r/neighborsfromhell

Does anyone else’s fire station still sound the alarms at noon daily ? I’m almost 30 and everyday for 30 years it’s always sounded but I never thought much of it till today . Does other places do this ? I don’t remember from my travels hearing other places do this .

Also wanted to add we used to be a smaller town but now it’s grown to the size of Louisville Kentucky (not sure if many of yall know Lville )

Hello! I'm here to complain and get some advice on how I can handle the situation. Sorry, this will be a long post. P.S. please excuse my English since it’s not my mother tongue.

For context, I (30F) live in a house that has 3 floors, and for each floor there is a different owner. So basically, the house is split into 3 apartments, and I have owned (not rented) mine on the 3rd floor for the past 12 years (important context for later).

When I first moved here, this house felt like heaven. I was getting along fantastically with my neighbours (67 M, 81 M, and 79 F), drinking my coffee every single day with them in the yard, having lunch or dinner at least once a week, etc. It was perfect—a match made in heaven. But then, long story short, they sold thei rapartments. First (6 years ago), the one on the ground floor (but that’s a story for another time), and then (7 months ago) the ones on the second floor (and these are the new neighbours I want to talk about today).

Everything went sideways about a month after they bought the apartment, around Christmas. I had hung a Christmas decoration on the entrance door that said “Merry Christmas” with some elves on it. A couple of days later, I found it turned around backwards, so logically I thought maybe the wind had turned it since it was small and easy to blow. I turned it back around and went on with my day. The next day when I got home, the ornament was completely gone, so I asked my new neighbours if they knew anything about it. The response was: “We thought we were clear yesterday when we turned it backwards that you should take it down. You can find it in the ditch by the side of the house.”

Instead of hanging it back up, I decided to put a letter on the door. A bit petty? Yes. Necessary? Also yes. This is what I wrote in the letter:

“Dear neighbours,

We would like to inform you that we feel bothered by the situation regarding the ornament which, since yesterday, you keep taking down. Throwing the ornament in the ditch represents hostile behaviour that has no place between neighbours. We do not find normal how you have handled this situation.

In this case, your attitude shows a lack of respect and tact. The best solution would have been to have a discussion where you expressed your point of view, preferences, or suggestions. There is always a way to reach a compromise or resolution. The lack of communication, or the avoidance of it, leads to tension and unpleasantness, and between neighbours, we do not believe this is appropriate.

In the hope of avoiding such situations in the future,

With respect,

(My fiancé and I)”

The next day, I got an angry phone call from my neighbour (Karen) that, in a nutshell, went like this:

Karen: Listen, child—and yes, I can call you child because you’re the same age as my son. (Her son is 18, I’m 30)

Me: Hello ma’am, no, we’re not the same age, but go ahead.

Karen: I saw your note and I find it disrespectful that you dare to have this attitude towards me given your age. If you don’t apologise to me, I’ll need to talk to your parents and tell them what you’ve done.

Me: Ma’am, regardless of what you think, please keep in mind that I’m 30 and my parents don’t have anything to do with my property.

Karen: I’m a teacher and, as a respected member of society, I have nothing to discuss with someone who celebrates a pagan festivity (referring to Christmas). I’m a Christian, and I find it bothering to see an ornament on the door that says “Merry Christmas.” Each time I come home, your ornament wishes me a Merry Christmas. What if I don’t want my Christmas to be merry?!

Well, it was a 20-minute phone call, but you get the idea. But guess what?! The next day she called my parents to complain about me with the exact same attitude.

Karen: You should be ashamed of your child because you raised her without any respect for adults. I’m 50-something years old and a teacher, so you should have taught her to respect people older than her and of my status.

My dad: First of all, my daughter is not a child, and second, I taught my daughter to respect people based on their behaviour and values, not based on age. My daughter has a PhD and works in a very respected field, and her fiancé is a university professor. They are some of the easiest people to get along with, so if you can’t, that’s a you problem, not theirs.

After this incident, it was quiet for a couple of months, so I thought that even if we started on the wrong foot, maybe we’d be able to get along eventually. But boy, was I wrong.

Here you’ll need some more context about the house. Each of us owns our apartments, and we have common spaces that we share equally (the yard, the hallway, and 2 storage rooms). Legally, we cannot split them (for example, we cannot put fences in the yard to divide it into 3), and any changes to the common areas have to be agreed upon unanimously by all 3 owners.

The problem is that to get to one of the storage rooms, one would have to pass through my apartment (bad arhitectural planning, but what can I do). Since I bought the place, there was a verbal agreement with the neighbours that I would use this storage room (since it’s not convenient to pass through my apartment each time), and I wouldn’t use the other storage space so they could have my share there.

Well, since Karen and her husband moved in, they have constantly demanded that I leave the door to my apartment unlocked or they will demolish it because they want to use the storage room inside my apartment. I explained that leaving my door constantly unlocked is not an option since I don’t plan to get robbed anytime soon, but if they want to use that storage, they can let me know and I can open the door for them anytime.

Karen’s response was: “That won’t work for me since I decided to move my entire wardrobe there, and I will need constant access to change my clothes. I can’t call you every time I want to enter. What if I want to go in there at 3 in the morning?! You’ll have to leave your door unlocked or I’ll sue you.”

I told her this will never happen and reminded her that demolishing my door would be destruction of property and very much illegal.

Now onto the latest update. For the past two weeks, my fiancé and I have been out of the country, and my mom has been helping by feeding our turtle and watering the plants at the apartment. Everything was normal at first, but last week when she arrived, the fu\*\*ing roof of the house was missing—just the part directly above the storage room inside our apartment.

Keep in mind I was storing a lot of things there (clothes, shoes, some furniture, luggage, appliances—my working fridge, as in plugged, is there—plus shelves with groceries like a small pantry). And now the roof above this room is gone. There is no ceiling in that room, so everything was exposed to the open air.

Needless to say, all my belongings are now covered in construction debris and soaking wet since it rained (luckily the house didn’t burn down because of the plugged-in refrigerator). You can imagine my shock when my mom video-called me.

I spoke with my neighbours (specifically Karen), and she said they had the right to do this since they wanted to renovate (and extend the roof to cover their terrace) due to a supposed leak. They also claimed that since they own part of that room, they are allowed to take such action. When I mentioned my destroyed belongings, they called it “collateral damage.”

The conversation ended with Karen saying that since they bought their apartment, they planned to buy mine for their son and that eventually it would all be theirs because I would be forced to sell. They even made me an offer at one-third of the market price after I told them I would never sell.

So first of all, since it’s a common area, they needed unanimous approval to make any changes (which is why they waited for us to be away). Second, they did all this without any construction permit (in my country it can take up to 2 years to get one).

My next move will be to file a legal complaint so they will be forced, after paying a fine, to restore the roof exactly as in the original plans. However, suing them for my destroyed belongings is not really an option since such cases take years in my country.

I need some advice on how I can handle this situation. I don’t want to sell (now more than ever), but to protect my peace and mental well-being, I’m thinking to move out and rent my apartment to the noisiest tenants I can find— preferably ones who love throwing big parties every weekend in the yard.

Thank you in advance!

TLDR: my neighbor won’t leave us alone and it’s escalating.

We are 25, 24, 5, 3, 1, they are 48, 17. My neighbor hasn’t been fond of us for the past year and a half, when we have lived here for 3 1/2 years. She started calling the cops on us for nothing and recording us through her back door window, she we got security cameras so we have a way to protect ourselves if she tried to lie again. We’ve asked for no contact, she’s yelled at us when we did not engage, messaged family members, yelled profanity at family members and children who don’t use it through her camera, made gestures to our cameras, blocked our guests in the driveway, called the police for someone parked in the driveway right after blairing on her horn for 5 minutes (it was early intervention for our baby), pounded during quiet hours (it was the day before and two days before I had a baby) and is now sending her daughter to mess with our cameras and continuously taking pictures of our camers, but our cameras are in our windows. We live upstairs and our windows are only 6”off the floor so if someone is near them you can see everything. Our camera 1 points at the front of the driveway, the sidewalk, the mailbox (which is on the front of the house), camera 2 points at the side of the driveway, camera 3 points (which is on our only door) at our yard, the end of the driveway where we park, and our garage. She recently has come to think we’re obsessed with her daughter which apparently is why she’s taking pictures of our windows, but I don’t think it makes sense. In the past three weeks we’ve made three separate police reports about it, and the most recent on Saturday she circled the house and took pictures of our windows 5 times in 2 hours. Yesterday morning the daughter was walking and stopped looked at camera 1, opened an umbrella pointed at the camera but it has “fuck off” written on it, flicked it off, then closed the umbrella because it wasn’t raining. This morning she just had the same umbrella open but made sure to turn it to our cameras. When does this become enough? When can we actually do something about it??? I tried to ask about an order of protection yesterday and the lady didn’t think it would stick because she hasn’t physically threatened me.

Background details.

We have lived in our house for over 12 years. When we bought the house we were told the driveway was ours but the neighbors had right of egress to access their backyard. The houses were kit houses built by brothers in the 50's and presumably shared the driveway but when one sold the other retained sole parking rights.

Fast forward to us and our neighbors always respected the agreement we were told. There were a lot of underlying circumstances at play here but the end of the story is she died in the house and the city condemned the place. Her kid is tasked with selling it or fixing it and that is how we came to meet Geoff and his flipping property management company.

On new years day they were knocking on our door having just taken ownership 4 days before asking to use the driveway for their dumpster. We said we would think about it, but being winter we didnt want to loose our off street parking.

Geoff ripped all the bushes out of their front yard and dropped the dumpster right there. We were then constantly harassed to move our cars from the driveway and or the street to accommodate dropping off and picking up 8 different dumpsters over a few weeks time.

The house was hoarded. As in it took authorities several hours to remove her body after she died. Two Shepards and a Maltese also lived in the house but never went outside. Only one dog left alive. Geoff and this company made promotional videos standing inside the house, on the hoard, gagging and spitting up while bragging they will buy any house in any condition.

Geoff decided to get a survey to try and prove ownership of the driveway for his property. He ended up finding out due to a divorce proceeding with wording about the properties that the driveway was no ones. Both parties could egress but none could park. That was the only formal agreement in writing. Nothing about maintenance or upkeep, or why our property took on the assessment and tax for 3 off street parking spots.

There was no professional mold mitigation done and they covered up old wet and crumbling siding with new. I have pictures. I worry who ever buys this house is going to have mold and mildew problems within a year.

The house is done now, after 4 months of constant bullshit from them and the open house is this weekend. How do we mess with them legally and make it hard to sell the property? We would love nothing more than for them to have to sit on this for months and lose money on the property.

We have contemplated signage on our lawn with the picture receipts of what the house looked like. We have thought about throwing a party to make sure there is no street parking to be had. I invited my partner over to play music with his amp. Weed is legal here and we partake, do we smoke them out? Basically give me all the legal annoying things neighbors do that would make you not want to live next to us. 😆

TLDR; House next door was bought by developers and they kicked us out of our driveway of 12 years. Have been assholes for 4 months and now we want to sabotage their open house so the property won't sell.

I cut my half of the front lawn yesterday, it’s one of those setups where the grass runs across both houses in one strip and there’s just an invisible line splitting it down the middle. no fence or anything, you can tell where it changes if you look close but from the street it just looks like one continuous patch. When I first moved in, my neighbor, probably in his 50s, total new balance dad type, mentioned we could just mow both sides whenever we do ours and help each other out, but honestly I've always just preferred handling my own part and leaving it at that. I've been doing my side regularly and figured they’d get to theirs whenever

Later on my neighbor comes over and brings it up, specifically pointing out the front part that faces the street. They said it looks bad to people passing by when one half is freshly cut and the other is overgrown, like it makes the whole place look messy. Then they brought up that earlier suggestion again, saying I should’ve just cut theirs too or at least told them so we could do it together, since we’re neighbors and it’s something that affects both houses.

Now I’m not really sure how to handle it going forward. part of me feels like i should just keep doing my own side and not get pulled into it but at the same time i don’t want this to turn into some ongoing tension over something this small. I'm kind of stuck between keeping it simple like I have been or addressing it more directly so it doesn’t come up again.

My apartment neighbor just moved in a couple of days ago, and I introduced myself. Come to Monday and the incident started this morning as I was getting ready. I noticed somebody was jiggling my door knob and trying to open it at approximately 7:30 am, I did not see who was doing it at the time. At 10:00 am, my neighbor was staring into my front window with his hands pressed against the glass peering into my living room for around 15 seconds. He seemed like he was touching my window and trying to mess with it. I was able to confirm it was my neighbor as I had introduced myself the previous Saturday as he was moving in. I contact my landlord about the situation and they apparently received a complaint that he thinks i’m living in a VRBO and was concerned about it. I’m not sure how to even approach this as he was blatantly spying on me and accusing me. My landlord is on my side but i’m not sure on next steps. What would y’all recommend?

We are currently staying in a rented house while our permanent home is under renovation. Unfortunately, we are facing ongoing issues with a neighbour who is both the property owner and a member of the association.

It appears that they are coordinating with househelp staff to create unnecessary problems for us. We recently changed our househelp, but the situation has continued. There are frequent complaints and objections raised about our use of shared spaces like the gym, parking, and even waste segregation.

Instead of communicating directly with us, they repeatedly escalate matters by contacting the owner, without attempting basic communication through a door knock, security staff, or the residents’ WhatsApp group.

There is also a pattern of being closely monitored our movements, deliveries, and service visits seem to be constantly watched and questioned. It feels intrusive and uncomfortable. Additionally, family members of this neighbour, who are part of the association, appear to be misusing their position to escalate and complicate minor issues.

Overall, the environment feels hostile, and there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding or negativity being spread.

Any solutions on how to tackle this?

Across the street from my parents house there used to live a old widow who recently moved with her son and the house was rented to a younger man living by himself.

He’s been here about a month and a half and without exaggeration he’s fought with the entire neighborhood. I don’t live with my parents but I am there often and here’s a run down of the guys background from info I gathered from the cops

- he’s lived in multiple other places around town and has had the same issues where eventually he’s evicted or is forced out

- he’s very paranoid and possibly mentally ill and thinks a certain family in town which run a couple restaurants are after him or harassing him.

- he’s a control freak and will not let down until the neighborhood is run the way he likes it.

My parents are elderly and mind their own bussines really and he’s yelled at them for things like parking too close to his house, walking on the street, and a whole list of other minor stuff. He’s recently started this trend of blasting music from 10 am to 9 pm daily for whatever reason. The cops were called on him numerous times and he thinks it was my dad who did so he’s hyper focused on my dad.

The daily harassment has become even more excessive but it’s all grey area stuff legally, what is my best course of action? I’m scared for my parents safety especially considering this persons mental state

EDIT: I’ve already started the process of getting security cameras and I’m trying to convince my parents to get a firearm as well

We live right next to a park, and it’s beautiful outside. We share a wall. WHY

They are grown men by the way

We are a first time homeowners and we recently installed cameras around our house just because we are uncertain of our location and even with our current location, we have them just in case. But with our new home, the neighbor is such a friendly old man and he live with his friend. Upon putting cameras up, we noticed that there’s a movement that triggers our side camera that shows that there’s someone who always there around a specific time. Come to find out, our neighbor has been pooping very close to our fence. The lot next to our new home is empty and probably a soon to be a house that will be build next to us. So far, he has done it almost daily in the past 5 days. He also piss outside on his front yard which we can see as our camera in the driveway shows that he does it which is very uncomfortable and also very difficult for us to confront him as we do not want to be dealing with retaliation. We are friendly couple and we would love to be involved in our new neighborhood but we are afraid to say something and we don’t know what to do. What would you guys do in my situation? Asking for advice.

I have rural property about an hour from where I live. I received a text message from the belligerent neighbor that he went into my property and dumped out all my rainwater caches. What do I do?

Should the conversation go in these directions: 1) The rainwater was to water plants and in case brush-burning escapes the burn barrel. 2) There were mosquito dunks in them. 3) It’s a bad time for me to go to the property until after finals, and even then I’m very reluctant to have to spend ~$30 in fuel as a full-time student.

Neighbor has been mad since day 1 of me buying the property. The only clear spot on my legal property is at the end of his easement. He likes to walk down the easement sometimes and he’s P.O.’d that I have gardening equipment, chainsaws, and PPE stored in my property but he can see it.

new upstairs neighbors

two new tenants, both females (f1 and f2) moved in upstairs in my apartment complex 3 days ago. their first night here, f1 was screaming at the top of her lungs about something their dog did for a good 10 minutes, while f2 cried in the background or something. they only stopped when my other neighbor (2) asked them to be quiet and more considering of the other tenants.

today, f1 started yelling at her dog again when she got home, and while taking her dog out i heard her smack the dog and i heard the dog wimper.

i don't want to contact the landlord about it because aparently my landlord is friends with these new tenants, but they're disturbing the peace and frankly- no one wants to listen to someone screaming while enjoying dinner.

oh and they stole also my other neighbor's parking spot (3).

i guess im looking for advice on how to get them to chill out? idk

My dad has been having fun walking a tightrope since this "Karen" moved in next door to him. One of the first things she did was cut down the 6 foot hedge that was "on the property line" according to her, she did that when my dad was gone of course. Though my dad has been told by other neighbors the hedges belonged to his house and that he should make her pay for replacing them. After cutting them down to the ground she soaked the ground in roundup to make sure the hedges wouldn't come back. Then she got downspout extensions and has them aimed to exit to his driveway. He confronted her about that and she spat back "It isn't flooding your basement is it! Didn't think so! So I'm not moving them!" Then walked away before he could even respond. Today since he has a cold/flu I went to his house and mowed his lawn for him. The neighbors downspout extensions were in the way of mowing the strip of grass next to his driveway so I bent them out of the way. No sooner than I restarted the mower "Karen" storms over yelling at me. I had my noise cancelling headphones on so I paid no attention to her and went back to mowing. I noticed when I got done with his front yard and was headed to the backyard that she made sure to re aim the extensions further over the property line so they definitely would empty all the rain water into his driveway. I told my dad he should put some patio blocks in front of the extensions to redirect the water back to her lawn. I'm glad she's not my neighbor lol.

edited to add my dad doesn't like confrontation so he tries to avoid it.

I live in Italy in a neighborhood of Americans ( husband is in the US army, I’m Italian, we met here and all the rest is story ). We arrived here 2 months ago. After that period a lot of other couples arrived. In this street we are in 8 families ( some both Americans, some Italians with husbands Americans ).

Well nobody likes me. The wife’s in the night go out, they also came to my neighbors house to ask her to go out, not to me. They don’t say hi to me, they don’t smile to me, nothing.

Yesterday something pretty “”bad”” happened. I was away with my daughter at my grandma house and they had a BBQ party. They came to our house and said to my husband “since you’re alone and your wife is away you want to come over”..if my husband is with me they don’t even calculate him or smile or speak at him.

I got pretty mad, not gonna lie. I’ll still live my life, I’m 27, a mom, I have friends in my city I don’t need friends in my neighborhood..I just wanted to write here all that cause pissed me off unfortunately.

My husband said is up to me go over there with a big smile and present me to everyone but why I have to do that when with the others they came over to invite her over? Come on..

I just want an house inside the forest.

Hello,

I am close to tears. Every time I go outside a woman across the street comes outside with a very loud trimming machine and trims her shrubs. Alternately she turns on some kind of a loud machine in her garage. Almost every single time. She harasses me in other ways as well - making loud noise every morning screaming with loud music. I feel like I'm being watched by her all the time and she always has to come out and be around if I am outside.

I try to be nice. I wave but she won't wave back.

This has been going on for three years - since they moved here.

Should I move?

I’m honestly just really frustrated at this point. My neighbors have been super loud late at night pretty consistently, and even though I’ve called the RA multiple times, nothing has really changed. It’s been affecting my sleep a lot. What’s making this worse is that I don’t feel comfortable confronting them myself. I live alone, and as a girl it just doesn’t feel safe to go next door and say something, especially since I don’t know how they’d react. I’m also worried about becoming a target or them trying to mess with me if I say anything. I just feel stuck because I’ve tried reaching out for help, but nothing is really being done, and it’s starting to really get to me.

I live in a house turned apartments (3). My first set of neighbors is fine, but the new neighbors aren’t and idk how to address it anymore.

We all share utility bills split in equal 4 parts (3 units and the landlord. Since we all share one meter, he charges a little extra in rent and uses that money for mostly the electricity bill, and to help cover whenever any of the tenants are short on money and need some time to pay for that month’s bill or we need emergency heating oil) and a heating system that is always between 60-65° (60 during the night, typically 63 during the day, and when it’s particularly cold outside, 65°. It helps us conserve oil, especially now that it’s so expensive).

Things were always great until the new neighbors moved in two months ago. First it was the smell of weed and we ignored it for a bit but brought it up a few weeks ago once we noticed it wasn’t getting any better. We let them know that the smell goes through the system and it bothers me and the other tenants who have asthma. They said they’d stop and put filters in their vents but the contract clearly states “no smoking, vaping, etc, indoors” or any drug for that matter. The it was dog shit! They have dogs that shit on a shared yard and both partners dragged shit in because we didn’t see the shit and expected them to pick it up as their contract states. The rest of us don’t have pets right now, but I had pets in the past and I would pick up their shit every time my dogs went out to poop. If they were out in the yard for a long time, I’d make sure I checked and picked up everything I saw before sundown. If I missed any, and anyone would bring it up, I never felt angry about it, I just apologized and picked it up. These guys get mad every time we tell them we dragged shit into our apartments or car because they didn’t pick it up. They told me and the other unit that they came out twice a day to pick up shit, and they told the landlord the picked it up two to three times a week, so which is it? And the other people that live here work and study from home and said they never saw them picking up dog shit until I put up cameras about two weeks ago (I had some animal eating my veggies last year and I want to know what it is if it happens again. I have ring censoring whatever area is close to their doors because idc what they do in there so I really don’t know if they come out unless they come anywhere near my door/veggies. It’s literally a black square on the live stream and recording). Then it was the electricity bill. It was $850 for las month!!! When the other unit and I were by ourselves, it came at $324 during winter months. We don’t use lights unless necessary and have done everything we can to lower the cost of our utilities over the last few years. We found out they have an electric heater set to 75° (that’s what they told me) because they have snakes and geckos, yet dared to complain to us and the landlord saying they were hot and had to open the windows and be shirtless inside their apartment. They even asked us to lower the temperature… but we kinda ignored it bc the rest of use use hoodies and blankets whenever we are home

The landlord came to address everything. He first yelled at me and the other people about the smell of weed when he came (we hadn’t told him bc we don’t want to be snitches) and we told them it’s not us, that it must be them. He also brought up the electricity bill with us and said he’s confused because it was never this expensive even when he had different people living in that third unit.

He talked to the new guys today and relayed information back to us.

1. They said they don’t smoke inside, just in the bedroom. I went to address the smell some days ago and they told me that they were going to get HEPA filters for the return vents to help with the smell. One of them told the other to start smoking inside the bedroom with the door closed so that it wouldn’t get to our side from the kitchen/living room vents (only vents we share with that apartment).

2. They said the bill must be high because of the people that work and study from home because they both work 8-9 hours a day, 5-6 days a week but that’s not true because one of them is always home (we either hear them, or see their car here)

3. They pick up dog shit every few days but it wasn’t until I put up cameras that they started coming out almost daily and they still miss a good part of it

The landlord is thinking about how to deal with it and catch them in the act. He knows that 2 of the units are in tough financial situations and always pay him on time but don’t have much to spare. He also has known us and trusted us for a while and we’ve never had issues with him. He also doesn’t want to have liars who don’t care about the contract or agreements causing problems. So how would you deal with this if you were the tenants?

I live in a remote English village with no public transport and a 60-minute walk to the nearest shop via a busy road. My neighbor, who shares the same landlord, lives in a one bed house with no garden. The household consists of two adults and three children under age five.

​My husband and I both work from home throughout the week and weekend so barely leave the house ourselves and we have observed that the mother and children never leave the property. The father often takes the only vehicle (a four-seater Fiat 500 with no car Children's car seats fitted) leaving the mum and kids stranded for days at a time. Given the constant crying from the children and the isolation, I am concerned about their welfare and whether the landlord is even aware of the occupancy level, which seems to border on a legal overcrowding issue. Should I be concerned here? There's no obvious signs of neglect or abuse but something just doesn't seen right.

We live in the open countryside on a large plot of land. It’s lovely and very, very quiet. We’ve chosen this deliberately for peace and quiet.

We have a new neighbour. They’ve been building a large fenced paddock adjacent to our land and now we’ve just received a planning application for her to run a dog training business.

I’ve been hearing dogs, so I know she’s already started. So the whole thing is set up.

This Saturday afternoon we heard dogs barking non stop and people shouting and laughing and cheering.

I’ve a feeling that this is going to become a regular weekend event even though she says on the planning that it’s only going to be 5 or 6 classes a week. Most people are only free to do this kind of thing at weekends.

I personally hate the sound of dogs barking more than anything else and I am really upset about this.

Do I object to the planning? She could easily move the paddock to the other end of her garden away from us but it’s already built. It’s going to be a proper noise nuisance.

My absolutely insane neighbor George continues to be a walking nightmare. Here’s where we are now

1- guy bought a car boot and actually booted a neighbors car when they parked in front of his house. Cops were called, boot was seized.

2- He was caught multiple times staring into peoples windows. Why? Because he thought there was drug paraphernalia in their house. Fun fact- technically not illegal to stare in peoples windows from the road/sidewalk.

3- screamed at my kid during a snow storm because he was putting the shoveled snow too close to his property.

4- sent my wife a “citation” because she was sitting in her car listening to the radio with the windows down.

5- we didn’t notify him when we went away that someone would be staying at the house. He confronted them and called the cops.

6- Our neighbors had people over for easter and there were too many cars. Since the “woke cops” took his boot he issued tickets to them.

7- someone had enough of him and decided to throw trash all over his front yard. He put up spotlights and cameras around the property and has them facing into peoples houses. He commented on a neighbors new TV.

8- during winter he was upset because when people salted their walkways it was going to run off and kill all the grass.

9- He called the cops on a neighbor because they were having “debauchery”. They were having a party it wasn’t even loud.

And, saving the best for last…

He puts cardboard down on his driveway in case his car leaks oil. The cardboard blew into my front yard because of wind and I chucked it in the recycling bin. He was incredibly angry that I “destroyed his property”.

Can’t wait to see what spring and summer bring!