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I normally don't mind my neighbors but they (the people directly next door and the people across the street) are having issues w/ eachother's dogs.
One of the girls across the street (I'll call her C, she's about 21-22) goes to my neighbor (T) next door and starts SCREAMING her head off about T's dogs bothering hers and always being in the street and yada yada. I agree that T's dogs are a nuisance but she's really been trying to keep them in her own yard or in her house. Anyway C goes over there and starts pointing her finger is T's face, calling her a bitch and cunt, threatens her, tells her she calling the police on T and animal control on her dogs. It was a nightmare. T has spent a lot of her life in prison so C is seriously lucky T didn't shank her or something.
My neighborhood is usually not that ghetto, lol.
Right now we live in a place with an older couple upstairs and he runs some sort of van rental/shuttle service and gets in really late at night. The thing is that he will then come home at say midnight and vacumn or cook a regular dinner and use the garbage disposal. When the moved I thought the same thing great not rowdy college guys, but how wrong I was. The couple upstairs too will have their grandkids over and when the run around it literally makes the glasses shake on the cupboard shelves.
The people that live in behind me (across the alley) like to give me pointers on my parking. Anytime we go out to get something from the car they always have some new thing that would basically mean me crawling out through my window or paying for street parking to make their double garage parking better. I do think it is funny though when they do it to my FI because he does not even have a drivers licsence so not a whole lot he can do about it.
For the most part nothing, but in the last few weeks one of my neighbors cars has been on the fritz, don't know which one. The horn blows constantly!!!! I think theres a short or something. It will start at like midnight and go on throughout the entire night!!! I am a very light sleeper so I usually have to resort to sleeping in my closet on those nights to shut out the noise. It's happened 4 times and I still don't know who owns the car, I want to break the freaking windows!!!!
@CaraMia10: OMG where I lived before we always had to call the police on the people across the street and it was Fountain Valley definately not that ghetto either!
We live below a woman in a house converted into two apartments. Floors are hard wood and I think she either has a sliding glass door in the middle of her bedroom, which is above our living room, or she has a trundle bed. Or maybe she just moves the furniture every day. Either way, she's loud!
We live in a very family oriented neighbourhood. I'm talking kids EVERYWHERE. We love kids, but the neighbours to the left are assholes. We moved in over a year ago, and they have yet to introduce themselves. They let their kids run around all over our yard, jump off our mutual fence onto their trampoline, and play in our garden. Wouldn't be AS big of a deal if we met them, but we think it's rude they let their kids play wherever they want especially when we don't know them. So we're putting hedges up this spring between our homes.
@Ryansgirl : Hah! Good on you for those hedges. I would have probably gone over there with a bowl of tapioca and introduced myself, "Howdy neighbor, This is Ryan, and I'm Ryansgirl. We just recently moved in 14 months ago and wanted to meet our new neighbors! We've already met your children on multiple occasions, they were kind enough to surprise us with a redecoration of our garden. Good day to you!"
Ooooh where to start. I've run the gammut of awful neighbours. In my old apartment, I lived on the cusp of the gay village in Toronto, and my neighbours on one side where a male couple. They would go out to bars ALL night and then after hours bars, and the come home to continue the party with friends. I think their livingroom was on the other side of the wall from my bedroom and their stereo was against the wall because when the turned on the music (at 4am, as loud as it could go) my apartment would literally vibrate. It was awful. I would leave complaint after complaint with my landlord but nothing was ever really done. I was a student at the time, so I kept strange hours anyways, but these guys had zero respect for anyone else in the building. Above me was a woman who had a little girl (I can imagine how she felt about these guys too). I think the girl had a bowling game or something, so for a good hour or so every day, I could hear her rolling the ball back and forth across the floor above my head. Uggggggggggggggggh.
THEN I moved upstairs to get away from said crazy party music neighbours. I had an incredible apartment with a private rooftop patio that overlooked a major street in the city. It was awesome. However, once a year Toronto has it's gay pride parade which is TONS of fun but really crazy busy. My apartment/rooftop overlooked said parade route. The first year I was in that apartment I invited my friends over to watch the parade from my patio. The way the rooftop was laid out, there were literally only 2 spots you were able to see from (there was a false wall blocking the rest of the view), so we would have all had to squeeze to see, but it was doable. I was getting ready for everyone to come over when I saw some movement out of the window. I looked, and there was my awful old neighbours and a couple of girls with them. One of the girls grabbed one of my chairs, dragged it over to the wall and basically staked out a spot standing on my chair. I went outside and asked her politely to get off my furniture and asked what they were doing. Old neighbours told me that not only were they planning on watching the parade from my rooftop (they came up via the fire escape from their place) but that they had invited a bunch of friends to join. Ummmm what?! So I politely told them that's lovely, but that I had friends coming and that we would be using the rooftop I paid for each month in my rent and that they should go find another vantage point like their own patio. They were not happy. I called my landlord who said he had hired a security guard (no idea where that guy was) but that he'd be over soon to sort the situation out. My landlord was this like 85 year old grandfatherly type man. The neighbour started screaming and swearing at him and me for saying he couldn't have a party on my deck. It was SO awful. The next year the security guard was there, but I had had such an awful experience I left and went to my parents house for the weekend.
THEN at my old condo (next place I lived) across the hall from me lived a crazy ex-stripper with a huge drug problem. Her husband/boyfriend/whoever was a Hell's Angels biker and they also had a teenage daughter. One night some guy was banging on their door and screaming about them coming back with more people (likely more bikers it sounded like) because he knew his daughter who had ran away was hiding in their place. She denied it and then called the cops. It took ALL night between her and the cops and her husband and daughter all yelling at each other and freaking out about whether or not this guy was going to come back... It was like listening to a radio soap opera....
NOW at our house, we have a neighbour on one side of us who cut down half our huge gorgeous walnut tree without permission and who likes to parade around the yard in a teeny bikini despite the fact that she's closing in on 50. She likes to "drop" things and then do straight leg bends to pick them up when my husband or his friends are in the yard. It's actually pretty funny. Her boyfriend hates leaves and sticks on their roof and is constantly up there leafblowing and collecting twigs. They're odd ducks. No one in the neighbourhood likes them.
Well that was an epic novel. Sorry. LOL!
Our neighbors who live above us are SO loud at all hours! 2PM, 3AM, whatever, they're loud! DH and I joke that they're clog dancing upstairs. They must move stuff all the time or do something that causes that noise. FIL was over last night and even asked us "What are your neighbors DOING?",
@izziebear: lol we thought about going over, but now it's too awkward. We see them all the time, coming home or leaving at the same time. We just thought that as new-comers to the neighbourhood, they should have introduced themselves, but maybe they thought we should have introduces ourselves!!! oh wellll!! Maybe we'll ask them to pay for half of the hedges :P
Our neighbors beneath us are stereotypical college guys who play first person shooter games really really really loudly and one screams "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!" constantly (on a daily basis)--mostly at his computer at all hours of the day and night. Our walls and floors are thin so yeah, atleast I can't hear sex.
We have some neighbors directly across the hall from Asia that cook very fragrant (sometimes foul-smelling) foods that seep into our apartment so it smells like really bad vegetables and trash. We share a utility room/locked closet where our heaters are so their air return mixes with ours. :/
EDIT: So I have some funny stories. I live in an old complex in a college town but it's cheap and I think houses a lot of low income and is subsidized for some. Anyways, I've seen a few individuals with BMWs and Lexus' that clearly shouldn't be living here (no offense, but this place is jenk) which has my suspicions. Additionally, we have semi-annual apartment checks performed by maintenance to ensure things aren't trashed and our air conditioning filter is changed. Anyways, a day after one of their checks, I see a bunch of cop cars parked in front of an apartment hauling a half dozen three foot tall pot plants. Another occasion when a college-age black guy lived below and across the hall from us woke up our entire complex by running around, swinging a baseball bat screaming racist epithets to another black guy. Lastly, there was a derogatory slur painted on one of the washer/dryer rooms. After the leasing office left us (the entire complex) a note telling of this inappropriate behavior, we were later awoken (2 am) to a bunch of black people gathering in the parking lot screaming. Police were called. I only live here because I'm a dirt poor college student, cannot wait to get out.
Prior to Christmas, our neighbors in our apartment have been great. It probably helps that we're an end unit so we don't have a neighbor to one side, but we've always heard little to no noise from those around us.
Well, the people above us apparently got either A) a new TV, B) a new speaker system, C) a new gaming system, or D) a new war game for Christmas because since then, every night I can hear guns firing and bombs exploding in our apartment. Their game is SOOOOO loud its ridiculous. It frightens the dog and she looks around trying to figure out what it is. Sounds like there is a war in my unit and I hate it! I hope the novelty wears off soon and they go back to a normal volume.
@Mrs.KMM: Have you thought about slipping a note under their door or talking to your landlord about it? Another neighbour I had had an extremely yappy awful dog but she didn't realize he barked the whole time she was gone (how could she know?). After our management company at the condo told her about the noise complaint she hired a dogwalker and left apologies under people's doors. Maybe they just need an area rug to absorb the extra noise, but in any case, you should let them know somehow!
Our current neighbors are awesome--We couldn't have done better if we had hand picked them ourselves. The last apartment we lived at though at six units, and although the neighbors were nice as pie, they were all crazy. It sounds kind of trashy, but it was an expensive neighborhood for the area.
One lived with his girlfriend, but his ex-wife would come over on a weekly basis, the girlfriend would come home, and a three way fight would ensue with phrasing flying that I had never even heard of before. In the apartment next to him, the woman who lived there would start beating on her much larger husband about once a month--there would be broken windows, holes in the wall and cops called every single time. Once, the police were there 3 times in one night.
The people that lived right next to us were the landlord's sister and her family. Nightly during the summer, they would break out a folding table and put it in the parking lot and light up their small charcoal grill. I have no clue as to what they put on there, but you'd see 2 or three foot flames shooting up from this thing. They got nicknamed "Flaming Hibatchi."
Our neighbor across the hall is always smoking and the smell leaches into our bathroom. Yuck. AND he hoards half of the parking lot in the back even though he doesn't own a car...
At work our street is a residential/industrial zone so we have weird stuff going on all the time. The place next door is a drug rehab and the do meditation to some sort of drum beat everyday and at first it felt like I was in Jumangi. Then there is an old time movie star across the street that has tons of birds and one sounds like a dinosaur then the other must be a parrot or something because it whistles like a human. On numerous occasion people have been walking by and look around to see who whistled at them. That one can actually be a little funny.
I hate my neighbors. (Not in a personal way either.) I am home sick today and I was trying to nap because I am desperately tired. My room isn't that big. I am in an awful cookie-cutter apartment building, so their room is right above mine. The floorboards are SO LOUD it is impossible to sleep because (for whatever reason) the upstairs neighbors seem to enjoy endlessly walking around in their tiny room and making the loudest squeaking noises. I don't even get it, what are they doing? Walking the dog back and forth? In my sick delerium I acually yelled out loud, "STOP THE SQUEAKING!" I just don't get it!
Across the hall the neighbor screams at his dogs the F word when he comes in. I hate hearing it! He also lets his door slam really loudly. This place is like hell to me. Oh, and people are so lazy they take their dogs to go outside- directly outside of the entry way at the building and DO NOT pick up the poop! WTF? It is trashy, disgusting, and ridiculous. Whatever is going on in my life when my lease is up, I would sell myself to get out of this place (practically!) :(
And people smoke inside!!! WTF? I refuse to walk in the hall now- it smells like dog poop and pee, smoke, and perfume. I hold my breath and make a run for it.
I used to live in what's considered a very nice/expensive neighborhood, but if it had a "ghetto", then I lived in it! There are very limited options for pet owners when one must rent, so I ended up living in a dorm-like building with ever other poor 20something with an animal. Let's see- The woman above me had a beagle that constantly barked and howled at night, my carpet had mold growing up from underneath the padding, it stunk, constant yelling, and my neighbors were huge pot heads. My fiance HATED coming there to visit, and I hated living there, so I basically lived with him at his apartment. Now we have a house with very nice neighbors, thank goodness.
A neighbor we used to have was soooo grumpy and would complain we were making noise even if the microwave chime went off. I twas so bad to the point that we were tiptoeing around the apartment and wouldnt watch the tv at night.
@cbee: Yeah, I had neighbors who smoke and our air conditioner was next to them! And it even seeped in when the windows were open, so we can't get away from it! My neighbors dogs pee all over the steps and poop on the sidewalk, it's gross and so lazy not to pick it up even though we have an ordinance against!
The lady that lives across the street from us likes to come over at all hours of the night and just walk into the house, (which is even stranger when she's taken her ambian because then she acts all druged out and just sits on the floor) it's gotten to the point that I have to lock the door even when we're home and then she just stands their akwardly waving into the windows. She loves taking the dogs for "doggy daycare" and they love it but our male dog always comes back with scratches and blood everywhere because he doesn't get along with her cat. I'm sorry but if I offered to take someones animals to my house I would make sure that my animals didn't terrorize them, let's just say the dogs don't go to doggy daycare anymore. Also she is forever making strange comments like "I see your blinds are closed!" or "I saw you and fi snuggled on the couch." it's so akward!
@Emilylhenderson: wow that is crazy shit!!!
When I was 19 I shared a house with 3 friends and we lived next door to a house full of these really arrogant pervo Wiccan guys . They would always have these huge parties and they'd be out on the porch having "group back rub" sessions while listening to really bad music. They would run around their house naked with their friends and have orgies and leave the blinds open during all of this (we were separated by a narrow driveway) so you could see everything if you happened to be walking up the stairs and looked over to the right.
I don't care what people do behind closed doors but damn it, close your blinds if you're going to frolic around naked and have group sex! We all thought it was hilarious at the time but looking back on it now...well, they were just really creepy and gross.
I haven't had any really crazy/bad neighbors since then. I went to college in Detroit and had to live in a dorm for a year - the girls in the suite across the hall were very loud. If it wasn't the sound of blasting rap music interrupting my studying, it was the sound of a screaming baby. Because one of them had her baby living with her and three other girls. It was very disturbing because they always partied with that little baby in their room :(
We live on the top floor and I had to complain about the new people below several tiems. 1. Music starts at 6pm and will go on for 4 hours every night, so loud that even if I turn my tv up I can hear them. We have an amazing sound system so we actually blasted them a few nights. Did nothing. 2. They have a baby. Who cries. Who has woken me up at 2am on work nights. Who runs up and down the hallway...btw their entire place consists of wood flooring, we have carpet in our living area, and never wear shoes on the wood floors in the rest of the house so that we don't make noise. They wear their shoes in their house and I don't think they ever sit down. They slam doors, drawers, everything. Renting sucks and I can't wait to own a home so I don't have to "live" with other people.
The upstairs neighbors leave their dog on their balcony by itself EVERY morning between 7am-7:30am (even on weekends). Their balcony is above our bedroom. It constantly barks for the entire 30 minutes that they leave it out there. I don't understand why they leave it out there! I want to strangle the dog.
I thought about buying this: http://www.petco.com/product/112502/Bark-Off-Ultrasonic-Dog-Training-Aid--As-Seen-on-TV.aspx?cm_mmc=CSEMGooglebase-_-Dog-_-As%20Seen%20on%20TV-_-1352938&mr:trackingCode=C9C034D7-9C85-DF11-BC8B-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA
to see if it would work, but I didn't want to torment our dog everytime the upstairs dog barked. :(
Well they do not bother me too much as the nearest neighbor is over 1/2 mile away. But sometimes they run their all-terrain vechicles in the field next to our house around the time I am feeding the feral cats which scares the cats and annoys me.
Mmm I have a neighbor across the street who accused my husband and I of stealing her $10 trash can, because our trash can "is green like hers, and her can is missing." Yeah lady... because green is SUCH an unusual trash can color. I'd never steal from anyone, and to be accused is just so insulting! Gah. Oh, and 2 weeks later? Our can was gone. Go figure!
Oh, and the other neighbor across the street thinks it's fine to have his guests park in our 2 parking spots. ALL the time. He has an actual driveway. We have two spots that are part of our property. His guests park in our spots whenever they visit and his driveway is full. SO annoying. Biggest pet peeve ever.
Oh boy!
My next door neighbors are a commune of young hippie slackers. None of the has a fulltime job. "Captain Underpants" is thus named as his favorite activity is to sit on his porch (which looks directly into our dining room), wearing only his tighty-whities, singing at the top of his lungs and playing guitar. Yeah.
His various conquests visit, and are all loud and annoying. They bring with them a variety of pets, none of which are well cared for, which *really* bugs me. Ditto to his roommates, which come and go on no regular schedule.
Our street is small (skinnier than an average street width), and they park like 2 feet from the curb, and part way into our driveway, which drives me up a wall because sometimes its hard to fit my SUV down the street if they park like rejects.
Oh yeah, and they lit their house on fire (discarded cigarette), and when me and my husband were woken up by the smoke, we called 911, and I ran out in the middle of the night to wake them up - they slammed the door in my face and have never thanked either me or my husband for alerting them to the fact that their house was totally on fire, or that we called the fire department for them.
@izziebear: We live above an opera singer too, lol. Actually he is a tax advisor or something like that, and he sings just for fun. We liked it when we moved in 9 months ago, just like you we thought it was lovely to have some culture here, but now it has become quite annoying, because he even sings in the middle of the night! Sometimes i think he might be a sleepwalker and sings while he is asleep. He is an old man, so his TV is also extremely loud, sometimes all night through. So it's either his TV that keeps me awake or his singing, and sometimes both at the same time. Crazy old man, but better than these idiots that lived above us when we moved in. They were having a party every night, and as they had already gotten two written warnings they had to move out two weeks later. They stole our empty moving boxes which we had stored in front of our appartment door...
Generally this house is fine, no more idiots. The neighbor living besides us plays...no tries to play the piano. He practices "Jingle Bells" and a german children's song about ducks. Two simple songs, but he just can't play them right, lol.
One of our neighbors hates us, but i don't know who exactly. FI has a large framed PLAYBOY poster which was a present of his friends. The girl on is not naked but wearing a white shirt, and it says "men, pray for rain". Nothing wrong with it, not very offensive in my opinion. But the day we moved in the guys from our moving company told us that one of the neighbors saw this and was kind of shocked. She made a pissed and arrogant comment, asking what kind of people we are to have something dirty like this??? The moving guys just had to laugh, they liked the poster of course. It was the last item they carried into our appartment, and had it standing near the main entry so they could look at it everytime they got something out of the truck :))
before we bought our condo we lived in a apartment building that was just horrible. I swear when we went an looked at it the landlord told all the trash to go inside and hide. Cuz it was all clean and like all we saw was a guy in a buisness suit getting into a car. So we take the place. WOW. the trash came out! the people underneath us crammed 7 people into a 2 bedroom apartment... only 2 of them worked and they chilled outside on the steps all day ( that was right outside my kitchen window) and they smoked like chimneys and all day and night i could smell cigarettes which i hate and my daughter was 2 at the time and it really bothered me she was breathing this in. AND everynight they were so loud. They partied til like 5 am and mind you this is a older woman and her adult kids. THey were so dirty and trashy. Once i went outside at 4 in the morning and was screaming through the windows cuz they wouldnt answer their door. The police knew of it and just told me to keep telling my landlord. He warned and warned them and it never stopped. So we moved.
I have one really creepy neighbor. something is "off" about the guy. Like he's the kind of weirdo who probably watches kid porn all day in his basement. I get a weird vibe from him. Once he walked his dog through my backyard. How i have to keep my shutters shut because I don't want him peeking in if I'm lounging in my pajamas!
My one neighbour is a zealously friendly, raging alcoholic who will wander (stumble) over to our yard and "strike up conversation" if I or my partner happen to be out and about & he is conscious.
He has a really bad habit of trying to be flirtatious with me.. in front of my partner.
Yeah.. we are getting a fence in the spring.
My other neighbour is this adorably sweet high school French teacher, who mostly keeps to herself. She has 2 dogs & we often walk our dogs together or let the dogs have "play dates" as there is no dog park/dog friendly parks in our area.
You win some, you lose some!
@futuremrsthomas: i have this problem too. we live in a townhouse, and our windows are original to our house so it sounds as if the dog is barking from behind our couch. they used to let the dog out at 7 every morning (weekends included) and it would be out ALL DAY barking un-checked for HOURS! it wasn't until someone called animal control on them, which i think they think i did (can you blame them? I'd get so frustrated I'd go outside and yell at the dog to shut up), that they kept the dog inside more often, or at minimum put her down in the yard under the balcony. i understand that dog's bark, but as a dog owner, you are responsible to teach them when it is appropriate and when it's not. a dog barking for 45 minutes without so much as a "no" is not appropriate, especially when you live in a townhouse/apartment.
even worse? the woman WORKS FROM HOME!! so it's not like she's not there to handle it! she must have windows of steel.
or so i thought until this summer... we had a second run in with ants in our kitchen. last year i found them crawling all over my counter one morning, and their tiny black, beady bodies all over my dark counters looked like small spiders crawling all over. i had a company come out and spray and that took care of the problem. so when they came back this year, i called and had them spray again. except this year it didn't work. the ants were now IN MY DISHWASHER! EVEN AFTER IT HAD BEEN RUN! they would crawl around in the bottom of it and there would be at least 20 everytime i opened it. i called the company back out, and upon inspection and speaking with the neighbors, it was found out that the neighbor, with the barking dog, had a dry rotted bay window and was also having an ant problem they were treating with home treatments. so the little crawly bastards were coming into my house BECAUSE OF HER HOUSE!
whew! sorry for the novel, but it's just very frustrating to live next to people who seemingly have no common sense or regard for others in their neighborhood.
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We've all had 'em. Granted, sometimes we get lucky and live next to, below, or above some amazing folk. Other times...not so much.
Luckily, I don't have any horror stories about my neighbors, past and present. But I do have a few gripes.
Currently, SO and I live above a woman who sings professional (?) opera. I remember when we were viewing the apartment, and the landlord mentioned that she commonly practiced during the afternoons. I thought to myself, "How lovely, some real culture in the complex. At least we're not living above some rowdy college students". Ugh. I'm a teacher so I have a few breaks during the year for vacation time. Lemme tell you - I'm about to rip my hair out if I hear one more piano key, one more scale, one more squawk. I'm sure her voice sounds beautiful in an amphitheatre or opera hall. Not so much in an apartment. She rehearses the same songs over, and over, and over again. I'll be cutting up vegetables for lunch and nearly remove a finger in the process as she abruptly starts in on another darn melody. It's starting to drive me a little batty.
Before SO and I moved in together, I lived alone in a complex of studio apartments. The man who lived to the left of me was about 6'6, 300 pounds and looked like a bouncer or a Hells Angel - SO nicknamed him "Gigantore". For how "large and in charge" he appeared, he was incredibly shy, and would run at top speed if we were ever entering the hall at the same time - he avoiding social interaction with me at all costs. His bathroom happened to share the same wall as my bedroom "alcove", so I could hear when he turned his light/fan on and when he flushed the toilet. He then proceeded to do these things all night, every night. I don't know what he was doing. Constantly pooping? Giving himself facials? I will never know. I just remember the sound of that fan and bracing myself for straining sounds until the wee hours of the morning.
Tell me your stories!