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Any issues with neighbours?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    We have the best neighbors anyone could ask for. One side is an old woman who is constantly baking so she's always dropping in with apple tarts and brown bread. On the other side is an other old woman who is in a wheelchair so she is no trouble, my Mother helps her out a lot with shopping, cleaning and we cut her lawn and hedges too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Tom Joad wrote: »
    Rubbish might annoy you but its on his property - if he's redecorating give him a bit of leeway - if its still there in a month's time or starts encroaching into your garden that's a difference story.

    These things rarely get resolved and generally get out of hand and lifes too short to get into a feud - what's the point - it just gets your stress levels up.

    Most people don't like when people, especially if you are new, pointing things like this out to them so what's to be gained only grief.

    Live and let live

    or

    AH response - píss in his letterbox and rob his wife's sexy undies of the clothes line and parade around in them;) :)

    Well in fairness I don't think my side of the alley is his property but I'm not wound up or anything. More curious into what other people have had trouble with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭Tom Joad


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Well in fairness I don't think my side of the alley is his property but I'm not wound up or anything. More curious into what other people have had trouble with.

    Ah ok sorry didn't pick that bit up. I'm not saying you are wound up I'm just making a general comment that these things never end well and can just develop into a tit for tat fued and there is never any winners from situations like that. That's my experience of these things and life is too short for feuds - am not saying be a doormat but think about how you approach the neighbour before you do..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    We have a neighbour who is unemployed and spends all day at home watching TV. Every time we have a party he complains even if its not that loud. So we have taken to blasting this at full whack for the whole day while were in college. That'll learn him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    My neighbour is too nice. :mad:

    She dropped in a Christmas gift for us, making us feel bad we never got her anything. She also paid for our front garden to be tidied up when she was getting hers done and wouldn't take any money for it. This also made us feel bad. Plus, she'll make sure to park so we have room to park on the road too. :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    My next door neighbour in my home place is nuts. We used to keep wood for the fire outside the front door until she started reaching over the [low] wall to steal it at night. I was outside the front door having a cigarette one night when her hand comes over the wall, she sees me and starts pretending to examine a flower! She started throwing her old food [cold potatoes etc] over the wall recently but the mother threw some back over and she has stopped. Most people in the area have their own story about her. Woman working in the local Centra said the same woman spent ten minutes running in and out the automatic doors one day, just keeping them open. Mental!

    I used to live across the road from what can only have been a den of debauchery of some kind. I rarely saw people come in and out except on really sunny days when they all emerged [one woman and a few men]. They would just lie around the garden cackling and having a great time. They all seemed old enough, middle aged onwards. Many days I could hear a man's voice laughing really loud from an upstairs window. It could go on for hours! I can't even fathom how someone could laugh that long and loud without collapsing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    livinsane wrote: »
    My next door neighbour in my home place is nuts. We used to keep wood for the fire outside the front door until she started reaching over the [low] wall to steal it at night. I was outside the front door having a cigarette one night when her hand comes over the wall, she sees me and starts pretending to examine a flower! She started throwing her old food [cold potatoes etc] over the wall recently but the mother threw some back over and she has stopped. Most people in the area have their own story about her. Woman working in the local Centra said the same woman spent ten minutes running in and out the automatic doors one day, just keeping them open. Mental!

    I used to live across the road from what can only have been a den of debauchery of some kind. I rarely saw people come in and out except on really sunny days when they all emerged [one woman and a few men]. They would just lie around the garden cackling and having a great time. They all seemed old enough, middle aged onwards. Many days I could hear a man's voice laughing really loud from an upstairs window. It could go on for hours! I can't even fathom how someone could laugh that long and loud without collapsing.



    Alcos ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Caveman1


    I'm renting a house with my girlfriend, one neighbour is really nice the other just ignores myself and the gf for no reason. I always make sure to say hello to her even though she ignores me, I like to think it pisses her off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Caveman1 wrote: »
    I'm renting a house with my girlfriend, one neighbour is really nice the other just ignores myself and the gf for no reason. I always make sure to say hello to her even though she ignores me, I like to think it pisses her off.

    She's disgusted by your sex noises.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    youtube! wrote: »
    Alcos ?

    I like to imagine a plush opium den.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    I had a lot of problems with my new neighbour when my daughter refused to play with her daughter in her house because she was afraid of the father who was a bit of a bully. So I got reported to the revenue. Social welfare. Child protection. You name it and I had a visit. In the end I went to Garda about all the lies she was spouting. And now we just I gone each other. At this stage I think she has threatened 70% of the area where I live with law over something or other. So be careful what you say to them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭fartman


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    Have one neighbor who wont let anyone park outside his house.
    and if you do park there he will deliberately move his van from his garden and block the car so the car can't be moved :mad:
    i have one of them neighbours too ,really sad f##ker


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    I had a lot of problems with my new neighbour when my daughter refused to play with her daughter in her house because she was afraid of the father who was a bit of a bully. So I got reported to the revenue. Social welfare. Child protection. You name it and I had a visit. In the end I went to Garda about all the lies she was spouting. And now we just I gone each other. At this stage I think she has threatened 70% of the area where I live with law over something or other. So be careful what you say to them


    That's awful. My daughter plays in school with this other girl who is a really lovely kid but the same thing, her father is an aggressive prick, won't work just lives off the wife's money, always down the pub and comes home drunk and demanding his dinner from his wife who has been out working all day. Honestly when you see them together he is a big fat ugly drunken brute and the wife is tiny little petite thing. Anyway before I knew all this I used to let our daughter go over and play but one day my wife was collecting her and she heard the ****er cursing and shouting at the top of his voice from down the street! That was the end of that I can tell ya!

    As for your own situation I reckon one
    day that one will report the wrong person and she will get what's coming to her!
    Not nice behaviour from so called adults is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭mark17j


    The neighbours next to my mother were lovely for the first 13 years she lived beside them, never had any issues with them at all, but a few years ago their marriage failed, and the wife moved out, since then things went to pots here, and the house turned into a bit of a flop house, the husband has a new love interest, and does be away allot especially at weekends, and leaves his teenage daughters home alone to have wild parties and invite droves upon droves of complete scum over - my mother has confronted his daughters over the noise, they always come across respectable enough, and seem understanding and sorry, but it still goes on. one night their house was completely destroyed by yet another wild out of control party, since that night, there hasn't been many parties since, but the loud music is never ending. This house is in a really nice area also, the good areas have bad neighbour issues too. My mother is hoping and praying they'll sell up and go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    MadYaker wrote: »
    We have a neighbour who is unemployed and spends all day at home watching TV. Every time we have a party he complains even if its not that loud. So we have taken to blasting this at full whack for the whole day while were in college. That'll learn him.

    Noise travels through the walls and can be a lot louder than you think. Ever been the sober person in a group of drunk or stoned people? If so then you'll know how he feels.Try to put yourself in his position. Anyway wtf has his being at home got to do with anything? You annoy him and he complains, so you deliberatley leave loud music on while you're out. Sounds like someone's acting the cnut and it isn't him:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    The lady next door to us was one of the nicest people you could meet, and there was NEVER any trouble with her, there was never the slightest bit of noise from her either. She always had a smile on her face, used to always give a cheerful hello and a wave if she saw us, and would always talk over the garden wall if any of us were out there. Just nice things like that. Sadly, she passed away a few years ago, and she is still missed.

    The family that moved in are more or less the neighbours from hell. Where to begin with them. . .? It all seemed to start even before they moved in when there was a lot of work done to the house. We're talking, hammering, drilling, sawing, etc, that obviously echoed around the room, seeing as there was nothing in it. All this went on for at least a couple of weeks, and at times would go on until late in the evening, like after 10pm.

    That's just for starters. Now, and since they moved in, we've had to endure three screaming brats, that can be heard running around the house (I think downstairs is open plan). Or, we'd have the parents shouting at them, or at times at one another. Even the odd night, they can be heard "at it." Then, there can be the odd bit of DIY too, usually consisting of drilling and hammering. They also think they can park whatever way they like.

    On the subject of the kids, they are usually in the front garden with friends kicking a football around, as kids do, but it's hit our sitting-room window on a number of occasions, and the car. My parents have given out, but to no avail. Even with a newly installed fence, it still doesn't keep the kids out of our garden. Or, one, who can't be anymore than four or five stood in the middle of the road as my Dad was driving up and started to dance in front of us and just smirked as we went past. In fairness, the mother did come out and drag the kid in, not that it will have any effect.

    So, there's the brats, the shouting and screaming from kids and parents; slamming doors, which could be at any time day or night; there's been the odd party, one of which started after 3am one morning, and lasted until just before 7am, but thankfully they haven't had one in a good while; there's the parking; a loud shower that could go during the night, it doesn't bother them. It's just things like that, which can get on our nerves now and again. They just seem like the sort of people that don't give a toss. They're there a few years now, and we've rarely spoken to them.


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