Neigbours from Hell
This was a while ago, but these people still own the house next door but they rent it out. I'm praying they stay in Sri Lanka or Finland or Japan or wherever the hell they moved to. Why? here:

These people had parties EVERY FUCKING NIGHT. They weren't potluck get-togethers, either. Drugs, beer, LOTS of underage kids, and the cops there EVERY FUCKING NIGHT to break it up. They left beer cans up and down the street, and cigarette butts in every yard. They used the neigbours' hedges as lavatories, killing several prize flowerbeds. They'd jump the wall into MY yard and use MY putting green. You guessed it, I'd call the cops and they'd be next door, AGAIN. I lived in the safest house in town, I swear. The cops were always next door.

One time they were playing mariachi music so loud I had to scream to be heard *inside my house.* When my mother came home, she said she could hear the neigbour's music from the major street leading into my neigbourhood--and that's a mile away. :/

When I first bought this house, I had a lot of work done on it. It was standard stuff, new flooring, painting, and the like. The neighbour's KFH (kids from Hell) broke in and vandalised the house. Nothing serious, they broke a couple built-in lamps, broke the thermostats, and spray painted the walls with gang graffiti in the kitchen and the laundry room. We think one of the workmen left a door unlocked because there was no forced entry. That having been said, the damage didn't exceed my house insurance's deductible, so I just filed a police report and I heard from the cops that these kids had pulled this kind of stunt before. I had the work crew repair the work, and made sure I spent a couple hours in the house every night so it looked like people were living there even though I was just moving stuff over at the time. Then I changed the locks to be certain.

Speaking of the kids, the mailman used to fuck up the mail and I'd get written truancy notices for those kids 24/7. So that's another reason the cops were constantly there, I guess.

As a final note, they let their ancient beagle out to run around the neigbourhood at all hours. Now, I resent cleaning up dog crap from my yard, for any reason. I'm allergic to dogs, that's why I don't have one. But this dog was obviously old and arthritic and deserved a better home than what she had.

Thank God they're gone. The only problem I've ever had with the renters is when one of them jumped the wall into my yard and stole a brand new rake. I know it was them because at the time, the house on my other side was empty, and I live on a lake so if the people behind me want to get to my yard they've got to swim across.
(darkmage, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 16:00, Reply)