Anyone have BAD neighbors? (ignorant, White Trash, Pigs, Drug Dealers, ETC...)

when i was living away in Liverpool as a student may years ago now i naturally lived in the cheapest most run down area that i could find for my money so that my beer fund wasnt affected too much, one year i moved into a terraced street with student friends where our terraced house was the only one of five on the street that were still inhabited out of about 30 houses, the rest were boarded up, derelict or burnt out.

on the street there was a middle aged couple a few doors down who were alcoholics and drug addicts, they always looked visibly ill, there clothes were always ripped or stained and when they realised students had moved into the street they were constantly trying to get into our house to either drink or steal whatever was in the house, they were succesfull on the first occasion as my girlfriend at that time thought they were friendly neighbours and let them in before realising they were nipping the toilet alot and trying to ransack all the rooms at the same time.

after calling the police on them this just made them hell bent on causing us as much inconvenience as possible, they threw rocks at our cars, if you left the house they started shouting every obscenity they could at you and we quickly realised that there wasnt much you could do to stop them as the police could lock them up on evry occasion but they would still live back at the address after it and were not bothered by the courts or prison.

after living there for a few months i woke up early one morning to the sound of police sirens, looked out of my bedroom window to see the male of this couple lying flat on his back in a pool of blood, i was told later that his partner had more or less gutted him and at the time i could see his stomach wound was huge and he had already died or passed out from the blood loss, while she got led away by the police a few minutes later still screaming at him as he lay on the floor. the street was alot quieter after that anyway.

Just reclusive lesbians here.

when i was a kid we lived in the ghetto so several of the houses were like that. this didn't bother me so much, and we moved out of there when i was about 6 and i don't remember or care too much about the neighbors. looking back i know there was one crack house which was a gutted shell of a house where the dealers dealt. and there was another house where kids played basketball all night and day, and eventually a big cadillac or mercedes pulled into the drive, put the window down, and then would drive off. they must have been higher up on the dealing chain. but we moved from the ghetto, and really most of the neighbors weren't bad there. and the two that were kept to themselves and didn't try to rob us or anything like that as we'd been in the hood a long time, and everyone knew my mom and stepdad we were established in the community i guess. but we moved to the burbs and things changed.

at first we had some fine neighbors there nothing to worry about. and now the neighbors are okay enough. but when i was about 12 we had these neighbors who were just awful. on either side of us in fact. on one side was this trucker, who'd park his big rig in the street and it would block part of our drive way. he had a confederate flag hanging from the house, a swastika tattooed to his neck, and was a general racist. and his house was between us (a hispanic family) and the indian people who lived on the other side of them. so we were all worried they'd do something well evil. they had an army of chihuahuas, and two fat sons who were just as racist as their parents. i rode bikes with them once as they were new to the neighborhood and i thought i'd get to know em. they were terrible kids. called me mexican and said they'd be watching to make sure i don't rob them. they threatened to beat me up a couple times. and i was glad my parents sent me to private school because had i gone to school with them that would have been an inevitability. the only saving grace for the whole lot of those racist fuckheads was the wife was normal, adjusted, and knew they were all idiots. she'd come over and talk to my mom regularly. and apologize for her family's actions. one of our cats wound up drinking some anti-freeze they'd spilled all over their driveway. because they were always working on some shitheap of a car and not cleaning up anything. our cat died, and my mom always said they'd killed her on purpose. they moved out eventually and that house remained empty for years til the current couple moved in. a married couple in their early 30's who keep to themselves.

the neighbors on the other side were terrible too. but of a different nature. they had about 30 people living in a three bedroom house. constant parties, constant noise, and a huge tent in the back yard. cars parked up and down the street, trash everywhere, and the bad music never shut off. they had an old african lady living there who would race to the mailbox whenever the postman came. i don't know what she was doing there. but she was just another of the 20-30 people living there. in tents, in rooms, in bathtubs, god only knows. all i know is i was glad when their lease was up and they left.

When I as growing up there were always these weird neighbors next door. First off we believed that they were perverts then after they moved out some weird vampire people moved in. I say this because they would never come out during the day and during the night the would go into the backyard, bang on drums and yell some sort of "magical spells" or something while smoking pot and other substances. They moved out after a couple of years of doing that. To this day I don't think I ever saw them and I still think they were vampires lol

I think I am the lowest common denominator here. XD

My attached neighbors (I live in a duplex) do careless shit like toss cigarette butts wherever they feel like, & refuse to train their rude puppy.

The people directly across the street sometimes make too much noise after 10pm-loud cars & motos burning out & staging, booming systems...I've got babies @ home trying to sleep, so I'll walk right up to them. Don't even bother to ask them to cut it out-just ring the Police right in front of them as I smile.

Pretty minor in comparison to people POACHING DUCKS. The fuck, man? Lol...they can't be that hungry & afford to be in a house.

TonK,
I think we need to determine a few things before proceeding with advice.

Biggest is if they bought the home or just renting it. If renting it, I would go straight to the landlord/owner and complain to them. However I am guessing they bought the house since I can't imagine the female teacher sold it to someone who turned immediately around and rented it out in that short a period of time.

Do you pay any kind of association due's to a community? Good chance those assholes aren't paying and even if they are many communities have a list of rules that home owners MUST follow otherwise they can bring a world of home ownership pain down on the people.

If you don't live in this kind of community, does your area have a city council meeting? I would bring up the issue with them. However, I wouldn't stress the new neighbors as simply being noisy or inconsiderate. They probably wouldn't care one way of the other if you are simply annoyed. No, I would approach this from the angle that they are keeping the property trashy, home is ill maintained (anyone who keeps their yard like that probably doesn't maintain the inside of the house either... especially with that many animals) and most importantly they are bringing DOWN the property value of all nearby neighbors homes. You might need to get some of the other neighbors on board with this. Everyone knows that a trashy, shit hole house next door brings their property value down and in this economy the last thing you want is some asshat who doesn't take care of his property to drive your investment down the crapper.

What happens if a couple years down the road you decide to sell and find out no one wants to buy your property cause they don't want that circus next door to be included in the deal? Then you are fucked. I would address this issue before it gets any further out of control. While I doubt you can just get them kicked out, I am sure you mostly want them to act like normal, decent neighbors who respect their property and others as well.

Hire Black Dynamite to go over there and shake them up.

I live in an older neighborhood in a nice quiet college town. When house prices skyrocketed, most of the trash sold and got out. Then more well off people could barely afford to move here. Then the market tanked and they are all stuck here. Then the people who lived in my house lost it due to property taxes. Then I swooped in and bought the house between Christmas and New Years when nobody was looking and got it cheap I live besides a painter, who has his kids and his mom living there. A family with 3 little kids..wife is a theology teacher at a catholic HS and the husband works behind a desk fr some company. A lady across the street that does a bunch of fishing and has nice kids. Then a lady that is retired and use to work for the local office of education. Then there's my wife and I. Dental Assistant and me being a first grade teacher. That's pretty much the court I live on. Good place. Only thing I don't like is that we just kind of talk a bit and wave at times. I replaced my fence with the painter guy. Other than that, nobody is really "Friends", which I miss from when I was a kid. Block parties etc...

I do have a buddy who's neighbors would steal his packages and trashed everything. They rented a big house made into flats where they shared a basement. They would take/break his shit all of the time and just deny it. They just got evicted and the house is being gutted. He's SO HAPPY! It just took a while.

"Older Neighborhoods" usually turn into ghettos.

norton9478 said:

"Older Neighborhoods" usually turn into ghettos.

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Not if their smack in the middle of a pretty little upper middle class burb/college town with the housing market helping the trash run with their money and the well off people with nice families get stuck there and by older, I mean houses made in the early/mid 1970's

Ohh, I thought you meant older as in elderly.

I had some really messed up, scary neighbors a couple of years back. I really liked the apartment I was in too, the rent was good, I liked the neighborhood, landlady was like family even. But you can only take so much where you live, and it's better to move out sometimes if you can afford to.

I remember the week it happened too, and of course it had to be right next door and not down the hall or just upstairs or anything. It was like "fuuuuuuuck". I didn't even stick around long enough for them to actually 'do' anything to harm me or my girlfriend either, why wait and put yourself at risk? This family (and I have no idea what our landlady was thinking, wtf?) was what you're supposed to call these days 'African American'. I am not a racist, I just want to live in a safe environment, especially for my girl. Once you get a group of them in a place, it's pretty much an invitation to the rest. I'd live in South Los Angeles if I wanted to be in that sort of an environment where I'd be stressed.

I guess you could say it was a preemptive move on my part. I got no regrets whatsoever- my new place isn't as good, but it's almost as good. Such is life.

I currently live on a street where there's a house with a prominently-displayed sign in its yard that reads "WE DON'T CALL 911" and features an illustration of a cocked revolver.

Thanks for the replies.

I'm sure Terry.330 and Mikhail can chime in.

I'll make a response soon.

There is just so much shit to cover.

They rent.

It's off of a company.

I'm thinking of moving.

About 2 weeks ago we cal a call from some "further your education" company.

Apparently, the mom used my wifes info - but we cant prove it.

Police say a crime wasn't committed.

More on that later.

TonK said:

What can I do?

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Try to buy the house from them and setup some rental property.

My dad had a decent place at a lake close by so he'd have a spot for some downtime here and there. It was great until the next door neighbors moved out and rented their place to a drug dealer. Of course this guy had all kinds of trash coming and going at all hours.. so there went the nice get away spot.

He ended up buying the house, kicking the trash out. He had it torn down and then had a larger lawn, plus no drug dealers.

brentsg said:

Try to buy the house from them and setup some rental property.

My dad had a decent place at a lake close by so he'd have a spot for some downtime here and there. It was great until the next door neighbors moved out and rented their place to a drug dealer. Of course this guy had all kinds of trash coming and going at all hours.. so there went the nice get away spot.

He ended up buying the house, kicking the trash out. He had it torn down and then had a larger lawn, plus no drug dealers.

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With any luck they'll put a couple Pontiac Fiero's on cinderblocks in the yard. It takes a couple year's work, but usually you can piece together 1 working car like that.


We had some funny ones, just not really close by. They're probably a mile from here, but I used to pass it every day. Actually, they had the 2 Fiero's...

Anyways, i guess their house got too old or something. They built a second house in the back yard. Over the course of a year or so, they slowly moved from house A to house B. Eventually the old house got torn down, and now they have this huge front yard with a house way back. Like all the other houses on the street are pretty much the same distance from the curb, then there's this 1 that looks like someone fucked up and dropped it in the wrong spot.

Dolphin said:

I currently live on a street where there's a house with a prominently-displayed sign in its yard that reads "WE DON'T CALL 911" and features an illustration of a cocked revolver.

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I want one of those signs.

TonK said:

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I'd wager that the not-so-subtle bulge in her pocket is a block of cheddar, or possibly even a bar of chocolate normally sold for cake recipes, instead of being a smartphone.

Dolphin said:

I currently live on a street where there's a house with a prominently-displayed sign in its yard that reads "WE DON'T CALL 911" and features an illustration of a cocked revolver.

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Those signs just tell professional thieves that there are guns inside to be stolen.

Dolphin said:

I currently live on a street where there's a house with a prominently-displayed sign in its yard that reads "WE DON'T CALL 911" and features an illustration of a cocked revolver.

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My favorite are the mullti trailer lots with tons of busted down cars..... And lots of "Posted: No Trespassing" signs.

No tresspassing... really? What you think I was going to steal?

In the building I live, there are some flats for rent, and occasionally bad people come here... hell, this is a respectful and quiet building.

When you start hearing loud music going on day and night, TV loud day and nigh, you know some ass shithole has come.

Fortunately this don't last forever, as this kind of people don't remain here many time, but I can tell usually they were little drug dealers, pickpocket... bad people always in troubles.

I remember a familiy with the head being one of such fucktards who came to live just below me: music and TV loud 24 hours at day, so I could not sleep at night, and for my work I needed to drive a long distance by car every day, so it was hell for me.

Loads of calls to the police by all neighbours finally seemed to decide that assholes to leave: thanks God!

Who you gonna call?

Fat ass Ghostbusters!

caren103 said:

...some ass shithole has come.

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Awesome.

Seriously, I'm going to try and use ass shithole in a conversation tomorrow.