Friday OT #1 - Hi-Di-Ho, Neighbor!

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Thanks so much to @MeanDean for this fun thread!

What are some run-ins or experiences (negative) with your neighbors past or present. Did they ever get resolved? If so, how?
 
Had a neighbor undress in front of her window enough to believe it wasn't an accident

Had a neighbor where we would waive to each other and that's about it. Seemed nice enough. As he was moving out he asked me about every person who had been over to my place in the last 5 years..... A bit creepy
 
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Thanks so much to @MeanDean for this fun thread!

What are some run-ins or experiences (negative) with your neighbors past or present. Did they ever get resolved? If so, how?

I live next to Peter Pan. Dude is maybe early 40's and has a pool in his backyard. Little did we know when we moved in, he's famous for getting older while his friends never do. First three years totally sucked, as he had raging drunk pool parties with his late teen/early 20's friends until 2-4 am. I went over there once at 3 am after being awoken to window shaking music, and asked them politely to turn it down. They did not. After that, I gave him a curfew that I thought was reasonable: any obnoxiousness on a weeknight after midnight, or weekend after 1:00 am, call the cops with a noise complaint. Only took 3 times before he straightened that **** out. Now we are on decent terms.
 
I live next to Peter Pan. Dude is maybe early 40's and has a pool in his backyard. Little did we know when we moved in, he's famous for getting older while his friends never do. First three years totally sucked, as he had raging drunk pool parties with his late teen/early 20's friends until 2-4 am. I went over there once at 3 am after being awoken to window shaking music, and asked them politely to turn it down. They did not. After that, I gave him a curfew that I thought was reasonable: any obnoxiousness on a weeknight after midnight, or weekend after 1:00 am, call the cops with a noise complaint. Only took 3 times before he straightened that **** out. Now we are on decent terms.

That dude sounds extra-strength creepy.
 
I live next to Peter Pan. Dude is maybe early 40's and has a pool in his backyard. Little did we know when we moved in, he's famous for getting older while his friends never do. First three years totally sucked, as he had raging drunk pool parties with his late teen/early 20's friends until 2-4 am.


do you happen 2 live in davenport? and did you "murder" him
 
It's creepier than that even- I went out back one night while they were having a pool party, and my son's older sister (not my child) was over there and said hi. She was 19 at the time.

Nope. Nope, nope. Did you tell her parents? Is that even a thing you can do? I mean, she's 19, I guess... but wow. How awful.
 
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Nope. Nope, nope. Did you tell her parents? Is that even a thing you can do? I mean, she's 19, I guess... but wow. How awful.

I did not, since she was out of their house by then, and it didn't seem to be my place to do so. I did mention it to my son, hoping that with his low opinion of our neighbor, he might warn her about him.
 
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In college the 35ish year old stay at home mom next door to us would come over to have a beer and hang out when her kids were napping every once in a while.

Husband got home from work early one day and wasn’t happy when she was half-hammered at our slip n slide party in a bikini.

Before you degenerates ask, nothing ever happened.
 
My wife called the cops on the neighbors the day they moved in to the rental property behind our house. She saw the boyfriend do some very not cool things to his wife/girlfriend as they were moving in. He was still around after the cops showed up so we knew it was time to go.

Oh, and they also had a pit-bull but their rental property didn't have a fence, so they chained it to a cinder-block in the backyard. I am not a dog guy anyways, but after how this guy treats his family I could only imagine how he treats his dog.

We listed our house about 2 months later and are thankful to be out of there. No issues with our new neighborhood.
 
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We shared a common fence with a neighbor in our first house. She was a 40-something loner who never had any visitors as far as I could tell. The only other being I ever saw over there was her dog.

Our fence was in dire need of painting. Since we shared a common side and I knew the paint splatter would make her side look bad, I saw her outside one day and asked if she'd be ok with me coming into her yard to paint the common fence on her side. I offered to do this free of charge, which she agreed to. I painted her side of the fence and when I did the gate, I accidentally dripped some paint on one of her concrete pavers around her flowers. We're talking like 2-3 drips, at most. I saw it when I finished but thought nothing of it because it was barely noticeable.

One evening while I was out of town, she knocked on our door and chewed my wife out about how I had ruined one of her pavers. She was freaking out saying she needed to call the manufacturer of the paint and figure out how to get it out of her paver and she was doing us a favor by not making us pay for a replacement. Of course, she conveniently ignored the fact that I bought an extra can of paint just for her fence and gave her two free hours of labor.
 
My neighbors to the back are gems too. Seem fairly nice to talk to, but they are yellers. Dad and mom screaming at the kids, kids screaming at the parents or at each other. Dad and Mom screaming at each other. It's almost as though they can't have a conversation without yelling. I'm tempted to go ask them if they know that their kids scream and carry on like that because they're imitating their parents exactly.
 
Before I moved to Omaha I had sold my house and was living in a cheap old apartment in upstairs of an old building. The hot young wife in one of the other apartments would come over to sneak cigarettes because she told her husband she quit.
He would leave and she would be knocking on my door. It was really hot and she would be barely dressed at times.
No, nothing happened, I've been cheated on and would never do that to someone else.
 
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I grew up on a farm. The closest house to us was a rental and often drew kind of sketchy people. One had pit bulls that were not nice and ran loose. We had outside dogs, hogs, and there were 5 little kids. My dad told the neighbors that the dogs couldn’t come to our house.

After many warnings my dad took a gun out to shoot to scare the dogs off. Instead of shooting in the air, he shot at the ground. The bullet bounced off the gravel, and lodged itself in a dog. The dog was fine but obviously my dad felt terrible. He called the neighbor, called the vet who came and said the dog was fine and they shouldn’t remove it. The neighbor was pissed and made some random threat saying he hoped our dogs didn’t get shot.

The next day our two dogs found a package of raw meat at the end of the driveway and ate it. Since a package of hamburger seems like an odd thing to find, he thought it was possible that the pissed neighbor had poisoned the meat. So he called the vet again who gave them something to throw up what they had eaten. Our dogs survived and we never knew if the meat was bad or not. The pit bulls were fine and continued to be trouble.
 
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While this didn't happen to me, it happened to my wife. We both recently moved to Rhode Island where my wife works for a company that provides her with housing. This housing is on private property. She was walking outside on a road that is shared by an easement. Someone drives up while my wife is getting to run and this woman tells her that she needs to leave as she is on private property. My wife tells them she knows and lives in the house over there (points). This women then says 'no, I've never seen you before, you need to leave.' To which point my wife ignores this woman and continues to get ready for her run.

The company my wife works for knows about this women and just kind of laughed when my wife told them about it. Apparently, this is nothing new. Additionally, the easement in which this driveway is located is actually owned my wife's company but allows this other couple to use it as they don't want to use their main entrance to the estate for some reason.
 
Neighbor moved in and decided he didn’t like a tree in our yard so he cut it down. When confronted he said he was doing us a favor. A few days later he started driving through our yard to get to his backyard since his lot is too small. Told me I had to provide him access to his backyard. I laughed and said no I don’t, besides you can access through your garage. We planted bushes after he did this a couple more times.
 
In college the 35ish year old stay at home mom next door to us would come over to have a beer and hang out when her kids were napping every once in a while.

Husband got home from work early one day and wasn’t happy when she was half-hammered at our slip n slide party in a bikini.

Before you degenerates ask, nothing ever happened.

File under: Missed Opportunities
 

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