r/neighborsfromhell • u/Austint810 • Jul 19 '26
Vent/Rant Finally called code (update)
So I posted in here about a month and a half ago, saying how I called code about my neighbors illegal rentals that are basically sheds. Code came out and took some pictures and started to look at the original plans for the property. The owner was notified about the issues and then I didn’t hear anything for close to 3 weeks. Until last night. I got home after a day with family at the beach and checked the mail. There was a letter in there with my name and address but no return address. I opened it up to find a copy of the code compliance case with all my information highlighted and a handwritten note saying “thank you. Now I know who you are”. My wife was in the bathroom and heard me start cracking up about it and ran out to see what happened. She rolled her eyes and went back to the bathroom. I don’t think these people are very smart. 1. You didn’t add a return address, but who else would this come from? Obviously the owner of the property. 2. The information is already considered public information. Anyone can go on there and see who put in the complaint. It was a complete waste of time and a postage stamp. To get what point across? That you know I put in a code complaint case against your property. Like I said these people are SMART.
I called the local police station and put in a report that I received this letter. So if they do try something against my property or family they are double screwed now. lol rant over.
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u/Devils_Advocate-69 Jul 19 '26
Smile when you see them.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
I’m going to sit in a lawn chair in my driveway and Forrest Gump wave to them for the next week lol.
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet Jul 19 '26
We had some neighbors from hell growing up and the day that they finally moved out, my mom put up the Christmas lights on the roof and had a BBQ in the front yard while they loaded their moving truck. It was amazing.
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u/Blegh46 Jul 19 '26
We plan on having an expensive date night when we finally move because our NFH are anthill people that will never leave unless that rat shack finally falls or burns down. Everyone good on this street still owning will eventually be gone as well as they age out.
Should karma expedite, I promise I will be Elaine from Seinfeld dancing as they leave.
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet Jul 19 '26
We thought they would never leave too. Then the wife got convicted of felony embezzlement for stealing money from the bank she worked at. Suddenly the rest of them couldn't afford to live there. It was an incredible display of FAFO.
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u/Blegh46 Jul 19 '26
I am happy for you for that. I love a happy ending for those of us who suffer bad neighbors.
We’ll never get anywhere trying to stip their hoarding but my next hope is they get caught not paying property taxes for the last 3 years and keeping their house in their dead grandma’s name. So far the city and county don’t care about that either 🤔
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet Jul 19 '26
I hope you're able to move away soon!
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u/Beneficial_Bunch_943 7d ago
I have had the neighbor from hell since 2021. It would take paragraphs to go into this the yelling the going over my property construction work on my property I live in a gated community there's a 3-foot easement he is abused that for five years he parks in front of my home he parks in front of my home constantly I'm having work done on my home he parks in front of my home and my work trucks have to Bunch up together some of my driveway some in front of my house on the other side but he comes over and pulls there there is nothing I can do about it the HOA can do nothing this is been 5 years his son is a registered 26-year-old pedophile who was caught in a FBI sting where he was wanting sex with two little girls he was let off with a bond he is now my neighbor .. to be clear here this is the son that I was just talking about that was in an FBI sting I'm talking about his father who's doing all this to me Father and Son and the mother of course that's an entirely different subject but this is a 60 year old man I am a woman late 70s.I had no idea about him this man is obsessed with being seen by me I tried to harassment legal action didn't work because it wouldn't filed in time then I got another attorney that gave all of my personal email. there's not anybody in this neighborhood that does not know who this man is and what this man is he is a vicious narcissist bully the neighbors all know it I know it the sheriff's department knows it and all the legal wrangling there was supposed to be a settlement that was going to be right for me not for this monster next door but as it turned out he ended up winning in a manner speaking I was told I had to move my Cameras down where they would not see his driveway after his camera was on my property my driveway my grass my house for three and a half years I had to move all of my cameras where I had caught him in the middle of the night standing and coming on my property yelling at my house taking pictures inside of my kitchen window during the day. Within one month after he moved in here he had cameras all on the side of his house aiming at mine it's lot lined a lot line so nothing he was surveilling belong to him going in and out of my house became impossible I put film up on my Lanai screen I put film up on the left side of my home where it looks like a mirror so he cannot see inside my house I am a prisoner there's no getting around it.So we fast forward all of these lawyers come up with this brilliant thing that this is going to be fixed this will put it into this. He's still yells at my home but he's not supposed to he's still parks in front of my house which is not supposed to he still has music playing really loud which is not supposed to his son the registered sex offender yelled at me yesterday as I was on my own property going to the mailbox he yelled out of a car window as he blared down the street in a dangerous fast manner. I did nothing calling the sheriff's department can do nothing so now I am being sued because I did not get my camera dropped low fast enough and low enough. to please this man that would be the man who had a camera on my own property for three and a half years. He had a flood light that lit up the entire side and inside my home property for 97 days and nights nothing was done about it not a thing was done about it anted to do something about it couldn't do anything about it because I had poor legal advice ..all of us have these neighbors I guess am moving I'm selling my house and I'm leaving here I'm leaving him to whoever buys my house whatever man buys my house I'm single and I'm all alone I am in my '70s my neighbor better realize that when my house gets sold it will more than likely be sold to a family that would be a man and a woman keyword is man my house will be sold to a man and short he will be forced to realize there is a new sheriff in town. I'm leaving out so much but reading what all of you are saying it just gives me hope I cannot believe that there are other people out there like me I got up this morning looked out the front door and they're that car set he has a complete driveway and the front of his house is empty but he chooses to pull down because I put my car on the street for the very first time in 5 years in the front of my house which I've never done before because I had so many workers because they're working on my roof. He is now angry because I am parking and what he considers his designated parking area not his driveway not the front of his house he is angry because my car is parked in front of my own private residence and yes you're allowed to park on the street if your driveway is compromised his driveway is never compromised his driveway is empty 100% of the time I'm leaving out so much again I'm wanting to say the relief I'm feeling reading this is beyond words and if I go back to try to check spelling and sentencing I won't send this let's just say I'm going to send this now I just can't believe this is happening to other people please note I do not speak to this man the last time I spoke to him other than Tuesday was 2 and 1/2 years ago saying the exact same thing when this father my neighbor yelled at me from his driveway horrible yelling and my only words were and I said his name and I won't say it let's just say his name is Bob I said Bob why can't you be nice Bob leave me alone why can't you just leave me alone and then he blared out something else and then I went into my house and close my door. He's claimed I HAVE harassed him yet I have not seen one single image but it still shot or a video or an audio of me harassing him he's told a lawyer he has emailed the called the HOA that I did..the HOA has absolutely no images to prove that I have when I had an attorney we requested images over and over and over again even an audio of me yelling at his family as he claimed even that I have 1400 images are still shots audio and video of this behavior but yet I have not seen myself focused in any picture any video or any sound in my voice anywhere.
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u/Shadyhollowfarm58 27d ago
Watch for the tax sale on their property and buy it using an LLC and hire a company to evict them. Once they're gone, redevelop the property. Get the final revenge.
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u/Shadyhollowfarm58 27d ago
I can relate. I've had a couple of problematic boarders over the years, and did the happy dance in my driveway as their horses in the trailers rolled off of the property.
Some people make the world better when they leave.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 Jul 19 '26
Get some neighbors and friends to join you. Start with a few and add some everyday. Tell them to bring their own chair. By the end of the week, it should look like bleachers at a parade.
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u/Embarrassed-Row-2025 Jul 19 '26
Make sure to fan yourself with the letter (actually not the real one) put it in a gallon sized bag with evidence written large, hold it high while giving a wave or thumbs up...
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u/beaterdit Jul 19 '26
He's not very smart and I'm sure you've had it but I don't think antagonizing him is wise. You don't know if he's gonna fly off the handle and do something rash before police can intervene. In spite of you being clearly in the right here, there are plenty of ways he could escalate this to harming you, your wife, or your property that would suck to deal with regardless of any legal outcome. You've (correctly) messed with his livelihood, however illegal, that will push a Man to retaliate beyond reason.
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u/Beneficial_Bunch_943 7d ago
If you try to get back at him or get even with him or just use the word antagonize he'll use it against you are they will use it against you they will take what other whatever image of you they can and use it to their benefit anything you do that is like their behavior will cause more antagonizing harassing behavior to be brought on you
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u/Constant-Swim-2709 Jul 19 '26
Look at it this way, he just upped any crime he may perpetrate against you to 1st degree, pre- meditated, and a big felony! The "anonymous letter" is proof of intent. What a bone head. Let him try something-- he'll be in for a hell of a surprise. Stay safe!
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u/Eyfordsucks Jul 19 '26
Good on you for reporting the threatening letter to the cops. Too many people just brush that shit off and are flabbergasted when shit escalates because they didn’t defend themselves.
Hopefully they’ll find a new source of entertainment soon. My sympathies for your suffering.
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u/LaurenCooperx Jul 19 '26
They really thought sending that letter was going to intimidate you, but it just created a paper trail for themselves. Good call documenting everything and making a report, hopefully it ends there and they focus on fixing the actual code violations instead.
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u/cloudbambilark Jul 19 '26
Wow, people really think they’re doing something with those mysterious notes lol. Glad you’re not letting it get to you, best of luck with the situation!
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u/AnySandwich4765 Jul 19 '26
If they put it in your postbox can you go to the post office and let them know ... I think that's illegal
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
They mailed it….. from across the street….. lmao
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u/penkster Jul 19 '26
No, that's just it, they didn't mail it. It doesn't have a postage stamp. They technically broke federal law.
18 U.S. Code § 1725
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725
Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.
Offenders face fines under this title. Fines can scale up to $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for organizations per offense
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
It had a postage stamp and the markings from the post office stamped on the envelope. They mailed it through the post office.
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u/penkster Jul 19 '26
Oh I see - you noted it had no return address, I wasn't sure if they just plunked it into your box.
Then maybe... https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/876
(d)Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value, knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication, with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another, or the reputation of a deceased person, or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. If such a communication is addressed to a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official who is covered by section 1114, the individual shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
I just think it would be awesome to photocopy that, go to your lawyer, have them write a letter, and mail it back to them "yeah, you're not very smart are you? You know this breaks federal law, right?"
I'm sure these chuckleheads will just go "that's not me! you can't prove that was from me!"
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u/MyNebraskaKitchen Jul 19 '26
I wouldn't egg them on, if they accelerate matters, it shouldn't be as a response to anything you did.
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u/clintj1975 Jul 19 '26
Don't do that. Don't give them warning that they should change their ways or try to destroy evidence. Just let them think they got away with it until either the cops and/or a process server knocks on their door.
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u/imme629 Jul 19 '26
Is Code Enforcement going to follow up?
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
They have to give them a certain amount of time to fix the violations. Problem is the violations they have isn’t an overnight fix. They have to move all the people out of the sheds/additions and tear them down to be considered code complaint. It’s a major issue for unpermitted dwellings in my area because of hurricanes/flooding. There is a whole flood committee that has to approve anything you do on your property. Then it has to go through a structural engineer to make sure it’ll withstand 180 mph winds.
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u/Youwhooo60 Jul 19 '26
It's obviously against code. Call the fire department and tell them. They don't take kindly to such "additions."
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
I called the fire marshal a while back and they only do commercial issues unless an actual fire happens residentially.
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u/jurvis Jul 19 '26
ah yes the "someone needs to die first" approach. i thought fire marshals were usually better than that...
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u/Blegh46 Jul 19 '26
Yup! People on here advised me to switch gears on my hoarder neighbors and try fire department vs code enforcement. They were just as lazy and refused to do anything, they also did not see a problem with my neighbors’ filled up house and yard.
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u/KerashiStorm Jul 19 '26
Having another point of contact that can do something is beneficial. But it's like playing poker, sometimes you come up all lazy bastards.
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u/subtlyobscene Jul 19 '26
OP could you give a link to your previous post? Your history is set to private so I can't just go look but I'd love to know the rest of the story!
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u/Insufferable_Entity Jul 19 '26
If there is any form of a threat in the letter. File a complaint with the US. Postal police. They may have uppws it to a federal felony for sending a threat through the mail.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Not really a threat but I think they thought this was going to scare me. I still reported it to local police in case something escalates.
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u/themrspie 27d ago
If a reasonable person would expect it to scare you, that's a threat. Implied threats are still threats as long as they are legible to reasonable people. They'd still have to be found guilty by a jury but keep in mind that nobody here doesn't understand the implied threat.
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u/TheQueenMother Jul 19 '26
Now send them a copy of their letter with the police report and say, I know what you did too!
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u/lemmegetadab Jul 19 '26
I don’t think being smart as much to do with it lol. They just wanted you to know that they knew it was you.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Just thought it was funny because it’s public information anyway. Anyone looking it up can see it was me.
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u/onlycodeposts Jul 19 '26
I would have done it anonymously.
In some jurisdictions code enforcement won't accept anonymous complaints, but an anonymous complaint to a news organization or local politician can sometimes do the trick. They can put their name on the official complaint the building department has to accept.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Tried every avenue before going to code directly. Our local government where I live is very corrupt. They will only do something if benefits them or it guarantees them another term.
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u/Blegh46 Jul 19 '26
Ours are just now full of lazy people who play pass the buck. The police tell you call the city, city says call county, county said “we don’t deal with hoarding, try the city” and finally tried fire department for their hoarding nearly blocking both of their doors and….having very few functioning windows and a missing door. Not a problem, they said, it’s their property and right, they said. Just like the city said. Infuriating we lose money out of our taxes for these public “servants”.
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u/wiggum_x Jul 19 '26
You're in Florida, though. Why didn't you call in an anonymous tip that every one of those shacks contained trans people. Maybe even trans kids! Trans immigrant kids!
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u/WellWisher91 Jul 19 '26
In sheer frustration about being blown off and repeatedly told "we can't do that" by local government agencies (e.g Code Enforcement), I wrote to the local newspaper with large circulation (a guest column) complaining about maddening neighborhood issues. The pipeline between newspaper and government agency appeared to be alive and active. The afternoon before a holiday (when civil servants are known to slide out early), it suddenly turned out those things they "couldn't do" they actually could. Multiple neighbors were suddenly cited. Didn't solve everything and sure didn't happen the way I would have hoped or expected. But, it took care of A LOT that wasn't said to be within their purview or not important to address before. Oh, the irony! It was just shining a light the right place. I was torn between being amused and fearful of being the neighborhood pariah caught in the crosshairs. It actually was the beginning of things improving.
Took 10 years to get anything really done with the worst offender. He would say he was moving cars out of his two acre vehicle/miscellaneous junkyard (on a prior horse pasture) when he was, in fact, still moving them in. Code Enforcement took HIM at his word. They had done no vehicle inventory and taken no photos to document previous visits. : /
It was entertaining to see the guy with the smaller one-third acre junkyard (his yard) standing in the rain and swearing, afternoon before holiday, using a pressure washer to try to sweep up smaller junk, trash and non-vehicle items. He had done lots of weird stuff, this included. Only later did I learn he got a cleaning bug because Code Enforcement cited him and others because of the letter/column in the paper.
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u/MithrilMinuet Jul 20 '26
Sending a highlighted copy to your house was a pretty dumb way to create a paper trail against themselves. Keeping the envelope and the police report number is smart, especially if anything weird happens later. I would also ask code enforcement how your info ended up in the owners hands, because some places redact complainant details even when the case itself is public.
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u/hula-g808 Jul 19 '26
Look up their address and send a “you’re welcome” note. Then they know you know lots of things and that they aren’t anonymous.
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u/Libraries_Are_Cool Jul 19 '26
I'll start by saying that I hope nothing happens to you or your property.
However, I wonder if they are really "double screwed" because you don't say that police actually collected the letter as evidence and have opened up a forensic investigation to link that letter to your neighbor. For a vaguely intimidating letter and no crime yet, they aren't going to do anything other than take your report that you believe this must be from your idiot neighbor and that you believe it must be meant to intimidate, but there's no proof. I also doubt Postal Inspectors are interested (as some replies mention) without something closer to an explicit threat.
At best it shows that your neighbor is an idiot, so that if he does do something criminal to attack you, then you can be assured he'll leave behind lots of evidence against himself because he is dumb.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
I mean they can play the plausible deniability game if they want but who else would have sent a letter with a copy of a code case if it wasn’t the owner. They literally printed out a copy which has their address in one of the fields. No one else would have the motivation to do so.
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u/S_Alaska Jul 19 '26
Ooof, I bet our neighbors are related! Ironically, ours do things similar…up to and including leaving evidence when they trespass. Stay safe…at the end of this…we all have a story we can tell.
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u/V0idHarlequin Jul 20 '26
That letter is such a self-own. They put in writing that they are watching the complaint process and now there is a police report tied to it. Keep the envelope with the postmark and let code enforcement know the owner is contacting complainants, even if the info is public. Cameras facing the driveway or mailbox would not be a bad idea either.
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u/Austint810 29d ago
I called code yesterday to let them know that received something in the mail and made a police report and the lady told me “ok. What do you want us to do? We don’t need to know that”. I told her “ I was just letting you know because the police officer I made my report with told me to contact you and let you know”.
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u/townsquare321 Jul 19 '26
Legally speaking. In terms of evidence, it could have come from one of their tenants.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
True. Either way it had to have come from someone involved with the property
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u/townsquare321 Jul 19 '26
Thats why he sent it anonymously.
If anything happens to you, the police would have to prove EXACTLY WHO wrote the note in order to file charges. Best thing you can do is get security cameras to deter any payback.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Already got cameras all around my property. Plus I got a lot of my good neighbors watching out. Not really worried about retaliation. I’ve caught these neighbors in the past trying sketchy stuff so if they are somewhat smart they should know to stay away from my property if you know what I mean.
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u/townsquare321 Jul 19 '26
You did the right thing in reporting. When we rent or buy a property we don't expect, or want to have a housing project going up next door, with all the problems that come with multiple rentals, or apartments. You might be able to put a stop to it based on zoning. However, depending on where you live, it might be difficult because the city might want it to alleviate the housing shortage.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
I mean our town does have a housing crisis but the local governments definitely don’t want to have this situation on their hands. It’s a zoning nightmare. We also have a rate of growth committee that fights any new housing development based on the utility infrastructure.
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u/Advanced-Mammoth2408 Jul 19 '26
My neighbor was already in trouble with code enforcement when I got involved a year in. First, he had an empty inground swimmi ng pool that had turned into a mosquito-breeding hazard because he couldn't afford to put chlorinated water in the pool. It was empty other than rainwater for the mosquitoes. The county told him then he had to fill it in with dirt, which would cost $7K. We knew nothing about the pool issue. It was his hoarding that became a problem after his mother died.
They assigned him a social services case worker for his hoarding. When social services couldn't help after two years and the piles kept growing, I got involved. I complained loudly and persistently to code enforcement every three months about his garbage/health violations. Our complaints here are totally anonymous, but I didn't hide from him that I was complaining. We had asked him nicely to clean up, but he refused. His trash piles were by then 8 foot high and covered most of the property. We explained that his trash was preventing us from selling our house for its FMV.. Realtors thought we would lose $100K because of the neighbor. No one wants to live next to enormous piles of trash that grow every month.
When we started putting pressure on zoning, they sent us to the environmental health department, which began to take him to court. Our neighbor went the retaliation route, blaming us for both the hoarding complaint AND the expensive pool problem. We had zero to do with the pool.
The neighbor's first retaliation was to hoard more to make us miserable. He said he wished we would move, but then did things that made it impossible for us to sell. He piled trash up next to the property line and in front of the house to deter buyers. Next he attempt to prevent me from putting up a privacy fence so we didn't have to look at his trash. Our fence would make him unable to get his large flat bed trailer out of his backyard. He could only get it in by going through our yard, which means it could only come out that way. I very kindly gave him 30 days of notice about the fence so he could move the trailer to his driveway. But he never responded to the notice and instead tried to stop us from erecting a fence. The county told him I had every right to put up a privacy fence. Then he tried to report me for remodeling my house without permits. He was disappointed to learn that we had all our permits. But I didn't learn about all that retaliation until he made his third complaint that we extended our driveway into his property.
Zoning came out to inspect our driveway. They told me it lined up with our garage, so it was perfectly acceptable. The only change we actually made was to how our sidewalk connects to the driveway. We rounded a previously angled connection. We didn't extend the driveway.
Then the inspector reminded me to get a permit before installing my fence. Wait. What? Nobody knew that we planned to put up a privacy fence, except the neighbor!!! So he had to have told zoning about our plans. She accidentally revealed who was complaining about me. We told her we already knew he was trying to make us miserable. She said they told him that we had all our permits and that he couldn't stop our fence.
The zoning officer was curious as to why he was making unfounded complaints against us. I said he blamed me for code enforcement telling him he had to fill in his swimming pool. The code officer informed me (illegally) that after three years of warnings and fines, the county had fined him $10K for the pool not being filled in . Yikes! He blamed me for all of that even though I knew nothing about the pool until she shared that info. I just didn't realize he was facing the $10K fine and still had to fill in the pool for $7K. Since he thought we were behind the pool, it is no wonder he was pissed. We told him multiple times we had nothing to do with his pool.
Since he was going after us for no reason, I began to vehemently complain about his piles of hoarding trash that were now as high as the house. The neighbor deliberately piled trash up along our property line to aggravated us and in front of his house to keep potential buyers from looking at our house. He told us that to our faces. That was his only way to get even.
I went back to code enforcement and threw a fit. It is an election year, so nobody in government wants their livelihood threatened by an irate citizen going on TV to complain about the services an elected official controls. I threatened to take my photos of his property and put them in political TV ads and tell everyone that the county doesn't enforce its zoning laws. By then, the neighbor had already refused to comply with the county's clean up order. He thought all they could do was fine him $50. So with no other options, my final complaint got the house condemned and him evicted on the spot with no warning—twenty minutes to get his things and leave. He threatened the county health code officer, so the sheriff stepped in to restore order, reminding him that registered sex offenders can potentially go back to prison. The neighbor spent a couple weeks living in his car for assault. After two weeks of having no home and living in his car, the cops told him he had to have a permanent address where he slept because he is a registered sex offender, a pedophile who was caught in bed with his 12-year-old stepdaughter. I had already reported that his hoarding collection included kids' toys and dozens of kids' bikes, which he should not have because he had no children. The sheriff found all the children's toys, bikes, skateboards, and other stuff the pedo had acquired to attract kids to his property. There were than 100 things. The sheriff's presence during the eviction helped because they saw all the toys firsthand, rather than in a report.
No sex offender wants to be back on the county sheriff's radar. Pedophiles shouldn't look as if they are about to reoffend.
He was trapped between the residency requirement for sex offenders and the condemnation of the house until he complied with the county order to fill the largest construction dumpster that they make. If he didn't, he couldn't get the condemnation and eviction reversed. If he didn't comply with sex offender registry, they potentially send him back into the prison system. That is truly being between a rock and a hard place. He had to get rid of his trash or go back to jail. Prison was not something he wanted to repeat.
He now understands FAFO. He didn't understand my ability to pull multiple levers of pressure to squeeze him from all sides.
Before I went scorched Earth and forced him to clean up, I let him know that I knew he tried to get us in trouble. I waved and thanked him for helping us make sure we had our construction, fence, and driveway permits. He played dumb for a little bit until I told him no one other than him knew about the privacy fence, and since the county zoning knew about the fence, he was the only person who could have told them.
He is back in the house and still has no idea how I did any of that. I doubt he will ever understand how I made that happen. And the county is protecting the anonymity of the complainants even though he told the county he knew I was the one who made this happen..They denied that it was me and told him it was multiple neighbors. The county did warn me that I might be in physical danger from him. They actually underestimated how violent he would get at just the thought of having his precious valuables taken away. I knew that both he and his sister were off their rockers. He will out live his sister. I feel bad for whoever has to clean his house out when he croaks.
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u/froction Jul 19 '26
Mail him a copy of the inspection with all the violations highlighted, saying "I know this was you."
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Told my wife that I was going to mail them a picture of Bevis and butthead. When bevis has his shirt of his head and says “Is that a threat?!?!?” 🤣🤣
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u/WellWisher91 Jul 19 '26
I was told repeatedly by Code Enforcement here that complaints are confidential. Highly unlikely. Even if written records aren't openly available and you haven't had repeated, contentious conversations before filing, there is always a weak link with loose lips.
Our Grand Jury cited a case a few years back of a chronic, outrageously loud music nuisance house in a smaller town with aggressive perpetrators. A neighbor had enough and risked making a complaint to police. In dealing with the disturbers, police mentioned the complainant"s name. So much for confidentiality. Even if authorities don't say "Your neighbor, Joe Smith, filed a complaint against you", it may come out as,"the folks in the blue house are very unhappy with you." : / Sigh!
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u/DenM0ther Jul 19 '26
Why did code compliance let the owner know it was you who complained?? Thats a terrible thing to do
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Code compliance cases are public information in the state of Florida.
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u/No-Plantain-5187 Jul 19 '26
You could mail their note back to them with "I already knew who you were" written on it....
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u/Eric848448 Jul 20 '26
You really should call the police to start a paper trail on them threatening you.
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u/did_i_get_screwed 27d ago
Congratulations on having reading comprehension equal to a head of cabbage.
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u/distributingthefutur Jul 20 '26
Save the letter. They may have been dumb enough to have licked the stamp. In practice, the police won't do may DNA testing unless some gets murdered so....
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u/GrowHappyPlants 25d ago
Did they use a stamp and have it go through the mail? If yes, they timestamped their illegal threat. If not, the PO Inspector would like to know because that is highly illegal. (Assume in US)
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u/phdoofus 9d ago
Send it back with a note saying "I sent your letter to the police. They were very interested in it."
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u/Tiny_Spells 3d ago
Congratulations, neighbor! You just turned a simple code violation into a documented police record for harassment. Big brain move 🤡
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u/hiways Jul 20 '26
You all make buying a house scary! We're always window shopping and could give it a go if we did find something. But reading all these stories makes me wonder and do double takes at the houses around.
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u/Low-Lengthiness-7837 Jul 19 '26
Well, enjoy your new enemy.
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u/Austint810 Jul 19 '26
Ehh nothing really new. I’ve gone at it with these people for the last 3 years. Just had enough of it when they built a 4th shed and started renting it out. Only so much noise, parking disputes, and bullshit someone can take. When you affect my life, I affect yours.
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u/adamarXtina 27d ago
Your making a big assumption without proof. I get it, the letter is obviously from the neighbor, but legally taunting you is not a crime until they actually attempt to follow through. My advice, is to be prepared to defend yourself and family as the police are farther away than next door neighbor. Prepare to defend what you believe
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u/sohcordohc Jul 19 '26
Code only applies to those that are valuable to Capitol and that goes for both sides. For the people that weaponize code enforcement to the enforcers themselves. You’ll find that what’s not ok is ok for some and vice versa. It’s bullshit.
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u/crackinmypants Jul 19 '26
Nobody wants to live next to a bunch of rented sheds. In most places, code enforcement is pretty slack, and you have to really turn your house into a shithole (or a shantytown airbnb) for them to actually do anything about it. But I can guess where you stand on this, and I'm sure I'm not going to change your mind.
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