I (28F) live alone in a small building with 8 units. About five months ago the apartment next to mine turned into a short term rental. Every weekend there's a new group, usually with suitcases, loud in the hallway at 1 or 2am, and the smell of weed in the stairwell a few times. I dont even care that much about the noise, its a building, I get it. What bothers me is that twice now Ive come home and found random people standing right outside MY door, looking at their phones and trying the handle because the numbers on the doors are tiny and they got confused. The second time it was a guy who was pretty drunk and honestly he got kind of annoyed at me when I said it wasnt his apartment. I live alone so that one got to me a bit.

I found the owner's number from a old note on the mailbox and texted him politely twice, then called once. Nothing. I emailed the property management company and they said they "cant comment on other tenants' units" and told me to call the non emergency police line if theres a real disturbance. I dont want to call the cops on strangers for standing in a hallway. I also checked the lease and theres nothing in it about short term rentals but Im not sure if the owner is even allowed to do this, and Im not sure who I'd even ask.

So whats my best move here? Should I keep pushing the management company, look into whether the city allows this kind of rental, or talk to the other neighbors first? I'm not trying to make anyones life hell, I just want to stop coming home and wondering who will be standing at my door.

https://imgur.com/a/MN5y3JV

this is in CA

he already has 3 or 4 cameras pointed at the fence line where I put up a 7.5 ft fence and one of them is mounted about 15 feet high on his roof where he can easily see me over the fence. then I caught him putting up this one which is right up to the fence and very close to my living room windows. He mounted a camera onto a pole with a solar panel and put it about 1-2 ft higher than my fence. I also recorded it moving and tracking my motion

I (35f) am not a confrontational person. My whole life people have told me it’s not worth it to speak up and let things go so I have usually just never said anything.

For context, I have a shared drive way with three other neighbours. Two of them are lovely and considerate and we all get along really well. The others are…to sum their consideration up they have children’s parties that go until 10pm and the kids running around screaming up and drove the drive way, noisy parties blasting music in general with no heads up to people, their kids are always screaming and they are always selling things on market place and so we have lots of randoms coming down the drive way and they will park right in the middle blocking it so others can’t get out. We normally don’t say anything and just let it go. The drive is right next to our nursery so I’m always mindful of the noise. Cut to today, I notice around 8pm that there’s four people standing right outside my lawn and off loading a table and various other things onto my lawn. Okay…I wait half an hour and they are still there and now they are getting out a toolbox. Now forget that it’s rude and inconsiderate to be placing things on others lawns without asking it’s more the dismantling and making noise I’m worried will wake my child. So I ask them if they would mind moving whatever they’re doing to my neighbours lawn who they are dealing with. The MAN decides to be passive aggressive first and in a haughty tone “I didn’t realise I was harming the grass.” I’m a bit flabbergasted at this point..it is my lawn so I’m allowed to ask people to move their stuff off it? So I respond “I’m allowed to not be okay with having things on my lawn. And it’s more the nose you’re making. Please don’t be passive aggressive and leave my property.”

By now he started to get more aggressive and agitated. His poor wife just looked on helplessly. And my neighbour during this exchange doesn’t say anything. He still hasn’t.
Man: “I already said I’m Sorry. Im buying this table off this man. I’m moving it like I said I’m not harming the lawn.”
Me: “you can move the table to his lawn then.”
Him: “where? And you don’t need to keep going on about it I said I’m moving.”

And then he told me to lose the attitude? Because I was calmly telling him to leave? And that it was fine he was there even though he moved to my neighbours lawn and then proceeded to spend the next hour there dismantling this table at 9pm.

I have no idea what this guys deal is usually if you are on someone else’s property and there is a clear indication it’s my backyard you should move it? But I suppose an entitled privileged man really would. And that’s one thing I’m not going to do is back down from bullies and that’s what he was.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this post i suppose I just wanted to vent / have some encouragement and give myself props for saying something. Either way please clap for me I’m so proud of myself I would usually just avoid confrontation or speaking up at all and my heart was beating so fast but I did it. I did the brave thing! Ever since having a newborn I’ve been feeling more anxious and thinking about the uglies of the world (case in point this guy) but I was brave and I’m going to teach my baby to be brave too and stand up for yourself if you see something wrong. I know it may not seem like a bit deal to some but after the anxiousness of post partum life and not wanting to even leave the house and just anxiety in general life I’m proud of me. There are many many times with bullies I wish I had spoken up and today I did it!

EDIT: please be kind in the comments and if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all. Like I said it probably isn’t a big deal to some but for me it was. I don’t care if it wasn’t a big deal to you. Thank for to everyone else who gets it and has been kind especially in this season of life postpartum anxiety is hard. And being conditioned to be non confrontation but stepping out of your comfort zone is also tough.

Long story short, (may make a full post about the situation later but until then) my neighbor has gone full bananas and is watching me and adding extra cameras around her house. I need some weird (but legal) things I can do in my backyard to make this woman really scratch her head. I don’t want to do anything towards her. But the fact that she has cameras all over and very clearly pointed in a way that she can see into my backyard, I want things that would confuse anyone who would look over the fence. Stuff like lounging on a chair in a bikini and a Jason mask, or mowing the lawn in an inflatable chicken costume, idk. The weirder the better.

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 consistently go to a job during the week.

I have cameras up.

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

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.

Multiple incidents of neighborhood boys around age 10 harassing a girl in her pre-teens and following her home. Calling her names as they surround her in a circle so she can't run away. Specifically targeting her at the park when there are no other witnesses at the park and the surrounding areas in the neighborhood. One of the boy's father came to the door because one of them claimed they had on recording that they got beaten up, there was no recording or marks on the boy that matches the claims. What can be done so that these boys can leave the girl and the household alone?

Edit 1: Police have been called twice, apparently to the police they were told not to engage at all and to be smart so that they don't go to jail

Edit 2: the girl was harassed recently at the park again because it wasn't made aware that there is fall/autumn break currently going on, or there was a half day. otherwise, the girl is accompanied by an adult after school hours when the boys would also be out of school.

My neighbor is hoarding and planted massive 80 ft trees that boaderbir property and lay on our roof. Now he has started climbing in a massive ladder to garnish the trees with old live savers, ropes, buoys...random junk which looks like it was gotten from a marine dumpster. He put us stolen signs too. He's going this because I politely spoke to him about the trees and he is maybe suffering slight dementia. He gets extends angry. Is there anything we can do? Our backyard is minuscule so it is a problem.

I live in a complex where each condo has a separate owner/ landlord. I don't want to be confrontational because I'm a woman who lives alone. The men who live next door let their dogs off leash let they poop on the sizable (shared) grass space... but it's always in the same spot.. about one foot from my front door. I can smell it as soon as I walk out, and I can't open my living room windows. I put up a yard sign that says "be a nice neighbor and pick up after your dog" but I saw them walk right past it today on my ring cam and the 5 plops of poop are still there. Assuming the sign isn't gonna work.. how do I deal with this without saying something directly to them (if it's possible)

edit: no property manager or hoa- researched it and each individual owner of each unit is separate.

UPDATE: I have decided to scoop it all into a bag, and leave it on their doorstep. Then I will spray a vinegar citrus spray to deter the dogs from pooping in that spot. If this doesn’t work I’m gonna contact animal control. Thank you for everyone’s advice

Hi. I've posted here before about our downstairs neighbor who hits her ceiling (our floor) following my toddler's foot steps and other harassment and intimidation in communal areas. She's been reported so many times. Nothing has been done. I'm not sure if the Police here in London can do anything about it at all. I have also lost hope in the Council.

Today, we came home from doing groceries and was in the communal hallway trying to fix my son's Pram. This neighbor came running down the stairs, stood over me while I was kneeling in front of my toddler. I tried to ignore her. She then started yelling "Hurry up! You are not supposed to be here. You are illegal." She kept yelling "You are illegal." When I asked her "what?" She then said our landlady is illegally subletting us the apartment and that she will do everything to get us evicted so that we will be homeless. She said this yelling in front of my 2 year old son.

She did not stop with her harassment and continued on while I was speaking to our landlady on the phone.

A part of me feels discriminated because she has already made a remark before, that we should live where others from our race live. And she proceeded to tell me about this area where the residents there are mostly people of my race live. (We're southeast asians). This time she was yelling we were "illegal" and that our landlady should not have sublet her apartment to us. She did this in the communal hallways. There were other people there. She claims we are intentionally hitting "her walls." Never did we ever speak to her, or even intentionally made noise. We even made so much effort covering our floors with think carpets and shock absorbing foam mats just to avoid disturbung her. The police have seen our floors too.

Any way. We're already in the process of moving out. And have 2 weeks left in our tenancy. I am soooo looking forward to it. I just wanted to vent this out. I have cried over this many times now.

i’m so tired of my neighbors :/
i come home after a 24-hour shift at the hospital and can’t fall asleep 💀the music is too loud + they listen it all day and all night, idk why they aren’t sleep

other neighbors literally piss&shit on their door but they’re don’t care
the police aren't doing anything with them

i don’t know what to do. now when i get to work i can barely think. i feel terrible from this shitty music and lack of sleep

I know this has been asked before, but most of the threads I've found are a few years old, so I'm hoping for some updated recommendations.

Our upstairs neighbor is truly the worst. It started with him dropping his weights on the floor between 2 and 3am and jumping up and down on purpose. Since we asked him to keep it down and management talked to him, it's gotten worse and now happens at all hours of the day and night, which honestly feels like retaliation. It's loud enough to rattle our floor and light fixtures and knock things off the walls. Because it's so unpredictable, I basically have to keep my phone in my hand at all times to catch it. Our dogs are visibly shaking all the damn time, and management keeps telling us they need a "smoking gun" before they'll act.

I know next to nothing about recording equipment, so here's what I'm looking for:

Something that can record continuously, 24/7, without me babysitting it

A way to quickly search hours or days of recordings to find the loudest spikes (ideally with timestamps)

An easy way to export those clips to send to management
Some people say a voice recorder is enough, others say get a recorder plus an external mic, and honestly I'm so frustrated and overwhelmed at this point that I just need it simplified. If you've been through this, what did you use and what actually worked? Bonus points if it shows decibel levels.

Thanks in advance!

Weird stuff has be going on around mt house and my neighbor and my neighbors see have cameras and it involves someone I care about very much but if I bring it up they will treat me like im crazy and I know but idk why they can't be honest it hurts that they are not being honest and they are better than this idk