The Horrors of Shitty Neighbors -

[Volvo240]

I did some back searching and there's a couple threads on shit hole neighbors but not a full on thread like the occupation threads here which are a delight.
Share your shitty neighbor stories here. Imma start.

So a few years ago I lived in a shit hole studio in a great suburb. I actually loved the place as most folks there were seeking cheap ways to keep themselves, spouses, kids in a good area to live
Well a month after moving in I started hearing loud violent banging upstairs ( like someone dropping a 50 pound weight at random times)
I'm sure it's the plumbing etc. Whatever. But it keeps happening.

Go to the front office one day. One of the nice office ladies ( despite it being a shit hole they were amazing) asks if I'm hearing a banging noise.
I tell her yes as she sighs.

His name is Frank. Any time a female moves into your apartment we get these complaints.

Goody. Well one day I get home from work and see a man in his fifties struggling with a giant box of VHS tapes. I hold open the front door that auto locks and get this kindly reply
" I don't need YOUR help"

Welp. Of course that was Frank. I dealt with his shit for awhile until I started dating. My partner freaked out after hearing his details as well as the sound firsthand.
well... One day Frank banged too much and there was a confrontation. Frank is also apparently a hoarder due to my partners view of his studio and his shitty mini van filled with crap


So frank tried to narc to one of the nice office ladies who he's apparently been a dick to for 15 years plus. She has to excuse herself from the bitching as the phone goes off . He decided it was smart to call her a bitch. She decided it was time to stop any lease extensions.

I wish I was still there to see his terrible amounts of shit go or for him to go full crazy when they kicked him out

 

[PorcupineTree]

My neighbors were both mormons and peeping toms.

 

[Volvo240]

My neighbors were both mormons and peeping toms.

So no coffee but "tiddies and vagene pls"

 

[Jozef]

my neighbour never maintains their yard; they don't shovel snow, they don't cut their grass, they leave garbage bags on the steps, but they don't inconvenience me so I don't hate them. A former neighbour kept their yard clean but then they bummed smokes off me all the time. I'd rather live next to a shithole than someone who bums smokes.

 

[Volvo240]

my neighbour never maintains their yard; they don't shovel snow, they don't cut their grass, they leave garbage bags on the steps, but they don't inconvenience me so I don't hate them. A former neighbour kept their yard clean but then they bummed smokes off me all the time. I'd rather live next to a shithole than someone who bums smokes.

That is kind of the great thing about renting or owning a full on house. You may get full on lolcow neighbors but more likely it's nothing or small things vs apartments, condos, anything with a shared wall

 

[Remove Goat]

I moved out of my parents' house awhile ago, but our neighbors were the fucking worst.

For starters, the whole neighborhood is rural as shit so people drive from the city to dump their animals that they can't keep anymore. Domesticated dogs, cats, etc, they fuck and breed and soon they have ferals. It's not as bad anymore, but still annoying when one of them turns up dead because someone hit one or a mountain lion kills them. City never bothered to put a stop to anything, and animal control only came when someone got bit.

Few years ago, there was a neighbor a few lots down who had this wildly aggressive dog that they let loose all the time. It was huge, and they didn't have a fenced yard, so it would wander around the street for hours at a time. It went after people, other dogs, deer, cars, what have you. It once broke down a fence and killed a neighbor's schnauzer. Another time, it chased a guy into his boat and animal control had to be called because it wouldn't go away. It's owner got it back. It only eventually left after my step-father got pissed off and walked down to the owner's house and threatened to shoot it if the dog wasn't kept inside. Surprise surprise, a man in his pajamas saying he was going to shoot your mutt was enough for the guy to move out.

When I last visited my parents, their neighbors of 10 years got an aggressive dog as well. They let it run, and it went across my parent's yard to fight a dog in the other neighbor's yard. It got bit on the snout by a pit once, didn't make it stop. AFAIK the neighbors are a middle-aged couple of a religious nut of a wife and a wife beating piece of shit.

There was also a neighbor a lot down that made meth in his trailer-house. Don't remember if there's any stories.

People also drive motorcycles up and down the street around 8 PM. Drives the whole place insane. Never met the guys, but they're nice from what I hear.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Hard to explain, but long story short I grew up in a house adjacent to a fleabag by the hour/week motel. It was built in the 60s and apparently it was pretty upscale, but kept deteriorating and deteriorating as time went on and by the time I was born it was pretty rough. It was an eyesore in an otherwise decent area.

I have too many stories to share, mostly involving meth heads and dindus, but the one that sticks out the most was when the feds raided the place to take down a huge drug operation. This was the mid 90s, and apparently some kingpin was using the place as his HQ to move large quantities of product as it was in a prime location off the interstate and halfway between Chicago and St. Louis. Marshals came and kicked us out of our house right before the raid and had guys in SWAT gear camped out on our lawn. Good times.

Place closed down for good in the mid-2000s and finally torn down a couple years after that.

 

[Frogasm]

raise your hand if you've ever had a neighbor who has frighteningly loud sex at odd hours

 

[J A N D E K]

Well versed in apartment life... My exgf had a running feud with the downstairs neighbours... issues with them being too loud. They had two young kids and fought endlessly. It never bothered me really. I worked a three week on/off schedule away from home, so I wasn’t there half the time. It really pissed my ex off though. We used to keep late hours and had a rather prolific sex-life which she would always seem to initiate around 2-4am... and she was rather... ummm... “vocal”. I realize now that my ex did this to intentionally aggravate them as some passive-aggressive revenge, despite the fact that they were just regular folk keeping regular hours and merely trying to live their life. There was a year long battle of lodged complaints back and forth between her and the neighbours. I look back now and realize that WE were the bad neighbours and karma has come back to exact its revenge. My new next door neighbours have a rather prolific sex-life and seem to always have very loud, very vocal sex at 2-4am, which is (when I am home) roughly when I’m going to bed.

 

[Remove Goat]

do turtles fucking outside the front door at 6 AM count

 

[Coldgrip]

raise your hand if you've ever had a neighbor who has frighteningly loud sex at odd hours

Raise your hand if you've ever been that neighbor.





I have.

 

[J A N D E K]

Raise your hand if you've ever been that neighbor.





I have.

*sheepishly raises hand*

 

[yeahweknow]

all reggaeton songs use the same drum beat

 

[J A N D E K]

all reggaeton songs use the same drum beat

You are actually half right here. Reggae, dancehall, and reggaeton use “riddims” which are well known recycled beats which artists, remixers, and DJ use and reuse as a musical homage to classic tracks similar to sampling in hip hop.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Growing up, I had a neighbor's bratty five-year old decide to randomly - and unprovoked - spit at me one summer. I was able to use the incident to convince my parents that it was a bad idea for me to walk him to/from school that coming year as his parents had wished for. His parents tried to convince me it was his younger brother, like I couldn't tell a 4 and 5-year old apart. Sadly, his parents did nothing to address his awful behavior - this being the worst such example. Small wonder few if any of the neighborhood kids like their family.

Still, myself and the neighbor kids were able to get back at him and his family in our own ways:

• When his father approached us at a neighborhood block party and told us we had to share half of the sidewalk with him and his younger brother, we waited until he was out of earshot and one of our group quickly said, "We get the top half!"
• The Halloween following the spitting incident saw me blowing out the candle in their pumpkin to give them a taste of their own medicine. They probably had no idea what happened and assumed a breeze blew it out.

I'm not sure if business neighbors can count toward the thread, but the office next to mine - until this past Fall - was owned by a grouchy dentist. He consistently refused to pay what would be his portion for much-needed repairs to our shared parking area due to his self-claimed lack of money, and he'd complain if more than two cars from our clients parked in the spaces in front of our offices. At one point, he came into the office to complain about that and called the boss a bitch under his breath as he was leaving. I heard it and yelled at him about not talking that way. I neither know nor care if he heard me. Needless to say, I think all the businesses in our block were glad Dr. Grouch sold his building to someone in the real estate/property management field that has proven to be far more pleasant than he was in the few months they've been there. They even seem willing to split the costs of repaving the parking area when the weather improves enough for it.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

My neighbors are a group of people and they always have sketchy people hanging around outside or going in and out. One of them has stolen two of my packages on two occasions. The guy swiped my package from the doorstep which was a rare bike part that hasn't been sold online since I bought it. I never got that package back. One of my other neighbors told me that they saw the guy snatch it and then throw it away when they found out it wasn't worth anything. That asshole could have just put it back on my damn doorstep. I wouldn't have cared as long as he gave it back.

They also sit outside the backyard until fucking 3 am talking loudly about stupid shit from time to time. One time I listened from the backyard and one of the women was talking about having sex on her period. When I was cleaning up and taking out the trash in the morning, one of their friends was sitting in their car and blocking the garbage bins. Because any friend that shows up there is that kind of a dick. Every time there were people hanging around near my place late at night they were always connected to those neighbors. I'm sick of these sketchy a-holes hanging out all the time. All the problem stuff that happens is from this one house.

If the woman who lived there wasn't friends with my cousin I'd be tempted to rat them out so fast for the stolen packages.

Shitty neighbor #2:

When I was in middle school I used to live next door to a man and his daughter. It was very obvious that this man used to abuse his daughter. He either beat or raped her, but I think it was the latter. He was creepy. When me and my brother would look into the bedroom from our backyard we could see that they both slept together on one mattress. Eventually after the father tried to attack my brother and after hearing his daughter crying and screaming basically every night, my mom called CPS and they took her away.

 

[Lunete]

My neighbor once played the Ghostbusters theme on repeat for several hours straight.

 

[Aquinas]

My neighbor once played the Ghostbusters theme on repeat for several hours straight.

sounds like they was haunted

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I live near an apartment complex just behind my house. Which is one of those split-levels where me (and my mom, because I'm poor as shit right now) live on the top, and good lord can they be mindbogglingly stupid and loud. Some highlights from this revolving cavalcade of annoyance include:
- neighbors had a dog, it kept barking and wouldn't shut up even after owner kept yelling at it.
- other neighbors often played drums well after midnight for reasons I don't fucking know.
- Yet other neighbors who occupied dog owner's apartment (probably the same people, never bothered to check) had equally loud kids who often crossed over into the backyard.

There's also a guy downstairs that has the same issues. Not helping matters is that he also ran over one of my cats out of actual malice when it got outside (and yes, there were in fact witnesses. No children saw it thank god). How he still lives there is beyond me. Besides that, my neighbors are otherwise pretty good.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

when i moved to a student dorm, i got a room for a three girls. it was pretty small room(~15 square meters) so we didn't had much personal space but we quickly became a friends so it was ok. But! a week later one of the girls says she is pregnant(she was 17 at that time) and that her bf(almost 30 y.o.!) will move to this city and will find a job and normal apartament and they'll live together.
After few months this guy appear. he hasn't got a normal job so he could afford only place in dorm for workers so all his spare time he did spend with his gf in our room. Imagine what 2 girls who just moved out from their parents would feel about living in a small room with a grown man who is here 60% of time. We couldn't event change clothes normally or talk about girly staff. And he was stinky, eww.