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Sharing a neighborhood can create a beautiful bond between residents. Ideally, when you moved in your neighbors brought over a freshly baked apple pie to help you feel welcome. Now you walk your dogs together at the same time each morning and share a pot of coffee after. When we’re lucky, our neighbors can become lifelong friends. 

On the other hand, when we’re not as fortunate, neighbors can become sworn enemies, exchanging passive aggressive glances each time they pass on the street. From fighting over parking spots to playing music at ungodly volumes, we’ve perused the Ask Reddit community to find some of the most appalling neighbor horror stories and compiled them here. Below, you can read all about the pain of these unfortunate living situations, and count your blessings if you have angelic neighbors. Then if you’re looking for more “neighbors from hell” content, check out this Bored Panda piece next.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" My neighbors in college thought it would be fun to shoot the pellet gun in their backyard. When shooting at cans wasn't satisfying they went ahead and shot my cat. I was gone at the time and when I got back home, my cat had ran back in through the window to hide, blood all over the floors. Took him to the vet who removed the pellet and he died two days later from peritonitis. One of the saddest moments of my life.



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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please say that you got them at least fined for animal abuse. Not that you can put a price on your baby boy, but people gotta learn.

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Living in close proximity to others provides neighbors with a great deal of power to make our lives more pleasant or more challenging. But when it comes to Americans, many of them are not huge fans of their neighbors. SWNS Digital reports that 36% of Americans have had issues with neighbors “that escalate into full-blown arguments” and 25% say they have a “long-running feud” with someone living close by. Due to this tension, over 40% of Americans trying to avoid their difficult neighbors intentionally.

But why is it so hard to “love thy neighbor”? Apparently, the top catalysts for issues in a neighborhood are disagreements involving: noise, parking, trash/messes, animal noise, yelling or screaming, privacy issues, animal waste, property lines and family conflicts.  

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I was the neighbor from hell once. I realize how much I sucked now, but at the time I was apparently just a douche. I lived below a couple with two young children (one couldn't even walk yet). I was in a band, and since I worked the 2-10 shift at my job, we recorded our album, in my apartment, after 10:30pm every night. I can't imagine they liked me at all, but they never really complained and were nice enough when I would see them in the halls and stuff. Still, now that I have my own kid, I realize I sucked BIG TIME.

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In extreme cases, neighbor disputes can even escalate to someone taking legal action. FindLaw breaks down some of the common reasons neighbors seek help settling disputes and what their options are in various situations. First they note that issues typically arise when there are stark differences in homeowners’ backgrounds, including cultural, lifestyle or socioeconomic differences. 

Sometimes neighbors want to deem someone a “nuisance”, but everyone defines that word slightly differently, and for the sake of a lawsuit, a homeowner has to be able to prove their neighbor is “interfering with the enjoyment of [their] property”.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" I guess not "from hell," but still. The neighbors f*****g kids man. It starts every spring. They only have one speech volume, which is scream. It sounds like children are being murdered on a daily basis. They jump all over my porch swing even though I have repeatedly asked the parents to tell them not to. They run up and down the stairs of my porch constantly. I am just waiting for one to get seriously hurt and then it's my fault. I have a narrow driveway and last summer the one got his bike wedged between my house and my cars' passenger door, scratched the s**t out of it. Basically they just run wild and the parents either don't care, or are too drunk to notice at times. I don't know when I turned into a crotchety old man at 30 but damn those kids.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Cop here. I went to a disturbance call where two neighbors were blowing leaves at each other with leaf blowers. They were actually mad while doing this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't decide if I want to joke about 2 neighbors blowing each other or about who is going to give up and LEAVE first 🤔

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FindLaw explains that nuisance claims are broken down into two categories: private and public. A private nuisance is one that only affects a small number of people in a close vicinity. An example would be a dog barking loudly and incessantly. A public nuisance would affect a much large number of people. For example, “ a nearby hog farm that fails to properly treat its waste, thus permeating the entire community with extremely unpleasant odors”. FindLaw also notes that nuisances tend to involve non-tangible factors, like sounds and odors. Where nuisance claims become tricky is proving in court that the disturbance is continuous and substantial. When possible, it’s best to avoid the hassle and sort these issues out one-on-one.

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Used to have a neighbour that put their extra bags of garbage out next to mine. This might not seem like such a big deal, but it was nearly every week, and our municipality had a 2 bag limit - if you had extra bags, you had to put a sticker on them (purchasable for a mere twenty-five cents) or they would not be picked up.

So, every week, I would go out (after putting my two cans out the night before) and find that there were extra bags of someone else's garbage left behind.

It took a long time to determine who the guilty party was, and a couple of extra bags each week added up. I would put on my rubber gloves, open the mystery bags, and sift through them, trying to find identifying information. It was very frustrating, because every week, there was nothing. I knew that the culprits had kids, because there were always dirty diapers. I knew that they were disgusting, lazy, sons-of-bitches, because every bag was full of styrofoam plates and plastic cutlery, which they apparently found more convenient than washing dishes - hence their production of surplus waste every week.

This went on for a ridiculously long time. I would sift through their bags, be disappointed, rebag their garbage, and then grudgingly store it in my garage, with the only other option being to pay for surplus stickers to take it away. Happily, we didn't have a car, so there was lots of space in the garage.

Then - one fine August day, it happened! A bill! A bill was in the garbage! A bill with an address on it, writ large. Finally, I knew the household which was responsible for all the extra garbage. The cheapskates that could not find it in their budgets to affix the mere twenty-five-cent stickers for their surplus waste, and instead sneakily put it out in their neighbours' yards. They were three doors down, and across the alley.

I waited for their van to be gone, and then went over to their gate, opened it, and placed all their garbage carefully back in their driveway. Since fair is fair, and I was already obliged to handle their garbage and rebag it, it I emptied it all out and took my bags back, leaving their six months' extra garbage in a heap in their driveway.

I don't think they ever worked out who had had their revenge on them, since it was pretty clear that they were leaving extra bags for everyone who shared an alley with them - but that was the end of their illegal dumping. It does give me some satisfaction to know that, even if I had to handle and re-bag their garbage when it was fresh, they had to re-bag it after it had been fermenting for months in my non-climate-controlled garage. Pricks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you keep someone else's garbage in your garage for 6 months? That had to be gross and stink to high Heaven.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Many stories but I will leave this bit of speech my genius neighbor spouted last weekend.

Screaming this from her front porch to her adult son who just jumped in his jeep...

"Put your seatbelt on, you been drinkin'!"

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Another reason residents might seek legal help is when a neighbor is liable for water damage. Water damage can require costly and time-consuming repairs, but FindLaw notes that it’s “important to know exactly what your neighbor's responsibilities are before pursuing a claim”. If water damage is due to a natural occurrence, such as rain runoff, it’s not their fault. Homeowners have a responsibility to protect their own property if it rests on lower ground. However, when water damage comes from landscaping, plumbing issues or other preventable causes, neighbors can be held liable. 

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" I have actually been a terrible neighbor, it's something I actually still feel a little bad about (sort of). Basically where we lived we would get a lot of snails when it rained, I mean buckets full of them, it was a ritual of my mothers to go out and collect them all and 'dispose' of them 'humanely' with a brick.

Being a 6 year old I absolutely loved snails and would feel really bad for the little guys and would go out and grab as many as I could in order to 'save' them, of course it made sense for me to simply throw them over the fence into my neighbor's yard where they could go live happily. It was only much later that I overheard a conversation between my neighbor and my mother in which she was saying all her roses had been almost destroyed by snails, the even worse part was apparently they belonged to her husband (the roses) who had passed away so they held a lot of sentimental value.

After that the snails got 'released' to the house behind us who my mum didn't like so no one was none the wiser.

Sorry lady neighbor I hope your roses grew back okay.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You were young and just wanted to save snails I wouldn't be too hard on yourself

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A older lady lives several doors from me that is the terror of the complex and self-appointed "neighborhood watch".

She's called the cops on our mutual neighbor numerous times, for everything from excessive noise (No. I share a wall with them.) to suspected drug dealing, since they had they gall to sit in their car with a friend *in front of their own damn apartment*. She's called animal control on their cat, who sits in his front yard wearing his collar and tags staring down my cat. (She's complained to the landlord about mine as well. I chipped her, because of this nut.) Apparently, her dog won't stop barking at our cats. (Um, yeah?)

She "patrols" our sidewalk (It's a row of townhouses) with her poodle, and I've caught her peering in and trying to open my car.

I'm a nurse, so guess whose door gets banged on if she has an "emergency"? This is frequent. My answer is ALWAYS to suggest she see a doctor, and she's not likely ever getting a different one since I don't want to get sued. In the last few months, she's been sure she's having a stroke, been sure she's having a heart attack, had palpitations, felt lighthearted, "spranged" her wrist, and needed me to check her blood pressure twice.

And I have it pretty good considering the utter hell she brings towards our poor Muslim neighbors. She probably got them all put on terrorist watch lists. "You know, something about that husband just disturbs me. What about you?"

My landlord is great, my rent is reasonable, my unit is nice, quiet, and ten minutes from work, and I like my other neighbors.

She's old and annoying. She can't live forever, right?

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Looked out of my window to see my neighbour leaning over my 6ft high fence, and stretching right into my yard to saw some of the main branches off my tree... My tree had never extended over the fence and her limb-hacking killed it.
A few months later, she cut one of the wires attached to our boundary fence that was holding up a shade cloth in my back yard. I called the cops on her.
And a couple of weeks later, all the plants along our boundary fence mysteriously died, and seriously damaged some of my trees...
And I still have no idea what her problem is!

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When it comes to how friendly Americans are with their neighbors, there is a generational divide. According to the Pew Research Center, Americans who are 65 and older are the most likely age group to know who lives close by, with 34% knowing most of their neighbors, 56% knowing some of them and only 4% not knowing any of them. On the contrary, 23% of Americans between the ages of 18-29 report not knowing anyone in their neighborhood or building. Age is not the only factor at play, though. When it comes to trust, white, affluent seniors are the most likely group in all of the US to trust their neighbors.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" When i was a baby the old lady who lived above us put a hose through the window into my cot.

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When I was a kid, my next door neighbor wanted to build a patio for his numerous cars into my yard. He got mad when we told him not to.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Neighbour behind my house would scream at her kids daily to the point our kids would be afraid to play in the backyard.

By "scream," I mean things such as "You f*****g little c**t! Get the f**k out here!" (verbatim quote) to a kid that looked like he was 8 or 9.

My ex even tried to help out one day; one of her kids was up a 3-storey tall tree of hers that hung over our fence and wouldn't climb down (I wonder why?) and this banshee was screaming all sorts of bile at him to come down. My ex calmly says to the boy "Please climb down, sweetie. You might fall" to try and convince him; the woman then turns on her "What the f**k do you think you're doing? Don't you f*****g talk to my kids!"

I made the mistake of calling the cops on her once while she was abusing several people. She then came after ~~my~~ me physically.

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Trust in neighbors seems to be directly tied to level of wealth.  “67% of those with household incomes of $75,000 or more say they trust all or most of their neighbors, compared with just 37% of those earning less than $30,000 per year”. Similarly, when race is factored into the equation, white Americans have the most confidence in their neighbors again, with 62% of them trusting all or most of their neighbors. This is likely because white people are the highest earners in America and can afford to reside in the safest neighborhoods. 

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Ten chihuahuas

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Not from "hell" exactly. We used to live in a property with 2 units and we were in the back. Lived there for 4-5 years before the new front unit neighbours (a couple in their 60s-70s) moved in. A few weeks in, she complained about our front yard bit which was not a shared area and it consisted of a tree and 3-4 small bushes. She wanted us to plant something nicer in OUR private area (2m x 1m) keeping in mind we were in the back so no one from the street could see it anyways. My mum told her she didn't have the time to do that so she suggested we hire her gardener to take care of our area and mum told her we didn't have that kind of money to spend. Next thing you know she sends us her grandson (he would've been late 20s) to try and convince us to change our plants to what she wanted. She hinted we should do it because he was a professional *private detective* and he was really good at his job. Crazy plant lady.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a neighbor like this, he ended up being really nice and would come over to our yard and tend to it, he planted an orange tree, it was just sprouting tiny oranges when we sadly moved 15 years later {new people that moved in dug it up and tossed it, the a**holes}, He also became one of my high school teachers oddly and i only found out when i went to a school dance and found him there, turned out I was in the class next to his and just got out mins before him so we never ran into each other, I ended up dancing with him lol, it was funny an almost 7 ft tall 13-14-year-old boy dancing with a 60-year-old man{ just to give an idea how how funny it looked}, it has now been about 20 years since then, i hope he's still alive and ok

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When I was growing up, my father wound up adopting an orange tabby cat that the neighbor behind us had abandoned as a kitten. It took months for this cat to slowly trust my father, and another year or two before he would allow anyone else to pick him up or pet him, but once he opened up, he was the single most affectionate cat I'd ever known. You could pick him up in your arms and he would wrap his tail around your arm like a monkey while hugging your neck.

We had Bill for three or four years, and he lived in our shed out back, spending most of his time in our backyard. Occasionally he'd wander across the street, especially when the other neighbors would give him treats.

One day my father got a knock on the door. The guy standing there was a neighbor from 3 doors down whom we'd never met. The guy had Bill in a trap, and said he caught him outside his house, that Bill was disturbing his chihuahua inside and making the dog bark.

The ultimatum was made: either we could take our cat to the animal shelter, or the next time around he would capture Bill and take him to the pound. Bill simply couldn't stand being an indoor cat, and so my father wasn't really left with much choice. He took Bill back from the neighbor, sat inside crying, and finally drove over to the animal shelter and have him over for adoption.

About a week later we noticed activity outside the neighbor's house down the street. Come to find out, the neighbor and his noisy chihuahua had been in the process of selling their house, and moved out just a couple of days after trapping Bill.

My dad rushed back to the animal shelter to get Bill back, but they had already adopted him out. According to policy, they couldn't tell him who had adopted Bill. Somewhere I hope he's still out there with some other loving family that doesn't have an a*****e neighbor like that...

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Not everyone is a nightmare neighbor though. There are still neighborhoods full of friendly individuals who want the best for one another. To help residents become better neighbors, we checked out Debby Mayne’s article “The Best Tips for Being a Good Neighbor”. Debby, who’s a fiction author and etiquette writer, noted that “the ultimate goal is to live in peace and harmony” and, "Though that’s not always possible, you can at least do whatever it takes to prevent hostilities and long-lasting hard feelings.”

Her first tip is an obvious but important reminder: be conscious of your noise levels. “Mowing [your lawn] at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning will not endear you to your neighbors," she notes.

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Downhill neighbor behind us cut down the hedge between our house and theirs, complained we were 'peepers' trying to look into their house from our terrace above. Their dog then tore up our very old 4-foot fence between the houses and we put up a 6-foot fence topped by a 2-foot section of lattice (max allowed by law) and they could no longer see in to our place. Then they built a 3-foot raised deck so they could see over again and called code enforcement and the police because we were 'peeping' again. The police blew them off and code enforcement cited them for the illegal deck which they had to take down. :)

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Found a neighbor of mine putting his trash in my cans. Then when I confronted him he tried to fight me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Move your bins. I have neighbours who do this and have now moved them to my garden. Silly I know but to take your rubbish out to find it already full with next doors rubbish is a 'little' annoying.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" My neighbour cut the Cable with her garden sheers, I presume an argument over the bill.

She wouldn't let the cable company in to repair it. So they had to by pass her house, my house and about 6 others had no TV, Phone or Internet for 8 days.

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Next, Debby reminds readers to follow the “Golden Rule” as a neighbor. This includes respecting privacy and personal space, promptly returning items you borrow, stopping neighborhood gossip in it’s tracks, and being responsible for your pets (including their noise levels and droppings around the neighborhood). Around the holidays, it’s nice to send greeting cards or drop off small gifts on neighbors' doorsteps. And when misunderstandings do arise, try to resolve them quickly and gracefully.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" I lived in a house that had been split into two apartments. Next door was a crackhead. Normally, crackhead kept to herself and didn't bother me except to bum a cigarette or two every few days.

One day she needed a smoke, but I was down to my last pack, and payday wasn't for another three days, so I said no. She must have really needed a smoke, because it was like a rage switch had been turned on in her head.

I turned around and went back into my apartment to get away from her screaming at me, and she went back into her apartment and started pounding on the walls. At least I thought she was just pounding on the walls. Turns out that she grabbed a hammer and was smashing her way through the walls to my apartment.

I called her boyfriend who was basically a decent dude, and he rushed home and got her calmed down. The hole in the walls was basketball sized by the time she was stopped. Luckily for me they were already being evicted, so I didn't have to worry about her anymore.

**Tl;Dr** http://i.imgur.com/rjX661r.gif

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a homeless woman who I would always see in front of a liquor store ask me for a cigarette one day. I gave her a cigarette and when I came out of the store she asked me for another one, and when I said no she called me the N word and every other bad name she could.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" I work in the agricultural industry and sometimes have to help sort out disputes between neighbours.

I have always been shocked as to how two grown adults (or two families) will allow the situation to degrade to the point of violence.

One time I was contacted because of a dam usage dispute. Basically, the two warring neighbours were unsure of the boundary between their two properties and both wanted to use this one particular dam. Both had in the past fenced it off, and both had cut the other neighbours fence down.

I identified who the dam belonged to and provided advice accordingly. The neighbour who came off second best wasn't happy... He didn't say anything to me, really. But he did throw a tonne of dynamite in the dam, rendering it useless. It also exploded the animals drinking from it at the time of detonation.

Another person is suspected of taking revenge on his neighbour for some sort of personal slight. I say suspected, because it's been thoroughly investigated and no one knows the clear details. All I can say is that the neighbour disappeared without a trace and rumour has it, was cut into pieces and stuffed down an out of commission bore hole.

On other occasions, I've had to deal with neighbours who have shot at each other, lit each other's infrastructure on fire, stolen each other's property (including livestock) or even in one case, revenge f****d the neighbours daughter. Keeps life interesting.

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Never had much luck with neighbours, but by god the last one was horrible. They had two massive dogs that were completely untrained, never left the house and were outside day and night 24/7. Constantly barking their asses off setting my dog off aswell.

One time one of their dogs escaped by jumping the fence off their patio furniture. We had to call animal control because he was sitting at the end of the driveway charging at people who walked down the street, for god knows how long. The second time one of them escaped they took off and the drunk a*****e screamed at my dad for at least an hour accusing him of stealing their dog. Big surprise when one of them never escaped again after moving their patio furniture away from the fence.

F**k those guys, they left a couple months ago and my dad was so excited he took a chair and sat in front of our window watching them load their U-haul truck.

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Debby also reminds homeowners to be considerate when having social gatherings. Warn your neighbors in advance if you’ll be throwing a loud party or monopolizing parking spots for an evening. Lastly, she recommends introducing yourself to any new neighbors to start off on the right foot. “Hand-deliver a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers from your garden” or “offer to have the new neighbors’ children over while the moving van is unloading the furniture”. Everyone wants to feel welcome and at peace in their neighborhood, and an added benefit to fostering positive relationships with neighbors is knowing that you’re all looking out for one another and available for help.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" In our last apartment, we lived on the 2nd floor. A family on the 4th floor had this kid who was maybe 3 years old. Every morning between 6 and 8 they'd walk up the staircase after having been out, and most of the time the kid would start crying. Loudly. What was the solution of the parents? Leave the crying kid in the staircase on its own for 15min! Our apartment doors carried sound through them very well, so it was basically like having a screaming 3 year old in your hallway every morning.

Let's just say it got on my nerves rather quickly. So what did I do? Nothing of course, I'm a Swede lol.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My neighbours did this as well. It is actually a recognised way to deal with tantrums. The kid doesn't want to come up? You let them know that you are close by and they can come in whenever they want, but you are not carrying them or having a discussion. If the child is already 3, then it really is no more dangerous than them walking up/down the stairs as they would every day. I'm not saying it isn't annoying as hell, but it really is not child abuse or neglect @caro caro @Adam Chang

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About 10 years ago when we first moved into our current house, we gave our neighbors a set of keys to our house just in case of any emergencies, or if there was something we needed while away on vacation. We frequently went out of town, and my dad would go on short weekend business trips on which my mom and I would accompany him. Every time we came back, there were always subtle changes in the house, but too small to really question. Like missing condiments, not as much toilet paper on the roll, mats/rugs seemed straighter and cleaner than when we left, etc. About two months later, our family came home from our trip a day and a half earlier. We pull up to our house, and first of all, see a bunch of cars in our driveways, hear the pool and jacuzzi pumps running, and see all the lights on. We go inside only to find our neighbors throwing a dinner party of some sort with a giant mess in the kitchen, every plate, glass, and piece of silverware we owned scattered about the house, wine and liquor bottles lining the counter, a slew of people in our pool and jacuzzi, and worst of all, one of our boats missing from the dock and lifts, and the other one filled with people leaving our harbor... The look on the face of the neighbor's wife in the jacuzzi was priceless; a combination of utter shock and heightening fear as she saw my six foot, big brown dad turning red in the face with intensifying anger. Everyone was out in a matter of minutes, and we had the locks changed, but she was kind enough to send over a team of maids to tidy up the place the next morning. It turns out that for two months, they had been using our house on the weekends. We even found loads of their laundry in our washer & dryer. 10 years fast forward, my mom is best friends with her, and my dad just hates her sooo much.


TL;DR: Gave our neighbors a set of keys to our house, they used it to throw dinner parties and use all of our s**t while we were on vacation.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jacuzzi, boats, maids. If y'all got that money (and they do too) share! They can let you use their massage parlour in the West wing of their mansion.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" We live near a protected area for endangered animals. One of the animals that the sanctuary is meant to protect is bald eagles. Since we live next to a field, it's pretty common for an eagle to sit on our porch and disembowel its rabbit for dinner. We have a neighbor that keeps calling the cops on us because the bird is on our property and claims it is traumatizing his innocent children. He treats us like we're the ones murdering fluffy bunnies for our own amusement.

EDIT1: You are correct, bald eagles were removed from the endangered species list in 2007. However, the land was purchased to protect the eagles and other species when they were in more dire straights. You might find it interesting to know that our bald eagle is a bachelor- his mate was hit by a car (a very hefty fine was involved for the unfortunate soul) and for some reason he never re-mated.

EDIT2: The police do not respond personally, but they do contact the local chapter of animal control to have them remove the bird and several government agencies to report its behavior. It would be illegal for us to in any way entice the bird to come close, or collect feathers or something, and it is extremely unusual both in that it shows no fear of humans (at least on our property) and because it isn't sticking to its normal diet. Eagles are primarily fish and carrion eaters, and with lots of both available I suspect that they are telling people that we are baiting the eagle with fresh rabbit carcasses instead of what's actually happening, which is the bird eating an unusual amount of fresh meat and being too lazy to fly very far with it. So, while it would be pointless to repeatedly call the police, the police put our neighbors in touch with people who make us jump through bureaucratic hoops to prove we're not doing anything illegal to our national bird.

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While younger generations may not speak to their neighbors in person, they still stay informed about local events and information. The Zebra reports that online neighborhood groups might be replacing face-to-face interactions, with apps like Nextdoor on the rise. Nextdoor has over 236,000 active neighborhoods across the globe, including 90% of neighborhoods in the US, and is estimated to be worth $2.1 billion. Apparently, 27% of Americans are now in at least one form of neighborhood group, making it easier to sell furniture, chat about why there was a firetruck in the neighborhood, and hear if the new coffee shop down the street is worth checking out.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" I live in an old motor court that was converted into cottages and trailers for rent. My neighbor directly across my cottage is a paranoid schizophrenic. He screams about fascist doctors and w**re nurses at all hours of the night. Sometimes he stands in front of his house with no shirt on, arms crossed, and just stares. He makes weird antenna hats and leaves signs all over his cottage that the doctors are in cahoots with the government and are doing experiments on his brain. He only ever wears white and makes his own clothes and if you live in Davis CA you've most likely seen him walking around downtown yelling or muttering to himself. I've gotten used to him and don't think he's dangerous, but yeah, it's awkward when you have company over and have to explain to them why your neighbor is sitting outside wearing a helmet with antennas poking out of it.

landingonvenus , Usman Yousaf Report

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Probably late to this, but here goes. Wife and my first house after marriage, we got a completely insane neighbor. She had "environmental allergies" which led her to have ridiculous reactions to any chemical. So she spied on us to make sure we didn't clean or spray anything. She had a "severe reaction" and threatened to sue us when she saw me lining the exterior of our house with chemicals. The chemical I was using was salt. She chased away 3 pest experts that were hired to help get termites out of my house because I couldn't get anyone to treat the area due to her insane reactions when she saw them. Finally rushed a terminex guy on one day while she was gone, he fixed the house up, and we decided to gtfo. Sold the house for a postage stamp and a pack of chewing gum. I feel like i made a great deal. Good luck guy who wanted to argue price with me when I was already giving you a good deal. Enjoy the lawsuits and termites.

Edit to add - the biggest problem with the workers is they were being threatened with a lot of things, but the threat of a lawsuit was what scared them off. I talked to one owner who said "I know we would win that lawsuit. I also know how long it would take and how much it would cost. Son, it's not worth it to either of us."

I called the cops a couple times. Got one trespass warning when they actually stepped on my property. The rest of the time it boiled down to the cop saying to her "would you please quit being a d**k" to which she'd say "yes". And I'd say to the cop "Right. See you in a week." All of this is paraphrased for the really literal readers.

Could have fought. Could have won. Woulda cost money and time, neither of which I was willing to part with. Moving solved two problems. (The other being a more space)

heavyantigravity Report

#27

Our current neighbour asked my wife to do some chores for when she broke her leg. Not so bad, right?

Well...

The same neighbour also asked our other neighbour to do same housework when she was completely fine. The list of chores includes the standard stuff. Laundry, preparing meals, bit of general cleaning up. It also included digging out the garbage dump that was once their basement, which was rotten with mold and has to be torn down.

And I wouldn't say this neighbour asked for help either... more like demanded it... oh, and demanded to babysit her kids too. Yeah. While her and her husband got drunk and burns a hole through the cartilage of their noses. And smash out windows to their car and truck. And used a wood stove to heat their home when they couldn't pay any bills.

Oh, and the husband once tampered with my BBQ. Drained the tank and cut the hose.

Some days you can go on the deck, sit with a beer and listen to them curse and scream and make a ruckus. Some times you can even see the social worker pull up their driveway. We call those like we call punch-buggies now.

It's literally like watching a train-wreck in slow motion. It's horrible, it's awe-inspiring, it's saddening and you can't look away at all.

DrunkenTenshi Report

Conflicts between neighbors are inevitable, but being a "neighbor from hell" is certainly preventable. These stories make me feel thankful to only have to deal with excess noise above my apartment, rather than any violent or aggressive neighbors… Enjoy reading the rest of these wild stories, and upvote the tales you find the worst. Then let us know in the comments if you’ve ever had a horrible neighbor and how you managed to find peace at home!

#28

60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" My neighbour once vomited on my living room window out of spite...

thickintegument , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope the window was closed at the time! Jokes aside, if it were me, the neighbor would be cleaning that stuff up. If this happened during pandemic lockdown, I would’ve called the police, as I would think any body secretions spewed on my property would be considered a biohazard and therefore an assault. I mean, if the old laws against spitting on the sidewalk came about because the spittle could contain TB and other infectious diseases, then puking on someone else’s home should be against the law also.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Neighbors kid use to always just walk right in the front door. Before I moved into the house the original owner murdered the previous neighbor for always parking in his driveway. House is cursed to make annoying neighbors I guess.

Edit:I don't know why people keep saying American horror story. NO.

Edit:People keep asking why we didn't lock the door. My mom wasn't much of a mom and we were four young boys who had better things to do than worry about that stuff. Nowadays I'm always locking my door!

Sumapplesauce , Scott Webb Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adult neighbor used to do this back when I was a kid in the 70s. No one locked doors back then. But eventually my parents had keys made for all of us and locked the door.

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60 Times People Had "Neighbors From Hell" Lived in an apartment over a couple who would constantly fight and blast '80s German electro pop s**t during week nights when I had to get up for work at 5am.

Mr-Crasp , Afif Kusuma Report

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