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10 People Share How Their Horrible Neighbors Made Their Lives More Difficult
Article created by: Mindaugas Balčiauskas
Every time you see the keyword ‘neighbors’ in the title, you know the post is gonna be akin to an action movie.
I mean, what about that time when neighbors poured poison over a couple's tomatoes, so the couple unleashed an ant army on them? And what about this collection of the most passive aggressive neighbor notes that really deserve a Pulitzer prize in fiction? And then you have the neighbors who do no harm to anyone but make the neighborhood way more interesting, if that’s the right word to use?
So this time, we are taking a deep dive into the real-life stories from the survivors who lived with neighbors from hell. And have a hell of a story to tell…
Shared in response to someone asking “Redditors who have had 'neighbors from hell,' what happened?” on r/AskReddit, some stories are plain cruel, others pretty silly, and the rest kinda hilarious. At least we now know that blasting music at 3 in the morning is far from the worst thing that happens in the old world itself, the annoying neighbors saga.
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#1
I have SUPER religious neighbors. They hang signs for the local church camp on their property ect. They kept putting our garbage cans in our driveway. While it was stupid and annoying it became more and more aggressive, they would trespass on my property and do damage to my house. But I could never catch them in the act.
So I did the only thing a sane person would do, I put on my velvet ritual cloak and made a show of putting a salt circle around my property, chanting and carrying on.
Never bothered me again.
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#2
When my daughter was five we rented the top floor of a two family house. The owner gave the bottom floor to her sister (recovering substance abuse problems, trouble holding down a job, two kids, absentee father).
One day my daughter's tricycle went missing. Found her kids on it an hour later. Confronted her about it and she said my daughter was spoiled and my family didn't deserve to have anything her family didn't have. (My husband was on disability recovering from a life threatening injury, and I was a school teacher. So... Not exactly the Kardashians!)
When the thirty year old woman began to taunt my daughter and take her belongings, that's when we terminated our lease.
#3
We have a beautiful pit bull/boxer mix that was stolen out of our back yard by our neighbors and given to a shelter for pit bulls. We looked for our dog for WEEKS, all day and night. Just as we were about to give up, my mom checked local adoption ads and found our dog. The shelter she was given to was literally a block away from our house and they informed us of the people who brought her there, who turned out to be our neighbors. So we got our dog back and the neighbors continued to try to get our dog taken away from us by calling the police for animal abuse multiple times, even when we were playing with her in our own backyard and very obviously loved her.
#4
Every time I stepped into my backyard my neighbor would hide his chin behind his fence and give me life advice that suspiciously fit any tough situation I was in.
#5
They called the police on me because I was watching television muted with closed captioning with the windows closed and the blinds shut in my own home at 7:00 on a Friday night.
When we had moved in, my roommate brought the neighbor a plate of cookies and all of our phone numbers and names, and said to always feel free to call us any time of day and we'd do what she needed. Our neighbor said, "no, we'll call the police instead." And boy, did she ever. We actually started throwing parties because the cops were going to come anyways.
#6
Every time they threw a party a tv would get thrown out a window or balcony. Not a flat screen, a tube TV. It would just fall from the heavens and explode, sounding like a car crash. It would just rain a 150lv 36" tube tv from the sky. Happened 4 times in one semester.
#7
We lived in what seemed to be a mansion-type of house, rented out to three different families. My family lived on the bottom floor, and a family of 6 lived above us; a mother, father, and 4 daughters aging from 4 to 13. Every morning they would stomp around the house like little elephants and make as much noise as possible to wake each other up so they could prepare for school. After they were ready, more often than not they would refuse to actually go out the door to go to school, screeching as loud as they can until the parents decided to let them stay home. Since we were on the bottom floor of the place, we had free reign of the backyard whereas the other two families barely bothered to use it. They would frequently dump garbage and other random stuff off of a balcony into the yard and never bother cleaning it up, which we'd have to tend to daily since we had two dogs and an outdoor cat at the time. It was all a nightmare. When they were eventually kicked out by the landlord, she asked my Mother to clean out the rooms/floor they were living in. She told me there was over a hundred two litre soda bottles scattered throughout their place as well as mold growing in multiple rooms with foul odors everywhere. Though the oldest daughter was the same age as me and I had a huge crush on her (she was a very polite and clean girl, which is saying a lot considering what her family was like), we talked with her family about letting her move in with us while the rest of them left, I feel like it would've been better for everyone if she had stayed with us but it never happened. I really hope she doesn't live with her disgusting family anymore, I truly felt horrible for her.
#8
When I was a kid we lived next door to an awesome dude and his wife. One day, they moved out due to losing the house to the bank. Next thing we know, a skeezy trucker (I know not all truckers are bad, I was one) who would routinely fight with his wife on the front yard. They built a fence all the way around the property immediately. Fast forward a few years of antics and shenanigans by these people, we get a knock on the door. My father was arrested for destruction of private property because they said we hit their fence with stuff and broke it. Now this is where the story gets good. In court, they presented blatant pictures of a completely different fence as evidence. My father had pictures of their fence, and the judge sent the sheriff out to take his own pictures. They were found in contempt of court for cussing the judge and falsifying evidence and got arrested on the spot for threatening a judge. Dad immediately sold the house and we moved out, but he got the last laugh as he sold the house to the bailiff of the court they were in. So, now his next door neighbor is the man who arrested him. He died of an overdose shortly thereafter, and they lost the house to the bank after he was gone. Neighbors from hell. TL;DR: Neighbor falsified evidence in court, bailiff bought our house next door to him and he OD'd.
#9
Guy next door was a hoarder (junk on front and back porch, door that won't open) and never cut his grass. After a couple years of city not enforcing lawn care, neighbors on either side started cutting front lawn for him. But we couldn't mow back for him because he always had two large dogs who only understood Polish. Grass was always 6' tall in back yard and that plus trash meant the mosquitos along the fence were horrendous, rendering our otherwise pleasant shade garden unusable after any rain.
At one point he was stealing our water which drove up our water bill. We suspect he didnt have electric either. He hung out at the library all day most days. Near the end he slept in his truck in his driveway sometimes, possibly to avoid going in his hoarding-ruined house.
Eventually he died. He was very sick. His house is in probate. Now someone mows every month or so. His son came and tried to clean out the house, but after dozens of truck loads to the dump when the beer cans and fast food bags were still hip deep I think he finally admitted defeat and quit coming out to clean every weekend. It will take a professional crew to clean it I think.
Thank goodness we are renters, not owners.
#10
The woman who had my old apartment before me used to feed all the neighborhood skunks causing them to constantly hang around my dimly lit apartment building. My then boyfriend used to have to carry a flashlight to avoid startling one and getting a faceful of stink.
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