Nastiest Neighbors Thread

[ThreeJane]

Hubby and I were talking last night and one of us mentioned moving sometime.

I thought about it and said, "You know, I don't want to move. I like it here, our neighbors are great, and we could wind up with one of those horrible neighbor stories like I'm always reading on Homesteading Today!"

Who thinks they've got the nastiest neighbors?

(Mine all rock, by the way, minor irritations, probably no more annoying than my dogs or our habit of shooting large caliber firearms in the backyard on summer evenings)

(I know sancraft will definitely be right up there with nasty neighbors...)

[floramum]

Across The Street, Pass The Little Swamp, Houses 1, 2, 3 Win For Worse Neighbor. In Our 2 Mile X 2 Miles Community Of About 400 People And Our County, Is A Dog Leash Law. Those Neighbors Have On A Regular Basis Turned Their Dogs Loose To Run The Area. They Get Into Garbage Cans And Chase Our Cows. To A Man, Their Owners Will Swear The Dogs Never Leave The Yard Or Chase Cows. The Have Lied To My Face They Will Keep The Dog Up.

Once A Year The County Dog Catcher Will Heed Complaints And Make A Roundup. This Year He Stopped And Retrieved The Guilty That Had Decided To Come Into My Laundry Room. What A Shame, Nice Dogs, With Tags, Hauled Off To Never Be Retrieved By Their Owners.

After Being One And All Told Off By My Family, They Now Only Loose Their Dogs At Night.....

#2 Is The Neighbor Kids Visiting On Weekends Who Walk Their Dogs Thru Any And All Property, Shine Flashlights, And Talk Loud Enuf To Wake Us Up. They Can Run Like The Wind As We Have Found Out.


I Imagine There Are Worse Neighbors, Pitiful Isn't It.

[fantasymaker]

When I moved out here everyone warned me about the nut next door , dirty yard weird hours loud kids talks with the animals ets.
the first week I Was here I was siiing down by the creek on a log a mink walked up and sat down beside me.We watched the watr in companionable silence for a while before he left ,later the nut says to me you dont hunt mink do you hegrinned when I said naw justsit around with them.
Later he showed me some of the inventions that cluttered his yard that he spent weirdhours working on.in 2o years his kids hadone loud party wish mine were as quiet
I think the world needsmore nuts I miss that one

[MarleneS]

Originally Posted by floramum

Across The Street, Pass The Little Swamp, Houses 1, 2, 3 Win For Worse Neighbor. In Our 2 Mile X 2 Miles Community Of About 400 People And Our County, Is A Dog Leash Law. Those Neighbors Have On A Regular Basis Turned Their Dogs Loose To Run The Area. They Get Into Garbage Cans And Chase Our Cows. To A Man, Their Owners Will Swear The Dogs Never Leave The Yard Or Chase Cows. The Have Lied To My Face They Will Keep The Dog Up.

Once A Year The County Dog Catcher Will Heed Complaints And Make A Roundup. This Year He Stopped And Retrieved The Guilty That Had Decided To Come Into My Laundry Room. What A Shame, Nice Dogs, With Tags, Hauled Off To Never Be Retrieved By Their Owners.

After Being One And All Told Off By My Family, They Now Only Loose Their Dogs At Night.....

#2 Is The Neighbor Kids Visiting On Weekends Who Walk Their Dogs Thru Any And All Property, Shine Flashlights, And Talk Loud Enuf To Wake Us Up. They Can Run Like The Wind As We Have Found Out.


I Imagine There Are Worse Neighbors, Pitiful Isn't It.

I can't stand it any longer, would you please stop driving me up the wall with the misuse of capital letters on every word? It makes reading your post very difficult...oh, wait an minute, there is another option, I could just stop reading your post.

Hugs
Marlene

[fantasymaker]

Other neighbor used to call me to come get the cows out of her feild yard etc after 1o years of this she finally gotmad at me and yelled at me to build a better fence to keep them in. Should have seen the look on her face hen I pointed out Ive never owend cows!

[fantasymaker]

Other end of the farm the lady called me up screaming about a tre falling on the fence and how I had to fix it rightnow (5 am) before her hubby got home round 7 after chores and stff I went to look pulled in the drive right behind hubby explained, we went to look at it . We stood there for a while not saying anything looking at their tree on my fence. Finally he says "Ill explain i to her...pauses...after a few beers"

[NWoods_Hippie]

Where I used to live in the woods the closest neighbor was a "swinger" couple who when up in this second home in the woods from their home in Madison had HUGE parties that went on for days. Once I found one of their party attendees passed out and sleeping in my meadow! Another time a person from one of these parties was found wandering around in the snow with no coat, shoes or gloves, they called the vol. fire department (which I am on) out at 4am to look for this guy, he was found with pretty bad frost bite but mumbling something about being lost in the desert...hmmm. The also had no regard for private property and would ride their snowmobiles across my land, until I put the fence up that is. Lets see, also had lost drunks looking for their party try to walk into my house in the middle of the night, once they were pulling friends around our lake in kayaks tied on to their snowmobiles...oh I could go on and on...I miss the woods but I for sure don't miss those neighbors!!!

Margie

[kitaye]

I've had worse neighbours than our current one but she does drive me batty with her demands about our yard. Everyone else is great and I am glad we moved here.

[DocM]

I have the world's worst neighbor. He is a 60 yr old diagnosed psychotic who absolutely believes he's been visited by aliens, thinks he has a transmitter in his neck, peeps in windows, lurks on property, pervs on my daughters, shoots at dogs (my dogs, on my property) pulls guns on people, and worst of all, the police, while having been called on this guy probably 500 times over the years, and arresting him for recklass discharge of a firearm, pretty much ignore our complaints now and still allow him to own a weapon. Several neighbors have already moved, the new ones then have moved, we're on about the 4th set of neighbors on either side of him, and after 22 years, I am now planning to move also. I don't think the cops would spend a lot of time investigating if he disappeared though..

[DocM]

Argh, I forgot to add - he put in a hot tub, in plain view of our shared drive, and likes to stand up and wave as we go by. He's not an attractive naked man. Neither is his ex-biker chick fat wife. Ew. Double ew.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I like my neighbors!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Across the street is hubby's cousin, who has learned not to critique what we do to our friends.

We bought the other house across the street, and it's becoming my office and arts/crafts studio

Next door is one of my renters in the house hubby grew up in.

Other side is nice divorced lady with daughters the same age as my grown sons.
Very quiet.

Behind us are the cows and horses.

Works for us.

[Old Vet]

I think we have the best neighbors. They leave us alone but if we run into trouble they will come and help. The one across the road actually lives in MO, and only comes down to ride his horses. The one to the right of us is only two and half miles down the road. And he is the next house. So we have it made in the shade! LOL

[Meg Z]

I have neighbors on both ends of the spectrum. The bad one lives across the street and down one. He's the guy I had to call 911 about on Mother's Day this year, because he was shooting across my property while I was out feeding livestock. The sheep ran for the barn, and I dove behind the chicken house. He's got mental issues, but getting him locked up for a week helped him out somewhat, so I hear.

Then I have the world's best neighbors. That's the next place down the road. When we first moved here, they loaned us a buck goat to breed my does. They didn't know us at all. Then the wife called and said she had a 'few' canning jars she thought I might want...would I come get them while she was cleaning out a storage area? You bet I would! She had her grandson load 24 CASES of jars into my truck! We don't see them often, but I love every minute of time I get to visit with them. And I share my canned jellies and spreads with them at Christmas...and they share goodies back. You don't get better neighbors than these two! (I posted their donkey on the Barter Board for them...go buy it!)

Well, that's the 'good' and the 'bad'...does that make me the 'ugly'?
Meg

[tamatik]

Apparently I have been the bad nieghbour,when I first moved in here in dec 2000 I was shoveling the driveway 2 hrs after moving and she came out telling me I couldn,t put my snow there etc etc.Her and hubby are retired and are the window monitors for the street.the next morning I noticed dog trax from her from door to a pile of poop in my front yard..I watched and EVERY morning it was the same thing..When I saw them outside on day I politely asked if they could stop the dog from using my yard.I was told"We have lived here 30 yrs and whats make your place so special that he can,t?"and "Its free fertilizer" That type of logic escapes me and from then on til the dog died..natural causes..I carefully laid each days blessing on the hood of their car.they never got another dog...Yup..I,m the bad neighbour.I don,t own a dog.

[minnikin1]

Originally Posted by tamatik

..I carefully laid each days blessing on the hood of their car.they never got another dog...Yup..I,m the bad neighbour.I don,t own a dog.

[kitaye]

What a perfect way to deal with the problem tamitik. I love it.

[hoofinitnorth]

When we lived in a more urban area we had neighbors that would walk their dogs by our yard and let them pee and poop on our lawn and on our shrubbery. Our little shrubs never had a chance and didn't even last a year. One guy had the audacity to let his dog do this (actually stopping to let his dog do it) in front of me one day when I was watering the lawn. I should have turned the hose on him (the guy, not the dog) but I figured that guy was probably the type to sue for that sort of thing and I just hollered "HEY USE YOUR OWN YARD!" at him. He didn't even acknowledge me and moved on down the street when his dog was done. Jerk.

We also had a neighbor that would send his kid out to shovel his snow ACROSS THE STREET to our yard. See, you're not supposed to put he snow out in the street and we had pretty small yards but hey, we all gotta deal and pile it up. We had one of the larger yards and it was one of the last lots in the subdivision to be developed so they must have been "in the habit". One day I finally yelled out to the guy - "HEY, YOU WANNA PAY MY PROPERTY TAXES?!" I never saw them do it again but I would come home occasionally to a fresh pile with tracks across the street. How inconsiderate can one be?

My last house in a rural area we had problems with poachers/trespassing hunters. For a while we had problems with jerks shooting toward our property in WAY too close quarters. We also had an issue that I wrote about here before where a guy clearing a lot next door pushed all his dirt and stumps up onto our property. Other than that the neighborhood was mostly just minor annoyances, including the alleged peeping tom and the alleged disability fakers, neither of which ever bothered us. We figured it was baloney - old fights in the neighborhood that were exaggerated or outright lies.

At this place we were forewarned about the neighbors with all the livestock that apparently shoot at people and threaten people and steal and do this that and the other thing. Two years and no trouble at all with him--we rarely even see him.

We have a couple junky neighbors but they are improving. One of the improving junky neighbors is a bit wild and comes out every so often to sow his oats on his ATV but he isn't around enough to be much of a bother. We also have a guy that is building a place and insists on bringing his dogs three lots down to let his dogs poop at the top of my driveway (he DRIVES them here, he doesn't walk 'em). Most of these people don't really give us much grief and it seems to us that the worst people in the whole neighborhood were the ones that sold us this place. Not one person I've met had a good thing to say about the one brother. Judging from their tales of woes, we're all glad he's gone.

[Wags]

We have great neighbors where we are now. But where we lived before we had some of each. The nice neighbors that looked out for us - called us at work if a strange car drove up to our place.) Then there were the people that left an anonymous threatening note about how they were going to report us to animal control for not putting up shelters for our dogs. The dog houses were pained the same color as the house - so I painted them bright blue so they could SEE that there were in fact dog houses in the yard. They were also the people that raided our garden and took all of our tomatoes! (took other produce to, but the tomatoes were what made me the maddest!)

And then there were the druggies on the far side that used to shoot automatic weapons across our property. Couldn't get any law enforcement to do anything about it - they would only take "informational reports". Finally there was a homicide at the shanty and a bunch of them got arrested. Things quieted down a whole lot after that.

[pyrnad]

Here goes nothing. I have posted a bad neighbor thread on several occasions.
The short of it is I have lived here for 10 years without ANY complaints from neighbors. Then the neighbors from H##L moved in. Due to the things they have done they have been charged with criminal threatening. They have threatened my life and to burn down my barn(among other things) They also poisoned one of my dogs.
I will not give up the my life on this farm..
Who picks the winner of bad neighbor?
I get along great with all of my other neighbors. We all just exchanged holiday goodies( except for my bad neighbor). Non of my other neighbors wants anything to do with my bad neighbors.

[Lawbag]

I might win. On one side we have psycho woman and spawn of psycho woman. They are the one who cut off our access easement, screamed at us repeatedly whenever they saw us outside, trespassed repeatedly on our property, would stop their car just to stare at us in an effort to harass us, and finally put a rock through one of our windows last new years. They also let their dog run on our property and chase our chickens and turkeys. Also stole a bunch of fence posts and mowed down our blueberry bushes on our property. They've managed to chase off two sets of people who own property on a different side of them. Yes, we talked to the other people and that's why they sold - they couldn't deal with psycho woman.

On the other side, we have old drunken racist pervert. He yells at us, teases our dogs, shines his headlights on our back windows, throws beer cans on our driveway, exposes himself to us (including the teenage boys who visit), threatens to kill us and our dogs, tried to run my mother off the road in his truck, gets drunk and shoots off his back porch. We get off lightly compared to what he did to the ("good") neighbor on his other side - he ended up getting him arrested after escorting law enforcement on an illegal search of good neighbor's property and showing the LEOs the good neighbor's pot plants. Now I don't approve of pot plants, but illegal searches make my blood boil. Plus the good neighbor, despite having a drug problem, did save the drunken old man's life when he had a heart attack. Some thanks he got in return. His crime against the old man was asking the old man nicely not to mow on his property. Now the old man also exposes himself to the good neighbor's mother, who is in her late 60's. Naturally psycho lady and drunken old man are good friends.