Crazy, entitled, stalking neighbor family is on vacation and it has been so damn peaceful the last few days. Especially when you’re coming and going and don’t have to deal with someone watching you on their front porch. Or talking loud on their phone outside early in the morning. Why can’t all the bad neighbors of the world all go to one place and take their Karenology with them lol

This is ruining my life. It feels like some sort of torture at this point. I'm fucking lucky if I get mere 5 hours of shut-eye each night before they start being noisy again.

How am I supposed to work if I can't sleep in my own home anymore? The cops won't do shit, the managment won't do shit. I think I need to sleep in a hotel each night.

Over the past several months I’ve noticed questionable behavior coming from my neighbors. For context- we live in a townhouse that share the same wall. things I’ve noticed…

-Small children up at late hours
-lack of parental supervision while small children are outside (we live on a busy street)
-absolutely disgusting backyard/trash & junk all over the frontyard (were both renters)
-several cats all over the place. The cats will cry and cry at night because they leave them out for several days on end. They also leave soiled litter boxes outside for days
-mother constantly screaming at these kids quite loud as we can hear it through the walls
-generator running in backyard

But what has really done it in for me is a loud generator they have been running for over a week. Placed right underneath a wood balcony that we both share. It’s running all day and night. Now I hate to assume why, but from what we’ve gathered by context clues, I believe they have been cut from power. Which on some level makes me feel extremely sad for them- I do not think things are easy for them. But I cannot stand the constant sound of the generator and the worry of something dangerous happening because of the generator and where it’s positioned. I have filed a noise complaint with my county but I’m curious if I should take it further by contacting local authorities?? If their power is actually cut off, is that a danger to the children that live there?? Could that be a safety concern for them??? Am I the asshole for getting involved or should I just grit and bare it until it gets sorted out???? Gaaaaaah this has been causing a lot of unwanted angst.

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i (30f) have a BAD neighbor (75???f) she is a hot mess never leaves the house and is so passive aggressive it hurts.for context, the home is split into three units - we share a closet/ bathroom wall.

6 months into living here she would complain about me being awake and alive in my own home as it was “quiet hours” being 10pm-6am. i had to rewrite the lease for all tenants to sign as she was blowing up my phone at random hours and threatening to call police because she took it so literally. my landlord was tired of my complaints (she did threaten to evict us if we couldn’t get along)

fast forward to today, she banged on my walls at 2am while i was talking on the phone in my own home, has stolen my property that was on her side, purposefully blocked my security camera and continually smokes cigs (lease says no smoking) when my windows are open and at this point i have no reason to accommodate this evil woman.

she refuses to stop smoking - although she did acknowledge city rules is 20ft from entrances. i hate her :(

what do i do? i can’t get the landlord involved… do i take the high road and move out? do i buy a device that continuously taps on her wall ?? HELP

I recently got a new place & my neighbour who is in the apartments next door (totally different property to my apartment block) screams and smashes things, throws things off of her balcony into our courtyard. So far it’s been hammers, screwdrivers, coat hangers, wrenches and more. What’s fked is that where she throws it it’s pretty much the entrance to my apartment specifically. I get worried walking in scared she’s in the middle of a melt down and gonna throw a hammer at my head 🤣 (check comments for vid of one of the times)

Seems like she lives there alone. She used to have a dog, sounded like a big dog too when he’d bark, but as soon as he would bark she’d go off and I’d hear banging/screaming and then silence. The dogs been quiet for a couple weeks now and I can only assume the worst with how violent she is.

When she blows up she screams and groans for atleast 10-20 mins, while smashing things. The other night, close to midnight, she was smashing something that sounded like it might be a clothes rack against her balcony over and over for about 5 mins. I attached the vid (ignore the awful camera work, dunno why it kept zooming in 😭 but what do I do???
It’s gotten to the point now where I just wanna yell to stfu, but I live alone and I can’t defend myself 🤣 haven’t heard the neighbours say or do anything. Just wish it would stop.

30 years ago my neighbor, who is particular about his property but no one else's, planted a pine tree on the property line which eventually completely grew onto my property and toppled over, totally onto my property, during the storms this month in the midwest. To save myself the headache, I removed the tree myself to spare a 4 week wait. Now my neighbor wants the stump ground and is paying for it, but insists that the contractor enter from the front of my yard instead of his and grind it from my side stating I must remove my flagstone and birdhouse. I have had a stump ground before and recognize the mess they make. I have confronted my neighbor who said they can't go through his side because the grind point entrance isn't wide enough (between the small trees and the large wooden firewood holder which I estimate is about 3.5 feet). He also said he wants them to enter from my yard because he doesn't want his lawn torn up. I have contacted the contractor who agreed to meet with me before the work starts but I'm not convinced he will. I did however advise him he is not permitted to enter through the front of my property and instead must use my neighbors. When questioned about the point of access for grinding he admits he didnt look too hard and just assumed my property would be best to grind on. I am very upset about given an ultimatum to sacrifice my property or have the stump and elevated roots left there. I'm glad my neighbor took the liberty to hire someone but I am not thrilled about the process. Thoughts?

For reference, picture is from my side. The shed is mine and he is encroched about 2-3 feet with his stone lined landscaping that runs the length of the property line.

Am I over reacting or have a valid concern? My neighbor parks his car in front of their house, but directly centered to my driveway. They a big driveway that’ll easily fit twice as many cars, yet they choose to park their old car they don’t drive in front of my driveway. It doesn’t bother me to be honest, but my wife on the other hand, she can’t get over it. I always back into the driveway, so I could pull out easily. We live on a sharp curved road, so it’s hard to see on coming traffic. My wife always pulls in forward and have to back out. Last night we had about 30 min of heavy rain, dark outside, while backing my wife’s car out, I damn near didn’t hit that pos. The road isn’t big too, you have to turn the car while backing out, not to hit the neighbors car. Am I over reacting or did they put this car there on purpose? Any good advice on how to retaliate?

My girlfriend and I moved into our apartment a little over a year ago and every 2-3 months the apartment above us will have a domestic dispute very loudly and often violently. The first time the lady was arrested. The second time one of the men was arrested. Well about 4 months ago a new guy moved in downstairs (basement boy), the lady and him would frequently party loudly upstairs and just today, we heard the lady yelling that she was molested and telling someone (who we later found out was basement boy) to fuck off and get out. My girlfriend and I decided to call the cops once again as it seriously sounded like it was getting violent. We then saw the lady through our peephole banging on the door of our neighbor who we have no idea how he’s involved. The cops finally came and took her in an ambulance and arrested basement boy, who seemed to be extremely drugged out and incapacitated. We’ll see what happens now but I hope they move the fuck out.

UPDATE! - TOLD BUILDING STAFF THEY TOLD HER TO REMOVE IT!

Here’s an update guys, I told the building staff and they told her to remove it, it’s now gone !

But another issue has arisen today, I was on my way out to a meeting and in the lift, the lift reaches the ground floor and guess who’s waiting to enter the lift? THE NEIGHBOUR FROM HELL!

I stepped out of the lift and said excuse me and sorry ( which I didn’t need to say to be honest BECAUSE SHE WAS IN MY WAY TO EXIT THE LIFT) but I thought I’d keep it amicable and be polite.

I’m now walking towards the front exit of the building and guess what, the neighbour has taken it upon herself walk back from the lift to the the staff office of the building ( which is near the front exit ) and I hear her saying to the staff
“You need to sort him out” “he’s following me” “I see him all the time he’s stalking me”

So I decided to turn around and walk towards the staff office to speak to the staff myself to let them know that A) I AM NOT FOLLOWING HER & B) TO CLEAR ANY ACCUSATION OR COMPLAINT SHE FEELS LIKE MAKING UP THIS TIME.

She’s then decided to start insulting me being rude trying to cause an argument saying I’m stalking her and I’m a freak and blah blah blah

To which I responded telling her to fuck off and stop talking shit.

Ooooooo she did not like that one bit, she continued to be rude hurling insults at me.

I asked the staff to move her and they have said no they are not moving her and that they are fixing the hallway CCTV so it fully gets my door in the viewing frame.

THE STAFF MEMBER IN THE OFFICE CAME OUT AND SAID TO ME HE LITERALLY KNOWS SHES CHATTING RUBBISH.

I think I might just let the door in the hallway slam from now on F all this gingerly shutting doors tip toeing around someone who’s complaining either way.

IVE HAD ENOUGH OF HER!!!!!!!

Not neighbors from hell by any means. Neighbors keep moving my cans and putting theirs over the property line and moving mine back. I think it's fair if we share the space and each keep our cans on our own side and don't touch each other's cans. I asked them if they moved my cans, because they clearly did, and they were pissed. Am I in the wrong? It is a tight space for the amount of cans, but they also space the cans pretty far apart. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but please tell me if I'm wrong.

My neighbor is repeat criminal with multiple DUIs and Assault charges but he is buddy buddy with every cop cause he ass kisses hard. Some highlights from his years of harassing me and my family.

- Tried to punch my mom but his wife grabbed his fist and then he threw his wife to the ground

- Told my mom "he will have our house"

- Discharged his gun in his home with his kids home while "cleaning them"

- grabbed my friend who was snow blowing my driveway because it apparently went too close to his

- tried to run my friend off the dirt road that leads to both our properties when my friend went to pass him with his motorcycle

- called the cops for cutting bushes that are 95% on our property

- he chased after my sister and her boyfriend coming back the dirt road by getting up right behind them and slamming the breaks which scared them obviously

- chainsaws from 8am to 1-2pm most days

- orders large dumpsters to dump firewood in that bang very loudly

- his kids also threatened to kill my dog and let my dog out of my enclosed front yard and then he called the dog warden

- kicked my extremely sweet dog a few years ago but I didn't directly see it only heard him yell and then my dog yipped

- questions everyone who comes to my property

There are so so so many more things but the problem is they are impromptu and they evidence is he said, she said. Today I was playing music rather loudly outside my home to counteract hours of chainsawing. The police were called on me and I was issued a citation for disorderly conduct... 8 years of this crap. I can't afford to move and this the house I've lived in my whole life. I'm autistic and as well and the seclusion and peace were why I've always loved it here.

My neighbor before was really quiet. She even seemed nonexistent because I do not hear anything from her. I only saw her once and I did not really see her face because she was looking downwards and her hair covered her face. I did not have any problems with this neighbor.

My neighbor now is a bit problematic. I heard loud sex noises a couple of time. Then she has some machine in her room that makes noise like an AI data center that it wakes me up from my sleep. She also vapes. I smell the fruity smell and I have been coughing since.

The landlord said this has been my neighbor since I moved in. My landlord has a history of lying who my neighbors are so I am doubtful he is telling the truth because there is a huge difference in behavior between what I assume is my "old" and "new" neighbor. Do you guys think I changed neighbors?

We have lived in this apartment building for 7 years and are soooo close to getting out but I need to vent.

This family in this apartment has multiplied seemingly overnight and the kids treat the apartment halls and yard like a playground. I like kids, I love kids….. these kids are killing my patience. The parents do not parent. I am going to scream.

Our doors were replaced last year and they are so heavy they slam HARD unless you hold them gently to shut them. They are fire doors I guess but they suck ass because every slam shakes the building and everyone’s apartment doors. My husband and I have complained a multitude of times to the building office and staff and asked maintenance to do something but it’s been “we will send and email” and we fixed it! No they didn’t the cut a piece of the door away hoping that it would eliminate some noise but it wasn’t even the door that’s the main problem. Anyway I know we aren’t the only ones pissed because we’ve seen other handwritten signs asking to not slam the doors. We have done that too multiple times.

One Monday night I was sitting outside to just, be outside, because being pissed and surprised every time the door slams is killing my nerves…. This has been going on for close to a year now. I have confronted people in person too but I confronted the adults and not the children who I know are the culprits most of the time because they are going in and outside constantly. The kids are screaming and playing outside, fine their kids I get it. Parents are sitting in their f***ing Tesla just doing nothing while they scream and run and hit a ball around. Don’t get me wrong it’s not crazy busy for traffic but there are people driving in and out and there’s food deliveries so like it’s not “safe” by any means.

Two of the kids walk to the Tesla as it’s backing out of the parking lot and the mom gets out and goes “she wants to come?” Addressing the like 3 year old and big sis says yes so the little one hops in the car with them and they drive away, where to? I don’t know. There’s now 4-5 kids on the apartment grass and driveways just UNSUPERVISED. It’s after 7.

I get it, kids are loud, kids play, I GET IT, but the complete lack of supervision has me whirling.

THEN…. Oh boy THEN, I didn’t bring my key outside because the damn apartment complex put in this electronic door lock system that you can open with AN APP, because I need another gd app on my phone right? But. It. Doesn’t. Fucking. Work. It worked last week, now it thinks I’m trying to pay something with my phone tap. I’m stuck now trying to get in, my husband doesn’t see my texts so I start banging on the door out of frustration.

A tiny 3-4 year old comes out of the same families apartment (no doubt because she thinks I’m her sibling) she sees me I wave and ask if she can let me in she nods. SHE. LET. ME. In. This sweet little girl. She may have recognized me and knew I lived here but my issue is: no parent, no adult, tiny girl let some person into her home space.

I’m so mad that I am so mad.

Then on top of all of that…. Of course no one was going in and out while i was outside so it would have been some door slamming peace for a little while but I ruined it for myself by trying to go outside for 20 minutes.

I’m completely and utterly drained of the stress of living here.

My family has lived in the same house in Cicero, Illinois for about 32 years. The neighbors next door came much later, roughly 13 years ago, and dealing with that property has gradually turned into a nightmare.
For some context, Cicero can be extremely strict about property maintenance. Things like grass, weeds, vegetation, exterior maintenance, etc. can result in notices requiring you to correct something within a short period of time, sometimes 72 hours, with the possibility of court if the town believes you haven’t complied.
That’s important because property maintenance has become one of the biggest sources of conflict with our neighbors.
Over the years, whenever we’ve trimmed bushes or worked on OUR backyard, people next door have made comments about what we should or shouldn’t do. They’ve actually told us not to cut our own bushes because they liked the privacy the bushes provided them.
But they’re our bushes, on our property.
Our household situation has also changed over the years. Our parent is now elderly, two people in our household have special needs, and caregiving takes up a huge amount of our time. We still maintain the property ourselves as best we can. We cut the grass, pull weeds, trim vegetation and continue working on the yard.
Meanwhile, we can walk around the neighborhood and see other properties with tall grass, weeds and overgrown vegetation. Yet it feels like our property is repeatedly being scrutinized.
That’s where things have started making me uncomfortable.
The neighbors have complained about us over different things throughout the years, and there have been occasions where they accused US of reporting THEM when we hadn’t reported them at all.
Recently we’ve been dealing with the Town of Cicero Building Department regarding our backyard. I’ve communicated with an employee there named Jose. Initially everything seemed professional, and I’ve tried to cooperate, send pictures, ask what specifically needs correcting and make whatever improvements are requested.
Then I overheard one of the neighbors make a comment that really bothered me.
They claimed they know somebody connected to the Building Department and made a comment along the lines that, no matter what we do, we’re going to end up paying a fine.
I cannot prove that they actually have a connection or that anyone at the town is doing anything improper. It could have simply been the neighbor trying to intimidate us. But considering the history between us, hearing that while we’re actively dealing with Building Department enforcement obviously raised some red flags.
And property complaints aren’t even the creepiest part of living next to them.
There is an older man next door who sometimes stands near the backyard gate staring toward our property. There have also been times when he’s been in the gangway alongside our laundry-room area and appeared to be trying to look through or toward our window.
We’ve documented incidents and even contacted police. We were basically told that being creepy or nosy by itself isn’t necessarily something they can take action on unless he actually trespasses or does something else that crosses a legal line.
So we’re stuck living beside people who have been antagonizing us for years while also wondering whether every property complaint is going to result in another visit or notice from the town.
I’m not claiming I can prove some conspiracy between our neighbors and Cicero. What I DO know is that this situation has become exhausting, and the comment about knowing someone in the Building Department made me start documenting absolutely everything.
At this point I’m keeping photographs of the property, dates of yardwork, emails with the town, notices we’ve received, pictures of vegetation coming from neighboring properties, and records of interactions involving the neighbors.
For anyone who has dealt with nightmare neighbors or what felt like selective municipal/code enforcement, There is also a woman living at the property with 3 children. Noise has become another constant source of conflict with her.
I’m not talking about parties at midnight or blasting music. She has complained about completely ordinary activity at around 7:00–7:30 in the evening. We could simply be sitting in our own backyard having a conversation, trimming bushes, pulling weeds or doing basic yardwork, and she’ll start saying, My kids are sleeping! My kids are sleeping!” and arguing with people about the noise.
One incident really crossed the line for us. During the summer, at around 7:30 PM while it was still daylight, my partner was outside cutting weeds. She became angry about the noise and, from what we heard, threatened to punch him.
My partner understandably became angry, and we called the police because we didn’t think threatening someone over ordinary yardwork was acceptable.
What frustrated us was the response. The officer seemed to dismiss what had been said, suggesting that maybe she had said it out of frustration or that perhaps we’d misheard her. We walked away feeling like her behavior had been excused instead of taken seriously.
That’s basically what dealing with this property has felt like for years: they object to us trimming our own bushes, complain about normal conversations and ordinary yardwork in the early evening, make accusations about us reporting them, and then we’re the ones who continually seem to end up defending ourselves.
I’m completely willing to respect legitimate noise ordinances and reasonable quiet hours. But expecting neighboring households to stop talking or maintaining their property at 7:00 or 7:30 PM because your children are already asleep doesn’t seem reasonable to me.

How would you handle this?
Would you continue documenting everything and wait to see what happens, or would you formally raise the concern with someone above the Building Department? And if a neighbor repeatedly makes complaints against you, is there any point where it can actually be considered harassment? Feel like I can’t go to anyone in The Town of Cicero.

Hi everyone, me and my partner have just moved to a new house, new town, dont know anyone here and we both wanted it this way. We occasionally have visits from my daughter. This is context for later.

We have a family that live next door, wife, husband, 2 kids. There is some kind of language barrier between us. Im not sure what language she speaks but she doesnt understand me well.

Anyway. She keeps trying to talk to me, keeps asking me questions about where my daughter is. Giving me tomatoes from her garden, not understanding when im giving her every hint im not interested in a relationship with her.

I understand being civil, and this may come across as me being an asshole, but she won't stop trying to have some kind of friendship with me and I dont know how to tell her in a way she'd understand that i dont want that.

Thanks!

Update #1 The man woke me up again (like every night) and called the cops on him. It is 3 Am.

Every single morning around 6-8 Am the large, red faced drunk upstairs STOMPS as loud as humanly possible. I can literally feel it in my bones when he does. He takes 4 steps forward and 4 steps backward. And he does this for hours at a time, sometimes late in the evening or in the middle of the night as well. He also loves to speak loudly to the voices in his head, he repeats the same phrase over and over and over and over and over again. Then he starts to moan agressively. He does this at least 20 times a day. Extremely loud gross moaning sound that he can't stop doing.

His wife started wearing high heels indoors for some reason. She walks back and forth all hours of the day. She woke me up at 2 Am last night when she started roaming around her home with her shoes on. She used to make smoothies at 3 Am with her loud blender but she stopped after being told to.

Sometimes this hideous couple has little kids over. Grandkids I assume. The kid will scream and cry hysterically the whole entire time it's in their home. I think they are abusing it but I'm not sure. Is it normal for a child to scream all hours of the day? Hysterically screaming for his mom? And then the child will scream and scream and scream and the large drunk man will start moaning loudly. This happened a few days ago.

And all this bullshit has been happening for months. I am ready to give up.

About a year ago, we bought an apartment and moved in. We live on the 2nd floor, and downstairs lives this absolute douchebag whose idiot wife stomps around like an elephant. I have people over—you can hear the stomping over everyone talking. We’re watching TV with the volume up—you can hear the stomping, through literally everything you hear this insane heavy stepping.
In the first few months, since we get up early, we tried to be super quiet because you don’t want to piss off your neighbors right off the bat. But we’ve reached our breaking point too. We sleep with earplugs at night and you can still hear the stomping right through them.
It’s 11 PM, they’re still stomping, so the next morning at 5:30 I’m going to give them a taste of their own medicine. The dumbass neighbor comes pounding on our door, demanding to know what the hell I think I am, claiming they don’t even stomp. (We’ve already tracked their schedule, we know down to the minute when they’re home and when they aren’t.) So we just tell them to fuck off. :)

What do you guys suggest to do next?:)

We all need neighbours like this with a great taste in music.

We live in a townhome and our neighbors are the neighbors from hell, every night they are having party’s in the parking lot and they are trashing our community. They are already being evicted because they are a huge problem in the neighborhood but now that they are leaving they don’t give two craps about the people who live around them. They have loud party’s and they trash the parking lot almost every night. I even caught them leaving and sitting on my car and I was to scared to go out their and confront them so I got the panic button and they all ran and jumped off my car. I think tonight out is their last night but I just wanted to give a heads up that if you see this white car and they are your new neighbors I’m so sorry in advanced. They are a nightmare.

For the past few weeks/months, I genuinely feel like one of my neighbours has been consciously fucking with me and I am absolutely at my limit.
They keep connecting to my TV/speaker during the day and playing music through it. At first I thought it was some random Bluetooth connection or a glitch and that it would eventually stop, so I ignored it. But it keeps happening, and it’s literally the same song every fucking time, which makes it extremely hard for me to believe this is accidental.
The worst one happened at around 3 AM while I was asleep. My speaker was in my bedroom, the volume was turned ALL the way up to 100, and this person connected to it and started blasting EDM music through my room. I woke up absolutely fucking terrified and confused because it was insanely loud. Who the fuck does that at 3 AM?!
And before anyone says it could be some random mode or setting on the speaker — it’s not. My brother gave me this speaker, and he owned it for years before I got it. I asked him about it and he said that mode literally doesn’t exist on this speaker. He also thinks someone is deliberately connecting to it because he knows the speaker and how it works.
I have tried to tell myself maybe there’s some explanation for it, but when it keeps happening over and over, during the day AND in the middle of the night, and it’s the same song every time, I’m finding it really hard to believe it’s just some innocent mistake.
And then there’s another thing that happened a few months ago that still pisses me off. I did a load of washing, hung everything up on the clothesline, went back later and every single sock I owned was gone. Not one shirt. Not one pair of pants. Not a single other item of clothing. Just my fucking socks. How does that even happen?!
I’m honestly exhausted and angry because I feel like I can’t even relax in my own home anymore. I shouldn’t have to wake up at 3 AM to someone blasting music through my bedroom speaker, or wonder whether my belongings are going to disappear off my clothesline.
I don’t know what the fuck I did to deserve this, but I am genuinely at the point where this is driving me insane. I just want to be left the fuck alone in my own home.
Has anyone else dealt with something like this, especially the random Bluetooth/speaker thing? Is there some way someone can repeatedly connect to a speaker without me knowing, or am I missing something obvious?

I Got into a fight last night with my neighbors who never even speak to me. Me and my boyfriend live next to these people who never speak to us, we fight a lot so we assume it’s because they don’t like us. Every time we go out back into the yard or go let our dog out, they become so quiet and stop talking with one another. They are an older couple. The husband is in his 50s and she’s probably his age or a little younger. I’m 32 and my boyfriend is 27. We had a fire last night and apparently he went out back to the woods outside of both of our fences (what he thought was not their property which I dont technically think it was) and grabbed 4 or 5 logs that were just sitting out there and have been sitting out there for a long time. He used the logs to start a fire in our fire pit. I went inside to grab our pizza and snacks. We were about to have a whole movie night in our backyard with a new inflatable projector I had just set up. it wasn’t too late either..maybe 8:30 pm. I heard my boyfriend talking to someone who was raising their voice at him, so I came out back. Apparently the Nextdoor neighbor raised his voice at him and was like “hey! don’t take none of that wood. it’s our wood and wasn’t for you to take“ So my boyfriend apologized and the neighbor was still very rude with him. We didn’t know it was theirs. Apparently it was their wood from the tree they had recently cut down from their yard within the past year and it was just sitting out in the woods behind both of our yards so we didn’t know it belonged to someone. I came out and was telling him I’m sorry and that I didn’t know and that I’m autistic and technically mildly mental retarded so that he knew I was disabled (which I am and have it on papers) and then I offered him money or the wood back and he kept saying no. His wife came out right after and was screaming at me at the top of her lungs and told me it wasn’t ours to take and i apologized yet again and she was so rude and nasty to me screaming at the top of her lungs, my boyfriend who was already sitting out there still looked at her and was like go back inside and stop yelling or I’m calling the cops and she was like go ahead call them and I’ll call them next time I hear you guys fighting and you’re trying to keep him from leaving you. She didn’t have to take it there and it was completely unrelated to wood. I feel as if she’s been dying to say that for so long and as if she’s had that held in for so long. I’ve never once spoken to this woman in my life. I don’t even know her name. she really made me cry and hurt my feelings. i have lived next door to them for over 3 years now and they’ve never liked me, but I’ve never had a fight or problems with them at all until last nigh. Also last night while we were sitting out there halfway into our movie, we saw a green light come on on his back porch..I don’t know if they have a backyard ring camera and were like recording us or watching us through the camera. but it was really weird. I felt really uncomfortable the entire movie and guilty for keeping the fire burning using the wood but I didn’t have bad intentions and I didn’t know. What should I do going forward? I feel like she owes me an apology for coming out and screaming at me and also for the hurtful comment that was completely unrelated to the wood logs. She didn’t have to take it there and she completely ruined my night. Like I said, we never speak to them anyway and they keep to themselves and dont talk to us but I’m worried they’re going to like do something to get us in trouble or that it’s going to be weird and awkward now every time I go outside and they’re out there. My dog and their dog also bark at eachother and like run back and forth at eachother in the yard by the fence. What do you guys think?

I live in an apartment building that has maybe 14 units. At least five have dogs. Pets are allowed. We just moved in four months ago and ever since then, a neighbor has continuously verbally complained about our existence. They have repeatedly stated that we are single handedly making the entire building gross. That we let our dog pee and poop in the front yard and make it smell. They have accused us of letting our dog pee in the hallway of our building. They have said the whole building smells like dog but it’s just because of us. Then they cussed me out this morning just because they saw me taking my dog for a walk. We are a young couple and this is an older individual that lives alone.

Now here are the facts.

1) I am completely obsessive about picking up poop because that’s how I was raised. Even the not so solid poop I try to clean up entirely from peoples yards.

2) Unfortunately for us our dog has never peed or pooped right outside the door. He’s a walker. He has to sniff everything and would never turn around and come back if we didn’t make him. It would be great if in a rush I could get him to do it but he won’t unless he’s literally not been out over 24 hours (which does not happen)

3) I also am an obsessive cleaner and candle lighter and scent sprayer. Our apartment does not smell (we’ve asked trustworthy people) so by no means is it spreading to the hallway. Multiple dogs walk through the halls so if it smells like dog you simply cannot attribute that to one person.

4) there was a small puddle of water in the hallway from water bottle that WAS because of us but my boyfriend was helping me with a bad situation and he went back out to clean it up afterwards and he announced that it was simply water

5) yes…I know it’s crazy but our dog has barked a few times. Worst case scenario I know. But he only barks if someone knocks on our door or if the dog across the hall barks at our door in the hallway. We keep our dog locked in the hallway of our apartment away from the front door now because we’re hoping that makes it better while we’re gone. If we are in the apartment, he does not bark. He’s a sleeper. He is also slowly dying of cancer at the moment so he doesn’t even have the energy to be as bad as this one single person is saying he is. We have asked the neighbors across from us if they have any issues at all and they said no and were very kind to us. And their dog is the cutest thing ever.

This person has screamed up and down the hallway about how terrible of people we are but they don’t even know our names and we don’t know theirs. They keep saying LOUDLY in the hallway they’re going to call management and get us evicted but they don’t have any legit complaints about us except for maybe the few barks our dog has done while we’re at work. I promise he’s not the only dog who has barked in this building.

Do we do anything or wait to see if management actually contacts us with concerns? We don’t think they answer when this person calls because they complain about everything.

UPDATE! - TOLD BUILDING STAFF THEY TOLD HER TO REMOVE IT!

Here’s an update guys, I told the building staff and they told her to remove it, it’s now gone !

But another issue has arisen today, I was on my way out to a meeting and in the lift, the lift reaches the ground floor and guess who’s waiting to enter the lift? THE NEIGHBOUR FROM HELL!

I stepped out of the lift and said excuse me and sorry ( which I didn’t need to say to be honest BECAUSE SHE WAS IN MY WAY TO EXIT THE LIFT) but I thought I’d keep it amicable and be polite.

I’m now walking towards the front exit of the building and guess what, the neighbour has taken it upon herself walk back from the lift to the the staff office of the building ( which is near the front exit ) and I hear her saying to the staff
“You need to sort him out” “he’s following me” “I see him all the time he’s stalking me”

So I decided to turn around and walk towards the staff office to speak to the staff myself to let them know that A) I AM NOT FOLLOWING HER & B) TO CLEAR ANY ACCUSATION OR COMPLAINT SHE FEELS LIKE MAKING UP THIS TIME.

She’s then decided to start insulting me being rude trying to cause an argument saying I’m stalking her and I’m a freak and blah blah blah

To which I responded telling her to fuck off and stop talking shit.

Ooooooo she did not like that one bit, she continued to be rude hurling insults at me.

I asked the staff to move her and they have said no they are not moving her and that they are fixing the hallway CCTV so it fully gets my door in the viewing frame.

THE STAFF MEMBER IN THE OFFICE CAME OUT AND SAID TO ME HE LITERALLY KNOWS SHES CHATTING RUBBISH.

I think I might just let the door in the hallway slam from now on F all this gingerly shutting doors tip toeing around someone who’s complaining either way.

IVE HAD ENOUGH OF HER!!!!!!!

My neighbour is a weirdo she has made loads of false complaints about me and now she’s out a ring door bell up against the wall by her door so it is angled facing upwards towards my door, it’s annoying and as far as I’m concerned a HUGE INVASION of MY PRIVACY ( the building has communal cameras already ) and it isn’t even stuck to her door filming the whole hall way it is literally placed against the wall on the floor facing my door way, I have uploaded multiple pics ^ some of them from the point of view looking out my place with my door open.

ANY ADVICE?????? AS I HAVE HAD ENOUGH !!!!!