[Closed] Neighbours from HELL......

Whereas our neighbours are bloody fantastic all the time, proper nice decent people who have become to be good friends. (& they look after our dog when we go abroad)

Well, that sucks.

I dislike my neighbours. But they aren't from hell.

Just a bit grumpy old sourpuss types.

The other side are friendly but nosey neighbour types. Pleasant enough.

Thanks, posts like this remind me how lucky we are, as both of our neighbours are great! I'd hate to have bad neighbours as there's no getting away from them, I hope its sorted for you soon bigblackshed.

I'd rather not go into too many details,

Awww go on.

I'd rather not go into too many details

You little tease you.

Neighbours at the back annoy me (so I knock round and tell them and it gets sorted) when they have their friends around and lock their horrible little dog outside to bark and bark. It bothers me at 10.30 + at night anyway.

The ones on the right are sound.

The neighbour next to the ones on the right are a nightmare.They antagonise next door by booting footballs against their fence and throuwing food over their fence when they BBQ. Face to face they seem ok and the woman in the house has taken parcels in for us etc but once she's had a couple of sharp ones, food left overs start flying into next doors.

Quite blizzar behaviour if you ask me. I was quite shocked when a chicken caucus went over and landed on the gazebo roof of our neighbour. I'm just thankful her throwing arm isn't up to much.

Plod are involved and this summer has been entertaining to say the least.

Had a neighbour a few years ago,came banging on the front door at 6.00am one morning, told me her daughter was arriving that morning and that i should move my car form outside her house on a terraced street, the poor woman just didnt understand the fact i didnt own a car at the time and didnt have a licence.

Another neighbour asked if i had lodgers because i used to shop once a week and had 6 bags one week.It was christmas time.
Finally another neighbour,took in a parcel for me kept it for 2 weeks before telling me he had it, then sent it back before i could collect it, as i was on the way to work,when he told me on the street he had had it for 2 weeks.

They're back.

It took all of 20 minutes before the shouting and screaming started. Odd thing was the parents were away but the 4 kids were still here, stopping with one set of grand-parents (who live a little further up the same street). School summer holidays and you go on holiday without the kids?

From the behaviour last night another call to the Plod and Social Services is required I think. It's gone on long enough now.

If they don't move you should. Seriously - Life is way too short to be made miserable by the people next door. Your home ought to be a place where you feel relaxed and happy not tense and aggravated. I expect that it will take many months to get them out if at all, 4 kids make them a housing priority. Seems drastic but it's what I'd do.

And there was me getting annoyed with the bloke opposite running his poppoppoppoppop.... poppoppoppoppoppop scooter yesterday evening.
I should think myself lucky.

I had drug dealers next door to me a few years ago in a rented place. I didn't renew the contract after 6 months and moved - being woken up at all hours, dodgy people everywhere, and police raids in the middle of the night, after 6 months I'd had enough.

Easy enough to do when you rent though, not necessarily when you own.

We've had a succession of absolutely nightmare neighbours. The list of problems are far too long to document here but in summary, the woman next door was completely crazy, massively unpredictable and prone to drunken benders which created a whole series of problems. She seemed to push her husband over the edge and he turned from a nice enough bloke into a similar character. On the other side the guy was a poor petty criminal, was clearly into numerous insurance scams and most of his friends when they visited were rather unsavoury characters who for a while would deliberately park across our drive because I complained once when it happened.

On the back was this awful, awful woman who spent her whole day screeching at the kids and dog in this nerve-wrenching fishwife voice, listening to the radio really loudly and generally being very obnoxious. You could guarantee as soon as the weather was nice, we'd have to shut all the windows and doors at the back of the house because of the noise from her garden. She'd have big pissed up BBQ's as well where everyone got really aggressive. Try complaining to a load of drunk twenty something blokes with very small foreheads and see what threats they send over.

Did the good win in the end? Did we get the council and police involved to calm them all down? Sorry but no. After 18 years of varying poor neighbour behaviour like this, we've moved out. We'd have moved sooner if it was constant but it did vary and our tolerance levels varied accordingly.

So we've moved. New neighbours are fantastic. Both sides are really friendly, very helpful and we're already getting on well with them all. It may be giving in but it was worth it.

I've got lovely neighbours one one side and horrible ones on the other. The nasty one told the police, RSPCA and local paper that we'd tortured her cat when it got run over (not by us). They even got a picture in the local paper (who were not stupid enough to name names but were lazy enough not to check facts with the vet). Police and RSPCA were great.

Needless to say we don't talk to her now and have a new 2m fence between us.

All of which doesn't sound as bad as your situation. Police and social services sounds like the way to go. If nothing else, it gets the problem on record.

Had noisy neighbours next door when I got my first flat.

Played cheesy dance music at all hours.

A set of B&W floorstanders with 2 x 100W power amps soon put them in their place.

Peace through superior firepower

Current neighbours on both sides are great

Most of my neighbours are great but the family next door are a car crash waiting to happen. Their 34 year old son has drink and drug problems and is a general waste of fresh air and DNA. He likes to get loaded and then rant at the top of his voice about how he hates us all so much. I've had the police round several times but up until now there has been little they can do. A couple of months ago however he tried to kill his dad. He has since been issued with a restraining order and isn't allowed anywhere near the house or his dad and the peace and quiet has been delightful.

The best bit is that he recently came back to the house to try and blag some money and food (and bizarrely towels) off his parents. One call to the police from me had him banged up in the cells overnight and he has been warned that if he breaches the restraining order again he will likely face a custodial sentence. Needless to say I've set up a CCTV camera and have the police on speed dial 😀 He has made my life and the lives of our neighbours a misery for years, now it is time to return the favour.

We have an awful neighbour, so much so that we have just put the house on the market one year after putting an extension on and having remodelling work inside. An awful spoilt little madam who is destined for a great fall one day as she treats everyone with contempt and is too cloth headed to reason with.
A shame.

Either I live in the middle of nowhere and have no neighbors for miles or I live in a nice block of flats in Vienna which has lovely people living there.

We had (relatively) minor issues in comparison with others on here, but nonetheless make your home a place of stress.
We lived in a terraced st, neighbours parked their big volvo in front of our house continuously for over a year, swapping it with one of their other cars when they needed to use it. Despite them having hard standing in front of their house, plus the space in the road.
I was accused of kicking their vile cat (i didnt, merely shooed it off) which used to terrorise our cat.
My OH was accused of spying on them from our bathroom because the window was open (it was SUMMER!).
I mainly stemmed from the fact that he was a bully and was all sweetness and light until someone stood up to him (me) then they decided that they would just be bloody minded and nasty out of spite. It ended up with me feeling my blood pressure rise just hearing or seeing them around.

We moved 3 years ago and all our neighbours are lovely and we have no grief from anyone. +

Sometimes its better just to move away, people like that refuse to see reason and its just not worth the stress of trying to cope with it.

Peace through superior firepower

I've got an Asian family next door to me. When they moved in they were a bloody nightmare for ages. The kids are tapped, for months I had a dawn chorus of what I can only assume was "singing" in the bathroom (adjacent to our bedroom), tunelessly yelling, interspersed with screaming at the top of his voice. The youngest was toilet training, so we'd often be woken up with ten minutes of him bellowing "mum, I've finished" in increasingly loud and frantic tones.

They often have - friends, family? - round for what are presumably prayer sessions. Cue lots of clapping, wailing and caterwauling. Maybe it's just me, but if god is omnipresent then why do they need to talk to Allah quite so loudly?

The adults had such violent shouting matches that I once called the police out because I thought he was going to kill her.

These are just examples, I could go on. The solution in the end turned out to be a 5.1 home cinema system, action movies and heavy metal, and being fortunate enough to have stone deaf neighbours on the other side. You want to let your kids run up and down the living room dopplering "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH AAARGH AAAAH AAAAAAARGH" for hours on end, I'm watching a Michael Bay movie you bastards.

They're mostly lovely these days.

mate of mine christened our neighbour "attila the neighbour", judging by the above posts he was more like "minor irratant the neighbour"

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Either I live in the middle of nowhere and have no neighbors for miles or I live i a nice block of flats in Vienna which has lovely people living there.

Why don't you know where you live? 😉

My neighbours do stuff i'm not happy with now and again but way down on severity to some you folks.

It's a shame many people can't simply move, like lmp says, easy once out of a rental-contract, not so if you are one of the millions who is languishing in negative equity for the next 5 or so years.

On reading this thread it appears that I may be an iffy neighbour, my kids are [b]so[/b] loud as is my music at times.

I'm watching a Michael Bay movie you bastards.

I went with classical music. I figured the average Cascada fan will give in quite quickly when battered by Vivaldi turned up to 11.

Worked a treat

On reading this thread it appears that I may be an iffy neighbour

For me, it comes down to two things.

People make noise, fact of life unless you live in a detached. So you've got to take some of that on the chin. Where it starts becoming a problem is when a) it's at antisocial hours, or b) when it sounds like Dumb and Dumber's "most annoying sound in the world."

You want to play your music loud occasionally, go ahead. You want to play Aqua's Barbie Girl on repeat till 3am every night for a week, we have a problem.

We lived next door to a family of alcoholcs, all constantly pissed.

One morning, early hours, I awoke to an almighty row going on, I looked out of the window to see the completely leathered son and his equally banjaxed dad, both stark bollock naked, having a drunken wrestling match, and punching each other senseless on the front lawn, while the mum, also naked, was drunkenly trying to separate them, wailing 'LEAVE 'IM!!!, E'S NOT WORTH IT!!!!!!'

This kind of thing was par for the course. All very entertaining. You'd see them in the morning, and they'd chat away to you as if nothing had happened. Bonkers! They were the real life embodiment of Biffa Bacon's family.

I think this is what proper wealth brings you...privacy... distance from other people. If I was loaded I'd buy a house in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours for miles.

One morning, early hours, I awoke to an almighty row going on, I looked out of the window to see the completely leathered son and his equally banjaxed dad, both stark bollock naked, having a drunken wrestling match, and punching each other senseless on the front lawn, while the mum, also naked, was drunkenly trying to separate them, wailing 'LEAVE 'IM!!!, E'S NOT WORTH IT!!!!!!'

binners - what a beautiful picture you painted with your words!

So funny. All naked. Spot on!

I won't comment on mine as I would be banned for ever.

I sympathise with the OP, I really do. We had a short series of problematically noisy neighbours (the 3am wednesday night drum-and-bass stella powered spliffathon BBQ was the finest effort) which just made being at home incredibly stressful. Especially given that the entire rest of the estate seemed to be staffed with retirees.

Anyway. Life is just too short, etc. We moved house to get away from the twunts.

Had to rent for a while, but, we've ended up with brilliant neighbours. Long may they stay alive and not move out.

My elderly neighbor sometimes plays the piano. Gentle tinkles sometimes eminate through the windows. I love it.
The Church hall opposite is a nightmare. The air cadets parties full of drunken hormone filled teens and loud music until 0200. The aerobics instructor shouting WOOOOOOO every two minutes on a tuesday night. The nursery parents parking like *s every day.
Moving soon. I'll miss the faint piano sounds. Not the *ing church hall.

We used to live in Northfleet (sh*tty suburb of Gravesend) and had the neighbor's from hell - they both drank like fish and alternated between fighting, and loud sex, sometimes several times a night.

The final straw came when he threw her out about 2am, and she woke us up, breaking back into the house by smashing the front window with a shovel (we were in a terrace on the main road so in full view of the world) - I went outside and had it out with her, then promptly called the cops who nicked her, and took her away for the night.

The following weekend our house went on the market - life is too short...

A set of B&W floorstanders with 2 x 100W power amps soon put them in their place.

Peace through superior firepower

Not sure if peace has yet been reached, but I no longer hear the yapping dogs to the left or the yelling Chinese to the right since getting my new Naim amp. You yell in Chinese at each other in lieu of conversation with your doors open, and Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant will be giving you a Whole Lotta Love at eleven for some time to come yet.

Come to think of it this is also how I used to deal with noisy people in student halls at 3am on a Monday morning, just it wasn't in such high fidelity back then.

Our neighbour ran a repo company and used to leave up to ten various cars, vans and car transporters parked badly blocking drives and the street every day, and got gobby and abusive if he was asked to move em, two coppers moved in opposite and showed him the error of his ways,
was funny watching a repo mans car get lifted, 😀
He's also just been done for running an asbestos removal company and fly tipping what he'd been paid to remove, tons and tons and tons of it.. He got a fine 😕
Where I used to live oop norf I was woken up at 2am with the neighbour being tortured over a drugs debt with his young girlfriend and toddler in the same room, I called the plod on that one..
some people should be dropped in the sea by a helicopter with bricks in their pockets..

I went with classical music. I figured the average Cascada fan will give in quite quickly when battered by Vivaldi turned up to 11.

Vivaldi's a bit lightweight - I'd probably go with Wagner. If that doesn't work, Tchaikovsky's 1812 (complete with artillery) should do the trick?

Last place I lived was at the top of a tower block. New neighbours downstairs were loud and partying at weekends, no sleep until dawn...

I waited until I went away on a long weekend and before I left, I place a portable radio over their bedroom and left the volume turned to maximum, set on R2.

Never had another peep out of them.

hen why do they need to talk to Allah quite so loudly?

They've mistook non-existing for hard of hearing...

We've had a succession of absolutely nightmare neighbours. The list of problems are far too long to document here but in summary, the woman next door was completely crazy, massively unpredictable and prone to drunken benders which created a whole series of problems. She seemed to push her husband over the edge and he turned from a nice enough bloke into a similar character. On the other side the guy was a poor petty criminal, was clearly into numerous insurance scams and most of his friends when they visited were rather unsavoury characters who for a while would deliberately park across our drive because I complained once when it happened.

On the back was this awful, awful woman who spent her whole day screeching at the kids and dog in this nerve-wrenching fishwife voice, listening to the radio really loudly and generally being very obnoxious. You could guarantee as soon as the weather was nice, we'd have to shut all the windows and doors at the back of the house because of the noise from her garden. She'd have big pissed up BBQ's as well where everyone got really aggressive. Try complaining to a load of drunk twenty something blokes with very small foreheads and see what threats they send over.

Did the good win in the end? Did we get the council and police involved to calm them all down? Sorry but no. After 18 years of varying poor neighbour behaviour like this, we've moved out. We'd have moved sooner if it was constant but it did vary and our tolerance levels varied accordingly.

So we've moved. New neighbours are fantastic. Both sides are really friendly, very helpful and we're already getting on well with them all. It may be giving in but it was worth it.

Very similar here, I have horrific neighbours, been going on for four years now.

The environmental health dept and police get involved but nothing changes. The whole family are losers, none work and they have constant parties.

There are some truly disgusting excuses for human beings in my area but very fortunately my immediate neighbours are lovely people. I sympathise with anyone who has to live with a nuisance scrote next door.

In our first house together, we didn't have any issues with our neighbours. The bloke was really nice, would always say 'hello' and let us borrow his hedge strimmer. The woman would just ignore us, but no arguments.

In our second house, both sets of neighbours were fine. We never really spoke to them except to exchange deliveries, and when the neighbour accidentally ran into our car (which was sorted very amicably and they were massively apologetic).

In our current house, the one side are really nice, and next door but two are really nice. The other side is council owned, and the tenant when we moved in was... interesting. She had a range of gentlemen callers at all hours of the day, and sometimes conducted spirited conversations in the street with them, often at 2am. Such as:

HER: You're not coming in, I've got kids and you're a f**g crack head

HIM: What did you f**g say? **** YOU!

Or...

HIM: Give me my stuff! Give my my stuff, you f**g we, or I'll slit your f**g throat

One of their gentlemen friends also referred to Benny as "a stupid f**g dog". Which to be fair, isn't an entirely inaccurate statement, but a bit harsh. All he did was bark once in surprise because the guy smacked into the fence loudly.

Anyhoo, one lunchtime t'husband returned home to check on the dog... and they were gone. Their house had metal grates over every single one of the windows, and security doors installed over the existing ones. It was a bit like that bit in Dredd when the security measures are activated on the tower block.

A few weeks later, she was allowed back in to collect her things. A week after that, the council went in and got out her left over rubbish, two skips' worth.

A new tenant moved in. Again, she doesn't seem overly fond of us but we're not sure why - we've tried saying hello, but she blanks us. :s Her friends are all really nice though, and she takes good care of the garden, and has three spaniels, so she's OK by me.

[i]The environmental health dept and police get involved but nothing changes. The whole family are losers, none work and they have constant parties. [/i]

Aye.
I have a friend who lives in quite a grotty area of central Manchester. He earns a fortune and I've asked him why he lives there. he could afford to live lots of much nicer places.
"Nice neighbours", is his reply. "Can't buy them for any money."

He's got a point.

neighbour on one side is the true definition of a bint... called the police because neighbours had the balls to park cars on the public road outside the front of her house, not restricting access (she's got two paths to her front door) not blocking her from parking in front of her house (public road so doesn't actually count, main point though... she doesn't drive/own a car!)

old neighbours on the other side, lovely... new neighbours just moved in... well the guy seems nice, the woman however spends her time blanking us and screaming at her two yappy type dogs that bark at everything including traffic 2 roads away. she sounds like a horrible women to be around. i politely introduced myself when they moved in, all cheery hellos, welcome to the road etc etc but even her dad who was helping her move in said 'good luck, you'll need it' :S

pretty sure her landlord doesn't know they've got two dogs there but in the end if they get away with it and the dogs eventually stop yapping all the time, i'm not going to tell anyone 🙂

we haven't got it great, but it could be a LOT worse! i hope we're the good neighbours in the mix, no tv on after 9:30pm (bedtime, horay 😀 ), dont have parties, dog is a silent ninja who doesn't even make a peep when the yappy dogs are barking away at him through the fence, friendly and polite but not intrusive.... meh, its all relative, our neighbours might hate us!

Contact local media?

On a related point - if you sell your house due to problems with neighbours, to what extent are you obliged - morally and/or legally - to inform prospective buyers of what has happened?

On a related point - if you sell your house due to problems with neighbours, to what extent are you obliged - morally and/or legally - to inform prospective buyers of what has happened?

nowadays the seller will have to fill in a form of property particulars & there is a section about disputes with neighbours which you will need to fill in truthfully or risk legal comeback at a later date

These stories fill me with horror but I can't help reading them because we had a violent drug dealer move in next door, ten years ago. I won't bother you with all the details but we tidied up the house and sold it for a good deal less than it was worth within six months. In the following four years it was resold three times. We now have lovely elderly neighbours on one side but worry what would happen if one of them died, and we have a divorcée the other side with three kids, well-behaved and charming and she says she loves living next to us, so fingers crossed that she will stay.

we had a violent drug dealer move in next door

as innocent music & motorbike loving students we couldn't work out why all the doors in the house we had rented were off their hunges or why the elderly couple next door seemed to like us so much - turns out we were a vast improvement on the previous tenants ^^^^

We're going to be moving soon (haven't yet found a place though), the thought of having horrible neighbours fills me with dread.

For us we have a nice cat lady who lives next door but is possibly doolally. But we have a young couple who will have 3-4 BBQs each week and talk loudly outside the front of the house. Each house has a small patch of grass out the front so basically they have a BBQ right outside our front door. They're polite enough, but at one point they got wood from a nearby skip and burnt it after their BBQ...basically we had 5 ft flames in a little BBQ about 1.5m from our front door.

They didn't seem to understand why I was bothered, although they haven't done it since (the skip's gone). But in the hot weather our windows are all open so BBQ smoke filling our house 3 or 4 times a week is annoying.

Reading someof these reminded me of this...

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my parents had a delightful couple next door

her- nurse undergoing hormone therapy, grew a substantial beard
him- illiterate steroided up nightclub bouncer ran his own wheelclamping business
at first they were just a bit odd but things got worse
they werent allowed to adopt here but were able to get kids from guatemala, ended up with 6 of em in a 3bed semi! treated em like shit, we petty much looked after the 1st 2 they got in the summer holidays
oh and they had an alsatian called satan, a goat, chickens, bred dogs (which occasionally tore up the chickens in a blood frenzy), and for a while a pony all in a relatively small garden
had wheel clamping disputes spill over into bricks through windows, watched pron really loud, once had their car mysteriously burn down outside the house and had rats in their animal sheds, the list was a long one

my parents tried really hard inevitably things went bad when my dad shopped em to the rspca, ended up with them poisoning our fishpond and slashing the car tyres
the ex-army guy on the other side had just as much trouble but it was my dad that stood up to them, (never appreciated how tough his isle of dogs upbringing might have been until then!)

police, social services, rspca were all next to useless

when they eventually moved out the neighbours threw a party and bought my folks some champers for bearing the brunt of it all

We've not had any major problems, but at my previous house the neighbours over the back let their kids trash our hedge into massive holes and spend all their time staring through the holes they'd made so we had no privacy. The old lady next door was forever getting a man to come round and trim her trees with a very noisy saw that sometimes went on all day.
In our current street there's one person who slits your tyres if you park outside his house, and the woman next door but one is banned from all pubs in the area for making a nuisance of herself and also posts nasty notes through everyone's doors.

the last house I bought was on the market due to matrimonial issues - the guy had been getting on with the next door neighbours daughter & his mrs had been doing likewise with the neighbours son - I managed to live there happily for 20yrs without feeling the need to indulge 😯

My neighbours are ace, just gave me some lettuce and cuecumber from their garden.

Last week one of our dogs was barking while we were at work (they hardly ever bark) so the lady across the way phoned me to ask if she could pop over to see if the dog was alright. They have a key so was happy for her to do so. She just popped over and gave our dog some fuss and she was fine.

We do nice stuff for them too, and generally look out for each other.

Nice neighbours make coming home feel so much more relaxing.

Vivaldi's a bit lightweight - I'd probably go with Wagner. If that doesn't work, Tchaikovsky's 1812 (complete with artillery) should do the trick?

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Reading someof these reminded me of this...

Excellent!

In 666 there lives a Mr Miller
He's our local vicar and a serial killer 😀

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it is possible that im a neighbour from hell- last week someone a few doors down(i dont know who) bellowed at me using very explicit language beginning with the letters f and c to turn the stereo down. it was an audiobook i was playing on my iphone while gardening at about 2pm.... 😯

my adjoined neighbours have moved out. landlord is planning work apparently. now im not saying they were perfect - martin tried learning the trumpet.....then the sax.......then having struggled with instruments with defined stops, tried his hand at the trombone 🙄 this was a 4 yr process. but i am worried about who will move in, it wasnt all bad, they put up with drunken birthday parties on my part and occasionally, rosie would play the piano, beautifully. it was a real pleasure to wake up late on a sunday morning to mozart drifting gently through the wall 😀

it was an audiobook i was playing on my iphone while gardening at about 2pm....

You are aware of this invention called headphones, aren't you? Quite an effective method of listening to things on the move / outside without everyone else having to.

you mean your neighbours did not want to listen to he same audio book as you at that time - how inconsiderate
I would not have sworn but a few doors down could hear it so perhaps a tad loud

A couple of months ago however he tried to kill his dad. He has since been issued with a restraining order and isn't allowed anywhere near the house or his dad and the peace and quiet has been delightful.

Need's a secure psych ward not a custodial sentence by the sounds of it.

Nothing to the scale of some of the stuff up there, all I can say i detached helps a lot.

In some Glasgow flats a couple moved in upstairs and had a house warming party, at 3am I hammered on the door to tell them to keep it down - they turned the music down and then the lights off. 10 mins later it came back on an I was knocking on the door till they answered. Very drug fuelled, suggested the party was over unless they wanted the police round.

Round liverpool way with the Firework season.. we were watching a documentary on the Iraq war, only at the end did we realise the majority of the explosions were going on outside our house. It gave most arnie films a good run for their money (and probably cost similar)

Shared on street parking was always a good one, the people opposite never seemed to go out in their car and parked so close that some days I had to climb round their car to get out. Had to ask them to move so I could get a washing machine in, they said there was nowhere else to park (within 30m)

Parking wars are always rumbling on in residential streets; there's one going on further up our street, all caused by one stupid unreasonable woman.

The day we were supposed to sell our house and move out, there was a last-minute hitch and it was all postponed for two days. The drug dealer next door set up some speakers in his open windows and played some ghastly trance music on endless repeat all night. At about 3 am another neighbour went round to ask him to turn it off and he turned the volume up. It wasn't until after we had moved out that I figured out that the loud music was probably meant to be a welcome for the new people who were supposed to have moved in that day.

The terrace opposite us has been sold and refurbished and it was a shock when I learned that the buyer is a bloke with exactly the same name as the drug dealer..... went round to introduce myself and was mighty relieved to find he was at the opposite end of the spectrum of niceness and decency, a thoroughly good bloke.

Cougar do you live next door to us? I bet thats exactly what our neighbour says.

Can't really complain myself after reading some of the nightmare stories here! Most I have to deal with is a yappy Jack Russell next door (ffs they come home every day at the same time, stop getting so excited!). And the other neighbours keep putting non-recycling stuff in my green bin (I'm guessing it's their teenage son), PITA having to tip it up into the normal bin - tempted to chuck it over their driveway next time. Still, it looks like I'm getting off lightly 😉

Cougar do you live next door to us? I bet thats exactly what our neighbour says.

Hm?

lhs neighbours is a holiday home , so only there a few weekends of the year
rhs neighbours have a pied a terre so only at home weekends and they are childfree windsurfers
I own the flat below mine so any nonsence is dealt with , and the guy is pretty quiet anyway.

We had a number of occasions when cat mess was being thrown on our car. Our street is the very definition of quiet so this was confusing. It could only be one of three houses. It happened a few times and I washed it off, I suspected the utterly fastidious guy three doors down who washes his shed with a kitchen sponge. 😯 His garden is so OCD that I guessed he was just lobbing the cat mess into the road without a thought.

One morning I woke up with an hangover of epic proportions, went to get something out of the car and the side of it was smeared. I lost my rag, and knocked on his door. I'm only a small fella but the bloodshot eyes, stink of booze and look of death in my face made him crack. He looked like he might cry with relief when I said I wasn't interested in retribution just wanted it to end there and then.

A few months later I was forced to park in front of his house because our road was having work done. His wife came and asked me to move the car, I checked it wasn't in the way at all, it wasn't and I said I would move it in a couple of hours when I'd finished what I was doing, there must have been 20 spaces in the road. He was pacing up and down his living room waiting for me to move my car, then he could put his in the place......from the space in front

And that's as bad as it's got, apart from the football ground playing chart hits when someone scores.. 🙄

Where I used to live oop norf I was woken up at 2am with the neighbour being tortured over a drugs debt with his young girlfriend and toddler in the same room, I called the plod on that one..
some people should be dropped in the sea by a helicopter with bricks in their pockets..

You reckon that would be better than torture for getting them to pay their drugs debts? I suppose it might irritate the neighbours less.

Given all our neighbours are lovely, the only possible conclusion is that we are the neighbours from hell in our road.

Samurai - your "awful awful woman" at the back is my ex-mrs, I am convinced of it! I have just gone all cold at the thought of what I used to be stuck with.

There's a Telarc recording of this by Erich Kunzel & The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, which used real cannon...

Hehe great call, sought this out and am now happily sat here with my Grados thundering away, those cannon don't half make you jump the first time, on my third listen now and they're still making me giggle. I am getting funny looks from the missus though.

am now happily sat here with my Grados thundering away

As an aside, aren't Grados great?!

Apart from the house in Leeds where we had a steel back door and bars on the windows to keep the scum out, the worst neighbour issue I ever had was in Llanberis in north Wales. It all escalated from minor ASB to the point where an axe was put through the roof of my house mates van.

I got the hell out of dodge. Life is too short to have pitched battles with douchbags who know no better.

Turns out the house my wife and I bought has a meth-dealer living next door... The man of the house has been arrested for his crimes, but the house still seems like trouble. We are friends with the neighbor on the other side of them and have discussed burning the place down and splitting the empty lot between us so we can both have bigger gardens... Hypothetically 🙄

Our delightful neighbour had a party tonight, the volume and voices were tolerable. Then woken up at 2.15am by music and voices, both kids woken up at 3am. Wife has verbals with the scrubber nextdoor but came to nothing. They're stupid drunk male friend band on our door.. .. Horrid.
House for sale anyone?

Two ways of dealing with that.

Keep calling the Police/council nuisance unit.

Or go outside and ask him if drink gives him dutch courage.

Then go round again at 7.30am. Bang on their door and ask him/them again.

No violence needed. Just keep going round. It'll annoy then scare them. When drunk they'll shy away then IMO.

Eeeeee I still remember my own drunken neighbour from hell who came at me with a golf club. It was in his doorway and he couldnt swing it. The council noise unit soon shut him up.

Wow, some nightmare stories here, guess I've been lucky so far, but some recent events as in my other thread has got us thinking ... neighbour recommends son to do some work for us, son turns out to be a pyscho con man, neighbours who have been great for 7 years and even told us they hope we never move and how happy they are having us next door, suddenly turn on us too with verbal and personal insults. It's just bizarre, the son is trying to con us out of 1000's and I think the neighbours support what he's doing!

My partner moved in at the beginning of the year and she hates it here, she would have prefered for both of us to start somewhere new so now when all this hassle is over we going to put our property up for sale and move somewhere better. In a strange way we feel that all this hassle has just helped us to decide to move sooner than later, we don't feel it's giving in just making life better for ourselves, like many have said life's too short to be stuck with grief, I'm just glad we have the means to get away from it. It's just going to be a bit messy getting there.

As someone who may well be buying their first house in a few months time, this thread fills me with dread! Is there any way to get an idea of what the neighbours are gonna be like before you actually move in?!

I was wondering that too? I did think of knocking on the neighbours doors to say hello but they might think you're a bit odd or they would probably be civil to a stranger knocking on their door anyway, and if you ask the sellers they might be trying to get away from the neighbours so will tell you it's all ok. You could hang around to see and hear what goes on but then people might get suspecious of you and think you're checking the street out for other reasons. I would hope that if you move to a better area your neighbours should be better? ... any other suggestions?

My wife and I are going through the house buying (well flat actually) process now and I should really stop reading these stories :-D. But in response to above, yes knock on the neighbours door I have, in fact not only have a knocked on the the doors, I've taken several drive bys on different days and nights to get a feel for the area see what the parking is like etc. I also arranged viewings at different times of the day to further get an idea of whats going on, lets face it I'm spending loads of money and don't want to end up in any of the scenarios above if I can avoid it.

+1 for Stevepitch

You are spending thousands, it's got to be worth spending a few friday and sat nights visiting the prospective area

son turns out to be a pyscho con man, neighbours who have been great for 7 years and even told us they hope we never move and how happy they are having us next door, suddenly turn on us too with verbal and personal insults. It's just bizarre, the son is trying to con us out of 1000's and I think the neighbours support what he's doing!

IME the problem with psychos is they're very, very manipulative. A lot of people understand very little about how they operate and fall for it without any idea what's going on...

Read Without Conscience by Robert Hare - it'll open your eyes...