Protection from Harassment

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Protection from Harassment

What counts as harassment

The law treats harassment as behaviour that causes alarm, distress, or puts someone in fear of violence. A single incident can sometimes warrant action, though harassment typically involves a pattern of repeated behaviour.

The behaviour does not need to be physical. Harassment can take many forms:

  • Verbal abuse, threats, or intimidation
  • Offensive or threatening gestures
  • Following you or watching your home
  • Spreading malicious rumours
  • Damaging your property or interfering with belongings
  • Sending abusive messages, emails, or letters
  • Making repeated baseless complaints about you to authorities
  • Persistent unwanted contact of any kind

The key factor is whether a reasonable person would consider the behaviour oppressive or unacceptable. A neighbour occasionally playing loud music may be annoying but would not normally count as harassment. If they do it deliberately at antisocial hours after you have asked them to stop, and combine it with other hostile behaviour, the picture changes.

Harassment motivated by race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or another protected characteristic attracts additional laws, covered separately on this website.

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Legal protections

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is the primary legislation in England and Wales. Originally introduced to tackle stalking, it applies equally to neighbour disputes. The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 also gives councils powers to issue community protection notices.

Under the 1997 Act, pursuing a course of conduct that amounts to harassment is a criminal offence. The person must know, or ought to know, that their behaviour amounts to harassment: they cannot claim ignorance if their actions would obviously distress a reasonable person.

The Act creates both criminal and civil remedies. Criminal harassment can result in fines or imprisonment. If the harassment involves threats of violence or puts someone in fear of violence on at least two occasions, heavier penalties apply.

On the civil side, you can apply for a harassment injunction to stop the behaviour. This differs from a non-molestation order (domestic abuse situations) or a restraining order (imposed after conviction or acquittal). Breaching an injunction can lead to arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment. You may also claim damages for anxiety and financial losses.

Your situation may be slightly different. ask a question below ↓ and our editorial team will reply with our advice.

Gathering evidence

Evidence will be essential for any action. The police, your local council, and the courts will all want records of what has happened.

Keep a detailed diary of incidents: date, time, what happened, and any witnesses. Be specific. Rather than writing "neighbour was abusive again," record exactly what was said or done.

Other useful evidence includes:

  • Photographs or video recordings of incidents or damage
  • Screenshots of abusive messages or social media posts
  • Copies of letters or notes
  • Medical records if the harassment has affected your health
  • Statements from witnesses
  • Records of reports made to the police or council

Be mindful of privacy laws. You can generally record events on your own property or in public spaces, but GDPR applies to identifiable personal data, and recording someone in their home without consent may create legal problems. If unsure, seek advice first.

Taking action and getting support

Where the situation has not escalated to threats and you feel safe, a calm conversation may resolve matters. This approach is not appropriate where there has been violence, threats, or where you feel unsafe.

Report to the police when harassment involves threats, violence, or makes you fear for your safety. They can investigate, issue warnings, and bring charges. Even without prosecution, a record helps with future action.

Your local council may help, particularly if the harasser is a council tenant. Councils can issue warnings, acceptable behaviour contracts, and pursue possession proceedings. If your harasser is a private tenant, contact their landlord: many tenancy agreements prohibit causing nuisance. Housing associations typically have dedicated antisocial behaviour teams.

For serious or persistent harassment, a solicitor can help you apply for an injunction. Legal aid may be available depending on income and case merits: check at www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid.

Mediation can work where both parties engage in good faith, but is unsuitable where there is a power imbalance, violence, or threats. Do not feel pressured into it.

Citizens Advice can provide free guidance on options and complaints processes. If harassment is motivated by a protected characteristic, Victim Support or specialist hate crime reporting centres can assist. Shelter can advise tenants whose landlords ignore complaints. The Law Society website lists solicitors handling harassment cases, some offering free initial consultations. Your GP can document health impacts and refer you to support services.

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ProblemNeighbours Editor 19/08/2026 at 4:04 pm
@Jed Sorry to hear you're in such a rough spot. Since the council hasn't helped, ask them in writing for their formal decision under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, then escalate to the Housing Ombudsman or your MP if she's a social tenant. Keep a detailed noise diary and consider reporting the harassment to the police under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, as that's separate from the noise issue. Also do speak to your GP about the impact on your health, it matters for any case you bring.
Jed 19/08/2026 at 3:46 pm
I am being harassed by a neighbour who lives in the flat above me. She has wooden flooring throughout her flat. All day and everyday she stomps around her whole flat using the heels of her feet, wearing shoes and it is deliberate.

I am alleging that she is doing a laundry service at home every day including bank holidays and weekends 24/7. It’s an absolute nightmare.
I have made complaints to various professional bodies including the Council against this person to no avail.
Because I have made complaints this neighbour is making my life hell, since Covid.

I retired 5 years ago and it’s hell! The impact has greatly affected my mental health and well-being. I have lost a lot of weight and suffer with lack of sleep. I am anxious all the time and I can’t take it anymore. I am feeling very intimidated by this.
This neighbour is of working age and has never worked since I have been here.

I am desperate. Can you help/advise?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 17/05/2026 at 1:28 pm
@C4 There's truth in what you say, the police often won't act without solid evidence, and even then it's a slog. That said, persistent logging of incidents, plus a formal complaint to the council's environmental health team, does sometimes get results where 101 won't. Community Protection Notices and noise abatement orders are underused but real options. Not a cure, but worth knowing before you give up entirely.
C4 13/04/2025 at 11:38 pm
Unless you have proof of aggression with CCTV footage with sound and clarity you have squat and the police will not be interested. Domestic issues across the country are rife as respect has been replaced with misguided entitlement and arrogance. To get away from all this you need a property in the countryside but the prices ensure this is out of reach for most. You just have to put up with it, becouse the truth is the police and law just don't want to know.
Mcook2 09/03/2025 at 12:51 pm
Quote: The police take harassment issues very seriously. They will be there to support you although the level will vary depending upon the severity of the harassment which has taken place. They will also offer you all the required information and guidance you might need if the matter goes to court. Depending on the nature of the harassment, they’ll also put you in touch with relevant external organisations or agencies that will be able to give you specialised support and further counselling assistance, if needed.

This is a total lie and should be removed. Every single comment here proves that the police and courts are not interested in this "civil matters" as they class them. I so wish this site and others like it would be more honest instead of giving people false hope. If you're in this situation then your only options are to get out or take the highly expensive legal route, which doesn't guarantee a win or your money back. If someone, anyone, is bothered to read these comments, please change your website to reflect the truth and not just what it says on the home office website.
jimbo 01/10/2024 at 8:44 am
I can empathise with all of the above. I have an issue with an elderly busy body with nothing to do all day. He constantly harasses me and my wife by objecting to the slightest change we want to make to our property including fixing a border fence that was falling down due to a broken post. We are at the point where we don't or feel we cannot, do anything to make our house nicer to live in.
These types of personalities are toxic and ruin peoples enjoyment of their homes. Our only option is to move but then we may find the next one is worse. Catch 22.
Agma 25/09/2024 at 12:17 am
Harrassment usually results becouse neighbours fall out over a dispute or tit for tat exchange. You are very limited in what you can do to try and force out bad neighbours, all you can do in reality is hope they leave or leave yourself. Once neighbour relations sour it never gets better, and i have found this on two occasions, and I am not prepared to live in traditional housing again as I want a quiet life and I can't afford to keep moving or upscalling to better areas and homes to get away from the hassle.

Harrassment is basically a form of arrogance and really isn't required, if you don't like your neighbours just don't talk to them, otherwise they will take you down the road of dispair as they try anything to get you in trouble with the police. Don't fall for it.
Haz 24/06/2024 at 4:28 pm
Hi, I have had ongoing issues and concerns with neighbour who creates various nuisances including playing loud music early hours of the morning duringthe day or evening eitherfromtheir propertyand vehicle. They have, gatherings at his property or allowing individuals to loiter outside his property and my house. They have loud arguments or physical fights on the driveway.
Once6 02/05/2024 at 4:50 pm
I know how you all feel, victimised bullied intimidated etc I have all this with medical conditions and a partner with a serious heart condition, our neighbour flirts her way out of trouble and because the others don’t technically live there nothing has been done. I got falsely accused of throwing full wheelie bins onto peoples cars! I would never do that and couldn’t do that. But the useless police believed her! No proof doesn’t matter if you are young and ‘pretty’. Authorities don’t care about victims as we are always the ones at fault even when we do nothing. I wish the world was different and we could all get the help we so desperately need and get rid of these vile people.
Cazza 26/03/2024 at 2:09 pm
We have suffered at the hands of our neighbours for 2 and a half years we have had the police out the council involved etc but it just carries on and that's because the law and the councils don't protect us they tip toe around perpetrators sa not to upset them and we are told just to ignore it .This is completely wrong and these wicked people know how to play on the system .When I went to the police last year to report their harassment I was told unless they attack me or my husband they are not commiting a crime so what chance do we have if that's the attitude of the police who are supposed to protect us .
Ugly duckling 25/02/2024 at 2:37 pm
Can you tell the council to stop harassing you I've had non stop letters..phone calls and visits ... false allegations being made against me.
J 25/02/2024 at 10:52 am
I'm.being intimidatf and harrased by neighbours using a policeman frieit still gping onnd if the block my drive they get a friendly call to move nothing ever done
I got reached on a shop changing rooms cause this block saw me in town this shouldn't be allowed
The other neighbours says the grandaughter is in policeman they want me out of the street
Momma 21/02/2024 at 8:30 am
My son was continually harassed by his neighbour for 4 years nothing was done. Until this neighbour macheted the downstairs neighbour. He sliced right down his arm. Inside his flat he had stun guns knives machetes all sorts of weapons. For about a year the flat was empty but guess what they moved another guy in with multiple personalities he bangs on the ceiling threatening to kill my son. He screams and shouts 24 hrs so no sleep he's been on his final warning for ages it now has to go to court. But not sure when. My son is suicidal. Police are aware but seems there hands are tied because he's mentally ill.As I write this has been another 24hrs non stop banging on the ceiling swearing threatening to kill. I'm staying here at the moment so will be phoning the police soon. Just not fair
Dave 18/01/2024 at 1:38 am
Yes my emàil is in place for contact I'm reaching out for help on on going group serious harrassment as the perp a boyfriend to a xwife of mine by the xwife HAVEING her boyfriend over five years now has non stop as he has the funds an eye WITTNESSES has seen this Steven Howell fry act out his intent as he made threats to I'm front of eye WITTNESSES yet I still haven't been able to gain support from Louisville metro police. My xwife an her boyfriend have active local officers as friends to this Steven Howell fry bf of my xwife. Has cut my brake lines I turn in video showing him in the act of committing the crime yet still nothing was done the nature of this crime itself as DANGERIOUS to my life an my girlfriends life an public at large for the with out any compassion of how many public at large this unstable DANGERIOUS person is to with out any sec thought to the neg results to all it might hurt the willness of this Steven Howell fry to act careless should have raise major concern he was clearly ok with people being killed by brake failure. An he attempted this on three autos destorying. Each one costing me the victim an my my girlfriends life to be at risk how can I get legal help to help us this is still a on going. Out of control over look matter by OFFICALS of Louisville KY just disrespecting our SAFTEY in such a horrible sick grossest manor any one. Have any connect that could help us as we are mentally being dismantle an impossible to put intitlenent to peace an be left alone something. Gonna have to be done we can't keep living in this allow by local police to carry on. It sick profown an wrong period my contact by cell is 2707409034. Text are call David my name thank u god' bless any help would be of help we reach out with no where else to turn to in Louisville ky
John 29/12/2023 at 5:48 am
Did anyone get help there? Will be great to hear how to get positive solutions to our problems. Thank you
Anxious 16/12/2023 at 7:41 pm
Police don’t take harassment seriously at all! Our elderly neighbours have made our life in a private rented property absolute hell.

We have experienced actual physical violence - nothing happened. Not even a slap on the wrist for them. Then we were laughed at and mocked by the neighbours.

Our 6 year old son was threatened on multiple occasions, “going to slaughter you” - nothing happened. When confronted we were laughed at and mocked.

When our son was 9 he was verbally abused when he was stood at his bedroom window - disgusting vile language which left him crying in the corner of his bedroom. When I confronted the neighbours I was laughed at and mocked.

They have threatened us many many times, saying they are getting solicitors, that they are getting us evicted (all recorded on video) made numerous complaints to our landlord in an attempt to get us evicted - nothing happened to them.

Recorded videos of the man coming out of his house and randomly swearing at my sons bedroom window which unfortunately overlooks jobs garden.

He throws dog faeces and rubbish over his fence into our garden. Shouts, swears and threatens us if we go out into the garden and has CCTV recording our garden and house 24 hours a day. So when we go out of the e house he knows and can abuse further.

I was once taken away in an ambulance due to them threatening and abusing us - their abuse was recorded on the 999 call. Still nothing was done.

Have provided police and the council with evidence in recordings and reports spanning back to 2016 - guess what? Nothing has ever been done to stop it.

The last time I contacted the police wa son October 2023 and I have heard nothing since but the neighbour still continues to insult and abuse and harass my son on a daily basis and I am absolutely sick of it.

I have come to the conclusion that the institutions that exist to protect you from monsters is all a lie, a fabrication to make it look as though you ar protected but when the time comes and you need help they are nowhere to be seen.

New year 2024, everything my neighbour has done to me and my family - my son in particular will be done back - that is the only way we will ever get justice.. to stoop to their level.

Articles like this are a complete lie. Police do absolutely nothing to help.
Lexa 03/12/2023 at 4:01 pm
Hi, I can totally relate to everyone on here. I'm experiencing this and bullying, and have been for months by annoying tenants, some who I hear crash at that flat like strays because I hear constant in's and outs, besides the actual strays living up there (with nasty spoilt brats) attached. Frankly, it seems like they are subletting illegally and hiding drugs and so forth, and more people are living there than supposed to. I have tried everything from the useless police
(Yes I said it) to the just as uselss council and my landlord to try to get my ASB (Antisocial behaviour) query taken seriously, but from everyside, nobody wants to take responsibility at all. So pathetic. I don't want to turn into a vigilante, but I understand why people take matters into their own hands. However, I get the feeling that I'm slowly turning into a vigilante, considering no one else has my back now. I think because these twatty neighbours know and suspect that no one currently believes anything I say, they are getting off on the harassment and trying to control my every move, and at the same time trying to disguise their stupid sub-human behaviour. All they do is try to compete, mimick and mock everything I do around my flat because they assume that going from nasty-malicious (who they are) to nice (who I'am) within a space of an hour, that they would seem like they are nice. No offence, but thats like putting sugar on chips instead of the traditional salt, they just don't mix, so why try to disguise the taste. Anyway, all I feel is rage, and want revenge on these skanky neighbours who know damn well that I live in my flat and therefore I can do what I want in it and they can't stand it, and way before they slithered in, but seem to think that they have a claim over it. In truth, with these trashy neighbours its a stupid power struggle, power play, jealousy, and insecurity. The top 4 currently, in my opinion.
No one cares 03/12/2023 at 2:37 pm
Im now severely depressed. I’ve been out of my home for 3 months. I’d lived the for 6, for 3-4 months my upstairs neighbour has been stalking me. It started friendly but he was getting obsessive so I stopped opening the door to him. He began following me above from room to room all day long (YES ALLLLLL DAY LONG) I became a statue in my lounge, and when I wasn’t a statue I had to be a ninja. The ceilings in my neighbourhood are badly sound proofed. He can hear everything if he wants…. And he does. He follows me around everywhere. After 3 months and asking him nicely to stop harassing and stop following me and spying on me…. He wouldn’t stop and I broke down in my home. I flooded my bathroom… the plug fell in, I was running taps so he could hear me less and I could do things in my home. You have to experience it to understand. It got to the point that I couldn’t do anything… I hated being spyed on. I didn’t want to be heard anymore :’( the council didn’t help and the police didn’t help. I had to take my cat and leave. I’m staying in my partners bedroom in his room in a shared house. Things aren’t good here. We are rowing. I’ve been stuck here with my cat now for 3 months with no place to go. I’ve told adult social services and they are like… well why don’t you just go home? :’( I’m feeling in a very bad place with no support available to me. I don’t think it exists does it. Cos where is it? Where is the help? I need a safe place to be. I’m not staying at home! I’d rather die!! My upstairs neighbour is quite the actor too. He pretends to be an old vulnerable man…. He’s pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. The other neighbours know he’s a fruit loop and they’ve been spied on too. But neither the council or the police will talk to other neighbours. Gosport council are no support and have only contributed to my suffering.
Sharan 30/11/2023 at 8:07 pm
I’ve been harrassed by my upstairs neighbours for over a year. They play loud music and jump and stomp on my ceiling all day to intimidate me. They’ve had 3 noise abatement warnings from the council but this hasn’t stopped them at all. Got in touch with the police and they filed an incident and just redirected me back to the council who refuse to help me move. Completely misleading advice. If anyone out there has been through the same please get in touch
Tar 25/11/2023 at 10:11 am
Such rubbish police sided with my neighbour even though i put in the report infact i heard him.say to abusive man that i sad women nothing better to do they wait till you got hurt or worse before they bother to late then
Nil 17/11/2023 at 1:40 pm
Same as above. My daughter,who has lived at the same address for the past 20 years, and has always got on with the neighbours, suddenly finds herself the victim of harassment and intimidation from neighbours at both sides. Been in touch with council and police and still no joy. They both seem to take the side of the neighbours.
Paula 06/11/2023 at 1:34 pm
Im commentinng too lve had harrasment threats off of A Neighbour for five yrs kept Reporting it still nowhere lm semi Disabled and have disorders he has shoouted obsenities at me through my patio door he has threated me outside called me names in my flat still no Further Forward .
Help! 19/10/2023 at 6:34 am
Hundreds of harassment by neighbours contacts to Police. Thousands of pounds worth of property damage. Mostly the Police seem to find it some sort of joke and advice yesterday was that I needed to let it wash over me - and get out more! Not safe to go in or out of of my apartment, Police just make excuses for neighbours and make up laws as they go along I.e I own my own apartment so neighbours can damage and do what they want because it is an apartment. Obsessed with cctv evidence only, which I am very limited where I am allowed to put it. Only advice from Police for past 2 and a half years is not to retaliate. Total waste of time contacting them as they've made things worse. Won't bother contacting Police again, better to deal with it myself even if it lands me in trouble because nobody can be expected to live like this.....
Commercial 22/08/2023 at 6:14 pm
My Background and the background to the Issues over the useage of access land

I am the owner, business occupier and proprietor of a commercial property which operates as a business, in the running of a law firm. I also have part of the property let out to other businesses, one of which operates as a school with young children

I have owned the property for a number of years and I have taken up a number of serious issue of concerns with my neighbours about the useage of my back garden area and the access area that is properly marked on the title deeds as an entitled useage for both my property and my neighbours, for which I have not had the privilege of much formal use of for my entitled access for many years, due to the operations by the neighbouring property and their visitors/tenants. The neighbours who have practically taken over the area, with false promises and assurances to me that the position would be improved following the renovations that they were conducting to install electric shutters that are probably about 10 foot tall, to enable them to have secured access and privacy to their property.

They made regular assurances that the access position would be restored, however, these assurances have been false

They fail to recognise that we both have an entitled access to the area and that is clearly titled in the deeds as an access area for both properties but yet they have continuously denied me the position of access, with false promises that the position was subject to a temporary renovation with the renovation being moved back.

Boundaries and Title Deeds identifying the Access Area

I have evidence in the title deeds identifying the access area and my entitlement to this access area, which has been overtaken by the neighbours, in relation to the issues that I have referred to below

Planning or Business buildings Control

I am unaware of whether the installation of the electrical shutters confirm with any planning application and whether this was constructed with the advice of planning control or with appropriate planning applications. I, however, was not served with anything to suggest that they did and I don’t know if these were required or not

The garage, which can be seen from the photographs as the brick building, is built on the access land. This is not land that is owned by the landlord who commissions rent. I was assured that this garage was being moved back to the garden area of their property, which they do own and some provisions relating to the railway in which they were going to have access for the customers from this but the garage has stayed situ. The customers of the garage during the day, are parked all over the access area. This increases the number of vehicles in this small area, exposing the further risk of injury/harm to anyone within the vicinity

Wrongful and Misrepresenting the Holding out on Land as owners and claiming remuneration illegally

The land is not open for usage for the oc
Anyone 22/08/2023 at 5:53 pm
We reside as a semi detached home and have done for over 10 years. Over the past 2 and half years now, a 24-7 business that purports to provide a care home for vulnerable children has rocked up

The children are children who suffer with substance abuse & other mental health issues. They are clearly high level needs. There are usually over 10 people in the house with the 24/7 carers who are themselves the cause of a lot of noise throughout the day and night

The children dont permit us to sleep or enjoy any peace and quiet

The owner has conducted in a course of dismissive behaviour with a contary approach to report us to the police when we have raised our concerns

The business is now, after two enforcement notices being served, seeking to appeal against the local authority on the basis that they dont require any legal planning permission, but applying instead for a lawful development licence that has failed

The applications made are contradictory both to the numbers of hte occupants with obvious lies to cover up the overcroweded usage of the property which adds to the burden of hte noise, let alone the question of why we are having to endure this level of frustration

We wish for any direction possible to include how to make a claim for harrassment for our 2.5 years of suffering and anything else that you can assist with
Davey 20/08/2023 at 12:54 am
Four years of abuse intimidating behaviour towards me and my daughter and my disabled son and it still goes on now hr even sits tapping on my daughter wall and tries to look over fence and has about 13 cameras watching us he also has live wifi camera in his van to he watches us with and what do the police do complain there badly done by and protect the ones doing it same goes for the housing office who phones them and tells them when u complain and gets away with it there's no law in this country and it stinks maybe one day the police mite do some work that doesn't involve pulling cars over
Jaf 04/08/2023 at 1:19 pm
I have done all this above for five years and the police won't do nothing I have threatening letters I've got videos of got audios and they still won't do nothing
Honest John 24/06/2023 at 7:09 am
I have work most my life(all be it mostly worked abroad in a different country,but I am from Uk and was born here) I am severely disabled,whilst On my way home from work i suffered a serious Road traffic accident,with 2 limbs missing broken back and pelvis.
I’m now in my 50’s,to only have a local lady tell me her taxes pay for my lifestyle (the quality of my life is poor at best) yet she’s round helping the village drunk man of the village phone around to get him help! Then had the cheek to tell me to take calls for him(the village drunken man) that drinks his money within 4-5 days then goes knocking other people’s doors asking for more money for electricity! (It’s certainly not for electricity,again I’ve witnessed this firsthand)

This lady has only recently started to work,all be it part time!
Why should I have to explain where and what I done for my tax credits!
The reason why I get what money I do is because I’ve worked hard most my life and, the nature of the accident I had whilst driving home from work.
Not that I should have to explain to this lady that I’ve only ever been good to and helpful,to be spoken to like that!!!
If I told my daughters there would be hell over it,but I’ve kept quiet about it as I don’t want to upset them as much as it’s upset me,she knows nothing of my situation in life and I worked 2 jobs when my children were younger just to provide for them. It wasn’t easy but I’d change nothing,after all that is what ones supposed to do,being a father,is it not?
The lady in question is known as the village gossip but,until now I’ve not witnessed her behaviour, I’m told by her to take calls for him (the village drunk)as he needed more money to get tobacco…(and more drink obviously )you really couldn’t make this up!
The next time this happens the lady in question will be getting a solicitor’s letter!
Hope you’re all having a great day,or at least better than what I went through yesterday…

It’s easy to say ignore it but,I just hope my daughters don’t get wind of it,they certainly would tell her to keep her nose to herself and outa other people’s business.
All because she has had to go to work! As there was nothing wrong with her she should’ve been working for longer than 6 months.
I am absolutely furious with her actions and,I’m certainly no secretary for the village drunk.
The cheek of it…
jax 22/06/2023 at 11:36 am
In may 2020, during lockdown, my partner and i where accused of calling police for a parked car outside our house. Not so. We did not call anyone. Plus we have been told when police spoke to the neighbour and us, they would not respnd at all to a car parked legally. ( we didnt have a problem with it.) Apparently they where partying during lockdown. Since then we have had vile verbal abuse, the worst in May 2022 when my partner was on her own, im a volunteer and i was out that day. He has cctv up as do we, and it caught it all on camera, he denied it and said his camera wasn't . We called the police and they agreed it was bad and put him on a diversionary probation course for a couple of weeks. this has made no difference, he started spying on us pointing his cctv at our door, every time we came in or went out he would show himself and start making weird noises at us. He plays very loud music during day and we find it difficult to work or relax in garden etc. We have been intouch with environmental health and we have been waiting over 9 months for sound equipment to be fitted...he now plays white noise in his garage all night upsetting our two yorkies. We cant go ut in garden and have to shut windows in rooms to keep noise out. We are fighting a losing battle...with no recourse to anything...police have sort of dealt with him, but not enough. We are stuck. its our own property and we cannot move, and why should we.
Emma 19/06/2023 at 10:40 am
I arrived home to a threatening letter, ...... let me explain fully I need advice on how to stop this:

I was not at home this weekend. My son popped out to the shops briefly on Saturday, 2 minutes later my disabled neighbour was nimbly zipping up to my front door (no walking stick/no walking frame ) and putting said letter though my front door. (Now you tell me that they aren't continually watching my house with their illegal cctv?). Whenever they do something it is always when I am away, and always causes maximum impact on my son's mental health, when I got home he was distressed and in fact hadn't gone out to a planned event with the Pearl Exchange on Saturday night. So their actions are impacting on his mental health, and I have to say, it is not doing much for mine, especially when I have arrived home tired, from a weekend of emotional highs and lows:

A friends final goodbye, honouring another friend that went too soon, getting home to find a third has passed, fabulous weekend, laughing with friends, supporting each other through the rough bits, to get this letter telling me that I cannot attach a flimsy nylon screen to an existing fence post, that has been there since I moved in over 20 years ago, and definitely since long before they moved in, in order to prevent them being able to see directly into my garden through the gaps that they have in their fence panel - apparently it is 'criminal damage' !

They have also gone into one, about 'my property' being blown into their garden and causing damage.......errrr a garden store lid, being ripped off in the storms is actually beyond my control, think insurers call it 'an act of god', so even I can't organise that, I'm not so powerful that I have control of the weather! That particular time they sent video footage to my housing officer, he duly rang me, and I asked if they had also sent footage of me outside in the wee small hours, making everything safe again (I heard the thing go - so dashed down immediately to make sure that nothing had been damaged and to bring the loose bits in so that they did not continue to be blown around). Also last week, my garden brolly took off Mary Poppins stylee when the wind whipped up, I duly fetched it from the alley at the side of the house, it was NOT in their garden at all, and packed it away for a calmer day!

All this petty complaining began after they blocked my access with their bins and 20 bags of garden waste way back when, so I asked the housing chappy to request they clear it, as for starters the rubbish was beginning to rot, never mind the fact they I could not get in and out. Which they did, some 6 weeks later, and placed some of it on my front lawn, they then began playing garden rubbish jenga outside my front door, and so it goes on......bored with it all now, but when it is impacting on my son this badly it has to be stopped!

Hence my need of advice - September 2021 was when I complained, having, for several years, put
rosemarina 18/06/2023 at 1:44 pm
I am in my eighties and have lived here happily for nearly 40 years . Its a village near the coast and very popular with Londoners who are now very rich and want to retire here. Well for years I had lovely neighbours who have now passed on. My husband died and I have a friend living here who is very nice but has Aspergers. He had his old car in my driveway. Now the neighbour opposite has started a war against me as they saw a rat in my drive . We have them in the garden every year and the rat man deals ntrol deals with them.
Everyone round here has had them at times as we live next to a field and a churchyard .
Well this year the neighbour opposite has decided to start this war and got other neighbours to call the Council . This horrible woman rang me the other day and told me to get rid of my friend and his car and that I ought to go in to a home . My friend thinks they want my large bungalow as they are now quite old themselves, I feel like I am going to have a breakdown , its all too much and there is no help out there .
Yesterday another old harridan walked past as I was trimming my hedge and said you need a proper cut now. It was cut in October and looks fine after I gave it a little trim . I told her the birds could still be nesting if their first nests failed . She said that is not possible. I said how do you know ? She said I KNOW . Then she said the hedge comes out too far . But there is plenty of room here. These people are really stupid as well as aggressive. They move to the country and then want to make it like the town .
rosemarina 18/06/2023 at 1:20 pm
I am now in my eighties and have lived for nearly 40 years now in the area where I grew up after living in many different places with my husband . When he retired we moved here to this lovely village near the sea. It was all good until all these Londoners moved here , who are very rich now after selling their houses in London at incredible prices. Well my opposite neighbour has started a war against me (being a widow with nobody to defend me .) I have a friend living with me who has Aspergers . This neighbour rang me the other day telling me to get rid of him and his old car. Also she said we have rats and I must call the pest control which I have done .Also I should probably go in to a home.and other slurs on me. We have rats every year at this time as I live next to a field and a churchyard I just get the pest control man and they are gone. This year she has made a great fuss about it even though everyone round here has them at times. She got other neighbours together and they called the Council who came round and read me the riot act .
Yesterday another woman who lives further up my road was saying goodbye to a friend who was parked outside my house . She then attacked me verbally while I was trimmimg my hedge , saying "that hedge needs cutting properly now." I was shocked and told her ; yes it would be done later on in the years as birds may still be nesting.. She said oh no they are not I KNOW . I said I belong to the wildlife Trust and they can be . as if the nest fails they often build one later . A very ignorant aggressive woman I have to say. There are many of these now who are divorced , moving here from London. They are loud aggressive and want everything straightened up with no feeling for wildlife or anything else. They have plastic grass and poison everything . They move to the country and want to make it like the town.
pam 14/06/2023 at 4:50 am
I'm a 69 year old woman. I have lived in a senior HUD apartment for 7 years. Since I moved I've been asked if I was into "jungle fever", had comments about my breasts, and for the past year stalked, hit, threatened, and frightened by a neighbor. I've called police, talked to management, tried calling the mayor, attorney general, TV networks, filed forms for HUD, and hundreds of communication that I don't have room to write it all here. I'm begging for help. It always comes to everyone saying it's his word against mine. I've begged the local police to do a polygraph on me. They refuse. I called a professional polygraph examiner but, being on social security, I can't afford it. This man calls me a cracker and other racist names. PLEASE SOMEBODY BELIEVE ME! IM NOT CRAZY! I HAVE NIGHTMARES THAT HES CHASING ME WITH A GUN. IVE HAD TO GET THERAPY. THIS DOESN'T HELP FIX THE SITUATION. I HAVE PANIC ATTACKS JUST GOING TO MY MAILBOX. THE WORST PART IS THIS MAN SERVED TIME IN PRISON FOR MURDER!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME BEFORE HE KILLFS ME. IF NOT BY PUTTING A GUN TO MY HEAD, HES SLOWLY KILLING ME DUE TO MY HEALTH. I REALLY CANT TAKE THIS ANY MORE. SOMEONE PLEASE BELIEVE ME. !!!!!
Pepsi 10/06/2023 at 7:19 am
My neighbours on one side are tidy and then you have a bunch of a few different family members the other. One man in particular thinks he own the street, shouting vulgar things when we have had words. He's a bully, has threatened violence on me twice now, first time was when I had to call police on my ex that would not leave my house (it was domestic abuse) so next day neighbour was booting my door stating he was going to smash my face in because the domestic had woke him up(I wouldn't be happy either)but to threaten me! His family would call me names too in the street, even up at my window one night, they will all hang in a group intimidating me. Now the other day he came over to me outside my front door and he kicked off at me something to do with his wife, he said I don't belong here, it's basically all his family here, I'm this I'm that (very degrading stuff) (tarnish
reputation, spreading false statements) threatened to get me done over(get me beaten up) picking on me because I'm unemployed(due to sickness) more degrading humiliation, calling me a prostitute too. His family were telling him to leave me alone and in the end a family member grabbed him and his son by the scruf and pushed them back in his house. They have had the nerve to ring my landlord and make up lies that I have men back n forth to my house and that I'm a prostitute. I couldn't believe it, I have a few great gentlemen as friends and I only see 1 very regularly and some say once in a blue moon. I explained that he had come over to me, she said any more problems give them a call. He is a vile bully. 2yrs ago he wanted my dog to fight his dogs, I couldn't believe that either! Yet they think they do nothing wrong! I've never ever threatened them. I don't care what they think of me but when it's put out in the public all the degrading nasty and slandering my character the way they do is awful, I feel so low and don't want to see them or feel safe anymore as they have group chats on me and are known to even try and get local councillors to be in their group chat. They must be spying on me actually. They
Amazes me 06/06/2023 at 4:58 pm
My predicament is a bit different here because I love in a supportive housing property as a vulnerable adult the same as the neighbour who also tried to stalk/harass me a good few years back and he denied any account of doing it even though I reported the behaviours to my support worker, they could not prove it. The man was looking right through my bedroom window at 4am in the morning not just daytime hours and tried to ask me out despite knowing I have a partner I am very committed to, he also lives in the same block yet we all have our own flats. To add insult to injury the neighbour stalking me also reported me to the benefits for being in my partner's flat right next to my own - I felt very angry and threatened by this and did nothing to cause him to do this. A few years on now, the neighbour still lives in the same block and although I want to move to another location, waiting for a place to become available, he seems to want to sit in the garden directly outside my flat on ground floor for hours on end making it very difficult for me to avoid him, can't go to bin or put washing out on line without him trying to engage with me, he has been trying to be friendly yet he has never admitted or apologized for past actions and don't trust my instincts about him either. The supported housing landlords can't stop him from being outside in the garden because it's a shared community one, yet totally feel very upset by the fact that they really don't know him at all (only me and my partner), they also treat him as a vulnerable adult because of where he also lives. What rights does someone like me have in this situation knowing that he is very capable of doing the same thing again and getting away with it?. I would appreciate any suggestions as I believe he is a dangerous narcissist in some way, he was married for 19 years in the past he told me twice, not explained why it broke down or how he came to live in support housing, like he seeks empathy without acknowledging any responsibility...it speaks volumes of his character for me...did he stalk his wife or anyone else before me and act like it never happened to me.
HarassedStalked 23/05/2023 at 9:43 am
I have been harassed and stalked for four years by a neighbour, a stranger to me, who was convicted in 2022 for harassment and has a restraining order, recently extended for five years, but he will never stop harassing and traumatising me. He works for my local council as a bin lorry driver and they know what he has done, I expect they believe his lies, despite my appeals for help to my local councillor who has two sons serving as police officers. I don't go out on my own so he shows his hatred by scratching my car and shooting it from his window, out of sight of CCTV. The angle of fire can only be from his window. He has put up illegal CCTV to watch me when my friend takes me out or to work. He often follows us or him when he leaves for work. I have a professional career and the police say my harasser is jealous and mental, strange and odd which scares me. He is violent and abusive to his son and grandchild. My continuing case is escalated to domestic abuse and Senior Inspector level, I hope that makes a difference. Moving is unaffordable but I search relentlessly. He is in rented property and his private landlord knows what he does but ignores it, maybe because his brother is a convicted level 5 paedophile so they don't respect the law. The laws are pathetic and the police don't have enough power, as a result the courts have too many customers! Private landlords should be forced to evict problem tenants. The UK has turned into a back street cesspit full of criminals.
Easygoing P 16/05/2023 at 8:32 pm
I really sympathise with all the stories. I moved into a house in Autumn last year, and one side are fine, get on with their lives. The otherside, total psychotic nut cases. They have made constant unfounded allegations to the council, over numerous matters that are lies. I sought legal advice , but was told to hold back, as it would affect any future sale. I am registered disabled , blue badge etc. It is discrimination & harassment, but council won't stop following up the allegations. Which are a waste of taxpayers money.
All I know is the bunny boiler had a miscarriage, and hates anyone with children.I want to move or die. Preferably in that order.
Han 12/05/2023 at 10:45 pm
I have been the victim of harassment for over 4 years. I have the lots verbal abuse, antisocial behaviour, criminal damage and this is still ongoing. North Wales police have only issues a CPN order and the still allowed to breach it with no consequence. I feel that they are being protected and the keep NO future action to everything I report and evidence with no luck. I Need so help and advice. She's even using cctv to stalk me too.
Betteriggy 05/05/2023 at 12:33 am
Iggy are you perhaps Susan gaszczak. I believe you are the one that got away with murder and racism.
Colin 23/04/2023 at 11:07 am
My family have been harassed, had property stolen and been physically assaulted by a neighbour who built and extension without planning permission. There is now a demolition order on it. There have been 60 events reported to Surrey Police with physical/video evidence during the past three years. Another neighbour who complained about the building has experienced the same behaviour and was also assaulted. We have had to take the neighbours to court twice but their behaviour has continued. The judge said they should be locked up. We've involved the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, Surrey's Police Commissioner, our MP Jeremy Hunt. We've raised several IPOC complaints and now have a solicitor working for us against Surrey Police who still say "it is a domestic dispute". Surrey Police isn't following CPS and national police guidelines for harassment and it's not surprising their charge rate for harassment has fallen from 14% in 2018 to 2% in2022 (FoI data).
Kezzy 17/04/2023 at 5:07 pm
I have been having harassment problems with my neighbours for over 6 years now.
The police have been to speak to them 3 times. And they still do t listen. Other neighbours have spoken to them aswell. About their behaviour towards me.
They make vile comments about me. They come outside to watch me put my bins in or out. They stand and watch me clean my car and as for gardening my front well they have a field day.
When I walk past their house they stand and watch completely oblivious if other people see them, it’s intimidating stare normally with an unpleasant comment.
They verbally threaten me and are verbally abusive towards me.
They talk to their dog about me. (Yes I am not kidding about that. They make the comments so loud so they know I can hear.
They stand at their gate and gossip about me and it’s horrible comments.
I have about given up as the police don’t take it seriously.
I never reply to their comments just hold my head up and ignore them. But it’s ridiculous every single day without fail.
They just don’t believe they are doing anything wrong
Yuk 26/03/2023 at 10:58 am
In 2009 my next door neighbour moved into the house,having been forewarned by one of his former " Victims " of his Anti-social behaviour,I told him. " that I wouldn't put up with his " Nonsense. " and if need be I'll install CCTV a d Security system.
It was like a red rag to a bull,the parties
Started,,Starting at 5-30pm and finishing around 2am,setting off smoke alarms,Banging doors,Cursing,Swearing,Intimidation,Threats
Against my person Damaging my wife's car.
Waking ingredients me from sleep,at 2am,3am,Banging my doors at these times.
Their so was at my door twice wanting me to fight with him.My wife phoned the Police,and he ran away and hid.
In 2011 the husband and son were both banned from fishingat our local Fishery.Then
on 29th May 2011,The father leaned over our 4ft hedge,while my wife,( Who was in early onset Dementia, was hanging out washing,when the husband started cursing a dog swearing,threatening her so badly that she soiled herself with fright.Two weeks later he,his son,and his pal turned up at our local loch to try and force me to sell them permits,
As they were already banned.They started to
Curse and swear at me,and picturing my wife
I hit him,subsequently I was arrested,but there was no blood when he left me,but,when he arrived at the police station. Blood was pouring from his nose.
The Committee Banned him for life for being there while on a ban,and for his threatening behaviour towards the duty Bailiff ( ME ).
I took advice from Police,who told me to TAKE NOTES OF THEIR BEHAVIOUR,.
I have done so,and am scared to send them into the council,as my windows will be broken and my koi pond poisoned.
I had to put my wife into care in 2017,to get her away from them,as everytime she heard their voices she started crying.
Since then they've been shouting and swearing at me when I'm in my garden.
I do not know what to do.Shortly before she passed away,my wife asked me to promise not to sell our house,and loving her the way I did,and still do,I promised her I wouldn't..
I have Epilepsy,and my neighbours know that if they put enough stress on me I'll have a fit.
I need this house for when my family come to stay with me ,or visit for week ends.
jen 13/03/2023 at 12:28 pm
have a nghbr who is clearly mental who is now throwing objects at my house, constantly screaming foul language , calling me foul names, calling cops on my 4 year old niece, also stating i broke into her house & beat her. among other things, twp did a 5150 on her 4 months ago but ever since getting out she has escalated. its every day now, ive just filled out 8 harassment charges against her . i hope this works, but in the meantime my lil niece is afraid to even go outside
Gary Fitzgerald 12/03/2023 at 9:18 am
Back in 2009 I started my new job with a University in Southampton. 2 years in and I had a serious accident with them, where I ended up loosing the use of my wrist after 2 operations and a total of 10 months off.
Anyway it took 5 years to sue the university and during the 5 years the tried very hard to get rid of me, by making my life hell. After winning the case I went back to work at the university and adapted to do my job, but the 5 years of harassment and bullying went on for another 5 years but they took it outside and where I lived as well, and another 5 years until I move jobs. Unfortunately since I started my new job I have been attacked twice, and my new electric bike has been vandalised 3 times. I don't know who I can trust or talk to...
Tanzie 09/03/2023 at 9:38 pm
I've been having a dispute back and forwards with a neighbour and she's now put what I think is a solar power camera on the fence between our garden facing my garden and filming this is upsetting and I don't know my rights whether she's allowed to film my garden as there's no other people using the garden but me I'm not in good health having high blood pressure and other conditions I'm finding it to stressful to face her I'm a pensioner not any finances to see lawyers
Shell 04/03/2023 at 7:18 am
My neighbours are hypocrites each and everyone of them.
They are like sheep all following each other in whatever they do.There is a leader who is aged 75! But it seems whatever her opinions are the rest follow. I have lived here for 6 years and for the last 10 months I have been outcasted and it’s great as they are not my flavour of people and little do they know I’m very happy about the situation as my lifestyle is very peaceful now I don’t have to use up any energy or make any effort towards my neighbours!they always have to be bullying someone on the scheme if it’s not me it’s someone else.
I actually don’t think about them at all as they all seem to be behind their front doors festering in their own bitterness.
So for me it’s a bonus to have neighbours that don’t like you!??????
iggy 24/02/2023 at 12:03 am
I have a neighbor that I have never spoken to arrest me; I decided to fight back…this lady sit in her house through her window and verbally abuse me, so I started throwing rocks at her house at night when I can’t be seen…it works…the abuse is getting lesser and lesser. People are evil the police will not do anything how can I explain that a person is saying hurtful words through there window there is no proof so I’m fight back the best way I know how…rocks at 2am in the morning when she’s sleeping can’t be fun but it’s so worth it cause I have peace now…and if that doesn’t work I’m going to come up with something she’s not going to like…peace of mind is free and no one should be in fear because someone else wants to be evil…fight back guys just don’t get caught. And don’t do anything too crazy.
Hel 23/02/2023 at 7:09 pm
It's for my brother, he lives in a rented property. They are vivid homes, he has for the last 6mths had a tenant banging his doors and windows throughout the night from 1am on and off until about 4am, my brother has informed the police on every occasion and vivid homes but has no proof so nothing is being done, my brother has to be up at 6am for work, I am worried sick about him as he can't cope anymore, he says he can't go on anymore, it is effecting his mental health, I've even ask vivid homes to errect cameras up so they get proof but no answer, he put his own up and has been told to take them down.please could you advise me on what steps we can take please.
Tommy 2 dogs 17/02/2023 at 8:45 pm
I am 78 yrs old I live in retirement property.I disabled.partly sited.suffer from anxiety.rheumatoid arthritis.I am being harassed. Called .dick Turpin.emu.& a nut case.I have been to police.they said they do anything as it is not a police matter I am so unwell .my drs know about & sent letters to local council. But to no avail what can I do. My head is a mess .
Ruthepolice? 16/02/2023 at 7:26 pm
I have a nosy and condescending neighbor who lives a few doors down. When ever I see her I feel like I'm being interigated. She is that nosy. What makes me laugh is that one minute she would be all friendly and talk to me the next minute when she is on her own.she even makes an effort to not talk to me even going the opposite path to avoid me. Okay you don't like me sure. But why are you still trying to talk to me lol get a life and let me live mine. And stop trying to interigate me lol whilst I'm just trying to mind my own business. Get a grip b
Steve 15/02/2023 at 5:41 pm
Neighbours who annoy bully harass neighbours have problems issues and are messed up,normal people get on with living life peacefully.so anyone who has weird psycho neighbours should know that these type neighbours have problems and they take their problems out on neighbours by annoying harassing etc the neighbours.they are in fact embarrassing and exposing their own selfs that they have problems and are messed up and are suffering.ignore them,don’t even look at them or acknowledge the crazy neighbours.don’t entertain their problems,let them suffer,let them make themselfs worser by they abnormal psycho behaviour and annoyance.karma and god will make them suffer even more,god and karma have no address.
Molliedawg13 13/02/2023 at 6:27 pm
My elderly disabled mother has been in her house for over 40yrs and had numerous neighbours the newest has made several complaints about lighting in her garden to start with it was a few little solar lights at the bottom of her garden which my mum removered to keep her quiet although now its a under light fixed onto the end of her bungalow drive thats on a sensor the lamp its self doesn't shine into her property and we live in a very dark rural community anyway this woman has been posting very nasty letters of harassment through her letter box i have tried to settle and come to an agreement but she refuses and has gone to the council and now my mum has an abatement notice against her simply on the opinion of the council officer no gauges or light sensors were involved for her opinion this is just one of the complaints this woman has and the postman is another that has been reported twice for "putting the mail in the letterbox the wrong way" we are currently in the process of fighting the abatement
Noonespecial 12/02/2023 at 6:28 pm
I have a neighbor who I stopped talking to in November because her behavior was just too much. Here we are in February and she's leaving notes on my door at night. I think I heard her calling me derogatory names too outside my door while doing it which she also apologized for on the envelope! While they do not threaten me... she acknowledges that I have broken communication with her and she's telling me personal parts of her life but in the same note stating how she doesn't feel safe talking to me! This letter is written on white printer paper and sticky notes. With it was a bag of toys for my kids. I am scared, but don't know what to do because she knows I want nothing to do with her.
Jem 04/02/2023 at 4:05 pm
I have lived in the same place for 7years.
A month after I moved in my neighbor in the house next door started in on me! First he made up a song about me,it wasnt nice!
Him & his friends killed the grandmother, not really I found out later, I overheard them & thought I was next! Then his friends started in waking me up at all hours! Lots of singing.... a satanic meeting, peeping at me when I had my backdoor open. Now hes started making this noise & of course I'm the only one who admits to hearing it then he starts & I dont know how but he shakes my house, maybe heavy machinery I'm not sure but it is annoying! Now I'm having nightmares about him in my house! Dear God will it ever end??? This guy has no conscious he doesnt care about anyone! U cant go to the police they dont do anything!!!!! Help!!!!
Maddy 02/02/2023 at 9:12 pm
My neighbours have pushed me too far I don't think I have the strength to continue with this currant living situation I am getting to a point where I cannot cope my neighbours actions have tonight caused my son to break down and want nothing to do with me and my parents are really stressed out and they are elderly I am concerned about how much further I am go on in this life tonight I feel so lonely and isolated and right on the edge but for now I will try to go forward but I am that close to breaking
Maddy 19/01/2023 at 6:50 pm
I am being bullied harrassed intimidated abused by my neighbours above me in front of my son they have also done crime and lots of cyber crime against me but the police are useless to bring them to book they won't act despite me telling them and action fraud what is going on tonight however I have been in my kitchen cooking my son is here yet my neighbours are slamming things shut above me very loudly my son is nineteen and has just realised tonight my neighbours above me are being awful therefore giving me more evidence against them. My neighbours have done all this to me for no reason what so ever I hate my neighbours big time but am unable to move I wish they would go but whilst they can hack my phone my laptop and new TV and bully abuse harrass and intimidate me they aren't going to go any where I don't suppose I need help and support but as I seek it they are trying to stop me at every turn to protect themselves so the truth about their behaviour towards me stays a secret.
Katarona 14/01/2023 at 7:16 pm
I need some advice. I recently sold my house because I was surrounded by noisy neighbours. I had tried the council and the police and as a single female on my own I was an easy target and not believed. I moved home to my folks as had no choice as they were making my life a living hell.
On 19th November I had been chatting to a guy on a dating site and we met and we agreed to meet and started dating. During an evening I was staying his neighbours started being noisy. I couldn't take it so got my things to go home. A few days later I went to his and he had his boss round and it came out this is the woman who stopped us partying in the shed at her old place. I had been deliberately targeted. Since then it turns out he never left his wife and I was deliberately targeted. Question is what can I do about it. They found me and located my new home and everything. What do I do to feel safe in my own area?
Merci 04/01/2023 at 11:30 am
What do you do when you park behind your own vehicle in the middle of the night because your have your sister over because you both have work early in the morning and your neighbor calls the police at 3am to complain your blocking the driveway? We're all asleep because we work early! How are we bothering anyone? We'll be gone for work before anyone barely even wake up?!?! 3 in the morning? Have they nothing better to do? I have baby grand kids in this house and the door bell rings! Wow the whole house up!
None 30/12/2022 at 1:33 pm
I have read the majority of these messages and am blown away as I have exactly the same issues and have had for 3 years. My neighbour in housing association flat perverted the course of justice and I was dragged in for cautioned interview - our stories completely different and hers the complete opposite of what happened. Since this, I've been blamed for all kinds, yet I have all the evidence that housing and police have ignored. The neighbour came to my front door, assaulted both my partner and I, tried to slash his hands as he held them up infront of himself telling her to go away, she tried to break the door cam off the door and then gave me a 2nd death threat - all on camera. Police came and because I was swearing on door cam footage out of shear frustration - they done nothing. I fought, wrote to Chief constable, Police Professional Standards, my councillor, my MP - and eventually they tried to give her a community resolution - which basically is a slap on the hand. After having her family follow my partner and threaten our lives and our car - again - nothing could be done the video my partner took wasn't much to go on - we feel unsafe. I carried on with the fight to get her caution put on record. She lied to police and housing saying she has been away for a period of 3 months and has no intention at all of returning (whilst her friend was staying above in her absense and causing noise from hell most of the time). This shouldn't be able to happen, and now my neighbour has returned and tried to get our druggy neighbour to cause hell - whilst she video'd us telling him to go away from our front door!!! Given death threats and assaulted, 3 years of harassment which I proved but housing didn't want to know - yet, they get the rent money and we get nothing of which is set out in their contracts or policies - like duty of care and asbo behaviour - all a load of rubbish. People should get together and show their voice. There's plenty to read on this site but there are many, many more people who are not reporting these types of nuisance out of fear or not knowing who to go to. The perpetrators do this out of malice, it's on purpose. Most of them know how the games go, what not to say and what sounds good to people of importance. My case will not end here - everybody has a right to live in their home comfortably but if someone's harassing others and making a complete nuisance - they should be dealt with. With or without evidence!!
Kim 28/12/2022 at 10:34 pm
I live in a apartment complex, from the first day I moved there, I live in a second floor apartment and he lives on the third floor, he plays loud music all times of day and night, stomps on the floor, drags things, puts bags of trash in front of my door, but the worst thing was he was aloud to flood to my apartment three times causing damage and management won't do a damn thing about, as I am writing this now he is stomping on the floor, I can't keep living like this something has to be done!
WilX 27/12/2022 at 10:32 pm
There is a resident that is well-known in our apartment block for being a nuisance to all the neighbors. I am being mentally harassed by her and she keeps singling me out for parking-related issues.

This lady has a dedicated handicapped parking assigned to her apartment number but acts like a policewoman for parking all around. today I had a lot of supermarket bags that needed to be unloaded so I momentarily parked my car in a parking slot that belonged to another resident with whom I share a cordial relationship, I know that this resident would not be home from work until 7 pm, so I used the time frame to unload the stuff from my car and later moved the car to a legitimate non-handicap slot immediately.

While I was walking back to my apartment, this arrogant woman came into her balcony and began hurling abuses at me calling me a Fuc@ing A$$hole etc.

I resorted back to saying don't call me names or I can reciprocate the same back to you. This sort of mental harassment has been going on for a while. I have also noticed that when her relatives or other Arabic folks park / double park she won't dare tell them anything, but she won't think twice about creating a ruckus for other residents.

After speaking with the other neighbors, I learned that this woman has been the reason for many tenants to leave and vacate their apartments because of her constant harassment. People have also come out reporting that she has damaged their cars by keying them.

I dont know how to deal with this situation.
Po 24/12/2022 at 4:30 am
A neighbor two doors over has thrown eggs at my house put trash at my door. I cleaned it up never said nothing to her now as of the other day the power was out she took her car, ran into my car, smashed my drivers door, and also slashed three tires on three different cars and also came out and told me to my face that I was not safe and went back inside. Came back out and did all this to my property. Police can’t do nothing management is not responding. What do you do in this situation Portland, Oregon and also broke windows on cars
Libby 24/12/2022 at 1:01 am
I have a abusive neighbour, he has done this for years. Recently he got a works large van and insisted it was parked out side my house and not blocking his view but mine. We knocked and to ask him to move it a bit forward as we couldn’t park, was met with bad language and rude gestures at the window. I am a wheelchair user and can’t walk at all also have cancer, we only want enough room to park, he has front of house garage and drive but won’t use them. On the advise of police and local council we were told to have a word with his employer to see if they could ask him to move forward a little. Then the abuse got worse, he would stand by my front door swearing shouting of an evening, smashed the van into the car to try and move it, if we park near our house he gets even closer and parks touching the bumper, walks up and down turning shouting I am going to keep turning your security light on to cause you money. Points and laughs if we have to leave the house, smashed my conservatory and pulled all my fences down, and not once have I said one word to him. The police told me to ignore him I am scared of this man and cancelled hospital appointments as now scared to leave house at all. He now says I harrassing him but in 8 years I have never said one word to him. I have videos of the abuse from my doorbell but the police won’t help and told me I have to stay in if he is home. I can’t live like this anymore and don’t know what to do, I sit crying wishing to die to escape it all
Boo Boo 15/12/2022 at 12:41 pm
Moved into ground floor fat, with communal entrance, garden neighbours digs upstairs and adjacent are roaming around communual entrance and garden jumping g up at bedroom window after my cat.
States in tenancy agrement that dogs normally not allowed in upstairs flats unless have own exit not communal can hear dogs barking at every noise made especially when doors are opened closed.
Need advise.
Mis nice 25/10/2022 at 6:26 am
I have been on a very small yard since 2006 I have had my horses on there grazing never had any trouble on there always kept myself to my self it all started in jan 2022 when I wanted to tidy the yard up abit and put 3 new stable costing £20.000 we got planning permission from the council all went well then two individuals residence got together and decided they were gonna do everything they can to get me of they didn’t like it and complained to council I have had one thing after another they are now trying to bully me of I have done nothing wrong I put a wooden fence up around my 3 stable and they come back with (the colour is brown you could paint them same as the tress it would look better ) it gets worse a puddle accured out side one of there drives now this puddle is about 50 yards from his front door the puddle was 2 foot wide and maybe 3 foot long I got the blame for that he said it’s stagnant and it’s smelling my house out it wasn’t it’s clean water this individual as now been watching my children riding in one of my fields and filming I might add they are miners I got a txt oct 24 th saying that he has now gone to the police for anti social behaviour against me I haven’t been no where near him in months I tried to talk to him and sort it out but he just wouldn’t have it. Please can anyone one help me I am the one being abused and harassed I’m at my ends wit soooo stessed do I just sell my horses and go or fight this through
Deb 17/10/2022 at 10:05 pm
My comment is about the same as the others, multiple calls to the police, these white trash neighbors that I've put up with have been ridiculous!! Single white female, 2 thug children, and yet I've put up with verbal abuse from mother and son, age 14, they've (kids) have damaged my property, broke fence posts, thrown broken cinder blocks in my yard, tried to break into my garage, the mother leaves these kids unattended constantly, but when I call the police, I'm the one doing the harassing! By getting on to her thug children, the sister follows the brother, it took me 9 calls to the police and 18 months BEFORE I could get even 1 officer to make a damn report, and finally one did!! Now, I'm being stalked,they have cameras watching me 24/7, but yet I'm doing the harassing!! When I explode on these kids for tearing up my property I'm the aggressor, well I have witnesses now, who will testify, should it go to court, which it will, enough is enough, we've all had enough of her, her thug children, dogs running loose, their destruction of everyone's property, stealing from other neighbors, etc.. the list goes on! Legal advice would be good, but nowadays who in the hell can you trust!!! I'm so sick and tired of this!! I'm 63, she's in her 30s!!
O 15/10/2022 at 8:44 pm
For all your advice, from extreme ongoing harassment over 16 months, police and landlords do nothing other than ask a tyrant to stop when he never stops, and thus taught him he'd continually get away with his noise, bullying and threatening me until I violently exploded since I couldn't cope while losing my mum, having only just lost my dad, I could not cope anymore. Police should have prosecuted him many times, I had 800 videos of his drink drug fuelled behaviour, landlord said my evidence would put him in court but no one took my evidence, 18 officers over 18 days, I snapped on the 19th day. Police said they were sorry there was nothing more they could do... rubbish, and this is how disputes escalate into violence because relevant authorities and landlords incompetently let it all unfold instead dealing with issues long before escalation. He drove the previous couple out, and have learnt the new tennant after driving me out has himself put this same guy in court, for the same reasons. Reporting and asking for help achieved nothing. Same police who said I made up that another guy mugged me and beat me up, sergeant said " I'm just the town drunk who fantasised the incident for attention"... I don't drink, and three weeks later the same guy was in the local paper for 'brandishing a knife' at a woman serving at the local Chinese takeaway. Vigilance it is, then.
Nana 05/10/2022 at 3:28 pm
I have an access rd that goes through and past my driveway . The owners of the farm that my home and lot were purched from sold and have sold to new Farmers however 1 man from the past farmers family asked to build a building at the top of the hill behind me therefore using the access road as it had hardly ever bn used except I t by me as my driveway , the man did not purchase any land however the new owners allowed him ti build a metal building w an agreement that when the man dies they will be handed the building he erected. He than asked me after having his lawyer draw up papers to ' own ' the access road' and I thought this man was kidding , I never prevented him or anyone ever from being able to use it by bariicading itvw a fence or doing away with it alltogether nothing if the sort its on my property I own on the opposite sides of it however I have never ever complained or felt I've bn unjustly treated until now since I didn't meet w this man over 3 years ago to sign this part of my property he'd asked to buy with and did not sale he told me he would now make my life a living hell and he has done that and more he has now got me to where I'm unable to even drive through to my house he has cameras overlooking all I do or any company or family who visits are questioned I'm daughter has been followed and terrorized when she comes to my home I do nit have a place ti park bc whenever I leave to go babysit my grandchildren he gets his tractor out and moves rock to barricade me he has had my property surveyed i believe 2x now and keeps moving his man-made rods to drive into places around my yard that he most probably has chosen to destroy next and has never failed to destroy any thing I work on in my own yard no matter what it is he destroys it and runs all my hardworking into a building I have had in my yard since I've bn here we built I've bn here since 1989 and since the sa k e of the above farm this man even has another access road that he actually does own a lot on and he has put no trespassing on his so that only mine can be used by him and all those he has come to his building and understand also he has a home in the town here he just has done this building this building and negotiating his presence and he comes to do this in the hours of after noon each day approx 4 o'clock and does his damage all throughout the night to me . I cannot plant flowers or have company without him terrorizing us and will not stop ihave come to the point of suicide and I have asked fir help I have reached out I am nit a social person I do not have but 2 daughters that niw may call but do not rarely attempt to come to my home he believes and knows im without any monetary means to pay fir layers and I am just a simple peace keeping citizen I've never complained if anyone or thing hes put me through until recently bc I know its effect has backed me into this dark place if no hope and I won't be here too much longer si I wanted to at least let the world
allocks 04/10/2022 at 11:31 pm
Sorry to hear of the experiences that people are going through, with no one that they can call for help. When the very people who should be making us safe and implementing legislation and investigate crimes are more concerned with going over the 30 mile speed limit up to 31 and fining motorists. Being harassed where you live can be horrendous, restrictive, injustice and an inhumane experience when you’re attacked where you live, your home, your castle, your sanctuary, your place of safety. The feeling is being trapped and unable to find a way out. I wish we could crowdfund, for a one stop shop for the uk. You ring, tell them your problem and it’s investigated. solicitors at the ready. Investigations into the police as to why they don’t protect us. Full support in complaining and taking the police to court for not fulfilling their duty of care towards you. Meanwhile, people come over to
provide support to show others you’re not alone.. Education of what a community is, is forced on those that don’t know don’t what it is or never experienced it. Help with security of wifi, doors, etc all from the one stop shop. You wont be alone. Security escorts until it’s resolved perhaps . Eight years. There’s not been a door lock that they’ve not managed to unlock. 5 phones, two laptops, car. Taking what they want from the house whilst neighbours watch. Things are going to get much worse with all the economic crisis they are creating around the world. community and unity and safety . A home, a safe harmonious place to live; we should all have a right to that.
Lou 30/09/2022 at 10:39 pm
I live next to a very well known ex-gang leader and a drug dealer. He has after 20 years turned very paranoid after being arrested by police for his extensive drug dealing. He calls police dogs who can sell their own mother and does not like them. He has been making false accusations about me and damaging my car to the point of pouring acid over it. I reported to police but nothing gets done. Other neighbours have said to me police will not do anything even if he harms you and your children physically because he uses his customers and distributor guy to do his dirty work. Thus, making evidence futile and making the police unworthy to contact. He knows this well he is above the UK Law and police. Be is monitoring us from every angle with his high tech cameras front and back. He even checks the drainage everyday so also watching our waste. The neighbours have said he is very dangerous. Police and Council cannot do anything. We just have to sit in fear until he physically attacks me or my children and still no one will do anything because as usual he will send somebody to do the job for him. He is now having us followed so who knows. Never met such a powerful human being in UK who is so untouchable.
Lou 30/09/2022 at 10:33 pm
I live next to a very well known ex-gang leader and a drug dealer. He has after 20years turned very paranoid after being arrested by police for his extensive drug dealing. He calls police dogs who can sell their own mother and does not like them. He has been making false accusations about me and damaging my car to the point of pouring acid over it. A reported to police but nothong gets done. Other neighbours have said to me police will not do anything even if he harms you and your children physically because he uses hos customers and distributor guy to do his dirty work. Thus, making evidence futile and making the police unworthy to contact. He knows this well he is above the UK Law and police. Be is monitoring us from every angle with his high tech cameras front and back. He even checks the drainage everyday so also watching our waste. The neighbours have said he is very dangerous. Police and Council cannot do anything. We just have to sit in fear until he pbysically attacks me or my children and still no one will do anything because as usual he will send somebody to do the job for him. He is now having us followed so who knows. Never met such a powerful human being in UK who is so untouchable.
Pidge 25/09/2022 at 1:08 pm
My neighbour has threatened us with violence on two separate occasions and the police are not interested in the slightest. The first time we just logged it as an incident report. The second time we called the police and they didn't even bother to turn up. The neighbour was given an ASB warning by the local council but the police just sent a stock text saying they were closing the 'investigation' without actually doing anything. You are absolutely NOT protected by the police. I'm disabled and I have reason to believe at least some of the almost hassle we get from them is because of this, but the police here in the West Midlands literally do not care.
Chezza 19/09/2022 at 5:28 pm
The bullying from said neighbour is now continuing on with any visitors I have and also to my mum . Police do not want to know , I'm afraid of leaving my house , she mimics me saying goodbye to my visitors, she's absolutely vile , she's harrasing me and my daughter and any visitors I have including my 75 year old mum
Chezza 05/09/2022 at 11:43 pm
I called police as I was having threats being made to me and my family by a neighbour, I'm disabled and single mum of one . I wrote everything down as the bullying has gone on for years we've done nothing. The policeman told me if it's making me feel suicidal I need to see a doc . That was it , he believed them. Bloody useless. Now they're doing it to someone else in neighbour hood and they've been reported apparently
Madmark 03/09/2022 at 1:14 am
For nearly 2 years my neighbour above me for some reason keeps banging the floor early hours of nearly every morning,,,,tried talking to her but she ignores me,,,,yes I've contacted worthing and sussex police but they say police are powerless to do anythink,,, emailed southern housing group and no joy as manager at time said for a short time wear earplugs,,,seen citizens advice and they said I can do her for anti social behaviour but nothink,,,,yes I have health problems but no one wants to know,,
Angie 17/08/2022 at 6:13 pm
I have been in my flat 10 years. The upstairs whos been in a year is turning my neighbours against me. Talking about me outside my bedroom window early hours of morning what can I do
Madasheck 17/07/2022 at 8:15 am
I made a complaint to the Landlord about a neighbor who drove her/his SUV in my yard doing donuts and then just sat there with her/ his bright lights in my face. I couldn't tell who was driving but I gave him the address the SUV lived at, and ever since then, there have been people every day and night doing the same thing, driving in my yard and doing donuts, gunshots outside my house, vandalism, theft, and it's the entire neighborhood, about 20 people. Cops do absolutely nothing, and turns out the driver was the landlords cousin, and the entire mobile home park is related to owner/landlord. I woke up this morning to a doll hanging on a rope outside my front door.
Again law enforcement doesn't do a thing, and it's all men.... I'm a legally blind female... I guess that makes them feel tough. When I called cops about the doll, the sheriff didn't bother coming, he to ok report over phone. I don't feel safe and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. Gotta love Sahaurita Arizona sheriff's.
James 27/06/2022 at 9:43 pm
My neighbours moved in next door to me (joined semi-detached house) a few years ago. Were friendly enough to begin with but as time passed they began to falsely accuse me of smoking (I'm a lifelong non-smoker). After the 5th or 6th time they pleaded with me to stop smoking I'd had enough. (Some times they would confront me at my front door, other times nasty notes were shoved through my letterbox). I drafted a somewhat angry-sounding letter to them (non-threatening and I used no swearwords, but I stated the facts with appropriate grammar). Things didn't improve as they attempted to have me evicted (and failed miserably I might add). Fast-forward to the present and the woman neighbour called me a monster over the fence (I'd started playing a little with my cats - to which my laughter had startled her dog - and it began barking; to which she responded to the dog: "I know... he's a monster." [ meaning obviously myself, there were no other people or animals around at the time ]). Now this is admittedly the first time I've been name-called but can't help wonder if it's the start of a new wave of abuse from them. As someone who lives alone with long-standing ME/CFS (decades, plural, at this point) it's difficult to get through the day with already present anxiety, and heavy muscular pain & fatigue; and the short time I'm sometimes able to spend outside with my 2 young cats I really cherish. It doesn't make me want to even go outside any more but I need to access the back garden on at least a semi-regular basis. Compared to others' experience with neighbours mine obviously doesn't seem too bad at all, but it's all relative. With illness this is bordering on a hellish environment. My parents feel I should contact the police, but I'm not sure I'd be taken seriously (that's my guess) and it risks stirring things up even more with [the neighbours]. I honestly don't know what to do, but obviously I'm searching for a new place to rent. I don't care if they forced me out of my own home, it's more than worth it to get away from the bullies.
Kai 02/06/2022 at 8:27 am
So,I have moved into a new home in Port St Lucie and the neighbors next door to the right of my bedroom are very rude. They called me gordo(fat),ugly,rude,evil,psycho,racist, and told me to kill myself. Also, they said that they want to slap me. But, knowing me being angry I said a few things that were rude back and might have threatened to key their car. I haven’t did any harm to them or belongings. I am having a hard time with my mental issues and this is adding on to it. I even might have tried to do suicide since I couldn’t take it no more. I am just sick and tired of being ridiculed and being called names I am not. What should I do?
Pointless 02/06/2022 at 5:36 am
Venting is a good thing it takes a very small amount of stress from you... But realistically the problems are still there and police councils landlords housing association do very little to help the victims of what can only be only call a living hell.. Sorry for being negative but I've yet to read that a person or family have been moved or the victim of hassment has had justice
Please prove me wrong and post the positive outcome story's that might give others hope
Gia 30/05/2022 at 9:42 pm
Fir the last two years I have had a girl living next door to me who lies steals and brings this chaos into our community it has become so unbearable I’m always shaking or on the edge of loosing it on anyone. I call police I tell my office apartment manager and here I am two years later eyes all black from just crying im exhausted I’m depressed I feel so weak I just can’t keep living no one should be called names and walls banged on all threw the night I literally have cameras and all u hear is this girl it amazes me I call police they take hours to get here she calls and lies and gets away with it. What do I do no one understands the damage it has caused me mentally physically and emotionally and if u have gone threw it tell me what to do please. Thanks for listening no one else has.
Sass 20/05/2022 at 12:23 am
This type of behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud.

There is absolutely no need to destroy and persist in doing so, in playing repulsive music and pounding music constantly.
Decent Guy 16/05/2022 at 1:24 pm
l live on my own and have done so for the past 21 years in my flat l had a problem neighdour below me that was around 6/7years ago he was nothing but anti-social shouting swearing banging all the flat doors on drugs alcohol mental health problems etc police were called many times maybe around 50 times they did not do much about it the council anti-social team were no good they advised me to get a lawyer thats what l did then he moved out the council put a young woman in the flat below me she has been there for around 5/6years and she is the very same she is going around the flat banging all the doors at all times of day and night shouting /swearing she goes from room to room following me l think she is recording me as well when l am talking on my phone its no use reporting her to the police as its like there is nothing they can or want to do its the very same with the anti-social team on the council l am been harrased it never stops why should l have to live like this in my own home its like l will be pushed out after 21 years its like people that give anti -social problems to there neighbours get away with it there is no one willing to help the good decent tenants ant advice wellcome
Fed up 14/05/2022 at 7:35 pm
It started when my neighbours bought the detached house next door.
We greeted them nicely, however the husband didn't want to engage with us when chatting to him and his wife.
Not long after they were singing through a karaoke machine. My husband went round and politely advised that due to their home being open plan, we can hear everything! This didn't stop them and it continued most evenings. We had to contact our local Environmental team.
Over the past 4 years we have had to put up with loud music, screaming and shouting from him, hammering, banging and drilling!
We have had Environmental team in twice and the Police!
I have lost my temper with him a few times as my husband and I work long shifts and never feel to get any rest from THIS MAN!
He appears to be hell bent on winding us up. We are both at our wits end with him.
Not sleeping 10/05/2022 at 7:38 pm
I have had 9 years of hell, abuse, damage to car, intimidation, and it just keeps getting worse, it started when we moved in our house, not sure why or by who exactly, but over the years who ever started the hate campaign against me has now got all my neighbours against me, in the beginning I ignored the threats, damage and intimidation, thinking who ever was behind it would give up and get on with their life, but I think they must literally spend every day bad mouthing me, gossiping spreading so much hate that 9 years later no one speaks to me at all, I had a new neighbour move in next door to me last month, they both talked to me the first two times I saw them, now they completely blank me too, i feel it's the older generation neighbours who seem to be the worst behaved, they seem to have so much hate, its had such a damaging effect on my young daughter who i had to move her school twice due to bullying from families of my neighbours! She has bad anxiety attacks, she thinks I'm going to get hurt by a neighbour, I dream of moving home one day, but for the moment we are stuck here as we just cant afford to move, I am not sure how to cope anymore though
Donna 10/05/2022 at 2:18 pm
My neighbour spreading rumours its all because he think i stole his ring but i havnt there was 2 people in his flat ..this happened 2 years ago the lad he acused first time walked out of his flat saying ive had enough of being acused but wouldnt you stand up for yourself if you wasnt guilty ..i told the acuser to ring the police but he waited 3 days ..then he rang the police but police said not got any evidence. now since the acuser as moved he now thinks ive stole the ring and spreading rumors about me.ive dried his washing he even rang me to look after his key as he left it in his door while shopping ..would you ask a theif do that.if this carrys on i be ringing the police. Had enough of him !!
Domenic 24/04/2022 at 9:50 am
My wife and I live in a condom and two minor children where the neighbor downstairs under our apartment has been harassing us for a long time. Namely, he turned the same apartment for growing marijuana. Fan noise and the smell that comes are dangerous to health. He publicly threatens us in front of our neighbors that he will set us on fire and kill us. Police are silent on the evidence because his friend is a police officer and close to the chief who protects and encourages him. The man publicly provokes us to fight on several occasions and publicly says that he will do what he wants and that no one can do anything to him, the police remain silent. In most cases we are kicked out of the police station by his friend personally. This terror has been going on for years and what is most tragic is that the police tell us that the only solution is to sell our apartment and move out. Magnify hard on the walls and scare the children. The children, and we have consequences from what is happening to us, and the police claim that this was not a police method.
KC 10/04/2022 at 4:17 pm
We lived in our Housing Association home for 14 years and have been subjected to anti -social behaviour from the out of control youngsters for years and now from a neighbour who moved in a few months ago. Throwing rubbish in our garden, loud music, screaming, lying about us = making slanderous allegations but, they claim that we are harassing them! We are working and are out of the house by 06.15 and don't come back until 17.45 or later.We just want to be able to relax and be left in peace but, as the nasty neighbour takes a sick delight in tormenting us..
You need proof and the only proof is with a security camera but then you are accused of spying on them. Slanderous allegations are made while they are in the garden and only we can hear them clearly. We were told by police that recording slanderous comments and the loud music is not admissable,therefore, what is the point? Recording their actions, throwing rubbish into our garden etc is not allowed either.
So, where do we get proof ?Because proof is needed but you are not allowed to provide it
Catch 22 and beyond ludicrous.
It's like living in the twilight zone
Housing Association and police couldn't care less We are expected to ignore nasty neighbours behaviour while they just carry on. Makes you wonder why tenants have to sign housing contracts and are required to be of good behaviour, not causing a nuisance etc when it's just words on paper and totally meaningless because it is not enforced. I'd bet if we refused to pay rent they'd be interested soon enough but it would not help us.
The awful situation has affected our health and, as we are not getting any support from the powers that be, we are planning to leave not just our home but Britain.We have tried to exchange for 10 years but the only people interested came from even worse situations .Britain has turned into a fudging sugar show were the vilest people are protected while decent hard working people are shafted and it will only get worse. There was a time when HA tenants had to be of good character but now any low life is welcomed with open arms.
How many people will commit suicide because of such appalling situations? Who cares? Certainly not the police,nor local authorities nor HA or any of the politicians who will come knocking on the door to get your vote.
"People who are anti- social need a home too" was the response from one SNP councillor. She seemed put out that we dared to even raise the issue .. enough said
You are on your own and if you are unable to leave you are expected to endure the torment
Enough said
Fed Up 28/03/2022 at 12:08 pm
2 neighbours are using Barnet Homes (council) to harass me, who take great enjoyment in doing these neighbours' bidding. This has been ongoing for the past 20 years and I am at the end of my tether.
Kara 26/03/2022 at 12:45 pm
i have had problems with my neighbours for years as i reported him for hitting and threatening to kill his son . Police were useless. Now they have started again on me as i reported his son for smashing someones window . Again police are useless There is no protection He owns his house and i dont The police make home owners gods and they can do anything
AHellens 24/03/2022 at 8:45 pm
My neighbour who I've had big problems with for a year came and threw a bottle at my bedroom window at 02:20 in the morning last night. Nothing smashed but it made such a noise that it jarred my partner and I awake and we both were very shaken and panicked. Im at my wits end. The harassment has been relentless and has encompassed everything from threatening behaviour at my door, constant staring in our windows, trespassing and blackmailing emails to my partner. Police do nothing.
Jay 20/03/2022 at 11:58 pm
Police do not take harassment seriously. They laugh and joke with the perpetrators. The landlord is no better as I have my data access which reveals that my landlord informed police, that I was only reporting this to get as much attention as possible. It hurts to learn that this world is cruel regardless if the situation. It's people who fail us.
Police believed this lie as the landlord didn't need and evidence of this assumption. Yet we need to supply evidence.
Theyarebonkers 19/03/2022 at 4:36 pm
Nosy neighbor and their clan of associates are bothering me around town. One of their family members even threatened to beat me up. Noise harrasment,bullying the list gos on and on. Absolutely diabolical how these people can get away with it. Probably due to her telling everyone sob storys (as usual) nasty peice of work if I'm such a problem LEAVE ME ALONE. all their family members look like or what appear to be embittered older women who have most likely divorced or split up due to their attitudes. They even get their children involved sometimes sad pathetic lifes the lot of them. To call them useless is an understatement. Get a life get a JOB and leave me alone.
Karl 10/03/2022 at 11:52 am
I been harassed for 5 year with death threats, shot at arson, criminal damage thief, hit with a vehicle, assault and the police won’t stop it, I tried to take my life a few time and now salt harming every time the people doing it hassles me, but still the people don’t want to know but been arrested for swearing at them and other so call crimes I never did as they are the victims, the police have even assaulted me as I had a full breakdown, I have no choice to take my life as the harassment will never stop as they are the victims and that why they still hassling me
Cassy 09/03/2022 at 10:49 am
My car is having cars park almost on my bumper i get abuse in the street they get other vechicles to block me
I have a satement from a buikder i had do work he dud me a statement the police do nothing
They told them to not come near me after threats and came back and said im.doing the saMe no proof i have evidence thats ignored thats what hapoens its a parking isdue its not he told me i dont know what hes capable of 35 year old bloke im 61 more need to be done we shouldnt be prisoneers in our home
junior 08/03/2022 at 11:44 am
New single parents moving in. Screaming and shouting on the road, shouting abuse and that I am mental, crazy etc for no reason other than jealousy.
I work, own my own home, nice holidays.
Totally unjust and no need as never spoke with her.
She then got a little gang so I sent a letter to them telling them what they were all doing to me and to stop.
They then saw the letters as a reason to call me mental, crazy, prostitute, whenever I went to my car abusing me.
Screaming at my door accusing me of letting car tyres down, when I had my grandson all weekend, plus no idea where she works.
Another came screaming smashing doors in accusing me of parking in her fathers disabled bay she holds a permit for. My car was hid from them plus my car has its own private reg so defo not me.
Telling me to commit suicide.
I am at breaking point.
Council are useless saying no one will get moved,
Tell you to write it down then say its hearsay no evidence.
You record it and your breaking the law not allowed to use it.

I attempted suicide last year through this as I just want to go to work, enjoy my walks with my dogs and go to my caravan.

I am prevented from doing this my state of mind not sleeping and do not know what to do. Cannot afford solicitiors no support although I am having counselling, mental health worker .

I want a injunction against these but cannot seem to get any where without paying.

They have said they will run me off the road, its my own home, they rent or are council tenants.

So unfair no wonder people take things into their own hands.

If you ring up and mention Racism the Police jump like anything.
KP 02/10/2021 at 10:47 pm
Every neighbourhood needs a common bond and sadly being the only Black person married to a White British man and residing in that community, provides the single unifying factor which brings people together for gossip, hate and harrassment.

One neighbour in particular has caused us distress, alarm and fear. Approaching us each time when we go outside to cut hedges, cleaning our driveway, by standing, glaring and making remarks and also relaying in megaphone mode all of our actions to someone on her phone.

Then making false claims that our gardening tools blocked the path, almost tripped her up, causing her to walk on the cycle path and nearly getting hit by a bicycle.

In reality, there was ample space to pass and she came very close to me, almost knocking me over whilst making a racial slur.

There have been several other incidents all reported to the police. However, unless the offender is a motorist, exceeding the speed limit, the police are either going on leave, or they will advise, to gather information so that when the offender harms you, or murders you, then the proverbial 'lessons will be learnt,' will be meaninglessly regurgitated like sick vomit.

Very little is done proactively, no warnings are given to offenders, that takes time and effort which the police don't have since they are stretched being reactive.
Bell40 23/09/2021 at 10:00 pm
I’m getting bullied by two of my neighbours in my street one of them kept calling me horrible names and banging on my door saying I’ve called her names when I’ve done nothing. I’ve had my house egged and tomato sauce all over my door can’t even leave my house with out her looking where I’m going all the time . So I got a camera and put that up and they both kicked off I caught them doing it so I sent it to the police. One of the ladies got an harassment order. I got one two when I’ve done nothing wrong. Now I’m getting the other lady tell all the neighbours that I pointed my camera at 9:00 at night in her bedroom window so I can see what she is doing. But I have not she wants all of them to make a complaint about it so I have to take my camera down . But none of them want nothing to do with it as I’ve done nothing wrong . The only reason she wants it down so she can give me crap again.I’m scared what’s gonna happen next as now I don’t even go out . I can’t sleep at all . So worried I’m gonna get kicked out my house . for nothing. I don’t know what to do any more
Marie 19/09/2021 at 9:58 am
Please help since the end of May this year my family have been having problems with a neighbour next door. At first it started with verbal abuse threats swearing etc infront of my children (she was told to stop by police) I had videod it so she couldn’t deny. This is when the noise from inside her property started…. I’ve been recording on my phone etc of course, but now she has realised that this can lead to her being evicted (which I said I didn’t want to happen to anyone all she needs to do is leave us alone) so now she’s using some sort of device that’s making my whole families ears ring all day long, at night time she turns it up and the ringing turns to pain in mine and my partners ears, we think it’s ultrasonic sound device (sounds ridiculous I know!) I downloaded an app which shows at night it’s reading at 25db which I know isn’t much but the frequency is up to 5000hz which is why we’re guessing our ears are vibrating so much. Please can anyone help us with anything we can do, we can’t go anywhere in our house without the sound/ vibrations and we have children here that have to go through this too! Thankyou for reading!
jackie 13/09/2021 at 1:55 am
i have this neighbor he says he going to send my stepdad a letter of what i was saying on a
website here is what he wroteIf I send him a letter thru the post office, You can not open it and throw it away! That is a felony.

Now get this When I send a letter to him or call him is up to me! I can do it today or next month if I want to. The fact that you will not know when I decide to do it, is the best part. I saw your threat on you other crappy story that because I haven't come and left a letter or called so you are still here.

Get this I won't just state That you are here but I have been coping all of your stories and replies. I will make sure I will give them to him and there is nothing you can do about that boy!

As I said I will send him a letter thru the post office and there is nothing you can do. I will send it certified so he is the only one who can sign for it! It will contain everything you said including what you said about your sister!

Get off this site and I will leave you alone get thatYou are an ass! I will send it certified with his signature required! What are you going to do rip it out of his hand? It will have no return address on it!
I'm going to say this one more time.
If you get off this site and don't come back I will leave you alone!
I promise that.

If you are here tomorrow then all bets are off and one day I will call him or send a certified letter to him and that will be that. If I choose I will call him and send letters every day till I feel like stopping or he changes his phone number which I will find the new one.You are an idiot. He will be the only one who can sign for it. It will be delivered only when he is home even at night or weekends! They delivery person will not be able to give it to anyone else. In fact he will have to show his ID to sign for it.

Quit pushing your luck and get off this site! Before I call him and tell him I will be sending the letter at the same time. I can also email him everything also.

Just get off this site and that will be it! I'm 45 years old not an old man. Just get off this site. That should be a deal you can't refuseI have his number and you know that! I have his email and you know that. I want to remain anonymous in this but if I have to walk up to him and tell him what you are doing I will. Plus the delivery man comes to you house and only your stepdad can sign it. If he has to go to the post office to get it he will.

JUST GET OFF THIS SITE AND THAT WILL BE IT! is that bad because i don't want him to do that i
have emailed the cops and i hope they will put a stop to it and he won't give me his name
Moo 10/09/2021 at 5:52 pm
For the past 2 yrs we have been subject to threats, abuse, intimidation, ASB, harassment etc. from our neighbour.
She has an injuction in place and has breached this several times. Authorities say they need more evidence. We own our property and she is with Housing Association.
This woman is vile and plays on her mental health issues.
My partner and I can't afford to move and we are about to have a serious mental breakdown. We are both on anti depressants and have extreme anxiety. Nobody seems to understand.
Angel 09/09/2021 at 10:24 am
3 years of harassment. Physical mental verbal abuse from my neighbours. They live in housing association and I own my property. I have had police about 7 to 8 times and none of it has stopped this.
Irish 03/09/2021 at 9:25 pm
Furniture or brown trouser made stuff dwp irl I think
Can't prove any of it either. Virgo I mean vera
Neil Sykes did it 03/09/2021 at 9:08 pm
Followed and filmed in every detail
Lost job BT worked there 7 yrs
Framed for a crime hadn't done
Same 03/09/2021 at 8:58 pm
Neighbour grey beard and his wife with small yellow car.
Followed me to supermarket a few times.
His wife then walked their dog near my house
Early one morning wasxwoken up too early.
He was Shouting for hours on end to leave his home
Then Late on during weekdays
Sounded like domestic argument
His wife was taken away by police
As soon as she got back it started up again
Saw him walking up my garden path when he knocked on my door
Swore at me to began with F then off. Horrible man
Stu 02/09/2021 at 9:01 am
A serving police officer who I've had a run in with and lived across the road from me has started spreading malicious gossip about me to the neighbours. She has now moved a few streets away. I fear she has put my family at risk of serious harm by spreading unsubstantiated rubbish about me. I would not at all be surprised if one of the idiot neighbours kids pours petrol through the letterbox. What can i do legally? This woman has endangered my family with her lies.
Briar 26/08/2021 at 7:20 am
Our neighbour gets very annoyed and abusive if we use our garden in the evening. She will shout f words, and find loud things to bang and this will continue for the whole time we are outside. She will also throw small things into the garden. Last night she turned all the tv’s up to full volume blasting out of the house and kept screaming I don’t want to hear your bloody conversation (whilst crouching right next to the fence). We don’t play music and it is often just the two of us. If anyone laughs or speaks slightly louder the abuse starts. Every she stands in her bedroom window staring at me and sticking her middle finger up. We have tried to speak to them and although the husband was very reasonable and said we are not being noisy or doing anything wrong he can’t do anything to stop her. We have been made aware she has previously been sectioned for mental health issues. I don’t know where to turn.
Ele 23/08/2021 at 2:04 pm
My neighbours have it in for me. They call me names across the fence when I tell my kids off (3boys), bang on the fence and slam windows shut when kids are playing in the yard. Have reported me to the RSPCA for abusive behaviour towards our dog, and now has tracked down my landlady and write to her to tell her we are terrible tenants . We have been told by the RSPCA that there is. I concerns and our dog is well etc but the landlady is so angry to have received a letter about us she wants to give us notice to leave our property. I’m feeling so stressed out and every time the kids play in my n the garden I’m on tender hooks reminding them to keep the ball still or be quiet but it’s there garden
John 19/08/2021 at 7:09 pm
My neighbour was spraying cars in the garden and the fumes gave my 80 year old mum an angina attack. When I told him he banged on my shed door with his mate and wanted to fight me. I called the council who deemed it just a hobby. He threatened me on my doorstep in a pandemic and hinted at reprisals. I was expecting my car to be damaged as he is a mechanic but instead what I got was a strange hissing and vibrating sound through the walls in our house. It seemed to pull at my ears and made me restless and agitated. I started getting the same noises everywhere in the house and through his shed into the garden. I saw a doctor and was diagnosed with mid term hearing loss and damaged ear bone. The council said as I was classed as sensitive they would not visit him to check it out. Neither my phone nor the council microphone could pick up the noise. The police say it is a noise matter, the council say not loud enough. I have never had any hearing problems ever before this started. He seems to control the volume with his phone as it goes down when we have visitors, but comes on when he is out motorcycling all afternoon. He isn't there, it can't be him then. He then reverses in front of my window to let me know he's back. At night when I put my mum to bed, I am her carer, he waits till we go up then turns his TV on and has speakers on each floor so you hear it through out the house even though he lives alone. I cannot get any help and an acoustic company charges £7k for a visit. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Gaglu 18/08/2021 at 9:49 pm
I am staying in Desai CHAWL carter road num 3 opp sai dham bldg Borivali East Mumbai 400066 . Bharat chunilal jain is BJP Karyakarta and he has full political support it means that he can do anything he is he has done HARASSMENT he as done Wat he wants do I am in very dangerous situation so pls tell me wat suod I do pls
fedup with neigbours 18/08/2021 at 8:49 pm
Im going round in circles, im going through ongoing harrasment from two neighbours, why! dont know, never ever spoke to them, im quiet and live alone, kids are adults and study away from home, 3 years this has been going on for and i am surprised at the lack of support, from housing and the police, noone wants to help, they leave you to rot, The police go by evidence so if you havent got cctv or audio forget it! I thought about cctv but that would make matters worse, and its ok for the police to say install it, but there not living through it, or have to put up with the repercussions. Im hoping to move out, but everyday is a living nightmare.
Wobble 16/08/2021 at 8:09 am
We have been harased by a neighbour she plays music really loud screaming shouting friends round getting drunk and they do this just for our benefit since we asked them to remove an aerial from our chimney so we could have it repaired, we have had our property damaged we can no longer use our garden and our home is now a prison police have issued her with warnings and she ignored them we have had 24 hours of her shouting at her alexa this weekend it's a nightmare council wrote to her and just gave me a form to report incidents. Meanwhile my husband who is in a wheelchair with Ms and a brain tumour is in despair. Who's there for law abiding citizens, no one the criminal's are laughing at us all .
Batty 13/08/2021 at 6:59 am
Over a year ago now WF council moved in a couple underneath me, from the minute they got there the noise hasn't stopped. They don't care what time it is, I can't get any sleep, they abuse me from the street in the early hours, stomp around, slam doors, argue and shout. There's always people coming ang going.
I don't live at my flat much anymore, pay the rent but can't live there, council won't help at all, my whole life has been ruined by these low life scumbags!
Pablo 02/08/2021 at 10:04 am
I live in a private property and is shared by other tenants , and 1 of the tenants is Harrison me by turning of my pay as you go electric meter and it's making me a nervous wreck I have informed my landlord but he never sorts it out and I have had my electric meter turned off so many times and it's now causing me to suffer from anxiety.
Dude 27/07/2021 at 11:12 pm
My neighbour is constantly telling other residents he is in charge of the estate and he is the one to go to with any problems.
He constantly is at his window looking at my daughter everytime she leaves the house to the point she doesnt want to leave the house.
He also watching me and my partner entering and exiting house.
He homeschools his children who are teens and share a bedroom.
Children have no freinds and only go out with the farther.
The mother works away.
The parents are discusting at night time with bedroom noises that my daughter hears regularly. My daughters 10.
Ive no idea how their two own children sleep through it its awful.
Im yet still waiting for a housing officer to ring.
I dont know where to start with them?
He control everything with a heart beat
LetsQuibble 26/07/2021 at 10:50 am
Just before Covid, my fence was wrecked in a storm. Thanks to covid, LL hasn't managed to get it sorted but there was never any rush but all that changed. It was Eid and my next-door neighbour had family around. There were 3 kids playing in my garden using my kids toys. This lad was trying to tell them they shouldn't be over there but they ignored him. I was quietly watching the events when one of the kids asks an adult next door if they can play in my garden and the answer was YES! Can you believe it, so at this point I went to the window and asked the lad if he could keep the kids on the neighbours side so he told the kids "look the man shouted now, get out of his garden" that's it, this 6ft Neanderthal comes out giving abuse like its some wannabe street gangsta acting like a teen than a parent. Threatening me and all sorts, accusing me of shouting at his neices and nephews. Some people have zero respect & think they can do what ever they want. I've told my LL (neighbour owns his house so can't report it to council) & hopefully my LL gets a new fence up out back. It's been almost a week and I've not yet seen my neighbour out so cannot comment if this will be ongoing or not but hopefully he's back in his cave.
shortie 09/07/2021 at 9:20 pm
My 60 year old neighbour Angela Bowyer confronted my 18 year old son this afternoon Friday 9th July 2021 the things she was saying, accusing him of just so juvenile, childish, she raised her voice at him said she could hear him singing Loudly In the kitchen he hasn't sung In ages he used to sing but only In his bedroom he had the sense to walk away she went on to say the strangest, oddest, weirdest most bizarre thing ever she said to my son I know you want to eat my cat I'll know when he goes missing you've eaten my cat chinky. My son Isn't Chinese we're not Chinese. My son just stood there said a bit racist Isn't It. She hid behind her door slammed It shut.
Wally 03/07/2021 at 8:06 pm
Wow ! How lucky I am I don't live in England !
Wally 03/07/2021 at 8:03 pm
Wow ! How lucky I am I don't live in England !
J 02/07/2021 at 1:53 pm
Horrible people's across the road got me living in fear, abusive and threatening behaviour out side my home. I am disabled with osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and a multi chemical sensitivity with extreme intolerance to fuels ,solvents and exhaust emissions.
Knowing this my neighbours seem to be harassing me with threats to cause me harm, onley yesterday we overheard an agressive loud done call about, "I onley want you to stab him" agen another call. " i dnot care I will poor petrol all round his house" .
I am extremely ill at the moment due to solvent poisoning and I require daily oxygen therapy and weekly cellular regeneration therapy due to a depleted immune system. We now are waiting for the next load of people to start threatening my family and I, words like we can take the disabled one and can you help me with the others are making it very hard to heal. Please can you advise please as I hardly have breath to walk, let alone defend my wife and family.
Thankfully J.
Stressful 01/07/2021 at 7:24 pm
It's very disturbing to read how people are been treated and the lack of support from police department and council's mental health is a growing problem and it's direct result of unruly hostile aggressive people that think it's ok to treat people in this way but there aloud to and as a tenant myself that has to deal with this sort of treatment I was shocked how much your not taking seriously And to read that people are on the edge or wanting to take the law in the own hands(please don't ever do that)it's very disturbing I have no answers to anyone's problems I wish I did but if anyone from police or council's read this it's about time you protect those who are desperate and put plans in place people's lives are been destroyed at the hand's of people that are obviously hell bent on making other law-abiding people's lives unbearable
nikki 01/07/2021 at 3:23 pm
we have been harrased and racial comments made, council told us to record what was being said but police said that's illegal if the perpetrator does not know, council keep treating as petty little things, not understanding this has escalated into a big mass of angriness
Eddie Cocker 29/06/2021 at 10:36 pm
Bloke opposite and his wife seem to have it in for my family
It started when they reported my dogs for barking
To environmental health they where told to keep a diary of all dog barking incidents and it turned out it wasn’t our dogs as when questioned about some dates and times by the officer I had been home with my dogs and they are always very well behaved but there’s no apology from anyone you just get told you’re not being investigated anymore.
I am a field engineer working from home so when I need parts for a next day job I have them shipped overnight by specialist courier who has a key to my vehicle he very quietly arrives delivering my order and leaves no one hears them
Not even the dogs but on 2 occasions recently they come while that neighbour is awake and he has tried reporting me for that
I have spoken to my other neighbours and they don’t hear my dogs and they didn’t even realise I had been having these deliveries for the past 2 year
I’m finding it all a bit stressful I don’t want to confront him because I will look like the aggressor
I feel quite low and am quite tired of it
It’s like they have it in for us and I really don’t know what to do
Kez 26/06/2021 at 6:29 pm
My niebour next door has been complaining about me since February 21 when she come to my door kicking of and tried hitting my husband witb her cutch I told my housing officer she said if they get and proof of asb on my half she will give me a written warning! But I didn't do anything wrong, since then my niebour has been putting in complaints every day about the TV being loud when I ha e proof my TV was broke from January 7th and we got a new one 16th march when the police turned up we was not aware they was coming round I showed him around my house I every room and asked him if he can see a radio that will make loud music he said no there is nothing! Ive got 5 kids she has been putting in complaints when we r not here which I've proved that of my kids running around shouting, kids will be kids and also we have been banging on the wall ive got 5 kids ive got better things to do! She has put in so many lies it's unreal to the stage I don't have my kids play in the back garden and my kids feel like they can't play, my housing is now taking us to court for a anti social behaviour injection if they get it I will not be able to move and the housing officer has also said she is going to get us evicted! We got trail on the 30th 2021 I suffer really bad anxiety depression and pdsd and I'm scared that when I stand in the Dock I could have a panic attack! I need advice please ive got no support where I live and I want to move back to where my family and friends are! And help or advice would be appreciated we have a solicitor. Has anyone gone through this??
Persecuted by Local 18/06/2021 at 11:51 am
The harassment we are receiving comes from the local planning authority/district council.

They have systematically made our life very stressful because of actions taken by them regarding our property.

In 2006 the local authority suspected there may be contaminated land surrounding our house.

We were not informed at the time, but found out in 2017. Which is stressful enough in its own right but has been exacerbated by their refusal to provide information relating to the designation, deliberate obfuscation of requested information which has turned out to be inaccurate.

On top of this they have permitted planning permission for two applications one new build and one extension which abut our property almost on the boundary.

We do not understand why they have done this. Not only is it upsetting because the new buildings will be so close to our house, but as they suspect contamination at our property and garden why are they granting permission in the first place. They state that actions can be taken with new buildings to mitigate the ingress of landfill gas which they say is being generated in our garden and migrating from our garden. That may well be the case, however in 2006 we were building an extension to our house which was built in the area of the garden affected by the potential contamination. The local authority never once said anything about any suspected contamination.

As a result our extension does not have any built in barriers/membranes to prevent the ingress of landfill gas. We feel as it the local authority is persecuting us (probably not, probably just incompetence) but we feel very let down and that our health and wellbeing has been completely disregarded. My wife in particular has been sick with worry as the children and their friends played out in the garden for many years and she shudders to think what contamination they may have been subjected to.
coopdeville78 18/06/2021 at 1:46 am
I'm an ex Royal Marine Commando, writer, poet and peaceful prodigy! My neighbors a cancerous, violent and brusque man! I'm going to ruin him soon, just rang 999 tonight and the neighbourhood team r going toget in touch with me! Call Council at 9 pm!
Frithy 17/06/2021 at 12:35 pm
I hate living where iam ,neighbours spreading rumours round ,no one talks to me ,these neighbours are always hanging outside my front door cause we live that close together to scared to come in or out of my house if i go to council it will only make matters worse and i will be stuck here ,i have serval illnesss and suffer with mental health ,im actually thinking of living in a tent
Hugo 12/06/2021 at 8:26 pm
I have been harrassed by my neighbour for 11years as she is a private tenant my council landlord wont help. She has Cameras on me shes saying that i do this do that and tell the police but they come out on her side .i have had a breakdown im disabled myself but they dont know that . I need someone to believe me . Today my young girls in the pool i heard screaming she shouting at them stop swearing at me
And they weren't. I need this to stop .how to i dont know im at the end of my tether .the girls do not want to go out and play pls help me
muz 10/06/2021 at 6:59 pm
this has gone on for many years ,I have a neighbour who lives directly behind me ,who spent years deliberately throwing spent apples in to my pond followed by snails .and one day I went down to speak to him ,to witch he ran into his house .a little while later I chopped the apple tree down hoping this will be the end
but sadly it was just the beginning. I find silly things on my patio like small ball-bearings and a large fat ball that you use to feed birds was thrown hitting my window leaving a mark where it hit .on top of this he leaves the curtain corner open ,and I now believe that he has turned the heads of two other houses who do the same thing with there upstairs curtains, this is sticking and hurtful I feel as if I am being watched when I go into my garden I feel so uncomfortable when I am there .I feel as if I am being accused of looking all I believe started by by this neighbour who was not brave enough to confront me so hurtful
Stressed out 31/05/2021 at 2:48 pm
I live next door to a mad woman and her partner and son. For years they have killed my plants thrown monkey nuts over the wall were a mix culture family. Made false allegations against us to the police, housing and the DWP admitted to being a racist in front of my children and had cctv with audio fitted in so no privacy what so ever she is so obsessed she’s proper sick and to top it all she works as a barristers assistant so she abuses her power yep this is what we have to put up with in 2021
Ziggy 30/05/2021 at 11:53 pm
I have a neighbor who assaulted me with a bat and hit me in the head three four times with a bat then put me into a toe cold I called the cops the cops won't do anything cuz they don't have any witnesses and he's black so
Maama 27/05/2021 at 10:00 pm
I leave in rental house, I have neibours that always harass me verbally both their mother and the children, I tell my husband he tried to talk to them but they change all the topics and said what I haven even do. So nobody even believed me now I am helpless they are such a monsters.
Julie 26/05/2021 at 4:54 pm
I have neighbours from hell who get away with anything. They have damaged my property after I have had work done on it. I am not allowed to walk down the shared driveway as the brand a knife at me either through their kitchen window or their back door. This is making me ill. I have to work. The police do NOTHING when I have reported it. But if they report me the police are round like a shot and telling me off and I haven't done anything. I just don't know what to do anymore. I live on my own.I just don't know who to turn to for help.
Muff 23/05/2021 at 9:49 pm
I hate sign I was with my cousin onto my way to the store and her boyfriend was in the car and I said something he didn't like he jumped across the sea and he tried to take my feet off and I'm scared and he told me he going to kill me he spit all with my face I'm scared what do I do I need help somebody help me to survive cuz I am scared
Bell40 19/05/2021 at 7:05 pm
Hi I’m getting bullied by two people that live in the same street as me they have egged my house twice and last week I had tomato sauce all over my door and eggs on my wall . Today I got called name for no reason. I don’t know what to do rang the police but not done nothing yet . I don’t want to be here no more it’s getting to me now ,
Jen 19/05/2021 at 1:01 am
Neighbor are always , watching us come in and out and come out side to start running their mouth , yelling at us we walk out the door they are sitting on their porch saying can moment when I don't say anything she goes in. My garage and truck had paint pall all over it call the landlord and all he says get a no trespassing against them, cops say I can't. Cops never listen to my side tells me to be civil when I don't ever say stuff, banging on my wall in the middle of the night, they both have a felony record and scales me that she is able to have a gun, he has a cross bow, I want to go outside and every time they have someone to say... I'm a single mom who isn't given up my place but to be harrasing everything needs to stop .
Willow 14/05/2021 at 9:21 pm
My mother is a pensioner who suffers from Parkinson's disease she has a husband who's mentally disabled. I am an adult with autism I have two small dogs . I go to my mother's house regularly for a couple of hours in the early evening to have my meal because I'm not able to prepare food. I bring my dogs with me because I feel more comfortable having my dogs with me and they also like visiting my mother and they like her big garden.
Couple of months ago I thought outside her neighbour's house this is the only time I've ever done this. It's not a driveway or anything it's just a normal road so you can park that legally but she took issue with me parking there. She came out raving and ranting at me and threatens that she would make trouble for me if I didn't move my car I refused, and she heard my dog bark and said she will call environmental health on me and report my dog for Barking. My dog was only Barking because she was outside having a go at me. I did call the environmental health the next day and ask them what to do because she had threatened me and they told me not to worry they wouldn't take it seriously. 6 weeks later I got a letter threatening my mother with a £5,000 fine and an ASBO because my barking dogs outside until 11 p.m. 24-hours a day 7-days a week making noise disturbing my mother's neighbour when she's eating her dinner and sitting in her garden. This is all made up rubbish my dogs are only ever at my mother's house with me for a few hours in the early evening and then they go back to my own house with me. I don't ever leave them out in the garden. I like to have them with me they go out to the toilet or occasionally to play ball with me apart from that there indoors and they rarely bark unless someone knocks at the door or walk down the alleyway. So now I have this threatening letter addressed to my mother and her husband won't allow me to go back to her house even though my mother loves the dogs even her husband loves the dogs. I already called the council and spoke to the animal warden who was really rude I mean really rude and just told me I shouldn't visit my mother's house when I explained that I'm autistic and my mother's my carer ,she's just say while you're old enough not to have a carer. She also said that my dogs must be badly treated which just isn't true I do everything I can for my dogs they get 5 walks a day I spend all my money feeding them and on their vet care. Actually felt suicidal over this I've been self harming. I've called my doctor. I' call my psychiatrist too and I called the police and I called a solicitor because I want this case dropped.
it's a load of old rubbish .there's no truth in it.
The environmental health did say they would not pursue the case against me however the dog warden refuses to drop the case she said she will leave it on file in case there are any more complaints. I cannot have this hanging over my head apparently this evil neighbour has been writing
Filipe 05/05/2021 at 12:11 am
It is simply and literally in the morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, they live like wounds, it seems that they came into the world to harm me. They are verbal provocations and manipulations, but with such a consistency that I equate this to an aberration. They don't leave the house for an instant. Concentrating at home to read a page of a book is ridiculous but it is almost a challenge, I have never experienced anything like it. They suffer from a huge disorder and no matter how much my life experience makes me abstract, with a similarity of this it is not easy to which I already love to use the medication to sleep and to calm me down!!!
Anxiety 25/04/2021 at 8:12 am
Terrified to leave my house and the police aren't interested. Found out our tormentors are in a housing association property so we've reached out to them directly. Hoping they'll take it seriously and move these awful people on.
Vulnerable Adult 24/04/2021 at 11:29 pm
I myself have been forced to accept a rental against my will following being assaulted whilst i slept.Almost 7Years Of Abuse Now And My Almost Being Killed By Hydrogen Sulphide Gasses Entering The Property Rendering It Unfit For Habitation.
The Police Protect The Council And The Perpatrators.Once Again Suicide Looks Preferable To These Criminals Abuse.
Ruby 24/04/2021 at 7:13 pm
I am living in housing association property but they have done nothing to help me I am lady elderly terminally ill this has gone on for months negative response from housing why
Carr 12/04/2021 at 10:36 am
My neighbour 2 doors up from me brought a full grown man to my house and he assaulted my son and punched him in the face and my neighbour 2 doors up told other neighbours about it and now they are all starting on my family.
Carr 12/04/2021 at 10:30 am
My sons were accused of something they didn't do and my sons were assaulted by 2 full grown men and they are neighbours that goes around bullying younger children my family ain't safe
Bren 03/04/2021 at 6:49 pm
Hey people nobody cares about is abused neighbors so stop saying your gonna kill yourself. Ok hate more than anything when the bad guy wins. If I harm yourselves you let them win.. no get yourself together and take action.. police don't care but I know who does?? The neighborhood association. Go to them each area has one. They will get the point across can even have an eviction if things don't change. Jus keep logs of dates and times and copy's of any reports
Murf 26/03/2021 at 9:18 pm
I'm get bullied by my downstairs neighbour and it's unbearable he's trying to get me evicted it's cause so much stress and anxiety on myself and he made a false allegatin which got nfa d can't take anymore any little thing
Goldie 24/03/2021 at 9:02 am
We first experIenced harassment when rentals moved in. Giving falsehoods to the landlord. Then neighbour decided after two years to buy the house they were unhappy with. He told us to sign a piece of paper to change our boundary lines on plans, we refused. A relative would consistently harass us until my hubby told that person to stay away. They then started to make it look like we were the aggressors in our neighbourhood, gaslighting started. Putting 4ft fences on top of a 6ft fence, children throwing sweet wrappers over the fence anything to annoy. They placed a fence over an area we could not maintain we own, ignored our requests not to do so. Accused of being bullies by them, they applied fir retrospective planning because they built before permissions granted. They came to our village like bulldozers but claim they are victims. Overtime evidence is gathered to prove the end result is due to passive aggressive behaviour, trying to prove a point to themselves and fellow neighbours. Over 2 metres of our land robbed to accommodate their changes and now we all have to pay. The one whom plays the victim is often the perpetrator the police are experienced enough to figure it all out. Just keep records to present your case. Righteous, pushy and people who ignore rather than work with you are passive aggressors and thrive on the reaction they get from you. Try to ignore them but keep collecting evidence Karma does happen in the end pieces of the puzzle starts to come together . Extend your hand for resolution, if they refuse, the evidence is right there to the kind of people you are dealing with to the police.
HSD 22/03/2021 at 11:24 pm
I’m basically at my wits end. My children and I have suffered years of psychological and emotional abuse from our neighbours from hell. The police won’t do anything and allow these culprits away whilst we are ensuring endless sleepless nights. I have to take sleeping aids to help me and even when I do I always get disturbed. Council aren’t much help, they just don’t care. I have to stay strong for my children as they only have me. It’s extremely hard I have never come across neighbours like this before who are hell bent in causing mayhem. I have had everything from them the list is endless. I have done nothing but want to live in peace to raise my children the best I can. It’s awful how they can get away with it and not one person seems to listen or care that children and myself are put under sheer hell which is a living nightmare. Please let it end!!!
Kendra Milburn 21/03/2021 at 10:35 pm
Same situation I'm on the verge of suicide and I don't score high enough nobody will swap a 2 bedroom first floor flat for a 2 bedroom house we a begging me and my daughter we would move any where within Spennymoor we need house DONT score high and I'm not coping but nobody will swap so my life is over
Joo 11/03/2021 at 3:22 am
Neighbour across the road has CCTV on a blank wall directly pointing at my property a criminal offence took place at my property a few weeks ago you refuse to hand over the CCTV footage to the police saying he CCTV was switched off at the time of the the offence later he told me mi-e won't hand it over because I reported him to the council for continuously having CCTV pointed directly at my property after putting my my views to the council they have asked him to remove the CCTV camera that has no purpose for being on the side wall other than to face my property he said it will take him 3 weeks to get a techniciancancel requested him to switch the CCTV off until it is removed however it is still on.. he also has two CCTV cameras pointing at the front entrance of his door 2-days ago go he repositioned one of the cameras and guess what it is pointing directly at my property
My question is number one can I Sue this neighbour for recording my property for no reason number to withholding evidence from the police and lying I mean this isn't a joke my house was deliberately set on fire we all can assume and point a finger but I have no evidence and the only evidence is from the recordings from His CCTV now I'm never going to get that recording and for me question whywouldn't you want to hand over footage of someone starting a fire in your house with children inside
everyone knows that this neighbour never ever switches off his CCTV so on that particular day and time he had it switched off ok ok let's say he did did why did he have it switched off now let's say he has a recording why wouldn't you want to hand it over to the police knowing that children could have died in the fire??!
I'm also very shocked how the police did not demand the footage there and then they came back 4 days after saying they have no right to get the footage the fact he said it was off off that day we cannot evaluate the situation.
Anyway can anyone suggest what can I do show so this neighbour from hell that he can't have his CCTV pointing at my property and he cannot do what he wants how do I take him to court what proof would I need to say he has been recording me for over a year I have reported this a few times previously but nothing was ever done
All my neighbours and myself are furious at the fact that we believe he was withholding criminal evidence and the lack of the investigation the police took no responsibility or intention whatsoever in questioning my neighbour about the CCTV footage of the criminal offence
he is a very aggressive person and was told how very angry he was that I reported him to the council although I have approached him numerous of times politely asked him to remove the CCTV he sworn in my face and slam the door reported me to police for harassment the day a few neighbours noticed out of the ordinary actions
His roommate who was the first person to come out in the street shouting firethe neighbour told me they saw him smiling from his
KWG 11/03/2021 at 1:10 am
The police do NOT take harassment seriously at all!! The officer who came to visit me was abusive himself. Shouting at me. I’ve requested a copy of the body worn video from that officer so I can make a complaint about him and as suspected they are refusing to give me the video. I’ve contacted their landlord and the housing association and nobody cares. I’ve no choice now but to kill myself.
Beth.c 10/03/2021 at 1:35 pm
I’ve had numerous issues with my elderly neighbour I’m in terraced housing so she always befriends my other neighbor had three over the 7 years I’ve lived here making up rompues been shown messages of her saying let’s synchronise banging and that she throws things up and down her stairs to make noise she currently slams doors non stop stamps around shouting things at my windows when I’ve been sat in them minding my own business I’m currently 14 weeks pregnant with a son with disabilities and a 8 year old who are both asleep by 8pm every eve she’s moaned we woke her up at 6am and that’s because my children went to school that day I feel threatened and vunrable she’s been slating me to the ground her 21 year old son who was illegally living with her in lockdown was coming home punching my bedroom wall I reported it and she kicked him out and it’s gotten a lot worse since then parking in my car space getting her family to get their children to play on my front garden straring into my living room when me and my children are in there my housing has tried to help but has said there’s no evidence when I have sent her loads I just feel like I’m getting absolutely no where when it’s not just her it’s my other neighbour aswell banging about at one am every night when she decides to go to bed now there in and out of each others houses plotting something and I’ve told my housing officer this is seriously having an effect on my mental health and nothings been done what else can I do I’ve had enough I’m trying to move but it’s a long process ??
Leese 07/03/2021 at 7:07 pm
My neighbours across the road are causing so much stress don't know what to do my neighbour told them I was the one reporting them when he was. That shout abuse blast out music at all hours, tell lies about me. That got an abatement order three years ago and still there I don't no what to do any more I had enough of everything other neighbours moved out because of them in the past.
Suewak 04/03/2021 at 7:53 pm
We have been harassed by my neighbours for the past 5 years. They have threatened us and intimidated us with their friends. They play loud music every day for 12 hours. He told the neighbours he wants to kill me and the police will do nothing. Him and his partner have said they hope I die of cancer. All I did wrong was ask him nicely to turn the music down as I couldn’t hear my tv on volume 65! We have now been advised by police to take civil action as they refuse to stop them. It feels as though it will never end.
Shawn 02/03/2021 at 11:47 pm
I have Someone who threatens me every time I comes out my house she threaten me a week ago with a bat I called the police they did nothing about it she even jumped on me on Valentine’s Day I called the police they did nothing about it I got it in my Landlord numerous times about the accident she turns her TV up very very loud where it vibrates my walls in my floors in my house she do this every day all day she slams the door is back in for her dogs bark nonstop My landlord isn’t responding back to my messages I guess he’s getting aggravated with me keep calling and complaining but he’s not doing anything about it and to the point where I’m here now I can’t walk out my house because this person is threaten me and now she’s jumping on me I am 54 she is 62 she keep calling me the N-word and apparently I can’t escape this I live upstairs she will downstairs I’m depressed I am emotionally stressed about this whole situation I can’t get up and move at this moment I don’t have the funds to do that and my landlord is not reaching back out to me someone please contact me and let me know what to do with somebody I can contact to get in and get some help
Dunn 18/02/2021 at 10:22 pm
My neighbours moved in next to us (semi detached) we would always say hello across the fence etc then at the start of lockdown the neighbour (60 years old ) stated shouting abuse at my children when they were playing in our garden , there’s been continued abuse shouted over the fence from him to my children and partner & me I got the police involved they had a word with him and he has continued. Now we are being harassed by having to listen to their surround sound and shouting day / night council informed they have received a noise complaint notice but are still continuing
J 18/02/2021 at 10:13 pm
Iam living in a flat owned by my relatives..Its a private complex of flats all owners have shares in the flats..but not all the tenants own there's they rent from the owners.. I made a mistake in being friends with the lady upstairs..by helping her when her mum through her out..( where my flat is in the past I have had serious trouble with my son to the point I had to install cctv.both outside my flat but also in the communal hallway outside my front door..(( humberside police knew about the cameras and knew that they were put for my safety)) about four weeks ago the person who I helped after her mother through her out..her mother has been traveling from Bridlington to Hastings and other parts of the country since first lockdown When the law says no unnecessary travel..during this last lockdown she has been reported to the police and now the person I helped thinks it me that reported her mother..she has taken it into her own hands taking down my cctv ,taping over other cameras,and intimidating me so much by putting notes on my front door saying that I am using them to spy on her and other neighbors ECT and also using motion detectors to know when neighbors come out of there flats she also put in the notes that I wander around on the upstairs landing listening in to their private conversations..) she has threatened me with solicitors and to get the police on to me.l( I am a carer for an elderly person and have to go in and out at different times of the day and night to the person.the person who in threatening me is making it very uncomfortable coming in and out to point That I have to sneak in and out she has also got me to the point anymore and I will end up committing suicide.I don't know who to turn to for help please before this gets out of hand and I do something stupid please will someone help me had enough
Orton Grove WV4 15/02/2021 at 7:17 am
After living in my home for the past 12 years, new neighbours moved in next door and have been using freezing cold air fans in every room directed into my property so that it has become like living in a fridge, This is especially ramped up at night so that it is impossible to sleep,

This has been going on since October 2020 and although I have reported it to the police and to the council - nothing is done to stop what they are doing.
Mitch 29/01/2021 at 2:16 am
Police in U.K. must be different than police in USA.
Your police take complaints of harassment seriously?
Ours dont! I've complained for years about the
incorrigible behaviour of my neighbors.
Trespassing. Parking on my lawn. Throwing
trash on my property. Throwing rocks, snowballs and launching golf balls at my cars.
I even got photographs. Police refused to even
look at the evidence.
Here you have to have police in family or personal
friend before any concern will be taken.
Or they'll wait until there is an assault or worse.
The neighbors kids and many outside family
members and friends get a perverse joy from
harassing an old man alone.
It's so sad I must endure this my last year's of my
life.
I'm afraid to go outside.
Bengarrion 29/01/2021 at 2:15 am
My neighbours dog is making my life a living hell. They won't accept my pleas to ask them to train their animal but instead have got a solicitor to send me a letter accusing me of 'making their dog bark'!!??.. And I'm a pot head!!??.....I'm on the verge of suicide....the council wont accept my valid proof (videos of barking) because they 'havnt witnessed it)...I AM AT MY WITS END!!!.....
Angel 24/01/2021 at 5:20 pm
For the attention of the person responsible for the protection of our human rights.

To Team.

This was taken from CVT's website:

Torture is used to control communities and families.
When one person is taken and tortured, the family learns immediately to be afraid, to be silent. When a second person is tortured, the community quickly gets the message: you must do whatever the perpetrators want. Torture takes control swiftly. Torture creates such a climate of fear and insecurity that it fractures communities, silences dissent and suppresses civic engagement. The torture of families in their homes is heinous and devastating. For three decades, survivors have been describing torture scenarios to CVT that have nothing to do with interrogations, only with instilling terror, inflicting pain, enacting revenge and enforcing forms of slavery. Men, women and children are all affected; in fact, over half of the survivors CVT cares for are women or girls.

This has happened to me, and many others. If I try and get assistance ie police etc, I will be hurt, by the perpetrators.

We have Human Rights Laws in place, there is NO torture in the UK.

I tried very hard to get out of property, with great difficulty as am a carer for my mum.
PM Boris States that we should stay in it's very difficult. I don't understand, why this should happen in the UK. I do not have a criminal record and no health issues.
I have tried to be put on the ' Witness Protection Program' and it was denied.
Neighbour is pouring a substance into something and its causing me problems in my body, where I react immediately.

A list of injustice for sending a complaint.

I have been subjected to the below:

? Stalked - No help
? At home if I try and call for help, subjected to pain ie flat is heated up like an oven, causing sleep loss.
? Dryness of the skin to the point of a severe dryness under the feet.
? A neighbour pours a substance into a container, and we cough, even at 2 am in the morning.This is before cough, sweat and headache.
? Treated like a slave where am being watched 24/7, with no criminal record and no health issues.

I am bruised and left to get justice on my own.

Whoever reads this, please inform a human rights organisation ie UN to get me out of this situation.


Please can you help?
dolly 23/01/2021 at 11:35 am
my problem neighbour used to be afriendWhen her husband died her previous nastiness towards him was transferred to me.After 18 months of nasty comments culminating in palpitations,I decided to cut contact.I already have a serious medical condition which produces anxietyand her confrontational approach made it worse.I know that she regularly slags me off,she can't accept that the friendship is over.Now she has started leaving her bins outside my property directly under my window. When I open my window I can smell the bins There is no need for this as the bin men have always collected her bins from her properrty. I have returned her bins to her property 4 times now but I fear that sheon't stop. I'm due to start a couurse of radiotherapy shortly so am already worried, her actions are increasingly my palpitations. Is ther anything I can do
Boss lady 14/01/2021 at 10:21 pm
Problem with neighbours after their car was damaged by a car. I don't know if it was stolen or not. I didn't witness incident but I have CCTV and she constantly wanted to be allowed into my property to view footage. Nearly two years of abuse from her family and friends but not when they're alone.
They only have the courage when in a group. Malicious allegations. Got a new CCTV system installed with audio. The day it was installed they were jumping up and down and waving and shouting "we are on camera". Another malicious allegation and I asked police to charge me. It was alleged that I was the one who was doing the shouting.They didn't want me charged. Checked CCTV next day and you could hear the cursing and swearing. I've had to buy a body camera for my protection when out and about. Now contacted police to visit me and see CCTV footage. Hopefully they will be charged with wasting police time. They even got their grandchildren to lie to the police. The grandmother works as a volunteer at a school!! I plan to contact social services, education department so as to prevent it happening to anyone else. I consider myself fortunate as I'm very strong willed although at times I was distressed by it. Will update when police contact me but got the feeling the police believed them because they were about 16 adults and children.
Siding vs Assault 11/01/2021 at 1:54 pm
My neighbor and I have been harassed by another neighbor that lives across the street from me and right next door to him. January 1, 2021, they banged on his door accusing him of telling me that they were the ones who were hammering at 10:30 pm. He did no such thing. I heard them yelling at him and stood on my porch and watched them standing on the bottom step of his porch. Then the next thing I know they are on his porch bunching him and pushing him and he's trying to push them off his porch. I called the Sheriff's Dept and got the jail and the person I spoke with wouldn't connect me to the dispatcher. I finally got frustrated and hung up. An officer never showed up. I sent an email to the Sheriff Dept telling them what happened and nothing has been done. The property manager, Sheila Tuddy, told us she was going to kick them out because of the violence against the Dave, the man who was beaten up. Her assistant tipped off the neighbor across the street from me and told them if they put new siding on they wouldn't get kicked out. So they did that and now they get to stay. Hardly seems fair, siding verses assault.
Beckie 30/12/2020 at 11:13 am
My newish neighbours who moved in 3 years ago have said to me numerous times they wish to buy my house and I would be best to downsize and live in a flat. I have no plans to ever sell the house. I I have been suffering sleep deprivation as they slam doors in the small hours of the morning I suspect deliberately. They had their house renovated for a year and expected me to do the same but I refused. Its a lot noisier now and I can clearly hear them speak through the living room party wall. They do a few annoying things but I know I can't stop them parking in our drive or garden as that's not illegal. I would like to put something in my Will to say I don't want the house ever sold to them when I'm gone due to all the hell they are putting me through. I really can't find anything about this situation on the Internet so don't know how to go about things.
Joooools 30/12/2020 at 12:12 am
Ever since we moved to our new home five years ago, two households in particular have made living here unbearable. It might seem like small things if I were to recount them, but they are constant and so are causing me an increasing amount of stress and distress.

As we all own our homes (none of these are rented), there is virtually nothing we can do in terms of having them stopped without it being police action which will just lead to more intimidatory acts; but does anyone know if local authorities can buy homes when harassment is an issue to allow the victim to move away? We are obviously stuck in this situation until we can get a sale, and I would have to disclose their actions too, which could result in it falling through.
Janearc 14/12/2020 at 3:44 pm
I have lived in the same house for 3 years now with my 3 boys it is rented. The neighbour owns their house plays music (swearing etc) from 6am to 10pm if I have put up a picture they bang the wall if I Hoover they bang the wall they park over my drive. She has called the police before about the garden ( they have evasive bamboo) and shouted at my kids to shut their noise!! Yet they have made a complaint saying I am making all the noise. I can’t do anything because they own!! How is this fair? I’m keeping a log etc but what for if no one can actually help?
Paigntonlady 27/11/2020 at 2:20 am
Don't know whether my comments are being posted or not this is a test
Biker boy 23/11/2020 at 7:52 pm
I’ve been harassed by my neighbour for a year with party’s loud music & antisocial behaviour on a daily basis the music is really loud and goes on till the am council do nothing I’ve even got noice pollution involved and a court Order an abatement order is in place and he keeps breaking it but have not took him to court can I sue council for aiding & abetting him to harass alarm & distress through his music
Ness 22/11/2020 at 10:45 pm
Hi Mel, I’m having a nightmare with our neighbours. Accusing us of things we haven’t done by reporting to landlords and police. I have inside smart cams but I could do with 24 cctv. Can you advise what cameras you got so next time neighbours accuse us of something we have evidence it never happened. Causing me terrible stress and anxiety now
Mel 18/11/2020 at 3:28 pm
Hi I've just read your post pip, we've had a nightmare with our neighbour and we are finally getting a prosecution through the local council and police. They have turned the whole street against us and its had a affect on my health and work. I can give you advice on how we dealt with them, it took two years but we are finally getting there. I installed cctv and logged everything with police and caught alot on cctv. We had sound monitoring equipment installed by the local council due to noise harassment and they were served a abatement order. Dont be a victim be clever and record everything even if it's on your phone. Evidence is the key and the only way the police will do anything. Dont argue back or engage with these disgusting people. Just gather evidence and it will work. Bless you.
Pip 17/11/2020 at 10:51 pm
Hi my family and I have been suffering harrassment since 2004. The most recent incident was today when I was in Sainsburys and included threats of violence. In the past the harrassment has included derogatory comments about my disability, other derogatory comments about how I must be transgender, threats to burn down my house, stones and eggs thrown at my windows, stones thrown at me and my family, screaming right down my ear and false accusations any time I protest. It has now got to the point where I can no longer go out by myself. This has been reported to the police many times but nothing is ever done. I have been trying to move but even that is problematic. We can't tolerate any more of it. What can we do?
? 11/11/2020 at 2:39 pm
I have been feeding a stray cat outside, trying to get her to trust me etc in order to get her checked for a chip, my neighbour complained to environmental health, they rang & I explained why I’m feeding cat & that the food bowl gets taken inside once she’s finished eating, of course there are no laws against feeding animals outside , people have bird tables etc, but now the neighbour at every opportunity is scaring the cat away when I’m not in view, she spy’s through her letterbox & windows at me & any people visiting me, what can I do?
Shy 07/11/2020 at 8:55 pm
Every time I go around my friends house the neighbor keeps telling them that I'm dealing drugs in front of their house it's gotten so bad that my friend's mom doesn't even allow me over there anymore I can't even pick her up I have to pick her up at the corner .I was living there and he went and told her mother that he caught me on camera with duffle bags full of dope at 2 am pulling them. Out of her brother's car and throwing them into a passing by car in the back window of the moving car . Saying the passing car never stopped that I would just toss the black duffel bag filled with drugs into this car while it was moving and then he proceeded to tell them that at two 3 a.m. I was walking down the street and he knows he seen me pass drugs and money around to another person .I was doing a drug deal at the cornernn??
and I've already proven this part wrong because at the given time he said I was doing this I was talking to her brother in his room he was playing the guitar for me so even though I proved he was not being truthful about the story her mother still believed him and kicked me out but not only did I lose my place of living i almost lost my best friend and now every time I go to pick her up if she has me waiting a little bit and you know females they have you waiting he goes and tells the mom that he seen me passing drugs and I'm selling drugs in front of the house and he around my friends house the neighbor keeps telling them that I'm dealing drugs in front of their house it's gotten so bad that my friend's mom doesn't even allow me over there anymore I can't pick her up I have to pick her up at the corner but I was living there and he went and told her mother that he caught me on camera duffle bags. Out of her brother's car and throwing them into a passing by car in the back windows car would never stop by would just toss the black duffel bag or drugs into his car while it was moving and then he proceeded to tell them that at two 3 a.m. I was walking down the street and he knows he seen me past drugs and money around and I've already proven this part wrong because that's a given time he said I was doing this I was talking to her brother in his room he was playing the guitar for me so even though I do have the story wrong her mother believed it and kicked me out but I only did I lose my place of living almost off my best friend and no every time I go to pick her up if she has me waiting a little bit and you know females they have you waiting he goes and tells the mom that he seen me passing drugs and I'm selling drugs at the front of his house and he thinks this and thinks that I know he's got the other neighbors saying the same thing never pass drugs there I've never dealt drugs are I've never had solso bags full of drugs cuz believe me if I did I think I would be rich and not living at her moms I don't know what to do about this I can't ever even Park and wait for her while she gets ready I always have to
Ren 21/10/2020 at 7:59 am
Growing up I’ve always had to deal with neighbors harassing me calling cops trying to get me and my older sisters taken away I’m now 19 And it’s still going on! It’s even worse now the whole neighborhood is against my family we have never done anything to these people the thing is my brother suffers from a mental illness and they don’t understand but that’s besides the point they have ruined my childhood I have bad anxiety and depression they’ve forced me to live in fear and not know who to trust what do I do please help me any advice?
dd 19/10/2020 at 10:45 pm
My health isn't serious detriment. I have been struggling for five years with chronic Lyme disease, and my heart is extremely fragile. I have convulsions and seizures from telephone radio frequency and Wi-Fi.
I've also had a heart attack in 2018 from electricity.

I got new neighbors who have some pretty ramped up Wi-Fi. So I have been trying to shield and block my home as best I can. But there's something that they turn on that when I do I can't breathe and my heart starts to go insane and I can tell I'm going into cardiac arrest so I have to run. The first time it happened it caught me by surprise I literally fell to the ground urinating myself because of the Wi-Fi. I couldn't breathe and had to try to get myself up to run out of the house.

But I have done my best to protect my house but there was always one thing that they would ramp up but I cannot block. I had already told the new neighbors but I had this sensitivity and so I thought I would go there and offered to buy them a remote control to turn off their Wi-Fi at night or when they're not using it. They just started yelling saying they're not changing anything for me. I cannot believe that someone could be so insensitive instead of at least discussing it. So after I went home I had gathered my information and I had created a document about EHS. And I sent them some information about it and information about Wi-Fi and what it does to children so they would realize that it's also harming their kid. And them… I sent him this packet of information and then I got a letter back saying they did not want to hear anything more about my illness and if I sent them another letter etc. they would contact the police on me for harassment. I think this is complete insanity! I'm fighting for my life not harassing them. I gave them information for them to do with as they will and had hoped for compassion. I never asked him to get rid of the Wi-Fi which would actually be most optimal. But I know that people are doing what they're going to do with boosters and I'll kinds of craziness. So I did my best to protect myself from it. They just moved in and have the gall to tell me I need to leave. I am very sick and don't have much longer to live I sure am not going to go through selling a house and trying to find a place etc. etc. I have cancer and my prognosis is less than two years.

I just want to clarify that sending someone a letter with information is not harassment. I had no intentions of sending them anymore but after that asinine reply I feel like they just anger me to the point that I want to prove that this is not harassment and they can't threaten me because of my cry out for help
Nic 17/10/2020 at 10:52 am
Our neighbours have been complaining about parking and blocking their driveway... Photos have been taken. They have parked their car in the way and put their bins over our boundary. They have only spoken to us once about it but have started to accost our guests and be rude to them. Yesterday I confronted them about it and the male became very aggressive very quickly. I admit, I said a few things I'm ashamed of but I felt threatened and actually rang the police. They talked to me and weren't called out. Is there this petty? Where do we stand? And how can we sort this out?
We are having a drive tarmaced next month but I'm worried until then.
Thanks
Sami 16/10/2020 at 1:43 pm
I’ve moved into a flat above a woman that’s constantly writing letters through my door moaning because we walk across the floor we apparently make loads of noise which isn’t true we live in flats there’s flats above beside but no she reports us all the time for no reason I have m.e anemia depression and anxiety I keep having attacks since this it’s ok for her to shout and scream at her son and hearing him sob and scream I love my new home but she’s just harassing me
Han 08/10/2020 at 12:28 pm
I need some advise my mother who suffers from really bad mental health has been having problems with other parents from my sisters schools they all teamed up on her and pushed her to one side they said very mean things about her things about the kids saying she doesn’t feed them or care for them this has been going on for years they have approached the car before when she was on her own screaming and shouting at her threatening to come to the house etc they have tried to go through me and it’s just not stopped so have started again after COVID they have started using their kids to bully my sister they are constantly talking about my mum and staring at her making her very uncomfortable trying to pull friends away from her etc and one of them posted a post on Facebook about how we lied about the kids being bullied and we should of told the school (we told the school and they even seen it them selves ) and how the school have said my sister said she wasn’t which they didn’t they also were calling them very horrible things and tried to make them selves look better even tho they accused the school of breaking confidentiality all because their kids got called out for being bullies what can I do as my mothers mental health has got really bad recently due to them !
Katie 01/10/2020 at 7:27 pm
I need some advice i moved to Wales 4 years ago I fell out with a neighbour which ended in a fight I was arrested and cautioned for self defence with acessive force I only accept the caution because I wanted to go home the duty solicitor I was provided with was already defending the woman in another case so couldn't help so I would have to waited for another one to arrive hence accepting the caution since then there whole family have been threatening me when they see me especially when there together they verbally abuse my kids in the street and have even got their relative to threaten my eldest son with a knife all this as when it happened was reported to the police but because every time they do something they make a counter allgation if exactly what they have done always targeting me when I'm alone of with my young children there's never any witnesses so they always take no further action even though this family are known to the police for voilence and have targeted a number of people over the years and still I have no one to help the police can't do nothing the one time I did record on my phone and could prove that they made a false allgation the police still don't help just warned the girl not to do it again I don't feel safe to even leave my house it's horrible and I don't know what to do any more I've tried everything to get some support from the police the council the social services and nothing no one
Venus Camille 26/09/2020 at 10:22 am
I am a level 5 Media Law level 5 journalism and also para legal...In another city I had been trying to support victims of abuse which they had been endured in care of support homes and also in private lodgings. I am about to study the legal options as a witness to victim support. It is unclear why some harmful agressors or attackers remain to be untouched and contine to be a problem to the vunerable. As a witness It is certain that I have learnt it is also very difficult to be taken seriously and have been set through the paces of false representation. I have relocated to be close to family I have herd a number of complaints which I thought were all in the mind, however my sisters complaints have now started after 8 months to become real issues. I had been trying to find out who was threatening the integrity of my sister.
She complained that the neighbours were trying to evict her, her x partner who lodges with her appears to be gaslighting as the neighbours also do.
I met a woman who exclaimed one of the women identified to have been attacking my disabled sister was a corrupt social worker from GoldHawlk Road area ... she is a hard drug user.. and the victim told me that she found out she had been robbed when she woke up from a coma.. and the social worker had been chasing her and involving herself in mental health tribunals attempting to hide evidence of robbery and murdering her sister.
Again another health support worker.. which was round at the neighbours had been abusing the mother of the haphazzard almost vunerable repeate offender. Which I presume has torrets.. I tried to remedy the situation. as much as they are troublesome to my extreemly vunerable sister... the vunerability of disabled people and also attacks on witnesses are a concern. I have been trying to grasp onto the principles of what are known as harassment groups and have also been supporting a anti bullying group manager with legal steps. My sister had made several complaints about local nusance.. if that had been the neighbours in a combination as act of retaliation to disapproving activities. There are three issues one is the issue of intruders , one is the issue of the negibours unwelcomed guests and also their effects and then there is the issue that an active circulating group of harassers which pray on the vunerable cause mental unrest and instill stress on free movement as part of an assisting act to press them into mental instability. Where are we standing with the law and with safer neighbourhoods when.. an attack group are the cause of mental unrest and not as part of their psychosis? It is very disturbing that people pray on the weak. We have taken soms aditional security measures such as alarms and locks. I think more work is needed to support victims from intruders and the intervention of using the neighbours as a cushion for giving room to cause noise or physical dusturbances.
On the one hand, where ones movement is being surpressed, or safety at home is r
Venus Camille 26/09/2020 at 9:29 am
Just to add to that... the direct neighbours Liz family up and down stairs... The half sister had been absing the mother. It was awful.. really really bad. I knew that my sister was having issues
.. but it is difficult to obtain information as the victims are too scared to come forward. As the fear that the authorities will not support them with harassment or prosecute the abusers... they instead.. send visitors which threaten to hospitalise the victims.. in a local institute. Where many have complained in extreemly high numbers of fatalites caused my medical complications on pharmaceutical drugs, in lethal combination or medical trials. This makes the social workers on drugs intimidation and threat to their integrity as if placed with the fear of threat to kill.
mrp 25/09/2020 at 5:04 pm
My next door neighbour, a woman in her 50's and her teenage daughter are perfect neighbours but desperate to move away after being harassed, bullied insulted and frightened by the neighbour on the other side of her rented home. He has outbursts of temper, cameras everywhere and has run a campaign to have her evicted or force her to leave for over 2 years now including covert filming, violent outbursts, insults as he curb crawled past her and lies about her and about me. She was even prescribed anti depressants and I have broken down in tears in front of strangers at the frustration and thought of what he has put the two females through without me being able to protect them. The police will do nothing to stop him as he cleverly convinces them his behaviour is not harassment and uses the fact he has a 'wife' and child to gain sympathy. His behaviour and ability to project an innocent image when required is sociopathic. Since I have stood up and witnessed in support of her he then turned on me with threats of violence which resulted in a minor altercation in which he used his friends as 'witnesses' to my allegedly assaulting him although I am half his size and twice his age, being in my 70's. The bottom line is that I am to be charged with assaulting him even though he and another young man assaulted me, and after he started banging violently on her wall several nights ago she finally had enough and is trying to leave. We are all distressed about it but for all the advice such as that on this website about rights etc nobody really helps. It often takes years, and most people end up running away from it as police 'help' is ineffective and advice to avoid the person is not practical when the predator is a close neighbour. Private legal action is far too expensive for people like us.Nobody is going to evict him from a house he owns against a couple of neighbours who are just tenants.
hawra 14/09/2020 at 6:26 am
I've also been abused/ spat on and on my dog/ the end of the cigarette neighbours keep throwing it at me my garden my front door, I've been shouted at and called names, kicking my door and looking through my bedroom window. Reported it to the council they said its police matter, called police they said as no photo or witness on the spitting they cant take him to court, my mental health gone worse and I have chronic pain which become really worse, I dont go out just shopping every month im trying to move out as I'm scared now for my life and my pets life
Ryan 13/09/2020 at 4:58 pm
I have had to call the police twice since beginning my tenancy with housing association where on one occasion a mentally disturbed nuisance neighbour started wandering around other peoples garden spaces and exposing himself as well as the incident when he pulls a very 5 inch cheese knife out following me around with it. Took around 10-15 yrs to evict him before this incident then had to call police on him. But now after false assurance from landlord new tenant would be carefully selected has left me with an even worse situation with a drug dealing woman beating and abusive guy moved in flat below me. Things from day 1 started to get progressive and worse over the past 4 months even during lockdown he has sent his very submissive partner to ponce of all the other neighbours. I have recorded all incidents and even logged times and dates. His tenancy is unsecured because he hasn’t yet been here for a year and already he was drug raided during 3rd month of lockdown but the police could not arrest him. And since then he has caused issues I have had to raise with landlord housing association. They refuse t acknowledge the fact I suffer with mental health and even my physical health is now in decline I am 35 years old I have ptsd and anxiety, sleep disorder and among those I have suppressants to control my low mood disorder. I have been first hand witness to abuse growing up around it. And all I hear often in the early hours or during day they will be arguing although there are occasional times when I feel compelled to ring 999 because I can hear her screaming for him to leave her alone and the nuisances he causes are just as disturbing druggies and people he owes money to coming to the communal block at all hours. I have become so fed up of feel depressed and I want to get relocated as a result of lack of support from my housing association which supposedly prides itself on dealing with this type of ASB and Nuisances. I feel unsafe and constantly threatened by this new tenants who’s doesn’t abide social distancing or even has courtesy to where a covering when him or his partner come knocking on other residents doors in the maisonette flat of four units. List just goes on and my landlord will not help me and they treat me with contempt every time I raise issues with the way it’s not being dealt with and they are heavily relying on police to act on a possible threat to life or injury to others who are forcibly exposed and confined by the close proximity we all live in. I cannot see myself staying here any longer but some part of me feels a foreboding feeling of violence being perpetrated by this guy as I had to call the police yesterday due to his threats against me and he even ran upstairs in communal hallway to show he is willing. I heard his brother and a group of there friends set alight someone a woman after pouring petrol on her some years ago!
I do not feel safe the property itself is outdated and unsecured in terms of noise reduction and safety
Phil 10/09/2020 at 3:40 pm
I moved into my flat oct 2019 everything was fine until my x partner found out wr I lived told everyone we new lies about, ive had threats fom nieghbours who dont even know me been called names amongst other things,, I had a stroke in april 2020 now im stressed dont go out ive virtually stopped eating cant take my dog due to being followed im at a stage of suicide, council say they cant do anything until something happens as well as police can I not get help from anywhere, very suicidal
Shell 05/09/2020 at 5:51 pm
My neighbour has spat on me, hit me, constantly verbally abuses me. Police say I have no proof. I have started recording with my phone and now have proof. The police went to arrest him, he started screaming at police along with his family and literally the police backed off. They claimed they have mental issues and the police backed off after hours of fighting the police off. The mum threw herself on the officers, it was a huge scene. Me and my neighbours have had enough? We tried talking nicely to mediate but they got angrier.

What do we do?
Jettie 04/09/2020 at 5:42 pm
My neighbour has been harassing me for 3yrs. Now spat in my face. Nothing is being done as no witnesses. Iv had it. I'm mentally exhausted. My Depression isn't helping. I make mistakes I have Osteoarthritis. The stress and upset is making me worse.
Jsim 01/09/2020 at 12:16 pm
We have recently put in a planning application which has made our immediate neighbours turn on us and started false accusations we have stayed civil but they generally ignore us (it’s only a normal back and side extension and the house is very detached at the end of the culdesac so won’t affect anyone. They are now holding a residents meeting and have invited every household in the road /village (it’s quite a small area) except us ? The meeting is apparently to let residents get to know each other and discuss any problems. Is this a form of harassment/ victimisation? We are only aware of the meeting as the other neighbours who are fine with us told us , they are shocked we are left out.
violent threats 30/08/2020 at 1:58 am
so, ill keep this short, hoping for some advice maybe..

i just experienced my neighbours shouting through my window at 1.20 am about
how if i complain or go near there house they will "bang me out" and leave me on the ground.

im not a violent person but this is something i cant just let go, any advice?
Mandy 26/08/2020 at 9:45 pm
My neighbour has called the fire department on us 5 times in the last 3 months. The fire fighters shake their head and tell us to carry on when they have came.We have a small chimaney which we have small fires with only wood just for ambiance and s'mores. We have lived here 7 years and this calling on us is all new. She has always been a hyper condreact but has worsen big time with the whole covid 19 situation. We have helped them over the years with cutting their grass and such and now they will turn their heads when they see us. Any advice ? I'm starting to lose my cool
Shaz 17/08/2020 at 6:03 pm
Hi I have had on going trouble from my neighbours for years. Then the girl moved in next door and she wanted everything her own way. She pinched my parking space and kept parking outside my house. She is vile. Her and the other neighbour teamed up and so did the neighbour next door to her that beat up my son some years ago. It feels like a vendetta against me. I lost my temper in the back garden a few weeks ago and have now got a public order offence against me. (The lowest one, police said). What can I do? Thankyou.
Amy 17/08/2020 at 3:57 pm
I've lived in my house for 2 years. Since having a baby 10 months ago my nextdoor neighbour has been vile, when the baby cries she bangs on the wall shouts and swears through the wall, sends her 10 year old round at all hours to tell us to shut up. For a month her daughter through her packed lunch into my back garden from her bedroom window. Yesterday she came and knocked on my door at 9:30am and accused my partner of screaming at the baby in the middle of the night and has threatened to report us for abuse to social services. I dont know how much more I can take off her. I feel uncomfortable in my own home. I feel like I'm on egg shells and hope that the baby doesnt cry so she doesnt shout. We try not to have the tv too loud so we dont do anything to set her off. When ever I see her I apologise for the baby crying and the reason he cries (colic when he was little and teething are the main reasons) and she says it's okay babies cry. I've just reported it to the council but they said it could take up to a week to get a response.
Silvercat 13/08/2020 at 12:29 pm
Neighbour across road often drunk shouts prostitute hooked out of her window.I am ot. Verbal abuse and noise
Abby 11/08/2020 at 10:36 pm
Hello I'm looking for some advice. I have new downstairs neighbours moved in less than a year, we been in our flat for 3 year never had a problem until now. It started with them banging on my floor didn't think anything about it until the guy came upstairs banging on my door, then started threatening me violently swearing, and saying that we don't want to mess with him, at this time I have a 2 year old, 1 year old and 12 weeks pregnant. All this became my little boy started crawling and he was making a little noise on the floor. I still havent gotten over it to this day. From then on all we got was more banging on the floor slamming of doors that make our flat shake. I couldn't go into the communal garden because he would come out given me dirt looks so couldn't take my rubbish out, I have witnesses for everything that's going on. I don't feel comfortable being here now been going on for months and I'm even more scared now my new daughter arrived. We have been to the police, southern housing association we are with and them too. I don't know what to do anymore my mental health is suffering as im on antidepressants, try to spend everyday out I just can't take anymore. Please can anyone help me
Gez 10/08/2020 at 9:39 pm
I am taking my previous tenant to a small claims court for rent arrears. We have had no contact for 7 months apart from passing them in the street one day and in the car on the odd occasion as they had moved just up the road after we evicted them.
We have only just filed the claim with the county court 10 days ago and today I received a threatening email from my old tenant saying they believed they did not owe the money and can evidence this but are willing to pay. What hurt me was the false allegations in the email to say i have been pursuing his wife around the local area and if this continued they would report me to the police as this has now become a serious problem !
This is totally false, in fact me and my wife have felt intimidated by her as she keeps driving, jogging and walking past our house.
I have called the police this evening to log this and raise my concerns about the false accusations.
We have always conducted ourselves well and remained professional throughout this stressful process but to be falsely accused of harrassing/pursuing an individual when they are the ones in the wrong has really angered and upset me.
I am contacting the court tomorrow to inform them that I am being intimidated. I feel they are making false accusations against me and are trying to intimidate me.
Have I done the right thing and what else should I do ?
santu 09/08/2020 at 3:23 pm
I and my family members have victimized by rnm detector through electromagnet harassment by neighbours about nine years.After lodging an FIR against the neighbours, they have become more furious and they have started to emit havoc radiation on us and the scale of radiation has become 450 ut. On that time they have used DEW(Direct Energy Weapon) and it is noticed that the tree leaves have burnt. From the CCTV footage it is seen that they are using RNM Detector continuously which rays and beams are coming from the neighbours house and all are invisible. I can say this radiation is generally invisible human eye.But the thermal imaging camera detect infrared on heat radiation i.e. invisible to the human eye (which looks like an image through density for or smoke.I have seen one spy camera is glowing light at night. But no positive response from the police.
Elvina Harvey-Marsh 07/08/2020 at 5:45 pm
I bought a property in west Wales in 2016. a beautiful small holding with an acre of land. Worked very hard in the garden landscaping planting flowers & shrubs. The place is beautiful. The neighbour whom I got friendly with for a short time, turned nasty. While we were away she would let herself into my garden and helping herself to my roses etc. While I was at home she would just walk in and call up the stairs for me. I later found out they owned the property I purchased and their ground completely surrounds mine. They separated one dwelling into two, mine being one. For the last eighteen months I've been bombarded with abuse and harassment, abusive language I've been terrified to even go into my own garden. My partner has been assaulted and spat at and I've been shielding as I'm insulin diabetic, heart problems suffer PTSD my recent ECG has shown a strain on my heart. I've just lost two sister in a space of four months of one another in their early sixties. The abuse and threats have been reported to police and council. These people take pleasure in driving who ever purchases this property out. I've sent a letter to my local MP, OPPC police, Complaints polic.e The reason being I've had a police warning letter NOT to phone either 101 or 999 ever again. This came as a shock. Police, solicitor, council all advised me to ring police. The warning letter also stated NOT to take photos video of the neighbours. Police, council & solicitor, advised us to place CCTV and carry our phone everywhere in order to provide evidence against the neighbour as they will prosecute. Each time Officers left the neighbours continue, even though they were told. Abuse and harassment continue on a daily bases. The warning letter was shocking as the neighbours son stipulated to me two days before the warning letter, I'll have you done for wasting police time! Plus the warning letter had been written out by a PCSO and I question weather this is legal and should have been written by an active PC? please advise
None 06/08/2020 at 11:14 pm
Hi because of my neighbours
am bad with my nerves I feel
uncomfortable in my own home
intimidating humiliated it's all going
on in my street I keep myself to
myself but they don't it's just one
thing after another can't live my own
life without some neighbour butting
in making .my life a misery day in day out
Mac 02/08/2020 at 5:24 am
Hello Polly, depending on where you live you can get an order of protection a no stalking order or restraining order. Check with your local court house or county seat. Good luck
Mac 02/08/2020 at 5:16 am
I don't know what state you are in Debbie but the covid evection laws in most states only protects the tenet for non payment. It does not protect them when they break their lease for harrassing another neighbor depending how their lease is written there should be a clause for peaceful enjoyment of your home, if someone breaks that it is grounds for eviction. You can look it up on your states web page to show the landlord. Also take a look at your lease to see how it may be worded. Good luck
Dave 31/07/2020 at 9:13 pm
My neighbours have called child service on us twice and have informed the school that we are bad parents with no Prevail. The help we have received has been amazing but they still present more False allegations against us. There hateful attacks on me and my wife are Daily they have told the rest of the estate we are dirty this is not the case. We are a clean family but still they complain. This has happened ever since They bought the house next to us then thought they could flip it quick and move on without noticing the Council would needs repayment. There’s more there kids are there kids but god damn I’ve got four kids and them three and my god you can hear them three from down the street. I need help. They have Accused me of all sorts and it’s been found out as untrue.
Need advice 30/07/2020 at 7:11 am
For 6 years, there is this one neighbor will pick on us only. the neighbor across from us will spread bad rumours and getting all the neighbors to side with him. We are only different race from rest of these neighbors. I don’t know why he pick on us, I think it is cause we don’t speak their language. When we first moved in, The neighbor across from us told us not to park in front our home cause he can not back out. When we heard his complaint, we didn’t park in the front to be considerate and understanding. But than he is having his guests park in front of our home when we thought he/ guests will be considerate and understanding. We thought wrong. He only wanted to benefit himself. But, We continue to not park in front cause I don’t want to be hypocrite like him. he even threatening us to report us. We didn’t even do anything to them. We don’t bother them. There was this time when we were trying to talk to him but he was yelling and won’t let me talk. when I do get to talk, he walks away and won’t listen. He only wanted to say what he want and he doesn’t care about others have to say. He is playing innocent victim to other neighbors. We don’t bother any of these neighbors. We like to keep it quiet and private. We all wanted from these neighbors is to be considerate and understanding. We all have issues but if we were to be considerate and understanding, it will be ok. We will help other neighbor if needed. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to involve police or city. I feel like this neighbor is controlling especially more during this pandemic time. Having so many guests equal party. He is the one complaining about money. I don’t think he should be complaining about money if he is having so many parties
Reba 28/07/2020 at 9:38 pm
Call the Domestic Victims Unit to make appointment to be seen to talk to and explain yr situation
...You can file charges...
Carol lambie 16/07/2020 at 12:50 am
My daughter and granddaughter are getting bullied with a gang of kids my daughter has phone the police so many times not a thing is getting done about it what can I do thanks
Deb 14/07/2020 at 5:48 pm
I live in a apartment in Oregon and my downstairs neighbor keeps calling me names. Also saying that my grandson is retarded which he is only 8, the neighbor has caused damage to both of my cars, keeps parking in my place, he calls me the c word and my grandson keeps asking me why the old man keeps saying bad things about us, I tell my grandson to avoid what he keeps saying. It hasn't helped with any of this, I have also called the police several times about things and they tell me that they can't do anything about it and for me to move, well I have lived here for 10 years. My neighbor that lives in the apartments next door in a different complex has also complained about the same person, we have showed several videos to the police and they keep saying that there is nothing that they can do about it, I have talked with the land lord about this matter several times and they say that there is nothing that they can do because of the virus, I have several pictures and other things that proves what the neighbor has done and no one will do anything about it, he beats and bangs on things, starts up a 4 wheeler that he has in his apartment, as well as using a welding torch just outside, uses his grill with high flames under the porch along with several other things. There is only one way in and out of my apartment, I live up stairs and what if there was to be a fire and we can't get out. I have tried talking with the neighbor and it just gets worse so what am I supposed to do?
Debbie 11/07/2020 at 4:34 pm
I live in an apartment complex, there are some teen age girls who noticed a camera in my window. This was put there due to packages being stolen before any of these neighbors moved in. Since than these girls have done everything to cause my peace of mind. They bend over and pose in front of my window, they sat in front of my door and blocked my exiting my apartment with a pit pull and they will purposely stomp in front of my door. They block the stairs so it’s hard for anyone to walk up and when people visit me, they loudly make rude comments and harass my visitors.
Along with these girls, they are involved with neighbors just a couple doors down from me who also have two little sons about 4 and 5 who their parents have told them to run in front of my window as the father has done it as well. I live on the second floor as do they. The father runs with his sons and these teen girls across the balcony shooting water guns and stomping across the balcony. His girlfriend, the mother of the boys along with a bunch of others block the stairs as well smoking weed and getting high while blasting music. We live in a complex where smoking of any kind is not allowed within the common areas of others homes. I’ve heard her yell out about kicking white b’s a’s and kicking them in the head, so it’s also gone racial.
Others have called police in them as well as security because when I called they knew exactly who I was talking about.
Security has been called, police have been called and as soon as security or police leave they get worse. The landlords have been told and sent videos but they say their hands are tied due to the virus and courts being closed. I understand this but there has to be something that can be done. I shouldn’t have to put up with this.
What else can be done?
Ziada 09/07/2020 at 11:13 pm
Will the council move me if I'm being harassed? I am single mom i have 2 children and some one they call me no number they say to me you gonna die soon so i just scared I have council house i want to move to Manchester to my family too be safe so will the council to move
Polly 06/07/2020 at 8:22 pm
Can you get an injunction against neighbours to stop them contacting or trying to harass you? Ours is an absolute nightmare!
Nan 27/06/2020 at 12:14 am
every since I looked after neigh ours keys she gone physio on me. On 3 different occasions she has attached me. First time I got her of me. Second time she attached me I hit back. Third time while I had my meds and went for a nap. She cut some of my plants down. Shouted she is going to kill me. And because I pushed her we both got arrested. I am disabled. Police wont do a thing. I had 24 years of domestic abuse by alcoholic husband now the alcoholic next door neighbour she is getting away with everything . I really have had a enough.
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Nikki 18/06/2020 at 11:35 pm
I’m getting harrsed today nasty people and neighbours gossping about me in sandhurst the mental man group won’t leave me alone saying there call police on me
Jaffa 15/06/2020 at 5:16 pm
We have been having issues with our neighbour for about 12-15 years. When we moved in to this house we were warned by a neighbour that no longer lives there not to trust the neighbour we have issues with but we gave them the benefit of doubt and got on with them at first however it all changed one day when he came knocking on our door at 7am demanding we move our car because it was parked no more than the curb width on the pavement, at this time I was sleeping and my partner couldn't move the car because she went insured to drive it, I don't know what was said but he made some threats and she told him to do one. From this point we have had the occasional issues, he use to smoke and collect his cigarette butts and when he had a pile of them he would throw them in to our garden, we also found rotten veg in our back garden. He always sat in his kitchen when we were in ours just staring making you feel uneasy so we now keep the kitchen blinds closed. We even keep our curtains closed in the front and back of the property because he would stand in the front and back of his house nosing through the windows and if it weren't home it was the neighbour the other side of us who is friendly with them nosing in. We keep ourselves to ourselves and always have but they have gone as far as to turn all our neighbours against us so no matter where we park people have issues with it but only us. Going back to when this started he had an issue with me parking infront of his house, he parks in front of our gat and his family when they visit and not just a little they will all park right up against our gate just to antagonize us but we don't bite. He has never said anything to me but always targets my partner, about a year ago my partner on her way home from work came up the street Infront of us to come down our road to park she got to the top of the street going up hill she past the last car and because he had to wait 10s he sped round to where we park blocked my partner from getting out of the car and threatened get that if she don't pull in so he can go down again he will run her off the road and spit her throat. I said enough is enough call the police, she called them told them and they sent armed police because there was threats to her life. We told them what happened and the first thing out of the officers mouth was "well why call us it just makes things worse" so I asked what should we do then and he just shrugged, any how he had a word with them and we were asked if we want to press charges and we said no we don't want to go down that road. The following day same road she came up he blocked her in wound his window down and shouted something to her and drove off this was while my children were in the car also, she didn't hear what he said and turn her back on him. Now today same road at the same spot she came to the junction and he cut the corner on the wrong side of the road and blocked her again not letting her pass and he wouldn't move making her go
Ella 11/06/2020 at 4:10 am
When it comes to neighbourhood disputes, the police do no want to make arrests even if you are assaulted physically. The police are pretty useless, so is the council. I have been reporting for three years and 8 months with no luck. I feel for all of you. It is a nightmare to live next to narcs who have nothing better to do. I suffer from high anxiety and unsafe in my own home, my neighbours abuse drugs then abuse me and my family. Even when I have been physically assaulted, I have been told I have no evidence. Do I buy a bodycam? It might be my next option.
ME 10/06/2020 at 4:40 am
I wrote about my nephew being bullied
I just want to thank No ToAntiSocialBehavoior for responding with words of encouragement & also to Miller for doing the same. It's good to know there are people that care
Shell 03/06/2020 at 4:16 am
Hi, I live in a ground floor apartment with my own gated garden. The neighbour on the third floor has been causing trouble now for 3 years - we rent from a social housing landlord. It started with the neighbour throwing rubbish onto our garden including dirty nappies, we reported it and it stopped, it then moved to her throwing her cigarette butts onto our garden sometimes 30 a day. I reported it and it continued a mediation meeting was set up and she never turned up. I was then told to return the cigarettes to her by my landlord I left them in a carrier bag and put them outside her apartment, she then tipped them all back on my garden along with lots of potato feelings emptied her bin in my garden and her hoover. So I had all this on cctv and sent it to my landlord who again sent her letters, it continued for the next 2 years. I have got an MP involved who has been no help, I have called the police who said it's down to my landlord. I got the housing ombudman involved and a manager from the housing association came to my house and he was not interested can to tell me there was nothing they could do as they can not evict her as she has children, never mind my 6 year old who is constantly breathing in the smoke from the cigarettes. The past few weeks its got worse she waits for me to park my car up when I finish work and shouts abuse at me. Today topped it off. I got in from work opened my patio door and she filled a paddling pool full of water and threw it over me not once not twice but three times. It all came in my house and soaked through my flooring. I called the police and they said they would send a response officer out, but you guessed it no one has turned up. I called them back and they said I was a priority and that someone would come out and it's now 4am and no one has turned up. She is annoying all our neighbours with loud music flooding the corridors and constantly smoking cannabis she even wakes up at 5.30 am snd bangs her pots and pans out out of the window to wake everyone up. Lots of neighbours have complained about her but nothing gets done. Where do I now go from here?
NoToAntiSocialBehavi 02/06/2020 at 7:10 pm
ME, I really feel so sorry for you nephew, hopefully when these bullies find another target they'll be off. As for the hammer attack on the window then the police should be helping; write a letter to the force's chief constable as an idea, outlining problems.
This must have been awful for you really sorry to read this, hope things improve for you all.
ME 19/05/2020 at 7:12 pm
My nephew who is 14 is being bullied.
My nephew went to school with one of several that do the bullying. Everytime they see my nephew they harass him & have stolen his bike & even his shoes.
We reported it to police who did nothing and wouldnt even return phone calls. They informed us that these guys are known for their harrassment but since some of them are minors there isnt much they can do. Also these kids no longer live at home so their parents arent responsible.
When the group found out police were called they retaliated twice by throwing a hammer through the window, both times at 2am. My nephew doesnt go anywhere alone anymore & avoids any contact with them but because there are many of them and they look for my nephew this has become a nightmare.
Caz 17/05/2020 at 8:21 pm
My partner rents a bit of land and theres 4 houses opposite, theres just bushes and rubbish there, hes had it over a year now, everytime he goes over to start moving rubbish 1 lady always shouts over hes disturbing her peace and rather than argue with her, he leaves he is still paying rent for it but hasnt been there for over 8 months now what can we do
Scrappydog15 17/05/2020 at 3:33 am
my neighbor has been getting drunk and harassing me and all the cops will say they stay in your house why should I have to stay in my house to keep from being harassed from the neighbor and they won't do nothing to him a switch your words around like you're lying to them they won't even let you explain yourself who do you go to for help
Miller 16/05/2020 at 2:00 pm
To all the people who have commented. If the police and Council aren't doing their job properly. Contact your local MP and explain the situation. In that email to them, cc in every single person you have dealt with beforehand and their superior manager. You will find that the problem will start to get noticed and people will start doing their job.
Jim 15/05/2020 at 1:04 pm
I have been living in my upstairs maisonette for 12 year, a new neighbour has moved in downstairs and are harassing me and the neighbours, police are always around. We have a communal garden what they have put a fence around it and a big dog what is out there all the time, and have taken out there back bedroom window and put a patio door. When I come out my door he glares at me And swears. I am 62 and my neighbour is a woman in her 80s , and most of the neighbours are older then me and most of them are lone widows who he has squared up to. They are both nasty persons and we are all frightened of them. What can we do.
Doll 15/05/2020 at 4:00 am
Hi my neibour has bullyed me out my home I have autism and eperleptic so need sleep she has her TV on all night and day and also shouts abuse threw to my wall to upset me and think she got some sort of dermenture as the other month she was talkin to slugs and her trees she also collect s vermin rats and mice to anoy me it's on goin abuse she growin laventer knowin I elergict and shouts abuse and wen I try to sleep me and my pet feel upset as she makin me ill
Blossom 09/05/2020 at 8:24 am
My neighbour is trying to stop us from using our right of way by making up lies about us spying on him, looking through his windows and taking photographs of the inside of his house. He came onto our property two days ago after shouting at me in the street, demanding to speak to my very sick husband who is currently suffering cancer and additionally waiting for heart surgery. The only photo taken on the right of way was of blockages to our access, he leaves bins and pots in the way so we can't get round. I want him to stop communicating with us.
Jaymay 21/04/2020 at 7:42 pm
Hi, we’ve been living in our home now 3 years our neighbours 5 doors down have been very unreasonable for a while, we live in a semi rural area, we have chickens and had a cockerel( which they objected to) so we re homed him to keep the peace, since then they have reported us to the environments agency on 4 occasions for various reasons, on each occasion the environment agency has dismissed their complaints, this evening they verbally abused my partner whilst he was burning some garden rubbish ( after 6pm) what if anything can we do about this, we feel it’s harassment
Jay 19/04/2020 at 3:11 pm
I have an issue with my "neighbours"i am living at my current residence for almost two yrs. On april 19th 2019 i was awaken by loud music. It was my "neighbours". I waited about 40 mins. Thinking at some point they will turn it down. After 40 mins the music got louder. I went outside to investigate ,there i saw my landlord leaning over the railing calling out to them through a window. When he saw me i asked him what's going on over there. Sweating and breathing heavily he asked me to go over there and tell them to slow it down. I was hesitant but agreed. I stood in from of their driveway hoping to attract their attention. This went on for 5 mins. When that failed ,i entered the property asked politely and calmly if they could tone it down. I was verbally abused and i left. Since that incident they have been harassing us for almost a full year now .the matter is now in court. With multiple receipts from the police and recordings. Like all other people who have posted here i just want to come home to peace and quiet.
Sal 18/04/2020 at 6:13 pm
hi, I have lived next door to my neighbours for 25 years and never had any real issues until 2 years ago. They totally changed with me and had become quite arrogant for no apparent reason. Things got worse and they began spraying over my fence whenever I was in the back garden. This got really bad to the point that I moved out for a short while as every time I went out my garden, I could smell strong chemical smells. It resulted in me getting the poilce involved but I had no proof tat they were doing this,.Overtime, we began talking again but this spraying has just started again out of the blue. Also, they have displayed intimidating behaviour to me too. Think Im going to have to move
vivi 24/02/2020 at 3:47 am
hi hopefully someone can help me, a neighbor were i live been harrasing me this pass 4 months to steal are cat, in those apts theirs a creepy ally between two apts thats where they go, back their is dark at night so first i been having a bad feeling in october then november came and i had it even worse so i left the cat in, i have a belcony were he enjoys his naps mostly he stays their and i leave my door open but this time i just had a really bad feeling that i close my door and went to bed around 1am thats when i hear them this person went back their making cat calls and i guess he pass by a window with a camera on it and he got mad and broke the camera that they had on top of their window scaring the family that was inside, i heard it and saw it as well but i was so scared to report it and without evidence it was hard, so since then i let my cat stay in my room while they continue searching outside. In december it was so much activity back their and they even were shaking a bag of cat food, then one night i guess this person was mad and found a cat outside and hurt it...it was bad, i was trying to tell my family but without evidence they didnt believe me but i understood, so it continued, until the landlord notice and put a light it was still dark though but good, i got some sleep...so it cotinued and they started using a stairs that is near are belcony and they check from their and started to call the cat, so it continued until i notice that whenever i turn off my lights they whistle and start their search and if the landlord left her light on they dont do nothing but they continued to check from the stairs however not anymore they even go on the day times and say to the neighbors i stole their cat and im crazy they are just spreading it, but i didnt care i have evidence that it is mine, so i continued with my life however one day i got a phone call from my sister in law it was all good however i notice whispering out my window they were saying what is she saying when i heard that i left to the restroom instead, so it continued like this and i told the landlord, her and her husband told me to tell them when i hear it but i didnt, until today at night i heard whispering around 2am, so i told the landlord without knowing who it was and how they look like, then she came out and checked, i felt asleep later i notice she talk to them and one of them yelled out to me that they are going to kill me and dening that they wanted to steal are cat so know everyone thinks i am crazy, so i dont know what to do, i have a diary that has all this written on however i dont think this could be evidence and right know they are outside, sry for my bad writting, really dont know what to do this the first time something like this ever happend to me,what can i do?
Paul 04/02/2020 at 2:25 pm
The police were absolutely useless for me. I have autism and my neighbours knew this and targeted me with loud noise which obviously distresses me. Banging on my fire door, making loads of weird noises, shouting literally right outside (to the point where they could touch it) my bedroom window at 3am in the morning multiple times. Stomping outside my property, whistling at me to the point where I am now prescribed medication for schizophrenia and being forced to look into moving. I called the police out and my neighbours said they were just being a little loud so the police just referred me to the council. They then proceeded to mock me at night outside my windows for calling the police out.

Safe to say, I believe what I suffered is a form of harrasment and my opinion of the police has forever been tarnished.
karlie 28/01/2020 at 1:55 am
I have been putting up with the woman across thhe Road for nearly 2 years threatening me and my children I have a daughter that suffers bad with mental health she's now said she Can't take anymore and has moved in with my parents this woman calls my daughter some terrible names and always tell her she's gonna beat me up just lately its got Alot worse with this woman she has swung a bat at me in front of my baby nephew and my sister she spreads really awful rumors about me to the point where hardly anyone speaks to us now I wouldn't mind but this is a grandmother of 2 little children it's got. To the point where I can't sleep. Or eat or even function anymore as noow. She tries breaking in my. House to steal our dog most nights she's constantly walking around on my drive and all police do is tell me to stay away from her she. Never seems to get arrested I just wondered where. I stand with this as I feel police are useless
SIL 18/01/2020 at 8:44 am
Hi, we just moved in a new flat five days ago, me, my husband and my two sons, 2 year old and 5 year old. We already had three complaints from the neighbors downstairs about my children and their running . They are asleep by 8 pm and all day school/nursery until 4 . They are two healthy, normal children who sometimes run, but it's within decent hours and the running lasts for 5 min. Last night they danced for 5 min and the neighbor came. He threatened me that he has recordings and he will take the issue further. The problem is that I don't feel safe and comfortable in my own home, I don't let me children play anymore anymore, they can't sing or dance.
what can I do? he will probably come and harass me every day.
Ruby 08/01/2020 at 12:35 am
My female neighbour who used to be my close friend and like a second mother to me suddenly starts to impute me in actions what I have not done. Usually those are messages or handwritten notes thrown through mail hole in door. Begins with allegations about littering into her garden any possible waste etc when the same days was extremely big whirlwind which not only broke trees etc but also overturned and scattered all over the city all possible bins. But she stayed on her version. Then after behaved like nothing happened and that she didn't done any mental distress to me when I was needed to jump out of my sanity to prove my innocents because she was threatening me with involving Environmental Health Agencies and even police to take actions against me and my family. Of course I was and always will be scared from such a powerful instances, never ever wanted or caused to do something what could cause any attention to me. Because, yes, I'm struggling with a Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks caused by emotional and physical abuse throughout my entire life. Always have had a grange dreads from becoming punished for things I have not done, but no one believed even if all evidences pleaded guilty is somebody else. So I'm just living my life isolated from society thereby not provoking any kind of attention.
Then after she start sending me messages where she was incriminating my underaged sons for antisocial behaviours against her and her property. Reading out those messages ware really disturbing because of the style how she chose words to convincingly blaming them in horrible things they have done, like using illegal substances together with friends, to whom as well she brought claims, simply because, I think, she is jealous about the fact that I have a family and big friendly circle of young people who are not only friends to my sons but like mine childs as well. But she is alone and lonely with immeasurable addiction to alcohol and interferencing into our neighbourhood lifes, calling to many kind of instances and complaining about different kind of community ongoings and demanding them immediately to act the way she wants. Ludicrously.
Again for a while was peace like nothing was happened.
I think she is like serial killer who have exigency to satisfy their brain-sick penchants. But why need to create such a demoralised lies against someone without a reason?
So like about month ago when she turned out again with sequent accusation again against my children I texted her back simple statement of my vision for all that and blocked her number to avoid of receiving further messages which leaves me anxious and worried about our wellbeing and peace. Even if we are living nearby and sharing one passage way and we can came across each other anytime.
And today I received a new obloquy, this time handwritten, but this time it looks like straightforwarded menace to handle out devastating consequences for me. Why and what triggers her to commit all thes
J 21/12/2019 at 10:09 pm
I moved into an apartment a few weeks ago. One of the neighbours (whom is one of the building directors) has tried to challenge me for drying clean laundry in my guest bedroom on a laundry airing rack. Because she can see the edge of the rack from one of her apartment windows into my guest bedroom window..... I politely said Thankyou for bringing this to my attention and went on my way. On reflection I felt this was totally outrageous. This neighbour should not be looking in any of my windows in any case! So I rechecked the rules and regulations and lease and there is nothing related to not being able to dry laundry on a rack in your own home. So I continued occasionally to dry my clean laundry on my rack in my guest room. Now I have heard from another director of the building albeit politely, that their is a storm brewing and this neighbour is seemingly trying to get another neighbour to complain and for-warning that this nosey neighbour will be coming to me in person to deal with this!

Clearly this so called director is trying to abuse her so called power against me. I refuse to allow to be treated this way. Director or not. I just want a peaceful life and astonished with this behaviour. I feel that I don’t want to be confronted again with this in person and thinking about legal advice in relation to harassment. Any comments please would be welcome!

J
Tormented 16/11/2019 at 1:45 pm
My one nosy neighbour thinks it's okay to harass someone in their own home. They have no life what so ever it seems. They even try to get others involved too,by getting them to call me names and giving me smug dirty looks and saying personal things about me when I'm out and about. They talk lies about me and spread it around town so that others look down upon me.they have been saying that I'm mad. I have no friends ect. I think they have been listening to me threw the walls so that they can get dirt on me as well. They are heartless jealous evil bullys who seem to get pleasure from someone else's torment. I cannot stand them any longer. I hate seeing them ,hearing them and even talking to them.they think they are clever but in actuality they arent.i know it sounds like madness but this reality is real. I even hate walking past their house. I dont want to know anything about them. The bullying from others seems to happen more when I have been upset,or the next day after they might come out with smiles on their faces and greet me in front of others to make me seem like the mad one. when most of the time they seem miserable alot of the time they are reluctant to even say hello to me. it's only after I have been upset, they bother .they seem get pleasure out of my misery.i try not to say anything in the house no more because of them, because they will use it against me to smear campaign me. Make me look bad ect.
Reggie 15/11/2019 at 8:24 pm
I have been in my apartment for five years now, Me and my sixteen year old daughter. One year ago I had a young black couple move into our upstairs apartment were there is 4 apartments and two of them renting out to single woman one with a three year old and they've only been here for around two months. Anyways a year ago I had help this young black couple out with a new sectional for the front room a queen size bed and a kitchen table and chairs because they have three young daughters right now they're six five and two back then it would have been five three in one but I didn't want to see them eating separately in the front room or something so I Christian thing to do was I looked on eBay Craigslist and I searched for them and took my time , my truck , my gas and three different times went out and got these items fir them. And then I loan them $400 to boot because they have three little girls and they were losing their car I didn't want to see him use your car so they're going to pay me back while a couple months went by after knocking on the door never even going into their home once after getting all the stuff for him we weren't but real close friends but I've been very kind to them and they ended up after me knocking on the door few times going to management as I followed her to management and said I tried to rob her just so she did not have to pay me the money back she owed me and she called the police out and we'll have fun to have me arrested and I explained to them it was about the money she owed me and they told me Sybil to take Symbicort more or less bottom line is is I let go you're a God she was trying to say something about it and then I got upset until you but you are Thief well we could go I put a note on her door asking if she's seeing a package maybe one of her youngest catch it gotten hold of it by accident maybe not know any better carry in her apartment and I left a note asking if she found it or seen it so please just knock on my door all the sudden she came to my door screaming in my face saying I should call them thieves and when I said I already asked the other to Neighbors about it they seem pretty reliable everything pretty they seem like you're telling the truth and she yelled at me cuz cuz we're black well I have no I don't have a racist bone in my body if I had about it never helped her like I did her and her husband and her kids so you screaming at me and my daughter she's 16 came out and asked her to please leave she didn't I daughter stepped a few steps forward towards her and then she stepped through a fort with my daughter and my daughter kind of pushed her back so she raised the neighbor raise your phone up and said I'm calling the police and so increase came out she shouldn't have you arrested so when the priest came out they asked to Spain by the joke your head because I guess you told the police we try to choke her at this point I didn't happen so I I let it go but the next day they went to
Supreme 31/10/2019 at 3:11 pm
What do I do if a married lady insult me without doing nothing to her.after reporting her to her husband what do I do again without beating her
CGB 19/10/2019 at 1:22 am
Neighbour just threatend to stab my dog because he barks... And he barks because her boyfriend tormented him when he first moved in next door!!!
Darkbird 10/10/2019 at 9:15 pm
Ive been having problems with a neighbor, she has made serious things about my family and splatter rumors and comments about kids on face book. She is delusional and makes up serious lies and she has children her self, ive phoned the police 4 times now and the wont dont anything, until making up a serious lie which resulted in her being told off as they have found out the truth by other witnesses. Council arent helping as she has had over 40 complaints by different people in one month and they wont move her. What do i do ??
Sarah 06/10/2019 at 1:02 pm
I have lived in my flat for 20 years and at first it was fine but then new niebours moved in the flat underneath me..at first they seemed ok but after a while they were having showers at 3 and 4 am and waking me up...I asked the man nicely if he would be quieter but he took offence straight away and said he cant do anything about it as he does shift work and needs to wash before bed..I accepted it reluctantly..it continued to annoy me and after complaining to the council it stopped but now they make a very annoying banging sound for hours sometimes and are just very noisy...this has made my anxiety bad and I already suffer fro. Anxiety and Depression and am on medication for it...the man particularly is a very hostile and aggressive person who has shouted in my face when we spoke about it...it is maki g my life a misery. Even after the council wrote letters and recorded noise it didn't help at all as they are very aware of what is going on...
Kiwi 16/09/2019 at 10:34 pm
I can completely relate to the "Herd Mentality" victim and the woman with the bass thudding neighbour. Here in NZ I have been under surveillance of a retired British couple. Wish they'd go back to London. Whilst others around them have all sold up, we have clung on as this is our dream home. They are manipulative, deceitful, gas lighting, narcissistic, sociopaths who thrive on staring at everyone and gossiping about them. Unfortunately for me, my other neighbour is an only child who got his house built for him by his parents. Nearly 40 but acts the age of 16. Thud, thud, thud goes the bass through every inch of our house, it vibrates our walls. We tried 10 years ago to ask him nicely to adjust the bass. His reply: we should move. We live in an upmarket area. Never imagined we'd go through something like this. It affects my sleeping, parenting, everything. We moved cities for a year to get away only to have a property manager put scum in our house and lie about it. One of the tenants was a friend of his daughter's and we were told they were great tenants. I believed him as he was an ex police detective. We returned to smashed walls, broken glass all through garden, filth, rubbish. And of course the neighbours haven't changed one bit. The bass thudder had even thrown his decking scraps onto our property. I am not the same person from this experience. I am more closed off to people, am wary of being befriended by anyone and very distrustful of people's intentions. Very different to the happy, trusting person I was ten years ago. I am also a petite woman, only 5 ft 2. I wonder sometimes if this makes it easier for people to see me as someone they can bully. I can relate to menstrual issues due to the stress too. There truly are some hideous people out there. My advice- try taking withania and rhodiola. I am finding it has helped with the stress.
Tinker 15/09/2019 at 6:43 pm
My friend is having threats made against her by neighbours (to beat her up, throw acid, kill her 3 cats ...) and has already had a window broken. The neighbours involved are crack addicts. It is local authority housing, but the council isn't interested. There is an element of hate crime, as my friend is trans.

She has spoken to the police today but is so worried that if she gives names, the threats will be acted upon - and the police can't be there 24/7.

Local help groups seem limited to domestic violence issues. Brighton & Hove area - but I'm 4 hours' drive away.

Any ideas of how to get help?
Herd mentality victi 15/09/2019 at 2:38 pm
So what if your neighbor has an agenda against you, he recruits people, manipulates, and if you as much as raise your voice it is you who is seen as the harasser? And his pals testify. Who are the neighborhood some of whom are afraid of him. (One of my neighbors used to say hi to me only when the boss and his wife were not here. I had no grudge against him, but he also did what he was told by the boss, the salesperson, for example he brought the snow from his garden one very snowy winter on a piece of municipal land next to my garden which is forbidden. He did that with a lorry. The same was done by municipal /town snow plow workers who reveived a bottle of liquor from the boss of this suburb of detached houses.

Actually you only have protection against the poor and the weak. The marginalised people.

There is no protection against wealthy gangs and what you see in this forum as well you never mention the worst noise pollution but wait till they are teens or talk about their health.

I don't think it is right. We should be honest.
Herd mentality victi 15/09/2019 at 8:56 am
My sin that started this recruiting campaign, noise campaign, was not to take part in this gossiping, she the cashier used to gather people to gossip about other people that weren't in the street at the moment.

I showed i was bored and tried to avoid, but when they had been hanging around right next to my fence not being my next door neighbors for two years , i asked politely if they could move. use their own gardens.That wasn't taken well. That was what they had been waiting for. They became my "victims". I was trying to order them about. By asking why are they hanging around, loitering next to my fence, with company, kids , what is wrong with their gardens.

The recruiting started, they got people to join just out of sheer fun, or because they made out their kids were now my victims. I was "child hater".

I should have known not to ask since no normal person hangs around at other peoples garden fence to start with. They had already started this campaign by then.no normal person regards himself, herself welcome , but understand gangs of people are always a nuisance.

Or they respected their next door neighbors and their own privacy and plants in the garden, more than me, their cars etc and wanted to socialize but not pay the price but take its toll on me. So i should have realized normal people respect other people, all people the same to start with. Shoyld have seen they are bullies or sadistic manipulative predators and just move, to start with.
But was exhausted, with two children, we had just built the house , no support from relatives who live far etc
Herd mentality victi 15/09/2019 at 8:25 am
All the participants are wealthy, good jobs, income, health, some university educated, not mostly though, but all are from here, have connections, and many generations here, which I am not.


They profit from this a lot. Socially, financially, in every way. Have fun, community spirit roused by a common enemy, energy, and when they complain about me to friends and family, the friends and family come here and help to oversee the children, their grandparents used to stand in the street just staring here. Hardly ever go anywhere. They come here many times a day, take one child dome place so the parents nwver have to anywgere can stsy here keep watch and the rest of the gang stays screaming here. They take some to summer houses but the rest stay yellin, diing sport here.

They never do any noisy stuff next to any other neighbor.
Herd mentality victi 15/09/2019 at 8:02 am
The prosecutor was very partial and when i took legal channels to complain about his behaviour (he told me to move just like the predator who sued me and has recruited the town, and was outright rude to me as the other side was kid) he admitted being partial but said he had the right since i had asked legal assistance provided by town but she didn't help me at all since kids are always more important than women and i paid for nothing.

In restraining order hearing the predator who has recruited the neighborhood told they don't play in the street and plenty, plenty of other lies like I attack lone children but they are always here watching and allowing the harassment and when he and his wife got me the sentence they got here and told the rest and the powertool diy kids harassment got worse.

The same day or the next the football, soccer, floorball, ice hockey, sport started again, himself pulling the goal posts in the street which he had just denied in the court.

These dozens of kids used to hang about here as close they can, screaming and yelling in the street (they all have their gardens, there are many play parks for children within 2 min walking distance, football field, lovely forest behind their gardens etc etc) and at the same time they pretended to be afraid of me, a small woman 50 kg who have never touched them, yes, yelled sometimes.
Basically there has been constant noise since 2007.
2018 four of his pals around my house got dogs and they stay in their garden as well. Bark a lot. They take then walking and hang about waiting and standing for long periods of time until someone comes from the opposite direction and then they "accidentally" meet here in front of my house and the racket, barking goes on and on.

There has been constant construction project going within 100 metres basically from 2006. . When it starts, the boss who started this and his wife go and chat with the carpenters, the people who work at the site, pointing my direction, some of his pals go as well, same thing, what happens next is they start urinating in front of me if i try to use my garden _(havent basically tried for years without ear plugs), they excrete next to my fence and my childrens play house, they have a circular saw next to my fence.

This man who is a salesperson so his wife who has boasted to me about his brother being a policeman, had also been doing this hatecampaign and noise campaign in front of my eyes for years when he tried to make like he had nothing to do with it, like said quietly to me how funny that everyone seems to hate me.

I have very high blood pressure because of this, which used to be too low. I used to have a regular heavy period, but I haven't had one since this harassment got rough/ for years, i was very young to have my menopause, like about 40 years old when this stress of dozens of people harassing me started. This is not common in my family who look very young and don't have menopause this early. I have
Victim of Herd viole 15/09/2019 at 5:00 am
Harassment is on new a whole new level as a family starts recruiting people on their behalf to make noise. This happens when they pretend to be the victim of their victim like saying that if the neighbour complaints about their toddlers and twenty others screaming on the street their toddlers are the victims here.

They got this town to harass and participate by first bringing their kids here and then pretending to be my victims. They twenty families bring their childreb here to scream and then say they are afraid of me and if i go to street they call the police and they did and i have recieved the restraining order and conviction of assault which i did by screaming, i assaulted them by scrraming and was convicted of assault when i screamed.
Before that my harassment had gone from 2007. My sentence was given 2017 and screaming took place im 2016.

I thought this recruiting was just bullying but they use their offspring to harass and powertools and dogs. There has kot been a quiet quarter of an hour from 2007 when this family in it sales business, abd a cashier moved here. His brother is a policeman.

I have suffered from hate campaign, noise campaign, mobbing, harassment, targeting, small town terrorism, flying monkeys from 2007 and my children.
johnny 09/09/2019 at 3:09 pm
how do i get out an injuction out on a ex familey member she rob me his nan he broke in many time is i cant keep him away his nan is abit slow so she lets him in and he robs her how do i keep him away as i will have to leave my mom as i cant cope anymore she lets him rob my stuck...............
Stressedout 02/09/2019 at 8:25 pm
I just moved to my current location two weeks ago. I have a neighbor who repeatedly plays her music very loudly, but the bass is the problem. It is so loud my clock fell off the wall and it rattles the light fixture. I have addressed this to my landlord and now the cops. She has taken upon herself to make sure to do it at all times of day and night. And this includes blasting her music in here car. Mind you this was after asking face to face if she and her boyfriend could turn it down nicely. I’m at my wits end and get anxiety every time she comes home or I am on my way home. I have no peace. What is some advice that can be given to me? And no earplugs are not gonna fix this amount of stupid. *real advice only please*
RLS 11/08/2019 at 10:43 am
I live next door to an old women who has made mine and the young children's life hell for 3 years. We have had to have the police out on many occasions as she stalks and harrasses us when kids in the garden. She has instructed solicitors demanding they make me take down my gazebo in my garden, remove my bamboo fence as she doesn't like it and continued to lie about me spaying her with a hose being verbally abusive etc. She however is the one being a nuisance on purpose to try and get a reaction , it upsets me and the children luckily the landlord in on my side as she knows the neighbor to be unpleasant. I'm at my wits end with this.
Bunmy 01/07/2019 at 7:30 pm
I received a 30 day notice to vacate because I went and put Court papers on previous landlords because their tenant had harass and threaten me with putting mud ( [removed] pervious landlords and associates ) over door , following me around next door when I'm up stairs or down stairs. Had their friend at my door when I came home plus showed this young guy what I look like . I had been calling Columbus'polices dispatcher between 09/2008 to 05/2016 when I lived in previous landlord's rental house.

I moved beside ( 07282016 ) neighbors at [removed] to find out these neighbors knows each other 2694 2696 and other neighbors on Divot PL Columbus Ohio 43211that next to me .

Later on I find out these neighbors so happen to know pervious landlords and their tenanted who harass me and threaten me. This neighbor's visitors at 2692 divot PL Columbus Ohio 43211 has been following me around next door putting something at wall that smells when I come down stairs during the day you can smell something coming from ( at the wall where stairs our I find out our stairs , up stairs hallway and bathroom in same area) next door and at night between the hours of 2 am and 5 am one night I called Columbus'police dispatcher they send a officer out but by the time they got here the smell gone So put fan in hallway up stairs for now on and downstairs to I put fan. But the fan not working. So I checked hallway up stairs during the day no smell but there is a smell down stairs so I got some shampoo and spray in that area that smell good.,but the bad smell coming from next door come back.

Then to find out I'm being monitor by this neighbor.( 06262019 ) I so happen to be on phone in my house speaking about the townhome at [removed] that been vacant since 10282018 I said who ever lived there was nasty. Why this neighbors 2692 calls the pervious tenant . I end up seeing these three people keep walking past my window , so I called Columbus police dispatcher and told them I was speaking about something in the privacy of my house so [removed] so happen to call these people to get something started. Wow. Remind you this neighbor and their visitors had been trying to get something started since I moved here following me around ( I started to say something to them but I called Columbus'police instead) next door , putting a smell at wall and having their associates to put a dog ( there children that plays in area too ) iin area of the townhome so I can just go out one way.

Plus I let this Columbus' police dispatcher know about this harassing and threaten situation by this neighbor and their visitors since 03232017 .plus told Ambiance vallas rental office manager and the owner of this property . Plus 6onyourside of
Columbus Ohio.

Remind you I don't know pervious landlord's tenants just like I don't know these tenant here on ,2692 Divot PL Columbus Ohio 43211.

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smitty2019 13/06/2019 at 5:39 pm
I need to know if I have grounds to file a harassment lawsuit against my neighbor? This started in Nov 2018. The drunk guy came over and threatened to shoot my cat. So my husband which is Bi-polar went after him. He never went onto his property. The next day there was a yelling match and the old lady came out and put her nose into the problem when it was just between the men so she called the cops on us saying he threatened to kill her....NO So since then we has called the cops on us 2 more times cause of the way we had our blinds open and we had a camera in our window each time the cops did nothing to us. So now she called the dog warden saying we let our dog roam the neighborhood which is a lie we have a fenced in back yard. Now she called Penn Dot saying our tree was blocking her view. Penn Dot found findings untrue and is doing nothing about it. My son is afraid to go outside to do anything cause he is afraid they will call the cops on him. My 10 year old son shouldn't be afraid to have fun on his own property. How much more can we take? She wont stop can I get her for harassment?
Saa 20/05/2019 at 6:15 pm
Last year there were four housing vacate on our block including a vacate house. all four were filled. I was thankful at first until our peace and livelihood became very isolated and saddened. One I couldn't help the people and dared not to. Secondly, their was too much going on at once. The person who initially rrented the property went in the hospital. while here were 15 adults in total- at least four teen agers, and 12 children in total. The major issue was that three of the cars were filled with adults, clothes and they were sleeping in front of the home rented, and in and out all morning throughout the night. The children sometimes would urinate in the front yard, or go behind the vacate home and sometime inside the vacate home. There is an abandoned car which they played in frequently.
The worst things had begun occurring loud music out of the car, loud disagreements, screaming children. My daughter has a rare climate disease, Upper Airway Obstruction, she can not be exposed to chemical,, mold, tobacco, insects that carry bacteria, outdoor allergens, and mostly severe cold climate, or extreme hot climate she is prone to pneumonia , she also has Asthma, Sleep Apnea, and mobility issue-- she spends the majority of her time in doors shielding away from Virus, other peoples germs, outdoors and the very smallest thing that may cause one issue and lead to another one-- causing Upper Airway Obstruction, she can not have anesthia and this poses a major threat. She has Down Syndrome, and I too have a host of illness. And at the moment I am very mentally stressed by the neighbors and their inability to be civil and to keep things in a good perspective opposed to all the adult challenging, bullying and causing more concern at a alarming rate-- there is standing water on my side of the street, which causes another high concern. Besides, the health hazard of bacteria, mosquitoes damage to the street an d the fact that the children not only bathed in this water and played throughout last summer this year its worse. Most of those children are no longer in that house, but the often come and there still quit a bit still there-- now there's eight adults including the teenagers or young adults because they both have boys living there which brings a different out crowd. and at least thee children, but the grandmother brings lots of children and other people in-- and sometimes stray people come and go--- they do not have trash service so the neighborhood dogs was tearing the trash up, now they just hold on to at least 6 or more 30 gallon bags and sometimes sits them on top of the car until they take them away one by one--- but the dogs both come back and forth in my yard, they allow them to walk themselves, they refuse to leave my yard, I ve ask them from a distance call you dog, they ignored me and continue talking on phone--
So, my mail and packages have been missing and a number of times I would see my mail man place the mail in the box as he did thi
Jenny 11/05/2019 at 10:19 am
I am living in a rented house . I have 3 dogs .my neighbours are harressing me all the time and one person he instigates all the others. We can't have a birthday party for the kids he has a problem . We can't even watch TV with a little extra volume. He keeps telling us it's to loud. When it is not we have stopped having parties since he gave a complaint against us. My landlord said he had the same problem when he and his mother was living in the house . I like the house and don't want to shift from here but I am unable to take my dogs out for a walk the neighbours children keep hitting them and throwing stones and even if the do there business in my compound they have a problem saying it's smelling. What can I do I'm so stressed. Please tell me what I can do . Cos the man who is doing all this is a reporter from some newspaper or so. What can I do so that he minds his own business. In his own home. Cos I hate fighting and I never northern what they do.
willydo 29/04/2019 at 7:45 pm
I have been harassed by a neighbour for 7 years. He keeps up the harassment because he eventually went too far and the police charged him. He continues but i have found not to rise to his banging, thumping, staring in my window and other forms of harassment has won through in the end. He is gradually stopping as it is obviously getting him nowhere - difficult i know but keep recording and logging but ignore harassers - they are the losers in life.
Dog 24/04/2019 at 11:46 pm
I was walking my neighbor's old dog today. We were just in front of the house.
A man in a van was stalking me and creeping on me because I wasn't picking up the dog's poop fast enough for his liking.

His behaviour was scaring me, so I started walking towards the house and I pulled out my phone.
He said to me "I know where you live", pointed to my house and drove away.

I took the dog inside, came back out and removed the poop.

The creepy man had lied and reported me to the council, saying that I wasn't picking up the dog's poop.

I don't know who he is, I only have his registration.

How can I raise a complaint against him?
Weekimmyxo 03/04/2019 at 7:46 pm
Hi

I live in a four in a block and my neighbour who live below me downstairs has been making my life hell since he moved in last year he constantly bangs, does diy late at night , his dog barks all the time too cos he locks it in his bedroom all the time so the dog just barks non stop and he plays music but his music doesn’t bother me it’s just everything else he does and I have to my housing association about him and they just told me to go to police and I did that last year but they couldn’t do anything cos I didn’t have any proof but now he has cctv outside his bedroom and living rooms they aren’t on during the day just at night time so I think he is watching every night who comes and goes from block. No one ever comes to visit me because of him so I’m stuck in this flat on my own all the time. Don’t know what to do anymore please help!
CW93 18/03/2019 at 4:10 pm
Hello, just looking for some advice please? We have neighbours that are constantly harrassing us they keep contacting the council and other services we have done all we can to solve the issue weve signed an agreement that when we play music its played between 10am & 6pm which we never ever played it on the night anyway we have stuck to it and we rarely play any music because were that cautious now on what we can and cant do in our house and when we do its played between those times. They are also now putting complaints in of banging and noise coming from our home we have been trying to do some work to make our home look good this week and also have had our daughters friends over the weekend which now they are also complaining about. Were at our wits end now nothing we do to solve it is good enough we feel like were being bullied and harrassed, our other neighbours have said they cant hear nothing. So what can we do? They also made a point when they come round before all the complaints that theirs is a brought house and ours is rented.
Thank you
Claire 10/03/2019 at 8:33 pm
I regretabably had to sell my late mothers house 5 years ago (coming up) that i lived in since i was 6 yrs old due to not being able to cope with the size or the maintence and moved to be near friends who now 5yrs later disspersed and no longer in communication with as the place where we all met closed up and everyone went their seperate ways, Which left me very isolated and alone as no family.

From the first night i moved in there was violence from the perperatrators next door that have incessantly bullied, tormented and frightened me and my cat with intimdation at my window at night when he sits there, constant DIY FANATICS, INCESSANANT LOUD MUSIC, Rows and fights, violence with each other which end up smashing the place up and throwing things at the wall.

Then in latter years it progressed heavily with abusing my good neighbouring to see if i befriended them would help so l allowed them to store things in my garage and said they cut have keys cut so they wouldnt disturb me all the time and i kept his trailor in my garage for 2 yrs or more and i even allowed them to use my car parking space as i dont drive.

Well they abused it by then putting up metal poles up so nobody could park there, my front fence was taken down and then piled up outside my front door, but cant prove by law it was them, they dug up my turf at the front, i took pictures, then the intimdation started and frightening my cat at tne window....ALL THIS ON TOP WITH ALL THE APE SOUNDING noises he makes whilst doing DIY, watching football, anything really, the shouting, the laryiness, the INCESSANT DIY, the rows and fights, i even had to buy black out curtains due to them having these lights right looking into my bedroom and i couldnt sleep as they kept them on ALL NIGHT, it stopped when i bought black out curtains as then it blocked the light.

Ive made constant logs from the very first night i moved in in 2014 and with much detail as possible, i still make logs, keep journals, take photographs.

Ive gone to the council, the Police and i started legal peoceddings all have been dropped as no one believes me, as far as everyone is concerned im banging on their walls, yes i have when they steal my peace and tell them to shut up, but they can do no wrong.

No they have joined forces with their family friend who lives on the other side of me im a mid terrace and now its both sides against me.

Im now forced to sell my home, but i have learning needs and suffer with mental health which has been mega effected, they hate and despise im on benefits as they have verbally made that absoutely clear and they work, plus when i bought this house they both sides wanted to buy it.

I cant move on my own i cant sell on my own and have no friends or family to help, im sharing my story as im disappearing they have succesfully won, im rehoming my beloved cat and i will be here no longer, i made a log today as they know all the cases i have had to drop and they know they have won an
di 22/02/2019 at 1:33 pm
Reading all the stories on here, in a way gives me incentive and hope. The law is a complete ass, and yes I agree, the perpetrators or asbo neighbours, always appear to be the ones that most people in authority believe.
I have been pushed out of my home where I lived for a no.of yrs by 'people' whom my previous harassing neighbour threatened to get in, because I never took him seriously when he bared his chest at my front door and constantly hurled abuse at my kids and myself over the garden fence and f.door.
Within two months of these people moving in, I had rat bait thrown over for my dog, my fencing wrecked, abuse shouted at me through the walls, late night drills on the walls, loud music played, hammering on my f.winduw and abuse hurled at me in full public view. Comm.police and council did nothing but make matters worse for me, by sending me acvusational and threatening letters. Stating they would put recording equipment in my home, when it was not council owned but private residential. I kept logs on these vile 'people' for two years, and eventually got courage to seek out sols advice. Only to be told, that there is nothing that can be done. I can take out an injunction or harassment order, but was told that from experience, they do not help. They only serve to hike up a hefty bill that would amount to thousands of pounds over a long period of time, resulting in no justice to the victim or harrassed/abused neighbour. So reluctantly, I've had no alternative but to move out of my home that was bought and paid for. To make matters worse, when I go hone to check on the house and collect stuff, common.police arrive in a marked car, yet another form of harassment. No offers of help, only intimidation and even more harrassment from the so called people that are supposed to help you, claiming they have a duty of care. Well I can assure every one out there that is going through or has gone through the same injustice. That no such so called 'duty of care' was shown to myself and daughter having to endure the deliberate nightmare thrown at us every day for the last 3 yrs.
Does any one remember the case of the lady and her daughter who jumped from a bridge, due to bullying and harrassment from neighbours and so called authorities.? Because it appears the same bullying and harrassment still exists, and worse still not a court, solicitor, judge or jury is able to put this injustice right.
Therefore, As far as I am concerned, UK law regarding antisocial behaviour from neighbours, remains a complete ass, in that nothing can be done to deter and stop these vile people from bullying and harrassing decent law abiding people of this country.
To all you solicitors and authorities out there. This should serve as a wake up call.
As antisocial behaviour would not be tolerated in many other countries by courts of law. So why here????
Jjk 21/02/2019 at 2:59 am
All of you get an injunction yourself against your neighbours
The victim is NEVER believed I have been harassed for three years by a man who has no friends and no wonder his only friends are neighbour below me who they all share drugs together I’m in the middle flat in north London owned by Peabody. The man has lied and it’s proven as I was abroad the police and Peabody do nothing and I have been arrested, questioned gone to criminal and civil court both thrown out and Peabody even got an injunction against me when I was the victim when the judge has now thrown it out. I’m going to sue them but right now I got a case against this weird obsessed fat loser and once I get that injunction you can bet I am going to the media. Watch this space.
Don’t let these people bully you just know others out there are going through it to and EVERYONE knows the REAL VICTIM is NEVER believed but we believe you and that’s all that matters.
Hope it works out for all of you. X
rosa 20/02/2019 at 7:10 pm
I moved into my home in summer 2017 and then heard that the last people had been hounded out. I gave no thought to it but its now happening to me. The woman next door but one shouts 'whore' when I walk past her house (I have to walk past to get to mine, its a cul de sac), she parks her broken down car in my parking space (I just let her do it to keep the peace) but then yells and takes photos when I have visitors who park up for maybe an hour. Nobody will visit me now because of her madness. She has told everyone on the street that I 'might' damage her car and asked everyone to keep an eye out! Her car is a wreck anyway, it's beyond belief how obsessed with me she is. Her boyfriend stands at the window and stares at me every day/night as he knows my routine, I think she may be jealous that hes looking at me, but I dont want him to! They're a disgusting family who attract maggots and rats but blame everyone else, they pretend to be disabled so they dont need to work and get everything paid. Their dog barks non stop in the garden and their kids run over other peoples grass screaming. Nobody will complain as she doesnt give them trouble like she gives me. She's a huge obese woman and seems jealous of my life, but I work hard.
Claire82 07/02/2019 at 8:16 pm
Im getting neighbours harrassing me and my partner we get threats and shouted at in the street and through the walls neighbours even called rspca on us for no reason and we get the same thing everyday
Madammim 02/01/2019 at 6:57 am
I have never had issues with my neighbors until 2017. One neighbour to be correct. In 2016 I started my flock of chickens which at the time was about 18 i hatched some eggs and got a few cockerels which all but one got rehomed before the first complaint was lodge about i had nothing but cockerels which were crowing all the time. Which was false as i had one cockerel and about 15 hens a investigation was done and come near the close of 2017 was informed everything was fine abd they found no issue. My flocked increased in size this year the neighbour who called them the first time came to my door pounded on it and verbally abused me at my door step for a good 6 mins at least told me she made a complaint to the council and environmental and told me one way or the other my chickens were going. About 20mins after this i went to check on my chickens and low and behold she was outside in her garden looking over into my yard which is slightly lower then hers and is separated by 2 other gardens once she saw me she came over her fence and started the verbal abuse again. Told her to mind her own business and said i would call the cops if she kept it up to chick she called me a nasty name an went inside.even tho this same person never had a issue with my chickens before and i even went out of my way to make sure my neighbors one before i was getting chickens and if any had issues to contact me etc and when asked she said she liked the chickens and the cockerel that it really did my are country village more country like and she liked that. But she did contact the council this time saying not only did we have cockerels,but rats and the chickens were kept in nasty conditions and were sick. Council came out with their pest ppl and looked found nothing really wrong and said i had more then enough traps for rats etc and warned me if i saw field mice to remove the traps as if one was killed by "me" i could get a fine and they said they had no issues other then the fact some of the younger chicks i had might be males and once i told them they would be rehomed etc they were happy with it and asked if they could keep a open line of contact with me if this person contacted them again which i told them everything she said/did but they made notes hence open contact with them and they left. Fast forward to the start of dec when me and my family planned to visit my family in the USA and had arranged a friend to come and check on my animals at least 2 times and feed them etc. Rewind to a week ago when my friend foubd out the RSPCA was called and had been around and even put fricking tape over the front door key hole and i guess a note through my door. Friend respond to them told them what was going on the said they checked my chickens and they seemed good etc and were happy with everything etc. Well last night i got back from the USA and found this out. Needless to say we are all sure this is the same lady that has verbally abused me and has been using the council as a fo
Lou 30/12/2018 at 1:31 am
My neighbours are absolutely disgusting people. We moved in to our council property 2 years ago from a refuge and wanted a peaceful life until we could move out of the area as it was no longer safe. The first year was fine but then the neighbours started banging on the walls and slamming cupboards (their kitchen is next to our living room) the dogs are left in the kitchen all day barking constantly. Her husband goes through our bins, takes pictures of my 2 year old brother, looks through the windows and says disgusting things to us. She is the one that bangs and gets her brother round for back up. They have gone round the village telling lies about me and my family, we've had people harrass us when we're out and shove my brothers pushchair out the way and phoned the council saying my mum is a prostitute and she neglects her 2 year old son. She recently came round to the house banging on the door shouting the odds at us about how she is sick of US banging yet it's the other way round. She threatened to go to the council and get us kicked out like she did the other people that used to live here. I suffer with anxiety and depression and since she found out she has gotten worse and she finds it funny to stress us out and cause pain attacks. We've called the police and they never even came out even though this house is flagged already for safety reasons. And we have complained to council multiple times with recordings but they just say it could be our TV yet why would we be watching dogs barking all day for a programme. If my brother is crying, they bang and shout shut up through the walls and if hes asleep they bang to wake him up. We are hopefully moving soon but I dont know how much more we can take
Bub 27/12/2018 at 10:29 pm
Hi OK where to start. I was living at potts point and a neighbour started because I went to lay down to put my legs up after having cancer I have lymphoma and my legs swell bad. She started yelling saying f... Off out of the room I ignored her then she started banging and smashing everything she could so I left my bedroom. It just got worse she had men at my bedroom windows throwing rocks at it and yelling out how there going to rape me and who is first and what there going to do to me.. After about a week of that men following me and threatening me another neighbour got involved he was heaps worse, he was involved the whole time he yelled out through the wall I'm going to kill you. So we left there was ather reasons as well but of course that was the main reason. But when we got to our new place the unit door was wide open. We thought it was strange but carried on moving our stuff in we came back the second time and the door was wide open again. They followed me here now his getting in the man hole looking through the lights that have gaps in them, as well as the air vents we are on the top floor and I don't know how he gets to the air vents but he talks through them and wisals through them, the thing is he doesn't try to hide it. Now I can't go anywhere because my athere half hasn't been able to work because he is worried now we haven't got the money to go anywere.
Jones 11/12/2018 at 2:47 pm
After that the abuse off the neighbours was getting worse her sons was breaking in my house when i went to the shops the neighbours was standing outside my house screaming abuse and sticking 2 fingers up telling me to F-off? Throwing stones and eggs at my front door and windows posted dog poo through the front door because i grassed them up to the police and council i was being accused of being a prostitute and having men of all races visiting me when my partner was at work it was a living nightmare she even went through my bin to take rubbish to the council said i was throwing it in her garden then she was driving on the footpath trying to run me over outside my house she got her cousin to inject a needle in my spine when i was waiting outside the school gates she hit my son the school refused to help me as it happened in the school gates near public footpath i reported it to the police and was told because she punched my son in his back it was not skin on skin contact they could not help me yet my son had a big bruise on his back i thaught the police and council was here to help and stop crime but they was not interested i was attacked by these neighbours and had my ribs broken and she got her new boyfriend to attack my partner leaving him with a broken leg these neighbours ruined my life and health and is still living in the same address causing problems with other neighbours i have seen these neighbours run 10 people out of their homes and the police and council are not interested i was told only to contact the police when i have been stabbed or attacked or go missing? I got intouch with citizens advice and ombusman nobody could help i wish i could sue the police and council for 20 years of harassment and abuse my partner and kids still live at the address but refuse to be bullied out of their home now their house is private property and its caused more problems with the neighbours they threatened me with knives and told me they are going to have me shot and cut my throat and burn the house down when i am asleep in bed? She accused my partner of rape when he was away working in london she said i have caused her rat problems and parking problems? I dont think she is mentally ill just evil and she is scary. I was told some people are just jealous and evil and dont like to see other ppl happy i have done nothing to deserve any of the abuse i am a good neighbour and good person she accused me of having a proper family home and is now filming my partners house to see when i visit So she can let her dog out barking for hours it does not take much to trigger off neighbours abuse just buying something new or new clothes or simply walking past her house to the shops will trigger off abuse unprovoked abuse.
Jones 11/12/2018 at 2:28 pm
I had to move out of my family home because i was being stalked and attacked by my nextdoor neighbour and her sons for over 20 years it started off when i moved in she told me i was not welcome to live in my new home as she wanted it for her sister inlaw? She told me not to bother unpacking my suitcase and gave me 2 weeks to leave it was a rented council house and she too lives in a council house but on benefits and never worked a day in her life she is what some ppl would call a breeder to get a free council house and free benefits.
So what gives her the right to dictate who can and cant live there? I was living in flats and had a little boy So i moved out of the flat with my baby and partner to have a house with and garden you dont think about neighbours when you move home do you? I put my neighbours rant down to her having a bad day as she was a single mother with 3 boys she came over to mine and apologised i forgave her and within a couple of days she was threatening to kill me and gut me like a fish over the back garden fence when i was hanging out my washing on the washing line i told my partner he said ignore her So i did and she started screaming at me telling me i was to move out or she will ruin my life i tried to ignore her but the more i ignored her the worse she got. She said if i reported her to the police and council i was dead? Then she would apologise and tell me she has jealousy issues So i would forgive her again and within a couple of days the threats started again i was trying to be neighbourly towards her yet keep myself to myself she started demanding alcohol and money off me and wanted to walk to school with my when my son started nursery i let her to keep the peace and she was going around telling ppl she is my best friend? I am a private person So i would try to live my own life and avoid her next thing i knew is i was pregnant with other son and she started harrassing me and stalking me she was obsessed in me when i put rubbish in my bin outside she would run outside to scream abuse at me and when i was in my back garden she would come out screaming at me she would follow me to the shops and spit at me saying things like you think your better than me i felt unsafe as she threatened to kill me with a kitchen knife she said she is going to gut me like a fish and kill my unborn baby and would throw bleach on my washing and flood my garden with hose pipe So i had enough and phoned the police and council for help the police said without witnesses or video evidence their hands was tied? They told me to report her to the council So i did the council told me to write down times and dates and log everything So i did for about 6 months the council said it was not worth the paper its written on as its a police issue not council issue So i would report it to the police and they said its a council issue as they will be ridiculed arresting a single mother of 3 boys?
After that the abuse off the neighbours was getting worse her sons
Dee 07/12/2018 at 2:10 pm
I moved in to a sheltered bungalow 11monthe ago as my old place was full of damp and mold. Well this move is the worse one I've ever had. My new neighbours had already decided that I have had 3 moves in 3 years for causing trouble which isn't true and have made my life a living nightmare. I've been abused spat at had a poison pen letter. They then started breaking into my property with a key but insurance won't pay out due to the police say they haven't got a log number etc. I ring 101 and guess what I hot the log number is needed but still insurance won't pay out. I'm not going to be able to afford Christmas as they stole all my Christmas boxes plus an awful amount of my personal stuff. They even went through my personal paperwork and I've heardrum a neighbour since say stuffs that was only in my paperwork. I'm scared and I feel worthless. Some days I feel I would be better off dead. I live with disabilities and have just found out that they think I might have COPD so going for tests. These neighbours have reported Me to the DWP as a fraud just had about all I can take and I've only been here 11months.
Suki 08/11/2018 at 10:22 am
My friend who is going through a separation and has 4 minors and the neighbor has threatened him with violence . How can I get an injunction against him. He lives opposite in council property.
Thanks
sam 29/10/2018 at 11:51 am
Disgraceful neighbours lives next door to me, I feel that her and her two daughters and husband are racist she is trying to get rehoused by saying i am harassing her when it is the other way around. she and her daughters have put snails in my letter box, thrown dirty nappies from her grand son into jmy garden, bangs on my wall all day all night, stalks my phone, stalks my life, my bank account my mail. a living nightmare family. She lies constantly all the time and is obsessed with me.
Lou 25/10/2018 at 11:54 am
How do the perpetrators get away with the harassment and the victim doesn't I can relate to all the messages above my problems are repeated as to what happened to previous tenants it is like looking in a mirror at what has happened to previous tenants I have not complained to housing as I think they have better things to do but this week I got another letter so I have now decided I will complain about everything but I do think I won't be believed but I am also getting cctv to prove exactly what is happening let's hope that will put a stop to things but I doubt it
morgalefae 24/10/2018 at 10:02 am
I have lived at my current address for 3.5-4 years now and never had any issues with any of my neighbors until last Nov/Dec 2017 when I recieved a letter from my local council in Jan 2018 informing me that someone has complained about noise coming from my property and the noise was from multipul cockerels. I responded via email that I was very sorry and asked when the complaint was logged as in late nov early dec I did have 4 cockerels and this due to hatching out my own chickens eggs and that 3 were rehomed in late nov early dec as they had just started to crow and did not want to bother the neighbors with that many cockerels. I was was informed that the complaint was recieved on the 1st of Jan this was 2-3 weeks after I had rehomed the 3 cockerels he said they would install nosie monitors in the complaints home in around May I was informed that they had concluded and they had found that while my only remaining cockerel could be found annoying by some he was not a noise nuisance and the case was shut.

Shortly after this I had a neighbour who I never had issues with and was quite friendly with arrive on my door step who upon my door opening decided to shout verbal abuse at me tell me I had to get rid of all my f-ing chickens that they were dirty smelly f-ing things tell me my cockerel never shut up would crow his f-ing head off and that because of my chickens she had flies in her house and claimed we had a herd of rats in our garden and demanded to know what I was going to do.

I told here everything I was doing which was weekly house cleaning sometimes 2 weekly house cleanings if not more for the coops as we have a large one and a small one from younger chicks we also have rat traps out we were getting large fly traps to help control flies even tho we and are closest neighbours had no more flies then normal I even asked them we were putting stuff in their houses to control odor as well.She kept interupting me when I was speaking kept up her verbal abuse of me keep in mind i'm still in my front doors frame while this is going on about 5 mins after her yelling abuse and interupting me I finally told her I was sorry she did not like them that I had come to her on various occasions asking if she had issues with my chickens and cockerel to which when asked she said she liked my chickens and their noises compared to the bloody dogs barking from the people that live behind our house to retorted by saying what normal person tells their neighbor they have a issue with their animals when they can report it to the council which she informed me she had to start with and that she has done so again and that she reported me to envorment as well to which I responded a normal person would talk to their neighbor and tell them the issues they have and give the neighbor a chance to right anything also informed her it was sad she felt like that and that I was not getting rid of my chickens to which she said they will go one way or another.to which she fliped
kel 20/10/2018 at 5:11 am
I've been living inane two bed flat for nearly 7 yrs . For the 1st 5 yrs were fine . Then i had a fall out with my neighbours and in 2016 i was robbed god knows what they thought cuz they decided they would not only beat me the ran me over in a van which nearly killed me. I was on life support for 3 wks had 3 spinal fractures . I had multiple sustained injurys . Had to learn to walk again . Now 2 yrs down the line important getting the verble abuse . Its relentless. Even as important writing this i know they can see . It sounds like important crazy but far from it sounds. Its all from the falling out with certain people and being run over which was made to look like a robbery. I've got one of them little spy detector things. I just want to get a move and start a fresh. Important not a grass . It's not something i do unless its getting to the point of what it is now. Its horrible not being able to relax or have any privircy in my own home. People have gone about things in a bad way .If imleft
important going . But important not goin anywhere untill I've got a another place . They have given the game away by doing this as its obvious they all know or had some part in me getting run over.
JO JO 18/10/2018 at 2:54 pm
I have been harassed by my crazy neighbor for 15 years. I am mentally ill and can no longer take the name calling and bullying. I call the police they talk to her but she won't stop. What are my rights
Msdevil 17/10/2018 at 12:38 pm
what a joke this article is. The police DO NOT take any complaints seriously. The council/authorities or social care do not do anything either. It's ok making notes of the harassment etc but nothing still gets done!
Bex 14/10/2018 at 9:19 pm
My neighbours have been given my family hell for 3 yrs now, there children have smashed my window, damaged my door an egged my house numerous times, we're in touch with the local policing team who have isued the youths asbo's an have allowed them to break them, now the neighbours kids have got friends who also live in my street to give my family hell, we've been named called an had glass bottles thrown at our home, we've reported it to council who hasn't done anything, they are now drug dealing an we are unable to leave our home due to threats, now the police an council just say move. What else can I do to.?
Spider 05/10/2018 at 9:06 pm
My neighbours are smoking cannabis and the smell comes through my daughters bedroom window on several occasions she has been taken I'll from the disgusting smell .She has itp a blood disorder ,chronic fatigue syndrome and a heart condition.They also have threatened my daughter and family when they have been high on drugs.I reported everything to the police and my housing officer.But now they've made false accusations against me and the police have given me a warning i refused to sign as I'm telling the true.My daughter is in and out of hospital have regular transfusions which is a very stressful time for us.I'm disgusted the police and housing are not taking my reports very serious.The neighbours have three small children who i feel are at a high risk in this living environment.
Jack 27/09/2018 at 9:47 am
My nieighbour is harassing my 11 yr old son , she doesn’t speak to us and we get nasty evil looks and sometimes a finger gesture, she stares at my son and points at him , it is effecting him , he is scared to walk outside or walk to school alone , this has gone on for 3/4 years now , what can be done
Eastgate1 29/08/2018 at 2:21 pm
when I moved into my property my neighbour was unhappy because she didn’t want a family living next door, the previous tennant was a single male firefighter who was never home, the first comment ever made to myself from her was any noise and i’l have you gone, she owns her property and mine is rented.
After only a few short months we had a falling out over an on street parking space I was parked in becuse she felt her visiting mother deserved it more.
Things have escalated since then, she has taken photos of my child playing in the garden and my husband doing the gardening, I called the police but they found no evidence, I have had slashed tyres, my landlord receives constant complaints about me varying from things such as me painting my front fence which I had permission for to complaints of noise nuisance I am on the brink of loosing my home, I leave for work at 5 am and am being told that that’s waking her up but I have to work to pay my bills, the majority of the rest of the complaints are things like my daughter waking her in th middle of the night “as she suffers from nightmares” probably due to the weird noises that come from the pipes under the beroom floor boards, or in the summer making to much noise in th garden (she’s 3 and will play)
She frequently comes and checks the tax on my cars for some odd reason
I have had the police wake me up at my door several times because she has called in the middle of the night to say I’m screaming (which I’m not)
I have had complaints made against me to social services saying I’m abusing my daughter and that she isn’t fed (all of which is completely untrue and has been deemed so by social services)
Today I have received a call from the Rspca to say that I am abusing my 2 dogs and not feeding them, both of my dogs are well cared for and fed correctly, I pay for a dog walker to come in during the day when I’m on a long day at work and they have a dog flap the rest of the time giving them access to both the house and garden all day, I frequently take them to the vets for check ups and have them both on care plans which in my opinion isn’t one of your everyday animal abusers priority’s.
I am at the end of my teather with her now, It is physically and mentally exhausting always haven’t to worry about what’s coming next, I cant just move as my area is expensive and I’ve struck a great deal on the rent here but I can’t cope like this anymore, what could I do?
Ontheverge 22/08/2018 at 9:42 am
I live in a block of 4 flats,myself and my nice neighbours this is happening to live on the ground floor with immediate access to to the shared gardens.A new guy mid 20s moved into the flat above my nice neighbours 2 years ago and from day one has been threatening and harassing both myself and my lovely neighbours.we can’t do anything without him contacting the people who look after the lease to complain about literally anything we do,I’ve just had a baby and the stress is taking it’s toll.Hes been physically abusive and I’ve received abusive texts claiming I’m tryibg to steal his cat! We’ve had to install cctv as he got violent because he didn’t like where the garden bin was placed and decided to throw it at our doorway...surprise surprise he’s comlained about the cctv.Things seem to escalate when something goes wrong in his life.we just respond to the complaints via the management agency and keep quiet.They know he’s a trouble maker,this guy just needs to mind his own business.i even witnessed him steal my neighbours garden pots over a dispute about a parking space.its all just unnessersary
Shady 14/07/2018 at 7:24 pm
So I went on holiday for a month, came back to find out a guy just moved in next door to mine. This neighbor of mine, came and knocked on my door for the first time to introduce himself and I thought He was just being friendly. So I was nice to him and talked in a friendly manner. After that, he began putting notes through my letter box asking for a chap. Although I don’t know what a chap means. He began knocking on my door every day after asking for a chap and every morning I wake up, he has put a note through my letter box asking for this chap. So I confronted him and told him I don’t appreciate him inconveniencing me and that he must respect my privacy. I called the police to report this issue. Then neighbor saw me one afternoon and apologised. I thought that would be the end of this harassment. Although, if I went to the shops and on coming back into my flat, he would sit in front of his flat waiting for me to get back so he could talk to me. I would say hello and get in my flat. But today while I was watching he England game in my flat, I heard a loud bang on my door, lo and behold it was this neighbor guy of mine, he told me to come into his flat to watch the football. I was on the phone with my fiancé at the time. I told neighbor I was good and not interested in watching the football at his flat. I went back in and closed my door. He came back after a few mins again to bang my door so loud, I opened for the second time and he said again to come to his flat and watch the football. I replied to him that he was a stubborn man. I was getting irritated at this point. I went back inside my flat, I was cooking. By my kitchen window, I saw him again sitting there and staring at me. So I went out and confronted him again, I gave him a serious warning to leave me alone or this harassment would turn to violence because I’ve had enough. I made him realise that I can not tolerate him anymore. So I called the police for the second time and the police turned up, asked me questions, went to his flat and asked him questions too. Next thing I saw, the police left his flat and didn’t even come back to me to tell me if they’ve warned him or not and also assure me he would harass me again. I really hope he stops harassing me because am not afraid of him at all and when it turns to violence, I will face him rightfully.
Dino 14/07/2018 at 7:03 am
I'm so tired of been harrasment,bully intimidated ,thus every day for past 3 years they have so much hate ,to me because I'm gay ,they won't live me alone,i AM [removed]. [removed]
A bag of nerves 11/07/2018 at 5:13 pm
My neighbour from upstairs has taken exception to my children playing outside in the communal area all the other children it's ok tl play , she stares at them through her window in a scary manner giving them dirty looks she walked passed by 9 year old girl calling her nasty and my 12 year old girl she asks her what she's looking at whenever she sees her she don't like the fact that my children play outside but all the other children can do so and be noisy not that my kids are noisy they're not I always tell them to keep it down they are always the first children to go in doors the lates is t 7:30 and I fear because the summer holidays are about to start they are not ASBO kids there well mannered and very innocent children but the woman does not like the fact that all the neighbours we get on with and the people all stop and talk to us and the kids she lives above us in her flat that is not overlooking the communal ground other ppl have more right too moan than but don't and if they had a problem they would come and talk to me I've always ask them if the kids are a nuisance to let me know there reply is no the kids are great we love listening to them play , she doesn't live above them she does live above us , every night she jump up and down on my ceiling for the last 6 weeks because we haven't responded to her I feel as she is now target my children to get a reaction I asked the question is she trying to scare my kids her reply was you're scaring me go away yr a bully, I asked my children today if you go outside don't look up because you will only antagonize her I can't believe I asked my children not to look up the six weeks now I tell them off for dropping a spoon I've done everything I can to accommodate her we walk on eggshells when she first moved in we got on but cracks started to appear she portrays herself as a friendly nice person but the real her has come through after a year , we can live with all the noise we can live with all the banging but now she's directing it towards my children I feel she's unpredictable and I'm worried that she might hurt my children I feel sorry for them as they are very innocent not Street wise children they've grown up in the same area playing on the same communal grass for and in 14 years we've never ever had a problem with a neighbour , now I panic whenI the kids want to go outside what can I do I tried to talk to the lady she doesn't want to know she just shouts down at me but I'm scaring her and I'm a bully I can't sleep anymore when I get home from work I'm a bag of nerves thinking what is she going to do today what can I do.
Jess 06/07/2018 at 11:15 am
My daughters are mixed race one is 9 and the other is 4, we live a block of flat the lady and her son above us keep racial harassing my girls. They have been called some really disgusting names. My 9 year old has been given a nose bleed from the son punching her in the face. The mother leaned over the balcony and spat on my 4 year. The son has urinated on my front door. I've had cat faeces put through my letter box and covered the door. I've have 10 police crime reports and I spoke with my housing Association about getting moved as my daughter now suffers with panic attacks, I found her in the bathroom trying to clean herself with bleach so it will spot. They're not willing to help me, they just say that all they can do is speaks with the lady. Am going out my mind, advise needed please.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 04/07/2018 at 3:40 pm
If you feel the police have not fulfilled their duties you could consider making a complaint to the Independent Office for Police Conduct . Alternatively Citizens' Advice might be able to give advice about low cost legal help or funding towards taking private action for an injunction.
Angel 03/07/2018 at 11:26 pm
What can you do when the police decide not to take harassment seriously? My case is unusual as I am being harassed by a man from my allotment site. He has been shouting and swearing at me for no reason for 7 years now. I believe numerous cases of theft and vandalism on my allotment were also him. 6 months ago he started an intensive campaign of harrassment against me. I went to the police when he threatened me and was intimidating and abusive, but they just said tell him not to do it again. After that he openly boasted that he would drive me off the site. It seems he had been hanging about outside my house, he has been sending me letters I have to sign for, spreading rumours about me, has demanded money from me more than once, has been seen on my allotment tampering with my possessions and has been going in my shed. The fact that he has kept up his harassment for 7 years makes me think he is obsessed with causing me distress.I asked the National Stalking Helpline for advice and they said to keep a dairy and take it to the police.When I did the police wouldn't interview me face to face, only on the phone, wouldn't take my evidence (witness statements, letters, screen shots, incident diary etc) and said that none of my evidence was acceptable. They said that it wasn't harrassment because he hadn't been physically violent, and because the incidents had been happening on an allotment site. They said they thought he probably regarded what he did as a game and didn't realise he was causing distress. They said I should take no notice and carry on with my life as normal. They did say they could treat one incident where he threatened me as a public order offence and would go to his house, make him write a letter of apology and if he did anything else after that it would go to court. By the end of the phone call they hadn't asked me for his address, so it seemed that they had no intention of even interviewing him. I gave them the address anyway, and contact details for the witness, but two weeks later I've heard nothing. In the meantime I make daily detours to avoid going past his house as he lives near me, and don't go to my allotment any more. I used to spend most of my time there, and am totally lost without it. I can't afford a solicitor to help with this problem and don't know what to do.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 20/06/2018 at 10:11 am
There isn't much more you can do if the police don't feel there is enough to act upon, apart from perhaps to consider private legal action? Citizens' Advice might be a good place to start with that.
Linda lou 18/06/2018 at 3:27 pm
I have a nosey neighbor that used to live next door to me and she has moved across the street because she was living with her brother and he had passed away so she moved in the house across the street well she used to harass the people that live in the house she currently live in now but they moved way tired of the harassment so she moved into their house and now is harassing me and another neighbor on a daily basis we listen to her talk about us and make slide comments peeks through my fence which is a privacy fence as well as plants flowers up against a fence that she knows gets poison spray tan just so that she can complain and say we killed her plant she is intentionally stolen my newspaper in front of me and then when I asked her what she was doing she threw it at me and flipped me off and told me to go to hell now this is just some of the things I've had to deal with with her what can I do about my noisy nosey neighbor PS she even had her dog poop in my yard knowing I like to walk Barefoot and when she seen that I walked in the dog poop she started laughing frustrated neighbor please help
Jaydaws 16/06/2018 at 10:22 am
We have experienced almost two years of ASB from two neighbours close by after ending a friendship with one of them. We’ve had dog poo thrown on our drive which was handled by local dog warden etc. After a renter moved in next door the behaviour escalated and she has joined in with the others in the same vein, yesterday the couple came to our door and threatened to finish it because my husband said hello to workmen laying their driveway. They are captured on CCTV and I’ve written down the threats while I can still remember them. The police have been a number of times , they’ve opened a case and say that they are impartial and we could also be baiting the neighbours. We are not , we care for a bed bound daughter and to be truthful I am terrified this will escalate into violence. The police don’t seem to want to do anything to stop this.
What more can we do .?
Blues 13/06/2018 at 8:15 pm
I have suffered almost daily from threats, offensive comments. i.e ? is coming down to sort her out and make her move even if its in a wooden box, her son better watch his back, she's a prostitute, drug dealer all sorts of rubbish. Neighbour is a council tenant and has 2 or 3 other adults I am an adult living alone with an adult son who visits every 2 or 3 months. The daughter n mother next door repeat my private conversation yet accuse me of listening to them, yes, the mother shouts most of the time. Bang doors after midnight and laugh between each bang. It is quite worrying and has triggered off anxiety for which I am being treated. I spoke to the council who said that their tenant is vulnerable due to mental health issues caused by husband offending? He stays from time to time and is polite. I spoke to police and she knew as the following morni g was screaming about it. Don't know how she knew as made call away from house. Police said my best option was to move if I didn't want to make it official which would have to be declared when selling house. Am now trying to sell at a low price to save my sanity. I don't have visitors and limit phone calls as I have no privacyand can't relax.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 05/06/2018 at 10:09 am
Do you not have a car port allocated to your own flat that you can use? Are there designated spaces in front of the car ports? That sounds a little strange. Sorry we'd need more information.
Sammyb 04/06/2018 at 9:12 am
I live in purpose built flats. We have a communal car park to the front and car ports to the rear. I have been parking my car in front of one of the car port because the housing association have advised I can park there as long as I’m not blocking anyone. However my neighbour who parks there had a go at me telling me not to park there, I found out that the car port does not belong him but is allocated to another neighbour. I explained I’m not blocking him but he insists it’s hard for him to get his car out and he started arguing. I also told him that it wasn’t his car port but he continued arguing and saidhe had permission. I am a single mum and I’m frightened of him he was very loud and aggressive. What can I do?
34 tinx 04/06/2018 at 1:34 am
We have lived in our house for over 7yrs and have not had problems in that time, just over a month ago we got new neighbours, for the most part they where quiet and talked in their own language, said hi once or twice, but no bother apart from music in the afternoon, but over the past week or so we've started having problems, banging and drilling til gone midnight, watching us over the fence looking in the windows, and now theyre letting their kids & teenagers climb out of the back bedroom window onto the half roof which joins onto ours, I now feel like I'm being spied on when I go to the bathroom and at night as we have a sky light in our kitchen which you have to go through to get to the bathroom, I'm really stressed out to the point where I nearly ended up in hospital with hypertension and chest pains, I just dont feel safe anymore, and now weve been told that theyre buying the house from the landlord, if this is true then we're going to have to move for my health from not just a house we love but our other neighbours that have become more like family
Helpmeplease 10/05/2018 at 2:36 pm
I have been living in my house for just over 3 years now. In November myself and my Fiance rescued a dog from the SSPCA and we love her to absolute pieces. In March while we were in the garden my dog managed to dig a hole under our garden fence (a bit of the fence was higher as there used to be decking there) and get into my neighbours garden and chased their cat. Her and the cat got into a bit of a scrap but neither were hurt as I jumped the fence to split it up and the neighbour also came out. We apologised over and over again and even said to get the cat checked out and we would pay the vet bill. We went back half an hour later to check on them and the man in the house said "don't worry about it, these things happen. The cat is at the vet now but I got a text to say its ok". We apologised again and hoped it was behind us. Only to find out 2 days later that they had called the police on us! Since that incident we patched our fence and kept a closer eye on our dog, we even started keeping her on leash while out walks to be safe. One day we were going a drive and I had her by the collar, when we opened the front door there was a cat in our garden and our dog slipped my grip and chased it. I called her back and she came to me. The cat belonged to the next neighbour along from the 1st incident and confronted us, we apologised again. They then also reported us to the police. Since this has happened they have been watching us from their windows every time we are in the garden and even stand at their doors and watch us when we drive away. Myself and my fiancé are getting so stressed and feel judged in our own home. We are starting our own dog walking business and are worried that they will be spreading bad word about us and could really put us in a position where the business fails. Please help me.
Gem 09/05/2018 at 9:01 pm
I've lived in this house for about 3 years now and the past two years have been someone calling the social on me about my partner as my partner doesn't live with me, he stays two nights a week most of the time but someone on my estate called the social three times on me and no action was taken. Then just recently I get a phone call from social services saying somebody has reported me that I don't look after my kids properly that they are scruffy etc they have phoned my kids school and everything is fine and no action was taken, I think I have an idea who it is but what can I do to get at the bottom of this. I've moved here to move away from another property that a family was harassing me and now this, I just want to get on with my life but I just want to know what I can do with whoevers doing it.
Angiepants80 08/05/2018 at 5:05 am
My new neighbors moved in next door, two months later I noticed my children's playtent they've had for over a year I set on the balcony mid Feb. Well it disappears over the next couple weeks I noticed..cut yo mid April I see it on my neighbor's balcony. And its dirty and torn now. A very distinctive tent. Obviously mine 1000% sure have pics of my kids in it and it disappeared off my second story nonaccesable unless you reach over the rail to grab it balcony! Well I take it back and tie it up to my doorknob this time worth a note to please leave my children's belongings and return the other items that are gone. Well the next day the tent had been ripped from the knots I tied it with and stolen from my kids once more. She was confronted and claimed it was hers. I didn't back down. I cant believe what I was dealing with. How dare her. By the end of my rant to her she had admitted it was mine and I said I KNOW. SLAMMED THE DOOR.
Prior to all this the first length she moved in she had placed her trash cans on the side of my windows. And we placed them in the dedicated area and a note to let her know they belong there. No offense was made she understood and life went on as usual. Well the next day after we caught her with the theft. She decides to take her trash and recycling cans and put them under our windows. O have moved them 9 times in 2 weeks. It's a game and its caused me so much anxiety,my autistic child seen his belongings next door and tries to go in their home to retrieve them. The landlord just says shell talk to her. Or she try to come by and "check things out"
Its petty, immature, I can't take the anxiety and living in discomfort. Smelling nasty garbage and used baby diapers. I'm feeling harrassed.
K 26/04/2018 at 1:05 am
Hello, we have recently (approximately four months ago) bought a new puppy into our house. We all love him with all our heart and today like most days he was playing outside in our front yard and I was supervising him and popped back in the house twice for about a 30 seconds each to get him something to eat. Three ladies who live at a house down the road came and started screaming and shouting at us and complaining that my German Shepherd puppy had gotten out of my front yard and tried to attack their children. They also were shouting constantly and said that their children were frightened and could have been hit by a car. These children are around three or four years old and are always left to play outside on the road alone and unsupervised. A couple of children were watching with my puppy from he fence of my front yard so I was watching my puppy with caution just in case one of the children got too close from over the fence and accidentally got hurt by my playful puppy jumping as he has slightly sharp nails. I am certain that my puppy did not get out of the front yard as it is secured with a fence and he can’t jump over it as he’s unable to jump that high. These ladies started shouting at me and my younger brother (I’m 19 and brother is 18) and they were around 25,35 and 50 years of age. They threatened to kill my innocent puppy by hitting him with a baseball bat and stoning him if they ever see my puppy playing in our front yard again. I’m absolutely in shock as they have dogs themselves and have threatened to kill my puppy so brutally when he was playing in the garden and maybe their kids got scared because he barks but he isn’t aggressive, he’s just playful and I don’t understand why they thought my puppy tried attacking their children when they were not even there to see that happen themselves. I just froze in shock because it was incredibly upsetting hearing them say all that about my puppy and I cried for hours after the incident. I am traumatised by the words they used and the way they were shouting at us as if we’ve committed a crime. We have been living in the neighbourhood for years and are a respected family. A lot of people came out of their houses today to watch the incident and I feel so distressed and humiliated by this incident. What can I do about this?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 25/04/2018 at 12:33 pm
Your neighbour would have to take this to environmental health or as a private action through the courts if she wanted to take it further. In either case, evidence would be required before any action could be taken and as it's unlikely that evidence would be forthcoming, you should be fine.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 25/04/2018 at 11:17 am
If you want to take private action that's up to you. We wouldnt' advise informing his employers of this. If you've already decided to move out there will be nothing to gain from this except revenge, which simply "keeps a wound open".
C 24/04/2018 at 4:52 pm
I have had issues which began over there neighbour over hanging my drive and after I asked him.politly to move over they began verbal abuse and a vendetta up to now theyv had 2 tenancy warnings regarding this but they have continued to watch my husband reverse aswel as calling us names when were at the front of the property also moving my bins ,so the council have said they don't have a budget to deal with it and unless I have audio cctv they can't do anything they were asked to mediation which they declined and when invited into the council also declined I have now complained as theyv said it's not there problem however they have logged a complaint stating We Are causing problem what can I do any advise they make allegations but iv never seen any evidence were as when I complain I provide evidence the last cctv that got them a warning wasn't audio i just feel there harassing us and trying to intimidate us we have 4 children under 7 and I worry of the impact on them besides my own health they simply don't want to move on
Caz 24/04/2018 at 8:20 am
I am in rented accommodation tucked in a corner of a cul de sac for access to my driveway I have to drive over neighbours drive.
The estate agent of the property failed to inform me of parking dispute with previous tenant or advise there is a line of bricks that run across the top of my drive and up to that line it is the neighbours property.
I parked on my driveway but my back wheel was inches over the line, the neighbour photographed it and sent it to the agent and the landlady.
It is difficult for anyone visiting to know there is a line to clear as the drive is badly designed and they have the space for reversing out of their drive, but they never go within 3 feet of the line, they reverse the other way out on to the road.
Anyone visiting would think the top of my drive is mine as it's where I access my drive..
Now whenever anyone visits I have to make sure the wheels or even back end of car is not anywhere near the line, on the very few occassions there has been an overhanging of wheels they photograph it and send it to agent and landlady.
I have never blocked him in or parked my car on their bit of tarmac, only had my wheel inches over the line.
I am constantly being spied on they record the time and date of my visitors, they even leave part of a blind open so they can guard their little piece of tarmac in case me or a visitor parks too close or over the line.
I feel very stressed and angry that they are monitoring me, they even sent a photo of damaged tarmac to the agent, I had a panic attack when I read the accusation, when I went to see where the damage is, it is only close to their door where their car repeatedly goes over, my wheels never touch that area.
I am moving out and the landlady asked me not to report them, they never speak to me they just smirk.
I really want to report them for the stress they have caused me and my family, is monitoring and photographing my drive and keeping a diary of numberplates and times we didn't quite go over the line harassment, because I feel harassed, I fear of what they are going to do, as previous tenant told me he tried to sue them for driving over a plant.
I am going to video my move as I'm sure he will try and say I've damaged something.
I'm really looking forward to moving from this horrible situation and from being spied on, I am thinking of letting the establishment where he works know I am going to take action for harassment from him.
I would welcome any advice. Thanks
YoungK 23/04/2018 at 3:44 pm
Me and my partner have lived in our first flat for 5 months, we are a young couple in love and have the off squabble every now and then (more specifically once every 2-3 weeks). We try to keep it down, however when we’re distressed our volume gets a little loud. This is not a constant thing, usually lasts between 10 minutes to 2 hours. One night when I wasn’t in the flat, I came home in the early hours (2am) after a night out with friends. As walking up my stairs just past the front door, I heard very loud banging on our front door. I raced down and my neighbour started shouting at me complaining of noise, I informed my neighbour I just walked in the front door and denied any noise. To which my partner came racing down the stairs as he could hear her screaming at me, telling her to leave me alone. My partner was in the flat and was watching TV (normal volume). We tried to tell our neighbour she was wrong and she started shouting at us referring back to our arguments she had obviously been hearing in the past. She got very personal, to which lead me to cry and feel in total shock. Anyway a month or so later she stopped me on the street and threatened to sue me for making loud noises. She has also called the police on us which we now believe she’s being malicious. Me and my partner are very hard working, young couple that hardly make any noise (not compared to our other neighbours with their music and arguing, which we don’t complain about). Is there anything we can do? We are renting and have informed our agents. I’m so scared what she’ll do next.
Harl 21/04/2018 at 2:15 pm
My neighbor is a old man with dementia he's already flooded my bathroom (council property ) his daughter who doesn't live there has parked a dirty big caravan on the drive Infront of my bedroom window (ground floor) and shes called the council to cancel a gate being fitted to my property for my safety so they agreed she's also reported me for fraud. She's says she's his full time carer but she's only there a hour or two a day she will not speak to me without screaming and shouting im disabled and suffer with depression and agraphobia she also worked for the council I'm under and keeps complaining even though I'm not doing anything wrong she wants to buy my flat of the council and she's doing anything to get me out she owns quite a few flats in the area all brought off the council where the residents have ended up being evicted just by her keep putting in complaints. She isn't my neighbor her father is but she's the one harassing me
ProblemNeighbours Editor 06/04/2018 at 11:57 am
Why don't you talk to the landlord about this? Have you tried the police (on a non-emergency number?)
Cat woman 05/04/2018 at 9:00 am
I have learning difficulties and mental health issues, and my downstairs neighbour is banging around and throwing things, today at 07.35 AM there was 2 loud bangs on my floor which frightened me so much I was shaking, then about a minute later my doorbell rang, he kept his finger on it so it was one long constant ring, I went to the window and he accused me of banging I tried to explain that it wasn’t me and that I was asleep, but he wouldn’t listen and kept talking over me, then he accused my friend who comes to check on me, but he was at home in bed now he’s threatening to complain to our landlord. I am scared out of my wits, I don’t know what to do, can someone please advise me, Thanks
Spurs 25/03/2018 at 12:22 pm
Hi my mum lives in a council house and her neighbour owns their house my mum has a big family and she likes all the family when they come over on Saturday my mum 91 years old but the neighbour all ways complaining to the council and the council don't Care what my mum wants she been told she can't have family over she can't decorate and so my mum kept to the agreement but the neighbour is still keep complaining to the council I think this is harassment don't know what to do to get the council to believe her
Sarah 22/03/2018 at 6:10 pm
I have been having on going problems with my neighbour for four years over a shared drive. We have both been told nobody is allowed to park on it, it is for access to out garages only. My neighbour parks in front of his garage, which causes us problems getting past to our garage. Which means we have to knock and ask him to move it. This has lead to verbal arguments and threats for which police have been called. He has now resorted to taking photos of us coming and going off the drive and now parking on the road in front of our property. Even when we are unloading shopping etc. Can this be harassment? It certainly feels like it.
Kat 21/03/2018 at 11:25 am
Hi there my names Katrina and I have to kids I’ve been wear I am for 6 years and never had any trouble up in till 4 mouths ago when a new naber moved in beside me he has ago at me and my kids all the time I’m not allowed to talk on my phone at my oun front door and I’m not aloud to have visitors park in the Speer car park because he gos off at me and also sees that he’s over me stilling he’s stuff which I do no never have he knocks on my front door and tells me to tell me kids to shut up at 7am in the morning what do I do I’m really over it i am not moving because off him
VFS 08/03/2018 at 9:34 am
Hi. I recently moved. A couple with a child are living at the 1st floor . I live at ground floor. In the first days he was knocking at my door almost everyday asking me very rude not to smoke in the house because he has a child. I am not smoking in the house and some of my neighbours seen me outside smoking a lot of times. Every morning I wake up because the daughter of this neighbour is running in the house , playing with the ball , screaming ... she does them all to annoy me. I understand that children's are protected by law but i think parents have to educate them and teach them how to act in the society. Over the street we have a big park with children playground area. Instead of keeping his child in the house why they don't go across the street at the playground ? If they are at work .. who takes care of this child ? Any advice of how to solve this. Thanks
ProblemNeighbours Editor 06/03/2018 at 2:14 pm
Just carry on as normal and avoid confrontation, hopefully eventually she will get bored and leave you alone.
Jen 04/03/2018 at 3:34 pm
My neighbour over the road asked me not to park out side her house as she has a small baby and needs to park right out side the gate. I park my car after a 10 hour shift at work where ever there is a space to park and normally park so your house is clear. The next evening another neighbour that lives on the same side as her parks right outside her house. Nothing said to this person. The lady then came at 12.30am banging on the door with a small baby in her arm think of snow and freezing out side. Woken me up got work in the morning aswell at 6am. Telling me my children aged 5 -15 Are throwing snow balls at her house 30 mins ago. Both children as fast asleep in bed. Stood there for 30 mins with this small baby. I feel this person has something against me as it's fine for others to park here but not me
Burt 19/02/2018 at 4:33 pm
My wife and I live in the country. Unfortunately, her ex owns adjoining property and is in close proximity almost every day. Lately, he has seen fit to be very loud and obnoxious late in the evening, say around 11pm to 12am. He even left a nice doughnut in our yard courtesy of his 4x4 truck. We called police, they filed a report, and paid him a visit. He has slacked off only slightly and I don't think he's finished by a long shot. Some of his own family members have said they're surprised he hasn't burned out house down. That's the attitude and idiocy he's known for around the community. How? How in the world do we deal with this? I have put up trail cameras around the house and I keep lights on at night but I'm told nothing phases this guy? We're afraid to even have our grandchildren over. I'm just afraid he strikes me as one of these who won't stop until we're all on one of these investigative homicide tv shows.
Bewildered 25/01/2018 at 10:41 am
My wife and I have been seriously harassed by a neighbour that I caught acting like a peeping tom ten years ago. He'd just moved in. I tried to sort it discretely, face-to-face, with a request that he stop. I didn't call the police as we'd heard that he was a copper, and I thought he'd lose his job (he had a wife and two kids) if I made a complaint. He went beserk and began to trespass, damage our property, drive his car at us when we walked the dog. Signs were put up outside our house. There were also three assaults. When I told him that he'd get into trouble he said that, 'no one would take my word against his!'. Nastiest of all is that he's been visiting neighbours who have kids and lied that I was a paedophile (I am not!) and that he has a file about me on his computer. This resulted in a vigilante atmosphere, a lot of 'stalking', and an attempt to kill me by a new neighbour. On Christmas eve our mains water was turned off. This officer has been warned at least three times. Each time he's made it clear - he does a little pantomime dance on his drive - that there's nothing we can do to stop him. The police have virtually borne this out, ignoring evidence that we've supplied; although their insistence that I install cctv has stopped the trespass. He has admitted running my name through the police computer for his own use - he said that he was just 'nosy'; he also admitted trying to interfere with an investigating officer (we've had over thirty over the ten years!) who told him to 'piss off', although she didn't use the word 'piss'. I dialled 101 on Christmas day to update the police about his turning our water off (we have it on cctv). It's now 26th January and we're still waiting for a response (not unusual - when my neighbour tried to kill me I called 999 and had to wait five hours for a visit!). Of course the guy's deranged. There's nothing on the police computer about me. We've not responded at all to his aggression and observed all the advice that we've had from solicitors, the local council, and the police. What should we do?
annoyed. 28/12/2017 at 6:51 am
My partner and myself bought a house in 2013 to move away from crime and drugs in a built up area. Since 2013 we have had nothing but harassment from both sides of neighbour's. Given that all we could afford for a home. We live on a ex local authorities estate. Both myself and partner love animals and hate to see them being mistreated. We have asked neighbours about cleaning up their own animals poo up as it smells in the summer months and when it rains the remnants of the poo runs on to our property. My partner and myself have been threatened on numerous occasions police have been involved with this. Surprise this hasn't deterred them. They live in rented accommodation and have children who play in the garden in the dog muck. I haven't slept in nearly 4 years it's effecting our relationship. Banging off car doors at 5am when the so called car is not in use. Getting their own children to throw rubbish onto our property. We are saving for cameras and are sick off how people who live in there own bought house and have no rights as the people in rented accommodation seem to get away with this harassment and intimidating manor. We both are over the age off getting another mortgage and are stuck in the god forsaken hell hole. I'm having trouble with keeping a job as we cannot get any sleep at night or during the day. Both my partner and myself have to look out carefully from our blinds too see if they are in or out so we can walk our dogs or to go shopping as we live in an estate where they have family in the same street as us. Feeling helpless and scared. What can I do to help keep my partner and both dog's safe.
pitbulldad 26/12/2017 at 6:51 pm
I have been harassed for about the past year by my neighbors everything from getting yelled at middle fingers every time I pull in and out my driveway to always being called out to the street they come in my yard yelling obscenities and threats the last incident they came all the way into my backyard chased me into my patio while I was on the phone with the police dispatch the police come all the time and do nothing this last time they trespass them that's not enough in this situation they didn't do anything to them which makes it worse and worse and worse on me every time because my neighbors think they own the block. We're not just talking about one person their family lives next door to them which lives next door to them and they all they all get there was eight guys who chased me through my yard and in my patio and the cops did nothing but trust pass them now that I call the cops on them they're even more pissed what do I do and to top it off I live and take care of my special needs uncle and his special needs girlfriend please if anyone has any advice I've ordered cameras but I'm not the richest person in the world it's just been going on too long and too obvious that there's a problem and the police are getting mad at me for calling all the time
Cornflake 17/12/2017 at 11:22 am
Since 2013 our neighbour who is a lawyer and her husband have been harassing us. It started over a trees branches going over their fence, after continuing to knock on our door they forced us to have the whole tree taken down and pay for the work done by their chosen tree surgeon. The workers left a horrendous mess in our garden. This caused an issue with next door. Over the years they have blocked our shared drive with their cars and trade people. Their daughter leaves her car permanently parked outside our house while she goes on holiday, strangely she never parks elsewhere in the road. A few months ago the neighbour blocked our car in because we had parked our other car on the road outside his house, because all other spaces were taken. When we asked him to move the car because my sister was going out he got aggressive with us and caused us concern for ourselves. Last Christmas they sent us a Christmas card with 3 cows on it, we are 3 women living in the house. They've never sent a card before. We find stone's and leaves etc swept over onto our drive. And today I caught the lawyer throwing faeces on to our garden twice. These are a few of the things that have happened and we are not sure what to do. My mother is 81 and I suffer from a mental disability and this subtle harassment is becoming concerning.
Mrbaker 16/12/2017 at 5:56 pm
I live in a purpose built block of 6 flats two on each floor I am on top floor, we property owners run our Management Company & my neighbor Nigel is Chairman, recently his behaviour towards me is out of order, My Partner who stays here part of her life has Magazines sent here they are too big to fit in the post Box so get left on a shelf however he has thrown them in the bin also on the hall communal notice board anything I put up for general information he immediately takes down this sort of harassment is making me feel illWhat can I do
Joy 09/12/2017 at 8:37 pm
I'd like to think I'm a really good person I'm a carer and have spent most of my life empowering those who are without a voice. I've just moved into a new apartment my first in the UK for many years. I was welcomed by the neighbors with a complaint. I promptly apologised and quickly complied with his wishes. Since then he has been at my door every day I'm home often late at night banging on the door with more complaints. Mostly about the sound of my tumble dryer which I tend to run for a few hours once or twice a week. This evening the complaints have become threats. I live alone it's quite scary dealing with threatening people. I didn't open the door and explained that I was in my pj's and that he should take his complaints to my landlord. He pretty much told me that he had ways of dealing with people like me and that he didn't expect me to live here for long. Like wow!!!!
Hatethyneighbor 09/12/2017 at 7:39 pm
Happyme can I say I know how that feels, it seems like my neighbors have been trying to hate campaign against me. I have had things shouted at me from Windows called names in my gardens in shops and everywhere they no that I go, now I'm getting extremely paranoid about them in all sorts of ways. They laugh at me crying and hate when I am happy. It seems like these people are very jealous and will stop at nothing to bring another person down.
Amgoinginsane 09/12/2017 at 7:23 pm
2 of my neighbors are harassing me and tormenting me. They are extremely jealous of us and have been so for years, we've had problems with them in the past. They call us all sorts of names and are very nosy, they Always used look in to our house and window and also the through the gaps in the fence, now we know they are not well but this is just rediculus. now they have a new tacktic of listening to us through the walls. I have heard them drilling holes in the middle of the night when we are all in bed . I know it is them. Them shouting things at me when I'm in the garden. throwing things in to our garden and accusing me of doing what they do. I am at whits end and feel like I'm going insane, there dog is always barking and making so much noise. I've been stalked called names in shops and bullied in my house from people like this. Now I feel like they have ganged up together to bring me down.
happyme 09/12/2017 at 6:58 pm
My partner and I have been harassed for 2 years now. There is no help out there at all
as far asIi am concerned when you are a victim of harassment, intimidation and bullying which my partner suffers from a large group of people daily and I can tell you it is a non stop relentless campaign from them with no sign of a let up whatsoever.
She has suffered terribly from both men and women who have told lies, spread hate and are vile to her every day. She never answers them back yet it makes no difference at all. If anything they see this as a greater challenge to break her down even more. She is hounded daily from the garden front and back, had abuse thrown at her, dog noises from males from cars, picked on when we go out to the local shops that she cannot go on her own now as she is so badly harassed. She has to be accompanied to the doctors because they will not leave her alone. She has done nothing wrong at all. The lies that have been spread are vicious, slanderous and nasty and are not substantiated. She says there is no point in answering back as that only makes thing worse. Men and women of all walks of life and ages who should know better but it seems they do not sadly. They are malicious little pests who seem to be able to operate within the parameters of the law. It is insidious in nature, a crime but help is zero as we have found to our cost. Contrary to what you are told there is no help out there at all but people like my partner and myself. It is seen as insignificant, you are considered nuisances, troublemakers but that is not the case. Harassment is a crime but try getting it recognized as such. Some of the things they have subjected my partner too I cannot talk about because nobody would ever believe us a swe have found out. She has kept a permanent log of everything now with evidence and we hope that one day this will get us the justice we so rightly deserve at the hands of such monsters!!
Jessi 07/12/2017 at 11:11 pm
My neighbours have caused damage to my house they live in a rented property I however own my home, what I need to know who will be responsible for the damage? The tenants that did the damage or the landlord ? They both won’t give me there insurance details .. where do I go from here ?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 05/12/2017 at 12:55 pm
Ask the landlord where your bins should be put out for collection so next time the problem does not re-occur.
Tooknjdkdnnd 02/12/2017 at 9:31 pm
Hi,
So we recently moved into a block of flats and didn't know where to out our bins when they where due for collection. So as a simple solution we put them next to our neighbours bins. However they felt the need to empty the contents of our bins in front of our drive, and then scream abuse at us. Fair enough if we had left rubbish out or near there property bus this was bins left out and was a simple mistake. Now. The bins have been emptied, it was just the odd rubbish bag that was tipped out. Where can we go for advice as the landlord doesn't seem to care. We just want it to be resolved, thanks.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 20/10/2017 at 11:31 am
If access rights are there then you must respect them unfortunately. Your landlord could apply to have the access rights removed if he/she felt so inclined but it might be a costly legal process that they'd prefer to avoid. Note, the neighbour should not be blocking the other half of the accessway either. Speak to her landlord about getting that removed too and then may all work together to get the area improved.
Mars 17/10/2017 at 7:07 pm
I have been living in rented accommodation for three years now above a run of 4 shops. There is an access way at the side leading through to the back, which has been locked off and abandoned for years. I spent the first two years thinking about all the potential the space has to be turned into a nice communal garden for the tenants and businesses. This summer I realised nobody is doing anything with the land and it had became overgrown and was a spot for rubbish to be dumped from the other tenants and businesses using it. This summer I cleared the land, and put some palettes down creating a nice seating area. I created a flower bed and planted ferns and other plants. I installed a trellis on the concrete wall supporting the locked gate. I used some bricks to create a tidy fireplace in the center of the seating area. One night, I had two friends over, had a barbecue and talked into late evening. later on, some woman had fought her way through her overgrown disused portion of the access way ranting and raving that we were having fun. We immediately ended it as we are being courteous and annoying anybody is the last thing we wanted to do. The next few days my landlord calls me and lets me know she made a complaint to the shop, who in turn passed it to my landlord, who told me she is known for being a 'real piece of work'. She claimed the wood was blocking an access gate - that she has padlocked up herself, and has not been open for years. I moved the wood. This was a few months ago. Today, I receive another call from my landlord saying she has gone to the council and they have served a notice to move the wood in 14 days or be fined. Now.. I've put a lot of work into this space that isn't even on her side of the access-way. Her complaint- it's blocking access. She hasn't and doesn't ever use this side of the access way. I could understand if we really were blocking potentially a fire engine or ambulance, but she has installed big gates and has her own padlock on separating that whole other half of the access way. Beyond that, the whole area has been neglected for so long that a fire engine or ambulance wouldn't even be able to make it through. There is also no water valve for a fire engine, and neither would be able to make it round the side corner to even make it to the back. She has never tried to speak to me directly, the first notice I've had is a phone call from my landlord.
Any help or advice from you on dealing with this situation or with such discourteous neighbors would be greatly received.
Thank you :(
Toosey 15/10/2017 at 6:03 pm
Hello. Sadly my neighbour and I don't get along and tend to rub each other up the wrong way. There has been unpleasantness, misunderstandings and actions which have been misinterpreted. Thus, almost to the point of me being brought to Court though, to my neighbour's credit, reason prevailed. It would have been costly and we still have to live opposite each other (never mind our health declining through it all). We don't speak, but have a "peaceful co-existence" arrangement whereby we don't interact or have any contact with each other, basically leaving each other alone and going about our own business. It seems to be working out well at present as, when I do go outside, I keep my eyes averted from my neighbour's property. Hope this will help other people going through similar disputes with their neighbour. All the very best.
Pottybeighbours 15/10/2017 at 9:09 am
We have lived in our house for over 40 years next to same neighbours but for some unknown reason they have started to start on my husband when he goes in our front garden first it was they said was throwing sweet papers in there garden then cigs ends this morning it was he has thrown eggs and there windows very nasty words. My husband suffers very bad with depression he never goes out the garden is his haven which now he does not want to go out in case they start he was only taken stone away from gate. This is making him very ill. May seem little but it is very upsetting we even had egg on our window which was said to them. It's got so bad my husband want to sell up and move away why do poeple behave like this. I have not said anything to them until this morning asking them to leave him alone which I only got abuse thrown back at me they are council tenants is there any thing we can do
Boss 09/10/2017 at 8:48 pm
Yeah the Police take it SO seriously..... call us from the hospital after he actually beats you up.. then we will do something if you provide a video and 6 witnesses.....
Suman 05/10/2017 at 8:58 am
I lived in DRDO government house.In my neighbour one lady lived.she is lots of problems with me.we kept our shoes outside of my house.but she told me that don't keep you shoo here.we take cable connection against she told don't Take wire from wall.you take your wire from roff. she gave me order everytime.Her husband call me from Dubai and abused me in phone.she Take my all shoo photo and share with everyone.that how I kept my things .she told other neighbour that I I m thief.I theft her things.which is not correct.i m very afraid from her.I have two girls kids.i m also worried for them.plz help me what should laws for me.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 19/09/2017 at 10:33 am
There isn't a great deal the Council can do unless you are willing to move to a different council property. It's not classed the kind of neighbour dispute that the Environmental Health department will be able to do anything about. You aslo could try talking to your local police community support officer, or taking private legal action.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 18/09/2017 at 10:13 am
Talk to your landlord about extra sound proofing (or instal some yourself if you're the owner). Complain to environmental health about the excessive noise.
Su 17/09/2017 at 2:36 am
I had been seeing a man who's Mother lives opposite me. His Mother has never liked me and has made my life hell for over13 years. While white this man he behaved extremely badly towards me over 13 years leaving me often and the coming back and then his mother would be pestering him as well as turning other neighbours against me. I have been recovering in the past from 2 bouts of cancer when the boyfriend always left me but returned and I would foolishly take him back. In 2012 after having bowel cancer he left me and was visiting his Mum and humiliating me which he is doing again now since I decided after 13 and half years I couldn't take anymore but now after telling me how much he hated his Mum and other neighbours for the stress and anxiety they had put me through he has joined them and laughing and joking with them while looking round to see if I'm watching. He has also conned me out of a lot of money and stolen from me but I was stupid and I was taken in by his contoling behaviour and his constant lies over and over. Now he is laughing at me with his mother and her friends who are neighbours of mine just 3 doors away and my life is a complete misery. I have trouble leaving my home as well as the hurt he has caused me. I try not to take any notice but I find it hard to see a man I trusted doing this to me. I always told him he mustn't be nasty about his mother and he should visit her dispite what she thinks of me but he left me and is now putting me through this hell and humiliation. I am a council tenant and a quiet person but I have never been hated to this extent in my life. I just don't want this and it is driving me to suicide. Is there anything the council can do as it is more mental abuse than physical abuse?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 14/09/2017 at 2:45 pm
Have you tried talking to him about this yourself? Or mentioning it to his wife? If it continues and your partner is feeling threatened, she should try contacting her local police (on non emergency number 101).
Goodman 14/09/2017 at 2:16 am
My neighbours keep banging on the walls from their house. I live in a terraced property. I have stayed here for a year. They follow me from their side through the walls. They are always banging on the walls to alert me of their presence. It causes me a lot of distress and denies me peace of mind. I cannot go to the downstairs kitchen or bathroom or anywhere else in the house without hearing some loud banging on the walls. Even while sleeping in the middle of the night in my bed sometimes they come right opposite and do it. The walls are not soundproofed. What can I do to stop this? Thanks
rob 12/09/2017 at 3:30 pm
My partner is being pestered by the male neighbour through letters saying that he loves her and want to be with her. He has a Mrs he wont take no for an answer what can I do to stop this persistent harassment
happydays 21/08/2017 at 1:59 pm
It seems telling the truth these days means nothing when you are being harassed and intimidated on a daily basis like I have been for last 21 months and continually failed by those in authority who should be able to protect you when you are at your most vulnerable. I have been traumatised by constant bullying by my local neighbourhood where I live and it seems to make no difference how much evidence you have and I have documented everything, I have camera evidence, taped evidence at what goes on when I am in the garden and it means nothing when you are being harassed. I am not mad, paranoid or crazy nor is my partner and all evidence proves it.
I have never known such cruelty from human beings from males and females of all ages in the community we live. I never realised people could be so wicked!!! They taunt me on a daily basis with the words. "PLEASE HELP ME- OH PLEASE HELP ME!!" and then they laugh after they have done it because they know we have no recourse for justice. They crawl past the property in convoy daring me to go out in the car and when I do they cut me up of which I have camera evidence yet again.. They honk their horns in a vicious way to make me jump or park their vehicles by the double gates where we live to make me feel uncomfortable in the garden. When that does not work they will park their cars and watch the front bedroom to make me feel uncomfortable. I do not open the curtains at the front anymore or open the windows. My partner has to work on the front driveside sometimes and I dread it as they come crawling past him and using their vehicles they try to make him jump so he might fall in the road and have an accident. They come so close to him sometimes he says he feels vehicle tyres nearly touching the back of his legs. It is awful to watch! The males eye him up aggressively trying to get him to goad back but he has not. At night a small number of vehicles try to keep us awake by opening and shutting their vehicle doors over and over again. They park outside the house and deliberately do it. We live in a rural area and only one neighbour and nobody is living there at the moment so we know. They stalk our property in the darkness- honking, revving, screeching in a desperate attempt to keep us awake. Sometimes they will use their main beams and flash them on the front of our house over and over again bathing the house in perpetual light before crawling away like the cockroaches they are and doing it then on the side area also. I hate them for what they do to us on a daily basis making our lives a misery. We are quiet people and we are impotent to do anything. Each day is a misery. SO MUCH FOR HUMANITY EH? IT DOES NOT EXIST HERE!! ONLY CRUELTY, NASTINESS AND SPITEFULNESS. I NEVER REALISED HOW CRUEL HUMAN BEINGS CAN BE. THE WOMEN ARE VILE TO ME. THEY LOVE TO SEE ME CRY- SATISFACTION AND A PAT ON THE BACK FOR A GOOD DAYS HARASSMENT. YOU SEE THE CRUEL SMIRKS ON THEIR FACES AND SOME EVEN LAUGH AT CRUSHING A FEMALE WHO HAS N
Nikita 05/08/2017 at 2:52 pm
I moved into my house last Christmas,there are 7 of us 4 children and 3 adults ,within an hour of moving in the neighbours came round complaining about noise well the kids were excited about there new rooms ect but yes as it was getting late got them to quieten down since then we have been contacted by social services claiming all sorts but one was that I leave the kids home alone (youngest being 5 oldest being 12) well I do not there is an adult at home almost 24 7 they have sent essays to our landlord about my children, they have sworn at and accused my elderly mother of lying be verbally agressive to her and my children's friends they have now contacted environmental health claiming bad behaviour and complaining about our rabbits to which we have 2 of in separate hutches, recently they have contacted landlord again claiming that my children have been throwing food into there garden which again they have not but they claim to have photographic proof of this aside from anything else is it not wrong to take photos of young children while out playing as on this day there were 7 children out playing only 3 of them were mine. In one of the complaints they wrote to landlord was on Christmas Day the children were noisy ( really ). Am I paranoid or are we being harassed what do people think .
Fred 03/08/2017 at 6:41 pm
My wife and I live on a main road and know that any one can park where they like. However, our terraced row can only park at the front of the houses. A neighbour across the road has a large car and transit van which he parks outside our house. When we arrive home he stands in the window and laughs. He even had his father stand at the door whilst he and his wife danced in the window. He has made threats. He has damaged a neighbour's car in the past. Physically hit his mother and sister a d gets away with it by saying my father was a copper (Bobby)
Nan 30/07/2017 at 1:24 pm
I can understand how frustrated peopl get as we had neighbours from hell for over 8years finally got rid of them then home group who are the worst housing association going put this couple in with autistic boy then it started party's she gets drunk keeps threading to throw him out he's the boyfriend who told us it's his wife and son but that was alie he's the so called boyfriend and son to her exhusband music blaring Tina turner Neil diamond albums day and night over and over again whistle belches farts constantly slags us off to every one bangs on walls day and night spies on us through gaps in fence even one of our other neighbours caught him stood on kids slide spying on us stalks us every time we go out shouts boom all the time when he sees us swears constantly I cud go on for days what the nutter has done noise patrol won't come out waste of space we have police constantly he throws chewing gum tomatoes eggs screws on drive but he gets away with it its living nightmare we get no sleep but cos we own our own property no one wants to help
ProblemNeighbours Editor 04/07/2017 at 12:42 pm
You can take civil action for harassment via the courts. They can order an injunction against your neighbour. You might want to seek advice from Citizens' Advice about this.
Concerned. 03/07/2017 at 5:33 pm
I have been in living in my present home for almost 4 years When I first arrived, an old man in his 80s came in and said there was no need for a fence at the lower end of the garden which backs on to fields. I explained that I had a little dog and it would be needed to keep the dog in my garden I then bought a lead and stake which I would use to let him go to the toilet. He then put the fence up himself. I was out another ay and he asked me if I could pay someone to walk the dog as his wife liked lying with the window open. She is not at all well. I explained that the dog was going out to toilet and asked if she could sleep with the window closed. I cannot walk too far because of an accident which I had as a child. I cannot afford a dog walker. Another day, he told me he had been in digging out a weed out of my garden in case the seeds burst and it went over his flowers. He said it in a friendly fashion so I didn't say anything. He now, along with his daughter, are lying to the Council about my dog barking day and night. I went to the lady who lived on the other side of him and she told me he has been harrassing her a lot over the years and she had in the driveway; he also complained about her dogs and the Council did nothing but she kept reporting the lady. He made his own daughter get rid of her dog because it was ruining his garden in the back. The daughter has verbally abused the other lady as well as myself. The lady has phoned the police 3 times and I have phoned them twice. I am now ill because of their interference in my life. I have a piano in the middle room not in the room next to them and the daughter complained at 7.00 pm at night. I am living on the edge of my nerves and have just lost my sister and my brother has been seriously ill in USA. The policeman said my dog (in the half-hour he was there) was a docile animal; the Dog Wardens who came out (4 times and a letter received from them on Saturday) also said they find no fault with my dog's behaviour. Can I bring them to Court or get a Solicitor's letter for them. They have a cheek when I have considered that they are growing trees on land which does not belong to them just right behind our houses. I am going to ring Rates Office re this but I do not wish to be committing 'tit for tat' but I bought this but bungalow because of the scenery and his trees are taking some of that away. I am a good neighbour and yet they cannot see that. Equally, so is the other lady who is so lovely. She brought me a bouquet of flowers the other day which was a lovely gesture. She did this because she has been harrassed so much herself by them over the years. Can anyone give me advice, please.
Elflin 02/07/2017 at 8:17 pm
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help with my situation . So I am basically being harassed by my neigbours the main thing getting to me know if the constant complaints made against us. I was told on the one hand after the police had seen them that they had told them to stop that it was borderline a hate crime and a waste of police time and the council have told them they won't open another anti social case against us as everything they said was disproved . And yet I've since been told ( as I said I now didn't want to hear of the ridiculous complaints that they keep making unless there is proof) my housing officer ( I am council they own their house) basically said if they don't complain for a while then complain the complaint will be investigated !! So if we stay here we potentially will have to put up with it forever! So I now feel that the council are facilitating them by taking they complaints seriously when they know they are made up. We are being forced out of our house because of this as I cannot take their abuse and complaints anymore and now know it definitly won't stop no matter what. What can I actually do ? Is there only an injunction left? Or is there something else I can Do? Please help thank you
happy 01/07/2017 at 3:57 pm
To the lady who left the comment about her current situation in Leeds- you are not on your own. My wife and I are going through what is happening to you at this moment in time. We have felt extremely let down by the Police- my wife will never ring the Police ever again about anything she is so distressed about it after being called Paranoid and implied she has lied.This kind of stalking has been happening tor us now for 18months. We have taped what happens to my wife when she is outside on her own and used cameras with so much evidence that other people agree it is happening and a fully logged detailed diary of everything that has occurred here since we moved here. You must keep a diary and log it all down - it is important as we have been able to explain everything that happened here to us and that we are telling the truth. It is a vile kind of stalking- deliberate psychological harassment that is beyond belief and so subtle and clever only the person who is the victim knows it is happening to them. It should be a crime!! They intrude on every part of your life.
You are right they are pests but they are evil with it. My wife had terrible lies about her and it is an orchestrated hate campaign which is deliberate and nasty. She has never defended herself or reacted because there is no point she says. They believe the lies and hate her and do not even know her. It was our next door neighbour who started it also but it got out of hand and now my wife has to stay behind locked gates every day while the people who should have helped her ignore her pleas for help!!! On Thursday night she was working on the front when a woman got out of the car and fisted her. If I had not been there nobody would have believed her and swore at by another woman who used her fingers to gesture at her. My wife has done nothing but she was to afraid to call the Police because they would not believe her anyway so we did nothing and let them do it to us. We are saddened, disappointed and my wife is extremely distressed because everything she says is the truth and because it is such a clever form of harassment it is almost impossible to prove. Yet we have proven it is happening and yet are pleas are ignored. My wife is left isolated and vulnerable and it is not right.
Keep a Logged Diary- It is important and we hope they leave you alone eventually. We also hope the same one day also.
Charlie 11/06/2017 at 10:43 pm
Since I've been renovating my house me and my girlfriend have constantly been getting harrarssed by our neighbour

When there was some wood in our garden that we needed to take to the recycling centre once we got time, the neighbour came around demanding that we get the rubbish from our garden gone as it's causing a rat problem, there was no rats at all we said it will be going soon once we get around to it

When we had workmen in the house during the weekday working normal hours 9-5 because they were doing a bit of drilling the neighbour decided to come around again to complain as they had guests over and couldn't hear each other over the noise we were having some plug sockets fitted there was not much noise.

When my girlfriend was having a shower one morning at about 10am the windows were open she put some music on next thing we know my daughter has come to me saying the neighbours are shouting up at us as the music is to loud, so we turned it off.

When we were finishing of our bathroom the neighbour knocked on the door again my girlfriend answered and she received a mouthful of abuse from our neighbour saying she can't hear herself think due to the noise of us working in the bathroom which was about 10 mins after my girlfriend calmed down she decided to go around and see the neighbour but she was still quite hostile and decided to chest poke my girlfriend saying she knew her auntie and uncle

A few weeks ago we were in the garden having a BBQ with my girlfriend, her sister and two kids who were having a play in the paddling pool and they asked for some music so we put some on at a low volume next thing we know the neighbours are shouting at us to turn it off, we choose to ignore them as its in the middle of the afternoon next thing we know the neighbour decides to get a stool and stands over our fence looking in telling us to turn it down again we chose to ignore him telling him he doesn't own the steet.

At the weekend we had some family over for a BBQ and a few drinks, we had our music on low and just having general chit chat, next thing we know the neighbours are starting again we choose to ignore then the women puts her head over the fence saying if you don't keep the noise down I'm going to chuck water over you, we stood our ground and said we're doing nothing wrong just talking listening to the music at a low level you couldn't hear it once you entered our house, next thing a load of stones start coming over luckily we had a large umbrella and they bonuced away and not hitting any of the kids.

I'm not really sure what to do will the police listen??? I don't want to retaliate as two wrongs don't make a right, me and my girlfriend are really fed up with them he's even knocked on our neighbour on the other as she was listening to music with her windows open during the day as we were next door you could barely hear it.
Bertie 08/06/2017 at 10:57 am
My kids keep on being harassed by their neighbours and watching every move that they do even complaining to the council that their grass is too long. Even though its been cut down. They am always looking through the curtains at them. It has been going on since my kids moved there 3 years since their Mom died. Every time the kids go outside they am watching them. She even complained about where the kids keep the bins.
Sj 26/05/2017 at 4:11 pm
Ever since neighbours moved in had bullying leaning out of window videoing laughing mocking
After council told them to remove a tree house never stopped
If in garden SHE approaches and starts verbal abuse I am pathetically weak!
Accuses me as s single parent defrauding council! Spreads exaggerated rumours
Cuts right over fence .... that it is hanging on her side ..... years go by I try to grow for privacy ha
Luckily bullying neighbour moved on other side big horrid guy they got on would laugh at me in drive way put weed killer over fence etc twisted stuff I stupidly admitted to police
They had NO proof he had done all this weed killer ha should have complained to the top didn't ha weak
Last thing they did as well as climbing over fence killing shrubs
When I rang police as she was cutting right into my garden nothing to do with her ...... suddenly they the police comin in did I have gun knives
I had to get solicitor ..... ?
Lies she could have faced prison for her lies causing waste of police time causing yet more trouble
Now upstairs window faces open into our garden NOT hers to spy harass intimidate as nobody cut down their garden on our side...... huh bully's bully's they have a BIG bullying family I am on my own ?
Shell 12/05/2017 at 7:44 am
My mother-in-law who is 67 lives in a ground floor flat that is rented with an estate agent. Two new tenants moved into the 1st & 2nd floor last August. The tenants are friends. Everything was fine until last October when the female tenant above my mum started heavily drinking with the male friend from the other flat. She started arguing with another neighbour up the street and in the process my mum has had threatening behaviour. This woman knocking on her door. The woman telling her that she will make sure my mum cannot stay in her flat. Harrassing not only my mum but my family and other neighbours on the street. She even hit a pcso and basically got away with it.She has stayed with me on and off throughout these months but basically been left to feel she can no longer stay in her home. I live across the road and this woman has egged my house. Is verbally abusive. She tries to intimidate people. Shouts things to my family when they visit and shouts abuse when shes seen things been delivered to my home.The police have been out on numerous occassions. The estate agents are trying to evict but courts have thrown it out once and we are now waiting to see if the new direction theyve taken will get this woman and man evicted. They hound other neighbours and even a lady who owns a hotel around the corner. Shocked that the system does not work for law abiding citizens and these people are allowed to remain intimidating us.
Su 04/05/2017 at 3:44 pm
Me and my family have been harrassed by neighbours for years. Alot of what is said above about problem neighbours has happened to me and my family. But nothing got done by anyone, we ended up getting the blame. They spent years letting our neighbours off, little did we know at the time, they were also spending time trying to set us up. But none of it worked because we wernt doing anything wrong. Eventually though, they found a way to get round it without our neighbours having to pay a penny, even though it was them harrassing us over our boundaries that all belonged to us. The way of the world is wrong, bullies always get away with it, children arnt daft they wont say anything when they are being bullied because they know. I put my story on the other day but it appears to have been taken off.
titch 06/04/2017 at 6:12 pm
i have been harrassed by my neighbours kid for 3 solid yrs .kicking my fencing in with a football .aiming it at windows .jumping fence to get in even my double gates at front of my property .i have filled forms in though my local council to get it stopped .they did nothing at first but then sent her letter telling her to stop her son and his mates from playing football .as the gardens here are very small and its the only garden on whole street where a ball is played ,now the fence is wrecked my nerves are terrible .as its not once and a while but every night ,hols i have this and they think its funny .ive put off get police involved so far as there a trouble makers family.ive popped 11 balls in 1 month which proves how delibrate they target my home .i want advise on what im allowed to do as the mother cant controll any of her kids .
ProblemNeighbours Editor 06/04/2017 at 11:36 am
If the neighbour has called you names based on race and made threats to "send you back home" - this is racist and should be reported to the police.
Nicky123 04/04/2017 at 9:18 pm
I have been racially harassed by my elderly neighbour.
I moved into a nice well to do area about a year ago.
My next door elderly neighbour although very welcoming at the beginning with chit chats, soon turned out to be a racist, abusive bullying vamp.
It started with her making comments about how she knows people who can help us with the garden, the fence, the hedges etc. She wanted us to trim all the hedges from the front of our drive. Then she complained about where our bins are kept, how tall our tree has grown etc.
We told her we love the house as it is we don't want to decorate it the way she wants us to. That's when her true colours came out.
She called me racial names and threatened to sent me back home.(I am British)
The thing is because she is elderly i dont know what to do. I would be accused of discrimination against the elderly (she uses this to her advantage)but i cant live like this where i am afraid to get out my front door incase she starts her abuses again.
What can i do??
happydays1 27/03/2017 at 9:16 pm
I would like to share my story with you. I am a 49 year old woman and I am suffering neighbourhood harassment at its worst. I came with my partner to live in a rural area 14 months ago. The cottage we are renting is truly beautiful and I love the property even though it is not ours. We are able to rent it for a long time and I believed that it was a dream come true. It has a beautiful large garden, only one house adjoining us and that is also rented. The neighbours have two young children and he is a farm labourer. They should have been our ideal neighbours but how wrong we were. The female who is her mid 20s has waged a campaign of hate and lies about me and my partner aided and abetted by her husband. I have caught her spying on me, bullying me, harassing me, she hits our walls, screams and shouts in an attempt to disrupt every part of our social life. Her husband has used other men he knows to attempt to intimidate my partner by acting aggressively towards him. They are evil. If that was not enough the female then proceeded with the aid of her husband to spread lies right around the community about us that are completely untrue. These have now been embellished and elaborated so much by various other people that it is now nasty tittle tattle and gossip. Other so called respectable members of this community have now engineered it that even businesses are involved and they spend every day trawling and stopping outside our property spying on us every day and reporting back what we are doing. Every day life has become a nightmare as I am followed to the library, doctors, shopping, getting petrol, going for a walk just for the sheer hell of it. It has become a major pick on me. I have never answered back once nor has my partner who is also followed while working wherever he goes. We say nothing in the vain hope this incitement of hate and lies will stop but each day it just gets worse. More and more people join in and although we have begged and pleaded with the Police to help us there is nothing they can do they say as it is happening in Public Places and it is a free world. They have ignored my pleas. I am alone, isolated and left to deal with stalking on a regular basis and am left shaking with fear when I go out and drive as I have been intimidated driving also. It is sheer hell and there is no help and we have had no help from the Letting Agent. We have done nothing wrong and we take the battering every day literally without saying anything back incase we make it worse but sadly it makes no difference. This is a living hell and we have no help or support from anyone.
PADA 13/02/2017 at 2:52 am
Im in fear of violence from neighbours to get my property from my home.
Lis 09/02/2017 at 7:52 am
I'm so stressed , my neighbours keep on having a go at my 9 year old son , really shouting at him , I'm worried how this is going to affect him, they were threatening me last night as well I have called the police , I'm a nervous wreck , help please !!!
ProblemNeighbours Editor 24/01/2017 at 11:38 am
He may not get arrested for this but if your daughter feels uncomfortable she should report it on the non-emergency 101 number.
happy 23/01/2017 at 11:55 am
My partner and I have been subjected to harassment and intimidation for over
one year now. We have logged everything down, logged incidents but we feel we feel weare not taken very seriously at all. If anything my partner is made to feel paranoid about it all and is very distressed by it all.
We moved into a property thirteen months ago, it is a rented property rented from a Large Agent and it is in a rural area of Cheshire. Before we moved
into the cottage it was fully refurbished and underwent extensive renovations. The garden is beautiful and the cottage has lots of land attached to it. We had waited a long time for it to come up and it is close to my work. There is only on other property next door and what should have been an idyllic life has turned into a living hell and there is a concerted attempt to hound us out of the property through an incitement of hate, lies, intimidation and harassment by certain sections of the community because essentially someone wants the property we are living in. We have had everything thrown at us that you can think of by our neighbours who are a couple with two young children who have been hostile from the moment we arrived there. He is a Farm Worker for a local farmer who is well known and respected and therefore he is protected to a certain extent along with his wife who has subjected my partner to the most inhumane and cruel treatment that she could think of along with her so called friends inside and outside of the property that my partner will not stay in the house on her own anymore without me. When I leave for work she lives in a caravan rather than being near to our neighbours from hell. Not one person has ever attempted to talk to us since we have arrived, it has been full on hostility from the start. My partner is subjected to stalking wherever she goes by so called males of all ages. I have also been subject to it. We have been
stalked by vehicles round the property over and over again intruding into every
vein of our privacy peering in like little peeping toms. We are regularly followed if we go shopping, honked at by tractors and various farm related vehicles. The woman next door has made our life hell this last year, from banging, screaming,
banging anything she could, hounding us out of our garden with every form of anti social behaviour she could think of and if that did not work she would use other females to do her dirty work for her. Her husband is not much better goading me into a reaction, wanting a fight, aggressive looks and just general
nastiness with the aid of other males in the area. They have made our lives hell along with certain members of the community who should know better. It is all based on lies and hate by the female next door and has been compounded by others have also told nothing but lies. And the only reason this is happening is because someone wants out property and wants it for themselves and are prepared to do anything to do it. What shocks us is the suppo
Surayyahhh 22/01/2017 at 9:01 am
A17 year old who lives near me been verbally harassing my daughter and on top of all that he also knows everything about her and when she enters and leaves the house. Like this has been happening for the past 6/7 months ?? Can he get arrested?
Clj123 14/01/2017 at 10:08 pm
Hi please can you help my neighbours are the definite example of neighbours from hell they moved I about 5 years ago the house is a council property mine is owned at first things were ok then started to notice my house was smelling of drugs (skunk) continuously they are both users smoking it 24-7 asked them politely at first if they would mind opening the window then two years ago we had a drive built at the front of our property cus the parking in the street is atrocious the man next door would continuously block the drive every night with the works van that I couldn't get my car a mini in or out my partner was working away at the time one evening he parked the van there when my partner was home I politely asked him to move it and all hell broke loose he was on my property threatening us it ended up him and my partner fighting in the street the police were called but no further action was taken this has been ongoing ever since until a week ago they were threatening me over the garden fence calling me all names accusing us of reporting him to his work for drug driving and blocking our driveway I did not do this tried telling them this but it escalated to me being pushed in the face by him and jumped on by her I retaliated in self defence they called the police and now I am awaiting questioning for abh im at my wits end they are dealing drugs also from the property now but it seems like the law is on their side now
Stressed 08/01/2017 at 9:58 am
My neighbours are really getting me down it started because of a dog pooing in my front yard I confronted the lady and she almost attacked me my next door neighbours are her friends so they have started throwing their rubbish in my front yard and meat out my back and then calling the counsel to report me for mice and rats which their are none because I despose of the meat and the creepy little husband peers over the back wall in at my kitchen I have an autistic child and one on the way I really don't need this I am renting and have nowhere else to go I have never come across the likes of these people in my life they don't want me on their road and are intent on making my life hell what's worse is they are older than me they should be able to live and let live and pick up their own rubbish without the childishness of throwing it over the wall I am at my wits end
Mal 27/12/2016 at 10:00 pm
A female who was my neighbor 5/6 yrs ago stalks me my boyfriend and my family. She will not stop. Our phones, bank accounts,medical charts, jobs and more. She calls her self classy because she's made tons of money by ripping everybody off. Why is she not in jail??
Paul 24/12/2016 at 6:39 am
We had a problem neighbour move in above us in our apartment complex in October of 2015 with his partner. The apartment complex was mostly retired couples and we being late 30's my partner and myself were the youngest there.

The lady above us had to leave her apartment and move in with her mother who was elderly and needed help, and who lived across the road from the complex. She owned her apartment and decided to rent it out to her nephew who was in his very early 20's and partners whilst she was having to care for her mother.

Literally with in the first 24 hours of moving in is when the problems started to unfold. Being in a super quiet complex, everyone getting on...lets just say a blistering argument from him with his partner was noticeable. My partner and myself were just about to leave for the weekend to visit my family when all hell opened up above us. It was so loud, it was like it was happening in my living room. He was screaming at her and smashing objects and this went on for a good 10 minutes. We had to leave (I wish I had called the police), but a neighbour above them actually went to see his father the next day who lived across from the complex. Apparently the young lad didn't care, showed no respect for his dad or that people have complained about what had happened. This night was just the start of it all...8 months of Hell!

We had a good relationship with his auntie who owned the apartment and she was very embarrassed by it all and promised it wouldn't happen again. It did though, it became a weekly thing, could be from being the afternoon or middle of the night. We stupidly at the start just kept going back and forth as residents of the block with his auntie who kept saying it wouldn't happen again and if it did they would be out. It came to a point where in the end I felt for the safety of the young girl upstairs that I did inform the police and they did come around. It was on the third occasion of calling the police and before them arriving going around to the tenants aunties house and being verbally threatened by the tenant for raising the Alarm that enough had been enough. At this point the owner of the flat had promised 3 times that her nephew had been told to leave and they had not and the auntie had said to myself that her nephew had said that he was doing nothing and that is as tenants had a vendetta on him and his partner...the most awful part of it was that even the girl on the recovering end of this all was sticking up for her partner as well saying that we were all lying!

Over the months prior to this, the police had said that we needed evidence, so all of the tenants when ever any of the abuse was going on did actually record the audio on their phones so that we could back it all up, logs were taken of events and everything. We all needed a leg to stand on because nothing was being done about it.

In the end the auntie and owner of the apartment said that she had issued a one month notice to her ne
Jpa 17/12/2016 at 7:27 pm
We live close to our town centre. Behind our house there is an access road. We have three young children and use our back entrance as main entrance as we regularly use a double buggy and we have steep steps to the front of our house. We have lived In the house for two years and to begin with all was fine. 6 months ago the council introduced parking permits to the road. Since then the staff from a restaurant have been using the access road behind our house as a private car park even though there is a free council car park 5 minutes away. The cars arrive at midday and leave at midnight. When they park down the access road they block our gate and we can't get out of the house if we use the buggy. It is obviously one of only two escapes should, heaven forbid, we have a house fire. We have spoken to the staff and manager and asked kindly if they would stop parking in front of the gate and they refuse. What can we do? We want this problem resolved asap
Louisa 04/12/2016 at 4:54 pm
I know how you feel I have a neighbor who asked me out with bottle of wine in his hand at 2am banging my door as he had heard I split from my ex. He has since tried to off himself twice outside my door. Gets neighbors to kick balls at my window shouts screams kicks my door. Stalks me nothing done at all he has friends nearly 90% of the area who he deals drugs too. Place was nice in 2012-15 till June when he moved in.
daily he throws things smashes his flat up due to mental health and drugs. He has been inside from 2004 for 4 years. now he gets his clients arrive slamming car doors below my windows when they come and go and as he deals to everyone they shout at my window. as I am typing all I am hearing is Bang Bang Bang car doors purposefully slammed.
he has damaged communal area with a flick knife up down stairwell, kicked my door wiped blood from self harm on wall and door. of mine. marked wall with pens and terrorised me day in day out why?

I turned him and his moldy bottle of wine down. He is a revolting pervert who on earth would want to date that? nobody. as a now single woman he wont leave me alone or his male friends its all males I get issues with. now banging around in a hoody under window taking parts of bikes out of the car. wheels of stolen bikes on floor,yes they sell stolen goods from a van bikes etc so everyone turns up. police are so sick of it that they do nothing at all.

I hate living here now yet I cant afford to leave. somehow its all my issue as a single female I want peace and quiet to exit enter my home without scum doing dirty deals.

2am last night this guy threw something in his home and myself and other neighbor woken by it sounded like an explosion went off police never came!
they turn up when he had run off. He shouts times dates where he will deal yet when tell police intel do nothing.

I wish he'd shut up outside my window pulling stolen goods out of his car. Id like one day where he isnt messing around with dodgy goods.
Jeeb 04/12/2016 at 10:42 am
I moved it to my new house about 18 months ago nice area and nice neighbours I thought. Then things went down hill the mental alcoholic next door just turned vile. He sent us a letter saying no one likes us in the street doesn't like where my partner parks his van (at the side of our house not even in the cu de sac). The dog barking. Machinery we use ( we used a chainsaw to cut at tree stump out in the middle of th day). The list goes on. We notified the police but didn't take it serious. Then everything seemed fine. Until he can round saying my 10 year oldaughter was raunchy on musically. 1 my daughter is 10 years old and 2 why the hell is watching a 10 year old girl. Again police was informed. Now all we get is reporting and reporting. First from the rspca about my dog. So my partner went round and ask him what was his problem, all we got was abuse with him calling my daughter a s***. So police come again. Then had a letter from the council about the dog. Then a visit from the police that he had reported us for letting down his tyres and damaging his car. Bearing in mind his property is covered in cctv but obviously didn't have any evidence to show the police because we have done anything. I was fed up so I made an harassment complaint. Thinking that would be the end of it. No yet another letter sent to us. Saying, to the local bike and the long streak of p***. No one likes us in the area and no one will accept us as I'm a rotten s***. That we should move house as soon as possible. And he would not relent until we are gone. So off I go again down the police station to hand in the letter and give a statement, now waiting for them do something. How much more crap do I need to take from a mentally unstable person before this is taken seriously. I am not going let this discussing human drive me away from my house. We are hard working people who have worked hard to get what we have got and he doesn't work and sits there drinking all day. It doesn't make sense. I just can't take anymore of his mentalness.
Gailee 27/11/2016 at 3:14 pm
I moved in to this cottage flat in June and suffered constant abuse verbally from the upstairs neighbour. Now her son has moved in and he shouts out verbally abusive saying my dogs are barking they barked once. I want to move away I'm so depressed living in fear.
D 25/11/2016 at 9:04 pm
Hi everyone,
I hope you guys can help me, I've been living in a detached bungalow with my partner for over 10 year and I've always in the conservatory since day one.

I never had any problems with the neighbours while I was here, I watched tv, play video games and listen to music.

Until last year or so one of my neighbour moved away and a new owner bought the bungalow, we were fine until one day he said that he could hear some music or television to one of the neighbours across the road and they told him oh yes it's could be David he likes to listen to his music and watch tv in the conservatory.

So one day he came round and said I could hear your music while I'm at the back garden but it wasn't loud enough to make out what it was, so I apologised and said I didn't know it was that loud because no one ever complained or said anything to me so I thought it's ok and I said if it's too loud let me know I tone it down.

After I said that few days later he came round knocking on the door and asked me to turn the noise down so I did, few days later he came round again and said I still can hear your tv, again I apologised and turn it down even more and I said to him look can I come round and see how loud it is so I know how much I need to turn down and he said no it's ok so I said ok fine.

One night after 12:00am he came round again and this time he was angry and said some poeple needs to sleep and stormed off and I can even put a word in, so next day I went round to his place and I said to him I've been out and I couldn't here any noise so I gave him my mobile number so he doesn't have to keep coming out all the time and I thought that would be fare, instead he keep coming round and complains never once use the number that I gave him.

After 5 to 6 times I stopped answering the door but my partner did and he said to him some nasty things so I called the police but the police and told me not to confront him anymore so now he put a note though the door instead.

I have tried everything to resolve it but he just keep pushing, to be fare I only play music during the day never at after 18:00hrs and I do have 5.1 surround system since he complained on the second time I stopped using it and used a small portable speaker and even that he still complains I tried to contact to my local council and they can't offer me any help instead they say can't you use a headphone? and I said I don't want to use headphone all day long and why should I?
I did asked my other neighbour to see if they hear anything while I was here and they say no not once day or night.

So I don't know why he keeps picking on me? Maybe because I'm Chinese different colour than he is?

I don't know who to turn to for help, he only moved here just a little over a year and causing that much problem.

So please any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Maggie 17/11/2016 at 4:56 pm
We have just purchased a property in a small unadopted grove (4 houses). We are in the process of having needed work carried out on the property. I have been very mindful of living where it is a share road and limited access. My neighbour has been quite rude and abusive to tradesman who have been carrying out work. I have contacted the local council to verify what I should be doing as far as parking for loading / unloading and having a tradesman park outside our property. This week we required work to be carried out, due to his previous rudeness I decided to put it in writing that we were having work carried out between certain hours on a certain day and that it would be too much of an inconvenience. The tradesman moved his vehicle when asked but my neighbour has gone absolutely mad. What else can I do
sublie 04/11/2016 at 10:34 am
I've moved into an upstairs appartment. From the time myself my son and his girlfriend have moved here the neighbour underneath is unreal. She complains about music if I play it. Now don't get me wrong I play it once a week in kitchen. And it's of at ten pm or before. She complains if my door slams she is even complaining about flushing my toilet. She stops me in my garden or out on street. I'm sick and tierd of it. She has done this to passed tenants to. What do I do?
lulu 23/10/2016 at 12:24 pm
I've been living in an apartment complex for a year now and the woman who lives below me has approached me outside saying that she can hear my boyfriend and I walking around,going to the bathroom,being intamit and also complaining about my cat..she bangs on her ceiling when we drop something,when we walk around everything, so I deceided to call the rental office..she found out about the call and it has been chaos ever since.. She threatened me when I was on my way to my car saying that my days are numbered for me and my man...i called the police she wouldn't come to the door.. She followed my boyfriend with her phone recording him saying that if he had a problem to talk it out..she went crazy and her boyfriend came to my door last night looking to start problems I called the police again and filed another report..this morning. I woke up to them arguing about us..she started banging on my ceiling again..what do I do
Mommy23 22/10/2016 at 4:14 pm
Im a victim of harrassment everyday over the period of three. Months constant nasty words and dysfunctional talking from people in the community people threating me and my family disgusting words and looks harrassment from the police and everytime i go in a store i cant shop in peace with out one taken pics of me and tryna set me up me and others have over heard conversation of them trying to set me up talking bout any thing i touch id be charged for it due to them taking my finger prints of the items i touched im a law abiding citizen and i do not appreciate them harassing me nor my family i have reported. It to the mayor and to the police department i also contacted my lawyer to this matter im currently waiting on the paperwork .
Mari 09/10/2016 at 10:54 am
Well, the authorities do not help. Every time i complain about a bullier from next door he revenge me with even more bullying. I do really start having suicidal thoughts as my health is deteriorating because of all this mess. It is going on for about 5 years. 2 or 3 years of my complaints, endless paper and audiou recordings about when the noise was started and finished... No results. The only solution I was offered by authorities was to move away. Yes! I have to move and not the bullier! I cant afford moving and now i am not even able as my health deteriorated.I live alone . I feel helpless and live in constant fear. I am fed up with living in constant noises from next door,cannabis smoke that comes to my house through the walls and his harrassments. I am afraid that one day i wont be able to control myself and end my life. My doctor wrote letters to them,but it seems they do not care about what is and will happen to my life. Life here cost nothing if you are not rich.
Norma 06/10/2016 at 3:10 am
After a verbal fight with my neighbors, i told them exactly how i felt about them and told them never to bother me again . We put up a half barrier up to not see them again . Tha made them even madder. They had planted a palm tree i foot from our drive way that was scratching my husbands new truck and catching on my clothes as i got in and out of the truck. I had the managers to have it removed . We live in a moble home park. They would play their music so loud from 8.00 am till8.00 pm . I had the manager to stop that . Now their madder than ever . Now he is sawing everyday by my drive way . Sawing using power tools etc. Sawdust all over the place. Im trying to get this stopped but i know its going to be something else after this. Its never going to stop . Is this not harrisment ? I think so !
dale 30/09/2016 at 11:44 am
my neighbour upstairs keeps me awake at night with his stumping on the floor till some nights 2am 3am 4am
Snake 26/09/2016 at 2:56 pm
We have a neighbour who has started over some bags she has dumped (how sad) she has been looking for any reason to up her game at us by accessing us of posting items through her letter box to stealing pegs all of which was proven otherwise she has caused nothing but nuisance since she got here via notice or trouble going to her door. Any way this latest problem is she has been caught out and is directing it at me and my wife she started smacking our windows and kicking in our door we had the police out but all they cared about was that her bf was wanted and not the situation we was in this person has got friends of hers to send me death threats and start with my wife all because she was caught out tipping on our street the worse thing is she lives above us and has persons their waiting for us to leave we are scared to leave this property and know all the people she has got on to our backs know where we live like I said over some dirty bags I was wondering if any of you have had a high risk of violence from neighbour and how you went about it as the only way I can think off getting them off my back is by going out and been beaten by them
Doris 16/09/2016 at 1:35 pm
My neighbour who I've known for over 30 years is being harassed by there next door neighbour they can't park there car without being shouted at they have had damage to the car and house there scared to go out one of them has multiple sclerosis they have reported them written everything down but nothing is being done I'm very concerned about them what can I do to help
Lit 13/09/2016 at 12:11 pm
One of my friends neighbours threatened to attack her because a letter had been sent out from the council asking them all to park on the drives instead of on the road. They were convinced it was her who told the council to send out letters. My friends neighbour is a 50 year old bag with an odour you might compare to urine so my friend was more shaken up about the smell of her and her husband than the abuse they were hurling. Disgusting behaviour!
Sweeney34 09/09/2016 at 4:33 pm
Hi since we moved in to our house our neighbour has done nothing to report is to council for petty things like we built a this we knocked down that etc we haven't done anything and done the same to other neighbour since they bought there house they have two sons with disabilities and have tormented them wen walking past they barge past not a excuse me wen in garden they eat wig to ur conversations and have put camera up in front and back of therehouse no one walks past so they can earwig we get no privacy constantly tormented but then they claim there a victim we have reported it but nothing gets Done even next door have done the same and found out that there trying to get loads of ppl on there side to turn against us to get bothe of us kicked out they did it to tenants who lived in here before and they moved but no one likes them doe this road and everyone k pea what there like please help me I'm at the end of my tether what to do like I say police no all about them so so anti social at the council and all I get told is keep a diary I'm not gonna sit at my window watching them al I want is a life and for me and my family to be left well alone help !!!!
none 08/09/2016 at 12:45 pm
My old neighbour keeps puting notes in my letter box about the state of my garden and I suspect she read my mail too she spread rumours that I was a murderer what can be done to stop her do ing any thing else.
harassed for 3 years 05/09/2016 at 9:08 pm
I sent the below letter to the local sheriff, CRR committee and town mayor. I resorted to the garage 3 times and there is no difference to how they respond to me. Stinky, gross, saying god, damn, calling me am f - er. having the small children saying mean nasty things. Here is the letter....

though I know there isn’t much that can be done as I am so told. I think there really should be a way to end such harassment for I am sure this isn’t just me this is happening to We lived in a duplex for several years. It came a point where we were ready for an upgrade. Felt as hard as we worked it was time to appreciate ourselves and give ourselves a reward. We found a house in Huntington Meadows that we really like. It looked like a clean pleasant neighborhood.
Being a smoker that I know I am I chose to not smoke inside my new home for several reasons, but mainly to not depreciate the value of my home. Knowing about secondhand smoke and it affects not only to myself but others as well. I gave myself a few months to get that exposure out there.
I wanted to be kind, caring and considerate to others so I took the time to question my surrounding neighbors to ask them if my smoking outdoors was affecting them in any way. Neighbor to my left said she smells it a bit but not that bad, The neighbor to my right said no. Neighbor behind me said if I didn’t mention it she wouldn’t even have known. Neighbor to left of her said he smokes too. Neighbor to the right of her I didn’t ask because they have a fireplace and figured they were used to smelling smoke.
Shortly thereafter the neighbor on my left started making verbal unpleasant gestures about my smoking out on my back deck, the neighbor behind me became verbal and she is in her 60’s so I asked her two more different times both times she looked at me in the eyes and said no my smoke didn’t bother her. Then all of a sudden she became very verbal with me when I was outside. The next thing I know they are all were sudden being very verbal with me. Didn’t understand why the smokers were having issues with it and didn’t understand why the ones to my right was having issues with it because they like to party, play loud music and barbeque most evenings.
Then not only was I hearing verbalness do to my outdoor smoking I was also hearing meanness on how I was taking care of my flower gardens or lawn.
Because of hearing stuff like if she come out there one more time I am jumping the fence after her, or words like bang - bang - bang, beating and slamming of things. We became concerned. We decided to put up surveillance cameras for protection.
I decided to do some research on my smoking. Learned why businesses say stay back ten feet from windows or doors, how it starts dissipating after ten feet, 25 feet away it no longer does any harm. I started measuring from my fence to where I always sit. I learned I am more than 25 feet from even my closed neighbor. That is just measuring from my side of the fence to
Abbs 05/09/2016 at 8:07 am
I moved into my flat in 1998 I had a flat exchange with the couple who previously lived here they had a five year old daughter. I asked the couple why they wanted to exchange I remember them saying neighbour neighbour at the time I didn't think anything of it. At the time I thought they were complaining about nothing as he was young. I really wish I had listened to them. When I first moved the downstairs neighbour seemed ok asking me how do I like the place making small talk with me when ever he saw me.
Then four days after I moved in I heard noise shouting and swearing at the old female neighbour downstairs underneath
him. She had kept some letters from the post man for him as he wasn't home at the time. He went downstairs and started swearing at her where are my f in letters really abusing her. I thought this is strange as she was only trying to him a favour making sure his post is safe and give it to him once she sees him. Since that day the harassment began I used to live by myself at the time he started to tap on the ceiling following me everywhere I move kitchen bathroom living room bedroom. I got married in 98 my wife when she moved was getting harrassed aswell he would tap on ceiling following us around the flat. I would go to work in the day and come home to find her in bits crying complaining he is following her with tapping through the ceiling everywhere she moved. He also was playing music at high levels all day and night when he was in shouting and fighting speaking at the top of his voice with friends. I used to go out to work in the mornings and the neighbours down stairs used to say to me to call the police they can't take anymore of it. I thought by calling the police I would things worse as I have to live directly on top of him.
One day me and my wife where going down stairs as we reached the front gate he ran past me trying to physically assault her I had to stand. She told her brother who wasn't to happy he already know about the harassment in the house he had words with him. Since that day I have now been here for 22 years he has been shouting swearing obscenities through the ceiling banging objects on the bedroom frontroom ceiling swearing and banging when friends come over to see me just constantly harassing me. I contacted my housing association they sent me to mediation which he refused to go this was after I contacted the police. My housing keep changing housing officers so the case keeps getting passed to different officers.
The most recent officer wrote him a letter saying that I'm causing ASB as he got a neighbour in the block to side with him.
I Was thinking to contact the couple who used to live here to see if they can write me a letter explaining the problems they were having with him before I moved here.
Its like he's got the housing in his pocket what ever you say they always defend him.
I look where I live and don't want to have to move because of one nut job. Can someone advise please im at the e
simone 04/09/2016 at 1:31 pm
I have been harrassed by a fat 46 year old man because i do not want to be his friend and complained about his laminated flooring because he would purposely make noise because i did not want to be his friend, because he is apparently gay that some how means he is not being a pervert towards me, its scary nobody thinks his obsession with a 21yr old female is weird, mostly its women dealing wiht this case as well that is the sad thing,
All he has had to do is say i am the one harrassing him... even in america the police and council wouldnt be so dumb to believe a 21yr old nursery worker is harrassing a fat 46yr old unemployed drug addict.
it is a very sad world we live in, I have said many times i feel like this man will eventually killl me but because he makes counter claims nobody takes anything serious
Helen 01/09/2016 at 5:11 pm
I've been harassed by my neighbour since she moved in 8 yrs ago. Although I have records the police do not want to know. In the past two days her 14 yrs old daughter has started to join in by doing silly things which are childish and she has to have a family male friend come and look after her till her mum gets home. I could cope with her mother but now her daughters behaviour frightens me. I don't know where to turn
Markarnia 30/08/2016 at 3:36 pm
Annoying wind chimes, taking photos of my property. Taking pictures of my under age daughter.
Dee 28/08/2016 at 7:54 pm
I am constantly been thretened and harrased by my elderly neighbour and her son he tried to kick my front door in and this goes on at night usally a sat or sunday night my partner has had 2 strokes as a result of the stress we are scared to be in our property we are derby homes tenents and they are doing nothing to help us we had to call the police on 999 as he was thretening my partner with a screwdriver please help i am at the end of my tether please please help
Kt 23/08/2016 at 5:00 pm
Have previously suffered a variety of harrassment off the people who live directly over the back of me for no reason at all.

Reported it to police and it stopped temporarily but now the youths of the household have started to say things to my 5yr old niece when she's in the back garden playing.

I've not seen it myself as it seems to happen when she is playing on her own but she tells me and her mum when they say things. Any advice on how to handle this?
Saveme 22/08/2016 at 1:11 pm
The information is helpful I've wanted to report being harassed for years. Because it's started by a family member constantly complainting to them with personal problems in our home unfortunately I don't socialize with them because I believe they are during drugs. Reporting them may put my life and other family in danger. I pray they will stop I'm a senior citizen and can't afford to move and not wanting to be defeated by this harassment.
lisa 22/08/2016 at 11:28 am
Suffering exactly the same, mental health case 3 doors away harrassing a neighbour turns everything on its head to make it his fault, threatens any female who talks to him, including myself.
Second ASB neighbour now joining ranks so I am trapped in the middle, e mailed everyone including Police commissioner, MP, stalking helpline etc etc.
No one does anything.
The council are responsible for putting this scum in decent areas with young families put all of them together in one area save the police time and money being called out to one road rather than the whole of Bristol.
Fedup 21/08/2016 at 8:05 pm
What the hell is wrong with society...the good people are harassed and ignored, while the bad are paid attetion to. .for god's sake! I am sick of this and dealt with many situations of the sort with no help from council or police. . You gotta make it known everywhere. . Write, write, write. .to MP's, Council, Police, Ombudsman, The Queen if no one else listens. . Keep writing, keep dates, times and every word said. When you answer an official letter. .include the original letter and underline what they have not addressed. . Keep it up. . Don't give up. . You can win.
hazelwick 20/08/2016 at 3:36 pm
We live in our bought home and live next door to a rented one, they put drug addicts in had years of stress and because I stick up for myself we are getting harassed by next door, threats, banging on our walls, keeping us awake as they don't work. I have had enough reported to council and police lets see what happens I also get there smelly cannabis in my home which makes us ill.as have asthma me and my daughter it stressing my husband out
spam 19/08/2016 at 1:27 am
I'm being bullied and harassed by my neighbours and now they told the council it's me and that I'm being antisocial it's so unfair I'm having to go to the council to see a man called mark Oakley I've just looked him up and it doesn't say goodthgs about him I live alone with just my daughter who's 14 and I feel totally alone and can't sleep through worrying I fear I'm going to be thrown out and that there lies r gona b believe over me I hate living here it's pure he'll I can't take anymore stress please help someone
ProblemNeighbours Editor 17/08/2016 at 10:33 am
Speak to someone at your Housing Association, they may be able to move/swap you to an alternative house if it gets really bad. Do you have a local PCSO? If so, have a quiet word, they're generally pretty good at getting through to "gangs" and "bullies".
lizzy 16/08/2016 at 11:33 am
I have been having problems with my neighbour who has suddenly turned against me. Her children threatened my 8 year old son. She has 4 sons who are older. They get other boys to hit my son. I have tried to speak to her calmly but she won't listen and tells me her boys are very good well mannered boys who don't fight. It got heated a couple of days ago because again her son who is 15 told another younger boy to hit my son but my son punched him and the boy started crying. I told her again but this time she started swearing at me and my children. It got very heated. She called the police and told them I had threatened to use a knife on her. Which is absolutely not true. The police came I explained what had happened and he said he would leave it there but to stay out of each other's way. Of course that is difficult as the children play outside. She has now started a full on war with me getting other neighbours involved. Yesterday one of the other neighbours who is 21 came out and threatened my son telling him she would cause problems for me him and me. I went to speak to them before I knew it the other woman who I had an argument with previously was recording me and my son and called the emergency police telling them there was a fight. They came and obviously there wasn't a fight so weren't happy at been called out. They warned her off. I am now fearful that overtime my son goes out he is going to be threatened or harassed and there is nothing I can do as it's my word against theirs. She owns her home but I am a housing association tenant. I have more to lose.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 15/08/2016 at 12:32 pm
You could look at a mediation service and try to get the neighbour to understand how they're making your feel?
Amanda 12/08/2016 at 6:03 pm
I own my own property and keep getting harrassed by a tenant/neighbour at no14, when I report them to the police they do nothing but when she reports me for verbally defending myself the police come out. She makes me feel very insecure and upset and angry, all the while nobody will help me!
others 09/08/2016 at 12:11 am
I do have problems too with the pervs.....it makes me outrageous all the time whenever they make noise trying to pissed me off over and over again... Once I've tried to ignore them but since they love to watch our moves, peeking at our windows. like as if they're watching a TV show...it got worst....ltheir chitchats about us makes me fdbehgfbbbsgds,******it's their everyday routine! And come think that it is so annoying like who the hell they mind about what we do..STALKING US ! These neighbors reside beside our house... we do like just a normal thing but as to them they take it so malicious.....Not just that.. they try to convince other residents to do what they do against us.... I had threw some nice words to them because they it is so harassing.... but it seems they want some more trouble...... urgh....grrrr............. those ill brains.....
Chad 27/07/2016 at 8:32 pm
Comment for kitty don't ever feel like taking your life I've felt like that am no way am I going to let low life's with nothing better to do control my being something wrong with their life's to want to inflict their pain on their neighbour I've ignored mine for 2 years an he decided to start again coz he can't handle the laughter an fun that comes from our garden because all their kids do is scream an beat each other up an everyone can hear it
harrassed 25/07/2016 at 5:15 am
I am going through this for a couple of months ever since my neighbors moved in. They talk negatively constantly and don't stop. Police do thing.
Jack Meadows 24/07/2016 at 9:09 pm
The Police DO NOT take harassment complaints seriously.
Kitty 20/07/2016 at 6:12 am
Harrassment is the same league as rape because it belittle and strips your mental mind but police do not take harrassment seriously.
I am 23 and being harrassed by a 50 yr old drug addict who is unemployed.
This man is a loner one of those people nobody likes and spends his time obsessing over me.
All it has taken is him to accuse me of harrassment and the police do nothing.
Funny i wasnt harrassing him until i called police on him.
One thing i learne on this is NEVER call police for nothing! All they do is collect ur details.
I feel like commiting suicide over this. I am broken and nobody will help me.
Grant 18/07/2016 at 9:45 am
We purchased our first house just over a year ago, for the first 6-8 months everything was great. until our next door neighbor aggressively came to our door complaining that I was parked in his space although i was outside our own house.

With this in mind I felt under pressure and a little intimidated, not only when i asked him to leave my property felt threatened since he refused to leave. This was reported to the police since although i may be big build I am a big softy :( but also don't have time for these types of people.

Anyway moving on, I decided to deal with the issue myself and spoke to the guy and everything was then ok....... Recently we then received abuse over the garden fence along with pointless loud music, I decided this guy is clearly taking the p**s out of us since i stupidly told him i was scared and reported it to the police ( yes i know im an idiot)

We have since put a six foot fence up on our land to stop the guy from perving at my partner but only half way completed. Today my partner was in the garden putting washing out and there he was perving and taking the p**s out of her. If this guy isn't careful i will loose it and will end up rapping a golf club around his head, since this is harassment and makes our first home feel impossible to enjoy :( Depressing as it is im not strong enough to sort the issue and im concerned if i report it again he will ignore it all!
dee 13/07/2016 at 6:19 pm
Hi, I have lived in a 1st floor flat for the past 4 years. A lovely flat in a small block of only 4. During this time I have been continously harrassed, intimadated, abused & on one occassion physically assulted in the communal hall (ending in a trip to hospital) by my direct next door neighbour. Why? Because she can! She is a angry single mother, who vents her frustrations. I'm disabled with heart problems & have been unable to go out alone, since her attack in 2014. The attack was reported to the police & H/A but due to no witnessness no action was taken. I have since been recording her threats of harm, discrimination etc (last incident 09.7.16), but still no action from police or H/A! I dont no what it will take before this matter is taken seriously..... maybe my death. But then again folks, we heard it before.... Lessons will be learn from this!
Keep strong & safe.
ladieleo 13/07/2016 at 1:43 pm
I live in NYCHA and have been harassed by at 1st 1 neighbor and their teenage son since I am single disabled women with a disabled son. It has put me through alot for a year and a half during which time My Sarcoidosis was found and I was trapped with them as neighbors spreading lies, purposely banging on walls to get up as my body was fighting for life, complained of my dog and didn't take care of their own. I thought it would end it has not In Fact they have an Entire Community involved and I am harassed DAILY. I again have come out of remission and now even require IV medications and STILL these people are allowed to Harass and try to take the roof off my sons Head!! I need Help I've gone to police over this 6 yr period no real help just why don't I Move ..I cannot afford to Move I've gone to housing formally as it is now their Maintenance staff and some Painters and construction team which all are friends and family of each other Housing did nothing but investigate ME?? When they KNOW these are thugs and bullies Out Here
Six Years they do this to a person because I am single and don't readily socialize or feel comfortable with people In my home My body fights for life ever day!! I pray Everyday for someone to help US I can not go into a shelter I cannot give up my son's home I am Harassed Stalked and Bullied by Words and Followed places in efforts to intimidate me from my home as the laugh about what they are doing and comparing it to the others they have done this to I need Help as My body is trying to heal itself and I Fight for Life with Sarcoidosis
Rinnie 13/07/2016 at 10:39 am
Ive just moved into a lovely new flat.
We said hi to our neighbours and even let them know when we where moving in and warned about noise that morning, ive picked up their post, i even put letters on our door so people would stop ringing their door bell by mistake when meaning to ring mine. And what do i get in return?
A greeting of weed everytime i enter my property and music being played so loud my house is impossible to live in as the floors and walls vibrate. I held on to that for over a month, then all i did yesterday was ask politly to please have the music turned down as i was feeling unwell and my house was vibrating (8 months pregnant.) And i get a rude response anout how i aparently slam the front door late at night..... my bf gets home every evening at around 9pm and we never slam the door, it closes and makes noise. I appologised saying its not intentional... and then he started screaming saying he will "bash my boyfriends head in next time the door slams" I did not take that lightly so i lost my temper and told him NOT to threaten me or my bf may have slipped a swear word in there and then i was told not to swear infront of his daughter. But its okay for him to threaten a pregnant lady and swear infront of her every other sentance, do drugs and play crude music? Thats ok. We argued for a while longee and he continuednro threaten to hurt my boyfriend who wasnt even present. After the insident i got a bang on the door from his gf i didnt answer and got a letter saying "do not slam doors or walk up stairs loudly children live here" again we have NEVER slammed the door and i cant help making noise going up the stairs in MY house. I have formally complained and our land lord contacted theirs, and their land lord is just a rude and crude as they are. I will not stand for further harrasment or threats especially when my new born is here.
Lisaro 12/07/2016 at 11:27 pm
Police do nothing about harrasssment so dont bother calling them.
Since i reported harrassment from a neighbour all they have done is arrest and investigate me. I am a small young woman the man is twice my age.
It is a very sad world we live in i will never call police again in my life they have made my life hell to the point im being evicted just because i reported this harrassment
Abused 12/07/2016 at 4:45 pm
Me and my family are being abused bu the police and the mental system, they contact my neighbours and relatives to call the local police and community mental health care to section me. They go through courts and get the warrant to break into mu house for FORCED 'TREATMENTS' they lock me away and inject me with antipsychotic drugs until I can not move and know nothing about life.
They keep and doing this every 6-8 months and when they let me fo they put me on Community treatment order so they can carry on abusing me even in my own home.

I never done anything wrong in my life, but my children are abused in schools and at home with same drugs. I am trying to protect their health and my health too but it's impossible.
They follow is wherever we go, whatever we do.
They nearly killed my children my children in so many accessions.
I am scared for my children's lives as well as mine.

This has been going on for 10 years now.
It's an awful life and its done by services that we should trust NHS and Police.
Hosco22 30/06/2016 at 12:55 pm
There are two niebours of mine trying to kill me. I've called the police and they came out and said that they talked with them and told me that I'm wrong. That's the way the sheriffs office does things here! I've been having problems here for a long time and it always seem that the deputies are apart of it too. It's now got to the point since yesterday that I can't go outside now!
Fedup 28/06/2016 at 8:48 am
Our family has started to be harassed by neighbours each side also a friend of one of the neighbours that lives in flats opposite. It started with the man next door having a drop down curb put in who then thought he owned all the road outside his house and ours. And didn't want my partner to park his car outside our house. Then after this it's constant knocking and complaining about anything and everything. Now my neighbours other side had a go because I put old couch in commual garden which I told council about and they said they pick up first august apparently you can have 3 things picked up so they said put broke wood wardrobe where that was so council pick up all at once. Started to do this my neighbours came out screaming shouting wouldn't let us get word In edge ways. And cut long story short woke this morning to find wipers on car all bent . So it begins next be scratches tyres down ect. I'm 6 months pregnant and can't handle this my blood pressure already going up. I'm frightened of loosing my babe because all stress. Don't even know why the bloke out flats got involved only he neighbours friend. It's a joke as she got two doors and toilet seat she dumped in commual garden. Suppose it one rule for her and one for us.
Courageous 25/06/2016 at 3:41 am
Im experiencing Racism... I recently bought a home in Iam Caucasian but my wife is Native american therefore we have brown children! In an all white neighberhood my youngest daughter moved in with me in my 2 grand children since the 1st week weve moved it we've had the police called 1 time i had a 9 yearolds bday party in all my family came to celebrate are the kids were playing with bright orange in green toy guns are house was surrounded by swat saying we were gangbangers with guns running around outside lol... Let me mind you im 57 in theres no gangbangers in my family then Cps has been called twice on my grand kids with lies in false allegations saying there outside alone riding there bikes alone not takin care of in having marijauna smoked in front of them... My grandkids are 2 and 4 and beleive me are never Left unattended theres always little white kids riding around actually unattended in were the ones being harresed i dont know how i can fix this are who can help me its getting out of hand ive lived here 3months in thpught itd be so good to own my own home but im actually living in hell!!! Please help
ELIZABETH 23/06/2016 at 2:53 pm
My neighbour constantly tries to bully and boss me about through his walls He insults me by calling me and my dog dirty.He calls me lazy and weakens me at 4.50 am in the morning by calling my name.He constantly uses abusive terms by calling me an peodophile and an pervert.When I reported this to the police their was no action taken he provoked me into throwing an yard brush at him by calling at me at the back of my house in which the police arrested me.When I told him police what he was doing they said he only talking in his house. He is constantly invading my privacy and harassing me.I have been given 28 days bill because police would not help.
Lorenzo 15/06/2016 at 10:03 am
My neighbours are constantly watching my every move. Making false allegations to my landlord about dog abuse and drug use. The 2 that live in my building conspire with each other as to what they can allege next. They make noise up until 3am and it starts again at 6 am everyday. I cant go any where without worrying about the flat or the dog. And my own safety. I have had enough of the stares and verbal lies about me. I have to put up with my landlord sending me letters saying that I am at risk of abusing my tenancy when clearly. The 3 people in my block are conspiring with each other on a daily basis as to what they can do next. Snidy comments in the street. Derogatory remarks. False allegations. I hear what's said as I live next door to one and above the other. There is even a woman round the corner from me who spies on me. I strongly believe that if I went out for a long period of time. That the spy would let my neighbours know when I left and tell them that I am on my way back. Si between these times I could get burgled. And they would all pretend that the did not see a thing and yet they would all be involved. I have another neighbours who has been lied to by a former friend who lives further up the road. Who has pretty much threatened me with burglary. So I find it hard to leave my flat. And a bit scary to go anywhere for risk if my own safety. don't who to trust and would rather nit go out. Getting a bot agraphobic as a result. That just makes things worse with the neighbours. As they wonder why I am not going out. I am pretty ill too. That another problem entirely. Cant get suitable help from the doctors. Meaning I cant get adult mental health help. And its just snow balling
Happy 14/06/2016 at 11:15 am
We have been harassed by neigbours since Christmas when we moved into what we thought was a lovely property in the country. We went through a letting agent which will only do twelve months tenancy and we went through relevant checks and it cost us over two and a half thousand pounds to move in as they company concerned requires two months rent in advance. The problems started within two weeks of moving in. First they were very hostile to us and were not very neighbourly so we kept our distance. My partner introduced herself to the husband but all he said Do you know how to mind your own business? Then the harassment started in earnest very quickly. The wife of the gentleman concerned started to shout very loudly to the point that the kitchen and living room became unusable for my partner in the day. Then the odd noises started. The lady concerned would behave erractically shouting outside,spying on my partner in the garden and do anything including blood curdling screams to oust her from her outside. If that did not work she would throw something at the adjoining hedge so the dogs would launch at the hedge aggressively intent on frightening her. Tumble Dryers and Washing machines would start up three times a week between the hours of 11.30 p.m. and 2am in an intent to disturb our sleep interspersed with heavy bangs for good measure.
Then the spying started to get worse so that both of us are being watched all day from morning to night. Every move we make is monitored.
We stopped eating in the kitchen as the lady concerned makes it impossible to prepare food, eat or even wash up at all. We now eat in a little room furthest away from her and we eat out a lot more than we did. The intimidation has also increased by honking of horns by their friends outside our cottage that my partner is extremely scared and intimidated as they spread vicious lies around the community about us. Sadly it is a small farming community and his boss secured the property for them and has huge influence with the agents involved so our hands are tied to a certain extent. He essentially is there guarantor and referee. We had to go through a lot of checks as they insist. They did not.
We have now found out the reason why the harassment is so bad. We moved into a refurbished cottage while theirs is unrefurbished and much cheaper. The handbook states that if tenants leave early they are responsible for all letting fees including the rent left to pay . This is the cruncher!! The letting agent then lets the property at a lower rent and you have to pay the extra until the tenancy ends. We are essentially being harassed by our neighbours so they can have our property. They come in and negotiate a lower rent through their boss and move into the refurbished property and hence get what they want and we take the financial hit, not them. In anger my partner has spoken to the letting agent involved and they have believed us which is a relief but we have decided to go anyway as it ha
Exhausted 12/06/2016 at 10:44 pm
We have been having a problem with people who lives in the top flat of the block behind our house. Their bedrooms look right into our garden. It started well over a year ago when I kept seeing camera flashes but thought nothing of it. Then one day we were in the kitchen and saw a man leaning out the window teasing our dog which naturally barked. Again I thought nothing of it until I actually caught the woman living there taking photos and glaring out the window. Often she would stand there when we were in the garden and shout things out the window. At my sister's birthday party we caught her at it again and this time pointing at everyone and taking photos (party was right in the middle of the day). At the time a family member was dating a police officer so I asked her advice and she suggested reporting it but we had no evidence so left it. It came to head a few weeks later when my mother was gardening. The woman leant out of the window and began hurling abuse and threatening us. I immediately called the police and they visited a few days later saying they would speak to the lady. We assumed at the time it was because of the dog - he's not a constant barker but at the time a cat kept getting into the garden and sadly we have a large fox population but he is never out past 10:30pm if we can help it. Things eventually settled and we thought that was the last of it until this week - all week she has been at the window taking pictures and pointing. On Saturday night (9:30ish) she yelled out the window at us again to shut the dog up. We kept the dogs (we now have two but only one barks) in the house after this. Today, in the middle of the day while my mum was playing fetch with one dog (the other was asleep) the woman said we were keeping her child awake by being in the garden. She then told us we'd be sorry and our dogs should be shot. We said nothing but caught it on camera. Since then, every time we go outside she is there taking photos and pointing. Because of the bad weather the dogs haven't been outside so it's just us she has been taking photos of. We have suggested talking this out (obviously not across the neighbourhood) but she has made it clear she isn't interested. We've been keeping a record but feel we are being personally set upon especially since there are another 5 dogs around us who all bark and everyone else seems to be allowed to be outside in their gardens having social gatherings or just enjoying the space. We are reluctant to go to the police this time as we are certain she has made a complaint to them and the dog warden. Some advice would be great at this point because we have lived here for 20 years and have never dealt with anything like this with any of the other tenants who have had that property.
SurfsUp 11/06/2016 at 1:29 am
My neighbors have been harassing me for more than five years now. They go to the boro hall, and file a complaint, from having too many cars in my driveway (I had three, and it's a FOUR CAR DRIVEWAY.!!) GOT A SUMMONS FOR THAT.!! The following year 2011 they harassed me for having a tent in MY OWN BACKYARD.!! ON MY OWN PROPERTY.!!!!!! GOT A SUMMONS FOR THAT TOO.!!!!!! When it's perfectly FINE for THEIR CHILDREN TO MAKE A BASKETBALL COURT OUT OF OUR TWO WAY TRAFFIC STREET. By keeping a HUGE transportable BASKETBALL HOOP IN THE STREET 24/7.!!!!!!
THE NEXT YEAR THEY COMPLAINED TO TOWN boro hall. That my bushes were not SALON MANICURED IN MY FRONT YARD.!!!!!! I GOT A SUMMONS FOR THAT.!!!!!
HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS AM I SUPPOSE TO TAKE.!! I'm not made out of money. To pay all these SUMMONS EVERY TIME THEY FEEL LIKE HARRASSING ME AGAIN.!! How can I fight back.?? Help.!! SOS.!! ASAP.!!
lea 09/06/2016 at 9:11 pm
I am another one who is being harassed, I am a 5'4 pregnant female. Harasser is a 50yr old 300 pound man.
Unfortunately what I have learned is that all the harasser has to do is make up you are doing stuff to them then the police and HA/council will just ignore your complaints and see it as tit for tat. You would think people who work in such postitions would have more common sense.
Funny how I wasnt doing anything to him until i complained about him, how amazing is that!
All the police have done is collect my data. Thats it.
When this man kils me or kills my baby because he is a violent obsessed bully then the blood will be on thier hands.
Chris 03/06/2016 at 2:24 am
I have neighbors who falsely accuse me of being nasty. I keep my apartment pretty clean. Any smell in the hall, the neighbors automatically thinks it my apartment. They gossip around the apartment complex and to the landlord. I feel so alone. What should I do?
helen 02/06/2016 at 9:09 am
im so upset i live in the house on my own with my kids i have 3 age 12.10.3 i have this horrble women across the road swearing all the time drinking all the time bulling my kids and the harassment is geting to much its making me ill ringing the ploice all the time i cant even leve the house
Reburn 31/05/2016 at 1:53 am
There has been so much incident at my two bedroom house .I have been living there for 7years both neighbours are harassing me and my family.verbally abusive.everytime they see me.when they set the car in fire.....I don't feel safe in my own home.the police and council don't take harassment seriously.
Lex 29/05/2016 at 7:51 am
I feel so helpless. Our neighbour has been harrasing us for about a year now. We have 2 little girls aged 1 and 4 and he says they make to much noise. We walk on egg shells so as not to disturb him yet he still bashes on our roof, so loud that the whole house shudder's and we are frightened. I am suffering from anxiety. We have a small back garden next to his and we are to frightened to let our dog out incase she goes in his garden. He has thrown water on her before so not sure what he might do next because this dispute has gotten out of control. He has threatened me and call ed me all sorts of verbally abusive names. I lye awake at night frightened what he might do. I hope he does nothing to hurt my kids. He has threatened us with social services, making untrue accusations!
Leanne 28/05/2016 at 8:02 am
I live in a terraced house, we have the ground floor flat. The man in his fifties who lives upstairs says my 2 little girls, 1 and 4 years old, make to much noise by running around. We live under him and they hardly ever make a noise! He is threatening to call social services and make all sorts of accusations saying I drink to much alcohol. I have a few glasses of wine on the weekend. Not even every weekend, so it hardly a crime and does not affect my children. I have not had a drink for weeks now because I won't let him get the better of us if he calls social services. He bashes on our roof and is verbally abusive. My kids are scared and we don't want to go in our back garden or even let our dog out. He has threatened to make my life a living hell! He said to my partner that he enjoys fighting with people. It's disgusting behaviour. His daughter, 22 years old, wants nothing to do with him.
georgiegirl03 24/05/2016 at 6:58 pm
For 7 1/2 yrs I have been subjected to verbal abuse, threats against me and my pets.
The police have done nothing, landlord nothing. They were evicted from their last house
My daughter and I am unable to sit out in our garden. We have to stay in on nice days.
The kids climb over and damage my fence and my shed. They are known for Benefit Fraud
Why when I have evidenced all my complaints to both police and landlord can they still
get away with it. If I had done anything to them I would have been arrested.
All this stress has affected the health of me and my daughter.
mui 19/05/2016 at 2:56 pm
sorry but police DO NOT take harassment seriously. I have twice now been harassed by two separate neighbours. The first neighbour who i asked to stop allowing her 12yr old to jump up and down on the floor/ceiling and not walk around in heels this resulted in her purposely making noise, assaulting me, racially abusing me all of which was reported to the police and they did absolutely nothing.

Then I moved and same issue, tenant upstairs has put down laminate flooring which is AGAINST the tenancy agreement i again tried to be civil and had no intention of grassing him up for laying laminate or smoking weed however he REFUSED to remove his shoes and denied he smoked weed, he denied full stop he made noise.
Ever since again making noise purposely, but this time this neighbour has scratched my car and wrote swearing on my door and kicks my door constantly. Police have done NOTHING.

AND AGAIN it is because he has claimed I make noise, so lets say he is correct and i make noise does that mean he is allowed to do criminal acts against my property?

and according to him i cannot hear him but he can hear me?

the fact he has brought up his problem with me is i make noise just makes it obvious he has been harrassing me, its like he is trying to justify his behaviour.

police only "talk" to him, they spoke to him and then he will wait for them to leave and jump up and down and stomp around purposely.

this is a 50yr old man. If i was male I know he wouldnt be so brazen to do all this.

police wait until someone gets seriously hurt or die to arrest anyone in these types of situations
Chenna 14/05/2016 at 3:42 pm
Hi I live in a apartment flat and my neighbor bangs on common wall and disturbs me at night time. I am not able sleep peacefully at night. The moment I start sleeping they start shouting ei.. Oh.. As if they can hear everything from my home. I have informed agent and he never come and resolve issue. I snore but not loudly . It seems they record my snoring and play that sound when I am inside. Those never speak to me even if I appear outside my house . I never harm anyone in any form but these kind of neighbors behaviour scares a lot. Please suggest me what I can do. I am staying in that as my elder daughter school near by.

Thanks in advance
Sanam 05/05/2016 at 3:24 am
I live in an rented accomkdation. While taking a shower, I was wondering about life. I heard a knock on my door and someone said hello and turned the water switch off. I was in the middle of the shower with gel all over my body. I wiped them off with a towel feeling very threathened. I came out the bathroom and saw my neighbour waiting for me, he then started shouting at me. I felt very threathened.
Rhi 20/04/2016 at 11:20 pm
I live in an area for 20 years, I have known the two families for years. They are close friends, and make false aligations about myself and my family to the police. Even when we have had evidence of them antagonising us, nothing gets done. The police have taken us in for a statement, which gets us no where. My family do everything to avoid them, ie not taking the children to the local parks, if we see them at a fun day we leave it. Any advice would be great.
nobody 09/04/2016 at 5:34 pm
can you remove my story please I though you were private have ask me not to use social media
nobody 09/04/2016 at 2:39 pm
ive lived next door to 2 gay men for the last 8 months.the police have convicted them of harassment and they have 3 dogs barking constantly and I have 24 hr headaches and they still are allowed to live nextdoor,i want to sue somebody for this where do i go next for all the things they did to me.im irish disabled with a brain injury and depressed angry suicidal.they just get away with everything they do because there gay.but everytime I search the web for advice its always harassment against gays not hetrosexaul males.even though they have a criminal record now they still put cameras in my face and survilance who comes in and out of my property.i really hope someone can help me as im gonna end myself and ive no money to pay for legal fees
ML 17/03/2016 at 2:06 pm
Hi, I am at my wits end. I suffer from Anxiety, depression and panic attacks. I live in a terraced house and all the gardens are on top of each other. 5 years ago my next door and next door but one got Lambretta motorbikes, it started with one each and has escalated to 5. Once spring and summer arrive they are in their gardens every day working on them and revving them up they know my condition and how it upsets and brings on panick attacks yet they still won't stop. I have contacted the council and had no luck with them. Last year things got so bad that I just flipped out and sprayed them with water, they in turn called the police on me, where the local special cons table got involved. He tried to set a mediation between us but the neighbours came up with excuses that they couldn't attend. It now spring and they have been out there for the past week. Please help, I just don't know where to turn. I can not go into my garden and I can even hear them from my kitchen.
Stephanie Hess 03/03/2016 at 3:39 pm
We live in Allen Park,Mi. We have a neighbor that has assaulted me, Assaulted my dog, Harrassed my husband and myself at our work,Social Media,Our Families. We have made 60+ Police reports and Not one thing has EVER BEEN DONE. She Undresses in the windows and fondling herself at us. It's Continuous Everyday Harrassment. She is 43 years old living with her parents next door. Convicted FELON in Ohio, It is UNBEARABLE AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE. She follows us, We get Death Threats, She is Absolutely Psychotic. Does anybody know we can do Legally.
peace and love 28/02/2016 at 10:25 pm
There is a neighbour where I live who constantly pesters people for money, to use the phone, for a cigarette. She has mental health problems and often shouts abuse at people. The thing is she gets £1400 a month in benefits and it all goes on drugs. There are also many people living around who have mental health problems. As well as it being distressing for them (in particular a man with cerebral palsy who she pesters), nothing seems to ever be done about her behaviour. I know that if anyone else acted like this then they would be either arrested or sectioned.people complain but nothing is ever done. I have a nervous disorder and her behaviour is agressive and intolerable. The police and the council and social services all know, but year after year she is allowed to continue without anything changing. Any suggestions welcome
Sam82 12/02/2016 at 5:39 pm
Hi guys I have had abuse hurled at me for the last twelve months and my neighbour has threatened to smash my boyfriend up when he sees him out on street we have done nothing to offend them and have even asked! Today she verbally threatened to smash my car windows in as I was driving talking to my daughter she saw me stopped at the lights and thought we was talking about her!

I have called the police and they are coming out tomorrow I'm just really worried of her doing something once they have gone!
ProblemNeighbours Editor 28/01/2016 at 12:42 pm
If you are unhappy with the way the police have handled your case(s) you might want to consider contacting the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC )
liberty 27/01/2016 at 9:10 am
I can't cope anymore, my neighbour for the last 18 months has been making my life a misery, he took my France's down and tied em up with electrical. The fences are all in good order. He throws stones at me and one smashed my conservatory. I am disabled and he knows this it's since I used a wheelchair he got worse. He smashes his door on my conservatory sing silly songs and constantly watches me. He has now taken to parking over my drive and the only one time I asked him not to because my son couldn't get his car on there he verbally abused with the most disgusting language and called me terrible names. The police won't do a thing, because when he smashed the 8 foot glass window I had it fixed as its my way in to the back of the house and anyone could have got in, they told when they turned up days later that I should not have fixed it. When he parks over the drive the police agreed he was in the wrong and his behaviour was a public order offence but again did nothing. The police then told me to change my lifestyle for a while, by not leaving the house never going in the garden and not letting anyone park on my drive or outside my house as to not upset the neighbour, I feel like killing myself because I can't live like this any longer.
shell 19/01/2016 at 10:13 pm
my landlord just come and he shout at me and make my two child cry because of scared. What should I do?
debbie123 13/01/2016 at 5:31 pm
my neighbour came into my garden and when i asked him to leave he didn't like it, he said his work man need access to put his fence up, he blocked his side access with a shed.
since then ive had abuse from them nails in Tyre's, Tyre's let down he parks as close as he can to my boundary making it hard for me to get out, thats when iam not blocked in by his car, i get the hand signs at the window from her, have informed the police several times had a pcso round that said the neighbour has been filming and taking photos of me for months and just keep a diary of whats going on. whats the bloody point the police dont want to do a thing so my life is hell and cant walk out my front door without being watched.
but hey iam just the single parent why should the police care that me and my daughter are living in fear.
Swapnaja 07/01/2016 at 11:55 am
I have two children one is 5 year old and one is 1 year and 3 month old. One day my neighbour came and told me that your smaller one make noise of his feets it is disterbing that time I told him I will try to do not to make noise of feets . Then again he came after some days and told me not to make hoovering noise at 7 am .
Then I have started hoovering at 8 am. But still my neighbour came in morning and knock the door for that don't hoover that they want to sleep. I have little one I have to do hoover regularly but I do that only in 10mi
After that I am not making any noise and I have my own work. And after that my another child went school I have Drop her. My husband also went office at 8 am. Then I can't do hoover with my little one. I m trying very hardly to hoover later but I m worried for my small one if he get hurt when I'm hoovering so I have to do it early. I don't think 8am is that early.
Plz help me
Dillon 25/12/2015 at 8:49 pm
He's ginger and he just wont leave me alone.
andrson 14/12/2015 at 9:38 am
Live support housing harsment from people in here knock on my door tell me come out so did this girl start saying things never true told the poclie didn't do nothing about it so get fed up with it
tasha 09/12/2015 at 10:47 am
Neighbour upstairs throwing huge big objects to floors I have a four year old, a teenage child,following our voices from room to room in apt.the neighbours above also come dwn on my patio porch taking my garbage bag out scattering garbage all on my porch ,sitting tvs and radios in front of my door and window to make it seem that it's mine I don't know them they are very jealous people who watch every move I make going and coming to stores they diliberately bump in to me gossiping about me I dnt even socialize with anyone with neighbourhood ,going around with other neighbours to turn them against you making up lies running up and dwn stairs listening at my front door ease dropping constantly,men and young women mugging us as though they want to fight us for no reason ,looking out peep hole every time we leave out home recently she called the police on me to retaliate against me for me contacting the landlord and security ,police about the noise that they are deliberately making landlord nasti attitude and everyone who works with her nasti attitudes dnt care what happens to you .So next thing the neighbours called deface lied on me again of course they saw that she lied
walle 06/12/2015 at 1:42 pm
my neighbor at the back of my house has been listen to my phone conversations. I have seen him putting in the steps of recording my phone conversations in his blue car. I am a very quiet neighbour and do not even talk to this neighbour. He is doing this for one of his other neighbours, what kind of animal is this neighbour who does not even know me. I assure you that I have never done anything to any of the neighbours. Can I go to the cops about this because I am as sure of this as is possible.
Bama33 26/11/2015 at 3:28 am
All I do is walk out of my house and my neighbor called the cops and says I say stuff to her or I intimidate her and it's happened 3 or 4 times is that called harassment from her and what can I do about it I need help
Some Sort of Scam Th 25/11/2015 at 9:27 pm
Months ago when my friend that I am staying with was not home, but his mother was staying here with us, I was waiting for an online grocer to deliver some stuff to the house. Suddenly someone knocked at the back door so I thought it was them. But this woman was there when I opened the door. I had been reluctant to answer the door around that time because someone had kept knocking pretty late at night frequently when I would be home alone, and I would not answer. But this time I did, which was a real mistake.

So I asked if she was with the grocery store, she said yeah and pushed past me and walked down the hall. I mean she just barged her way in without being invited in. She flopped herself down on a chair in front of my friend's elderly Mother and started giving her some sob story. She said when I asked her, that her name was Charlene. I immediately had the feeling that she was trying to weasel some money off of her. I wondered if she knew my friend or his Mother. But then I asked his Mother, Do you know her? and she said NO. I asked the woman to leave because none of us knew her or why she was even there. She just sat there and crossed her legs. I said it louder and said You need to leave, NOW! She still sat there. Finally I walked over to my cell phone and said, Leaven or I am calling the Police! She really got up fast then and said NO, not the Police! and she left.

Months later, my friend was gone real late into the night and I was home alone. The next morning my friend noticed the back door lock had been tampered with, someone had tried to break in.

Then a few days ago, my friend was out delivering news papers and some woman named Charlene walked up out of nowhere and asked if he would start delivering newspapers to the house that they were standing in front of. He said okay he would try to arrange that with his boss. Then she started asking him questions like Do you smoke, do you drink alcohol? Then she asked if she could come to his house later on for 30 minutes. She had also told him she lived at house #22. She started telling him a sob story about how her boyfriend had left her. But I knew nothing about all of this.

That same day some guy with a business-like suit came knocking at our door when I was home alone. When I opened the door, I noticed he had tattoos all over his body and huge earrings in his ears which did not seem to go along with the idea of him being an actual business man. I started to feel uncomfortable and asked what he wanted. He said that he was not there to sell me anything.... which I thought was even stranger. I quickly said, I am sorry but I am really busy and have to go and I shut the door really fast. So he left.

Later that same night, suddenly there was a knock at the back door. I asked without opening the door, who was it? This Woman said Is Bryan home? Bryan is my friend I am staying with. So I just figured it must be a friend from his Church or something and I opened the door. They asked fo
Jonners 23/11/2015 at 7:03 pm
I have been harassed by neighbours opposite me for the last 4 years, it all started with a promise to re-do my front garden. To cut a long story short after seven and a half months I of promises to get on with it I started to do it myself.
I have been harassed ever since, ostracised and continual parking of cars making it difficult for me to get my car out. It came to a head last Saturday and ended up with the husband threatening to smash my face in. I did use bad language and apologised by posting a letter through their door.
But I fear it is not then end of the matter and I am getting very fearful for my own and my wifes safety.
We are both 76years of age.
Lou 06/11/2015 at 6:02 am
I have lived in my rented house for 27 yrs my neighbour has lived next door for 26 yrs I've not had anything to do with them kept my self to my self I split from my partner 13 yrs ago ever since my neighbour s have complained to my landlord making thing up about my cats my children which are now grown up my garden with is untidy .I suffer from mental health issues which they make worse what can do evey time she complaines with housing association comes out to moan at me I don't have the equipment to do it all the time and its not that bad
ProblemNeighbours Editor 03/11/2015 at 10:18 am
You should point out that everyday DIY noise and lawn mowing is acceptable as long as it is not too early in the day and too frequent (nobody needs to cut their lawn more than once a week for example). Of course you can park your car where you like, but if it's possible to park outside your own home it is more courteous to do so. Thirdly, have you considered raising the height of your rear fence with some hedging or foliage? That way your neighbour cannot simply stand and watch you while you're in the garden.
dalimus65 02/11/2015 at 1:27 am
My partner and I have been harassed by our neighbours for approx. 18 months. By all accounts we are not allowed to do basic DIY, play music at a reasonable level, cut our grass or hover on a regular basis or park our car outside our neighbours house (even though it's a public highway) None of the above apply' s to our other neighbours and the neighbour in question seem to think that he can do what he likes. My partner has been threatened by our neighbours sons. Things have been removed from our garden when we have gone out and they bang on walls and slam doors when I am home alone.
If I go into my garden my neighbour or a member of his family comes out and watch my every move until I go indoors..The list of incidents is endless!
Rhondalynn71 26/10/2015 at 4:41 pm
I have been harresed by my neighbors for 5 years.For basket ball goal. Kids playing out side ,company and my dog and now the latest walking out side in the circle bc the dog got out and they threatend to shoot me..me ..my kid setting there with mcdonalds n movues i just got off work and when the cops got called they didnt help
Mel 21/10/2015 at 6:12 pm
I have a neighbor who has an ex husband constantly harrassing me. He is a huge drinker and smokes pot. He is not allowed by management to even be here but he is still over all day and all night. I have reported this to management and police several times. Nothing has been done. He is very verbal to me and my neighbor. What do I do withput moving? I have been here ten years walking on eggshells.
jamesy 21/10/2015 at 1:36 pm
Hi

I split with my husband nine years ago, my 5 year old son and I live alone. Unfortunately I had to buy the house my son and I live in in joint names with my exhusband. I have not been in a position to buy him out, but then he paid very little into the deposit, nor has he made any mortgage (or maintenance) payments in 9 years.

My ex is living with a much younger alcoholic (he is also alcoholic) they live at the other end of the country but have been harrassing me by spreading around horrible rumours in order to force us to sell the property as the equity is quite high now, they cannot approach us directly via a solicitor as no maintenance has been paid. I am also very concerned (this may seem strange) about my ex as the woman he is with I firmly believe has mental problems, and has also used violence on him, my ex no longer speaks to any of his family as she doesn't allow it, any advice welcome.
Harassed in Surrey 18/10/2015 at 8:21 am
Hi - I wish it was as easy as the description of the laws suggests - I have been harassed by my neighbours for almost 3 years after a boundary dispute because the fence was in the wrong place and we gain and they lost a bet area of the garden which they had hoped to take advantage of. In the front of our semi detached they gained 18 inches in front of my step as I have the main wing and they have, (1) proceeded to store their bins 2 feet from my step, (2) send harassing emails constantly, (3) warmed the neighbour's that we would steal their land, (4) verbally and physically harassed my wife and son,(5) reached over the garden fence and cut my plants on my patio,(6) don't allow me to access my wall because they require 2 weeks written notice - and after l of this I had my security system changed on the wall facing them and they put duct tape over it and demanded I move it. Of course in all their notes and emails to me and my solicitor they claim they are the victims !! I have been told the police won't get involved and the one time we both complained we were told to mediate. I'm happy to mediate but NOT while the bins are purposefully placed 2 feet from my front step. So basically it's been 3 years of systematic harassment but also 3 years of misrepresentation that claims we are the problem - it's a real nightmare to experience this kind of thing 24/7 ......
Life-Is-Too-Short 15/10/2015 at 3:25 pm
Got a racist neighbor who clearly dislikes us because of our color, says he's not got a problem with us but call us "your lot". Tries to start arguments and intimidate everyone who comes to the house. Apparently his issue is that cars are being juggled around, that someone accidentally went in to the border of his lawn and that his self declared drive is being used. Absolutely sick of him and his attitude. His guest car is being parked behind his car a long the road outside his drive area. [clearly not a designated drive or parking area] which causes us a problem. Now he's telling us we cant go into that part of shared road as it belongs to him. It's not impossible to avoid when there is not many cars in the neighborhood. But impossible to avoid when everyone is at home (after 5-6pm).
Is there anything we can do about this tosser....clearly the man has issues to be so pedantic without any sort of validity?
RON 10/10/2015 at 6:41 am
THE NEIGHBOUR BELOW ME IS ALWAYS DRUNK PLAYS MUSIC VERY LOUD DAY AND NIGHT I HAVE TOLD LANDLORD AND POLICE HE IGNORES THEM NOW HE THREATING ME THE POLICE DO NOTHING LANDLORD DOES NOTHING HE IS MAKING OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO ABOUT THIS PROBLEM I NOW ENTER AND EXIT MY APT BLDG WITH BASEBALL BAT IN HAND THIS IS HOW BAD SITUATION HAS GOTTEN HELP PLEASE RON
upsetandfedup 04/10/2015 at 9:51 am
We had 2 years of hell with our neighbour - her and her boyfriend doing/dealing drugs outside my house, loud music, screaming, shouting and swearing all night, she was verbally abusing her young child, we were scared the child was being hit by her so we did inform social services, she was throwing her rubbish and cigarette ends onto our garden, banging on the walls from her house to purposely upset us, her mother threatened me to move out, she threatened me saying I'll be the one to need the police if I call them again, shouting through our kitchen window, posting us malicious notes etc.... we had police, her housing association and environmental health involved. Nothing done. According to council and police her housing association need to be doing more but then HA saying not enough evidence despite us having cctv recordings of all the above (including audio) and recordings from environmental health. We went to the MP who did nothing. In the end i had to pay for a solicitor letter to be sent warning against further harrassment including noise. If this was breached i could then apply through court for an order. Thank god she requested her HA to move her elsewhere as we were always the ones being told to sell up and move by all agencies involved!! Our 2 years of hell is finally over but I am appalled at the way we were treat by all involved. No one would help us and we were the ones being frowned upon for complaining about a single parent!! I truly feel for you all with neighbour issues.
Keira 30/09/2015 at 9:39 pm
I moved into an upstairs flat, which I love - fantastic views etc. I guess I should have realised from the day I came to view it, that the old guy downstairs would be a problem.
He arrived 3 hours after I moved in - telling me he hoped I was going to get underlay for the carpets (he had just arrived home and is a bit blind, so tried the door handle, to see if anyone was in!) - He had NOT heard me making ANY noise, I was exhausted from moving.

Since then, he has complained that I lock my door even when I'm home! He goes through my dustbins to 'make sure' I have separated plastic, cardboard etc) He then nagged until I put up net curtains (I HATE net curtains, but to keep the peace, bought voile panels). Since then it's gone on and on to the point that I HAVE mentioned it to the Housing Association.

Neighbour told me he goes to bed at 7pm!!! This means, I can't even have a shower with getting nagged at the next day, if it's after 7pm - I HATE going to bed feeling dirty and there isn't a bath)

He is permanently coming back from the pub drunk and cooking!

Sorry to off-load - I am keeping a record of everything as he also told me, (he's right) that for the first year, you ' have to be careful not to breach any tenancy agreements' and yesterday, when the housing officer came (he couldn't see who it was) he said (like a jealous partner) Soooo WHO was THAT then?

I have to be honest - I have bought 'Fart Spray' on Ebay - and just waiting for the chance to spray his damned flat with it. Horrid I know and I probably won't do it, but he'd damned well deserve it for this harassment.

Thanks for listening.
Gingie 22/09/2015 at 7:46 am
I've lived with my parents at our home for about 7 years now and I truly feel there's no hope! We have a couple neighbor's who are trying to get us kicked out, for no reason! Mind you we don't throw parties or have dogs that bark all night, I'm mean we are nice quiet people who generally keep to ourselves. One if the neighbors is a retired police dispatcher. We have had the police called on us SO MANY times for ridiculous reasons. My kids playing in our yard on a Saturday afternoon, I even had the police called on me when I took a walk up the street to my friends house! I am a 32 year old woman! Now because of all the calls into the police, cps showed up at my house threatening to take my kids! I don't know what I can do to make this stop!
Kaz 20/09/2015 at 6:47 pm
I suffer a lot with a few conditions. My neighbours and their kids have decided that they don't get enough in the ways of having a load of parks, youth clubs etc to go to. instead some of them, thanks to a lying scumbag, decided to ruin my life over the net, I'm never allowed to be able to have my window open, got net curtains , and curtains, as some of them have been using their phones to harass me. Been told nobody will help me move until next year. Just looked up frosted glass but seriously had enough. going to try to get the frosted glass but the means I cant look out my own window. :/ I think im close to overstepping the line in defending myself. but seriously I just want to be left alone that's all.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 17/09/2015 at 1:47 pm
Has anyone reported all this behaviour to the police? Theft and violence are not really matters for your landlord to try and sort out.
Vlaire 15/09/2015 at 11:35 pm
My son lives in a room in a shared house but all share the facilities. His neighbour is a very violent person and beat up a previous tenant who subsequently moved out. My son is now being threatened. He has also had belongings stolen by this person and due to this person being high on drugs is subjected to say and nights of continuous hardcore music played at full volume. My son along with the other tenants are afraid of this character and the landlord is aware of the situation but continued to allow this person the live there without any concern for people's safety. He is regularly in court for assault charges and as a mother very scared. Surely the landlord had a duty of care to the tenants. Should my son be demanding he is relocated?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 15/09/2015 at 9:43 am
Your Housing association should follow the correct procedures before evicting you and would need a court order to evict you for most reasons - this would allow you to state your case to an unbiased magistrate.
Darrenmc90 14/09/2015 at 2:10 am
I moved into my flat on the 31 of July and due to a mix up with the housing I was given two sets of keys but only one tenement close key. Needless to say I lost my keys and only had my house door key. I ended up pressing he buzzers of my neighbours and was let in. The next day I was issued a written warning and told that if I hadn't signed the lease he wouldn't have allocated me the house and that he could make my life hard. Housing officer manager. The next thing I know I was issued a 2nd warning 10 days later on the 20 August saying I had repeated these offences which was simply not true as I was not in the house when these where alleged. I poked holes in there story and instead of apologising they then said a woman was kicking my door trying to get in. I don't know any woman and believe it was the upstairs neighbour who argue frequently. I told my housing this and my next door neighbour offered to verify this and the response was he would say that if you went to his door implying I was intimidating him. I contacted my lawyer. Most recently this Friday I went too see a magician and a carberry show with my parter and her friend and my gay friend as it was in a gay nightclub and on the way home at half 12 we walked as all taxis where busy and would be cheaper from my house anyway we entered the close. I told everyone to keep there voices down whispering basically and proceeds into my flat. The signal is bad so we where phoning lots of taxi firms and I asked my partner to go outside for a better signal on the way back in the house she said a neighbour had confronted her to which house she was going which frightened her and she came up and told me. The taxi came an hour later and everyone went there separate ways and I went to bed. The next morning I chapped my neighbour who I usually get on with to ask why he came out the house and asked my gf where she was going to which he began reacting strange saying he was told from the housing officer to say to me not to speak to him. This is my witness from the first one who chllanged the housing as they disregarded him as a witness all together to better fit there story. He then began to tell me that the housing officer said he would have me gone in two weeks my locks changed without court
I have never been violent or aggressive to anyone and keep getting reported for the most minor things I am now up being physically sick with worry when I have my one year old son to deal with in the morning, I don't know what to do and what my rights are. Any help would be much appreciated.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 11/09/2015 at 2:08 pm
You cannot really report the leaving of notes easily as it's not a crime (unless it amounts to harassment etc). Maybe you could leave a note on your own car stating that you live in street concerned and that you are parking legally?
Stressedneighbour 10/09/2015 at 6:06 pm
I keep getting notes left on my windscreen asking " not to park on our street it makes reversing difficult and accidents/scrapes more likely to happen" funny thing is I live on the street they are referring to. I've have one on my windshield every morning and I'm getting worried I'm going to come out to a damaged car
Should I be reporting this?
Jwright 04/09/2015 at 10:29 pm
I woke up this morning with a note taped to the side of my car with a abusive word written on it. I have reported it to the police as I have kept the note but I am wondering if they can do anything about it ?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 04/09/2015 at 11:00 am
Apart from the tyre slashing (which we hope you reported), harassment at this level is difficult to report to the police as your neighbour could portray all her actions as being perfectly normal behaviour. Take heart from the fact that the council has already investigated and her complaints and know that they are groundless...more to the point, they have probably realised that the neighbour is also a little irrational in her behaviour. If anything does escalate at least this is all on record. If the music, the manure smells and power tool noises become excessive, they could constitute a "nuisance" and the environmental health department will be able to take action.
Pinkie 03/09/2015 at 5:40 pm
We are subject to low level harrraent from our neighbours. To be honest I feel the wife is mentally unwell. So far we have had a string of anonymous editor complaints re a skip we had briefly when getting garden renovated, a complaint about our bin being at the front of our property- this was because the rear access was a mud bath until my husband laid a path. Another complaint was that we'd extended our garden. Not true.
The husband is very territorial about his car and parks aggressively.
They complained to the council re diy noise. The woman at the council investigated and said she'd be delighted to have neighbours like us.
As none if their complaints have been upheld they have resorted to low level harassment. If I sit in my garden they get the power tools out, spread smelly poultry manure and most ridiculous of all put their radio on where I'm sitting and go into their house leaving the radio on. Kinda sad as I enjoy music.
They have also complained every time we cut the boundary hedge.
I am keeping a record as at some point I expect it to escalate. ( my sister had a knife stuck in her tyre when she parked outside their house one night)
Is there anything I can do legally to address the situation?
ProblemNeighbours Editor 03/09/2015 at 12:10 pm
Any action on the noise will only be taken if it was excessive and proof would be needed (in the form of monitoring equipment etc) before any action could be taken. As for the fence, they do sound as though they're being petty. Let the Housing Association put up a boundary marker and then erect some free standing temporary trellising/screening or a fence of your own (whatever your landlord will agree to) on your side of the boundary.
wurzel 02/09/2015 at 9:24 pm
we have lived here since January we live in a housing association property our neighbours own there property . We had lived here less than 2 weeks wen I put my surround sound on 2 minutes later my neighbour knocked at our door and complained about it I was polite and turned it off . They complained to our landlords that I had swore at them . They have made fictitious complaints so many times we have had a final warning letter that could lead to our eviction . They complained about a single string off fairy lights I put on the rear fence I was within my rights as the fence was in our boundery . They then moved the fence concrete post and all six inches there way so we can't touch the fence .the landlords seem to side with the neighbours .they intimidate us all the time by laughing at us from there garden as they have now they have removed three panels as they reported that our pond was wetting there fence . Our housing officer came out and said there was no problem and the neighbours are being petty but only want to put a boundary marker up . We feel harassed intimidated and live in fear of eviction through no fault of our own . Help please ....
wren 21/08/2015 at 5:31 pm
why is there no real help from anyone regarding this until they feel you step over the mark and make up the troublemaker and bad person. I going through hell and until i flip nothing will get done and even then they don't get any chastisement it will be me how does that work. please feel free to answer. i can't even go out and had to change my life because of my neighbours. it is so very very wrong it's always the inocent that is victomised by autherites and with the hassle they all ready have i ask is that fair ?
Kim 13/08/2015 at 11:07 pm
I have a nightmare neighbour who has been abusive threatened my mum and threatening to poison my dogs he has put food over my fence broken glass in my garden late at night plays loud music when I'm up really early for my work police council and anti social tasks force are involved but because he apologised to anti social task force officer and not me my mum and other 3 neighbours he's getting away with it we are all council tenets it's being going on for over a year I'm cracking up with it all any help or advice much appreciated
shilpi 12/08/2015 at 7:09 pm
i have my own independent top floor my husband have a shop so he always come at home late. our neighbours never let us park our car in our home placed road if we park our car they harrace us by ring our doorbell in early morning regularly and dont have to go anywhere and daily this procedure is going . and many other types they harrace us they shows us they are the gundas of this gali many times we talk to them but they ignore us and fight with us i dont undestand how to teach them
Gabby 11/08/2015 at 10:34 am
Neither the police or the council have dealt with my cousins years of harassment, violence and abuse. It is almost like the harassers are being protected by these establishments.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 06/08/2015 at 2:39 pm
There are lots of things the police and sometimes the council can do in relation to children and anti social behaviour such as Group Dispersal Orders, Acceptable Behaviour Contract (ABC), Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO), Parenting Contracts, Parenting Orders and penalty notices. See our Guide Here.
tessie 06/08/2015 at 1:41 pm
I live in my own mortgaged property on a council estate. My husband works nights and we get subjected to harassment by two boys 5 doors away. They walk onto our garden and knock heavily on the front door and when we open the door they run away or use abusive language. We cannot go into our garden as they come in uninvited and feel that we are unable to use the garden. If we are in the garden and our 10 year old boy is playing on his own he is subjected to abuse with these boys and if I am with him also in the garden they use severe abusive language. I am at my wits end with it. I have spoken to their parents about their harassing ways and the parents just give us a lot of abusive language back. Please could you advise me on what to do next.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 06/08/2015 at 12:34 pm
Make a formal complaint in writing to the landlady. If that does not work, you can contact the council or the police under the Control of Dogs legislation.
flower 06/08/2015 at 1:02 am
The house next door is let - the woman who rents it now gets her latest male friend to bring his aggresive dog round to go for my dog her and her son hve always tormented the life out of her hve spoken to the land lady who imforms me no fogs allowed well this the second time I have dpoke to her what next
ProblemNeighbours Editor 05/08/2015 at 1:16 pm
@Vernie - In response to your question: "We moved into our property in January. Before we even moved in, we popped round to have a look. Our neighbour came outside to moan about a car parked near her drive (not on her drive, just near it). This was just the start. We live in a block of 7 flats - she shares our driveway. We own half the drive. She will come out and verbally abuse anyone that even steps on her side of the drive. She threatens anyone who blocks the drive with police action, including taxi drivers waiting to pick us up. Today was the last straw. A lady had parked in front with her 5 year old child. She tore the strips of them for blocking her drive and threatened to not only call the police, but to report them to immigration as they were black. We're not sure what to do as each person's abuse is different. Advice?? Does everyone have to make a separate complaint or can we do it jointly? " It might be best if a small number of you went to your local police station to ask advice. If they suggest all those affect make an individual complaint, then you can let the other neighbours know. There may be limits to what they can do in terms of harassment, but the racist remarks might give them more grounds to act.
Vernie 04/08/2015 at 5:14 pm
We moved into our property in January. Before we even moved in, we popped round to have a look. Our neighbour came outside to moan about a car parked near her drive (not on her drive, just near it). This was just the start. We live in a block of 7 flats. She lives in the house next door and shares our driveway. We own half the drive, she owns the other half. It has now got so bad, that she will come out and verbally abuse anyone that even steps on her side of the drive. The abuse is aimed at everyone in our block, and to anyone that pays us a visit. Even the poor unfortunate people that park on the road waiting to pick up their kids from school. She threatens anyone who blocks the drive with police action, including taxi drivers waiting to pick us up. Today was the last straw. A lady had parked in front with her 5 year old child. She tore the strips of them for blocking her drive and threatened to not only call the police, but to report them to immigration as they were black. The abuse is not only to us, but to everyone in our flat and the community that reside near by. We're not sure what to do as each person's abuse is different. Advice?? Does everyone have to make a separate complaint or can we do it jointly? She comes outside every few minutes to check that nobody is anywhere near her drive. We have all kept calm so far, but it's getting worse and worse by the week.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 05/08/2015 at 1:50 pm
@danni b - In response to your question: "i have 2 young boys aged 6 and 8 and they love to play in the street with there friends from across the street especially in the summer, but every time they try to play my next door neighbour goes off it coming out screaming and swearing it started when my boys were 4 and 6 they had jus got outside and he came screaming take your little b••••••• and play some where else I'm not f•••••• having this ill get you evicted! Ms my boys dad told him there playing in there own garden it has nothing to do with you bs he started again satin he would hospitalise my boys dad if he did shut up and take the boys somewhere else now he's started to be more vicious and screaming and swearing at other parents in the street because there kids are playing he kicked off with a female neighbour effing and blind in when the kids were there nd apparently he said the council have sent out notices to say no children can play in the street! Both mine and my neighbours children are terrified to go outside in there own garden really confused of what to do!? " This really sounds like a matter for the police. Your children and those of your neighbour are doing nothing wrong and this kind of behaviour is both threatening and antisocial. You might want to look at what is and is not also covered under the Anti Social Behaviour Act
ProblemNeighbours Editor 04/08/2015 at 12:01 pm
@Dannib. Sounds like a typical example of a neighbour who will not tolerate children at all. Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of them around. This one seems particularly unpleasant. It's unlikley that you will be able to speak to him directly to reason with him. You can contact your local council to ensure there are no bylaws in place that prohibit the playing of games (usually ball games) in the street...this should be made obvious by any signage anyway. You should also ask your local PCSO or beat officer to pop round and have a quiet word with him about his language and behaviour towards the children and other adults in the area. He/She will not need to identify you, but can just say they've noticed it, or had several complaints etc. Try that and let us know how you get on.
danni b 04/08/2015 at 12:12 am
i have 2 young boys aged 6 and 8 and they love to play in the street with there friends from across the street especially in the summer, but every time they try to play my next door neighbour goes off it coming out screaming and swearing it started when my boys were 4 and 6 they had jus got outside and he came screaming take your little b••••••• and play some where else I'm not f•••••• having this ill get you evicted! Ms my boys dad told him there playing in there own garden it has nothing to do with you bs he started again satin he would hospitalise my boys dad if he did shut up and take the boys somewhere else now he's started to be more vicious and screaming and swearing at other parents in the street because there kids are playing he kicked off with a female neighbour effing and blind in when the kids were there nd apparently he said the council have sent out notices to say no children can play in the street! Both mine and my neighbours children are terrified to go outside in there own garden really confused of what to do!?
sid 19/07/2015 at 2:16 pm
I have had a parking dispute with my neighbours over shared access I have ended up having police involved for harassment and PCN issue them 2 tickets in one week for parking incorrectly.

I have just moved in to my new home and would like to set the standards from the beginning.

They are now resorting to swearing filthy words from their home and challenging us to fights.

They have children and so do I and cannot understand how one can use such filthy language in front of children.

I cannot stand this tension and filth I do not confront them as I do not want matters to escalate, police and local neighbourhood agency are no help at all.

Is there any way I can find out if they are rented tenants so I could work towards a possible eviction.

If they are owners of the property I suppose I have no choice but to bear them.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 03/07/2015 at 2:07 pm
@awal. None of these things constitute the type of noise or nuisance which an environmental health officer would follow up on. It's just an intolerant neighbour unfortunately. Can you landlord help? Maybe have a word on your behalf? Otherwise, it's just complaining, not necessarily harrassment. Here is how to identify harrassment (as detailed in the article above): Threats of violence against you or an actual act of violence committed upon youAbusive and/or insulting behaviour or wordsThreats of damage to your property and possessions or actual damage to themAny written form of abuse or threat made to you, including letters, graffiti or any other kind of written material such as posters being put up that are derogatory towards you.
awal 30/06/2015 at 11:08 pm
I live in rented accom from a private estate, the property next door is privately owned, it is quite rural, however just after I moved in the neighbour next door told me he could hear all my conversations in my kitchen, the fact that his conservatory sits on the boundary fence, since this I always have my kitchen door locked. He then complained about my grandaughter learning to ride her bike in the garden at approx 18.45 and told me it was too noisy, I therefore hoping to keep the peace, pulled my grandaughter in from the garden. and has never been out after six since, my friend came round to do some work for me on a trailer and was doing some drilling and my neighbors had a go at him and told him no noise the working day finishes at 5.00 pm, to not make things difficult for me. Two days ago my friends came round as they where taking my daughter to a horse show and was preparing outside about 5 in the afternoon, i wasn t here and proceeded to make demands about noises from the horse lorry not acceptable. \i love being in my garden but now find it uncomfortable because he is constantly hiding behind his curtain in his upstairs window. and his wife has become quite mouthy also. I have not responded to any of this, and apparently he has made previous tenants that has had this property upset. Do you think this counts as harassment. My daughter who has asperges was tonight out in the garden at 8.15 pm trying to get her cat in and he started banging on the fence. I love my home, but i feel quite intimidated by his behavior.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 26/06/2015 at 1:49 pm
@Janci. You could try if you have sufficient evidence. The police may at least talk to her and it might act as a warning.
Janci 22/06/2015 at 3:54 pm
my daughter was harassed by a parent of another child in her class. the parent constantly made complaints to the school about my daughter and successfully poisoned other children and parents against her. I removed my daughter from the school and she is now happy and doing well at her new school. I have just found out that the parent who harassed my daughter is now spreading malicious lies about me and why my daughter left the school - can I report her to the police for harassment?
Blue 20/06/2015 at 7:29 pm
The police never take my side. 10 yrs of hell and I blame the police in south London.
One policewoman is obsessed with me. She even tried to get me asbo!!!!for what!!!
She has an itch to scratch....not the way I expect met.police to behave bout they do.

2 weeks ago 3 policeman arrived. Then 2 woman and none so rude! Accusing me!!
The law she broke!!! !behaving like a demented. Dog.

It seems that a female neighbour that cannot reverse!!!!useless told them I scratched her ugly car.
But in 2014 she scrapped the backof my car. There were 2 white stripes on her black car.!
But I left it until recently So the twist and turn begins...so typical south London.
The police lied to me and said nice things to TRaP me!!!!!!!!but I caught them creeping into neighbour flat!!!
Liars.
Then I confronted the bitter female and wanted to see scratchomg.....omg.I got a mouthful of screeching
In foul manner and I could not talk

She is a liar...
Next thing her car disappeared...??returned with no scratches!!!!!!she had them removed!!guilty.
Then she got her boyfriend to follow me dressed in black! Then he got out of a car to attack me!!I am pensioner!!he is 30 ish...no respect......backward devious liars.

So I sent email to!police. Regarding police lying etc.......

Heard no more! Until. I Gwent out for 2 hours got back and fence broken!!!looks like someone tried to push open!!...he had told me. He has CCTV on me andbsees everything I do....so I suspect this angry nasty
Ugly revengeful male.
dolce 03/06/2015 at 9:20 pm
I don't really believe the authorities take harrassment seriously, I have been bullied, harrassed and most recently physically injured by a neighbour. Each time I reached out to the authorities (as have other of the condo owners and property management) we are told that it is a civil matter and all they can do is speak to the culprits.

I have dealt with this for 5 years, never have had trouble with anyone else in our building and along move in these two ignorant mean ruthless individuals.

They dragged me through court a year ago falsely accusing me of defamation of character, slander and discrimination. Luckily the judge ruled in my favour and dismissed their case against me in its entirety.

They swore to get back at me and, they have. Recently there was an altercation(verbal) just after an AGM meeting and they attacked me and a few others while in the lobby discussing the meeting. When we ignored them they started to pick on me because I seem to be the weaker and more vulnerable one of the group. I tried my hardest to ignore them but one of the culprits turned to me and said something very hurtful and uncalled for. Told me I deserved to lose my father and she was glad. My father recently passed away, the day I won in court is the day that he underwent emergency surgery, I was not aware of the surgery until after the trial. That was the last time he was coherent. To say something like this to another human being is ruthless and damaging. I was so hurt and upset that I attacked her verbally stating how could she call herself a woman, her spouse jumped in and started swearing at me and calling me words that I could never repeat let alone call a woman. I was stunned as were many of the other unit owners. He lunged at me and my husband tried to protect me from getting hurt. That's when the one causing the grief called police and said we threatened to kill him and hit him. All untrue. Unfortunately the police pretty much only listened to what they had said and since it took place in an elevator they viewed the camera's and concluded since I stopped the elevator from moving I committed assault. Wow, incredible. So now I am fighting in court once again as they want me to sign a peace bond, something I feel is unfair and unjustified. If anyone should be reprimanded it is the two that have caused me stress, anxiety attacks and to be a victim in my own home. I can't move because I can't afford it, not just now. Soon I will have to go to mediation and can only hope that the judge or whomever resides over it reviews all the witness statements I have from the trial, the evidence of our injuries, she kicked me, he scratched my husbands face etc. Everyone in the building knows we are innocent but many are afraid to speak up because one of the two is known to show up at peoples work place and threaten them. I am so tired, so stressed that I'm not eating, I'm not sleeping and I've become a nervous wreck. The Crown Attorne
phyll 28/05/2015 at 5:40 am
I have perverts that stalk my child and I from our phone and computers and hang out in the attic not leaving us alone even to the point of stealing our identities and finances I have notified the landlord and the police and fbi agents hopefully someone will get to the bottom of these nuisance people who are not going to leave us alone and have mental illness enough to stalk my child and I ganging up on us like really these group of people don't have any brains or consideration as adults that they are supposed to be its sick and honestly wish someone could point me to the right people who will definitely do something about it I'm sick of being harassed and bullied and ganged doesn't anyone care about me and my child enough to help when I am being harassed and bullied and ganged up on I hope so
not 27/05/2015 at 5:57 pm
Harrasment judgments will be dealt with in accordance with relations, degree or if breaking more laws along with the harrassing party. The laws in place are very strictly enforced and will in no way be talorrated. Peoples right to live comfortable are vital to society and street. Judicial harassments carry harsher punishments. Treeson and harassment in professional positions are strictly enforced.
pinkice1513 02/05/2015 at 5:24 am
I live on a second floor apartment. Of a 3 apartment building. Im in the middle of a sandwich and my family and I are the "nuisance " of the building. We are the outcasts. We try and keep to ourselves to keep the peace. My fiance and i have a 2 year old.downstairs neighbors complain on almost a daily basis about our child. When we fiest moved in and got complaints I would apologize to neighbors or landlord (whoever gave me complaint ) although in the beginning most of these complaints were false.( Mind you these problem neighbors party like frat boys! Always influenced by alcohol. ) complaints got worse the longer we lived in this apartment (we have been trying to move for months now but landlord is giving us bad references that we dont get along with neighbors so we are still stuck living in this nightmare) so I got sick of apologizing and yelling and my son on a daily basis for any little noise he makes ive even switched work schedule around so my son would be on a more strict home routine which added us financial stress. and ive started to defend him! Hes 2!!! Ive had phone calls /texts almost everyday ive lived here. A few knocks on my door as soon as I walk in the door from work while holding my child in my arms I have been cursed at. And my favorite is on the weekends when their party time rolls around they slam and bang on absolutely everything they will party with hallway door open run up and down hallway stairs screaming. And if they hear my sons footsteps on the floor or him cry we end up being the joke of their party. And they cause mayhem. When im gone the whole day and cone home they make remarks when I walk threw the door. Or even as I have walked to my car the husband came out screaming and my fiance and I becuase I had supposedly looked in their windows on my passing by. Ive gone to police ive filed a few noise complaints. And ive tried to tell them whats going on but they are not taking this seriously please help i just want to live in peace while i try and relocate.
phyll 29/04/2015 at 5:03 pm
I think this country needs to help keep victims safe from harassing neighbors that stalk and hate and are wishing witchcraft on people and they hang out in the attic at all hours of the night and day and believe they are using churches against us and this town to harm us as well my daughter has been a victim of a abuse by the school personal wish someone would help me with my child and I are being ganged up on by everyone it feels by these lying perpetrators what can I do I feel helpless
Josh 08/04/2015 at 6:57 pm
I have neighbors who have threatened my family with physical assault all the way to even death. I have contacted the sheriff department several times and they did nothing to stop the harassment. I finally got to a point where I contacted an attorney and he told a few steps I could take. So step one was contacting the district attorney's office. Which I did, and they told me they could do nothing without a charges placed against someone. So they told me I need to talk to a detective in the sheriff department. So I called the sheriff department again and asked to talk to a detective. They told me that I would have to first talk to a Sargent over the patrol. So he called me back all upset that I wasn't satisfied with the patrol deputies that "addressed" the issue. I told him the problem and what happened and they gave everyone involved a ticket. I even tried to show video and audio evidence to the sheriff and when we went to court, we didn't even see a judge. We saw the assistant district attorney. She wanted to give us a fine, probation, community service, and anger management classes. My wife asked if she even saw the video evidence of the threats towards my family. She actually didn't even know about a video. The evidence was never turned in. "Luckily" we had the video on the phone and she saw it. So she wanted to reduce the plea bargain. We asked her what part of we did nothing to these people did she not understand, that they are the ones making threats all hours of day and night. So she dismissed the case. And when we got back home. The neighbors started the same thing right back again. There is no justice here. And I will protect my family.
Ms. M 26/03/2015 at 6:37 pm
The second day I moved into my apt. i get a knock on my door from the neighbor who live underneath me talking about respect and they don't want no noise. I now have lived there for 5 months and they continue to knock on my door saying they can hear bumping and everything that goes on in my apt down to flushing the toilet and taking showers. I have a 2 year old who occasionally runs through the apt. but let them tell it, its bothering them. It has totally bothered my children and I, I don't like being home, I'm not comfortable at all. I went to the landlord several times but all they tell me is to do mediation which will not help because at the end of the day they don't want no one living over their heads. The neighbor tells me they are going to file papers on me for noise and they don't want to here my 2 year old. I apologized several times even one time my husband got cursed out by the wife. I recently cursed the husband out because I am tired of being harrassed not to mention we aren't home hardly, so the few times they do hear noise it's a problem, there's no noise late at night accept an occasional cry from my 2 year old or she may fall. I want out of my lease and far away from these people because things are going to get real ugly and I want to prevent that from happening on both our parts. I need help. What can I do. I'm tired of all of this, this has been extra stressful on me along with daily stressful life. My children can't enjoy their home that I pay for just like everyone else does in the community.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 04/03/2015 at 11:30 am
@Spereniko. You should contact both the police and the couple's landlord about this kind of behaviour.
spereniko 28/02/2015 at 2:20 pm
I Live in a 3 bedroom home with my little one am constantly being harrassed by a young couple who live in a unit at the end of my court . a few weeks back i had the two approach my home and come onto my property using foul language and being under the influence of alchol holding my little one in my arms when they stood staring in to my lounge window for near too 10 minutes aposeing threats previously swearing at me when i had asked the female to leave my green bin as it were mine ..in responce she told me to get fcked and shut my fcking mouth and has from then continued to respond by harrassing me . and litter my front yard ( criminal damage ) - the amounts of times ive had to be responsible for her alchol bottles being chucked onto my rental property has me so stressed out and now the couple leave there bins on my front yard all week to create a breach of tenant law in brimbank to cause penaltys on me and my little one to make it seem as if im breaking neighbourhood laws . to suffer fines / or eviction signed S.pereniko
Law Abiding 26/02/2015 at 1:32 am
Where I live, calling the police is as useful as throwing bricks in the Grand Canyon: They will not respond and have in fact made problems worse for us.

I recommend installing some fake security cameras (Blinking Red Lights) as well as investing in a real security camera set up. Post No Trespassing signs that say "Smile you're on camera."

Once you've ID'd the perps, then call the cops as well as your local news agency with your evidence. The news agency will enjoy a juicy story and it will force the police to do their jobs.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 02/03/2015 at 12:12 pm
@deano. You could try the police - they should be able to give you advice about this stalking and threatening activity.
deano 25/02/2015 at 11:33 pm
I am 39 i have a neighbour next door but 3..when i see her in shops or in the street i constantly get abuse from her.once she walked into my house and while my wife was in the garden she grabbed my round the collar to threaten me..when i see her in the car if i have my kids with me she sticks too fingers up too..my wife was driving past her work in my car.my problem neighbour got up as she was sat outside and proceeded towards the car intent on more abuse then realised it was my wife so turned around..tonight more abuse at the shop saying she knows an ex girlfriend shes found out about.why is she doing this i cant stop thinking why...if it was a male i.d sort it out but this woman is out of control..
blue 18/02/2015 at 6:53 am
I kept notes. I spent hours at a police station in south London. 200 complaints.
So! This is what. Corrup . Cops do?????they take your notes, twist them against you and they have the badge !and uniform. Then they cancel your complaints lying that you did!!!!!!!I am shocked that police do this........so it looks like. You changed you . Mind!!. Disgusting law....no justice at all.
You won't find a decent policeman with his own, mind. No! They are followers! Sheep!
Sad that. UK police stoop. So low. But they do.???????? so. Wear a camera!
blue 18/02/2015 at 6:31 am
You are wrong. police decide who to blame!..no law and. Orde . At all in south London
2004:I reported neighbours, police took their side...for 10 years...and still do but 1 woman has left,
Gone back to her council flat that she let out for. 16 years.
My health has suffered, and I. Can't. Sleep....
Police and council took.the side of the perpetrators. ! Why?
I want to move but finding. It. Impossible
Shocked to. Realise that the law are liars....take sides and law is a joke.??? in this area.

Council told me they are not interested in Owners! Only council tenants.DISCRimination

So the police are not interested. In the truth. I suffer racist abuse by all.

So unintelligent. So ignorant..??????
jen 15/02/2015 at 4:57 pm
If the police are not doing anything for you then i would suggest that you get a peace bond against them this way if they do confront you or try to assault/harm you or destroy any of you property they will be charged, also make sure you get some form of prof ie: pictures, videos ect. that you can show to the police that they are in fact harassing you this is the only way an officer will do anything, as conflicts between neighbors happen all the time and 9 times out of 10 it is always there word against yours so having some form of prof will help dramatically. it is what i did with my neighbors and now they have been told if they continue to harass us they will be arrested since then we have had no more issues with them as most people do not want to go to jail for something as stupid as having a problem with a neighbor and not letting it go.
peia 11/02/2015 at 3:44 am
I going through it now.I had people on my floor who like messing with my door.they don't work or do anything with they lives.I can't sleep in peace they pour water out the window.they broke my mailbox and stand at my door and cough loud to let me know that they are there.they bang on my room wall to let me know they are listening.then at night they bang on the hallways every twenty mins.I'm really upset.I never did anything to them.I think cause of my aunt who lives in the next building who really hates me for no reason.this is everyday!
Anti Neighbour From 31/01/2015 at 7:59 am
Police DO NOT take this seriously. Neither do councils. I have plenty of experience and the way these cases are dealt with by these agencies is APALLING.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 30/01/2015 at 12:06 pm
@doe. If you truly believe you are being harrassed you can try reporting this to the police. First speak to your local MP or councillor to see if they can point you in the direction of a group that can help.
doe 28/01/2015 at 7:30 pm
i am being arrased the neighbours keep repoting me to the police and to the housing assocation thinks i have not done i feel the housing do not believe me they even saying my daughter and granson are vstaying with me and they dont stay they keep sending me and my husband in to meeting about this and its making me and my husband ill my age is 64 and husband is 66 i need help
Anti-Covert Alliance 26/01/2015 at 4:19 pm
I guess the comment below was cut-off. It detailed organized harassment by neighbors and police after an American police department decided to retaliate against me. In the end they noise campaigned me out of one apartment and pesticide fumigated me out of the next. I have been attacked in that manner 4 times. I had toxicology done in the U.K. twice to prove it. The U.S. is a violent and corrupt police state now. Do not come here until there are major domestic security reforms. The most famous case we have is the case of Adrian Schoolcraft in the New York times but there are may others like that. Law enforcement has always been highly abusive and corrupt here but things have went over the top since the Patriot acts and the creation of DHS.
Anti-Covert Alliance 26/01/2015 at 4:10 pm
I'm not from UK but would like to share my neighbor/workmate horror story too. I was in the city of Columbus,Ohio,USA and ,apparently, was slandered as a violent public safety risk by my workmates in a State government shop who's mission was public safety and had close ties to Department of Homeland Security. The people I worked with were bottom feeders in their profession and I didn't know they would go so far as to make a fake suspicious activity report but they did. I should have expected the scumbags to pull something.

In 2011, I noticed that my laptop-that I kept in my vehicle because I didn't use it in the evening usually-was regularly being started up at 4:00 A.M. I reported this to the police after a couple of days and then noticed that several cruisers from then on would follow me out of my parking lot-sometimes making rude gestures. At the same time the person above me started jumping up and down for hours at a time at midnight. I recorded it for 2 nights then called the landlord and a large moving truck came and moved the idiot out almost immediately.

The cruiser stalking went on for some time so eventually I purchased a dash camera and started filming them--and it stopped very quickly. However afterwards, 2 of my vehicles were badly vandalized in 2 parts of town and a threatening note was put on my van that same day.

In 2012 I moved to one of my condominiums I owned as a rental unit. It was a comfortable unit so I went ahead and made it my home. I noticed that the tenant was in a big hurry to leave and appeared frightened. The neighbors downstairs were young men from India and were quite rude and noisy. They kept everyone up with loud music, a malfunctioning ceiling fan and talking on the phone all night long. I bought ear phones and ear plugs and from then on didn't care what they did. Eventually other neighbors complained I think and they left.

The neighbor who moved in next was far worse. Every night at midnight she pounded the closet doors for an hour. My response was to pound back harder. This went on for a year. I should have recorded her but didn't. At some point you become insensitive to abuse.

In 2013 I noticed that the workmates were getting a little crazy doing mimicry, trying to start fights in the restroom etc. At that point I was used to their sick behavior and was achieving a margin of success at the job-so I didn't care. On October 2013 I had a problem with an officer in my former neighborhood. He attempted to chase my bike out of a neighborhood by driving behind it menacingly with his cruiser. In the process of leaving the neighborhood I ended up riding beside our big local marathon event-right after the Boston incident. I went home concerned there would be retaliation.

Next day I got to work and noticed there was an odd ether smell in the office. In about an hour I was sick . In 2 hours I was hyperosmic and ataxic. However, I turned on a fan and got through the day. I noticed that the peop
ProblemNeighbours Editor 20/01/2015 at 2:35 pm
@jay. Your landlord and the police are you best options, hopefully they will be able to deal with this thug. Good luck
jay 17/01/2015 at 8:28 pm
Nightmare bully boy neighbour in flats where I live. Asked him politely to move his car or friends car out my allocated parking space. Constantly being abusive towards me using threatening behaviour and calling me nasty names lik slag which I dnt take kindly too. Reported him yesterday to police and my landlord wondering if anything else can do as this is causing me distress as not first occasion this as happened always going out his way to cause trouble with me just want this to end
blue89 25/12/2014 at 7:28 pm
rosa, I know what your mean, carrying a tape recorder? in the garden.
I recently bought a small CCTV camera at ARGOS, you don't have to wire it up and this hAS HELPED A BIT.(£199.00)I have put it on my window sill.
WATCHES that take photos I must look at.
I think that the watch might record.
The police often refuse to see the truth, siding with who they want to side with in south London.
BLUE89 25/12/2014 at 7:20 pm
NON STOP PARKIGN ISSUES.....they cause massive problems and it is easy to rectify but some mentalities (south London) enjoy the buzz and know that the police will never blame them.
so THEY HARASS AND BULLYING like ignorant babies.

the neighbour does this on purpose and then LIES AND SHE IS SKILLED LIAR. BUT SHE HAS CONTACRS IN THE COUNCIL AND the neighbourhood, therefore sending about 17 "people" to destroy my little white car.
Francis Editor 11/12/2014 at 12:41 pm
@fedup. You could try telling the other neighbours that the police proved it wasn't??
fedup 10/12/2014 at 8:00 pm
A couple months ago my neighbours son parked across the street in front of my house. An someone hit his car. They said it was my mom, but the cops came out and said that it doesn't line up. So my mom's insurance didn't pay. Now my neighbors are telling my other neighbors lies about me trying to get them to stop talking to me and every time I go outside they come out an stare at me. An watching who comes an goes from my house. What can I do
ProblemNeighbours Editor 08/12/2014 at 12:30 pm
@debz. When you say the music is not overly loud, could you ask the EHO to undertake a noise monitor test? That way you could resolve the problem one way or the other.
debz 05/12/2014 at 7:34 pm
My neighbour is knocking on nearly every night to ask my granddaughter to turn her music down which is not over loud as I'm sat down stairs watching TV its only been since she had a baby now I'm worried about moving about in my house !! Could I contact my housing officer to see what I could do .I lived here over 10 yrs they been here 3 yrs
Rosa 30/11/2014 at 8:03 pm
my upstairs neighbour has been harrassing me. She knocks on my door to rant at me and bangs on the floor (she above, me below) at my tv. Any lower i wouldnt be able to hear my tv plus i have hearing problems. Its 6.30pm my tv is 15/100 volume and she is purposely droping things on the floor and stamping three times in a row.
My neighbourhood manager went to see her and SHE ADMITTED she had knocked on my door to argue with me and that she banged on the floor at me. Yet they seem to think her knocking on my door is "neighbourly" and she is doing nothing wrong.
She has also racially abused me to which my housing said i need recorded proof, like anyone walks around with a tape recorder attatch to them.
They clearly dont believe me even though she had issues with the last tenant ironically she accuse him of harassing her now shes harrassing me!!!
She has been here ten odd years so they are bias to her, she admit what i accused her of but they do nothing.
I feel so sad and anxious here plus they wont even move me they just keep suggesting meditation which clearly wont help. I hate this woman i truly wish death on her.
Im two months pregnant the stress is to much
ProblemNeighbours Editor 10/11/2014 at 10:25 am
@buttons1986. Only the police can charge someone with breach of the peace.
Buttons1996 07/11/2014 at 2:23 pm
My daughter had just been charged with breach of the peace by her neighbours. Totally I true but it has been done. She had had nothing but problems since they moved in. Can she charge them with harassment and they are making her life A misery. Thanks
Oscar Editor 06/11/2014 at 12:27 pm
@dale. There's really no laws about talking in your own garden are there??
dale 05/11/2014 at 12:42 pm
my neighbours friend enjoys talking outside my window at anytime night or day if you say any thing to her she will tell you to funk off
willow Editor 30/10/2014 at 1:03 pm
@Jay..yep do it all via the right channels. Good luck
jay 28/10/2014 at 12:30 pm
Informed statements. Provides validating. Building situation.
Harrassed 10 to 12 pm then 5am to all the time in here...almost.
I keep trying to stay away from these two individuals who keep confronting me and trying to build me into their stream of lifestyle. I want anything to do with it. They are persisting. I can tell police. Tell building offices. Tell community.
Until they come out in the open to arbitrate. There are proper channels.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 21/10/2014 at 2:21 pm
@Ishallwin. Thanks for sharing your experiences with our previous posters. Hope you are finding this site useful.
Ishallwin Editor 20/10/2014 at 5:59 am
@therewasatime
I'm so glad that I shaw your comment because exactly the same
thing has been happened to me for year, initially I thought I was being
paranoid with the white noise thinking that I was going crazy but it's
a very smart trick because unless it happens to you you won't believe
it but it can be done with apps etc in my case when they're sick of running
me down either in the front, back, surrounding areas of my block calling me
a pros, hoe, lesbian fat tran or whatever suits them they use a foghorn
sound effect around my window where I sleep or they'll come closer
to wherever I am in the flat. They also either send the kids to abuse
me verbally non stop outside my window, they'll even accuse me of
saying something when the telly's on. They also comment if I have
a guest, must be a John! or I'm sleeping with every man that passes my
door even though I'm married! Same if it's a girl. Anyway I make sure I
I give them a taste of their own medicine but it's really not fair or a healthy
way to live. Hard to report without evidence and using kids is effective
for them, but what goes around must surely come around for these VIPERS!
Bunny 04/10/2014 at 6:31 pm
We put a digital lock on our back gate for security and gave our neighbours the code. Since then the neighbours have harassed us to take it off and it is very upsetting . The police and a solicitor have told us the lock is legal. What can we do?
butterfiles Editor 30/09/2014 at 10:58 am
@Sama. How do you know he is paying the teenagers to do it? Can you not get the names of one of them - or the descriptions at least? Sounds very odd that they police are not doing anything
Sama 27/09/2014 at 10:57 pm
My next door neighbour is a drug dealer and he pays teenagers 20 quid to throw bricks threw my window the police say they can't do anything because they can't link it to him my life is hell
ProblemNeighbours Editor 30/09/2014 at 10:13 am
@Gaz. Your first avenue should be to pursue this via your home contents & buildings insurance. If there's no success there then get a copy of the report from the surveyor that stated there was subsidence due to use of heavy machinery and excavations. Hopefully the surveyor will also have included a summary of the work that would be needed to make your property safe so you should get an estimate for the cost of that work. Send the report and estimate to the neighbour and state that you would like be compensated. If you can do this via a solicitor, it may have more influence. If they do not comply, then you may have to take this to the small claims court; the maximum amount is usually £10,000.
gaz 27/09/2014 at 4:28 pm
our house has ended with cracks as the neighbour has excavated land we have phoned council, local councillor, surveyor been ,stated subsidance due to heavy machinery and excavations we were getting nowhere council says he has no planning permission but failed to do anything so last resort we phoned police response was its a civil matter they would not get involvd even though my wife`s health has suffered i am 80 year old our house has stood solid for 46 years can someone help
ProblemNeighbours Editor 22/09/2014 at 11:46 am
@lee. If physical damage is being done to your property and your family is being threatened, this is almost cetainly a matter for the police to investigate further.
lee 18/09/2014 at 10:19 pm
me and my family are being harassed by our estranged daughters ex boyfriend, he has sent family members vile messages through facebook, even threatening to kill or hurt some of us, now he has started to scratch our cars, put car windows through and now is putting nails through our car tyres. Our daughter has had to move out of south yorkshire to get away from him and although we are not in contact with her, he will not leave us alone, all the incidents take place at night while we sleep, but i can't help thinking what is going to be next. When they were together the police were always being called because at certain points she was in fear of her own life and her children's he was abusive to her and the kids and then they were only babies, but the police never seemed to want to do anything and i think now he thinks he got free reign, i am at a loose end as to what to do.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 17/09/2014 at 10:15 am
@Jo. That's a real shame - but it is unusual for the police to be so unreceptive to problems of this nature. We hope our other readers are not put off contacting their local police in situations like this one.
jo 14/09/2014 at 10:00 pm
I agree the police are useless. I have a bully for a neighbour. I asked politely that they stop their two dogs going on my garden as they were leaving faeces there for weeks. In return I got punched in the face by a,man four times. Called 999, took fifty minutes to arrive. They took the neighbour away only to call me to say during this incident he received a scratch to his face and would press charges on me, even though I had lumps on my head and a very bruised face. I was also told that I should reconsider charges as this man is an ex addict and is trying to get on the right track! He was released and has bullied me ever since. His dogs still use my garden, my car and me has been threatened. The police are no use at all. I have ended up having to move at an extra 300 pounds a month in rent. Nobody helped me
JoPo 21/08/2014 at 12:43 pm
I totally disagree with this article. The Police are useless. We have reported a neighbour who is a bully and things have got so bad that we have had to move out of our flat and rented it out. His bullying and intimidating behaviour is so bad that I physically feel sick to my stomach and feel utterly petrified about ever having to go back to my flat because of him and yet the police tell us to ignore him and they tell us there is nothing they can do about him. The legal system in this country sucks. The police are powerless and this guy is getting away with making our lives a misery. I had to go to my flat yesterday to check a leak and I had to ask two men to accompany me. I was shaking and had worked myself up into a hysterical state over having to go to my own flat... and no-one can stop him.
I am considering selling this flat, but how can I, when on the form we have to declare that we have problems with our neighbour. He has physically threatened my dad and my boyfriend; neither of whom now feel comfortable about going to that house; and still the Police tell us there is nothing they can do about it. REALLY? I
Mav 18/08/2014 at 4:24 am
We moved to our house a little over a year ago and my 13yr old daughter manged to become friends with the family from hell
What started as a simple child's falling out with each other has escalated in to adults trying to kick my front door in. The mother is constantly offering my 17yr old daughter to fight her and where my 17yr old has special needs this couple have really frightened her, to the point where she not able to leAve the house unless accompanied by either her 16yr old sister or either my wife or myself, she was always happy to go out until now, this couple have a 11yr old girl who is doing everything from physically assaulting them to stalking the children when they are out with friends.
Recently we were all told to record what family has been "doing"
To each other, and this has just given this family a licence to record my kids every time they leave the house to walk past their house to visit friends who live at the bottom of our road.
We have reported every incident up until a few days ago as we have now lost any trust we had in the police to nip their behaviour in the bud, and feel like we are backed into a corner with nowhere to go, we have video proof and witnesses to the abuse only for police to say that our witness can't be used and the videos could be recieved as provaction to start behaviour we are constantly being subjected to, my wife suffers from anxiety and eating disorders and with all this added stress, her condition is getting worse, people tell us not to get depressed over what this family are doing but no other neighbours other than the ones who have been told thT any evidence they give can't be used due to them not being in admissible due to us being friends
I will be phoning our local police tomorrow and demand that these poisoned half witted family be arrested or at least be questioned over their constant harressment and threats of violence towards us with a view for charges if they don't then I will seek a civil suit and in deed secure injunctions to stop this family in their tracks
ProblemNeighbours Editor 28/08/2014 at 2:32 pm
@Bo. You'd need to consult a solicitor about whether to sue or not. Many solicitors offer a free initial consultation so you could try that. Bear in mind that even if you are successful, the person you are claiming against may not be able to afford to pay any compensation granted anyway.
bo 14/08/2014 at 1:36 pm
When I lived in my previous property I was constantly accused by my neighbour who lived below me of making noise even though I was not at home. I was working nights at least 3 times a week the other times I was at work all day. When my son came to stay she then accused us of playing drum and bass music (my son was in his thirties) so obviously does not even listen to the type of music. She then sent her son and daughter round who viciously attacked my son stamping and kicking on his head, I was also attacked trying to protect him and ended up with a black eye and bruising. When they finally left I dialed 999 and the police and ambulance arrived. The paramedic said he had never seen head injuries like it as he could see my sons skull. It eventually went to court but the were found not guilty mainly because the judge refused to let the jury see the original photos of my sons injurys as he said they were "To Gruesome" The person who did this was an ex policeman!!! I have since been told their mother is having problems with her new neighbour and has called the police 15 times. I would like to know if I can sue her for harassment for all she put me and my son through. Thankyou
Joanne 05/08/2014 at 9:49 pm
I'm having abuse from the neighbours, both have done plenty of jail time and when I called the bloke an antagonistic bullying thug he just laughed and said the prison officers said the same about them. I stopped speaking to them when one of their mates robbed me (again) and now it's to the point where I cannot go out, I can only exit and enter by one door and it's a maisonette where they sit outside drinking special brew, him, her and their cronies. They have shouted abuse at me, threatened to kill me and now their mates have joined in. I've called 999 and the housing (they're council tenants and I have bought mine) but neither seem to care yet it was the police who told me to stop associating with them and their friends because the police know them so well. Another 2 neighbours have also complained about them but I'm still suffering-what do I have to do to get help? We all keep diaries and call the housing regularly.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 30/07/2014 at 10:13 am
@vixs. You need to keep copies of your letters or emails each time you make a complaint. Make notes of all the types of noises and when they occur. Try and stay calm so that you can present a reasoned case to the environmental health dept of your local council, or to your housing association.
vixs 29/07/2014 at 1:06 pm
My neighbour is.always making noise through out day and night my housing association just called me a lair and that I have never made any complaints I have health problems and they won't help me at my wits end don't no what else to do really can't take anymore
fighting back 27/07/2014 at 2:22 am
I have a neighbour who thinks its ok be verbally abusive to my children when i am not with them, who stalks around early hours of the morning going thru peoples rubbish bins dumping dogs poo outside peoples houses if she suspects they have not picked up after them (fare enough that pee's me of to but i would never be so rude and do such a nasty thing) have the balls to knock on the door and tell them you know for sure it was their dogs mess. this neighbour is disliked by many of the neighbours in the surrounding area she carry's on like she is the victim when confronted and clearly isn't she is constantly making complaints about people and interfering in other peoples business, and yet she is the one whom has many people bashing on her door shouting at her to mind her own business or to stop making accusation against young children of colour , hence why she now needs cameras. The previous tenant before me suffered the same treatment from her and was the lucky one to be fortunate enough to move .Although this neighbour has her cameras and thinks she can make up her little films and do her editing and gets of on watching me and my young children go in and out all day on her phone, lap top, ipad, clearly shows who has the problem!!! and will not come to her door when i knock to confront her but can stamp around loudly thou out the night to try torment us by stamping up and down the stairs very loudly slam her front door as loud as she can, but gets upset and makes complaints when she hears us all enjoying ourselves in the garden or when i play my music on rare occasions having fun with my family;y and the neighbours, this woman clearly has nothing else better to do and maybe should spend more time concentrating on having fun with her own children whom i rarely see smiling and believe im not the only one who says it , instead of looking for fault in everybody else and take a good look in the mirror locals call her a fruit loop i seriously think she needs help. im sure she will respond.
nil 24/07/2014 at 5:04 pm
Exactly the police don't do anything they just take a bribe and walkaway leaving you in more mess as the neighbours now are sure that there will be absolutely no one to help us out.
fedupwith the lot of 24/07/2014 at 11:57 am
My neighbours' have definitely started a community stalking simply because i refuse to be intimidated by the nosiest people I have eve met. It was Ok until I found out that one of them had been eavesdropping for several years an then her new best friend started on the other side of me. The rumours they spread seem to just get nastier and nastier and they are now using social media to spread them. They are very sick people in my eyes and why on earth people who have never met you would be willing to get drawn in to unpleasantness such is beyond me. I just pretend they no longer exist but I have learned just how nasty some people can be,
stu 23/07/2014 at 10:23 pm
whoever says the police take harasment VERY seriously is talking rubbish.I recently moved into a private rented house,i moved from a 8th floor high rise flat with 3 children and my partner their mother.The day i moved into my new house of my dreams the problems started.I was diognosed with a life threatning illness and was admitted to hospital for 3 months,during this very stressfull time my neighbour had my benifits stopped 5 times due to alligations i was a benfit fraud which is untrue.Then she phoned the police on me 3 days after i was able to go home from hospital saying i was assulting my partner,again after my partner let them in they new it was lies and appolgised for the way they enterd my home.My neighbour then falsley reported me to social services who also said it was mallicious and again an appology.She then started texing my landlord saying i was drug dealing and having allnight parties,in my condition with 3 children.My neihbour text him so many times he actually reported her to the police for harrasment.luckily my landlord knew it was all lies and has been very understanding.But the police are a real big joke,i have been threatend by people my neighbour recruited and all this is ongoing.Every report iv read about this kind of abuse has the same outcome,The innocent people are the ones who suffer at the hands of thease sad sickos and the police well they might aswell be attacking us to because they do nothing but allow this sort of disgusting behaviour thrive even help them to destoy us.THE TRUTH IS YOU OLY HAVE 1 CHOISE,MOVE OR RUN AWAY.Now thats justice dont you think.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 24/07/2014 at 10:40 am
@tan - have you contacted the police for an update on how the case is progressing and why it seems to be such as slow process?
tan 23/07/2014 at 4:28 pm
6 wweeks ago my daughter had an argument with a girl in school and her parents decided to cone to my home with 6 other people and assault my husband the police arrested 1 person and released him with no further action. Three weeks ago (early hours in the morning) the same people along with 11 others came to my home again. I was punched in the face by 1 man while his friend stole my phone as I was speaking to police. then I was hit by 2 other men. my husband was also assaulted and my front door was smashed. it took police 2 weeks to arrest 1 person, she admitted I was hit so she could steal my phone and she smashed the phone up as she left my street. she was given a caution!!! they haven't arrested anyone else even though they had 9 witness statements and they have the names of everyone that came to my home.
ProblemNeighbours Editor 24/07/2014 at 10:31 am
@Kris. This sounds like a difficult (yet not uncommon) situation to be in. If it's a council estate, there should be a neighbourhood housing team in place to try and resolve this kind of thing. They usually work with the parents, the police and if necessary, social services. Ask again at your local council, if possible, get together with other residents and make a group representation.
Kris 23/07/2014 at 3:56 pm
I have lived on this council estate for 5 years and it has been hell. The kids around the estate are out of control and have no respect, they shout at me and my family, call us names, kick our door and chuck food at it. we have gone to their houses loads of times to tell their parents but their parents don't care.. one of them even blamed us and shouted at us!.. we shout back at the kids and tell them to get away from our door but they don't listen. I know the police won't do anything cus they never do with anything I have experienced in the past. we have notified land lady before but they want statements/proof and i guess it goes to court.. i don't want all that hassle I just want them all out. I recommend to anyone thinking of moving to an estate with kids in it. don't.
Tina 19/07/2014 at 9:23 pm
We have suffered abuse and harassment in the north of Scotland, as have our neighbours. The bully boys have driven me out of the County once. The police have helped, as have the Highland Council. The systems are being used for their benefit. I have now referred to the Human Rights Act to live in peace. We have reported two people for harassment and made police statements. They threatened my horses, me with violence but nothing was done. They stole our property. Now we live with CCTV round our house and are extra vigilant. We cannot sell as the village has a terrible reputation. We are advised by our estate agent that people coming to the area to buy will not buy our house as we have caused trouble in the village - so we are stuck in a place where we do not want to live. Our neighbour, who is a local, has received the same treatment and the police do nothing. He has his house up for sale. Welcome to the Highlands of Scotland.
Dedra 18/07/2014 at 3:59 am
We have been harassed by neighbours who became jealous when redid our home and property in maple on. These people have been warned to keep their distance but continue to break items on the property and call police when, for example, they themselves purportrate a crime. We have had windows broken, our weeper tile dug from the ground, the police called over a lump of dirt of dirt which was 4 cams around and had fallen on our own property, bright lights shone directly on us, a camera pointing in our dining room window and the police do nothing- nothing. We have even been threatened with death, had the police called when the daughter, herself was pulling up legal cadastrial stakes. It goes on. I challenge anyone to find anything we've done to them. Yet they continue to get away with this absolute nonsense and no one does anything. We were directed to replace our drains, in the ground and grandfathered- no one else even across the street had to do this. I was near hit in the face by a neighbour and - yup- no one did anything. It is utterly ridiculous. Is colour involved? Why yes how did you guess?!
ProblemNeighbours Editor 17/07/2014 at 9:54 am
@Fi. Assuming you are in council rented accommodation, you should document everything as you have done here. Explain it factually rather than emotionally. The council cannot enforce its tenancy conditions on your neighbour however as he is an owner but they may be able to help you liaise with a mediator and also the police - who will act if they consider you are genuinely being harrassed. If your off-street parking space comes with your tenancy then you can use it as you like. We know this sounds strange, but it sounds like your neighbour is (a) lonely (b) has had bad experiences with previous neighbours. Could you try sending him a letter explaining that you want live as neighbours amicably - and maybe suggest he comes round to see your flat, baby and dog? That will reinforce what you've told him about the dog being well trained and the flat clean etc. Alternatively you could as the council to consider you for a move to an alternative property as it seems like a pet-less, older couple may attract less attention from this man.
Fight Back 08/07/2014 at 11:53 pm
It's interesting that people here are talking about be gang-stalked or harrassed by their neighbours. But there's one interesting thing these so-called neighbours can't do and that is get inside your mind. Most people complaining on here need to put their very own tough mental firewall to block out all the pathetic attempts their neighbours are making to undermine them. Once they do this, then all their nasty bids to upset someone should not work.

The best way to get of a constant nuisance is to film everything they do and or photograph it. Get evidence and then get a lawyer and take out an anti-harrassment against them in a civil court. The police are usually useless. I would never trust a cop. They probably will be boastful and downright arrogant and think they could never be brought to justice, but evidence and cameras don't lie. Rottweiler lawyers should also be more than willing to be on your side, especially if you can find a no win no fee one. Remember the police are typically pants. And if you can find a decent copper, he's definitely got to be a transhuman or an interdimensional being - I've been reading too much David Icke or Alex Jones. No really, remember, the police are paid to think or do their job properly. They're just there to take the p*ss.
Haley 25/06/2014 at 6:58 pm
I live on rented property, and my neighbors are CRAZY. She yells threats over across two other tenants front yards that she is going to "Beat my ass" her husband will stand in their yard and stare at us (once for 4 hours straight) and I was told by another neighbor in our unit that she said to them that she was going to "rip out my jugular, and eat it" when I contacted our landlord they told me to ask them for a written complaint, but I don't think they want to get involved for fear of the insanity being shifted towards them. I want to contact the police, but I am uneasy about it because of a false statement they made to the police about us a couple of nights ago. She told the police that my husband was a felon (he is not) and was threatening them and pointing an assault rifle at them. this was a straight up lie. the police told me if they had to come down here again than we would all be arrested for disorderly conduct even though we were completely honest and calm while they questioned us. and the landlord told us that we could all be evicted. I don't know what to do. we are already going though a rough time and are living in a low income housing complex and cannot afford to move. We have a three year old girl, and if we are evicted we do not have any were else to go. This sucks, I am uncomfortable even leaving my apartment.
Anton 24/06/2014 at 10:30 am
2014 This year 'ive been intimidated and abused, and all because I live alone in a two bed flat with a nice planted garden. Anything that goes missing the pointed finger I get. My neibours watch all of my comings and goings, they spy on my family and friends. They nose around the garden being that its communal to see what I have got growing. They accuse me of stealing there plants, even though I've got a well stocked garden that I have maintained for over twenty odd years. They damage property that belongs to me. The cause water leaks above my home to try and force me out. They damage my famillys cars, and prevent parking on the shared drive. They try and kill my pets by trying run them over. Through all this I have been branded a rassist by my landlord and I've got to get out.
duckie 27/05/2014 at 9:55 pm
What if a neighbor calls the cops on not only you but everyone for no reason can she be charged and or removed from the complex???? This is causing so much stress. I just had a baby and to have the cops come everyday frustrates the crap out of me, and cause I'm getting stressed baby is feeling it what scares me cause the rules are if a person has the cops called on them to much eviction is possible.....I cannot be on the streets with my child....I don't get why she does this I don't bug no one
miki 02/05/2014 at 5:12 am
My neighbours abused us and slapped my mom and for self defence ny dad slapped her back and she filed a complaint against us of mentally harassing her and she is now blackmailing us that she can do even worse than this and is not even accepting that she has started all this and the police is in their favour what should I do to help my dad from this wrong acquisition? Plz help
dabbu 29/04/2014 at 11:09 am
dosto mujhe english nhi aati lekin ak ladke ne itna presan kar rakha aor har pal ghut rha hu aor apni jan dene ka man karta h mujhe kuch nhi dekhta vo badmas h kya kru.
BIKER 28/04/2014 at 8:21 pm
I agree with comments on the police and council
Even with firm evidence they will support the offender however serious it gets. You name it we have suffered it. Even got a police mediator who reported to the police thta the anti social family were intimidateing us. Axction by Darftord Police. As expected our fault. Even it appears after the arrests for drug dealing, criminal damage, threats of violence to a dying woman what hope.

regards keith
chucky 21/04/2014 at 3:42 pm
I absolutely agree, The Police are a Joke,my neighbours who moved in next door to me, 8 months ago, i have lived there 18 years, the children are screaming F***ing Retard to my youngest daughter, the neighbours children were spitting on my front door, kicked my gate that is sectioning my front garden off, I was told that what the are doing is hate crime as my youngest daughter is Autistic, i have had this abuse for the last 7 months, Police are an absolute joke, my ASBO housing officer is siding with the neighbours that are causing the trouble, if you aren't happy, then I suggest you move, she said. I live on a quite housing estate, things have gotten so bad,when i'm indoors, i dont want to leave, when im outside i dont want to come home. I have been refused permission for CCTV installation, i was told any problems, to call the police, that was a total joke, they were then phoning the police on me, claiming I had said this, done that these neighbours are well known for causing trouble, im trying so very hard to ignore this, im afraid to telephone my housing association incase im forced to move. i was refused permission to have CCTV installation as it is classed as invasion of privacy, this is breaking my slowly, I don't want to move, i dont what else to, how can this be allowed?
Cat 19/04/2014 at 9:37 pm
Hi there I have a neighbour from hell. Her latest was yesterday she decided to have a BBQ . She invited all the neighbourhood except me (still can't stop crying of laughter) on the green right outside my house and for 6 hours 4pm/10pm she,her hubby and her 3 other trolls went round all the nice neighbours and took apron them selves to slag me off to the tee in fact most of the time I could lip read when I peekebood at window ,and it was like watching pitch forks at dawn very sad . And now thanks to me because after all it was held in my honour there all waving and talking to each other Neighbours in love aaaarahhh . So the fact is theve tried everything and made our lives he'll and we've always been able to fight back I'm not giving up but now she's made all that theve done to us and obv all the malicious gossip that was flowing in the air the bullies need to stay with her else it will be them , any advice please x
BLUE 18/04/2014 at 6:25 am
2004 until now.
NO !, the police don't help.
in fact THEY TIWST AND TURN the truth to suit themselves


2004 female gets pleasure in harassing me, if I SAY ONE THING the Croyon police arrive and accuse me! THEY ARE LIARS. this woman told me that the police told her to HARASS ME/get other peopleto help her harass me..then when I react/call her (policewoman) on her MOBILE!!!! to get "evidence"to get me!!..so if SHE SEES ME, she lies to the police saying ANYTHING and the police rush to the building to blame me....NON STOP since 2004-she is only a girlfriend, she does not work.....I HAD TO HOLD DOWN A SHIFT JOB and then
I had to retire.....MOVE: HOW?////WHERE? so she "recruited" people to harass me and "trash my old car"......AND THE Croydon police are only on her side and anyone they can get to HARASS ME....throw eggs, stones.etc....CHILDISH IMMATURE POLICEMEN...who lie and lie. THEIR DREAM is to punish me....................AND IMMIGRANT.....disgusting
blue 11/04/2014 at 11:40 am
I bought a tiny house in 2004 and never saw my neighbours!!!omg...THEN I DID and within a week they started, I was at home as I worked shifts AND THEY DID NOT LIke it (THY HAD "THINGS " TO SELL AND BE COLLECTED!
the female was insecure and JEALOUS AND I WENT TO THE POLICE IN CROYDON.! a very tall policeman came out and all he did was try t find out about me and my life...I was naïve and I left and 3 WEEKS LATER I HAD 2 POLICEWOMEN SHOUTING AT MY DOOR ALL NIGHT....all day accusing me
and I will get you deported, we don't want immigrants etc...I had to call 999 once to remove them..............SO THEY LIED TO THE COURT (POLICE) AND GOT ME HARASSMENT WARNING.......so then 3-19 people harassed me and the POLICEWOMEN non stop...I battled but I live alone and never had a hope...........NON STOP HARASSMENT THREATS....but I was blamed..
they left and the 3rd friend carried on shouting filth, sending men to my place BUT THE POLICE REFUSED TO TAKE NOTICE. (insp. cancelled 200 complaints without my knowledge so I never had a chance!!!no evidence..this woman badmouthed me and stalked me and I had 9 years of abuse NO HELP FROM POLICE......then another female moved in and all her relations (12)
STARTED AND STILL ARE HARASSING ME............not once have the police taken my side.................the one female left 3 months ago......? but the new lot (tenants) park in the wrong lplace and fight wirth others and shout BUT I GET THE BLAME..........my skin is a mess full of massive sores and I cant get on with my life.......I WAS ATTACKED 3 WEEKS AGO by a neighbour relation but I am told I am a liar..........THE POLICE TAKE THEIR SIDE never mine as the tall policeman was furious I would not invite him in!!!so he badmouths...I have spoke to over 100 policemen and put in many many hours reporting,making notes BUT THE POLICE ARE NO INTERESTED........I am immigrant...and the police are full of RETALIATION/LIES/ they are out to "get me"...as I have reported them and THEY DONT LIKE THIS ALTHOUGH IT IS ONES RIGHT..but no rules cops..............
parth 04/04/2014 at 9:23 am
I have been troubled by a person contineously in the few days, she often uses bad words against me plz help me
Motherof3 24/03/2014 at 2:01 pm
Interesting read ! But I would disagree with the statement 'Police take harassment very seriously'. In Hampshire they really can be bothered, they use officers that are poorly trained, they do not use their own policies and procedures correctly and the victims are the ones living in fear. But hay they've ticked a box - job done. My family and I have suffered over many years of harassment from our neighbours. It's described as 'causing alarm or distress' and also as 'putting people in fear of violence'. That in the those two statements are my life.
The Police have let me and my family down to the point I have no faith in the system. I am a law abiding citizen and have done everything by the book- used the system, but to what end - NONE.
Best of luck to all you victims our their - lets hope the system doesn't let you down.
Mint 24/02/2014 at 1:04 pm
My partner and myself have lived in our area for 8years the past 4 years we have had to deal with a drunk abusive women. It is now that bad my child who is 3 fell over and was crying and she came out and screamed to shut that f***ing bar**** up. The year before he was on his electric car in the summer and she actually said I hope that little c*** falls down the stairs and brakes his neck. She's abusive and voile.So fed up and am at end of what to do my children are scared to play out but seems like no one can help
wheels 15/02/2014 at 2:17 am
We stood guarantor for our neighbours, helped them get the house, big mistake after a month or so they started growing weed, smoking it, screaming at their kids. Plus ontop of all this am partly disabled and my husband is having tests for cancer, so we told neighbours they would have to get new guarantors. A few months later all hell let loose she barged in my house later at .night going mad threatening us. I went round to sorted out this didn't work it only mad matter worse, the neighbour has punched a hole in the front gate, she as come round 3 time to let know he,s mad n he's going to hit me if I go near their house, this is impossible as we share path to front doors. The latest idea they,ve had is kids making trouble outside our front window. We have tried to reason with them put got no where. We,ve tried speaking to the landlord, and we foned the police, any advice on what to do next would be a great help.
49errrr 03/02/2014 at 12:43 pm
I have been Harassed now for 4 Years, Well nearly 5 years, As my Neighbour doesn't believe in any sort of Noise at All. Other than her Own, Put it this way she Complains she can hear the Toilet flushing! Also kitchen cupboards shutting , which all apart from 2 have Soft Close hinges, Also the Biggest Issue I have Got with Her is that she us So zNosey, & Make Stories Up, My Landlord & I have been friends for nearly 40 years, & there is nothing going in between Him & I , But She Claims there is, That's the Only Reason she Complains, Is Because she thinks she's missing Something, Maybe a Life if Her Own, So She can Then Keep Her Nose Out If Mine& Stop Attacking Me Verbally With Such nnonsense, & Stop Lying about there being A Noise problem When Clearly there is Not! I've Now got back to Enviromental Health myself as to following up her Former Complaint & Visit that I had from them Last Year! They will now be Looking into Her! Hope she's Happy! Well I Suppose she's Glad of it After all there Working, Unlike me A Bone Idol Bum, Her Words ! Oh Well what can one say? That's Life these Days SORRY!
hagz 22/12/2013 at 9:47 pm
we live in a rented private property down an allyway very close to a pub it is a 4 bedroomed property however one of the rooms are downstairs , thurs fri sat and sunday nights we have the drunken people from the pub come down ou path and for some reason find it funny to bang on all 3 of our windows and door i have been out a couple of times and confronted these men (not allways the same group of people) which is stupid as ther is allways a group it has been going on for moonths the times these people are banging on the windows ranges from between 9 pm and midnight somtimes later these people are diturbing us now to the point that i have a disabled daughter who slept downstairs and have now had to move her upstairs and reduce our 4 to a 3 bed which we pay nearly 1000 pounds a month for , i confronted the landlord of the pub and was told it is not he responsability what should i do as one night i might go out things might turn nasty can the council house us elsewhere ?
marymoo 21/12/2013 at 6:23 pm
Been having with a male tenant for years, council ask me to keep them informed
he annoys other tenants too, he started outside my flat and threatened me, my son came out and the male tenant called the police on us, so then my tenant officer thought we were to blame. We was defending our home and ourselves. Then again the other night his outside giving me verbal abuse and threats as I stood on my doorstep smoking and talking to my neighbor, so I came indoors and phoned the police, they went up to knock on his door but he left in his car and gone, I've informed the council, but to be honest I dont think they care.
damo 15/10/2013 at 7:29 pm
i feel so sorry for everyone on this site i live in a small studio app in london there are 3 studios on the ground floor back in jan a woman moved in she seemed ok at first and myself and the other neihbour thoiught she was nice ..how wronge we were she has mental health problems and is an alcoholic she is violent and abuseive when drunk she harrases everyone in the block begging for money to buy drink then when you say no she turns nasty she is a vile nasty drunk she,s being evicted soon god willing what a nightmare shes been i want to punch her head in but cant as ill be done for abh
padillab 02/10/2013 at 5:07 pm
Because of the last room i rent the manger i paid rent to didn't tell me they had bugs i move out the following month actually moved in the front house with a woman and her kids she actually rents the to her pay rent since i been there my x manger who lives in the broom down there has been harasing me its gotten so bad the owner of the house told me have 30days to move, this man had verbal abused me to the neighbors and the the lady i live with has come to me so upset about the things he is saying about it has gotten since so bad that i have gotten into a physical figtht with one his guess now the owner of the house told me have 30 days to move
kai 12/09/2013 at 10:50 pm
My husband and I moved to a cul de sac 18 years ago and from day one I have been harassed by an old lady, and two "men" in our neighbourhood,
It got so bad that I became afraid to come home after work. I kept all the harassment from my husband as he works long hours.
I would come out of my house and they would jump into their cars and roar off in front of me.
They even got their children to have a go at my son at school
It came to a head when I purchased a new car and I kept finding screws and nails in my car port,
I kept diaries of all the incidents and kept the nails and screws as evidents.
I called the police and reported them. He believed me and cautened the "men".
They have now put up cctv cameras on their houses and search lights which activates when my family leave our house as we live opposite them.
All I what to do is come home and get on with my life which doesn't include the neighbours.
I realise this will never change as they are nasty people who pretend to be nice
The police and my friends tell me they hate me because I am Black, Female and successful and they don't like it.
If you read this stay strong,
KTP 25/07/2013 at 3:01 am
I'm going through neighbor harassment. My neighbors up the road from me no houses between us so I don't have to see them.The Father has been verbally abusive to me and my son he drove my son off the street and he almost crashed into a stone wall.He almost hit me and my dog while walking on my street not once but twice. I'm sure it's pay back for confronting him about him saying vicious things about me and my son all around the town. I confronted him when he was going by my house told him I know what you said about us several people told me in the neighborhood.He denied it said I don't know what your talking about I said your a liar and he said I was crazy and delusional, so I flipped out I was at my breaking point and I threw grass,dirt and some dog crap was mixed in but it was frozen at him you sometimes do things when you are mad and yes I shouldn't of done it but I did.Of course he called the police on me he said you can be throwing things at your neighbor.I said well he has been talking bad about me and my son.Plus I had papers on him for all the mean things he has done to the cop he said well, you need to go bring him to court the.He said what you did was assault but he didn't press charges whatever! Things have gotten worse since then his son has been bullying my son and has harassed my dog for 3 years and is a bully just like his dad.Last week I was accused of throwing a needle and tacks in their front law the police came said I cannot be harassing my neighbors and throwing needles and tacks.I said where's the proof on this the cop never mentioned if they had proof.The cop read me my rights and wouldn't let me talk kept saying stop talking over me! He got verbally abusive with me and I said Don't you ever yell at me like that again! Who does he think he is attacking me like that? So he said I'm done see you in court. That night my car got egged twice ,had tacks,staples,nails, 2 needles and broken lawn ornaments all over my yard.Gee I wonder who might of done that? Next day I went to court and got harassing restraining orders on the father,mother and son for bullying and harassing my dog. I go to court tomorrow for the harassment on my dog and the bullying on my son. this family has stressed me out so much I'm having more anxiety attacks it's crazy! I'm petrified of the father he is abusive,has a vicious temper and he is a reckless driver trying to run me and my dog off the road and my son and accusing me of throwing stuff in their yard. I never had to deal with anything like this so I am going to fight for a restraining order for a year.I don't want them anywhere near my house they can drive by in a car.I'm so done with these bullies! Wish me luck since I'm going to court 7-25-13 and Aug 1 2013.
LIndy 13/07/2013 at 9:08 pm
I have always lived on my own with my grown up son. I live in a council house. I cannot get the peace and quiet that I want and enjoy my garden. There are two neighbours who are causing so much trouble like climbing over the fence and getting children to climb over fences and smoking me out with their BBQs, putting rubbish in my gardens. I share the fence with theirs so it is difficult. They have dogs which barks everytime I am in the garden. They are trying to get me out and prove I am mentally ill which is really horrible. It is them who are mentally ill making trouble day by day. There is one neighbour who may have got Compos Mentis as he has been mowing the same lawn every day for six days and he even watered the lawn before mowing. They are driving me crazy. It is so very stressful. I have had the police and housing office but lost faith in them. I am too busy to try and get photographs and evidence. I do not want my summer ruined by keeping an eye out during the day every day trying to gather evidence. I never get anything done including decorating.
jane 01/07/2013 at 2:33 pm
The whole street pretty much fell out with my neighbour,they were always having conflict with some one and unfortunately i live next door to them ,they have reported us to the RSPCA for no reason! they have reported us to the council for having an extension which had planning permission ,they have reported us for running a business from our property which was untrue ,the mother has called my children little bastards for no reason age 4 and 6 when they were playing in a tent in my garden ,she has been warned on many occasion by the police to not speak to my children .her favorite game over the past year is to pass my older daughter getting off the school bus and not move off the path for her and usually say something nasty as she passes her ,We go about our normal lives and ignore them as best we can but for some reason she cant help her self being so obsessed with us ? and as much as id like to take a base ball bat to her head i just rise above it because me and my family are happy and she is obviously mentally unstable and unhappy in her life :)
red 14/06/2013 at 3:00 pm
I have a neighbour who has done everything in his power to complain against us. from planning permission, to garden grass protection, to making a petition with his neighbours and now I have had a noise complaint letter from the council come through. I have three young children who like to play in our hot tub and in our garden. They are never in the garden or hot tub after 7pm as I make sure they have a good bedtime routine. I feel I can not relax in my garden and can't let my children play. We are never abusive or use foul language, we don't get drunk and make loads of noise. we have three birthdays a year for my children which never go on past 5pm. Please help with advice on what I can do, He is making my stress levels soar and making me an emotional wreck.
peacelover 08/06/2013 at 3:23 pm
Toxic busybodies
I am often a guest at my carer's inherited bungalow, which he has known and regularely stayed at since a young child and remembers with fondness the then friendly neighbours( we have friendly interactions with most here and anywhere ). I am retirement age , registered disabled with the severest level of fatigue ( which blood tests have confirmed ) that my Dr has seen. I also have a very serious condition which regretably the nasty neighbours also know about .
They pretend friendship only to then become the mouth for the neighbours that like to scapegoat me including via calling me nasty names worse than filthy b*tch, which she takes delight in calling me (he called me a bast***) and to try petty control including via baseless threats of calling the councel solicitors etc (whereas previously we have never complained about legitimate things like trees and bushes blocking light, tresspass, the removal of tiny treelets the other side of the garden to them or bush triming or fruit they'shown interest in and had the only veiw and access to that I'd planted as a screen to their overveiw if standind looking over down into the back garden which they do to critercise it some details they gave could only have been confirmed by tresspass ).
They complain about the curtains that had to be put up due to the level of nebbing( verging on peeping tom as when I leave my bed is gossiped about )and security when not visiting. The moss on flagstones that arrived in clumps when they had their roof water blasted . Cardboardboxes of the relatives belongings being sorted in the garage, the wooden security bars placed at the garage windows after he'd delighted in telling me burglers would find anyway in, when I was there alone. He showed his saddistic delight at causing wasps to scream when poisoning them, then denied it happened the dead wasps nest we found when going to attend to it ourselves confirmed it happened.
This pattern of denying something nasty said whilst lording it as if he is superior with rights over how others keep their gardens and inside their garages to his taste is typical of of an extraordainary level of arrogance that they both display. When they choose to hurang me over the fence when i am alone I do push back with such observations of their impossing negative and bullying attitudes .
As I can not enjoy the garden in peace I seldom use or theirfore maintain it , which I am under no obligation to do.
However seeing signposts up for sale, upon my last visit, I decided as this had always been the excuse given for their tiraids, to tidy first the front garden, which has always been tidier than some close neighbours anyway and then the back. That was when the last verbal attack started.
It was not good enough I was doing it then, the months we'd not been there doing it ( the garden parts that could only be seen if thay were standimg by the head high fence nebbing over ) as I explained was due to dying relati
dave 04/06/2013 at 10:44 pm
I have lived in my flat a year and two months the lady next door is si bad I have had to have ctv put up an alarm fitted to make me feel safe I have spent a lot of money since I have lived here I am a gay lad she is very jelos of me I love where I live she call me the posh get and other things told one of my friends that I had aids which I have not I have gone t cancer its jut hurts me and I find the housing not very good all
andypa38 14/05/2013 at 9:45 am
I have been harrassed by a vile old women who moved in next store, it has been going on a decade. Her previous neibours said "God help the people she moves in next door to" I have never heard a truer sentence. She nearly ran me down 5 times, she pleaded with my landlord to throw me out, she was delighted when my landlord dies becuase she thought I would be thrown out. I told the Police multiple times, THEY DO NOT SUPPORT ME, they tell her to leave me alone, she starts again virtually immediately, I ask them to threaten her with charges they will not, I sent a solicitors letter threatening criminal harrassment it cost me £150, this did not stop her. Reading all the comments on this page makes me see how vile people are.
RED 08/05/2013 at 7:14 pm
since 2004 I have harassment, foul mouth abuse, racist stuff
and nothing has been done in Croydon

then the other neighbours that are renting and have damaged my car....
they twisted all lied and brought up the race card SO I GET BLAMED...
meanwhile my car is damaged...tyre huge hole in it...windscreen wipers pulled off........................................plus a lot more

as I am alone I have no witness

I also get told to go back to my country...............and the entire family comes over and INTIMIDATED ME, OFTEN.......................but they are believed not I.
truth is twisted.......I feel hopeless and upset I am suffering
Tim 03/05/2013 at 5:36 am
I agree that the police can be useless in dealing with threats of violence and harassment. I am a retired police officer and former JP (Magistrate). Recently my employers had to sack a member of staff. He kicked off with agression and threats to various people. As the Security Manager I was required to get him to leave the premises because of his behaviour and threats. he made threats towards my personal safety saying he would return with a sharp instrument etc etc. I contacted Surrey Police, what a waste of time that turned out to be. they initially said all the right things, then did not follow through and basically did nothing except tell me to get an Injunction myself with a power of arrest for them. Waste of space, waste of time, no wonder people have no faith anymore in our legal system, the police and the courts. I've now seen it from both sides and the system is not fit for purpose. web sites, the police, lawyers, the courts all have wonderful mission statements and plenty of advice - but try and get action - forget it, what a sad corrupt, bankrupt, conning society we now live in. The people with the worst standards seem to be politicians, government officials and local authority senior executives, bankers and of course the famous 'blood sucking lawyers'.
Jade 28/04/2013 at 8:24 pm
I totally agree police do absolutely nuffin regards harrasment I've been receiving threats towards myself and 4yr old daughter had stuff thrown at us cars constantly being smashed up n all I get told is sorry because of cut backs there's nuffin we can do! I even asked to b moved out of town n was told its not serious enough...
deb 24/04/2013 at 1:28 am
As most people say the police do nothing it isnt them that has to put up with constant annoying neighbours and there brat children its about time decent peoples views are heard and the likes of these nusisence neighbours all put next to each other see how they like gettin harrased and carnt even look out there own door with out gettin somethin said or children carnt play out as they get bullied this country is a joke
Biggy 22/04/2013 at 5:25 pm
What I just read is the biggest load of Crap I have read regarding Police taking it seriouslyIn BEXLEYthe Police couldn't give a s***. My daughter has been constantly harassted by a neighbour?? who has caused problems for every neighbour who has lived there and Police have been involved severial times and done nothing. Now since I gave them some of their own medicine, I will now be getting done for allegedly threatening them Police couldn't care less. Unti you have no choice but to deal with them themselves.
Goldi 20/04/2013 at 11:51 pm
My 7yr old ,has Aspergers.my neighbour got annoyed as i complained as her 7yr old attacked,older boys held my son down while her son kicked mine several times.She thought it was acceptable.Since shes constantly made problems,banging doors midnight,waking my kids.Her kids stand and stare,look to pick a fight.My son. Ant go out unless they attackhim.Police no help,said its not an emergency,when shes screeming kicking,banging my window.housing just talked to her,it got worse,wont move us.My sons afraid and has a disability.
kelloggs 28/03/2013 at 3:18 pm
My mother lives in rented accommodation and for the last 18mths has been harassed by her neighbour and her family police have been involved constant statements and interviews my mother has been physically assulted twice and yet the police can't do anymore due to lack of witnesses on my mums side shes constantley being adked by police and housing association to move hoyse but its where shes lived for over 30 yrs and never had any problems with any other neighbours even the cps have said theres no case my mum and I am sure we can take this further to possibly appeal to someone higher but really unsure where to go or who to go to now my mum can't afford solicitors fees can't can't seem to get any help my mum is constantly getting verbal attacks and threats from neighbours and my mum has constant written recordings of things that of gone on really could do with some advice and pointing in the right direction of where to go now thank you
sheez 27/02/2013 at 4:43 pm
i have been getting harrased by this girl for 5 years everytime i go pass her she intimidates me and my friends and family i told the poilce once she still does it what should i do?
penny 18/02/2013 at 11:47 pm
When are my rights with my neighbors, had cctv fitted due to them calling police stating I had best her up in a drunken rage on Christmas eve. Police eventually realised I was sober and telling the trut.. how much video proof of them blocking my car in on a daily basis bumper to bumber do I have to record prove jealousy from day 1 qhickly turned to obsession and still is! My husband left just before Christmas he had enough and tells me on a daily basis to leave. I live in a lovely place in a great village. ?.............






Loads more but wont waste my time on them"
Arfie 20/01/2013 at 6:53 pm
I have an 85 year old mother living in a housing apt in Stoneham, she has a younger woman living on the floor beneath her. This woman has complained 4 different times that my mother is loud and is up all night banging cabinets and flushing the toilet. My 89 year old step-father fell (parkinson's) once and she complained to the office that they are upstairs banging all night. He had to be taken out by ambulance because he cut his arm on the way down to the floor when he fell. Mom is in bed at 7 pm and the only time she gets up is to go to the bathroom. This woman is up all night on her computer and likes to sleep in, but because everyone else is up and making normal noise in the morning and this woman can't sleep, she calls the office blaming mom. This woman is just a chronic complainer but I feel she is harrassing mom, she cannot live by tiptoeing around.she pays her rent too. This woman keeps calling the office and because she is friends with them, they call and tell my mother she needs to be quiet. I am at a loss as to what to do. mom is very stressed out over this and can't keep from crying because she feels like she will be evicted.
sadend 15/01/2013 at 12:47 am
I just mooved in a small village in the lakes from the council wich is a small lovely little place and the best views two wish four ,after liveing ther for half a year the localls where great two me and my partner as I meen yes gay partner and allso I have a disabilaty wich is not seen but its prooved on records two the dwp and my drs any ways ,since then we started going shoping in the local shop and allways when we walked in we was been folowed buy the shop asistent it allways happend when we whent in the shop ,the last time I whent in i was buying a item and I forgot where I found it so the women was screaming at me and saying to me put it back where I found it very rudly so then I asked what is your problame due two the fact of the hasle of them watching are every moove ,and ever since then people have gone against us and I feel so sick evry time I have two go out the house ,and one time I was walking yet again twowards the shop I seen this loaf of bread on the side of the path and no one was around so I thort I will take it to shop as some one left it but some one cam after me and said was thers so I explaind what I was doing and said it was ok.but a month later her husbend atakd me in the village saying I stoll her shoping wich I dident and she new that ,but then he punched me in the face kicking me two.the ploce whent and arested him but dident charge him as no witnes but in a village where I live every one knows every thing ,and I feel like I cant fo two local shop or even local pub any more
susan 12/01/2013 at 12:04 pm
I moved into my property september 2012. And since i moved in i have had non stop abuse from my neighbours. At the start it was loud music during the night right up untill 4 in the morning. hen it continued with banging and shouting through my walls.
After a couple of months they started on me in the street threatning me, recently they have started egging my windows.
I have had to walk out of my house early in the morning to walk to my freinds to try and get some sleep. They have driven my mental health up the roof.
I have complained to the police and to local council.But nothing has been done. I love my house but now i feel like i am going to lose it because i cant stand my neighbours anymore. Im looking for a move but the council wont touch me for a year, i just dont no how much more i can take of this
no help! 05/01/2013 at 3:02 pm
A few months ago i had a tiny radio on in my bath room, i heard two load bangs on the door and run down, there was my neighbour screeming at me so much so i closed the door because i was scared he punched the window and smashed it and kicked at my door, i phoned the police and they spoke to him, he admitted it! and was not arrested and was just told to pay for the window, since then everytime i left my house i would hear them swearing making points at me, then new years eve me and my husband was at a neighbours a few doors down we had a great night, as we left the neighbous we have had trouble with was outside our house they said come round i looked at my husband and he said let by gone be by gones, so i thought ok, as soon as i walked into there house she was screeming at me, my husband hadnt even got inside and turned round to walk away i was behind him then all of a sudden the guy hit my husband over the head with an iron bar, my husband of course went down on the floor and passed out and he kept hitting him, i had to try and stop him, and got hurt myself, my husband has a nasty two inch gash on his fore head and collapsed again inside our house, i phoned the ambulance and the police arrived also, he got cought with the iron bar and he admitted it!! and was released without charge!!! the police said there was no witnesses they did not even ask to speak to me! two days later we was sitting in our front room then all of a sudden him and another was screeming over our back fence come out side i will kill you next time you wimp! of course we phoned the police they arrived three hours later! and said that they had infact phoned the police on us saying we had thretened them, the police did not do anything!!! if they had bothered to knock on the other neighbours doors they would of said that they heared two mens voices threatining as it was load enough! but they left without doing anything now we are still in limbo, scared to leave the house and know that the police will not do anything at all! you are supposed to call on the police for help but all they have done is let him get away with it so now he feels he can do what ever he likes to us, if they had delt with him properly the first time then proberly none of this would of happened, the police have been useless and not even helped us all they have done is give him the go ahead to do more to us! so where is the justice in that we are still living in fear and scared to leave the house and as for the police i have lost all faith in them!
herman 27/12/2012 at 3:16 pm
HI there.
I am,in a situation,wheras ,due to financial difficutlyies,and poor health.
I was put in a position,where i was unable,to pay my morgage/rent.
A so called angel came to my help,offering my morgage arrears,payed off,in court,to stop any further action, dont you believe it one week after,pack your bags,this is mine now.
charity stops here.
5 years down the line they are still wanting poll tax bills.
homeless person.
Skeggygirl 24/11/2012 at 12:39 am
We bought our cottage in a lovely country village, our neighbour who is a private tenant has been causing us a lot of problems, blocking the right of way, obstructing people using the right of way to our house, the police have been called on numerous occassions over the past year . my husband works 6.30am - 7pm I work away quite alot, and when we are at home we just want to enjoy our home and garden, but this person will not allow us to, we are prisoners in our own home, this person assaulted my husband but when my husband retaliated he was the one that was arrested, and the following day the neighbour blocked our access again, what can we do about this, I have asked for a harrassment order but the police where not forth coming, they did nothing for weeks and had they have stepped in earlier none of the above would have happened
Lynn 21/11/2012 at 12:16 pm
I have lived in my council house for 10 years now and from the very first day my next door as been aharrssing me going to my council saying things like I didn't put my bin out or there's to many leaves dropped on my garden or there's Lourd music coming from my house even when there's no one home to play music when I first moved in this male neabour used to stand by my pattio doors and look in at early hours of the morning if it wasn't for my daughter seeing him I wouldn't of known also on another acations I was on holiday and my friend came to watch my house and to feed my dog and cat when she noticed my neouber claiming over the wall in my back garden to go back into is house noise polostion have placed equctment in is house and nothing was recorded but he's still at it 10 years later I need help what are my rights to put astop to is aharrssmemt where do I go for help as he owns is own house I am thinking of moving but then I think if I do he's won
froiline 15/11/2012 at 9:57 am
Been living in a housing assoication property for 6 years and have been assulted so many times and had my car vandalised so many times and a neighbour drugged me with the date rape drug and it goes on and on yet the h.a. refuse to rehouse me. I'v not stayed at the flat for nearly a year but when I go back I'm so on edge. can't live like this anymore. what do I do.
Juanita 12/11/2012 at 12:38 pm
I had the trauma of being hauled into court due to a vindictive neighbour who saw fit to make up all kinds of nonesensical allegations against me which were so far fetched. She conned the police and the lanlord and I was wholly innocent. It upsets me to this day and worst of all I had to endure two physical assaults and abusive language and threats. What a legal system! No justice for me.
Watermill 31/10/2012 at 10:56 pm
I moved into a gorgeous home last week of July this year (2012) I knew I was going to have an issue with the occupiers of the propeerty immediately to the right of my home. She is a teacher and he works away for long periods as an engineer in the mercahnt navy. The very first day I moved in they delibverately parked their car behind the removals van to stop them being able to open the van door. From then they constantly slam doors very early inb the morning and very late at night. They stare through my wndows constantly and have now dumped their refuse bins immediately in front of my kitchen window. Now they stare through into my home whenever dumping rubbish into the bins. They even tried to intimadte my young son. Lately I have found screws in my tyres of my car and damage appearing constantly. Ive just found out they have keys to my home and ive found items missing, such as my driving licence> to make matters worse they are now making false claims to the police saying I am harrassing them. Ive treied everything to avoid them and even keep my curtains closed on their sode but nothing works. She is also racialist and makes tracist remarks about the puils she teaches.
Suzie 23/10/2012 at 12:11 pm
I have the upstairs neighbour from hell. She is nocturnal and spends all night storming around her bedroom - directly above mine - and thinks nothing of shifting a bit of furniture around at 3am. She also likes to phone for an Ambulance running around shouting "help" All this is made possible by the benefits paid to her allowing her to sleep all day whilst I am at work. I am a council tenant and have been told by the Anti Social behaviour team that I have to put up with this as it is "part of her illness", however I am at my wits end after 4 years on 2hours sleep per night if I am lucky. I think she should be in sheltered accomodation. Any advice please!!!!
jay 11/10/2012 at 8:33 pm
Need advice been in my house 4 years everythink piece full . Now we have new nebours we were fine to start off with kids played fine now 3 months later they called police saying me and a few other nebours called her grass and point every one I talk to seems to get accused of same thing I go tried faceing it my self.was told of her boyfriend that there was no problem and I had done nothing to affend them . Then I was called into council with complants from them.I also been told thati they have been moved 5 times and have also had some one else evicted what can I
end of tether 29/09/2012 at 1:05 pm
I moved into a beautiful ground floor victorian conversion 6 weeks ago. The morning I arrived I was waiting outside for the removal van to arrive when a very drunk man on the 1st floor opened his window & started shouting & swearing at us for slamming the door all day. We had been there 2 minutes. Later that day after moving all our stuff in we noticed a man with his face squashed up against the window looking in. He saw us but that did not deter him from scanning the room & my stuff. I went out to ask the man what he wanted & he just pushed pass me & went up to the 1st floor flat. About 30 minutes later he came down & I asked him why he was looking in my window. He went off like a firework, shouting & swearing at me & trying to attack me. If my friend hadn't of been there he would have. Since then I have endured a string of abuse & intimidation from these two men, who are brothers. I go & stay with relatives a lot just to get away from it. The police have served them both with harassment warnings & they have been arrested several times. The lady who lived on the top floor for 28 years moved out last week because she couldn't take anymore. She has been enduring it for 4 years since he moved in. The housing association don't seem to care. They say they are dealing with it but you ring up for an update & nothing has been done. It seems being a decent civilised tenant doesn't count for much. The man upstairs does not work because he says he has a disability. His disability does not stop him walking to the of licence everyday to buy 10 cans of special brew!
I didn't think things could get any worse but the new tenant that has moved into the top flat is a nightmare. She is very young, has 2 pit bulls, blasts music all the time & has a constant stream of people coming & going, slamming doors, thundering up & down the stairs & being incredibly noisy until the early hours. She has no garden so why the HA would allow her to keep 2 dogs astounds me.
I have since learnt that the man upstairs has been in prison for stabbing someone & has a long criminal record for violence.
I am incredibly angry with the HA. They should have told me about the man upstairs. Why would you put a man like that in a building with 2 single women? I wish I had never moved here!
Is it possible to sue your HA?
Scared and abandoned 25/09/2012 at 5:58 am
The police and the council can apparently do nothing to stop someone harassing you if they have issues. They deemed our neighbour mentally incapable of understanding a restraining order or asbo so she is allowed to continue torturing us. Her boyfriend is now joining on but because he never finishes his threats by specifying what he is going to do to is they can't do anything about him either. I feel as though either our property or person needs to be attacked before they will do anything, shouldn't we be protected before not after??????
claire 14/09/2012 at 4:59 pm
I moved into my flat in June 2011 the instance I moved in my neighbor greeted me by telling me not to walk on her grass as it was in her tenancy and if I did so again she would report me to the housing association, I am a single mum of my three year old little boy Thomas, my neighbors reported me because there was a maggot infestation in my bin which I sorted as soon as they made me aware, they report me if my little boy runs about, they report me if my visitors close my door loudly... it's been nothing but constant reports from my neighbors they've threatened me, shouted abuse at me, the housing manager isn't interested in what I have to say in my defense and does nothing to help assist me, I feel like a prisoner in my own home... my child has ADHD and I do what I can to stop him from making noise, I've been made to attend mediation where I was interigated further and the mediator would not take my complaints about my neighbors harassment on board either I am now having to take anti depressants for my nerves and considering fleeing my home because I cant take any more, the housing association are threatening to issue me with an ASBO and trying to get me evicted, my neighbors phone the housing association and tell lies about me to cause me more aggro... they basically don't want me here and have made that apparent from day one, I feel like a prisoner in my own home and have been wrongly convicted... i'm now desperate and don't know where to go or what to do next... PLEASE HELP ME!
suzi 01/09/2012 at 12:19 am
After two years of being harrassed through the wall of our home, mainly shouting abuse, banging and slamming whenever we walked into any room of our house, being called several abusive names, our neighbours moved, good you may think, now they are coming back to our property, at night usually, looking for a so called cat they said is coming back to their former property, I confronted him and was threatened with a bike chain, have had the garden set on fire twice,and tonight they came back with the police! Saying we had threatened them! I thought we were able to count on the police for help, but all we received was contempt and dismissiveness from them, four of them turned up in a large van to assist these former neighbours find their cat! In another world this would be funny, however what are we to do about this person coming and going as they please now? Its disgusting, any help would be appreciated.
Gerdy 09/08/2012 at 2:10 pm
I've called the Police to complain of harassment by a neighbour and friends who insists on blocking our garage knowing that this will annoy us. The last time the Police attended an Officer actually told me that it was not harassment, the Harassment Act only applies to stalking. Any suggestions on how to deal with this? I have taken the neighbours to Court, met a totally useless Judge, so I am wondering what to do next.
fedup 06/08/2012 at 10:41 pm
I live in a semi detached Victorian property and have a problem with my downstairs neighbour and her daughter. Essentially, they track my footsteps around my property - i.e. wherever I walk in my flat, their footsteps can be heard following below me. This is particularly true when it comes to the more private rooms in the property like the bathroom, where I have absolutely no privacy. The minute they hear my footsteps walking in that direction, they run ahead of me into their bathroom, which is directly below. I am so frustrated that I have resorted to having a radio permanently stationed on the landing and putting it on loudly whenever I hear their footsteps tracking mine, which is far from ideal. Is there anything I can do about this? If they were doing what they are doing on the other side of my windows rather than on the other side of the floorboards they would be called peeping toms.
Devlin 03/08/2012 at 9:07 pm
We are experiencing some problems with our neighbour, and this has been ongoing since we purchased our property over two years ago. We had renovations done that took 6 weeks. Where apparently our builders came in early around 7/8 am a few times and made noise. We apologized about this when we found out about this, but the damage had been done.He cuts his hedge on his side and lets lots of cuttings fall into our garden, when I just throw 1 piece of the cutting back into his property he goes ballistic. He swears at us, tells us to F%$£ Off back to Africa. I asked him why he is such a grumpy old man not using any foul language etc, he then says he is an MMA fighter and he will break all my bones in my body and to come out to the front and he will beat the c$@^ out of me etc. He has now threatened that he is going to throw all his trash into our garden as well as our driveway because I threw 1 cutting back into his garden.He has gone into verbal outrages at both me and my wife on multiple occasions telling us in un- polite terms to go back to Africa.It has reached a point now where my wife and I cant stand living here anymore and want to move because of this guy.I am concerned if we contact the police it will just aggravate the situation.What option do we have without moving?
feefee82 29/07/2012 at 11:13 pm
Teenagers keep turning my electric off from the outside box at night its really getting to me now and its scaring my young children it happens almost every night between the hours of 8 and 12 I just don not know what to do about it
lou 23/07/2012 at 8:52 pm
Our neighbours were friends from way back when we moved here 11 years ago.Nineteen months ago we had bad weather and our adjoining guttering came down an was left hanging. The neighbour ripped his down and my father fitted mine back up.The neighbour then became abusive, shouting at my husband and demanding we had a downpipe fitted as this would solve everything!!??? We refused to be bullied and let the matter go, two months later he is bringing the council around and getting them to assess the work that "needed doing". We eventually got the downpiepe fitte as we had had enough of their constant letter writing and abusive manner.Now after all this time I come home last week and they have some cowboy cutting between the guttering on the two properties and fitting stopends. The whole episode has seriously affected our health and we are not in a position, financially to sue but cannot see any way out of this. It seems our neighbours are utterly crazy and are not going to stop.
confused 14/06/2012 at 8:45 am
We have a "tennant" who does not pay the rent, now waiting for the courts to get them out - takes a long time to do the right way.They have harressed us for months and months - cars key, typres punctured, verbal abuse, texts, loud music,drugs,indimitation, stealing belongings from people they have worked for and us and others - but this still cant be proved even thought we all know its them. tooting horns outside peoples houses at 6am in the morning. They act as if they above above the law - the police just say log it, change your phone number - The longer it takes the more we find out about them from other people its a a joke they seem to think they are above the law and keep giving so much greif - me I think I will have a nervious breakdown before to long.
rosewood 07/06/2012 at 10:26 am
I think i need help one off my so called neighbours is calling me a pedophile and spreading it around to other people as well i have been in touch with the police but all they would do is talk to them and i also notifyed the housing association but again all they wanted too do was talk to them it has got worse as i was assaulted by them but still nothing was done bto tell them to stop it. I am scared to go out and im also dissabled . to make you understand how this started ...... my daughter was arrested for assaulting her son who is 7yrs old i went to the police to find out what was going on like any good father i stood up for my daughter and told the police that i dissaplined my grandchildren so i got arressted eventually all charges were thrown out by the court as my grandson had been proved to be lying so thats where this started but that dosnt give any help to me as im still geting abuse and threats please someone help me!!!!!
Jonny 31/05/2012 at 8:24 pm
I recently was granted an anti-harassment protection order for an ex girlfriend and she keeps posting personal information about myself on facebook. Is this a violation of the anti-harassment protection order?
Deema 13/05/2012 at 11:31 am
We moved into our property 2 years ago about three weeks after our neighbours. We are a young family who have worked so hard to buy our dream home in a rural village. Our neighbours are a retired elderly couple who have moved back to the uk after living in Spain. We initially thought our neighbours were nice people but the first day it was sunny and the children were outside playing the lady next door was banging on our door within half an hour! We answered the door to a red faced, eyes bulging and physically shaking women who proceeded to tell us we'd ruined her life, our children were horrendous and if we want to enjoy the sun we must go to a park! My wife burst into tears so I asked her to leave and shut the door. This is how it started and she did come round a few times every time the children went outside but now she likes to stick her fingers up and swears at the children. She'll often stare at us through her window and if you catch her eye she'll wave at us in a vicious manner, sometime continuously so when you look away then back again she's still waving! Totally mad and wide eyed crazy. She intimidates my wife and children yet is all smiles towards me and normally all the abuse is during the day when I'm at work. We have tried being civil, talking to her but there is no reasoning with her and it just makes things worse, normally with her accusing us of harassing her! I don't know how much more I'm gonna take.
Friedl 23/04/2012 at 3:52 pm
We have a neighbour from hell who moved in 10 years ago and the housing association took her side by believing her lies. The police don't want to know. Luckily though, all the other neighbours know that she is a nutter. I cannot understand why we have to suffer each day without anything being done about it. I think that the only way now is for us to take the law into our own hands and make her life hell.
Michelle1272 13/04/2012 at 7:09 pm
I have a neighbour who I believe had in the past (Last Summer) poisoned a new puppy our family got. As a result, our puppy died.This was after saying something about our Older yellow lab.Although, I cant prove it. Then last night, he threatened my husband. For Supposedly parking too close to his car. My children are now afraid to go outside, with my 9 year old saying "I dont want to play outside while he is there, he might try to hurt me like he said he was going to do to Daddy". ~This home is not his primary home. The lady that actually lives there is as sweet as can be. I am assuming this is her boyfriend. HELP!!!!!
Andy 15/12/2011 at 12:21 am
My neighbour, Leonora Lavender has had 2 Harassment orders issued in the last 2 or 3 years but they mean nothing to her, she carries on persecuting me and my family with slogans in her car windows, obstructive parking, loud music and slanderous remarks about us to any one who is sad enough to listen.
Fortunately the locals and the police around here can see she is mentally ill and take little notice.
Get a life!!
pasha 22/10/2011 at 4:59 am
Hi, can someone please tel me, could I sue the council for not re housing me from temporary accomadtion, as i have told them 4 times already I am being threatened and my door kicked by neighbour down stairs. i am really depressed and worried for my kids saftey. everytime i call the council,they keep saying, there is a short of homes and leave me hanging. will it help if i got the solisitor involved now, im fed up with council. i need help. im really scred. this man will hit me 1 day
jax 12/09/2011 at 1:12 am
i have a neighbour that lives opposite to me and my family and we have lived here just over 18 months now, we get on with everyone in our small close but the woman opposite doesnt seem to want my children playing in the close. she has been over twice in the last 10 months saying how there behaviour is unacceptable and that we need to go back to where we come from and that the neighbours arent used to us! my husband is a well respected local businessman and my children are well behaved. i feel really upset to her outbursts and feel harrassed by how she is and what shes thinking towards my family. we are a very friendly family and cant understand why she feels the need to say these things on my doorstep. im considering getting in contact with the police and council. what advice would you give?
Sunny 26/07/2011 at 6:57 pm
If the Police were interested in getting involved from the start it might stop things becoming "heated". I am having a problem with my neighbour mildly harassing me and when the police visited me I got a shrug of the shoulder and was told that compared to some of the harassment they had to deal with my case was very minor.
fliplop 12/07/2011 at 11:36 am
RE comment by rooney 03/04/2011 even when H/ASSOCIATIONS will get involved they don't do the job properly - all complaints are meant to be confidential but in my experience they don't keep any confidentiality and issues are 100 times worse than BEFORE they ever got involved!
JJ 10/06/2011 at 12:18 pm
My next door neighbour wanted trees cut down as they had caused subsidence after an earthquake moved the roots. He harassed me for half the money and when I refused he began to harass my wife by text. He has told me he will sue me for his subsidence and he 'knows things about me' - all quite creepy, but he is all sweet and nice when he needs to be. This has caused unbelievable stress in our household. What can I do?
Wetbrit 19/04/2011 at 7:40 am
What can be done about people stopping a house being sold by shouting slogans at potential buyers? This is part of the generally unspoken anti-English movement in N. Wales.
A neighbour an old lady has gone into a home. Her house is being sold by a friend with a pwer of attorney. Each time the property has a potential buyer another neighbour tries to put them off by for example shouting "Wales is not for sale!" We are now at potential sale number three. The objective appears to be to prevent the house being sold to English buyers and also to drive the price down. Please can you advise.
rooney 03/04/2011 at 8:17 am
Never rely on your housing association to help if you are being harrassed by your neighbours. There usual excuse is that the problem is personal AND THEY CAN'T GET INVOLVED. Where do you go from here?

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