My personal experience involves a couple that moved in next door. They both were very rude from the very first interactions we had. After moving in, they kept their incessantly barking dog outdoors 24/7 so it wouldn’t mess up their floors. The dog proceeded to wake us up every night and bark throughout the day at everything it saw or heard. We tried everything with these selfish buffoons. We had our HOA send them letters, we called and talked to them, texting, had the HOA president talk to them and finally called the sheriff out a few times..every attempt was not only ignored, but retaliated against us where we received some form of harassment. This went on for 3 years! We finally hired an attorney (expensive btw), however he forced our HOA to have a hearing on the matter which he also attended and they were forced to attend. I am like one of the other posters here where I retreated and stopped attending neighborhood functions because I can’t be in the same room as people that have lied, bullied and harassed us as well as cause people pain and suffering. Long story short…no more barking dog. The attorney was able to get us respect by proving that the matter was to be taken seriously. For those that cannot afford this, I would definately recommend just moving away from problematic people as soon as possible. It’s really not worth wasting a minute of your life or your sanity. Our neighbors are still a**holes and always will be, and we will be moving on, however it was worth the cost to get some peace and quiet for the remainder of time we have to live here. An attorney can also just write and send a letter which would cost less and might work. However, never retailiate! Just try to ignore and be as diplomatic as possible with these types and move away!

I was beaten and harassed by my ex boyfriend neighbor. I dated him after my 10 year marriage failed. My husband left me for a younger wealthier woman and at the same time my dad was dying of cancer. I was not in my right mind, and met 2 men both who lived on my block. The second one did not live there yet, but the first one nearly strangled me to death. He rented a room down the street. Long story short got rid of him.

Then a couple bought the home next to me. I was stressed, frightened and all alone. I thought surely, this guy is a homeowner and more to lose than the loser I just got rid of. The homeowner guy, told me he did not want to marry the girl he bought the home with and she moved out. I was not ready to deal with men, but thought, I need to move on and not be afraid to try. Hahahah.. Boy was the joke ever on me.

This guy started controlling me and knocking me around, yelling at me, ignoring me when it was important for him not to, it was a painful, confusing and frightening relationship. So, I took measures to leave it too as embarassing as it all was. I will never date anyone anywhere in the vicinity of where I live or work now.. I am severely traumatized.

I watched this man deliberately make friends with all the neighbors and turn them all against me. My health and sanity began to decline considering everything else which had fallen on me just before this event. I was so scared and alone. They kept me awake all night long, yelling, laughing, and partying. They would make sneering noises at me, like children do to each other. I ended up getting 2 pit bulls and one tiny noisy dog and a 12 gauge shot gun. He said he would make my life a living hell as long as I stayed in the neighborhood for leaving him. I was there 14 years before he moved in.

With that said, went to court, restraining orders filed, numerous police reports for harassment and I got no justice, just beaten down by society for being a woman, divorced and alone.. Sucks! I gave up, shut down and became the quiet reclusive lady on the block. I keep it all to myself, because he has established himself well. Got a new wife and baby and confidently prances around and attends block parties like he is the most popular thing to hit the neighborhood and the neighbors follow this guy like a bunch of lambs.

He was doing construction on his home and while the walls were still a bit open he would have loud sex with other women in an attempt to make me feel crazy, but I just kept to myself as composed as possible. It was hard and let me tell you (hard) is an understatement, and has taken it’s toll. Now I do not date anymore…Happily Single and drama free.

What a mean cruel world we live in. I am a very attractive woman, I have been told – I get lots of invites for dates, so the point to saying this is, a woman can be fat, skinny, pretty or ugly, and none of us are exempt from this type of abuse, I am fairly well educated, have a degree – not stupid, fun and charming too. I am not a bitch by any means, and yet there are angry people out there who will do anything in their power to tear you up like a rag doll and break you down. Beware! Telling the cops, will get you no where…

I think we need to take action like they did back in the old wild west and don’t tell a soul..hahahahah! Justice! Sweet justice – where are you!

Well now I don’t feel like I’m the only one being harassed by neighbors.I live alone and I’m disabled. My neighbors are friends of my x husband of 30 yrs and he was violent and abusive. Because I got the place and he didn’t he’s using them as his long distance control and he had an affair with a person next door and these people are on meth and pot,they want my place because it has a pond. I get chicken litter thrown onto my porch all the time,ruin the paint and they throw rocks at the light’s and camera. I feel really bad for all of you with rotten neighbors and the people who shot into your home should be in prison.Did you try to call the t.v. stations? Call anyone one who can get the word out about what they are doing to you,the police SEEM to be useless

I’ve read some of the posts and all I can say is wow. I feel for you. Here’s my situation. One rental in our upper scaled neighborhood. Culdesac, all homeowners are either police retired, prison correction, or gov’t employees. Now I know I’m not better than anyone just bettering myself. But We moved here 8 years ago. We worked our way up to be able to afford where we live. The owner of the rental property which is/was a very nice home had really good renters who took care of the place like it was there own. He is a marine officer and when they were transfered to Japan we were all very upset. We didn’t treat them like “renters” just good people who took pride in themselves. They were our neighbors! Now here comes the new neighbors. Not here for more than aweek and the guys son steals a car and runs it into the neighbors yard. thats just the beginning. Not to many parties, but lots of traffic. the son would be out on a school night/ week night, work week late at night playing basketball with his buddy’s using f-bombs and echoing in the culdesac. I finally had enough and went outside and told them to stop. Gave them some social skill advise. Etiquettes of being neighbors. (these folks are addicts) Their son is in a gang. well this crap has been going on for 3 years now! 4 nights ago our culdesac was invaded by 6 gang suad cars, 1 undercover cop, and they made 3 arrests. Well hallaluah you think! NOT! The Home owner whom I’ve been keeping abreast of everything going on and so has a coupple of other neighbors says he cant evict and would you please be my eyes and ears and document everything going on. Well needless to say my husband had a fit! He said you’re not going to be out their taking pics etc, so they can retaliate against us, the landlord is a pussy! Hes too chicken to do it himself. So all of us neighbors are ready to file a lawsuit against both the landlord and renter. Can we win? And get these pukes outa here?

Right now i’m living in an apartment and we have psycho neighbors living upstairs. They trow beer cans at our children, dump shards of glass, lead, urine & feces, and spit there chewed up bubble gum down on our patio, they harass and terorize our children day and night. They have called the police on us and accused us of throwing acid on there cat. They have failed to prove there case to the police, manager, and the courts. Today they are being given a 72 hour notice to vacate the apartment. Some advice 4 those who live in an apartment and have bad neighbors: If it gets to the point that u have 2 resort to calling the police because the manager is not willing to do anything about it u may want to notify the manager that u called the police. This could either help u or backfire in your face so beware because everytime the police are called they will ask 4 the name of the apartments. This means there reputation is being tarnished. The manager may be more motivated to solving the problem if he knows u are calling the police. But b4 u call the police make sure the manager has caught them doing thing that violate the rental agreement and make sure they have already been given a 30 day notice. And make sure u have a good relationship with the manager and the staff. Make sure u are willing and able to take on a big fight because u also have 2 consider the other neighbors may be there friends and may complain 4 u also. This is what we did the neighbors were given a 30 day notice, then we called the police, then they were given a 13 or 14 day notice, and now they have a 72 hour notice. If they refuse 2 leave in 72 hours then they will be taken 2 court and the judge will make a decision. If the judge decided to uphold the eviction he will give the landlord and the police permision to force there way into the apartment and physically remove them and arrest them 4 trespassing. I believe thats how the eviction process works with the court I’m not 100% sure.

I live below neighbors who are just unbelievable. I had discussions with them many times. Tried to be nice. Worked for a short time. Got bitchy. Worked for a short time. Went to the board. Worked for a short time. The problem? Their son and the parents are miserable human beings. Their child rules the home. They had the gall to give him a Wii game and he bounces up and down most every night. They have family over with lots of kids. They act like it’s a one family home, but they live in a 2 BR upstairs condo apt. It’s now 10:21 PM and this 10 year old spawn of Satan is still going strong. Boom boom boom – I have screamed at them, pleaded with them, complained to the board. Not to mention that there is domestic violence in the home on top of all that. They had a party last year and invited all their friends and family to sit near my patio to tan. They are trailer trash. I took pics and presented it to the board. The board is useless. I have no quality of life. I am trying to move because the yelling, screaming, cursing and violence is frightening sometimes. I’m tempted to call the police, but this man abuses his wife and I am female. I just hate coming home at night. In this economy, I don’t know if my condo will sell and I’m afraid that they will hear the noise and render my condo unsellable.

We too bought our house at the top of the market before the crash. There is only one rental in the neighborhood and it shares a fence with our backyard. In February they moved in. Everyday their children wake them up at 7 in the morning and they go about picking up their debris from the previous days party and throwing it into the their pit, pour gasoline on it and start it on fire. Making the neighborhood smell like poison. When the garbage runs out they chainsaw limbs off the trees and throw them into the fire. They yell everything all day. Nobody has a job. They drink all day. Let their dogs use any other yard as a toilet or burn the droppings. There are at least 10 adults 6 kids and 4/5 barking pitbulls and breeding more. Their kids and dogs must hate the sound of their own names from hearing it screamed with swearwords all day. Everything is an fing gdam problem for them. I heard them over a block away from the park swearing like it was going out of style. My limit is 6 months I guess.
First we talked to them directly, it did in fact make things worse.
Next we talked to their landlord, he was a piece of work.
I then called the fire department who told them next fire will carry a $10,000 fine.
-no more fires.
Now the constant noise.
There is a house for sale across the street, I called the real estate agent who knew the landlord, called him “difficult” but said she would talk to him. So far so good he’s going to do an inspection of the rental soon and I hope the result makes him evict. Real estate agents can be very resourceful.

I’ve seen garbage burning come up in the comments.
Burning garbage is federally illeagal due to the Clean Air Act. Local fire departments do not always enforce this. Your local clean air agency does. In Western Washington this agency is called O.R.C.A.A.
Burning Garbage carries a $15,000 fine. You can file a complaint on line

The best advice is to just move somewhere else. I’ve been through talks with the neighbors, cops, court, revenge and when it’s all said and done you have to live beside them forever or move.

Few of things I’ve tried, but often work best in conjunction of cooperation of other “good” neighbors so you don’t get complaints against you…

1. If woken up repeatedly at night and police/building management are not responsive, purchase air horns for you and a few willing neighbors. Take turns setting them off the morning after a party starting around 6AM. Sometimes rude party neighbors will get the hint, if not, at least you’ve ruined their slumber like they ruined yours.

2. When one of my neighbors in an apartment got a pit bull who he never kept on leash, and use to literally chase other tenants around the lobby, I reported him to building management, animal control, and the local police via certified letter stating fear which I also got several neighbors to co-sign. Dog was gone within a week, and apartment now has rule requiring all dogs be pre-approved by building management, and follow leash laws, or face eviction.

3. If you have young college students partying regularly, try to find out what school they attend. Many colleges (at least in the Boston area) have faced increased pressure to house students on campus. For this reason, when neighbors are troubled, they are eager to solve the problem by punishing the students for bad off campus behavior. There are also some colleges that are willing to send their own campus police to reasonably located off campus apartments to break up parties. This is often done faster than calling the town’s police number as again, the university wants to squelch trouble before they get more bad press. The morning after the party is over, see tip number 1.

4. I once lived in an apartment where a neighbor would cook the most disgusting smelling food starting after midnight. The smells would permeate the building for hours. I tried speaking to the neighbor to no avail. The neighbor explained he couldn’t sleep and liked to experiment in the kitchen to help make himself tired. He also admitted to cooking among other things road kill, and if I didn’t like it I could F#ck off! (This was in an urban city setting mind you, not the back woods!) After one final night of unspeakable smells, I purchased a stink bomb, let it off directly in front of his door, removed the evidence, and then called the building manager and police to investigate a possible dead body. Needless to say, the now sleeping neighbor was awakened by quite the scene. He was then arrested by the police for animal cruelty for having squirrel remains in his apartment and had no way to prove it wasn’t “road kill”. When he returned to the apartment, there was already an eviction notice on his door!

Get a restraining order. first of all, (I ain’t pluging the company but) go to q-see and get the $400 dvr with four cameras, audio and hook it up, configure it to your computer, you can view it on a laptop away from home. most of all it works wonders in court, especially to the police when they come after the fact.