anyone got idiot neighbors.

[roy_bates]

ive got this neighbor who things he can do what he likes and we cant do any wrong..

obviously this has been going on for years since i bought the house.

recently i happen to park the van a little bit too far back and it was there for three days,so he came round and started his normal routine of shouting and ranting and raving and his parking space as soon as my wife went out...
bloody odd,why not ask to move it down and be done with it??? after slamming the door shut i got dressed(yep,lol i wasnt dressed when i answered the door) and moved it down a few minutes later.

a couple of days later he had a load of fence panels delivered and had them put down the entry(with all his other stuff),thing you need to realize is this guy thinks the ally is his personally storage area and dumping ground,and i know it will most likely be down there for a really long time.
his other stuff has been down there years...
nothing said,just does what he wants and says nothing unless its us
so...the ally is blocked,you cant get down there and its a joint ally between two terraced houses.

i thought to my self,ill have a word when i see him and see when they will be moved.
as usual its a big deal...i ended up saying after the palaver with the van i dont see why i should be subjected to someone who feels the need to block a joint ally way when he feels fit.
he says he will move them,i bet he wont...his a funny sod.

apparently im the one being funny,lol
his had his stuff down the ally blocking for years on end you do anything wrong what so ever and his like the fastest to respond when its his inconvenience thats disturbed,its unreal.
yeah,if you wondering he has been asked a few times now to keep it clear,we dont put anything down there its only 30 inches wide to start with.

im not looking for advise or anything but this guy is a real piece of work,and extremely one sided.
my wife wants to get on with him,i dont i dont feel i need to he will just take liberty's

obviously,its been been going on for far too long now ever since we moved in when we bought the house...just one of those people who sees problems everywhere but does no harm himself sort of bloke.
im expecting some sort problem in the near future and i have to say im at the limit after over ten years of this idiot.
thing is i dont want to let him do what he wants if it actually effects me personally,i dont feel i need to stand for it.
i could list an indefinite list of things he has taken offence to in the past or what his done,i dont see the point.

what is so damn hard about minding my own business and getting on with my own life with no hassle from people who think they own the road they live on and have there own set of rules that have nothing to do with reality.

 

[johnim]

i dont have any any problems at the moment but i did when i had my flat

i used to get moaned at after having a bath due to the overflow overflowing with bath water

also when i took my bike to the shed in the back garden as the gate creaked and he moaned about that too


i just ignored him


with your alley problem you should tell him he needs to keep it clear due to a fire hazard and no quick escape if blocked if he refuses tell him that you have had the house surveyed buy the fire brigade or something and they will take action

 

[roy_bates]

yeah,i know its a fire hazard,but he isnt the brightest spark mate.
i could post a picture...you cant get down there trust me today trust me.

ive had the noisey door thing as well,its stupid...he even moans when the cat goes in his garden...i mean it.

thing is i dont think he gives a damn last tim e i asked before this he said he had no shed??? mate he has a 120 foot garden like mine most of it dont need to be there...
he was keeping it all in the his damn house before we moved in!

he honestly believes its ok,thing is he will move it and then he will starrt moving stuff down there as he always does.

 

[sir_beaker]

lol, no. I think the worst thing I could fling at my neighbours is absent minded maybe although with a young kid it's probably easy to lose track of what you're doing, so I am not sure you could even say that. I found his wallet on the side of the road (thinks he drove off with it on the roof) while I was walking one evening last week and so I gave it back to him and I got a thank you card a few days later. It's really horrible after living in the UK most of my life; you know, community spirit and helping each other out...

 

[Beavis]

Can't say I have, but not sure if my neighbours share the same opinion.

 

[roy_bates]

there not all bad neighbors some are really nice,i just wish the bad ones was not right next door to me,lol

 

[ShambleS1980]

in our last house the neighbor was a welsh nationalist welsh learner.. "kind of strange really" basically he isnt welsh came here and learned welsh, now hates anything not welsh..
When we moved in i spent a week or two prepping the house for my wife and youngest and he seemed civil enough, said hello we had a chat and so on. seemed like it would be fine.. semi detached only him and us did not look like we would have any neighbor problems at all.
Then he met my wife and started talking to her in welsh. she politley "and in welsh" asked him if he could speak english pleas as she did not understand..
That is the moment when things went sour.
there we stupid complaints about nothing constantly. we had the police over and waking us up because he made false noise complaints in at 2am "when we were all asleep"
Claiming we were slamming doors at 11pm (even though at the time the youngest was very small and in bed by 7-8pm and you did not want to wake her)
we had environmental health over among others who all agreed that we were not being a nuisance. The environmental health person actually said that the TV was on at a lower volume than they would deem normal.

mean while. he is keeping chickens who fight and come in to our garden to fight. We in turn complained about them. He promised to get rid of them "which he did" BUT he replaced them with cockerels!
It was about that time that the environmental health and others noticed that what we were saying all along was true.. "he just did not like my wife"
turns out he has a history of it and is known to the police.

we moved out a little while back "mainly to be closer to civilization" but thanks to the crazy idiot next door we had a lot of help getting a new house in a better place. because it was easier for all the authorities and councils and stuff to help us willingly move than to keep having to respond to his bull.
It was getting pretty close to fisticuffs by the end, so it worked out for the best. but the guy was an unemployable degenerate, I have no idea how the government kept paying for him either.
If any one else who was unemployed stated that they would not speak English even though they were fluent in the language, they would be classed as making them self deliberately unemployable and would not get any money from the government..

I guess he would just be to much trouble for them playing the "racist" card. even though he isn't even welsh, and only learnt the language.

 

[Ed.D]

Roy, I think you could have a word with your local council to ask them to intervene where the alley access is concerned. His parking space? Does it have his name on it? If you have a legal vehicle you should be able to park anywhere at a roadside that has no restrictions.

I was woken up at 1:00am once by somebody a few houses away who used to burn electric cable for the copper. I had to report them for their own and other people's safety because the fire was easily the height of the house guttering and the noxious fumes given off were unbearable. My elderly next door neighbours suffer with respiratory illnesses too.

 

[scrappysphinx]

My current neighbours are quite nice and their kids and mine play together and we all get on well.

That being said the couple who lived there before (who also had 2 young kids) would be out on the front lawn every night till 3am drinking and then would come inside and would sing karaoke till around 5pm. This went on for about 6 months until they were evicted. The most annoying part though was the song they sung which was The Final Countdown by Europe and they would repeat it over and over.

 

[Snoozy]

I had a truly awful neighbour 2010-2013. At the time I lived in a new build flat and had the top floor (only 2 levels) and my neighbour below would listen to music til 1 ish some nights, then he get up at 5am to do weight training in his bedroom and leave at 6.30am. I only ever asked him to be quiet once which worked for 2 days then back to his routine.

I need 7 hours sleep, he didn't and it nearly made me ill losing so much sleep. The management company that collected the property service charge tried to help but were unsuccessful, threw their hands up in the air and told me to contact environmental health - which if you do will be detected by solicitors on a conveyancing search of the property and you will lose your buyer or have a few £k knocked off your price, when you come to sell.

The answer - buy a detached house. My new neighbours are great and in another detached house - they are almost too friendly

 

[roy_bates]

i know ed,thing is i moved it even though his load mouth made me quite angry...he did know because when i came back out he was gone.
but i moved it anyway i dont normally park there.
point was,he only had to ask i would of moved it anyway.

i think he just likes to play the hard man.

debbie has already told him im not as patient as her when it comes to this sort of thing.


anyway,ill have to see how it goes.

 

[-Acid-]

I live on a corner end where the house next door is built around the corner but if you imagine one square back garden with our houses built on either side of one corner so the buildings are only 10 feet apart (we have half of the garden each) so the house 2 doors away is only about 20 feet away. Any way the house 20 feet away has a few 20 somethings living there with their mother. I'm sure the mother is either in to the same stuff or couldn't care less what her kids do for the most part. Last summer they spent almost every night playing music loudly until about 10:30-11pm (work nights when I had to be up at 5:50am) drinking / shouting / drugs / blasting the fences with air rifles / smashing bottles... you get the idea. The one saving grace was the music always was off by 11 during the week but would often go on til 1 or 2 on the weekends. Unfortunately I have the back bedroom as well so no escape, the bass was ridiculous as well the house used to shake while trying to watch the tv. Luckily that bass problem only lasted a month or so.

They also see fit to rip up the grass out front on the side between gardens with a motorbike when they feel like it, fires at all times of the day and night so I can't have the windows open (I love fresh air as well). The house between ours and theirs has had a few people move in and out, when it sits empty they tend to throw beer bottles over the fence and the looks like a right tip. Their fence is on it's last legs and the wind howls between the houses, last winter the cheeky cough's decided to shore theirs up by tying it to ours. It snapped two of our fence posts, I lost count of the amount of times I went out and cut the rope they were using, eventually they got the message and tied it up to the washing line post of house next door. No idea how long that will last, the council replaced out fence posts though.

Recently they pulled down there drinking / smoking shed and I thought at last! but they bought the shed from the guy on the other next door to me and now have a new one. They sit in there smoking and drinking with the house windows open and the music blasting from there. I'm quite sure the whole point is so the house doesn't stink of dope, their mother probably won't put up with smoking in the house but doesn't care if they are outside.

They don't seem like bad people, they are just some of the most inconsiderate people i've ever come across.

 

[Jameson]

We built a new house about 6 years ago and went out of our way to purchase a block of land in one of the new estates on the outskirts of town as they were nice sized 1 acre (4000 square metre) blocks.

As such we thought the privacy that would afford would mean neighbours, be they good or bad, would not affect us....

....how wrong we were. About 18 months after building the main house we decided to build a small 2 bedroom guest house for when my family visits. The builders were very considerate, did not start work before 7.30 in the morning, did not make excessive noise and only took 7 weeks to complete construction - it was only a small house, about 110 square metres. However within the first week the neighbours behind us complained to local council about the noise.

... then they complained about our roosters crowing....
... then they complained about the pool giving off "salt fumes" which was effecting their plants (I kid you not)...
... then they contacted the local animal control about our wandering dog.... which was quite funny as we did not own a dog at the time!

You will not believe how we ended up fixing the problem....

A friend of mind whom I went to school with is a constable at the local police station, in fact he was one of my referees when I applied for my handgun licence. During a barbeque we got to talking about the problem and he came up with a solution. He knows the troublesome neighbours personally, so the next time he saw them socially he warned them that he had known me for many years (which was true) and that I was a mentally unhinged person.... who collected firearms (the second part is true, and no, I am not mentally unhinged. ) they of course mentioned the problems they had with me at which time he suggested they learn to live with it on the quiet and not risk upsetting me.

I then spent the following few months cleaning all of my firearms outside under the pergola in plain view of them from their back veranda (where they usually sit looking for things to complain about) all the while talking to myself and pointing various guns at things in the air apparently only I could see.

Long story short, no more complaints.

Truly, truth can be stranger than fiction. Perhaps this will give you a few ideas?

 

[TheCorfiot]

Not long after I graduated I moved into a terraced house in Cardiff and lived there for a few years, all was fine until the guy next door moved to a new home and decided to rent the old property to students....
They were nice actually apart from one weirdo who nobody seemed to like, stereotypical looking dopehead.
He began playing rave music loudly until 5-6AM and it began doing my head in as I had to be up for work certifying Aircraft avionics, ie I needed a clear head.
I politely asked him to turn it down and be more considerate and got the "yeah dude no probs" reply
Nothing changed, finally after about 10 days of constant rave crap coming through the walls at 4AM in the morning I snapped.
I charged out of the house and up their path and banged on the door, nothing, don't ask me where I got the courage but I kicked the door down, burst in to the room where the music was coming from to be greeted with a thick dense fog of marijuana haze, dickhead was passed out on his bed.
I just picked his sound system up and hurled it at the wall breaking it to bits, kicking it a good few times to be sure it was unrecoverable.

He had started to come round from all the noise and I just grabbed him by the throat and dared him to replace the sound system, telling him I would call the cops to bust him for drugs..

That was the end of my problem, he was ever so polite and nice to me whenever I passed him on the street thereafter...

 

[rootboy]

I dunno, but living out here where the jackrabbits have to pack a lunch has its benefits...

 

[supaduper]

@ the corfiot not only a repairer extraordinaire but a `Judge Dredd` layer of the Law type of guy ! love it fella

 

[r0jaws]

I've only been around to our neighbours once, 2 weeks after they moved in and they were playing music until 3 in the morning. I went around, and, after no response to my patient knocking, I went into their garden and knocked loudly on the kitchen window. The look of shock on their faces was a joy to behold, I was dressed only in my boxers. I asked them politely to turn the music down, and they complied immediately, apologising and saying they did not realise it was that loud.
The next day, they came over to apologise again, and since then we've had no repeat.
It's amazing what results you can achieve, when the button on your boxers is missing.

 

[KBQ]

People come up with some amazing macho stories in these threads. I bet some of the people mentioned in them might even be real.

 

[sir_beaker]

Please, I've just had dinner... I don't need those mental images lol

 

[AmiNeo]

I've only been around to our neighbours once, 2 weeks after they moved in and they were playing music until 3 in the morning. I went around, and, after no response to my patient knocking, I went into their garden and knocked loudly on the kitchen window. The look of shock on their faces was a joy to behold, I was dressed only in my boxers. I asked them politely to turn the music down, and they complied immediately, apologising and saying they did not realise it was that loud.

The next day, they came over to apologise again, and since then we've had no repeat.
It's amazing what results you can achieve, when the button on your boxers is missing.

LOL! Best post here!