Do have neighbors that are mean and harass you or try to start trouble?

When we first moved to Calgary we locked into a 1 year lease on a duplex. The neighbor in the next duplex over was a crazy lady. She called parking everyday about my car being parked on the road in front of my house on a non restricted street. She called the landlord and told him that we where moving out and taking his things so he showed up in the middle of a bbq with friends to find out what we where up to. We had rv parking where my husband parked our smaller work truck legal yet every night she was outside with her camera taking videos of him parking and saying things like look his on my land with his truck and its not legal to park work vehicles in our neighborhood. She got my car towed by claiming it was abandoned while I was on holidays for a week. I got her back by calling by-law on her barking dog, the thing barked day and night. I also noticed one night that her tags had expired on her car so I called parking and had it towed and she got a big fine for parking a non-insured vehicle on the street. At the end of our lease we moved into our own house.

Chances are, if you are having problems with this neighbor, then so are other people. This has been my experience. We have a man on our block who has harrassed almost anyone who has kids. He has called the cops, written harrassing letters, photographed our children as they walked from the bus stop, called out to people and said demeaning things. Finally, someone got enough nerve to file for a restraining order. The cops came and finally told him that they would no longer respond to his constant complaints. He has finally quieted down and not bothered anyone since. Keep a diary of anything that happens with this person so you have documentation and check around and see if anyone else in your neighborhood has experienced the same thing. She may just be one crazy lady who thinks she hears dogs barking.

Thats crazy that they would lie about you having a dog. Have you tried confronting these yahoo's? That might make it stop, like introduce yourself, let them know you don't have a dog etc...not meanly, but just politely and sternly. Maybe ask them to come to you in the future if they think that THEY have a problem with YOU. I can't believe that most of us live with bad neighbors!

By the grace of God I have loving & caring neighbours.

yeah every one has neighbours but my neighbour is very special to me his day doenst go right unless he fights me in the morning bcz of his activities every morning he goes on the roof and then starts shuting what ? this : "i am a disco dancer " with the same song and dances with gr8 volume of speaker and then again as usal i go to his house and cut the power suplly and then he come to my house and stsrt shouting and then i kick him away and then the same story next day.

maybe you can ask other neighbors about the dynamics of that neighbor who give you a problem. you need to gather information about her because you probably dont know anything about her background.

That's just down right mean! Shame on your neighbor! I have a neighbor that I can't stand! He goes off on rampages all the time. He's always tried to intimidate my company. He'd have a fit if someone parked in front of his house, even though that's county's property. He got all mad at my friend because his old lady parked there. A couple weeks later the guy had been drinkin and started picking on my friend. He ended up letting the guy have it and messed up his face pretty good. The guy went around grumpy with sunglasses for 2 weeks. He's real quiet when I go out there now, but he'll rev up his harley in the drive way and make other annoying noises, or shoot of fireworks when my dog is out. Grrrr! I wish you the best of luck with your neighbor. Hopefully they'll lighten up.

I'm sorry for you, I think yours is an extreme case. My neighbors are not very good either. When it rained a few days back, some of the branches of a tree in front of their house broke and fell, and they collected and piled up all of them in front of ours! Another neighbor keeps peeking into our house through his window, but I guess we'll just have to maintain minimal deterrence and bear it like a good human.

Yes I do and in fact my neighbors is giving me a hard time living here. I do hate her. At first I didn't know she's being very jealous of me. But now I knew because another of my neighbor told me about it. She made stories about me and they are all bad stories and I am angry because many of my other neighbors believed it! However, I don't want this thing to make me move out. I am paying the rent and not her. If she is jealous with me, it's her problem. I think I am going to make her even more jealous! Lol... she deserves that, lol...

Unfortunately I also have the neighbours from hell. They hold loud parties, let their kids run riot all hours of the night, their property is a wreck and they seem oblivious to complaints from the rest of the street. For what it's worth, you might want to track down your neighbour and let them know that you do not have a dog and that maybe they would like to pop over for a cuppa. It could put things right

My husband and I just moved into our home about 2 months ago and at first everything was fine. But now our neighbor is yelling at my kids because a small, foam softball keeps landing in his driveway. I had to ban my kids from playing catch in both the front and back yard because he's getting so mean about it. I can understand that he doens't want anything going onto his property, but he should have came to me and my husband rather than yelling at a four and five year old.

We moved into a rental house in the middle of May, in town, after living in the country for 12 years. We met the neighbors on both sides and across the street from our new house in the first week that we were here. They all seemed really, really nice. Then one night about 3 weeks after living here, my son and I were in the backyard playing with our 2 small dogs, and they were barking. One of our neighbors walked over to the fence and told me that we seemed to be nice renters and all, but he would not put up with my dogs barking. He stated that i needed to train them to stop barking, I was stunned! I just kept saying OK, and looking around and listening to the other dogs barking on our street and beyond. I finally asked him if he was going to walk door to door and ask everyone to do the same with their dogs, then I turned around and walked back into my house. I then called the police to ask what time dogs had to stop barking in the evening before someone could call them and they told me 10 pm. So, every night, we go outside and let the dogs bark to their hearts content until 9:30 and then I bring them in and put them to bed. I have not said anything else to the neighbors, but I know some of our other neighbors did tell them how unfair it was to do that to us. I also called our landlord and let him know about the situation, because they know him, too, and i don't want any trouble. So, far things are going well. I am sorry that your neighbor is doing this, I don't feel that it is right. I wish that people would not act like you are some sort of plague just because you are renting a house, and at least just let you live there in peace. Good luck!

hey, i don't have any neighbours who harass me in my new house but i had a neighbour of this in my old house, they always use to create problems for us and they were very fussy.

What happened to you really sucks. Bad neighbor you have. I don´t have any neighbor like that (hopefully), and i don´t now what i´ll do if something like that happens to me. I think you have to be patience.

What a shame to move to a new place and have bad neighbours. Hopefully they will move away. We have been pretty lucky with our neighbours where we live now. People on both sides of our house have moved out and the people upstairs are leaving soon so I sure hope we don't end up with problems like you have. Good luck.