How to Get Rid of Bad Neighbors
Your neighbors are not just a bunch of people who live near your home. You can actually have a personal relationship with them should you wish to have instant friends. You can spend those idle weekends enjoying cookouts. You can even have them keep an eye on your house when you are out on a vacation.
Most of us would rather have a good relationship with our neighbors, be it an active-friendly type or a passive-civil one. As long as you and your neighbors are on good terms, your neighborhood is a nice place to live in.
However, sometimes there are just some people in your neighborhood that you just can’t seem to get along with. Your problems may arise from the loud music your neighbor plays late at night, the daily parties until early morning, or the unkempt backyard, among others.

Bad Neighbors? What to Do?
There are countless reasons why you may hate your neighbor, but no matter what the case is, there are a couple of things you can do to effectively get rid of them, or at least get rid of the reasons that make you think they’re bad neighbors.
The easiest way to deal with bad neighbors is to use diplomacy first. Don’t charge them head on, or worse, try to get even with them. They may be nice people and turn out to be your best buddies in the end. Start by talking to them in a nice manner and tell them what is bothering you. It may be their smelly garbage or the loud music their son plays until dawn. The point is, you just can’t ignore it and allow it to happen all the time.
In many cases, they may just not be aware that they are bothering you or any of your other neighbors. Talking to them will bring the issue to their attention. Only then can the appropriate action take place. There are many ways to talk to your neighbor. Here are some surefire tips:
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Straight up – Go to your neighbor’s house and tell them, in a nice way of course, of the issue that is bothering you. You can suggest things that he or she can do so that you won’t be bothered anymore. If they love loud music, tell them what time you are usually in bed by.
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Invite them to dinner - In some neighborhoods, people still ask their neighbors to dinner. If they come over, you can start with some small talk and smoothly tell them about the problem. Inviting them to dinner is a nice gesture and may be advantageous if things turn out well. They may return the favor and invite you to dinner, too.
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Write a letter or leave a message on voice mail – If you are busy and don’t have time for either of the two initial options presented above, you can call up your neighbor and talk to them or leave a message on their voicemail. Of course you should know their telephone number first. If you don’t have it, you can write them a letter telling them about your concern. Leave the letter by their doorstep or in their mailbox.
Most cases can be solved peacefully. Often, it is just a case of miscommunication. You can be proud of yourself if you have managed to solve the problem between you and your neighbor in a civil way. Just make sure that you are not causing any inconvenience to your neighbors as well. They do not want to be bothered, either. You have to be fair to them, too .
Diplomacy not Working: The Pesky, Bad Neighbor
Okay, so you tried diplomacy and it didn’t work. They either ignored you, or worse, even intentionally made things worse for you. Now, what choices do you have left? Getting even is out of the question unless you want more problems to come. Fighting fire with fire is often the knee-jerk reaction people have, but if you do so, you will end up stuck in a mini-war with your neighbor.
If your neighbor is not cooperating, here’s what you should do:
Talk to the Landlord – Telling your neighbor’s landlord about the inconveniences their tenant has been doing can be effective. The landlord is in the position to correct things within his area of responsibility and he or she can give corresponding warnings.
Make a petition – Put it into writing. Make a petition of eviction and give it to the landlord concerned. If there are others like you who are bothered by this "bad neighbor" of yours, let them sign the petition as well. Explain your neighbor’s wrongdoings in full detail.
Gather Evidence – Installing a video camera is a good form of evidence especially in extreme cases. If you will be using a video camera, make sure it indicates the time and date of the footage. If you don’t have a video camera, pictures or an audio recording can be good enough.
Once you have gathered sufficient evidence and the landlord option still does not seem to work, call the cops and report them. With your evidence ready, you can easily file your case.
The task of gathering evidence can be time-consuming, but it is really worth it. It may cost you a bit if you will be buying surveillance cameras, so you may want to use your video camera instead. If possible, don’t rely on just one source. You can combine pictures and videos to add more evidence.
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I moved into a trailer park a little less than 5 years ago and I’m regretting it every day. I’ve lived in other parks with no problems what so ever until this one. Most of it is loud music from neighbor car stereos or music eminating from thier trailers. I have one neighbor that I battled with when I first moved in who’d play his music so loud from his trailer I could hear it across the street in my trailer. After continues calls to the police he got the idea.
I have another neighbor who moved in last year…a young couple who partied everyother weeekend with loud music, booming cars, and leaving trash in my yard. After many many months of calling the police I finally threatened them with court action through the police and they’ve been quiet for about 6 months. Now they have a friend who comes over a lot who booms his car stereo. I’ll have to involve the police again.
There’s another neighbor across the street who’s usually pretty quiet except when he works on his car stereo. When he does it’s bad enough I can feel the floor shake. I’m almost ready to get the police involved with him.
And lastly, I have one more neighbor that I recently filed a formal complaint for loud music. The music has been absent since, but him and his ‘fiends’ have pocket bikes that they rev up and run around the park. Again, I’m just one bad day from filing a formal complaint with them again.
Anyway, it’s a constant battle where I’m at. The only course with people like these (or from everyones stories) is court action, or at least a serious threat of it. So don’t let the disturbed, chemically imbalanced, testostorone filled, inconsiderate, imature @$$ holes rule the day. Call the cops and file complaints. Visit the local police station and talk to someone higher up. Call the media even…they love this stuff. Set the boundries early. Don’t be bothered if you make them mad…they’ve already made you/us mad.
My neighbor calls the cops twenty four seven on all of the people in the nieghborhood.I think he has nothing better to do with his time.Even a neighbor behind him called the fire dept and us also.He cannot be around fire arms so he makes us suffer when we have fires in our wood burners.And even calls the police for my son accidently had his football fall in his yard.I wonder if he would call the cops on a mom and a two year old that accidently walked in his yard.Well one day I looked out his window and looked liek no shirts on in his garagewith his boat.I swear lots of them must have been naked lol but only you can see tops off with the big bright garage light on you couldnt miss it even if yoiu were walking arund the dark street by his house.I think he calls tge cops to keep them from lookng at him doing illegal stuff.We all were here first he moved in and started lots of trouble none of my other neighbors start stuff with each other I wish there was a way to take him to court for harrassement and using the law when they have better emergencies to go to.Please tell me how to get rid of him trust me its pretty quiet down my road.My boyfriend couldnt even play drums in broad day light yes broad day light not even close to being night time 430 pm.He isnt that old but he acts like it.He is the ones with teens in his yard and lots of them parking all over the lawn he had tons of loud parties summer before this where the teens were gonna fight each other etc and raced down the street and he even had well I seen a bail bondsman at his house.Now who do you think is doing criminal activities not us I t hink it keeps the heat off him.Do you think hes seling pot to minors?
I have a neighbor who is an a**! The house originally was his parents. He has his own house out of town. I woke up one morning to find him peeing in the rose bush next to his back door! How hard is it to go to a bathroom?! He drinks beer 24/7. Cusses and snorts phlegm right outside my bedroom window. Always on his cell, right outside my window. Has scary lookin’ criminals at the house all day. Uses the gap in the fence to dump gas and oil into my yard. Trash from his driveway….butts, beer cans, junk food wrappers wash into my yard through the fence. I was so happy when he started packin’ it up! Until I saw a “for rent” sign in the yard. I had no idea what was coming………..the new renters make the landlord look like a dream neighbor. They had a pit bull grandfathered in. They have a Bull Mastiff. I have never seen people just toss dogs in the back yard and just forget about them. I called animal control about the pit bull. My dogs would no longer come inside after doing their business. The new dogs just stand at our fence and bark the second anyone comes out the back door!! These people don’t ever tell the dogs to stop barking. They don’t train them or even give them attention as far as I can tell. The neighbor behind them called the cops the first week they were there because the psycho pit bull tore her fence down. She said pepper spray didn’t even stop the monster! I was outside messing with trying to put up our fence and those 2 dogs tried to attack me through the chain link fence. Lucky for me the animal control officer was there to see that. Of course when I heard the neighbor lying to animal control, I had to chime in. She tried to say that her dogs are angels and that this behavior was unusual. I said BS they do this all day everyday!! Animal control tried to explain to the bimbo that she cannot allow her untrained dogs to prevent us from using our yard!!
After that the animal office said she was having the pit bull declared vicious by the city. The neighbor skipped that trial, and was allowed to keep her dog. How dumb is that?! A vicious animal is to be kept in a pen with a concrete bottom and a top on it with a locked gate. Or on a leash at all times. It wasn’t allowed to run loose in their back yard. But did they care about the law? Of course not! So, I am out with my small dogs and I see that damn pit bull trying to stick it’s head between the fencepost and garage. I knew it wouldn’t be long until it was in my yard. So I ran to gather up my pets. We went inside to call animal control. Thank the lord they impounded that beast!! Now I have to be a witness at a trial to have the monster put to sleep!!! Only a judge can order the pit bull be put to sleep!! What a waste of the tax payer dollars!! Meanwhile the city is feeding and housing the thing!! Why does the city declare something is vicious and then let it loose again?
Now the giant Bull Mastiff is left. This poor dog is so sad and abused. It is left thrown in the yard. No one ever gives it attention. He’s lonely. So, he howls and barks and whines all the time. Every time someone goes outside or one of their millions of “friends” comes over, at all hours….that dog goes crazy trying to get someone to pay him some attention. He is so huge that the barking howling and whining is amplified! Can these people not hear him? They never comfort him or even yell at him to shut up. What’s the point of having a guard dog if you never look to see why it’s barking. I am sick of listening to them abuse their pets!! That psycho slut came to beat my door down and cuss me out because she can follow a simple leash law? Then she has been tossing broken glass over our fence to try and hurt my dogs!! Animal control warned me that I should not leave my pets unattended because she might “do something”. That slut was so irate when they came to impound her vicious dog that the law was called. I wasn’t home but I was told the slut came to my door and was beating on it and screaming cuss words in front of the cops!! I wouldn’t even care about the stupid pit bull if it’s owner wasn’t so rude and inconsiderate. They act like they live in the country and no one else is around. I have heard other neighbors yell outside and tell their little yippers to hush. But these dopes beat all I’ve ever seen!! Now the a-hole landlord is trying to cause a stink because he says the fence is on his property. Well he fenced in his property years ago and my fence isn’t even touching his, so I’m supposed to leave a 2 foot gap in between the fences? I hate to tell him that I am not digging up all that concrete. There would be no fence if he didn’t put such shitty renters in there. So, I can sue him for ruining my quiet enjoyment if he wants to get ugly. Moral of the story….if everyone was doing what they were supposed to, there would be no problems.
What a genius! Now she has an attorney to fight this pit bull thing. I guess her husband’s drug running business is doing well since she seems to never work yet has an endless stream of cash to pay for animal fines and court fees for being a dumba**!!
The tip: never give up!! No one has the right to ruin the quiet enjoyment of your property to which you are entitled!
my entire neighborhood is like friggin wisteria lane. we moved in about 3 years ago and from day one the guy next door has had it out for us, we wer right in the middle of moving in, cars and people EVERYWHERE and we here BANG,BANG, the front door flies open and in walks the neighbor and says “cable guy, move your f’in truck” turns around and walks back out, WELL WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!! (mind you the cable guys truck was about 4 inches into his driveway!!!) things have just gone from bad to worse, there are 5 of us and we are constantly feuding right now its the guy at the top of the hill who refused to trim his shrubs so the kids could use the sidewalk to get the bus so I had to call the town, hes ALWAYS using sarcasm with my kids and dropping little comments here and there that he knows just floor me……I really have taken the high road here and ignored pretty much all of their crap but im not sure how much longer this jerk is going to be able to push my buttons before i push back, mess with me thats fine but now hes messing with my kids!!!!!I truly do hate this neighborhood and think their should be some sort of crappy neighbor clause when you buy a house, LOL!!
My home is gated completely and we have people in our neighborhood who let have little to no respect for others. I’ll wake up to find 2 German Shepherds in my backyard at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning attacking my mini dachshund (when he is in a completed fenced area). I’ll look out my kitchen window to see children running after my cats and antagonizing them in my own yard. When you try to speak to the children nicely, they ignore you and walk away with your animal. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to be queen bitch. lol.
My neighbor calls the cops on my family and the guy who lives on the other side of her all the time. She’s a really big racist, and hates Al [the guy on the other side of her house] because he’s black, and I think she hates my family because she thinks we’re Arab, but we’re Sicilian… I don’t know how you can mess that up; maybe its the dark hair, I don’t know… Anyways, since we’ve built our house 24 years ago she has given us nothing but crap. She ALWAYS says my dad is doing something wrong. One time it was that he was cutting down a 100 year old tree on our own property. Not only was the tree not 100 years old, but it was on our property, and the cops said that we didn’t do anything wrong. When I was little and would wait for the bus at the end of my driveway, she would drive by and throw her cigarettes at me. One time my dog slipped her collar off, and was chasing a squirrel in the road [we don't usually allow our dogs to roam free, mostly because its illegal and dangerous] and our dog got hit by a car and ran in the woods [which happened to be her property] and when we were getting our dog out to bring her to the dog hospital [she had a shaddered pelvis] the lady drove right up to us got out and waddled over to my dad and started yelling at him saying things like “NO HUNTING ON MY PROPERTY!! THIS IS MY PROPERTY” It was obvious we had a dog in the bed of our truck, not a deer or anything else. So my dad got right in her face [he was sooo mad that she tried to prevent us from getting our hurt dog] and he started screaming at her. I’ve never seen him so mad. Then she waddled back to her truck and drove off, I’m assuming to the police station. I don’t know there’s been sooo many more things that shes done over the years. Just these recent years shes been doing things too. Shes been saying that Al has been on her property shoving animal poo in her horses faces… uhh, yeah. Al works all day, and comes home to a complaint that hes been doing something absolutely absurd. She also got really dangerous too becuase she was driving her truck and doing cookies in everyone’s driveways in the middle of the night. She would even take her .22 riffle and shoot it off at our house. [I swear to god if she ever shot my dogs or anyone in my family I would probably be in jail right now for murder] So we called the cops on her [we don't usually, cause we don't like to start crap, but that was going too far.] She did it for like 5 days in a row, and one night the cops finally stayed the night in our driveway, and caught her in the act. She went to court and was told that she can either leave the state of New Hampshire, or surrender all of her weapons. What she did was sold the house to her girlfriend so that it wasn’t in her name anymore and isn’t suppose to be living there. She still has her weapons. Then today we get an Environmental Officer or w/e at our house and he said there was a complaint against my father and Al saying we were spraying her property with pesticides this weekend. My dad just laughed and was “All I have for pesticide is this can of Raid that’s like 5 years old” [Also, my father was camping this weekend and wasn't even here.] So my dad walked up to Nancy’s house and showed the officer all this stuff that Nancy has on her property that shes not suppose to or w/e. She dumps cow menuer in the river, that goes under the road and on our property, shes been stealing the dirt from the road to fix her driveway, and every night for like 2 weeks at about midnight when I get home from my boyfriends house has been doing something outside and using her truck lights to see into the woods. Obviously something that she can’t do during the day. The officer said that this same complaint was filed last year on us, but nobody did anything because everyone knows shes crazy. He said he just wanted to check it out. My dad said the gov’t is welcome to check anything they want. Oh yeah when my dad had the officer up there Nancy was hiding behind a tree, and my dad goes “I can see you…” and she took off running. [One time she was hiding behind a tree [she does that a lot] and my dad picked up a rock, and pretended it was a camera and was “taking pictures of her” and she took off running too] As I’m writing this I’m waiting for the police to show up, because I know she called them on us for taking pictures of all the things on her property that are not suppose to be there [we didn't cross the property line though] I have a voice recorder to record all conversations, and I have my sneakers on so I can run when she breaks out her .22 that she didn’t get rid of because her girlfriend is still allowed to have weapons. I don’t know if anyone else has neighbors like mine, but if you do just be careful. Some people are just not right in the head.
My husband and I have been living in our home for 4 1/2 years; we actually sold our last because we had a paranoid schizophrenic living next door to us who threatened us verbally and his parents protected him (he is now in his last 30’s). Long story short, we had had enough after living there for only 4 years(of course the police couldn’t really do anything, as it appeared that the law protects mentally disturbed people). Anyway, my husband and I moved in to our new home 4 1/2 years ago and have been dealing with a similar-type loser living in his mother’s garage across the street. He is also in his 30’s and has a long-standing record with the police (including drug posession and breaking and entering/theft). He has been in out of jail for several years, does not drive or have a job and is a general pain-in-the-ass in the neighborhood. He stays up all night (in the garage) swearing and talking to himself, drinking and urinating on the side of the garage in plain-view of all the neighbors. Again, my husband and I (and several of the other neighbors) have called the police and they go over there and do absolutely NOTHING. And of course, the mother enables his deplorable behavior by allowing him on her property. But the one thing that my husband & I have been able to do is get the town building inspector involoved; they have gone to the house twice and told the mother that her son has 30 days to vacate the property (in NY State it is illegal to live in a garage-or-other dwelling that is un-inhabitable); if the son did not leave, the mother (and son) would be arrested and fined severly. The son recently came back (after spending almost a year in jail) and is back in the garage, but we sent another letter to the building inspector-now the mother is really in deep trouble because according to the inspector, this would be her third and FINAL warning. I hope this suggestion helps somebody else who may be dealing with a similar issue. Good luck!!
call the cops, like i do. try to set boundaries. i have had issues with a mental person who forces herself on me. she calls me a bitch for minding my own business then says, i like you i want to be your friend. i have enough issues to deal with i don’t need a crazy person making my life hell when i have a cancer scare to deal with, high blood pressure and anxiety. i have told mary i do not have to talk to her or anything. it all started october of 2007 when i was mourning the 1 year anniversary of my grandma’s death i was minding my own business taking trash out and she got in my face called me a bitch and i hadnt done anything to her except ignore her like i have been told to do. another neighbor came to me begging for coffee and i was nice enough to give her some then 2 months laer she’s back at my door bothering me for money for ciggarettes and she says she works. why should i pay for her filthy habit when i don’t smoke, i have asthma and i told her no but she wouldnt go away after i said no she kept begging. other tenants have asked me for things and never came back why do these 2 keep getting in my face? now the second woman assumes i’m moving out whenever i get rid of stuff and it’s none of her dang business . i keep to myself and look what i get. pushy,rude, crazy, annoying people. grrrrr. my landlord is an idiot she says they have the right to bother me if they want and i know better. I told the cops what she says and they call her an idiot. lol and they r right.
my boyfriend’s neighbors complain about everything! they complained about our friend spitting in the middle of the PUBLIC ROAD, shoot our dog with their water hose and then call the cops because the dog is barking at them, complain about us remodeling the house because the workers are strangers to them and they said they feel uncomfortable and then a week later they remodel their own house and brought strangers over. The lady that lives there peeks through the crack of the bricks and starts harassing the dog and starts barking at her. Her husband doesn’t do anything. They also call the cops on the kids playing basketball at three in the afternoon. (They said they are making too much noise) And get this…. Our other neighbor across the street recently lost a loved one so they asked us to be quiet, so when the neighbors across the street were having a small get together after the funeral, they called the cops on them and said that they were not allowed to have a party after 6 pm. They are crazy.They lady also yells at my boyfriends mom and told her that she is going to build bricks on OUR wall. Why they hell would you build on property that isn’t even yours!?! She’s mental or something!
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