Anyone else here have bad neighbors?

[Archae]

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I had three neighbors.

First was a total slob, took 2 dumpsters to clean her place out.
Just plain a lot of junk.

Second was a falling-down drunk, never cleaned his place in 18 years.

The worst was my neighbor at the north end, he died in his kitchen, he was a garbage hoarder.

All three had to have the apartment cleaned and re-painted and re-floored.

Current neighbors are good people.

[True Dough]

1. Second guy did well

to make it 18 years in that condition.

[Archae]

3. He smoked a lot too.

Tobacco stains all over the walls.

[True Dough]

4. I know the type

The walls turn a yellow/brown and take an incredible amount of scrubbing to get anywhere close to clean again. Just awful.

[WhiteTara]

6. Use Kilz

it's the only thing I know that will cover tobacco stains.

[True Dough]

7. Seems like an apropos name for the product

since the cigarettes Kilz people left and right.

Thanks!

[csziggy]

27. Yeah, my mother in law chain smoked - until she was put on oxygen

The entire house reeked. I spent two nights there once and when I got home, my hair and clothes stank so bad I had to take a shower immediately and wash all the clothes, even those I didn't wear.

After she died - of COPD - the family painted every single room and the house still smelled. It was sold to a house flipping company and I suspect they gutted the place so whoever ended up with it wouldn't smell the smoke residue.

[True Dough]

28. It's just an insidious habit

on so many levels. My folks both smoked most of their lives. Both died of lung cancer.

No cigarettes for me!

[csziggy]

30. Yes, my MIL had lung cancer

They took out 40% of one lung. The asshole doctor told her the cancer was not caused by smoking! I wanted him to scare the hell out of her to get her to stop but he wouldn't.

She chain smoked from her late teens until she was almost eighty. She smoked when they first put her on oxygen - she'd turn off the gas and smoke a cigarette, they turn it back on. She only stopped when the effort to turn off the oxygen made her gasp for breath.

Only one of her five children smoke. he's the one that moved back into the family home and cared for her the last ten years of her life. I wish he would stop - he's the favorite of my in laws.

[Chainfire]

2. I have bad neighbors, but I can't see or hear them through the woods.

My nearest neighbor flies the Trump and Confederate battle flag, if that tells you anything.

[Harker]

5. Same here.

The dog and I don't much care to hear the occasional gunfire, but otherwise we don't think about them much.

[niyad]

8. I had truly bad neighbors once. So bad that all their neighbors had restraining

orders against them, and the police dept had a special group of officers to respond to their endless complaints. Where they had lived previously, the entire neighborhood signed a petition demanding that they leave. Last I heard, they were down by Florence supermax.

[Archae]

9. My neighbors weren't bad to me, they were just total slobs.

Had one neighbor earlier who kept parking broken-down cars in the backyard.

He moved the cars and then moved himself.

[niyad]

13. Thexe people were horrible to everyone. They were not slobs, just nasty,

hateful troublemakers.

[Archae]

18. I hope they have moved.

[Archae]

10. What would they do?

[niyad]

17. Constantly calling the Human Soociety, and the police (we got copies of all he

call logs). Threatening people. Trying to get one of the bar/restaurants closed down, claiming they did not know it was a bar when they moved in, despite it being only a hudred feet away, along with 5 other bars within two short blocks.
When we had a fire that started in the shop next to the bar, everyone immediately suspected that they had started it. They were actually cheering, thinking that the bar was on fire.

True neighbors from hell.

[lark]

11. Yeah, we have an ass living next to us.

His yard is immaculate except the part between their fence (inset 3 yards into their property) and ours. It's a jungle. We have to call the city every few years and they force him to cut down the tall weeds. Even his wife and daughter complain about what a belligerent ass he is. SMDH. We can't clear it out ourselves or he comes out and yells at us then calls the police.

The neighbor 2 doors down is great though, so I am grateful for that.

[Tomconroy]

12. We only have good neighbors. The neighbors probably

think that my wife is a good neighbor but I'm a lousy one.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Yes. Family moved into apartment above me Thanksgiving day.

Huge parents, two teen age sons, 2 cats, and a dog. It might as well have been a herd of horses or a sumo wrestling team.
I'm awakened at midnight or 2AM, or 4AM from either the dog barking or people jumping off the furniture. Kids have literally knocked items from my wall shelf, tromping up the stairs. There's arguing and door slams and the dog banging his crate into the wall when they leave him alone..
I haven't lived in an apartment in over 50 years and don't know what to do except move.

[Totally Tunsie]

23. This is almost exactly my situation right now.

I've lived in this apartment for 20 years - it's the first floor of a private home. In December a single mother with a very active disabled 10 year old daughter, plus dog, plus live-in boyfriend, moved in and life hasn't been the same since.

They come barreling through the main door fighting and screaming, pound their way up the stairs and thunder their way about their apartment...often at midnight - 2 a.m. with child and dog in tow. Then the Latina music starts blaring from the radio. They keep the most bizarre hours - always very late in and out. Add to this, they're just plain nasty. I can feel my anxiety rise as they come through the door b/c I know what's ahead.

Landlord tells me to call the police to get it on record so that he has basis for taking action. He moved these people in as a favor to a friend with a sister in need. I've already had to call twice to get late night peace.

The good news is she hasn't paid a dime in rent since moving in, and landlord just got an eviction judgment against her to be out by the end of March. Hopefully, better days (and nights) ahead.

[LakeArenal]

15. I had neighbors who fed feral cats. Every morning I had to chase them out of my bird feeder.

They would poop in the garden, dig in our garbage and yowl at night under the window.

People on DU love feral cats. I don’t get it. My county person told me privately to shoot them but of course we couldn’t. But I wanted to believe me I wanted to badly.

[samplegirl]

16. I have a trumper to the right of

me and a trumper to the left. One I don’t speak to and the other one replaced the one before them.
I told her if she wants to get along don’t bring trumps name up to me ever and I won’t Biden.
I told her the last neighbor who left I was glad to see her go!

If either are as bad as the trumper to the left or the one who moved out on the right..I’d rather have a drunk or a slob.

[Anon-C]

19. I'm like a bad neighbor.

[Ocelot II]

20. I did.

My garden is mostly native plants and shrubs, no turf grass lawn. My next door neighbor hated it because he liked the golf course image (never mind that these are small city lots, not big swaths of suburban splendor), and he never missed an opportunity to complain about how "messy" it looked. He did things like prune his shrubs and throw the branches in my yard; once he cut large branches off my trees and threw them in my yard. Finally he or someone in his household sprayed some herbicide, probably Round-Up, all along the property line and killed almost everything within about 4' of my side of the line. He had the nerve to claim that that strip of property was really his, even though his own landscaping only extended to the actual line (which hadn't changed in decades), and was verified by a survey marker. I finally got a lawyer involved and the vandalism stopped. Last summer they moved away; I can't tell you how happy I was to see a for sale sign posted in front of that house.

[EYESORE 9001]

21. If you can't decide who's the bad neighbor...

it’s YOU!

[Ferryboat]

22. Next door neighbor built a shed 20' over the property line

At my cabin. His being a general contractor the excuses never made sense. Unfortunately a few years prior he was on the front page of the local newspaper pleading no contest to fraud in scamming 100s of thousands dollars from a escrow account.

The lawyer who represented the victims is the guy I hired. Long story short, 18k for less than 600sqf.

He pulled all kind of stunts in the area before selling.

[AngryOldDem]

24. Yes.

Bad neighbor: My first apartment. Guy next door would hit the wall so hard if the “noise” got above a whisper. He even took out after the woman who lived above him, why, I don’t remember, but one night he ran up the stairs, pounded on her door and yelled so loud it was truly frightening. She was in panic when he left.

A guy later moved in upstairs who liked to throw parties at midnight on Sunday into early Monday morning. Cops were called several times. He also liked to blast Guns N Roses “Welcome to the Jungle,” which I came to deeply hate.

Good neighbor: I live in a townhome now, and when the guy next door moved out, he came over and offered his patio furniture. Never really met the man, much less talked to him, so I found that to be a very generous gesture.

[MissB]

25. I've lucked out mostly.

At our old house, the nextdoor neighbor would test his boat engines early on. Saturday morning. Other than the noise (our master bedroom windows faced his driveway), the smell was pretty bad. But they were nice people and we lived with it.

At my current place, the new nextdoor neighbors are tearing down the existing perfectly fine (and big) house and rebuilding. Their garage alone will be 1500 sq feet. They seem nice. They probably don’t like us already but that’s ok too.

[csziggy]

29. Yeah, but I do my best to ignore them

I am in a rural location so the neighbors are not very close - but they still manage to make their presence known.

The worst I first met while he was putting the roof on his in laws house. He had his radio turned so loud I could not hear my radio in my barn a good sixth of a mile away from that house. When I went over to ask him to turn down his radio, he said, "Get the fuck off "his" property." I said, "OK, I'll just let the cops know." and went back to the barn to finish my chores. Oh - his radio was turned down by the time I got back.

Next time I saw him, he came over to my place to ask permission to hunt on my property. I refused since I did not want some random asshole on my property at all. Then we discovered his tree stand on a tree halfway through my bottom 30 acres, with big spike nails driven into the tree so he could climb up into the stand. We took down the stand (gave it to our feed guy), pulled the spikes as high as we could reach, and put up a no trespassing sign with his name on it. A long time friend of ours worked for the wildlife law enforcement so we put the word around that next hunting season they'd be staking out our property. We knew it was him since he'd cleared a path from his house directly to the tree stand, including cutting through our fence.

His wife let their Rottweiler run loose all the time and the dog came on our property. It would come up to our house and chased our 18 year old cat up a tree in my yard. When I called to complain, she shrugged it off. By the time Animal Control visited her about my complaint, her Rottweiler puppy, also allowed to run loose, had been run over and killed by her husband when he backed over it. They still let the grown dog run free so I thought about shooting it but I only had a .22 which wouldn't have hurt it enough to stop it, plus I really didn't want to shoot a dog.

One day I watched my four broodmares chase the dog all over their pasture for over a half hour. The dog finally managed to get under the fence into the lower pasture and kind of heaved a sigh of relief. Then the weanlings, who'd been watching their mamas chase the dog, decided to have some fun and they chased him around for a long while. Sometime around then the dog disappeared and the owners put up "lost dog" posters all over the neighborhood. For all I know, there is a dog skeleton out in the pasture somewhere. There were some vultures hanging around that week...

Then a little yappy dog showed up in the pasture and I called around to try to locate the owners. It belonged to the wife's parents, who also lived in the neighborhood, though when I let them know their little dog was coming over on my property, they swore it never got out of their yard. The very next day, I came home from shopping and the parents were there, looking for their dog that "never got out." A few days later it was back, I called the parents, they came over. My mares were used to me feeding them near the gate, so when they saw me walk over, they thought it was feed time. They came galloping up, bucking and carrying on, at the same time the little dog was coming to the owner's calls. It looked like the horses were chasing the dog, ready to stomp it into the ground. For some reason I have never seen another of their dogs here, even though they still have at least one.

Then there are the neighbors who every year gave a birthday party with a live band. I only complained when officers who had their horses here asked me to - four years in a row. I boarded the horses for mounted units across the state for their annual memorial for fallen officers - the same weekend nearest the neighbor's birthday when he gave his party. He hasn't given a party for quite a few years now.

[smirkymonkey]

31. With neighbors, I have somehow been amazingly lucky.

Well, except for that pimp on the UES in NYC. However, I didn't even really notice much of anything going on, but my busybody, alcoholic roommate who was up almost all night noticed a lot.

She thought they were drug dealers (we shared a patio/brick terrace between our two apartments which neither of us really used) and kept calling the police on them. The cops kept coming over at her request, but there just wasn't enough evidence on the neighbors and my impression was that they thought she was kind of paranoid (she was a little nutty), but boy did she happen to be on to something!

I woke up at about 3am one night (my bedroom window faced the terrace) and there was a huge commotion and cops were all over the place w/ flashlights and guns. I was barely awake and totally confused, but it turns out it was a huge "nookie palace" (to paraphrase the great Peter Sellers) and the cops were totally busting everyone.

They came in our apartment to ask us questions and since I honestly knew nothing (other than the usual shady behavior), I was never called to testify, but my roommate was. It was one of the freakiest things that had ever happened to me in NY.

[Marthe48]

32. yes, since you ask

The people behind me don't live in the house, but come by a couple times a summer to mow. It gets overgrown, but at least it isn't trashy. The people catacorner to me inherited the house from relatives. The new owners are drug users/sellers and the police are there very often. They can't take care of their bodies, let alone property. I bet the former owners are rolling in their graves. I see their back yard, which used to have a nice lawn, but has become a pigsty of mud and trash laying around. They have 3 to 7 dogs that tear things up, including the garbage which they don't put out for collection. Health Dept and maybe the Humane Society have come to their door, too. Down the street, somebody started a truck repair and towing company. The house used to be tidy and well-kept, and now, it too is a pigsty, full of vehicles, parts of vehicles, junk. Just a damn shame. I'm going to put up some privacy fencing so I don't have to look at the mess.

[Emile]

33. My next door neighbor 30 year old son. Republican, lazy, unemployed,

lost his last job because he tested positive for meth and thinks my farm pond is his personal property to bring his lowlife buddies to swim and fish.