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Bad Neighbor....HELP!!!!!!!!

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Brett a said:
Does she have family? Perhaps you could appeal to her grown children, or sister, or mother if she has them and they visit. There's a chance they would see your concern and might try to address it w/her.

If there's no one in her life you can appeal to on a personal level, the idea of grouping efforts with other neighbors might be good. If the police got calls on about her from residents within a radius, they might pay more attention to the situation.

One thing I would NOT recommend is escalation. Like; she cuts your garden hose, so you fill her door locks with epoxy; then she slices your car tires, so you hang her patio furniture from a tree, and so-on. Nothing good ever comes of this kind of pursuit.

Best to find a way to connect with her and appeal to her directly.
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She has a son that is just as much of a loser as she is.
Place is crawing with little thugletts all the time!
ALso she rents rooms to anybody it seems!


I agree with the you on the no escalation as this is not the way I do things.
 
Things I've heard other people doing, not that I would ever condone doing any of this to a bad neighbor;

You, a shovel and her go for a ride in the country. You and the shovel come back.

Or

You get a dog whistle, the kind only dogs hear. Blow this every chance you get then call the cops and complain of barking dogs.

and

Go to the book store and grab as many of the magazine subscription inserts like the ones you find falling out of magazines. Fill all these out in her name and address.

and

If you know her phone number, write it in public places.

and

Buy a butt set (telephone guys test set) and tap into her phone line and place 911 calls. The D-Marc is usually located on the side of the house.

Using the above tactic, order take out for her- like pizzas, or maybe taxis for delivery at odd hours.

Call and start every newspaper in your area be delivered.

If she owns a car, go to an auto parts store and buy a tire valve core removal tool. back the valve core off just little so the tire goes flat every couple of days. Fun to do a different tire each month.

Put Plastic tie-wraps on here drive shaft, the big ones used in HVAC work

Put gease on her car door handles.

Put gease on front door knob.

Call the Jehovah Witnesses and tell them that you feel you need to find God and need their help, but give them her address.

Go to a hunting store and buy a gallon of deer urine, spay this all over her windows and doors.

Need more suggests?
 
PioneerGuy75 said:
She has a son that is just as much of a loser as she is.
Place is crawing with little thugletts all the time!
ALso she rents rooms to anybody it seems!


I agree with the you on the no escalation as this is not the way I do things.
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You let this go on for two years, and NOW you want it to stop?

You pretty much established that it has been OK to act like trash.

The Law is your only chance. Either that or move.

Although I have some things that I would do, but listing them would get my post deleted...
 
Personally, I would take a slightly simpler approach. Whenever she blasts her music too loud, go out to the hallway and pound on her front door; when she answers, tell her to stop the racket. If she refuses, keep hammering on the door; if she asks why you're being a PITA and not listening to her requests, ask her why she was doing the same thing and ignoring your requests about the subwoofer.

As for the dogs-in-your-yard issue, try putting something (vinegar or chili pepper) around the boundary of your yard between her and your property. From what I've read, dogs hate the smell of those things and thus will stay away from them.
 
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First & foremost, DO NOT GET ON HER LEVEL. Video cameras go both ways and all you need is her getting something controversial on you. You lose any possible moral high ground you might have had.

I'd start by calling the police up again and see if you can make an appointment with an officer at the department who handles domestic complaints. If you can't make an appointment, just go down there. But, you need to get in front of someone and recount your story. You need to be objective, do not embellish. You need to be credible. Tell them when you've called the police over noise before that she shuts it down before they can hear it. See if there is anyway someone in plain clothes can come by and verify it happening. All you need is one time. Ask the police for advice on how to go about this. You basically want to be on record as a good person in a bad situation trying to remedy it by any legal method under the law.

If you cannot get any satisfaction this way, I second the idea of moving against the owner of the property. In the meantime, ignore your neighbor. Go out of your way to avoid her, and be polite when you don't. Don't complain. Since she knows you are pissed by everything she does and have called the cops on her at some point she'll realize you aren't doing anything about her behavior. It may give her pause, she may even de-escalate on her own. It might also make her wonder what exactly you are up to.
 
Awful. She cuts your hose and then tells YOU to leave HER alone?
Time for a posse visit from all AK members in the Denver area.
 
To reinforce what's already been said:

Do not do anything illegal. If you do, you're going to have the police at your front door.

Do not go down to her level. If you do, it will become a pissing contest of equals.

Every time the situation warrants, call the police.

Every time you call the police, give them the property owner's name, and tell the police that you apologize for calling them again, but the property owner refuses to take action.
 
As advised, do not lower yourself to her level. Work with the law. When I had a situation like this on the second call in a week the police parked around the corner and quietly walked up for a listen for a while before they knocked. Nipped that problem in the bud. :thmbsp:
 
Acoustic said:
...When I had a situation like this on the second call in a week the police parked around the corner and quietly walked up for a listen for a while before they knocked. Nipped that problem in the bud. :thmbsp:
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Cops tend to be pretty bright about stuff like this.:yes:
 
Couldn't you get the police to come to your apartment in an unlabeled car? She won't know the police are after her, so you invite the officer into your apartment to observe the racket, the officer goes to the neighbor's door, knocks, and requests her to turn it down; and when she refuses the officer shows his/her police badge. Busted!:yes: I would think the police have some sort of procedure for something like this, as I imagine this sort of thing would have happened many times before.

EDIT: Fisherdude beat me to it; police parking around the corner would work too.
 
yup i would go with a call to the cops,and a civil call to her landlord immediately following...no matter what time it is...the owner will have to talk to her or deal with it somehow when this becomes as big an annoyance to him as it is for you...keep your cool tho and explain why you're doing it,and what will stop it...everytime you call the cops ask for any documentation of your call they can provide,a compliant or report number anything...keep these,you may be able to use them at some point to prove the pattern...do not waiver in this,and don't cut her any slack,whatever the noise ordinance specifies in your area...if she's blasting music past that time..call the cops...be consistent,maybe she'll learn just like a child or pet does?

if this is a townhouse,i'm thinking it might be condo?read your condo agreement,go to the board with any and all infractions..and keep doing it...you might even want to start calling the board president right after that call to the landlord if they don't act...if you own,you have obligations ...and rights...same as anyone else,they can't turf you if you play by the rules and are civil about it...she only rents and is expendable.

you have to make her as big of an annoyance with those who can act as she is to you...somebody will make it stop just to make you stop complaining,the squeaky wheel ALWAYS gets greased in the end!
 
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soundmotor said:
First & foremost, DO NOT GET ON HER LEVEL. Video cameras go both ways and all you need is her getting something controversial on you. You lose any possible moral high ground you might have had.

I'd start by calling the police up again and see if you can make an appointment with an officer at the department who handles domestic complaints. If you can't make an appointment, just go down there. But, you need to get in front of someone and recount your story. You need to be objective, do not embellish. You need to be credible. Tell them when you've called the police over noise before that she shuts it down before they can hear it. See if there is anyway someone in plain clothes can come by and verify it happening. All you need is one time. Ask the police for advice on how to go about this. You basically want to be on record as a good person in a bad situation trying to remedy it by any legal method under the law.

If you cannot get any satisfaction this way, I second the idea of moving against the owner of the property. In the meantime, ignore your neighbor. Go out of your way to avoid her, and be polite when you don't. Don't complain. Since she knows you are pissed by everything she does and have called the cops on her at some point she'll realize you aren't doing anything about her behavior. It may give her pause, she may even de-escalate on her own. It might also make her wonder what exactly you are up to.
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All of this is very wise advice. About a year ago I had a next door neighbor who was a renter. It was supposedly only a woman with her teenage son and they had lived there for quite some time. Well the woman and her whole family were part of a very large mexican gang here in this city. I think she was only actually at the house for an hour or two out of every month with the rest of the time being at her boyfriends. Regardless of whether she was around or not all of her sons gang member friends (and family) would be there doing every thing you could possibly IMAGINE to be a problem. Openly using and dealing drugs right across the street from a high school and to the kids at the high school, all night parties every night, fights, them talking (more like yelling and laughing...) about how they just came from parties where they had just beat up and stabbed people, people coming and trying to park in my driveway at all hours of the day and night and just leaving their cars there for hours until I went and complained about it, littering my yard and the street with beer bottles and trash. Seriously... This is the short story of what could go on for pages and pages (and pages...). I'm not joking when I say that these people and their friends brought new meaning to the term low class (and that means a lot coming from someone like me:D...). This problem was compounded because they lived on a corner and had no next door neighbors on the other side of them. Like I said earlier we also live right across the street from a high school field so there are no neighbors across the street. Also across the street from them on the other side there is a large wall from a gated community so basically there was no one else around that knew what they were doing but me. To make it even worse... They lived in a duplex where the other side had been vacant for quite some time and when someone finally did move in it was another one of their gang member friends which basically made it even more of a free for all. I did exactly the things that soundmotor said in his earlier post. I bugged the HELL out of the owner of the property at all hours of the day and night (whenever his tenants bugged me...). I even threatened him with a law suit and got a lot of the rest of the block to back me up if it came down to that. Went on a regular basis and bugged the hell out of the P.D. and kept trying to go further up the ladder with them but they were worthless IMO. It took me about a year and a half but finally the owner got tired of hearing it and evicted everyone in the whole duplex. That time in my life was stressful as hell but I'm glad I fought it and didn't move away. It's a long and hard road but it definitely needs to be dealt with.

Good luck to you man. You're probably going to need it.
 
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crushed glass inserted into ground beef will take care of the dogs. as for the subwoofer, make friends with an electrician and have her service disconnected.
 
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