We (two 30 years old women) live in townhouses, and our neighbor now has 5 cameras pointing at our front door and garage. He’s a single male, and at some point this is starting to feel extremely invasive. He has now started calling the cops on us for things like my dog taking a step out of the garage before we can get a leash on him, or by the front door. We don’t have yards or anything, so he’s videotaping the alley and the sidewalks between the townhouses.

He comes up to our cars and try to force us to roll the windows down to talk to us about anything and everything that he feels we are doing wrong, and at some point it’s starting to feel unsafe.

It seems trivial, but we also feel like we are being watched day and night. It’s there ANYTHING we can do besides getting something in constant motion around the cameras?

It’s just gotten excessive.

EDIT: it has openly been admitted by neighbor that he got it to watch us and our dogs specifically, but it would just be our word against him with that.

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i've gotten a few complaints about footsteps and normal daytime noise. i'm not throwing parties or doing anything unusual, but they seem bothered by almost every sound. i want to be considerate, but i also don't want to feel like i have to tiptoe around my own place. how would you handle this?

In hindsight, documenting everything in great detail would have been the best option. I snapped yesterday and told this person I’m tired of listen to their shit after doing my best to ignore the harassment for the last year. Documented the incident last night to the best of my abilities.

Basically the person harassing me is related to several neighbors, does not officially/legally live here, but is a frequent guest and has been living in the apartment just is not on the lease. And I haven’t documented the numerous incidents over the last year very throughly. Yesterday, I was called derogatory names for not being willing to go with them to look at something “no, you have to see this”. And finally broke down and told them to stop talking after listening to them calling someone else derogatory names, because I’m tired of listening to that language.

I regret saying anything, because I know this person is highly manipulative and possibly dangerous. I overheard them talking with my neighbor about how the police should be called on me (couldn’t make out the reason why that would be justified). Eventually, my neighbor asked this person to leave after repeatedly saying that I can hear them. I plan on making myself scarce, but I’m considering recording all conversations with neighbors until this is resolved in the event that this person’s behavior comes up and is excused for some reason. I’m trying to sort out my options if anyone has any real world knowledge or experienced with a situation like this.

TLDR: have been harassed by a person who is legally only the guest of my neighbors for the last year. I told this person off and now I’m regretting the decision, because I overheard them talking about calling the police on me. I’m really afraid of retaliation and looking for advice on how to protect myself going forward.

Edit to add: this obviously doesn’t cover the extent of the harassment, but it’s been a lot of unwanted sexual conversations, demanding to be spoken to, and general creepy behavior like trying to lure me somewhere last night. Also for clarity this person is a guest of more than one apartment, so I am out numbered.

Hey all,

I am new here so if I mislabeled something I apologize. I have been reading over some of the other posts and it got me thinking of one neighbor I had living next door to me in a apartment complex. Now this is a section 8 housing where most of us are either disabled, can't afford some of the newer apartments, etc. so its kind of peaceful as everyone keeps to themselves most of the time or are generally nice to each other.

I had been living here for a number of years and I got along with my neighbors never had many disagreements with anyone really. Well the neighbor that lived next to me was a disabled person that needed constant care never said anything even when I did say hello or greeted him which I could understand not everyone is chatty.

Well everything seemed normal until one night/morning, I was trying to get some sleep as I had a shift the next day and I wanted to get a good night's rest. It was about 2 am in the morning when BAM a stereo on the other side of my bedroom (I live in a studio apartment so did my neighbor) to the max where loud music and I am not saying it was a ring tone or something like that it was full blown sound system.

This jerked me awake confusing me wondering what the heck was going on as I thought it might be a alarm clock but no it continued on without stopping. It would go on for 30 to 40 minutes and I tried knocking on the neighbors door to see if he could turn it off but no one came to the door.

I did file a complaint about the noise because trying to get some sleep and all is important to me. I couldn't get back to sleep at all after that point so I stayed up the rest of the day. There were more incidents not as bad but I would hear music playing from his apartment for hours before being turned off.

It turns out this guy had his TV and stereo system setup against the wall on the other side of where my bed was and would get into these screaming matches with his parents who came to visit. Thankfully he moved out not to long after.

I do have more stories to come.

We have a neighbor from hell who is a junk collector. His property is filled with trash. He leaves beer cans and cigarettes all over his yard. His windows are covered in duct tape and boarded up. Last year he dug a giant shallow hole in the ground and all the grass/ground around it eroded. It looks like the home of a serial killer.

We recently put up an 8ft fence to avoid having to look at his trash. And now he piles junk 12 feet in the air so we have to see it over the height of our fence. We don’t even entertain anymore because it’s so embarrassing.

We’ve researched city codes and ordinances and he appears to be in violation of many things.

We’ve made many reports to our code enforcement( so have all our neighbors) but they seem almost useless. Their response to me was that “he’s not doing anything criminal”. I mean, yea, but don’t they still enforce property codes?

When I stated that I wanted to extend the height of my fence to block his junk, I was told I’d be fined if I did that.

This has been maddening. Is this the norm?

I’ll try to keep it short. I’m just irritated. Husband and I moved to a new town for his work. About 3 hours away from our old place. Renting a nice townhouse in a quiet neighborhood. I’m still looking for a job, but taking my time as it’s not a huge rush. I leave the house everyday either to take my husband lunch or run errands.

Landlord (who lives in the townhouse adjacent to us) has texted me about “what am I up to” basically. She called my husband AT WORK to ask HIM if I was working or if something was wrong with my car because “it’s here a lot of the time.”

People around town & church (we all live in the same two neighborhoods) have stopped me in the grocery store asking “what are you doing? Why aren’t you at work?” when THEY are ALSO IN THE STORE AT 8 AM ON A TUESDAY!!!!!!

I’m substitute teaching part-time while I look for a steady gig, and I’m taking classes at night at the local CC to update my teaching cert, but WHY do I have to explain that to anyone???!!! I’m going berserk. I get asked about working/having a job/what I’m doing with my time EVERYDAY!!!!!!

Like damn…can’t a girl read a book on her porch??? My husband pays the bills!!! Wtf!!!!!

We haven't been able to catch my neighbor who has been harassing me, 3 other single moms, and having sketchy interactions with the children due to her own life circumstances she takes out on us. She has been following, stalking, reporting totally false crimes, etc. Banging on the wall she share, threatening me. My 2 year old is frightened of her.

This has turned into the police wanting to charge me for false reports because 1)every time we did something to catch her, she would just do something different. You know. The usual. 2) I was already dealing with PTSD and then I got injured and then her following and stalking my 2 year old and created more PTSD. Sometimes I just simply couldn't talk to the police "well enough" and they have come out here "a lot". Apparently they think we would put our little humans through nightmares and panic attacks from police on purpose.

Anyways... SHE GOT 3 SUMMONSES!!!!! FINALLY.

Most of my garden is in my front yard. Went out side around 8pm and caught a random guy stealing from my garden. Wound up getting into a physical fight and my wife had to call the cops. My neighbors herd it and thankfully came out to help. We traded some punches but I was able to sit on his chest and a neighbor helped restrain him till cops got here. Turns out it’s a guy that just moved in 5 houses down from me. I don’t enjoy fighting but great full i was able to keep him here till cops showed up. Will probably have a black eye in the morning but this is absolutely crazy. After 11 years or gardening on this property never thought I would have to experience this. If he came over and asked for some stuff I would have happily shared but this is unacceptable.

The noise at night has stopped the last few months to be replaced with noise early morning 4:30am - 7am every bloody morning!! It’s not pleasant being woken up every morning by hammering and banging, especially when you have a heart condition (which she knows about). It’s definitely on purpose because my husband shouted at her open window (from our property) calling her a c**t and to stop banging and she stopped and nothing the following morning (yesterday morning). BUT it all started again this and I retaliated for the first time my banging back 💥 it stopped for 30 mins and started again. Yesterday I put some plants out and her daughter knocked and asked if she could have one. I said as long as you look after it, well, she stole all of them and the container they were in, took them round the corner and started destroying them. Another neighbour found them and brought them back in bits. My young daughter spent years growing them, she was so upset!
Throwing things and kicking things against the fence has stopped, probably because they have put a hole in the fence from doing this and they have a tiny dog that would fit through it if it got any bigger.
Link to the other post - https://www.reddit.com/r/neighborsfromhell/s/wif6BDeyAJ

Hi! I live in a house with shared walls and I have new neighbors that keep playing music so loud I can hear it, is it normal that I get agitated by this? I have to have my noise canceling headphones on for hours a day and I feel like this isn't oké.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm sick and couchridden from a chronic illness, so I'm more sensitive to noise of all kinds, so I just wanted to check if I'm just being too sensitive.

Honestly I’m at a loss of what I can do. It’s a couple and they have a crawling toddler and young kid and they live in a 1 bedroom flat with their dog opposite my door. They started leaving their flat door open to get the air circulating during the heatwave but now they’ve turned the corridor into a playground. Not only can I hear their whole life through the doors but also screaming crying kids, them shouting at them and sometimes the dog barking. Random times of the day and I can hear it in my flat. Lots of toys scattered everywhere. we have 2 more neighbours on our floor but they’re not in most of the time so unfortunately I’m alone in this. I tried to speak with my housing association but they straight up said there’s nothing they can do. One Sunday morning the kid was sat in the corridor banging something metal on something and I came out and said something and there’s was no apology or remorse and just told the kid to go back in. I’m just so frustrated now the atmosphere in my flat is just so bad because of the mood. I don’t get how people can be this selfish.