed all the time. Guy would stand outside, shirtless with his maggot-belly white man tits on display and 'practice with the wood', basically pretending to do martial arts with a stick. I had to, several times, go over and tell him his new best friend was a convicted child molester.

Amen R12. I looked at a condo once up the beach in another (more affordable) town and first thing I saw was a Trump banner (this was 2016) but I kept driving up to the condo I was going to view, and just as I found a spot and was about to park, some guy in his late 20's walks up with a nasty looking pitbull. I said FUCK THIS and left.

After reading your horror stories upthread, I'm taking a bottle of wine to my next door apartment neighbors ... "just because," should they ask why.

Oh shit! I forgot. To deal with this I have given this old crone nicknames.

My favorite one that I use most often is "Butternut"..

"Here comes Butternut!!!!!"

Scummy motherfucker!

Not my neighbor, but my brother lived in an apartment complex when I was in college, and there was a heinous Marlboro-ridden middle-aged bitch who lived in the opposite building with her trashy boyfriend and their two large huskies. My brother called me one day because his friend's car battery had died while parked in the guest parking area. They didn't have jumper cables, so I offered to come give the car a jump. His friend had fortunately backed into the space, so in order to jump it, I had to be nose-to-nose with his car. I moved as far out of the way as was possible, and left more than enough room for other cars to pass by (besides, this in theory should have taken 1 minute to do, tops). As I was exiting my car, this nasty whore in her SUV whipped by, and I could see her staring my way and screaming, but her windows were up, so I couldn't hear anything she was saying. I ignored her and proceeded to connect the jumper cables. She parked in her space, and immediately barreled out of her car and approached us, ranting, raving, SCREAMING as loud as she could, about how "this was not a fucking parking lot" and "can't you read the fucking signs?" and a whole bunch of other obscenities. I was caught off guard because it was clear that what we were doing was completely innocuous. I tried to explain to her what I was doing, and pointed out that I'd obviously left enough room for cars to pass because she had no problem zipping by.

This haggard bitch continued screaming at me, calling me a motherfucker and threatening to get me evicted. I told her I didn't live there, so good luck. She continued screaming at us for a good thirty seconds, after which I reached my breaking point. I finally returned fire at full volume, calling her a fucking cunt, and telling her to go mind her business before I start minding hers. She stormed into her apartment (still yelling absolute nonsense) and came out moments later with her troll boyfriend, but he weirdly didn't do anything—he just stood there while she carried in her groceries from her SUV, ranting to herself and continuing to say she was getting us evicted (I am assuming her boyfriend possibly intended to get into a fight, but thought better when he saw us—my brother, myself, and his friend are all well over six feet tall and sturdily built). After jumping the car, I was so mad that I immediately left. My brother called the apartment manager to let them know what had transpired, and they told him this was one of multiple complaints that had been made against her in the last two WEEKS alone. They evicted her! Ha. Cunt.

When I was a kid in a small town we had a crazy violent family as neighbours. Their elder daughter one time for no reason at all kneed me in the pussy as I walked by her on the street. Perhaps the worse pain I ever felt. Their dumb other girl (who I think may have been intersex) walked into our flat one time a and ate some of the dog food from the dogs bowl thinking it was our food. Apparently she would walk into our flat a lot so we started locking the door.

The same girl once walked up to me underneath the bulding and started marking my arm with a marker. I was afraid and froze so she went on and drew lines on my entire arm.

Her little brother broke our window with a rock because me and my friend taunted him from the window one time.

The worst perhaps was when I was by the plants my father planted underneath the building. After many months the one little plant of cherry tomatoes he planted were at last almost ripe. So the kid, to hurt me, squashed each tiny tomato one by one in this fingers. Such a horribly sad and cruel waste.

Their dad was really an ex-con and really creepy. My mom thinks he killed our poor beloved dog.

Totally forgot about them though until this thread. Strange memories of a sad family.

R10, she just needs some cunnilingus

R20 You sound game.

[quote] I had to, several times, go over and tell him his new best friend was a convicted child molester.

What does this mean? I've reread R13 thrice and I'm still confused.

R18: Do yourself (and us) a favor and use paragraph breaks; no one is going to read your lengthy, unbroken block of text.

My neighbor is in a religious cult and they are all anti-vaccine, believe the devil put dinosaur fossils on earth, and that the government is chipping soldiers and civilians to track them.

What sucks is they have taught their children and grandchildren the same beliefs.

I don’t think they’re ever going to move.

You should drop leaflets with the truth in their yard, R24. Maybe one of the kids will read something useful for a change.

My neighbors, both doctors, burned their twins shitty diapers inside their fireplace.

My old neighbors smoke weed EVERY night on their back porch. I don't necessarily mind the smell of faint weed, but theirs is so damn strong, even with my doors/windows closed, I can still smell it.

At 6am yesterday I heard an explosion and then loud voices and another explosion. I stepped out on my patio as another loud explosion sent birds flying out of trees and cats jumping fences. The I heard a loud voice say "This is the FBI, we have a warrant for your arrest, come out of the house with your hands in the air".

Another short pause and then another explosion, then apparently the criminal succumbed to the FBI's shock and awe program. I have never heard such loud flash/bang devices. A friend of mine a mile away heard the noise.

R20- She seems like she never had sex in her life- Like lifelong mental illness.. The fact that she is living alone is alarming enough.

If you saw this woman you would understand this even more.. She is tough to look at.

Another clue- she does belong to a church I believe, and I think people from the church were the ones who went to the grocery store for her. And they drop off a Christmas basket every year too and she then slams the door on their face. (Again, the building is set up that I hear everything, I am not trying to be that Gladys Crabtree or whatever the fuck her name is)

There is a look of someone mentally ill- And she has it- her facial expression is non existent- she looks like utter doom.

Anyway, things are so bad around here for rentals, and the homes are 750K+ that I am stuck.

I want to kind of softly warn the management company, but I could see these assholes not renewing MY lease.

Her rent is probably paid by a trust or through some government program.. I cannot figure that part out.

Do you live in Innsmouth, R10?

R19, sorry you had to go through that. The tomato story (Mary!) was somehow especially sad. Not making excuses for those kids, but they were probably abused & neglected.

Innsmouth? Due you mean Newburyport? VERY CLOSE!!! About 25 minutes away :)

I worked there for many years. (Never vibed with it, it skews very old, very, very old) I dig Plum Island though!

I just called the called the cops on my shitty neighbors last night. Yeah, I know it sounds like a crappy thing to do. we had to move to this awful apt temporarily after our house was destroyed in April. This couple has 2 Kids one is 4 the other a newborn. I know the father, because he used to come to my house to hang out with my Son when they were kids. All his Wife does is fucking scream at that little girl day and night. It starts at about 1:00 in the morning and continues off and on all day almost everyday. I got upset about it about 2 weeks ago and went over there that night. It stopped for a day or two and then gradually started again. Last night she started again and I could hear that child screaming. I could hear him yelling too. I banged on the wall, they shut up, but I called the cops anyway. They responded in about 5 minutes and its been quiet all day. I really don't think she or him are physically hurting her, but its disturbing as hell and the baby is a newborn. The Mother is only 19 and he's 35. She's had some major trauma growing up and I do realize that, but screaming abuses at the kids is just fucking awful. I'll call the cops again if I hear it again. Talking to them doesn't seem to work.

Which one of you will volunteer to eat Butternut's pussy!!??

Can you then marry her and take her far away?

R34 Try something besides wit.

Oh DEAR, R33

r22, he kept making new friends and thinking they were his best friend and having them over to his apartment (where his children lived). I recognized one of them as a convicted child rapist. Several other times his friends would be on the registry and I would just show him the page.

My across the street neighbor who looks like the Emperor from Star Wars. Her sister lives right down the road and they got her the house so she could be looked after. She's functional, has kids and a job but she told me one day that she'd kill my cats if she saw them on her patio furniture. These weren't my cats. She screams at her poor kids all of the time, she had a married boyfriend who would spend the night about once a month and one day hundreds of cop cars and an ambulance arrived. She accused the guy of trying to run her over. Her own brother in law ratted her out and said she faked the whole thing. She's a complete cunt to all of the women in the neighborhood but flirtatious with the men. She brought home a used trampoline and placed it right by their chain link fence, I think she wants her son to break his neck. I really wish she'd move and I hope she doesn't have firearms, she's crazy.

I understand NIMBYism, after living up a hill from a 'Sober Living' facility, aka, the treatment instead of jail option. The acoustics were unfortunate, a natural amphitheater, and It was like living above a prison yard! They were obsessed with playing horseshoes for 12 hours a day, listening to shitty radio, and basketball. No hot men, but I surely learned some new ethnic and anti gay and women slurs! When they let the women outside, too, it was volleyball and like watching mating season on a nature documentary.

I sold that house for 3x what I paid for it, though. The next owners didn't seem to understand what they are getting themselves into. Huge wooded lot with no neighbors, but the facility makes it just terrible.

The facility was not disclosed in the sale, and I couldn't sue because of some local rural statute.

Cat owners who keep “outdoor” cats are shitty neighbors. Somehow, people know not to let their dogs roam the neighborhood. But cat owners think it’s OK. Cats shit in yards. No, I wouldn’t poison a cat but can understand why it happens.

My sister was an “outdoor cat” owner and I did tell her it was, literally, a shitty thing to do to her neighbors.

My shitty neighbors are the geese on the pond. Oh and man are they shitty, they are constant shit machines, they shit while they eat they shit while they sleep, they are mean as hell to each other and I am mean back to them. I don't hurt them but I drive them off my lawn as much as I can. I love them on the pond but they spend most of their time on the lawn eating grass and shitting.

The people neighbors are great, no one is across the street and no one ever will be the entire length of the street because it is a creek, no one is behind me, it is the pond. Neighbor on one side is great and the neighbor on the other side is never there, they live there a few months of the year and the rest of the time they are gone.

R41 "literally"

Bless your heart

[quote]They also have a basketball net next to the sheds that could be removed in a half an hour, that hasn’t been used in 15 years.

You'd rather they had used the basketball net these past 15 years?

[quote] The Mother is only 19 and he's 35. She's had some major trauma growing up

Hence why she is with a 35 year old man. You said they have a four year old so that means he knocked up a 15 year old when he was 30.

When we lived in a condo we had a series of three women in a row who rented the condo above ours and every one of them would do some kind of exercise on the hardwood floor in the living room that involved jumping up and down for a half an hour a day.

I understand R41. My former neighbors collected cats, and all of them were outdoors in the worst of weather. It was heartbreaking. I hate shit like that.

R29 What would you report her for exactly? You seem to have a grudge against her just because of the way she looks. I think the real reason you haven't reported her is because you don't have anything concrete.

The woman who parks next to me in our garage is a goes out a couple nights a week to a private club and gets hammered. She’s seriously door dinged me several times, scratched my passenger side rear-view mirror and knocked it back against the car. I’m thinking of installing a camera in my car.

R43 you’re not nearly as clever as you think you are. It’s a shitty thing to do and there is literally shit from the cats. It’s not that difficult to understand what the poster meant. Why don’t you post something about your shitty neighbours instead of being a dick? Your neighbours are probably here posting about you!

We live on a cul-de-sac. We're hemmed in by assholes on either side. On one side, the asshole new owner (around 4 years now or so) remodeled the garage and got permitted to turn it into an apt. An apt which houses one adult and 2 teens. Oh, and the adult woman in this unit with the teens has a boyfriend. So the owners themselves have 3 cars and then another family member who comes by twice a day; the renters from them have the adult with one car and the boyfriend with one. That's 6 cars at this house. On the other side, the yelling neighbors won't divorce and she's a nurse so during COVID she made him move into an RV and I guess she really can't stand him because he only comes in to shower usually after she leaves. When they are together in the house yelling still ensues. He leaves his crappy new age music on all day while she's gone working and takes a hover board back to the RV that is parked down the street. I would be mortified but this man has no shame. They also have an adult living with the nurse and a grandmother comes by too. That's four cars there, plus a junker in the driveway, and this stupid RV down the street.

There is nothing more disgusting than digging into a meaty cat turd with your hands while gardening

R50 "there is literally shit from the cats"

There is shit from the cats.

See how easy it is to speak like an adult? Do you still understand the meaning?

R53 seems confused.

Cunnilingus!!!

I had German cockroaches in my apartment for months (after I moved in). I complained about this to my landlord who told me nobody else reported an issue to him but he was sure that the roaches were coming from somewhere in the building. Turns out that someone in my building is so disgusting, they dont' even give a shit if they have roaches! That's basically what pest control told me after they sprayed my place.

Back in 2001, I had just moved into an 8 unit apartment building in a nice part of town. After being there for 3-4 hours the neighbor in the apartment across from mine started banging on my door. She was mad as hell. She pointed her finger at me and said “I know you’re in there cooking drugs! I can smell it inside my apartment! I work in a prison and I know what that smell is”! I replied “you’re out of your fucking mind”. And then I shut the door. I guess after the old bitch figured out I wasn’t cooking drugs she felt bad for making false accusations. She knocks on my door saying she’s sorry and hands me a plate of fresh baked brownies. I took them from her and said I accepted her apology. Then I promptly threw those brownies in my kitchen waste basket. A week or two later I hear light knocking or tapping on my apartment door. I open it only to find her anointing my door with oil and praying for my salvation. I tell her to stop. I already know Jesus and she should go back inside her apartment. Then the next day she knocks on my door with her cordless landline phone in her hand and tells me my phone conversations are coming in through her handset! Omg. She had the very same Panasonic cordless phone model and may have been hearing my conversations! I didn’t care because I told several of my friends what a whack job she was.

At my last place there were people who played loud, heavy bass music from 2am to about 7am every night. The worst part is that it frequently was the same song over and over.

Eventually I moved cities and into a more affluent area - this morning one set of neighbours were having a domestic and screaming "fucking cunt" repeatedly at each other. The other neighbours freaked out over it and called the cops, but honestly it's such an improvement I don't care.

Lmao r52 😄

Neighbor in back was a Marine or imagined he was. He told me once he was chosen to meet Al Gore at the airport with a folded American flag when Gore came to town. OK, whatever.

Then he started shooting meth. He knocked on my door once to see if I could help him figure out "where the people were hiding in the walls." I went into his place and he'd taken all the doors off the kitchen cabinets and other strange stuff.

The last straw was one Saturday afternoon when I saw him dressed in full camo, crawling like a snake on his belly down the alley between ours and the house next door. I called the police for a welfare check and they did nothing. On Monday I called the realty company, with the specific complaint that he was leaving used needles outside (true) and they suggested he might have diabetes and said I should take care of it.

Fortunately he moved a couple of months later, or was evicted.

I've usually had truly awful neighbors in the past, but I moved in 2021, and now have a top floor corner unit so I only share one wall with a next-door neighbor - the far kitchen wall (where his kitchen cabinets are placed in his unit). He's a fantastic, witty, young-spirited retired man in his 70s, lives alone. Whenever we do randomly cross paths and chat, I'm usually treated to a fascinating tidbit about his life, and as a neighbor he's a delight. So quiet and kind of introverted. He's been in the building about 35 years. My other nearby neighbors across the hall have been in the building about 25 years. Quiet married couple, kind of artsy/edgy-looking. We all bring up each other's packages and look out for our floor, and each other. I know it sounds like I'm bragging, and maybe I am, but this is so different from what I've experienced in the past that I'm grateful on a daily basis. Also, I will never ever ever ever live below anyone ever again. EVER.

The worst neighbor I ever had was an upstairs meth head that did nothing 24-7 but smoke meth (we could smell it) and fuck his dried out hank of a whore. Bed hitting the wall for HOURS at a time. I exaggerate not . It turned into a full scale outright war. Before the dust settled the cops had been involved,the landlord was fired and we were given a MUCH nicer corner apartment.

R62, The landlord was fired?

I live in a duplex, and my neighbor is Laotian, early 30s, and is one of those "wannabe DJs". He has a DJ name, etc, but as far as I can tell, he doesn't have any paying gigs, and it's just some sort of fantasy of his.

Courtesy of his uncurtained Bay window, he has built a fantasy DJ booth in his living room, complete with a light show, and plays deafening EDM every chance he fucking gets. I've confronted him about it, politely, and he is contrite.. it stopped for a day or two, then.. more of the same.

I pointed some monitor speakers at one of our shared walls, cranked it up, and played "Bowling Alley SFX" on a loop, at high volume, and left for work. This was successful in the short term, but here again.. it started back up.

I waited until he was at work, looked in his mailbox, and lo and behold.. his power bill. I had it disconnected. I know this is illegal, but.. desperate times call for desperate measures.

He was gone for a few days, but now he's back. Haven't heard a peep since!

I wouldn’t mind so much having neighbors who engaged in loud sex if they were both smoking hot.

I lived in some pretty iffy neighborhoods in my salad days and had terrible neighbors. There were the two young black girls who shared a house with us - both of us on the second floor, their apartment on one side of the house, ours on the other. We had a regular door at entry level that had a lock on it, but Heifer and Heiferella would constantly keep that door open AND their door open. In the winter, with snow on the ground. I think they were turning tricks.

Years later I lived in an old professional building that had been turned into apartments. A lot of us in the building knew each other, it was an artists' colony of sorts but a few losers trickled in over the years....and that time I did have a whore as a neighbor. She had a 2 year old kid and would turn tricks all night - don't even want to think about that. A friend lived in the apartment underneath and was just driven to madness for the time she was there (which thankfully wasn't long). Her tricks would stand in the street and yell up like she was fucking Rapunzel or something - she looked like an extra from Deliverance.

Another neighbor was Bob, an old gay man who was slowly losing his mind AND his hearing. He was always inviting these guys over, rough looking dudes who we eventually realized were hustling, and when he wasn't home they'd go knocking on other people's doors to try to ask them for money or, for the gay men, interest them in buying their wares. Had to call the cops on them only once, they never returned (which tells me they probably had multiple warrants).

Bob also had a nasty habit of starting to cook dinner, then drinking a bottle of Riunite and passing out on the couch, which of course created several small kitchen fires. We called the fire department and cops and he was SO livid that we'd done that - loony ass bitch, as if we were supposed to wait for him to wake up?

I did like that place, though, for my hot neighbor, who would always make lots of loud noise when he was fucking his twinks. That noise, I never minded. My bedroom and his shared a wall and I admit, I was woken up a few times by the noise and ended up rubbing one out because it got me worked up.

Those were my cheapo places (nothing that affordable exists any more) but money doesn't make people behave any better - more recently, my partner and I lived in a decent condo where the guy put loud club sized speakers in the wall and blasted music and TV all the time. It took months of board mediation and several neighbors filing a joint lawsuit to convince him that no, you couldn't do that in a condo building, where everyone shared floors and walls.

We're in a lovely place now with great neighbors but right before we found this place we had a rental. Halfway through our lease term the place changed hands and a halfway house moved in, and so we had a bunch of junkies who sat in the back yard talking all night, because they couldn't score dope or whatever and needed to pass the time. And worse yet, one of them was hard of hearing and hours away from his fiance, so he'd be out there yelling into the phone at 2 am. We'd get to sleep at like 5 am and have to be at work at 8. A nightmare.

Yes he was R63. Come to find out the meth head had paid him 2 years rent in advance in cash,but there was no record on the books. He got arrested and charged with grand theft. It was all very drama ridden and scandalous. Im sure other little scams came out.The landlord was an old heavily accented hispanic guy and his wife was white with red hair,can you guess what we called them ? Meth head cut my cable cord wich ran beside the windows (who knows) wich started the full out war. Then one day he knocked on my door exactly like a friend used to so I said "come in" and he strolled his ass into my house and plopped on my couch.I was so shocked I just sat there with my mouth open. Then I started screaming.

The people across the alley were a clan of white trash dummies who lived there for 5 years. About a dozen people came and went all day. A shitty old car or truck was always loudly starting-up (about 7 of them). Screaming brats, hollering, country music and pitbulls running loose. I think at some point the parents were divorced, because his caterwauling voice mostly subsided from the mix. No one seemed to work; someone was always home.

There were plenty of parking spaces on their street, but they always wanted to park in the alley. They had a gravel spot for 3 of their vehicles, then parked the rest on other people's property. They were fond of a fire pit, which was west of me and blew toxic smoke my way.

They had a stupid rent-to-own situation with their landlord, but the house ended-up in the possession of some entity that buys 'troubled notes'. The new owner was based in another state, and I don't think they knew they even owned the house. And I think the renters were no longer paying rent to anyone.

So I started sending their address to those online ads that say, "We buy houses!". I sent the description to dozens of them, saying "I" wanted to sell ASAP, and gave the contact info I found from the Auditor's site and online searches.

Two months later the were miraculously moving out. It's now empty and owned by a company that owns 8 other properties in town. Just my luck they'll rent it to someone even worse, though that's hard to imagine.

Top floor for me from now on. I had an apartment under a 400 pound woman who wore clogs. Once she managed to set most of her kitchen on fire with an unattended candle.

Growing up, we lived next to a gang for a few years. After a long period of trouble, they finally shot into our home bc my dad, douchebag though he was, was still the only one in the neighborhood to stand up to them. Trashy as fuck thugged-out family, with a harpy bitch matriarch at the helm - pit bulls, ghetto blasting bass at all hours, cars up on cinder blocks in the yard, screaming out rape threats against my toddler sister within earshot of our mother - Dad finally shot them (in front of us) bc they were about to sic one of the pits on him. We had to flee across the alley to a neighbor's house and hide. They did get evicted after that, fucking finally...but I'm still a nervous wreck to this day, 30 years later. Whenever I hear a car playing hip hop with loud bass, I get knots in my stomach.

I’m watching the “Fear My Neighbor” series.

I had some terrible neighbors who blasted their music at all hours and refused to turn it down. A coworker offered to bring some contraption over that would fry their speakers. It's totally illegal, but the morons probably wouldn't have figured out what happened. I opted to move instead. Is anyone familiar with those devices or what they're called?

I had a mentally retarded girl as a neighbor in the 80s. I had the front apartment and she used to sit on my window ledge and smoke cigarettes.

If I asked her to stop, she told me she'd punch my lights out.

Eventually a rat came in from where the garbage cans were, and I abandoned the place mid-lease.

R6

So you got upset because a young adult didn't say hello to you, an old fart?

What world do you live in? Young people dont talk to old people!

R10, have you ever actually spoken with this poor woman? Frankly, you sound like the asshole.

I had some shitty neighbors. Then they tried to park their car on my side of the street in front of my house in Pennsylvania during a ferocious snow storm, and when I objected, they started calling me faggot and some other horrible names. So I went into the house, grabbed a gun and shot them both - several times. The woman was screaming "Jimmmay" just before she bled out. Then I went inside and shot myself. But don't take my word for it - there were lots of news articles.

I lived in a shitty working-class cul de sac. One of my neighbors pulled a gun on two separate people who had either pulled over to use their phones or were Uber drivers. He'll eventually go to jail since brandishing is a crime punishable with real jail time. What a shithole.

[quote] Is anyone familiar with those devices or what they're called?

An EMP Device. We considered using one on our neighbours when things got to breaking point, but it would have fried our electronics too, which would have to be on to operate it.

R75- Yes- I have said hi.smiled a few times in passing- I have gotten a nod and/or a grunt. She never smiles.

Really what angers me is that this woman is left alone to whatever demons she is fighting.

I try to remember that she is most likely mentally ill in some way. Who knows.

You people live in poor overcrowded conditions, why do all live in attached houses? This is why COVID spread so much and fast.

My neighbor has 2 large unkept oak trees that only seem to fill my yard with leaves and debris. We have asked him to trim and clean but since he only holidays at the house he doesn’t care and only does the bare minimum of maintenance so we were forced to have a tree service come out and trim all of the limbs on our property line. The neighbor behind his house did the same and when he got back this summer he went ballistic.

This idiot should have learned his lesson after he had to pay for property damage on our home after a large dead branch from his tree fell on our lanai a few years ago but some people are just determined to be assholes.

R79 If you're genuinely concerned for her welfare then you should contact social services. But no, you bitch about how her appearance disturbs you and wish that you could report her to your management company - which you clearly haven't because all you have is that she 'walks around' (which she is allowed to in her home).

R82- That is a good idea. I had never even thought of that. (Social Services)

I am sorry that I offended you, I was venting. And yes- she has bad vibes. But I do feel bad for her, and no one should be in that state and alone.

R83 My advice. Just ignore and leave her alone unless something real does flag up. It's coming across a little bit like witch-hunting, that's all.

I once lived near Ricardo Montalbán. His uneven walking from his fake leg really annoyed the hell out of me. I could tell you horror stories about Cheryl Ladd too.

R84- I know. It builds up as you witness it for 3 years. (you'd have to see the building/set up to really understand) I feel far worse for her than I can explain, but that's how I deal with it. I don't scream out the window at her or make fun of her. However, it's unsettling and makes me scared to get old. She seems tortured.

And reading these stories, I think I have the easiest situation- by far.

One thing I will never understand is - why do developers not make sure that there is good sound insulation or at least they should be made to? By far the number 1 complaint I hear is about noise which is usually just normal living. But so many properties adjacent to each other have horrible sound insulation.

R87- In New England, many of the rentals were built in the late 1800's to 1950's.. In my place, you can even hear normal conversations through the walls. Its horrendous.

In modern buildings, there really is no excuse.

My shitty neighbor story is current and ongoing. A totally psychotic bitch lives next door to me and we are not friends we are each other’s worst enemies. She doesn’t drive so she walks past my home several times a week to the Quik Trip convenience store that is a couple of blocks south of here. She yells obscenities at me as she walks by regardless if I’m outdoors or indoors. I always return the gesture by yelling “cunt flap” or “old dumbass bitch” out my front door whenever I hear her start in.

R89 Living the DL dream! I joke.

My next door neighbor had loud pool parties with a DJ every Saturday and Sunday in the summer of 2020 (height of COVID I might add). The house is pretty close together and we have panoramic view of their pool as our house sits higher and they only have a chain link fence around it. We have a scraggly mass of bushes against the fence, which is the only thing blocking part of the view, and in front of the area of the deck where they congregate and drink. After that summer he asked me if he could have someone come over and trim the bushes and I said no way, as his gardener would probably have cut them all down. He’s free of course to trim anything that comes over his fence. Come 2021 they had no pool parties for some reason, then they left and rented the house and the pool was blissfully closed this summer. They’ll probably sell it to a family with screaming brats

R82, is your name Blanche Devereaux?

I've lived in the same condo in a highrise for almost 46 years. I've been quite lucky with my neighbors. We're all very respectful of each other's comfort. But about 15 years ago this Swiss guy bought the unit next to me. A singularly foul human being. He was some sort of professor. Within a few days of him moving in he knocked on my door one day to ask me if he could have my 2 parking spaces in the decks since I obviously wasn't using them. I had bought a 2 car enclosed garage in the building back in the early 90s, but the 2 deck spaces still belonged to me and I occasionally used them for guests who stayed over. I politely told him "no, sorry, those spaces are for my guests". He walked off muttering something in German under his breath. A few days later as I was going to my garage I noticed someone was parked in both of my deck spaces. I called the concierge and they called a tow truck and the cars were removed. Later in the day the Kraut came banging on my door. When I opened it he said "WHERE ARE THE CARS?". I said "what cars are you talking about?". He said "my friend's cars that were parked in your two unused spaces for only a couple of minutes". I said "I have no idea what you're talking about and don't you EVER bang on my door again", and I slammed the door in his face. I called the concierge and told them what he'd done in case he confronted them. They said "oh, we'll be ready for him". Apparently he'd whined to them that I refused to give over my two spaces. I never had any more contact with him, and thankfully he put his apartment up for sale about 10 months after he moved in and was gone soon afterward.

In his short time in the building many of the residents who'd had the misfortune of encountering him had nicknamed him "the Nazi bastard".

R85, Did you ever see his sister-in-law, Loretta Young, visit?

R81 is a perpetual bitch

R72 call the police you pussy

[quote] One thing I will never understand is - why do developers not make sure that there is good sound insulation or at least they should be made to?

Because big developers have money, and they grease the palms of every city and town where they build. Insulation costs money, and cities set the minimum bar for sound insulation so that developers can build their shitty apartments and condos.

By the time people notice what's happening, the LLC formed to build that building has been dismantled. Sorry, no liability *shrugs*

so many neighbor stories here!

My neighbor got in trouble for adulterating honey. He got in trouble for illegally importing honey that was fake honey into many restaurants across the country. The crime was so widespread that I think it affected every state. My neighbor and several members of his family went to jail as a result. Federal prison.

What a weird thing to go to federal prison for

I completely forgot about another neighbor. She caused me no problems, but she turned out to be a real shit. She lived with her young daughter who appeared to be around 11 or 12, with no husband. Seemed to live large. Drove a big new Mercedes. The first thing she got caught doing was using one of the enclosed garages that was up for sale by a previous tenant, who had apparently left the door unlocked. She was told to stop it, and use her own space on the deck. After a couple of months she had hired a young woman to do house cleaning for her. The house cleaner had just had a baby not long before she started cleaning for the neighbor. It also turned out the cleaner was on probation for something and she was arrested for breaking her probation. She called the neighbor to let her know she wouldn't be able to clean any longer because she was in jail. The neighbor asked what she was going to do with her baby and was told the baby was with a friend until she could find a more permanent solution. The neighbor offered to take the baby and keep it until she got out of jail, which the cleaner agreed to.

I was walking in from work one day and there were all sorts of police cars, government cars, and the local news vans in front of the building. All the people who worked the concierge desk were missing so I went on up to my floor. As I got off the elevator there were all kinds of people at the neighbor's apartment coming in and out. I went on inside my apartment and waited until I could find someone who might know what was going on. Later that night when I was watching the news the report came on about the neighbor. She had apparently been trying to sell the cleaner's baby as soon as she got her hands on it. Somehow the FBI got wind of what was going on and they set up two agents to pose as a married couple who got in contact with her. They met and the agents told her they really wanted the baby. She told them she wanted 50k for it. They agreed and set a time when they would come back with the money. She was arrested as soon as they handed over the money.

She was never seen again. A few days later I was told a moving van showed up and loaded up all her furniture. I never found out what the disposition of her case was.

Well that was a twist ending R99.

I used to have an old woman with Alzheimer’s living above me. She NEVER left the apt, her family would only get her on Christmas Day. Well, she was noisy. She’d vacuum the bedroom every day at 5-6:00AM, she’d throw shoes across the floor and move furniture all night, all weekend. There was absolutely nothing the co-op board could do about it. I’m happy she’s now dead.

I bought a condo that turned out to have paper-thin walls. On one side I had college students who played video games that shook that shook the whole place. On the other side I had a bunch of cats that were left alone in the condo and knocked things over all night. Across the street was a young guy renting from his father and he threw block parties several nights a week. I let the place go into foreclosure as soon as I could (it was 2008). Never more glad to leave a place in my life!

R101 bitter old queer

Selling the baby?

What a clever solution!

R103 - a meek nellie little prisspot who claims to "go with the flow" in every social situation, because god forbid she express an opinion or a boundary to anyone, ever

One of my friends briefly lived in the same building as Dennis Nilsen, so things could be worse. She was there when the plumbing issues got him caught.

R105 go casket shopping

R107 buy your own bed, you fat whore!

Calm your tits

Nothing too extreme. Single mother with two young kids who run roughshod over the neighborhood, scream constantly, and have no regard for other people's property. The father shows up from time to time. He and the mother then proceed to scream at each other; she tells him to go away; and then he calls the police, to whom he goes on and on about how she only cares about herself, has a man on the side, and won't let him see his kids. This happens repeatedly, and nothing ever seems to be resolved. It is pretty noisy though, and they have no qualms about doing this right out on the sidewalk for all to see and hear.

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R103 = old lady with Alzheimers

We use a noise machine, fan, earplugs — and we haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in two months,” Boyce, 37, told The Post.

The couple — he’s in sales and she’s a writer –moved into their new home on the fourth floor of a building on West 72nd Street in August and soon got a rude awakening.

“She paces and stomps from about midnight to 4 a.m. She screams obscenities at her husband. We’ve tried to get her to stop, but she doesn’t seem to care,” Boyce claimed.

“She won’t open the door. In fact, our protests cause her to stomp even harder. She has made it her nightly goal to make our lives miserable.”

Last week, someone else in the building called the cops on the Stomper at 4 a.m. for screaming,

Boyce said. He insisted it wasn’t him — but suspects his noisy nemesis blamed he and his wife, “because she began to jump and stomp her feet for five minutes. … It felt like forever

Thank god the little troll of a hag with her 4 kids moved out of the house next door - our former neighbors moved out but decided to become landlords and rent to section 8 tenants - which is how she moved in.

On one very hot day she dumped her trash can out and filled it with water and picked up 2 of her kids and put them in it - a standing trash pool: mother of the year.

She seemed to be running a late-night gambling or drug den in the basement, and to block the back entry door from our view propped up an old mattress against our shared fence.

One night other neighbors found her 2 year old wandering in the street at 11pm - actually in the street, sagging diapers, no shirt. I don't know where the other kids were. She ended up in jail. Our old neighbors decided to sell the house and not bother with tenants.

I lived in a trailer park (yes, I did) and my neighbors were Mexican. People kept driving by at all times of day and night and honking their horn and the neighbor lady would run out with what looked like a meal on a plate covered with a bag to give to them. I was so innocent, I thought she must have a Mexican food pick-up service. I never did see any police, but they did eventually move out.

My neighbor put shredded paper in the recycle bin and when then the truck lifts it and dumps it in, some of the shredded paper flies onto my property. He can see the shredded paper littering the ground when gets his bin to bring it back inside, so he knows it happens.

R115 you sound like the terrible neighbor. The garbage company's poor handling of refuse is not his fault.

I had the most annoying family that lived near me in Walnut Grove, especially their shrimpy daughter with pigtail braids. The blind girl was no peach either.

$50,000 for a stolen baby? What was wrong with it? In my neighborhood the going rate is at least twice that.

R111 is the epitome of an undesirable

True story… A clan of country hicks moved into a tiny 4 room house next to me. There were 8 people total living in a house that had one bedroom. The patriarch of the family was someone I referred to as “Itchy”. He and his sons would often piss outdoors in plain sight. I called the police numerous times to report them. Itchy’s grandson had a serious drug problem and would often roam around in his and my yard talking to himself when he wasn’t outside waiting for cars to pull up to deliver drugs. One hot summer night they pulled the one family vehicle (a used mini van) into the yard and while some family members slept in it overnight. The next morning around 10am, I see the van’s side door slide open and see a leg hanging out. Eventually they emerge from the van around 11 am because the daytime heat is too much. I see some of the family wander into the backyard to piss and shit and one walk a nearby Casey’s convenience store. Another time I see an ambulance outside their house and see the grandma being taken to the hospital. It seems like she was in there for several days. A social worker put up an objection to grandma being taken home to the tiny house of horrors she was living in. So the family was forced to move to fund a suitable house for grandma and Itchy to live in. The rest of the fam scattered out and I’m told squatted on various couches of extended family and acquaintances.

Our recycling company requires shredded paper to be placed in paper sacks that are then taped shut before being placed in the recydling bin.

R121 nobody cares

I'm hated by all my neighbors!

People who let their crotch droppings run, stomp and scream up and down resident corridors. It's almost always Indian and Pakistani people in my experience. Kids are never in bed when everyone else's are.

R35, sorry, I should have been more clear. He's not the Father of the 4 yr old. He is the Father of the newborn. Yes, though she was 15 when she had the little girl.

Sorry again! I meant R45^^

[R31] Thank you. Yes. I remember it was new to me seeing a plant grow and produce fruit. I didn't really believe fruit would grow but when it did I was excited, it seemed almost like a miracle. The fact that he wasted them in order to be cruel was soul crushing, almost too much to bare. A real life melodrama...

Speaking of crimes agents plants, lately someone murdered the big climbing plant on our building. We'll never know who did it. Unless one of the cats who hangs around downstairs is a detective. Its trunk was just snapped one day but an axe.

A lot of these stories make you sound insufferable, not the neighbors. Do better.

HOAs can be terrible little fascist governments unto themselves, but I am grateful mine has voted down allowing sheds every time the proposal comes up.

R98, that is a weird thing to go to jail for. "Adulterating honey".

"Honey, I fucked up!"

[quote] $50,000 for a stolen baby?

That happened over 25 years ago. 50k then would be worth 100k today.

I am a shitty neighbor who bitches about any trash in my yard or overabundance of 🍁. You better keep the property fence you put up in good condition or I’ll report it to the city code enforcement officer.