I want stories of lunatic neighbors

We're looking at houses in Chaple Hill NC now. 1 acre is my minimum.

 

Try moving to my neighborhood. Biggest lot is 5,000 sq ft. Mine is about 4,000, and I bet it's worth more than many of your multi acre places. My neighbor can hear me fart in the morning .

 

Worth is relative. Expensive I'm sure. If I have to put up with neighbors on my doorstep, the worth is pretty low. We all have choices in where we live. The next place we buy/build will be big enough for my own landing strip.

 

Don't get me wrong, I grew up on a neighbor island and we had a nice sized house on an acre of land. Sadly no jobs so had to come to the city.

 

Yeah, but HI! What does a gallon of milk run you? Value is relative. I'm on two acres, closest neighbor is across the street. Don't think I could live on a average city lot. Don't care to watch my neighbors and I value my privacy.

 

Exactly! Also, I would not have let that slide nearly as long as he did. Guy was being waaay too nice about it.

 

That video annoyed me for more than one reason. a) The neighbor is doing that on purpose, even if its on a subconscious level, that neighbor hates him. Stop trying to play nice in return. Nice should have ended after the first conversation. b) what kind of cheap shoddy stucco job can't withstand a basketball strike? I'd be going after the builder next. c) Im old fashioned - I prefer to reading a page over watching an 8 minute video.

And for the other debate, I'm on a small lot myself, 0.23 acre. I tolerate it because I moved into an old neighborhood with old-ass neighbors. They don't make a lot of noise, and occasionally will bring by cookies for christmas and easter. My dream plot is a small cabin on 50 acres, but oh boy would I sacrifice my commute for it. I'm 15-25 minutes from work as it is. To get one acre, I'd have to be an hour away, minimum. 50 acres, 2 hours, maybe more. Its the curse of the city...

 

So, when we first bought our house, it was in a neighborhood that was being built up. We weren't first there, but mighty close. Anyway, one of the neighbors moves in, and my wife being the absolute sweetheart that she is, brings them a fresh made (pretty large IMO) bowl of homemade fried rice. The man invites us in, and he says he had to move to a rancher to accommodate his wife who had cancer. He goes and gets her out of the bedroom, and she is sadly in her last stages of life, on oxygen and in a wheelchair, due to cancer (YOU BITCH CANCER!!). She ended up dying about a month or two later.

After a year or so, he starts dating again. This woman did not seem nice at all...but whatever, not my problem. They had been dating for a while, but she still had her apartment, so they weren't living together. One day, I drive into the neighborhood, and there is a sheriff at the entry road, turn the corner to our street, there's another one in a not-so-conspicuous spot. Get up to my house, and there is the rest of the county's police force in front of his house. I live 2 doors down, so I am able to s-q-u-e-e-z-e between two cop cars and get in my driveway. Curious, but not to the point of going to ask a sheriff curious. Luckily for me, one of the local news trucks show up. I turn on the tv while watching them broadcast live in front of my house. Apparently that morning, he got up, turned on his little sprinkler in the front yard, had a not so pleasant talk with her on the phone...and then raced up in his van to where she worked so he could kill her in cold blood when she got out of her car. I think it was at this point he realized he fucked up, and got back in his van and hid...behind a dumpster at a local college (but the sheriff's dept. didn't know that at the time when all this was happening).

I was a "character" witness for him at his trial. Not much I could do or say other than the fact that I knew him and a bit of his story before he met that woman, and went off the deep edge...they say it's always the quiet ones.

When the next people bought the house, they had to replace the front door, as it was a piece of plywood from the police coming in on that fateful day...

 

My neighbor plays video games late into the night and is very vocal about his frustration. It's not uncommon to hear him screaming at Fortnite at 1 AM.

 

House or apartment?

 

Been in NH for about 20 years now, but originally from Boston, where the parking sucks in good weather. Add snow, and it doesn't get any better. There (for years) has been an unwritten rule, that when it snows, and you shovel out your spot, and leave, you use a "space saver" (chair, cone, etc) to save your spot.

Most people respect this, some don't. They let someone else shovel out, and then take the spot when you leave. People literally have been killed for this. Anyways, not wanting to go to jail for this, people sometimes come up with creative ways to punish those who do this. My method was to smear fresh dog shit under the handle of the barrel that I used for my space saver.

Took some of the sting out of coming home to find my spot gone, knowing the douche bag got back into his car with dog shit on his hands.

 

Wait...so in this case you are the lunatic neighbor right?

I kid. Went through this when I was in school in Chicago. Fights in the streets over cleared parking spots was routine. Nothing to see here...

 

I think we all were...

 

Wow sounds like some of you guys have lunatics living near you. My problems was simple.
A while back I had my next door neighbor (he’s a millionaire in suburbia) start crushing aluminum cans with a sledge hammer at 11:30pm. I went over to see what the problem was. He said, oh did I wake you? I told him no problem. I get up at 4am, I’ll make sure he is aware that I am leaving for work. The problem never happened again.

 

Just curious, how did you make him aware of your departure? Or was the threat enough.

 

The threat was enough. He stop with the noise when I went talk to him. I was just going to go ring his door bell to say hello. He actually is a good guy but doesn’t have to work. He didn’t realize that others actually have to get up to go to work in the morning.

 

You are far, far too reasonable for this thread.

 

Maybe not everyone wants to live in Arkansas

 

Well I said mine was simple. I work away from home quite a bit and after the incident, when my wife was pregnant for our 2nd child, she had a flat tire before going to church. He happen to come outside and saw her on the phone with her dad. She was explaining to father-in-law what he problem was and the neighbor said that he didn’t need to drive over to change it. The neighbor actually changed the flat tire for her. So it’s kind of hard to be mad at him now.

 

Ok time for me to chime in again: My next door neighbor was a Dr. his Wife was a Nurse. Great guy but we could tell that his Wife had issues. They had two small kids and sometimes his Wife would lock them out of the house !. My Wife used to go bang on the door NO answer then get the kids out of the yard and I would call Him and he would come home and get the kids and go inside. Fast forward She was caught stealing Morphine from the Hospital.
She was diagnosed as Manic /Depressant.
They got Divorced and She was placed in a mental institute out of state. Several months later She escaped from the mental facility and came back and broke into the house and stole all his pants out of the house . The Police found her and took her back to the mental facility. (never found all his pants)
So after that he sold the house and him and the kids moved out.
Fast forward six months and She escaped again and came back and got into the house and hid, When the new family went to bed She came out of hiding and tried to stab the new home owner. During the fight the new home owners Wife knocked the crazy bitch out cold with a lamp off of the nightstand.
They called the Police and also called me.
The police showed up and arrested Her ass and put Her in an ambulance. I identified Her to the Police and told my new neighbors who She was. I also called Her ex husband and he came over and told Police some more history. After that I moved and they moved too.
I heard She got some real jail time out of that for attempted Murder.

Foot note: See post #38 in this thread She was the one riding the mower naked.