The people next door drive me nuts!

[Silent1CB]

Adding to questions to ask or situations to check out ourselves before moving next time.

 

[disneyofcourse]

Well woke up this morning to find my outdoor lights either kicked over broken or smashed and pulled out of the ground. This is the third time we are going to have to replace them. I can't have anything nice here it seems. Honestly I'm considering an outdoor camera to record things and show to the police.

 

[disneyofcourse]

Adding to questions to ask or situations to check out ourselves before moving next time.

I stalked this house for a month and viewed the interior 5 times and never saw anyone there except for 2 younger girls and the lady. I'm guessing the bad apples were out of town. Day and night drives so its not like we didn't check the place out.

 

[ols386]

That would drive me nuts. Sorry, op, that you have to deal with this.

 

[emer95]

Oh my gosh... that sounds horrendous! I am so sorry you have to deal with this, OP. I would absolutely, positively move. Your home should be your haven, your safe place, your source of rest and relaxation. Not your source of stress and anxiety. Nothing would be worth that to me.
Best of luck to you.

 

[Mimi1965]

I can sympathize with ya. I have a neighbor with a yapping dog that DOES NOT shut up!!!!! It barks at everything and all the time. Last year, her house was broken into. She came over to us and asked why we didn't do anything when we heard her dog barking. I replied "Your dog always bark." The dog is worse in the am (right at dawn). Drives me crazy

I have one of those too-and he has a deep loud bark

 

[Tina]

I feel for you. I have a similar problem, although mine is not as extreme as yours. I live in a townhouse and new renters moved in next door about a month ago. I haven't even been able to determine how many people live there because so many are coming, staying, and going all the time. We used to have plenty of visitor parking across from our building and now we have none. Our townhouses have garages and driveways, but they still use up all of the visitor parking.

The family are complete slobs. The husband is a plumber and I'm constantly picking plumbing parts (plastic bits, pipe pieces, etc) off my lawn and driveway. The weekend they moved in, they dropped and broke something made of glass. The mess of glass stayed in their driveway for more than a week (they have small children and a dog!). Their trash can is permanently planted at the curb. They never bother to pull it up. Oh wait, one time they did. They pulled it up to the middle of the front lawn and it sat there for 3 days.

And the dog.... yes, he's only a chihuahua, but we have leash laws here. But they just open the door and let him out. He runs all over the neighborhood, unsupervised.

Last weekend was the kicker for me. They installed a surround-sound system. They had it up so loud last Sunday that it was literally rattling the dishes in my cupboards and it sounded like I was being bombed. I walked next door and politely explained the situation. I asked the wife to please lower the volume, or at the very least, lower the bass level. She looked me right in the eye and said "Well we like to listen to it loud." I was speechless - a rarity for me! If a neighbor came to my door to complain about noise, I would be embarrassed and apologetic.

I've been trying to locate the property owner, but so far, have had no luck.

 

[Tiana]

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[Tina]

We actually DO have the PIA HOA, but they don't seem to be noticing these folks yet. I plan to make a call about the trash, as it clearly breaks the HOA rules. The dog issue is a county problem and its a tough one. They have to catch the dog outside, unleashed, to do anything about it. As for the occupancy, I believe our county has a rule about this, but it only has rules for limits on unrelated adults living in a home. I don't think there is anything about related family members.

 

[JerseyJanice]

After reading this thread, I want to go hug my neighbors!

That stinks for you, OP. I hope you can outlast them. I'd consider getting a very large dog if I were you.

 

[focusondisney]

My daughters wanted to try playing the thunderstorm MP3 when they went to bed last night. Sometimes noise from the neighbors bothers them when they are trying to go to sleep. I burned it onto a CD for them to play.

First, the thunder part was a bit alarming to my younger DD but she decided she could deal with it since it wasn't real. I set it to play and left the room but came back in a little bit to listen outside the door to see how they were doing.

I heard the following conversation:
Older DD: "I have to go to the bathroom."
Younger DD: "Why didn't you go before bed?"
Older DD: "I didn't know I had to go until I started to hear all the rain."

Too funny!


OP, sorry this is going on. I have been thru it, too, but not as bad. We used to have basketballs bouncing & shooting going on til 12-1 AM in the summer. Right under our bedroom window. With no air conditioning, so you know we had the windows open. Fortunately for us, the whole family was just oblivious, not nasty. We never had anything broken & when we would finally say something, they would usually stop. But they were the same with the garbage, to.

Because they weren't really nasty, we just put up with most of it. Luckily all the other neighbors are nice. That family has since moved. New neighbors seem really nice, hope it stays that way.

Good luck to you. I wish you patience. Lots of patience. And lots of Tylenol. Or the adult beverage of your choice.