When Neighborhood Feuds Turned Into Unbelievable Acts of Pettiness You Have to See to Believe
Then another group of “friends” stay over and decide to sing at all hours of the night and make noise during the weekday.
This happens 3-5x more times.
I sign up for AirBnB for an upcoming trip. Decided to look at who is hosting an AirBnB in our complex.
Surprise, surprise. Neighbor’s so-called “friends” are actually guests.
I threaten to report her if she didn’t get her guests in check after they took our parking space (people will want to shoot you for their spot).
She bitched me out, so I sent her AirBnB posting to the HOA. No more “friends” and she moved out and sold the condo within a month.
Growing up, we had a neighbor with an immaculate lawn and home. He kept it that way by flicking his cigarette butts over the fence and into our yard. To him, we were just white trash.
One day, my mom picked up ALL the butts from our yard and flung them back into his yard. Problem solved. He never did it again.
Bought and moved into a condo and the previous owners apparently did not like cleaning. My third floor deck was green and growing things so went to my downstairs neighbors to let them know I wanted to power wash (note: nothing in condo bylaws prohibits this). First neighbor says of course, do whatever I need. But neighbor below me pitches a royal fit: how dare I inconvenience her? She’d have to move her furniture inside! Decks get dirty, that’s just how it goes. So I talk to the office (as does she) and she whines enough to get them to say no power washing but I can use a garden hose and scrub brush and (important later) soap. Well what would’ve been a 15 min power wash becomes an all day cleaning extravaganza of green soapy grossness going down to her deck. But is the neighbor satisfied? Oh no. She did not realize SOAP would be part of the deal. She is not pleased and come Monday morning is complaining to the office again. Thankfully they told her to shove it.
Runner up prize goes to the unknown neighbor who ran to the office as I was moving in to tell on me for having a doormat, which is, as I later learned, prohibited.
Not me, but what the woman who did live in our house did to her neighbors.
We moved into a house up a long shared driveway. Our neighbors are an elderly couple and she has dementia. Sometimes she doesn’t know where she is or what she is doing.
The new neighbor came over one sunday night to ask if he could put his wheely bin in the end of the drive so the rubbish truck could back up the drive to empty it as it would save him trying to move it to the road. I said that was no issue .
Turns out the old resident had her lawyers send the elderly couple a cease and desist letter over putting the rubbish bin in the driveway the first week after she moved in. No knock on the door and ask to stop or talking to them. Straight to get the lawyer involved.
We also found out she got upset about the neighbor with dementia wandering onto her driveway. Remembering she had dementia and didn’t know what she was doing. So she put a chain across the driveway to stop her wandering into her property.
The chain was fitted and hung at about 8 inches off the ground and the first time the elderly lady wandered over she tripped on it and fell face first onto the drive, knocking several teeth out and breaking her hip. She spent some time in hospital and before she even got out of hospital,the elderly neighbor had a knock on the door from the police with a trespass notice…………
All the neighbors were ecstatic when she left and we moved in. I met the woman once and she seemed Ok. But what sort of piece of s**t acts like that towards neighbors?
I was at this neighbourhood treasure hunt when I was around 11. It was in a big park with lot of trees and rocks, parking lot and a community centre next to it. Me and my neighbours kid both figured out final clue and sprinted towards the finish, only for me to ‘accidentally’ bumped by his dad and fall.
Still salty about it till this day.
I’m currently in a battle with my neighbor because he cut a bunch of old growth trees (older than the entire neighborhood by a good 50 years) down and moved in an absolutely hideous house, which is a huge issue because while we’re not an HOA, we are a “community character” neighborhood and there is an expectation that new builds at least attempt to look like existing homes in the neighborhood.
It turns out that he had no permit to remove the trees and that the building permit he had was invalid. There was a zoning hearing and the city council asked me to testify at it. I testified with facts, that he didn’t have a valid permit and that while there needs to be a 6′ encroachment between houses, right now there’s only a 4.5′ encroachment, and that if he adds a porch like he wanted to, his new house would actually encroach onto our property line and basically be up against my kitchen window.
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