When Neighborhood Feuds Turned Into Unbelievable Acts of Pettiness You Have to See to Believe
When they opened it up to public comment, almost fifty of my neighbors testified that the house doesn’t meet standards. At the end, the council moved to immediately revoke his dodgy building permit, which is something that hasn’t been done in 45 years. He’s now left with a little under a week to move that house back to its original lot or submit major design changes.
In addition to threatening to sue everyone who spoke out against him, he now posted on social media that he’s been asking the public for “dirt” on me and my husband. Thank God that his post has only had five comments and they’re all telling him to either stop or that we’re decent people.
I’m still half-expecting to wake up on Monday and find my tires slashed.
Our neighbors CONSTANTLY complained for like 2 years about a tree in the back yard that looked like it was going to fall. They threatened to sue us if it did. Thing is, the tree was clearly on their property. Like by 5 feet.
Then one day during a strong storm, a huge, seemingly strong & healthy tree, smack dab in the middle of their front yard blows over onto their house. We went over the next day and helped them cut it up & remove it. They could barely make eye contact with us & never said thank you. They did shut up about the other tree though, that’s still standing to this day.
We had a small dirt driveway in front of our lawn, which was shaded by our giant tree. The neighbors liked to park there because they always had people over and apparently it was too difficult for them to park near their house. When I got my horse trailer (gooseneck, so think loong) it was a lot easier for me to park in the front so I could just load up and go. One day I come out and see that my tire is slashed on the trailer. I looked up and they were laughing.
Joke was on them. They thought I could buy a new tire. Buuuut I couldn’t, so that trailer didn’t move for months until I could.
About 10 years ago had a neighbor scream at me because I accidentally went on to his property a little bit when I was mowing the lawn. A grown man yelling at a 11 year old over a bit of cut grass…
My college roommate and I had an ant problem. They got all over the trash bin, so we moved it from the garage to the yard in front of the house. Our neighbor left us a note saying it was unsightly and to please remove it. I handled the situation by putting a sticky Christmas bow on top of it to make it look nicer. My roommate was horrified (by me) and took it off. She then explained to the neighbor why we had it outside.
I’m not sure which one of us was pettiest – me or the neighbor.
My upstairs neighbor (in an apartment) was peeved that I contacted the office about him and his loud wife. I had no contact with them directly. So this grown man waited until I took my 15 year old, blind, dying of cancer dog outside to relieve himself, and he came out to loudly bark and growl at my dog to scare him since he couldn’t see. Luckily, my dog didn’t care, but what a petty thing to do.
We had our lot assessed and they put stakes in the ground on the property line. She pulled them up and moved them two inches over. It was very noticeable because they also made a small spray painted line along the stakes. I guess she didn’t think we would notice that the stakes were no longer on the line.
He’s salty about a land survey that was done decades before I moved in. We have a decent neighborly relationship in general, but when I moved in he tried to convince me that a whole section of my yard was his. Fortunately, the previous owner had warned me he might try this.
Now we rent the house out. Every time a new tenant moves in, he walks the property with them and tries to move the property line again. Very petty, and so consistent!
Last summer our neighbor complained that our maple tree (the only tree in our entire yard) was dying and he contacted his insurance company to make sure we’d have to pay damages if it ever fell over onto his garage. We had an expert out and it was dying so we sadly chose to have it cut down. During this fall he got his leaf blower out every single day and blew the leaves from his yard into ours even though new have now have no trees.
Jokes on him, we just signed a contract for a fence. For our dog, not out of pettiness. But it’s a nice bonus.
When I was a kid, my brother and I were playing catch in the yard. Our ball ended up in the neighbor’s yard (nowhere near the house like 5 feet into his grass) and I went to get it. He comes running outside yelling saying “If I ever see you on my grass again, I’m calling the cops.” No kidding. The whole get off my yard kid thing.
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