sucky neighbor

[Evil Queen]

I now live in Houston (my poor little country heart dies a little each day). I generally leave my neighbor's be and they leave me be. Hurray.

But the people in the apartment complex behind my townhouse really get on my nerves! Always playing music VERY loudly. And I don't mean from their apartments, noooo. From their CAR. Screaming matches at all hours of the night.

Yesterday, six cop cars were at the apartment complex as SO and I were getting back from the store. They arrested three guys and disappeared. With that many cars, it was either a threat of shoot out or drug bust. Take your pick.

[pssorens]

All our neighbors are excellent. Except for the lady across the back fence. constantly upset because our dogs were" barking all Night". by all night I mean once or twice when someone walks down the ally. Our dogs also, according to her taught her Huskey how to howl. she complained once and we started putting the barker in at night to aviod trouble. she also started nailing all kinds of junk to our fence to stop our dogs from barking. then this april, she had someone working on our fence, just on her side and our dogs were reacting to this stranger. She has a big blowup over it with my 'rents and aries and solo were poisioned that night.

Cut to now, her Husky howls loud enough to shake my window on the opposite side of the house . while playing with our new puppy tonight. she was spying through the curtains all the time we were out in our back yard

[XCashier]

She has a big blowup over it with my 'rents and aries and solo were poisioned that night.

Did I just read that right? Your dogs were poisoned by your neighbor?!

[Gothicsmurf]

I have the worst neighbors ever. (Save for 2). Two weeks ago, there was an arrest for Americas Most wanted. Last week there was an arrest for parents who were forcing their kids to beat each other with baseball bats. Then the parents did it.

The girl across the street was interviewed on camera.... and she made the comments "We're all shocked he was always arranging games for the neighborhood kids. He's a good father, anyone would tell you that" or something like that.

To which I thought, "Yeah, he's a great father. I've NEVER seen him do anything for the neighborhood besides dump trash in my yard. Oh and the last time I saw him 2 months ago, there were 6 cop cars outside and he was being pulled away in handcuffs...."

I'm probably the ONLY person in my area that DOESN'T have an arrest record.

[protege]

To which I thought, "Yeah, he's a great father. I've NEVER seen him do anything for the neighborhood besides dump trash in my yard. Oh and the last time I saw him 2 months ago, there were 6 cop cars outside and he was being pulled away in handcuffs...."

That sounds like the people up the street. Supposedly, they not only own one of the local restaurants/bars...but they're into some illegal shit as well. Cops have been called there *many* times. Usually, it's because the woman's boyfriend has either roughed her up, or attacked one of her family members.

[PepperElf]

Various stories here.

From my apartment in VA
When I first moved in the family upstairs made me want to play Voltaire's "The guy upstairs" loudly - but i'm too nice. The mother of the family had bowling balls for feet and her kids would scream out to their friends in the parking lot. But they were doing it the wrong way, so bowling-ball-foot-mom would thunder across the apartment to show them how to yell the proper way.

They moved out and a bunch of guys moved in. Normally they were quiet, until one of the guys got a new girlfriend... a NOISY girlfriend. The first time i heard Orgasm Girl I wasn't sure if it was a live female or a porno. The second time... when she was finished screaming out, one of the other apartments broke out in a round of applause. Thankfully business took me out of the area for a couple of months!

And during the same time as OG...one of the other buildings had an ongoing domestic issue. Some couple was fighting - the cops came at least once to deal with them. Usually they only screamed at each other in the daytime. but at night, like at 1am, their little girl would cry her soul out. so... hell it was better to hear OG, cos at least she was making happy sounds.

home growing up
back to growing up...

neighbors on the east side... im not sure if they were ever happy. i just remember that the old man was creepy and mom once said that he would stare at the house whenever she gave us baths when we were infants. until she mentioned it.

next door neighbors on the west were a sweet elderly couple. the man would always make sure sis and i weren't in the yard when he was mowing cos he was worried a rock might fly up and hit us. he did tease dad about getting the dividing-stakes between the yards wrong... but dad was wrong by only about one inch, so it was more of a joke between them.

then another family moved in after he & his wife passed on. the kid was kinda dorky & full of hormones & empty of social skills (so he'd hit on sis who was like "ick"). Of course the biggest issue with them was... well the son had no social skills, so he picked up some enemies at school who proceeded to vandalize the house with spray paint.

the guy called the cops and suggested that my sister was the one who did it - because the vandals ran away and sis is a runner. however mom wouldn't let the cops talk to her cos she was sound asleep and had a big race the next day. after that she had a long talk with the neighbor and smoothed things over... mainly, made him understand that we would never do that to his house.

current place
biggest issue is that... some of the neighbors in this apartment complex are total gossips. mom's caught one of them actually listening at the vents of one of the other apartments.

the biggest issue she had tho was with the people upstairs. lady would work evenings and come home late at night and couldn't do it without slamming doors and etc around. and her son would play guitar all day long. maybe if he was good it wouldn't have been an issue but... apartment rules are "only 1 hour a day" for instrument practice, which apparently he thought meant, 20 minutes of practice every hour.

needless to say they were evicted on the noise issue.