Terrible neighbor stories...

[pharmseller]

SSS

 

[Flopsweat]

My 'hood is mostly old people (perhaps myself included lol), so it's dead silent most nights (probably bad phrasing there but oh well lol); however, in recent years things have been changing.


Now that I've set the stage of how quiet and inactive this 'hood is... One night, at midnight or so, I was outside doing some night photography/light painting. I hear some screams from a neighbor's house... a younger woman. At first I thought I was just hearing things, but then it happened again.

I realized I need to go investigate in case this girl needs help... as I walk closer to the neighbor's house, the screams get louder. I pause for a moment to assess the situation, and then I hear different type of scream... one of "considerable pleasure".

Turns out my neighbor's son was staying for the weekend (I found out after chatting with the neighbors a while later, without mention of my "investigation"). He must have brought a girl home. I assumed at first she needed some help, but now I can say for certain that she was getting alllllllll the help she needed.

-Robert

Ice cream?

 

[L84Cabo]

House next door got sold. New owners turned it into an Air BnB. What came next was a series of progressively louder and crazier parties, culminating in the mother of all parties...

800 tickets were sold and the party was advertised on line. Local news did a story on it.

They had four "bouncers" at the front entrance to this place with two-way headset radios. There was a line of people halfway down the block of people waiting to get in.

They had a strobe light mounted on the front fence so that you could find the place...like that was any trouble. You could hear the music half a mile away.

There were over 400 people at this thing by the time the cops finally rolled in around 10 p.m.

There were 12 cop cars, a K9 unit, and two MP units from the military base next door. They shut the entire street down.

There were drugs, arrests, damage to surrounding properties, public urination, fights and the inside of the place got completely trashed...which was poetic justice for the idiot owners. It took the cops the better part of two hours to get the place cleared out and under control.

The place got sold after this, fortunately.


Takeaways...

Air BnB was completely useless. And this was right after they had people killed at an Air BnB house party. Air BnB is always my absolute last choice when I look for places to stay. They truly only care about making their money. To be clear, I think their model works ok when their are responsible owners on site to make sure their tenants don't get out of control. It's the offsite owners who don't actually live in the neighborhood and are only concerned about making money, that is the problem. There is zero concern or recourse for the neighbors in these situations.

The police were completely useless is solving the ongoing problem. There is actually a program in my town for dealing with "Party Houses" that was born out of similar problems in the houses around one of our universities. This program is under the police department's control. With all that went on, we could not get the police to actually invoke the program on this house...which would have helped.

What actually seemed to work is that the neighbors banded together and did everything in our power to make things difficult for the owners of the place. We flooded them with phone calls and called the police at the drop of a hat at the slightest noise coming from the place, etc.

Crappy neighbors suck. Love thy neighbor...but choose a GOOD neighborhood...preferably with a lot of distance between your place and the place next door.

 

[Knobgoblin]

I moved, several times. Before I moved to the boonies (which did the trick - very very quiet out here - really really good neighbors) I leased a nice house in Hillsboro west of Tanasborne, east of Cornelius Pass road, south of Cornell road - that area. Nice neighborhood, no real problems with neighbors, but being in the city it still wasn't quiet enough for me - mostly normal city noise, but I did hear the occasional gunshots - seemed to come from over towards Cornelius Pass road - never could quite figure that out.

The only noise I get up here is airplanes; I live on the mountain between Scholls and Newberg, and I get aircraft traffic to/from Hillsboro, but mostly from Stark's airport. Not a big deal, mostly just the occasional small private fixed wing flying over, sometimes commuter jets/turboprops.

Today though, there was a helo orbiting about half a mile from me and that got me paranoid - last time I heard that was when we had the fire in September. So I came in and checked - no reported fires - we had some precip that last couple of days so not much danger anyway, but still, worrisome. Don't know why the helo was orbiting - no crime up here, and it isn't XMas tree season (they use helos to haul the trees to the trucks).

Up in everett, wa, I lived in a cheap duplex among a number of other identical duplexes - had noisy neighbors playing mexican polka band music, stealing stuff from my carport, kids playing in my yard, people walking thru my yard, several drive by shootings, occasional arguments, etc.

I was glad to move out when I finally got a job here.

....better stay away from copperhead road!

 

[Provincial]

I have a neighbor who is a patronizing self-righteous card-carrying commie a*hole who works for the ACLU. When he moved in he let me know where he stood right away. I never said a word to him about my politics. We don't have signs on our house or stickers on our cars. So for him to take this approach, was presumptuous and offensive. This SOB has a framed hammer and sickle in his living room ("art") which I can see from my patio, because he built his house as close to ours as legally possible... I mean I could literally spit through his window, that's how close he built his house... He did this to maximize his yard space on the other side, with no regard for his new neighbors. Now both of our houses look ridiculous. And every time they hire someone to work on their property (because neither of them knows how to work a screwdriver) our patio and our windows get covered in filth. And he and his wife become angry when we point this out to them. Most recently their drip irrigation line broke, spewing water all over the easement behind our houses. These idiots just let the water run out for weeks. Probably too stupid to understand how to turn off a sprinkle system.

Thankfully my other neighbors are fantastic.

This is one of the unplanned consequences of the trend to squeeze housing into smaller footprints. They let people build too close to the property line in order to have a yard on one side. The City is really telling people that single-family dwellings are henceforth going to be "row houses," and common walls are in the future.

 

[nagant]

Not the first to think the events of last seven months has made folks a bit crazier than normal and way more distrustful. Out if control Inflation has added to that.