• Eilan said on Jul 28, 2007....

  We have neighbors, but they're not right up next to us, fortunately.
  
  My ex and I lived in an apartment when we were first married, and the woman above us had three dogs.  Every morning starting at about 7 am, the dogs would spend about an hour running back and forth through the apartment thumping on our bedroom ceiling.  Made it impossible to sleep in on weekends and days off.
  

• wombat said on Jul 28, 2007....

  I was finally finacially able to buy something new for myself after getting divorced, and I bought new towels and curtains.  The first time I washed my nice new towels and hung them out to dry they disappeared by the time I got home from work.  I made several trips to the neighbors to ask, but they kept saying they didn't know anything.  One night when I got off work at 1:00 a.m. and they were still up, I went over there and told them I was sorry for bothering them, but I wanted my towels back.  The man brought them to me, all clean and nicely folded and told me a dog had took them off the line.  I said thank you and left.  I did wonder how a dog took my towels down and then put the clothespins back!
   
  (I have written about this before, in case anyone remembers, but, dang, I am still ticked about my neighbors stealing my towels!)

• mirrorimage said on Jul 28, 2007....

  Eilan: I am used to not having neighbors right on top of us.... I think i like that much better. It wasn't until I moved a few months ago that I have actually had to deal with neighbors....where we used to live we had one.
   
  I think I would have gone insane with the dogs!!! Don't mess with my sleep! LOL
  How long did you live there and have to deal with that on your weekends?
   
  wombat: They stole your towels????? WTF!!! they must have been talented dogs... maybe you should have swiped them the next time they were left unattended....who knows how much money you could have made off a dogg that can hang clothespins!!

• Eilan said on Jul 28, 2007....

  We only lived there for a year, and, yes, it happened on the weekends as well.  I have to sleep with a fan on, so that helped a bit.

• wombat said on Jul 28, 2007....

  mirrorimage:  Ha! Ha! Yea, I could bring them on David Letterman for "Stupid Dog Tricks.!"  Dogs that jump and hang clothes pins!   Thanks for the laugh!

• wombat said on Jul 28, 2007....

  Oops, I meant "Stupid Pet Tricks."  Short mental relapse.  But maybe someone can make a post out of this.... as in what stupid thing has your dog done?  I will "bow out"  for now, as I am the one who made the mistake....

• mirrorimage said on Jul 28, 2007....

  Eilan: Wow... a year of that? Thank goodness of the fan, eh? :)
   
  Wombat: No...thank you for the laugh! LOL

• evil_twin said on Jul 28, 2007....

  Well, our neighbors with the dog are a little irritating. Actually, they're fine. It's the damn dog I hate! It barks all the time. And it'll stand right by the heater vent on the wall and yap it's head off, so we get to hear it in stereo sound, complete with an echo.
  
  Also, whoever owns the rooster needs to go! That thing cockadoodle's every morning at sunrise. I'm starting to get used to it, but I wouldn't mind having a nice chicken dinner courtesy of Mr. Rooster.
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• Eilan said on Jul 28, 2007....

  I should add that my husband and I were apparently bad neighbors last summer.  We pissed off our neighbor to the left when we had about 20 trees cut down.

• gingersoul said on Jul 28, 2007....

  Mirror.....i have the most mysterious neighbor of all....and it irritates not knowing whats going on......Its almost 2 years i am living here, at the third floor of this apartment building. I know all my other neighbors, i have seen people coming and going, people getting out of their places.

  This particular neighbor.......niet, nada, zero. I have never see him/her/them/it.  For as much as i know an alien could live down there..... BUT...as soon as my dog jump a little bit higher, or my daughter makes some noise louder than usual (believe me, me and my daughter are very quiet) from underneath arrives loud and clear the thump of something bumped against my floor. 

  I even asked the manager about this mysterious neighbor. They couldn't tell me anything, for privacy reason, they said. I think that even they have no clue. 

  Only one night a party was going on with loud laughs, noises, furniture dragged ....but after that nothing again.

  At night no lighst filter thru the blinds.

  I am telling you.....something really strange is going on at that second floor ....

• mirrorimage said on Jul 28, 2007....

  E_T: Oh dear.... no barking through the vent!!! have you tried growling at your end? It will probably be in stereo sound with an echo on the dogs end....it might get scared and run away with it's tail between its legs.... worth a shot!
   
  Eilan: Well, they should be thankful the trees didn't land on their house! :)

• mirrorimage said on Jul 28, 2007....

  GS: Hmmmm that is strange!! Now I'm curious about this neighbor of yours!! I'm guessing it is a middle aged or retired man with little friends or family. He probably spends a lot of time on his computer and reading books and goes to bed a little earlier than most..... I wonder how close I am? We might need to install hidden cameras to get to the bottom of this mystery!

• gingersoul said on Jul 29, 2007....

  Mirror....oh my gosh...maybe he is here at Sc with us! And then it could be a she....maybe its somebody who is writing here in your post!!!

  {Psycho's soundtrack)

• EleanorR said on Jul 29, 2007....

  I got on ok with my neighbour to begin with until she called me up last year and told me off over the phone! She is a 60something "Greenie" widow, with a lot of opinions...
  Here's stuff she has said/done...
  *After asking her to look after my kids while I went to the shops (it was raining and my son was getting over a chest infection), I came home to find them all playing in the backyard in the rain without shoes.
  *After explaining why I wanted an extra fence at the back of our house for safety of the kids she said "see this is how you and I think on different levels".
  *Left a note for my husband saying that he did not care about his family because he hadn't mown the lawn and our house could burn down.
  *Said my husband was inconsiderate not bringing chairs back we had borrowed after our party - even after I explained he had no idea I'd borrowed them.
  *Called me up to tell me off after we got most of our trees taken down around our property and told us we shouldn't live here anymore because it is supposed to be a "green" suburb. She said she didn't care if my reason was trees falling down, busted pipes and moved foundations. (This was after a huge tree fell down in our backyard). She also called the council on us numerous times about our trees - without luck though as we got permission from them before we did anything! :-)
  
  We don't talk to her anymore!
  

• anonymous said on Jul 29, 2007....

   

• quietone said on Jul 29, 2007....

  I don't know many of my neighbors as a few of us are fairly new..but the one thing that ticks me off the most is having the neighbors dog pee on my lawn leaving all those nice dead grass brown spots!!! 

  Mirror maybe its a therapy thing for your neighbors...one that may put you in therapy!! LOL

• mirrorimage said on Jul 29, 2007....

  GS: LOL Wouldn't that be funny!!
   
  EleanorR: Wow.... what a witch! i don't think I would talk to her either! Next time she calls to complain, tell her to be thankful you don't steal her towels when they are hanging out to dry!!
   
  quietone: oh yes, i don't like wandering dogs using the yard as a litter box either. We have one that is here almost every day. I would chase it off but I have been too busy watching paint dry. lol...i've noticed a few neighbors watching their progress.... maybe we could get a group discount on the therapy! lol

• anonymous said on Jul 29, 2007....

  I think, if you have neighbours like that, the only sensible thing to do is eat them, then give the dog an umbrella: mine was so perplexed by it he was silent for days...except I needed to buy a new umbrella...

• polarheart said on Jul 29, 2007....

  Our neighbours have been nicely trained to understand that unreasonably loud music at unreasonable hours is totally unacceptable to me!!  I have most certainly gone knocking on doors when the music is so loud that you cant think straight or fall asleep.  Our apartment is a first floor maisonette and we have a downstairs neighbour and one on either side.  When living in such close proximity we need to consider each other, esp in the evening when people are coming home from work and want to relax.

• kelly said on Jul 29, 2007....

  I live on the west side of Los Angeles.  Because of my neighbors I have learned to truly hate dogs.  Dogs barking late at night may be natural to the dog, but it's damned rude not to control it for the sake of your neighbors.  But really, we are surrounded by fairly insensitive types around here who think it's perfectly acceptable to come stumbing home drunk at 2 a.m. yelling and talking very loudly.
  
  
  Comparitively speaking, having neighbors that are slow painters sounds dreamy to me.

• mirrorimage said on Jul 29, 2007....

  lol @ anonymous
   
  polar, I think you have to knock on doors sometimes because they aren't going to stop the behavior on their own. Although I haven't had that many neighbors around me, I try to be respectful of those I do have. We are extremely close to the house to our left and we both have children. I keep mine under control and theirs is a perfect angel.... we can all do our own thing during the evenings and enjoy being outside.
   
  kelly: ok, so my town is probably the size of one of your blocks! lol ... barking dogs in the middle of the night is very frustrating though...I had one that did that and it wasn't long before we found her another home. Nothing we did would make her stop and I couldn't stand it!! I'm sure my one neighbor at the time was grateful! :) You are right, I will take slow painters over barking dogs and stumbling drunks any day... at least i can sit on the back porch and face the other way right?

• minniemouse said on Jul 30, 2007....

  grrr....I have a neighbor that insists on setting off fireworks every night at 9:05 p.m...........my kids go to bed at 9:00!!!!!  Grrr....if only I could figure out who it is I'd take those fireworks light them and shove them up their........well, you know!!  :-)  MM

• uniquely-ironic said on Jul 30, 2007....

  I had upstairs neighbors a couple of apartments ago that would put childrens music on at 11 or 12 at night loud enough for me to hear clearly.  The kids would laugh and cry and stomp around for about an hour.  We put up with it until I had my knee surgery and they kept it up so that I couldn't sleep.  I crutched my way down to the managers and lit a bitch fire under her ass.

  The neighbor came down stairs to tell us that no, it wasn't her that made the noise and why was I pursecuting her.  I tolerated her for about 5 minutes, explaining that there was no doubt that it was her.  She kept it up, so I finally closed the door on her face and called the manager to complain again.

  No more noise.

• mirrorimage said on Jul 30, 2007....

  minniemouse... lol... the boys in the apartment next to us used to light a set of firecrackers and toss them from their balcony to ours and listen to us run around screaming thinking it was a machine gun. It might work well on those neighbors of yours but i would wait until 11:26 pm....:)
   
  u-i: i would have complained too! and there is no reason for her children to be up stomping around that late! bet they were grumpy little things... i can't believe she had the nerve to complain to you about her behavior though...that's just ridiculous.

• ava331 said on Mar 30, 2008....

  My upstairs neighbor takes her dog out for a "walk" when she gets home from work. Mind that the dog has been couped up all day from 7 am til about 6 pm. Well her "walk" consists of taking the dog to the back lawn and letting it shit (excuse my language). She doesn't pick up after it and it's been about 6 months since she moved in. I have a 1 year old daughter that I want to take outside and play but we can't because it's everywhere. I started picking it up at one point, hoping she'd get the hint, but nope. She also has a daughter so you'd think that she'd understand about wanting to play outside. I've talked to the landlord but since she's sleeping with him, it makes no difference. I'm SO AGGRAVATED. I just want to scream at her. And don't even get me started on her blasting her music....

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