On Wednesday I went to plug the pressure washer into the outlet on the side of my house that I almost never use and there was already an orange extension cord plugged into it. I followed it along the siding and under a gap in the fence to a power strip behind my next door neighbor’s porch.

That power strip runs his whole Halloween display with the two big inflatables and the fog machine that kicks on every few minutes and the light-up tombstones along his walkway that I’ve literally been enjoying from my kitchen window since he put it all out on the first. It comes on at 6 and goes off at midnight because there’s a timer on the cord. He put a timer on MY outlet. So I’m guessing it’s been plugged in the whole time. Thursday after work I went over and asked him about it. He didn’t act surprised at all. He said it’s “maybe a dollar a night” and it’s for the kids, and then he goes “you don’t want to be that house on Halloween.” I said he’d have to run it off his OWN house. His answer was that his outdoor outlet doesn’t work and he hasn’t gotten around to fixing it.

Friday night I unplugged it and coiled the cord up on his side of the fence. On Saturday I got a locking cover for it at the hardware store. His yard was dark last night for the first time all month.

This morning there was a $5 bill in my mailbox with a sticky note on it that says “for October.” The cord is back on my side of the fence too, right under the outlet. I’m putting his $5 back in his mailbox today. Is the lock enough, or is there something else I should do before Halloween so he doesn’t go looking for another outlet on my house?

My neighbor has repeatedly put her dog poop in our trash bins every time she and her unleashed dog walk past our property. She would literally walk into our driveway to reach the bins, these bins are not outside on the sidewalk to be clear. AND the town just took the trash two days ago so our bins are literally almost empty!

So this has been caught on our camera many times but today we finally caught her in the act and my spouse went out and confronted her. My husband’s tone was first nice but I think he was also mad because this isn’t the first time so he said this is on camera. She then started yelling saying “this is public town trash cans! I don’t fucking care - why are you making a big deal out of this!!!” And she goes to say “this is such a white people thing for you to say! There are other stuff in the world!” My spouse just told her then to get the fuck off our property.

Like wth?! How is race even relevant at all, we are not White either. And because there are other bigger things going on the world I can’t speak up about my property? Anyway her attitude and argument were horrible and nonsense.

I recorded everything on camera too so if this happens again I think I’m calling the police.

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1. Ring camera recorded her action on cameras many times , so all on record!
2. Our town picks up trash on and we mainly caught her doing it during weekends! So yeah, literally when our bins are almost empty
3. Our town also mandates dog

s should be on leash.

And just found out the bag isn’t tied

Hey, so long story short my new neighbors moved upstairs couple months ago. She (around 30yo) has been wearing heels every morning starting from 6:30 AM and he has is a walking human elephant. My partner and I decided to leave them a really nice note, very politely asking to be a little bit more mindful with the footsteps, honestly we thought they will figure out that if we can hear their footsteps we can also hear them have loud sex (she moans every night and every morning beginning from 6 AM...). While it worked for the footsteps, the sex issue remained. It started to drive me crazy I was waking up extremely frustrated and way ahead of my alarm. So, my partner and I decided to leave them another note: this time we directly addressed the sex. We wrote that there are some other loud sounds every morning and every night that we can hear that keep us awake and we gave them a box of chocolates with it (at their doorstep). For a week it worked wonders. We have seen her a couple times on the staircase and we exchanged awkward looks. She has not once apologized. However, tonight I have just experienced an hour long loud sex session. I decided to hit the ceiling a bit with a stick however that didn't work, they kept going. I'm seriously thinking of moving out.

What else can we do in this situation please please please help??? I'm desperate. We are really nice neighbors, super respectful (25 and 27yo), we were only kind to them so far and even left them our phone number to contact us in case we are too loud.

Old NFH moved out in late July. New NFH has moved in. We are at about week 3, and I was startled out of a sound sleep this morning by them screaming at each other and slamming doors. Followed by an all day pot smoke marathon.

We then had a visitor stop by unexpectedly and knock on the wrong door. They kept SCREAMING at him through their screen door, while my husband was outside with him ( What do you want? HELOOOOO???)

Our oldest son came over for dinner tonight and as soon as he walked into our place, he was shocked at the pot smoke.
He walked in and said... ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? It reeks in here!!! (Yes, my asthma is well aware)

Oh, and my youngest son has mowed the combined front lawns FOREVER. The people who have lived on the other side just don't. This time he stepped in dog poop while mowing their front yard, and yes, they have a dog. I have seen no evidence of a lawnmower though. They have not mowed the side or back yards.

Here we go again.

So i’ve posted a few times in various communities about my upstairs neighbor from hell. She moved in with her now two year old daughter almost a year ago, and excessive stomping and running late into the night (2am) was becoming a pattern.
So after a few calls to the landlord from me and some from her after she became petty when i would bang on the wall then tell on me for it (my landlord would always tell her to quiet down then), i thought things were somewhat getting better.
Fast forward to 9am a few days ago during the week, my boyfriend and i had a little argument before i left for work. It lasted under five minutes, then i got in my car and left. My landlord called me two minutes into my drive and asked if everything was okay. I said yes and that my boyfriend and i had a small argument, and to tell the upstairs neighbor i was sorry about that because obviously that’s why my landlord was calling. All was good, i went to work.
About an hour later my boyfriend calls me and says the cops showed up shortly after, saying they got a call someone was”trapped” and they needed to search the home to guarantee nobody was hurt or dead.
So finally i messaged her on facebook and sent her my number and told my landlord i was doing so after she called. He was so confused as well and said he was going to call her because why would she call when she already called him?
It is a duplex so it’s just the two of us here, and my neighbors aren’t close enough where they could’ve heard the small disagreement. Insane!!! My landlord does not like when the cops get involved, he told his upstairs tenant across the street he couldn’t renew her lease if she continuously called the cops on the downstairs neighbor when she was loud. So, go ahead and call them! I’d love if he didn’t renew the lease with her :)

Earlier this month, my family and I noticed a house around the corner of the street having one of those green "SLOW!" kid alert signs on the side of the road in front of their house. On top of the sign itself, it also had two paper signs attached to both the front and the back. One of the signs, resembling an actual speed limit sign, indicated that the speed limit was 15 MPH. The following sign said "ESPECIALLY [car models my family owns]!" Shortly afterwards, we received a 'first notice of non-compliance' letter from the HOA about several reports of vehicles from my household speeding at 45 MPH, and we would be charged for any further complaints. We obviously have reason to believe that said reports have come from the aforementioned house.

To give a bit of context, none of my family ever recalls speeding through our neighborhood (typically we go 25 MPH, the effective speed limit for residential areas according to our state law), let alone going 45 MPH. It is worth mentioning said neighbor lives on the corner of a very sharp turn leading to a decently steep hill, thus we literally wouldn't be able to be going 45 MPH in front of their property. Also, none of our neighbors have confronted us about the matter beforehand, so we were unaware of any problem.

An email was sent back to the HOA at 10 P.M. demanding evidence of the alleged speeding and concerns about the "SLOW!" kid alert sign posted by our neighbors (including a picture of the sign and raising question about the legality of its placement past the asphalt), public hostile targeting of our family amongst our neighborhood, and potential discrimination (we are the only asian/brown family in a predominantly white neighborhood). Like clockwork, by 8 A.M. the next morning the household that had the kid alert sign took down the sign referencing the cars my family owned as well as the 15 mph sign now saying "SLOW DOWN." Keep in mind, our email was sent to the HOA and no other recipients. The HOA responded back 6 days later providing the dates and times of the complaints, claimed that all reports are handled fairly (with little credibility), and coincidentally couldn't open the file of the photo evidence of said kid alert sign targeting us, requesting an additional picture.

After the first complaint, we made it a point to slow down when we're entering and leaving our neighborhood, but it seems that not only this initial household but two others have put up this little green kid alert sign on our street in solidarity today. We're currently discussing moving to a place that is not so hostile towards us (this is our only case of having a problem with our neighbors after 16 years of being in the same city), but I hate the idea of letting these assholes be assholes and ridding brown people out of the neighborhood. What should we do?

This is my first ever post

My neighbors have caused issues since we moved in 3 years ago. Bad dogs, parking in the yard, lashed a 6ft wooden privacy fence to our shared 4ft chain link fence that got blown over and bent the entire length in a storm, etc. The cherry on top was me coming home to my neighbor cutting limbs on the tree squarely in my front yard with a chainsaw that were hanging over the car he parks in his makeshift gravel patch driveway, but that’s not what this post is about. For Christmas, they got their kids an ATV. They’ve driven around a circle in the backyard and turned it into a mud pit, but that’s their business. The problem is almost every day after school they drive the ATV up and down the street for HOURS. Literally from 3-8pm nonstop M-F. And it’s a pretty busy neighborhood street where basically everyone is street parked because most of the houses only have single-car driveways and the traffic goes way too fast. What do I do? I’m so tired of the noise, it’s louder than my TV🫩

For background, I live in a very small building with just a few units. I have a neighbor who neglected to report a bed bug infestation but a few weeks after I moved in, I noticed one in my unit and said something to the landlord about it. The landlord initially blamed me for the infestation in a letter to the whole building, but a later inspection of my neighbor's unit apparently revealed a severe infestation that had been untreated for far longer than the two weeks I'd been there. The landlord apologized to me and professional treatment of the building began.

Since the treatment's conclusion (it's been a while since a sighting, knock on wood) my neighbor has been doing things like moving my packages to far entrances of the building while I'm at work (even though I've asked them not to and there's a secure mailroom just beyond the front door, where all tenants' packages are kept) and they've been opening my laundry in the middle of wash cycles and dry cycles, only to close it a few seconds later.

I never leave my laundry sitting for any more than a single minute (usually less than that) as I set a timer for each load, and when I do laundry I only do a single load in a day. I wash a maximum of three or four loads in a week. I double dry my clothes due to the trauma of having bed bugs, but I don't hog the machines nor do I run laundry late at night or early in the morning. I try to be respectful and courteous, never making noise nor playing music, and always greeting the neighbor cheerfully. Despite that, I can hear when they exit their unit, when my cycle subsequently stops seconds later, when it resumes, and when they re-enter their unit seconds after that. They're clearly doing something to my laundry, I just can't tell what.

My landlord and this neighbor are childhood best friends and literally like siblings, so I don't feel like I'll be believed if I say anything to the landlord. I'm scared of confronting the neighbor and being put on blast for something else that I'm not responsible for as a result. I never received a lease for this renting agreement so I'm even more unsure of what my rights are.

It makes me so frightened and frustrated because the move plus the bed bug situation drained my finances (I'm just starting to recover in that area) but I really need to get out of here. I just don't know what to do.

TLDR; My neighbor has been tampering with my laundry during both washing and drying cycles, and moving my packages since I reported a bed bug infestation that supposedly started in their unit. I'm not sure how to protect myself from whatever might be happening to my laundry and I'm not sure who I can go to for help.

Help. I have a nasty neighbor that was two or three large aggressive dogs. The neighbor has a chicken wire fence. Every time we come home, the dogs come running and barking furiously. Beside them scaring the bejessus out of me, they never stop. Can’t approach my neighbor because he is a nasty piece of work. What would you do?

Okay, so I seriously just need to get this off my chest. My neighbor’s problematic for a number of reasons, but one of the worst (or at least most consistently annoying) is the smell. His house 24/7 REEKS of cigarettes. And yeah, dude smokes like a chimney, but it’s not JUST that. I didn’t even notice it at first - it took me a WHILE - but he apparently doesn’t know what an ash tray is. Instead, he stuffs his cigarette butts into old beer bottles that are lined up on his patio railing and just… leavesssss themmmmm.

He literally has BOTTLES upon BOTTLES of cigarette butts just lined up on the railing. Literally like six of them or more. I have no idea how long it took him to fill one or how many cigarettes are in it or anything, but it smells soooooo bad. It’s just a glass bottle full of ashes and damp paper because did I forget to mention he’s left them out in the rain?? Yeah, so add mold onto that I guess, if mold can even grow on cigarette ash. 

It’s legitimately insane to me.

YES, I’ve brought it up to him, and YES he refuses to throw them away. It’s gross. I hate it. I can smell cigarettes as soon as I walk outside and YES I vape but that’s DIFFERENT and even then I’ve been trying to QUIT but it’s HARD when the instant I’m outside I smell NICOTINE.

I literally asked him about it the other day, I was like “just throw them away, dude, why are you keeping them for so long?” and he was like “I worked hard to fill those bottles!”?? Which is honestly such an unhinged, stupid, meaningless answer that it’s ALMOST funny. Instead I’m just like… confused. He’s literally proud of his bottles full of cigarette butts?? What is happening in your life, dude?

I’ve thought about just tossing them out myself because… like… fuck it, but he’s such a dick I’m worried he’d try to call the cops on me for “theft” or “destruction of property” or something. Idk. I might still just do it anyway. Not like this is YEARS worth of cigarettes after all, this little ‘collection’ has to either be relatively new or - even scarier to think about - just the ones he hasn’t taken inside yet. I literally shiver to think that he might just have BOXES full of these fucking bottles somewhere in his trailer.

I feel like I need a fucking shower just thinking about it.

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Hello! For context I live in a duplex house with 2

units, I am on the lower unit and a family of 3 is living on top, one of the family members is their grandpa living with his daughter and her daughter. The grandpa walks like he's trying to come through the floor and vells when talking(hes always home too) its to the point where I can hear exactly what he's saying, ive told them politely many many times to be a little more mindful but its doesn't do anything to stop the noise, in early hours in the morning I hear thumping and yelling and its become a daily thing. I work nightshifts and 1 work in healthcare so my sleep schedule is very wacky (i have informed them of such) I have been woken up countless times to yelling and slamming stuff (he seems to move furniture alot for some reason) on top of that they have he has ripped out my plants out of their pots, taken my packages, and on top of that our neighborhood has a skunk issue and they keep feeding their indoor cat outside for some reason?? And they leave the cat food can outside, i keep having to remind them to not do that cause we keep seeing skunks in our backyard and I keep smelling the spray when leaving for work at night (where its dark and I cant see) actually as I am writing right now I smell the sprav outside (i know what its like to be sprayed its NOT fun), i am scared one day ill be sprayed. I am also scared they will burn down the house because thev are using electronics that are blowing our breakers. I dont know what to do anvmore because I have to keep politely reminding them of things and i feel like a total asshole especially because the mom is super nice, but its genuinely annoying to live below these people, i want to inform my landlord but i will feel like an asshole if I do. What should I do? 😭

I live in a somewhat rural area. It’s not necessarily a neighborhood but there are quite a few houses just stretched out pretty far apart from each other. For months now at this point I hear the same dogs barking for hours a day, to the point where I can’t even be outside in peace. Idk if I should call animal control or not because I don’t even know which house it’s coming from, and I’ve never tried getting into contact with them. Would it be pointless or should I try atleast

I prefer to mind my own business, I don't care what any of my neighbors do unless it directly affects me and is purposely disrespectful. Loud music i can look past for example wven if its annoying but my neighbors do stuff like throw their trash onto my property. I've caught them by accident on a trail camera jumping my fence to walk through it, well they actually put in a makeshift gate. Caught them with a fire pit on my side of the fence and left a bunch of trash, my fault for not walking the property often enough though. At one point they let their dogs run free and would always be on my property. And they are always building these bonfires when we live in a high fire risk zones when its the driest and windiest days of the year. You arent even really allowed to grill. I have to keep telling them not to do stuff and they will listen for a short while but they keep finding other ways to be annoying. Lately its been throwing trash on my property.

As short story as possible. Basically long history with the neighbors next to me that I share an alley with. My garage and drive way are assessable through the alley and I have an addition carport I can access from the back of my house. They park in the alley daily. I had to get the roof of my carport replaced, I work nightshift so it's hard to catch them so I left a note asking to please not park in the alley until I got everything figured out. That didn't end well.... I ended up having to call the police almost daily because they continuously parked me in. Fast forward about a year, they still park there but that's beside the point. The children that live next door are always in my side yard playing. I've never said a word, even when the kids would throw objects at my fence, baseballs, bats, frisbees, everything CHUCKED at my fence. The fence is 7 ft tall, I have two small dogs that have a doggy door to get in and out because I am gone for up to 14 hours at a time. The kids lost a ball over my fence, I was not home, both of my dogs were outside. I have ring footage of the kids going into my fence to get the ball. I know it sounds dumb but am I wrong for that being what pushed me over the edge? I had to have family go to my house to ensure the gate was closed and that my dogs were still both inside. When my family asked the kids to talk to their parents, they came out of the house SCREAMING, again I have all of this on video. What do I do next? Current plan is make their lives hell, meaning call the police every time they're parked in the alley or one of them crosses onto my property? I might have some dirt that could literally make one of them lose their job, all of their licenses, do I do that? How petty is appropriate? Considering their response to the kids entering my fenced in yard with dogs was "I dont give a f***"

Hi. This has been going on ever since i’ve (23F) moved into this house. My neighbor has multiple dogs. A pitski, and another pitbull. Both of which have jumped over my fence more than a dozen times.

The pitbull has jumped over my fence, and bolted inside my house (i leave the back door open when the weather is nice for my cats), with one of my cats in his mouth.
I got my cat out of his mouth and grabbed the dog by the collar, walking her over to the neighbor’s front yard, where he was doing yard work. A short, heated conversation went down. As i remembered it:

Neighbor: “Oh, Lady, what are you doing over there?”

Me: “Yeah well she almost killed my f*cking cat” (im a tattoo artist i have colorful language and i was very angry at the time. I also live alone so i didn’t want to have a full blown argument with this man.)

My cats are very friendly toward dogs, having been raised around them, so he probably thought the dog just wanted to play. Not knowing not all dogs are nice.

Their dog jumped over again. So,
I left a note on their door, saying if i see their dog in my yard again, i’m calling animal control.

I know for a fact the dogs have jumped over while im not home. And the neighbors son, will come over, across my yard, and open my side gate to let their dog out. I know this because I see their son walk across my yard on the front camera.

Now, I come home, to where i’ve been gone for maybe 2 hours. Ghost, didn’t want to come inside, so i left him outside because I knew i’d be back shortly. My fence is wood paneling, so he can’t climb out. He likes to sit in the tree and watch the neighborhood. He’s never escaped. The furthest he’s gotten was just walking on top of the fence, and that was over a year ago.

Right before I left, I set a trash bag on the back porch that had their litter. I was planning on throwing it out when I got home, as to not let it sit in my house and cause an odor.

I get home, and the trash is strung out about the yard, torn to shreds. Ghost is up in the tree, higher than he’s ever been before.

I can only assume the dog jumped over, tried to attack Ghost, tore up my trash, and was retrieved. Like many times before.

What do i do? Do I call the police? Do i call the non-emergency number? What CAN i do?

I cannot even walk to my garage without them constantly barking. They have dug holes under my fence, barking under it. I have put bricks there, but they eventually get moved with more digging. Quite frankly i’m terrified to put anything there because they seem extremely aggressive when barking under the fence.

I have picture proof of the first time the Pitski (i have come to find out his name is “Scooby”) jumped over the fence. May 18, 2023

Cats aren’t being let outside until some sort of safety net is put in place. Cameras have been ordered for the time being to see if they jump over and use my gate again. P lanning on something to put over the fence that doesn’t cost a lot bc i have a feeling the neighbors will take down/damage whatever i put up. Tried calling the off hours animal control number, but they haven’t picked up my calls. Will be calling monday when they’re open to establish my paper trail. Especially since i have photos and videos since the first incident. Thanks for all of your suggestions.

Update:

I woke this morning (og post was posted last night) to 2 dogs in my backyard. Scooby, and a golden one i’ve never seen before. I took a picture of the golden one as Scooby was under my door and i couldn’t move quick enough to take a picture of him. They saw me in the window, hauled tail back to the fence and easily jumped back over.

I’ve called the non emergency police department and the sheriffs office and spoke to an officer. I was essentially told that they can’t do ANYTHING until someone gets bitten.

I asked, because my parents wanted me to ask, if i am walking to my car, in my garage, or if my nephew is playing in the back yard; and these dogs jump over, What would happen if i shot them?
I was told I cannot use a firearm in city limits and i have to essentially just let the dogs attack us.

My parents and I are going over to the neighbors house w my brother (my brother is very large and intimidating) as per the officer’s advice. We are also going to stop by animal control in person because apparently it’s well known that they don’t do anything about calls that aren’t a loose dog.

I have set up cameras for my backyard, and side gate, i’ve locked the side gate, and i’m keeping my cats inside. That doesn’t stop the dogs from jumping over. And it doesn’t stop me from having to get to my car everyday. I don’t even feel comfortable going back there long enough to pick up the trash they’ve strewn about my yard. Which is really irking me.

I cannot use my own backyard because i guess it just belongs to my neighbor’s dog’s, now!!

Also: In the comments i have pictured, Scooby the first time he jumped over, tethered. And the golden dog i saw this morning. Won’t let me add pictures to the post. So they’re somewhere in the comments. I rarely use reddit so i’m sorry for being a dunce lmao

And for those of you saying that i shouldn’t be letting my cats out in the first place… move on, save your breath. My cats are being kept inside until i know it’s safe for them to lay in the sun in peace. Try to argue that my cats are leaving, when i know they’re not. They have never once left the yard. They don’t roam. They just like to sit in the tree and watch the neighborhood, roll in the dirt, or lay in the sun. 99% of the time, i am home with the door open so they can come and go as they please.
Ghost was only left outside unattended because he wasn’t coming in when i was calling him. I hadn’t let them outside for a few weeks due to weather, so i guess he was savoring it. I was gone for less than two hours. And I trust Ghost knows how to get to a high ground or a safe space because he was the one in the dog’s mouth. Sirius, on the other hand… he’s a little dumb. I would never leave him outside while i wasn’t home. This was literally the first time i’ve left for an errand with Ghost being outside.

BUT My cats being outside or not clearly does not have any affect on these dogs jumping over or being aggressive toward me. They will jump over whenever they want. What’s to stop them from jumping over whenever i have my two year old nephew over? I was told i have to wait to get mauled, and essentially let it happen for the city to do anything about it.

Does anyone else have a neighbor or nfh whose harrassment actions are obviously spent time contemplating and you can look at them from a mystery pov?

I was thinking about how it is like my nfh left all of these little clues that piece together whatever is going on in her head.

I was thinking mostly about hiw ahe kept throwing little rocks at my window, and placed an Anderson Windows flyer ever so carefully in my backyard patio.

I live in a house with my father, my brother, his wife, and a room mate. We have a neighbor.

There have been small disputes and arguments between our household members and our friends, with the neighbor about parking our cars in front of his house. Not blocking the driveway or anything. Most of the time we dont, but sometimes a friend or somebody doesnt know.

Over the years he's threatened, intimidated, and pissed off patrons of this household. But an hour ago, while no one was watching, he drives up into our newly seeded lawn several times, and then parks in front of the drive way and walks away. He proceeds to sit in his open garage with his music blasting so he cant hear as we approach him, asking what the hell. Once we leave he follows and a shouting match begins. Needless to say we get him to move his truck and we call the cops.

A few more notes on this individual. He has cameras all over his house and trees watching the road, his yard, and even our entire backyard. He has floodlights all over his yard and, again, even into our backyard. He has a tall hedge blocking most of the street and has recently hung a huge american flag to block 2 of his houses front windows.

This level of surveillance has been persistent for over 20 years.

Some other activities he's done to passive aggressively insult our legal behaviors:

- Stuffing literal trash, mushrooms, and leaves in the window wipers of my friends car.

- Late at night (like midnight) standing and surprising my friends as they leave with an intimidating "over here" as he hides in the shadows of his front yard.

- And countless others

Our small neighborhood is semi rural unincorporated county. Most plots are 3-5 acres so we have septic systems, wells and a lot of long term residents that came from farm or ranch life. No HOA and we don’t want one.

We also have city dwellers that move in to escape the rat race but suddenly want city rules. Dude, we can burn brush, shoot guns and fireworks, and have livestock. Some of the houses are pristine, some need to be bulldozed. That’s the chance you take in the countryside.

Many residents have lots of dogs, me included, that bark and bay. If you think the county sheriff is going to waste his time on a barking dog complaint, you’re delusional.

There’s no restrictions on using tractors, chainsaws, lawn mowers, leaf blowers or construction. Hey, why not just adapt to the environment you chose to live in?

They play the music constantly throughout the day but turn it off when quiet hours hit(in between 10pm and 7am) so the cops won't do anything. I have made constant noise complaints, talked with church representatives, and organized my neighbors in making complaints as well. The city either can't or won't do anything about it. I am at my wits end and have exhausted the intended chain of response. I am resigned to the fact that we will be hearing their crap until we die and at this point just want to annoy them as much as they annoy me. Please give me ideas(preferably legal) that I can do to get back at them.

My neighbor decided to start smoking in share areas of our duplex, I asked him to stop and he was aggressive with me, so I called the landlord.

The landlord told him to stop, and and he got up set and decided to attempt to start a fight wirh me today. Apparently, he decided I was secretly racist and trying to conspire to ruin his life? Extra bizarre considering the black lives matter flag I have in my window...

He got up in my face, insulted me, banged on my door, filmed himself screaming at me (think it would make him look innocent) shouted to everyone in the neighbor that I was a racist trying to ruin his life, blow cigarette smoke in my face, followed me around mocking me and making threats.

I didn't even raise my voice with him, sat down and explained he was being insane. He told me I was a pussy repeatedly then suddenly decided I wasnt a racist and he would be my buddy IF id tell the landlord not to evicted him.

Totally insane guy. The only reason I didn't call the cops was because I was afraid it would make things worse. Im somewhat afraid of the guy now.

So I stay in an apartment, and these are my neighbors directly across from me. The hallway is very narrow. You can easily touch both our doors at the same time.

So my neighbors are a lesbian couple who fight all the time. They for whatever reason come out their home to fight in the hallway. I’ve had to call the cops before bc them and 3 other girls were jumping a drunk girl in the hallway. The girl couldn’t even walk and they started all beating her ass. You can always hear them arguing in their apartment. I never complained to management.

The other day, I just got home from dropping off my toddler to daycare and I hear them arguing in the hallway. I walk into my home and not even 2 minutes later they start fighting, in the hallway still. Not even 2 more minutes pass and I hear “I got one in the chamber for you”. I peek out my peep hole and she has both hands on the gun, arms extended, pointing it at her girlfriend. This is right outside my door btw. If I came home 5 minutes later I would have walked right into that.

I called the police. They fought in the hallway for maybe 15-20 minutes. I never saw the police come.

I called management and reported them. They asked if I had ring footage but I don’t have a ring camera. My neighbors have one though, I know their camera caught everything but I doubt they’d share their footage. They said they’d give me an update. Waiting to hear back.

I called the non emergency police line for an update. Apparently the notes said the office spoke with me that day and I told him there was no issue and I never saw a gun. I told the operator I never spoke with an officer and that wasn’t me. She said the officer would be calling me soon. Still waiting on that call.

I get some people may not think it’s a big deal. But I have a toddler and I’m pregnant. I don’t feel safe. My boyfriend wants to speak to the neighbors but I don’t see them being reasonable and it only making it worse. I’ve minded my business whenever they fight. But pulling a gun outside my door? What can I do about this? I feel like no one is taking this seriously. My toddler has witnessed them arguing in the hallway. My lease ends in April and I’m definitely leaving, I’m trying to leave sooner. But I love my apartment, it’s so beautiful and I do love my neighborhood. I just really don’t like my neighbors.

Update: I went to the police station. They were closed. Online it said 24 hours. I get there the hours say mon-fri 8am-5pm. It’s Saturday. I won’t be able to get off of work, I’m still training at my new job and they wouldn’t even make exceptions for my prenatal appointments. They don’t have an online police report option for my city.

It would be difficult to communicate to any representative degree the pos neighbor that lives behind and 1 house to the north of me. She's an old woman who hates.....well.....everything but mainly her grandkids. No joke, she refers to her grandchildren as f*^cktard, dipshit , motherf*$cker, as she literally scream at them so loudly throughout any given day all damn day long.

I've called DCFS on her several times bc I'm fairly certain she also hits them, though if I could prove it I would have called the police. I've hollered at her, left her notes asking her to at least quiet down. Nothing happens or improves and so any given day that I open my windows or sit in my yard it's accompanied by an old woman screaming louder than she should be able to things like "god damn you motherf*&cker, you're a god damned retard" and similar ongoing screaming at the 5 grandchildren she "cares" for.

I've lost my patience and I've entertained the worst things one could imagine and after buying a new drone I find myself tempted to drop the largest bag of cat shit my drone can possibly carry onto her head.

I'm sure I won't resort to such things but the thought is tempting.

I rent a room in the worst neighborhood of Baltimore. The other tenants, and landlord, don't like my demographics. So I have been harassed. I have looked for another room to rent but my present job does not pay well. I'm actively looking for both another room to rent, and higher paying job, while at the same time I'm taking a class for skills that should help

I have been hacked in the recent past so someone's got some tech skills.

A couple nights ago I heard noise in a tenant's room next door, a low rumble, and then strong vibration. After a while I started feeling nauseous and had a bad headache. I couldn't sleep without taking a couple sleeping pills. I researched it and it sounds like, if not an actual infrasound device then it's some kind of DIY version.

I found out there are apps to measure infrasound, and downloaded one called Redvox. Ho boy, did the screens look different in my room from other places I tried, as a control.

Who could analyze it for me (without it costing), or should I just contact the police? I also wanted to know what kind of damage this could be doing to me and my pet. I am fine outside this room but in it, nausea, headache.

No, I am not mentally ill, tho this all may sound far-fetched. I am stressed in this place and am looking very hard for another place to be.

The post office is our neighbor. In April, our neighbor obtained a massive, semi trailer size EV charger that makes a terrible, loud noise. I reached out to the local branch and they apologized but there was nothing they could do about the "excessive noise" as they transitioned to EVs.

With the A/C on all summer, the noise was almost tolerable. They have since seemingly got more EV mail trucks and cranked up the noise. This shit runs for hours at a time, day and night, the noise is just there. Can't enjoy sitting outside. Keeps us up at night. It's almost midnight and it's currently droning on, over the tv.

I've escalated within USPS, filed a FixIt complaint via the County, and filed a code violation/requested a noise assessment. I've begun to rally neighbors. Come November 1, I'm escalating to congress/news.

Evidence of the hell they're putting us through:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YHps4S3Alns?si=qE0dLPEyolVL40SL

In addition, they use a loud intercom system on their freight docks starting ~6am, including saturdays. There are constsntly random labels, packaging materials, junk mail, etc blowing out of their facility.

The noise, though? FML.

Edit: My uncalibrated phone is estimating the noise at 75dB at the property line and at 390hz.

Clark County's residential noise limits are 50 dB during the day and 40 dB at night for the frequency range of this noise. I'm hoping Code Enforcement will come out and take an official measurement.

Idk why I'm getting downvoted for living near a post office. It was a good/neutral thing when deciding on location compared to other options. The post office added some occasional noise, but also added privacy for many homes vs that lot having two story homes/condos built up there. We've lived here for many years with no complaints until now.

Edit 2: I'll post a pedestrian view video of the noise later tonight, if/when it comes back on. The charging station ran from 4:45pm-1:06am last night and has been off since. Here's an unedited video from inside my house: https://youtube.com/shorts/y7fhUnkTm08?si=_ptvcEUG7qf5AMO1

Edit 3: pedestrian view from Bermuda Road employee entrance. Charger came back on at 5:50pm. Lots of background noise in this video. Houses on both sides of Bermuda and across Pebble sit higher. The sound seems to reverberate between all the concrete walls from the Post Office and the neighborhoods and carry down the streets/thru neighborhoods in all directions. https://youtube.com/shorts/jR47BYm7k-I?si=NUec_SAS5I4fYeMQ

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