Your neighbors

• friendfromlowry

  
  
  Anyone have any quirky neighbors? Anything you've ever had issues with?
  
  We've lived on a cul-de-sac for about four years and fortunately everyone is pretty friendly and quiet. Further down the street is an older couple with five little annoying dogs. They're always outside and anytime they see you within a quarter mile of their house they start barking. Just once I'd like one to get past the electric fence or whatever that keeps them in place and come at me so I can punt it into next week.
• Ironman92

  

  Neighbor on one side keeps very much to himself and neighbor on the other side is a handicapped guy who won't let it slow him down. Neither of them have any irritating qualities. A few houses away the guy has to be dealing...but he is not bothersome and can fix anything, so to me he's sketchy but handy.
• BR1986FB

  Neighbors to the right are a mother & daughter (both older) who are pretty quiet. Neighbors to the left are a retired gentleman, who loves to walk around without his shirt on, and his wife (who is younger...but still old) who prefers a sports bra and shorts....in both cases, NOBODY wants to see this. The only "quirk" about them is that, as soon as it's warm, they like to have fires inside their fence....until about 3am, regardless of what day of the week it is. Can hear them right outside my bedroom window.
• Fab4Runner

  

  One is an 87 year old woman. She is still super active and is out mowing, snow blowing, raking, etc. all the time. We have a shared driveway, and she gets mad if we shovel her half. She's obsessed with my dog and gives him treats whenever he's outside. Now he just sits on our back deck and stares over there waiting for her to come out of her house. Fun fact: her son is in prison for murder.
  
  Other side is a newly married couple in their 50s. They are friendly. The woman actually used to live across the street with her elderly parents, but bought the house next to us at auction shortly before her rents passed away. Some white trash people just bought that house, and so far they are an interesting bunch.
• vdubb96

  

  Neighbors to the left rent the house, guaranteed he's dealing, just waiting for him to get busted. luckily there is a street inbetween us. The cops know what he's doing. To the right is an older couple, they keep to themselves.
• Iliketurtles

  

  House to the left is where our best friends live it's pretty awesome. House to the right is a couple around our age who just had their first kid last year pretty nice people and aren't loud. House behind us a couple probably 25-35 year olds just moved in about 4-5 month ago. Only talked to them once but seemed like nice people. They did just get a new dog and all my dog does is lay at the fence wanting to play with it. House across the street is a couple in the 40's. He's a retired military. It's a pretty nice neighborhood though and relatively quiet except for the occasional dog barks and kids playing from some house a little ways down/behind ours.
• BRF

  

  ^^^^^ You are very very fortunate!
• fish82

  

  Our cul-de-sac it pretty lit. At least once every summer we block it off and throw a pretty good sized rager.
• salto

  

  One neighbor who's a mechanic and unfortunately seems to always have multiple shit cars in his drive way. Other side is a younger national guard couple who if I catch their boys throwing rocks into my koi pond again, I'm going to start shooting them with my bb gun.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  I live in a 4 unit apartment building. All of my neighbors now are great, but I had two rough yrs of shit heads living below me. I told my landlord that the next time he rents the unit below me, if it's a fucking undergrad that wants it to stop, and let me run the open house/vetting process. Had an 18 yr old drug dealer/amateur shitty dubsetp music maker. First night in the place, he had about 16-20 other 18-20 yr old boys in the apt having a rager that turned wrestle match. I went down there and gave him hell, I was so pissed. It was a constant issue, with him smoking and me liking to keep windows open. I eventually got enough evidence to have him kicked out for violating the lease (you can't smoke in a family unit fuckhead). Total POS lowlife.
  
  Guys after were better, but liked to blast music til midnight. I go to bed about 930, not compatible. They were nice enough outside of that, but I get sick on consistently telling ppl to turn their music down.
  
  New ppl below us are great. Never hear them, when I get up to work out at 5 am, they're up as well. Nice to be on same schedule with quiet people.
• iclfan2

  

  We are extremely lucky. We are the 4th house in on a new development, and the 3 houses to our right are 30-35 year old couples (now all with 1 under 1 year old kid). The first house is a Cleveland fan which is awesome, and all 3 couples are chill and like to drink outside in the summers. The neighbors to our left are about 75ish, and bring us food, let us borrow their tools, etc. There are also 5 or 6 other couples/ houses that we know well and drink with in the summer. We had a pretty unique experience because we are in an older development but the front portion of 50 or so houses are new, so a lot of us moved in at the same time and had welcome parties where everyone met each other.
• Zunardo

  In my current house, the next-door neighbors have been great for the most part, with a few exceptions:
  
  - one next-door neighbor's 20-something son bought a pit bull for no reason than it was macho. Was glad when the both of them moved out
  
  - same neighbor's second wife adopted 4 relatives, two boys, two girls, all in grade school, all had been abused. My wife and I always chatted with them, treated them well, they all seemed to appreciate. Found out later the middle two children were caught planning to burn the house down and kill their two siblings and the couple. They were sent some facility for such kids, and the rest of the family moved out not long afterward .....
  
  - a family 3 doors down has been interesting at times, the husband sometimes acts like he doesn't realize he's in a housing area. Thought it would be a good idea once to set off fireworks in the backyard .... at 3 AM. Another time he bought a rooster and kept it outdoors. The rooster enjoyed waking everyone up at 4:30 AM every day.
  
  I had great neighbors when I bought my first house as a care-free bachelor. The husbands on either side of me loved the dog I had and would always come up to the fence to give him some attention. And the folks behind me had a beautiful all-black German Shepherd. Any time I was out in the backyard he'd always give me a little bark, telling me to come to the fence so he could visit.
• Belly35

  

  I live I a very establish neighborhood where the lot frontage is 180-200 feet and the depth is 275-300 so neighbors are little far away from each other. Neighbor on the right is a Vietnam vet also and his wife and mine are good friends so the relationship is fun. His wife is a little crazy however. She buys flower but never plants them until they start to die, has a garden that she plants but never take care of it. Very eccentric. He and I help each other with our yards, trees and maintaining our property. He loves his beer breaks. The older widowed lady to my left, keeps to herself, her kids and grandkids come over to help her sometimes but I think it mostly to tap the wealth. She pretty well off, travels a lot, has Ladies Bible study on Tuesday and always has a new car. She like me and always make me cookie on Veterans Day. I think it because when her husband was alive he and I got along so good. I have two neighbors across the street one I very seldom see them middle age husband and wife, not real friendly. The other neighbor 35 years bought this house from his parents. I’ve know this kid a long time and watch him and his brother grow up. Was married wife left him … saw that coming. The family was always strange and the dad was the crazy college professor. He ran a misting hose all winter under the kids swing set. It made an ice mountain that didn’t melt until July. It was a conversation piece. The boy would hide their beer and wine cooler in a hollow tree. I would help myself I told them I get free beer and their dad would know about the hiding place… He has dogs at barked all night about two years ago .. I told him more than once and warned him … I called the cops, the cop wrote him a ticket and we when to court. $250.00 bucks later, limit 3 dogs on that property and a warning if this happen again … no dog on this property. I reach out and help him at times, we have a understanding. The neighbor behind is a retire because of injury on the job, 65 year Black guy and his family. We get along great, we work on our garden together, help build his pond, Christmas parties, family get togethers, back yard BBQ.. very good guy. Between him and my other neighbor to my right we have a good time together. Sometime to good…
• gerb131

  

  Live downtown. Lots of different people. Some bad some good.
• arnie palmer

  

  We have great neighbors in our current allotment in NC. All are middle aged with kids in school. It is like a big party every day after school on what house everyone is going to be playing at. I think it stresses my wife some as our house gets picked quite often.
  
  We had issues with our neighbors in OH. Our kids were toddlers. House beside us was white trash that really could not afford the house. The lot behind us, a guy built a house, and could not sell it so he rented it out to a family that I swear had about 10 people living in it. The biggest issue was that both thought it was a good idea to get Rottweiler dogs. We had to put up vinyl fence so kids could play in the back yard safetly.
  
  The Rot behind us got loose quit often and would chase people through the neighborhood. It actually ended up dying. They said it was poisoned and pretty sure they thought I did it, which I didn't.
  
  About a year before we moved to NC, both places forclosed, and we actually had good neighbors move in - one was a yoounger couple that was just married and the other was a retired couple. They were probably mad at us, because I heard that the couple that bought our house had some domestic violence episodes and ended up getting a divorce and selling again after only living there 3 years. Do not know who lives there now, but when we go back home to visit, saw how they have let the house and yard go, and feel disappointed to see the first house I had built and lived in for 10 years look so bad.
• jmog

  Neighbors on either side are good. Left-older couple that are really nice people. Right-late 20s single dude that is hardly ever around and is quiet.
  
  The real crazy lady of the street is 2 houses down on the right. I could fill a whole thread with all the crazy crap she has pulled.
• O-Trap

  

  Neighbors on one side are loud, often partying into the early hours. They're friendly and reasonably generous. Just not very considerate.
  
  The house on the other side is vacant now (it should be burned to the ground). Among its inhabitants since I have lived in my house were:
  - A good-natured, oddly-hard-working drug dealer
  - A literal crack whore (who used to ask us for Kool-Aid when she'd bring a John home ... anyone know why?)
  - A guy whose kids broke ... I shit you not ... every single window in the place and never paid rent beyond the up-front month to get into the place. Ended up staying for like 3-4 months.
  
  Across the street, there is an older gentleman who lives alone. He doesn't really fit the neighborhood. Friendly, but SUPER racist.
  
  Next to him, a family of probably 12 moved in and painted the front of the house the color of a pool without using painter's tape ... looks like a child painted it with watercolors.
  
  On the other side is the sister of one of our loud neighbors. In the summer, they frequently yell across the street at one another. Also, she has living room furniture on her porch and is rarely fully dressed when she's hanging out on it.
• Laley23

  

  One side are probably swingers (99% sure). And the guy is an asshole. And they partake in cocaine weekly.
  
  Other side is an older couple. Super nice. 2 annoying qualities though: 1. They granddaughter lives with them many nights and parks in front of our house, which I don't mind until I need to park there on occasion lol. 2. They let their plant along our shared fence grow onto our side, making it tough to mow that area.
• Classyposter58

  

  O-Trap;1847158 wrote:Neighbors on one side are loud, often partying into the early hours. They're friendly and reasonably generous. Just not very considerate.
  
  The house on the other side is vacant now (it should be burned to the ground). Among its inhabitants since I have lived in my house were:
  - A good-natured, oddly-hard-working drug dealer
  - A literal crack whore (who used to ask us for Kool-Aid when she'd bring a John home ... anyone know why?)
  - A guy whose kids broke ... I shit you not ... every single window in the place and never paid rent beyond the up-front month to get into the place. Ended up staying for like 3-4 months.
  
  Across the street, there is an older gentleman who lives alone. He doesn't really fit the neighborhood. Friendly, but SUPER racist.
  
  Next to him, a family of probably 12 moved in and painted the front of the house the color of a pool without using painter's tape ... looks like a child painted it with watercolors.
  
  On the other side is the sister of one of our loud neighbors. In the summer, they frequently yell across the street at one another. Also, she has living room furniture on her porch and is rarely fully dressed when she's hanging out on it.

  Haha fucking great. Mine seem pretty eccentric and weird which I'll take for the suburbs over snooty any day of the week
• O-Trap

  

  Classyposter58;1847190 wrote:Haha fucking great. Mine seem pretty eccentric and weird which I'll take for the suburbs over snooty any day of the week

  Yeah, I've lived in the suburbs, but the neighbors were nowhere NEAR as entertaining there.
  
  However, the police show up far more often now, which is kind of annoying.
• jmog

  O-Trap;1847158 wrote:Neighbors on one side are loud, often partying into the early hours. They're friendly and reasonably generous. Just not very considerate.
  
  The house on the other side is vacant now (it should be burned to the ground). Among its inhabitants since I have lived in my house were:
  - A good-natured, oddly-hard-working drug dealer
  - A literal crack whore (who used to ask us for Kool-Aid when she'd bring a John home ... anyone know why?)
  - A guy whose kids broke ... I shit you not ... every single window in the place and never paid rent beyond the up-front month to get into the place. Ended up staying for like 3-4 months.
  
  Across the street, there is an older gentleman who lives alone. He doesn't really fit the neighborhood. Friendly, but SUPER racist.
  
  Next to him, a family of probably 12 moved in and painted the front of the house the color of a pool without using painter's tape ... looks like a child painted it with watercolors.
  
  On the other side is the sister of one of our loud neighbors. In the summer, they frequently yell across the street at one another. Also, she has living room furniture on her porch and is rarely fully dressed when she's hanging out on it.

  Do you live in downtown Detroit?
• O-Trap

  

  jmog;1847229 wrote:Do you live in downtown Detroit?

  Nope. Just North Hill in Akron.
• jmog

  O-Trap;1847285 wrote:Nope. Just North Hill in Akron.

  Almost as bad, 5-10 min from me!
• O-Trap

  

  jmog;1847355 wrote:Almost as bad, 5-10 min from me!

  Eh, violent crime isn't as much of a problem here. Poverty and drugs? Sure. But not violent crime (unless you're involved in gang activity on a regular basis).
• ernest_t_bass

  

  One of our neighbors had a pit bull that attacked our horses, so that's always nice...
  
  http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/showthread.php?47945-Two-Pit-Bull-mixes-kill-3-year-old&p=1803480&viewfull=1#post1803480