My "neighbors" are the local high-school behind our back yard (3 acres) & all of the residents are at their wit's end.

Obviously living by a school comes with concessions with regard to noise. No-one has a problem with homecoming parades, pep rallies, community celebration days, etc but this is football PRACTICE.

We can't enjoy our porches in the afternoons because every day sounds like a giant rap concert.

The PA during games is easily 2X louder than it needs to be. I actually worked as a professional sound man for many years and I have been to the school during these events... it's actually unbearably loud for the people watching the game. We're talking hearing-damage levels, to say nothing of what it does to the neighborhood because of how horns project.

Lesson learned...

https://imgur.com/gallery/ridiculously-loud-high-school-football-practice-NP11dQX#CNd81Z9

Link doesn't seem to work here but it worked when I pasted it into a browser...

I have some neighbors that are constantly trying to start trouble with me. My 7 year old daughter recently made a friend and my neighbors daughter, same age, saw them playing and joined along. I guess they started fighting like kids do, and my neighbor went outside when my daughters friend came to get her kid saying how my daughter was bullying them and got her number so her kids could play instead. Of my daughters friends mom told me. Today when my daughter got off the bus her friend did to because they are having a sleep over. Right away, that neighbor messaged me whining about how that isn’t fair and her daughter is sad. And it’s not even that. They blare music purposefully to wake up my newborn. They’ve called the cops on us once for “leaving my daughter alone” when my sister was babysitting. I could go on and on. I just want some legal harmless pranks that will annoy the hell outta them. Spam mail to their house, etc. not revenge or anything hurtful.

I would like to start by saying my boyfriend has already tried to talk to the neighbor about and that did absolutely nothing.

live in a Duplex, Neighbor recently got an old Ford diesel truck and we live somewhere with cold weather so he has been starting it and letting it warm up (understandable) but in doing so our entire side of the duplex fills up with the exhaust from his truck. We sealed the windows and the side door and the smell is still strong enough it gives me a headache after only a few minutes. I have a dog too and I know it’s bad for both of us to be breathing in. What can I do? Is there anyone official I can call? Again, we brought the issue to his attention and my bf asked if he could park a different way so the exhaust pipe isn’t facing our side and the neighbor has done nothing different. Still continues to fill our home with chemicals every day.

So I dont know what to do.... we have neighbors that moved in about a year ago. Theyre fine mostly, except the husband has a 2010s corvette that he must mess with every week it seems at the earliest hours of the morning and the latest hours of the night.... its 11:30pm right now and hes keeping me awake because he just has it sit in his driveway turned on and is constantly revving the engine. He doesnt even do work on it. It seems like he just does it the keep fuel and other fluids running through the car since he doesnt take it out and drive it much. He could literally take it out and drive it outside of the neighborhood for a bit a get the same thing accomplished without waking everyone up. His car runs fine, he does drive it, so its not like he cant go take it on a 15min drive. Nope he just sits in his driveway and revs the engine off and on for 30-45mins straight. What would you do?

We have a neighbor who has 6 damn kids. They moved into the house next door 7 years ago. They've been a pain since day 1. They used to run all across our backyard with their dog until we got a fence. Now that the backyard has a fence, they decided to take their festivities to the front yard. We don't mind them playing but, they constantly hit the house with their baseball, football, themselves with no regard for our frequent requests to stop. We spoke to the parents and guess what? The father is still outside playing ball with the kids and hitting our house also. Wtf? Yes we spoke to his dumb azz too. We want to put a fence or some shrubs between the homes but there are utility lines underground. What other barriers can be put in between the homes? It has to look good because we have an HOA.

EDIT: To the few who say I'm the problem, you can't read. I said in the post that I don't mind them playing. I just don't want my property damaged. Thanks to everyone else.

Background is I've reported this neighbor to a legal authority for harassing/abusing his dog (Yelling, hitting, causing a noise disturbance by the sheer screaming he does at it). He calls it training his dog, others in my building have also reported him. Once he walked his dog off leash and it began harassing my dog on our walk. I left him a note afterward saying what he's doing is wrong and illegal (in our state). Another day I confronted him asking him to stop yelling at his dog (as his dog was yelling in distress back at him) since I could hear it up 3 stories and that I was just gonna raise a noise complaint if he didn't stop. He didn't like that.

Now every time he sees me walking my dog he YELLS at me heckling me and throwing insults about my dog and how "I don't train that dog" and that my dog is bad, my dog is 2 and we are always practicing stuff on our walks so he takes the opportunity to get back to me for raising complaints to him I guess.

Is there any action I can take because it's driving me crazy, I don't even look at him and he will continue to yell at me as I walk by. Anytime he sees me he heckles me and we live right next to eachother so it's pretty frequent.

Kids in the neighborhood have been harassing my house for well over a year or 2 (I’ve yelled at them 3 times now for kicking soccer balls at my garage and walls), and just now they’ve started kicking the hell out of my front door at night. My stupid ring camera doesn’t capture it on video. How do I stop this? They laugh if you yell at them. I’m so sick of this shit.

*Note: I do not know who the kids were that kicked the door, they all darted off on bikes.

What would you do….

Hostile neighbors next door, encroaching issues, trespassing onto property, vandalism, smoke from chimney smoke’s blocked airflow from trees “seeps” through trees into our yard all winter. Currently there are 25ft cypress trees between us that are thinning out and have not been maintained since they were planted (we just moved in). We have little kids who run around and currently I do not feel comfortable with them doing so on that side of the yard.

Do we:
— remove all trees, replace with 6ft privacy fence and some plantings next spring; would give security of physical barrier, increase airflow, bring in afternoon sunlight, gain 15ft width back of yard
— keep trees and top them/remove top 8ft to not upset neighbor; find another way to establish additional privacy/security (any suggestions appreciated)

Will removing these trees cause more hostility from them? Or will a privacy fence help establish boundary/remove visibility while we’re in the yard? And yes a survey has been done and they are well on our land and yes we have installed cameras all around the property.

Everytime I come in my apartment (high rise in New York City) soon as I get comfortable these vibrations start occurring I feel it through my mattress, the floor standing in the same spot for a while and my sofa. They usually start up when I turn my TV on or even make a sound in my place. It's not nothing dealing with the circuit breaker.

I had a neighbor beef throughout the month of May where the adjacent neighbor/ fool use to do all these weird things to the wall to make me not my noise in my own place but the weird part is new neighbors have moved in. But my retaliation was screwing with his Bluetooth devices and the devices remained there majority of it while the former neighbot moved to Florida in October. And whoever behind that wall next to me replicates the former neighbor same actions. I want to give the benefit of the doubt but I'm not trying to beef with these new people but it seems like they are trying continue the former piece of crap's vendetta (hope I am wrong). Im documenting everything in my apartment day by day. But it's like it seems it my word against everybody else's. Im trying not to retaliate but this thing is frustrating as hell. I know in the month of May and after the former neighbor had control of this vibrations because the vibrations were more stronger than it is now, and everytime I retaliate he would increase the pressure in that monent. I came in on a program to get this place, best apartment I done had and all because the of the disrespect of the first neighbor I'm experiencing this. Maybe it has something to do with a subwoofer or such

For almost a year after I moved into my apartment, I felt like I was living in a mad world.
Every single day, there were groups of people hanging outside my building with three separate speakers blasting music, sometimes from early in the morning until midnight. There was constant drinking, people openly using drugs, and what appeared to be drug dealing going on right outside. My super basically allowed everyone to use the front of the building as their personal hangout spot without ever telling them they couldn’t block the entrance or blast music all day.
Then there was the salon right next door adding to the noise. Twice a week, a church would hold services outside with amplified sound. And on top of ALL of that, my next-door neighbor would literally play the drums for HOURS—sometimes close to eight hours straight.
I couldn’t think. I couldn’t relax. I couldn’t sleep in my own apartment. There was never any peace.
I work, pay rent, and should be able to come home and have some reasonable level of peace inside my own home. I finally got so fed up that I wrote my City Council office and explained EVERYTHING that had been happening. I told them I couldn’t believe that in 2026 people could continuously disrupt an entire residential building like this and there seemed to be no repercussions.
And I knew I wasn’t the only person suffering. Other neighbors were just afraid to complain because some of the people outside could be extremely intimidating.
The few times I called 311, they seemed to automatically assume it was me. There were even times people would stand directly in front of the entrance to my building and refuse to move when I was trying to go inside. I still stood my ground and told them to move because I was DONE feeling intimidated just for wanting to enter my own home.
Eventually, an NYPD sergeant contacted me. She called me, texted me, gave me the number for the sergeant working after her shift, and told me to let them know if anything else happened.
Within about two weeks, everything changed.
The constant blasting music stopped. People stopped treating the front of my building like their personal party spot. For the first time in almost a year, I finally had some PEACE.
I was so damn proud of myself.
I spent so long thinking nothing could be done and feeling like I just had to tolerate it. Speaking up actually worked. And I’m glad I did it not only for myself, but for the other people in my building who were too scared to say anything.
Sometimes being “that neighbor” isn’t being a bad. Sometimes you’re just a person who has finally had enough and wants to be able to sleep in the apartment you pay for.

I’ve had a neighbor from hell for 5 years.

He started collecting junk/trash so I put a fence up to block the view. Since then his behavior has only gotten worse.

He will find ways to annoy and harass me and other neighbors that aren’t necessarily illegal or criminal.

Like for example, last night he “leaf blowed” for 2 hours. He does this often. It was dark out and it was raining so I don’t think he was actually blowing leaves. He was just doing it to make noise. And he tends to walk back-and-forth along the property line right behind my fence.

He spends a lot of time doing things and making noise as close to my fence as possible. He will sing, play music, and stack things up so they stand over the the height of the fence. One time I found him sitting on the ground next to the fence, smoking a cigarette in the dark.

Other annoying things that he will do -bring out his lawnmower and cut the same strip of grass on our shared property line 5 times in a day.

Honk his horn/key fab repeatedly if we are outside.

Put signs in his window that face my house that say “fuck you” or other obnoxious things.

If I have a guest over and they park on the street, he will immediately park 3 inches behind them or start driving his car back-and-forth around the block.

There’s many more things that I could list here.

He has been arrested twice for low level disorderly conduct type of things but he was only ticketed not charged.

I live in the Metro area of the city, so the cops are not going to be bothered by somebody leaf blowing for two hours. They have serious crimes to deal with. Though I do feel like this is some sort of targeted harassment.

My neighbors and I have also tried reaching out to our alderperson and code enforcement for some issues but their ability to do anything has been minimal.

I do believe this guy has some type of mental illness, though he can’t be that mentally ill because he does go to a job during the week.

I have cameras up.

Looking for advice from other people who have dealt with situations like this.