Have you ever had difficult neighbours?

@jennybianca (12912)
Australia
September 17, 2007 9:28pm CST
I used to have a problem with my next door neighbour, when he was in his late teens. He used to do car maintanance late at night, & run the engine full pelt, which is very loud. As my child was very young then, I was concerned about this affecting her sleep. Neighbours across the road & down the road also complained about the noise. We ended up ringing the police & got the council neighbourhood dispute resolution people involved. Eventually this noise stopped, but only after he crashed the car. Have you ever had difficult neighbours & how did you solve the problem?
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31 responses
• Philippines
21 Sep 07
Hi there buddy, what's been up to lately? Well, actually this discussion really fits on me. And actually those neighbors that i had before that really fits with this discussion are my relatives and i consider them as my difficult neighbors. Why? How? Well, it is really bad to have difficult neighbors as it's kinda hard to do things on your way and also, they are my relatives so we have to consider the relationship and not to reclaim for anything bad they are doing to me and to my family. These relatives of mine are so jealous to me, and to my family and they always talking against our back and we it will just happen that those things that they are doing against us will reveal one by one. And so, we gave up and we decided to move to another place that far from those relatives of ours and don't even bother to see them. But now, things really happened and we have new environment, new faces, new neighbors and so, some of my neighbors now seems to act the same thing as my relatives did before. OMG Wherever we go, we're always having this kind of people, really tiring and i just wanna tell to those people, Why don't they just mind their own business and don't mess up with other people's lives. They seems so jealous also and talking against our back, as i have heard some rumors only and not confirmed yet but then, they are acting strange indeed. Have a nice day ahead and happy posting and earning here in Mylot. Godspeed, Kiko
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
22 Sep 07
I can only say that your relatives must be very jealous people. Unfortunately we can't choose our relatives. My husband doesn't even talk to one of his sisters & she lives nearby. I think you will have to speak to the neighbours who are spreading rumours about you.
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@rima0013 (441)
• Iran
20 Sep 07
hi my friend...Oh , thnx GOD i have not the same problem like you , but i can imagine what a bad situation you have!!! i thing all the neighbours must respect to the law and rules about others moral obligations...i think you must tell them exactly what things make you out of control in your area...maybe after some times they coulde quite their bad habits!!!
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
22 Sep 07
Being a good neighbour & leading by example is often the way to go.
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@raghwagh (1527)
• India
19 Sep 07
We have one of our worst neighbours living near by.That person (old man) is cyco.He thinks that he can behave anyhow and others should listen to him.He gets up at midnight and starts shouting looking at us. He is a headeche for us.One day he started fighting with us, and ordered us to cut one of our trees as the leaves were falling on the road before his main gate.We initially agreed and said ok, then further he started fighting that why didnt we cut our tree initially.Also he took the case to our local corporator who neglected him.Thus he is finding some or other way to harass us.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Sep 07
If this weird man is getting up at midnight to shout at you, I would be calling the police. He sounds like is completely irrational, & you wont be able to talk sense into him.
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@donsky14 (5947)
• Philippines
18 Sep 07
hmmm..Im having trouble with this neighbor of mine. She's been telling my other neighbors that I won't graduate...and I will get pregnant by my boyfriend. blah blah. She's just this kind of neighbor that has nothing to do with her life but ruin other people's lives. How do I deal with this? I just ignore her. Its a lie anyway.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
18 Sep 07
You could start by having a talk with this neighbour. Tell her you dont appreciate the comments she is making about you. Say it nicely but firmly. Then add that there are defamatioin laws to consider.
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@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
20 Sep 07
I have a very stupid couple staying on the third floor of my building. They feed stray cats, and I am not against it. I tell them to feed them away from my house, but no, they insist of feeding the cats right outside my corridor. Then the cats vomit and dirty there only and we have to keep cleaning up. No amount of arguing will help. In fact, they even went to the SPCA to complain about us that we were beating the cats. I like animals and all, but not at the cost of harming the sentiments of my fellow humans. She keeps her house clean. Wonder why all animal lovers live of upper floors?
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
22 Sep 07
Yopu could go to the SPCA yourself, as I am sure they would agree that it is not healthy for cats to be fed where they vomit & do dirty things. She should feed stray cats outside.
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@ssf12ster (488)
• India
19 Sep 07
yes that was what he wanted .he wanted confrontaion i dunno what was the reason for hat and then things got cool after my younger brother interfered and asked the driver of the bus to move further and park it down the road.i felt extremely bad for him.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Sep 07
That was good of your brother to help out.
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@pendragon (3348)
• United States
18 Sep 07
We lived next door to a pizza delivery place.They were open until 2 a.m, the music was constantly at one hundred decibels, and they were constantly in and out of our driveway, no matter what time we came home we could never park in our own yard.They were hateful to deal with.
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@pendragon (3348)
• United States
19 Sep 07
Oh no, that was quite a while ago,our landlord sold that building and threw us out one Christmas,lol, (hear the violins?)So, I ended up with four jobs and bought us a house.This street is so quiet, it's just the opposite.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
That would be terrible. I assume you don't live there now?
• United States
18 Sep 07
Currently I have neighbors that are not that easy to get along with. They complain alot, about our dogs that we keep in a dog run, they complain about the hour that they bark, like we have control over that, it is not that our dogs bark continuously, but they seem to wake up around 6:00 am (since their owner feeds them at that time before he leaves for work, our 19 year old son), now mind you I am closer to their dog run than they are and hear them everytime they bark, but they come over and threaten to call Animal Control on us cause the dogs are barking, we live in the country where there is lots of trees and vacant land, it is very disturbing to me that they can't get along with us or will even attempt. If the dogs were a nuisance to us, we would have corrected the situation but we rarely him them bark.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
18 Sep 07
Our dogs bark a lot, but so do the neighbours dogs. We tried anti-barking devices, citronella , etc. Eventually it partially worked. Sometimes I think you have to change the dogs routine, to change the dogs. Sounds to me like your neighbous are just being "narky", ie. difficult.
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• United States
18 Sep 07
Yes, they are being very difficult, thank goodness they have their house up for sale, perhaps they will find a neighborhood that has no dogs for their sake.
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@ecogal (522)
• United States
25 Sep 07
I once had a nieghbor harass me because I wouldn't lie to the police for her. I avoid her as much as I could until finally my husband warned her to leave me alone. After she moved away I found chicken bones in one of my plants hanging from the roofs. It was weird.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
27 Sep 07
Good on you. You can't lie to the Police for someone else. It only leads to more trouble. She had a weird way of retaliating, by putting chicken bones in your plants.
@ecogal (522)
• United States
27 Sep 07
Well... I have no proof that she did it, but I never saw it there before and my plant was right next to her fence.
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@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
26 Sep 07
I have been lucky and have never had difficult neighbours. I've always got along really well with them. The neighbours at my parents' house are really lovely and often cook food for us (they're indian) and the neighbour at my house is really nice. Her name is Olive and she's an elderly lady who lives on her own. She's always out in the garden and she gives me gardening tips. The guy on the other side is cool, he just minds his own business, is never loud and has cats.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
27 Sep 07
And you would be a very good neighbour to these people too.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Oct 07
I am lucky because I can say that my neigbours are not difficult at all. WE have all kinds, of course, but difficult they are not. Unfortunately I regret to say that we might be considered difficult neigbours. Not exactly us, but my in laws that live in the same house we do in the downstairs apartment. Thankfully the neighbours are quite understanding and they can see were the problem is, so personally we have no problems with any of them.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
17 Nov 07
That is great that you have good neighbours. It is awkward having in laws that live so close?
@Gemmygirl1 (2867)
• Australia
23 Nov 07
Absolutely, the last house we lived in, before buying this one was in a little town that was full of people who HATED outsiders. So anyone new who moved in were treated like escaped cons or something. The neighbour next door killed animals for the fun of it (2 of my cats went missing & 1 of those we KNOW he killed). When we were moving in - my dogs barked & the neighbours on the other side came by to complain 'that' same day about it (all dogs bark when they're somewhere new) & even though his own dog barked, it was only mine that bothered him. They complained about everything, they also revved & fixed cars at whatever hour suited them & to top off the whole AWFUL experience, while we were moving to this house, 2 of my dogs & 2 of their pups were stolen while we were having fences put up here (i went & saw the dogs every day & fed/played with them, since we had that lease going still) but it seems that wasn't good enough so they put up an abusive note on the carport wall & then took the dogs - leaving 4 small pups behind. I was DEVASTATED - what kind of person steals another person's pets? It's rude & so hard for me because i always find myself wondering what was done to them but naturally all the neighbours denied having anything to do with it. I think you're better off living in the middle of nowhere where neighbours are a few kilometers away, then there's less chance of having any problems.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
24 Nov 07
That was a terrible situation. It is killing your pets that would make as angry as upset. Could the Police do nothing about this killing & stealing of animals? What gross neighbours.
@kishusia (1066)
• India
27 Sep 07
After my marriage I came to live in this house. All our neighbors are good. We may not be mixing with other so frequently but they do not create any problem for us. Sometime they will complain about water leaking from cooler or water tank. We will get it corrected and every thing will be nice.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
17 Nov 07
You must be excellent neighbours yourself.
• India
18 Sep 07
yeah i had one helluva difficult neighbors..when they moved in we thought they were nice people.Two kids and their parents.I m some one who is fond of kids and was friendly with them. But then from the next day onwards till they finally moved out,the kids were all over our house.The parents didnt seem to mind at all that the kids were ruining our home.There was not one vase they didnt break.They even broke our aquarium,and they didnt even seem to care. Luckily they stayed only for 2 months.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
How did these kids get in your house? Could you have locked your doors to stop them?
• India
19 Sep 07
They just seemed to come in through the kitchen door just like that.And you first have to get them out to close the door.
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• United States
19 Sep 07
We have always had pretty good neighbors, but we have new neighbors on one side of us and already they have upset me. Me and my hubby have caught their 12 year old son about 5 times looking in our daughter's window. I used to work with the woman, so she keeps telling me I have to take her son to school, because she needs me too. LOL, she has never asked me to do it, and I work also. After catching him peeping in the window, I don't want him around us anyhow. They keep parking in front of our driveway and we can't get out. LOL the list never ends. We are trying to be nice about everything, but my husband is loosing his patience.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
I think you are going to have to take action over peeping in youyr daughters window. This 12 year old boy could be heading into big trouble if he keeps this sort of behaviour up.
@applsofgld (2506)
• United States
23 Sep 07
Yes, I have some difficult neighbors right where I live now. On both sides actually. One the one side, they are trashy, pile up debris, garbage, old furniture, you name it, it is stacked all over the yard. They toss their garbage over onto our property also. They have dogs they do not take care of and they will come into my yard, hungry, and get into my garbage cans, and it makes me so mad b/c I have to continally pick up the trash. We live out in the country, my hubby called the law and they said we can't shoot at the dogs and not much can be done. On the other side is relatives. We do not speak or get along with them. They are my hubby's brother and his wife. They think they own all the land out here, they tried for years to use or have access to ALL of it, but finally we are having a fence put up so they can't use it. They ruined our pond by letting his cows get in it, now it needs to be drained and redone so we can put some fish in it. He really got mad when I refused to let him fix our fence so his cows could use OUR pond, he needs to get his own watering hole the way I look at it.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
23 Sep 07
This is terrible, having both sets of neighbours so bad. With the trashy neighbours, can you call up the council, or report them to the health authorities? With your relatives, it is always more awkward. What does your husband think of his difficult brother? Why does he think he owns all the land? Surely there are documents to prove otherwise? He is going to completely loose his brother if he keeps this behaviour up.
18 Sep 07
We have a problem family living down the road and everyone around here is sick of the troubles they cause. During the summer we have had the Police visiting them frequently about the noise they make and the behavour of their brat kids. A group of us got together and petitioned the local authority asking that they be removed as they were in breach of their tenancy terms. Since the intervention the noise seems to have diminished although their kids still cause problems.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
In these situations it is btter than tge neighbiours stick together to solve the problem. I suppose you could report the kids to welfare, saying they are out of control.
@eshaan (6188)
• India
18 Sep 07
My experience with neighbours had been always a good one.I always had friendly neighbours and now too i remember all my earlier neighbours who used to be just like family members,ate, played and laughed together and enjoyed so much.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
That is wonderful for you, & it should be like this for all of us.
• India
24 Sep 07
we are staying in a rented house. in my last houe we had problem for parking vehicles. we changed the house for that reason itself. now in my current building there are eight houses. and i have a bit problem with immediate next neighbour for the reason of maids. it is very tough to get maids here. now i and my neighbour are not seeing each other face.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
25 Sep 07
Parking can be a problem in some areas, so it's good that you now have a place to put your car. What is the problem with the next door neighbours maid?
• United States
18 Sep 07
I've had a couple problems with my neighbors. One girl went outside every day to sunbathe and turned her radio up full blast. It never failed she'd always do it right after I got the baby down for a nap and or course it woke her up. I complained to the landlords (we live in a park) and they took care of it. A couple months ago, the people behind us decided to build a bonfire and burn all kinds of stuff-styrofoam, empty oil bottles,etc. The fumes were terrible. I walked out to my car to get something and literally could not breathe (I have asthma). I ended up calling the sheriff's department and the fire department on them.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
19 Sep 07
You have taken the right response to these innapropiate actions. Hopefully you & your baby have some peace now.