'They pushed it too far': New residents demand to use neighbor's garden, bathroom and kitchen, while theirs is 'under construction'; neighbors refuse

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Eleonora Bader
Sep 14, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

Unless you live in a secluded spot in the wilderness, you are constantly gambling with whom you end up neighbors with.

Maybe you end up next to LeBron and Roberta, those cool, laid-back neighbors who always have sugar handy when you run out. But, perhaps you wind up living next to Ken and Karen, the type of entitled folk who either grew up without any manners or never properly picked them up because of some kind of fluke in their personality.

Unfortunately, u/controversial_jelly ended up with the latter. And this is no regular case of entitled, either. No, these people are extraordinarily stuck up, the type who believe that they were born to be worshipped. They are also the type to buy a whole house, and then expect to use their neighbor's garden, bathroom, and kitchen while theirs is being installed. Because duh, every stranger's house is open when you aren't able to use yours, right?

OP was not having it, and despite these people's best efforts, OP refused to let them 'have what they want'. If only these new residents would have stopped there… but no, they literally entered OP's home, multiple times, without being invited in. That is what I, and the rest of America, and probably the world, would call 'trespassing'. And it is definitely not within their legal rights to do so.

For more stories like this, here is a manager who messed up big time, when he sent another worker to do his job, and deliver unsigned paperwork to a customer.

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    Font - Posted by u/controversial_jelly 18 hours ago Entitled neighbours, from walking in to my house to eyeing up my garden
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    Font - Thought my experiences with my new neighbours might fit here. So I first met James and Rose (fake names) when I heard my doorbell ring. I head downstairs and find them already in my living room. Yep. My girlfriend opened the door,
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    Font - and they just waltzed right in like they owned the place. Awkwardly said hello whilst guiding them back out the front door. Thought that was that, boy was I wrong. James and Rose bought an ex- council house that had been badly damaged by the last
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    Font - tenants. I'm talking busted walls, shattered windows, you name it. House was listed accurately so none of this was a surprise to them. Strangely, I never had problems with the people who used to rent. Was amazed when they left and I saw the damage they'd done.
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    Font - James and Rose decided I'd be helping them out and had the audacity to come over with a contract they'd drafted, stating that their builders can use my garden, my bathroom, and that they could use my kitchen whenever they needed until theirs was installed. Them handing me this
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    Font - contract was the second time I ever interacted with them. I went round and told them it was ludicrous and to shove it. They weren't pleased and slammed the door in my face. Not too long after, I find them stood in my back garden. My girlfriend had been hanging
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    Font - up laundry, and they'd apparently heard her and decided to let themselves through my front yard, around the side of my house, and right up to her. Girlfriend was practically frozen holding up a pair of her pants whilst they were just stood there. Looking
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    Font - around and smiling. They then suggested, given how "unhelpful" I'd been with their renovations, that I host a BBQ for them and their friends. What friends, you ask? Beats me. I shut that down quick and told them to never come through to my back garden again.
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    Font - But they weren't done and couldn't leave yet. They had the gall to propose, straight after being told to GTFO, that I give up roughly 1/5 of my garden so our gardens could be "equally sized." I told them in no uncertain terms that
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    Font - they can forget it. Not my problem they bought a house with a smaller garden. I was seeing red and I think they knew they'd pushed it too far as they scampered away. I guess James and Rose decided that since I wouldn't
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    Font - willingly give them part of my garden, they'd try taking it instead. From my back room I saw some guy standing at the end of my garden. I went out to ask who he was and how the hell he got there, when in saunters, you guessed it, James and Rose. Turns out James and Rose had torn
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    Font - down our adjoining fence, and this guy was planning where the new one would go, clearly not having been told that it's my garden and I absolutely was not on board with this plan. Oh, but wait, they also peeped through my windows and had questions about my
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    Font - belongings! I do kickboxing and have a Bob (a life-sized training dummy), and did I know that it's scary and should probably be moved away from the window? They didn't want to see it whilst they were enjoying their newly enlarged garden. I calmly told the man that I was keeping all of my
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    Font - garden and none of them had my permission to be there. I also informed them that if I catch them in my garden again, they're be my new Bob. volunteering to Last I heard, they tried to bully our 70-year-old neighbor into giving up part of his garden.
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    Font - He's got early onset dementia and his four of his five sons visit regularly, but don't live with him. I stay in contact with them as I go round to help my neighbour now and then, or just to chat and keep him company. He's a really cool guy and hearing him upset
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    Font - about some contract and losing where his shed is and I was fighting to not see red. One text to his sons and that nonsense was shut down real quick. I never thought I'd meet people this entitled, but here we are. Needless to say, James
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    Font - and Rose have kept their distance since my very explicit warnings, which extend to bothering our deal old neighbour too. My girlfriend is back to hanging up washing outside, but she won't open the front door without checking the Ring cam first
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    Font - now, just in case it's them. Anyone else dealt with neighbors from hell like this? EDIT: Forgot to add. James and Rose also concreted over all of their front and back gardens and then got four cats. The amount of cat sh I
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    Font - have to pick up every day is wild. I've taken to picking it up and dumping the bags on their driveway. EDIT 2: James and Rose are hated around here. A guy called Jim is our local handyman. Great at all those
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    Font - things you can't do, don't have the tools for, or don't have the skill to manage. Apparently after the first job he doubled his daily rate just for them. Either they won't hire him, or he'll get double the money, win win
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    Font - PartyResponsibility3. 17 hr. ago Op you should read about the lady who thought she bought a whole building. Instead of the one condo she bought.
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    Font - She sent a whole new list of rules for everyone. And would scream at people. I hope someone else knows what I'm talking about and can link it.
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    Font - Lisa_Knows_Best. 17 hr. ago I read it. She literally started handing out "rules" to her new "tenants". It was hilarious. I guess not so much for the people that lived there.
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    Font - 41flavorsandthensome. 18 hr. ago I had a neighbor similar to this. I still can't think of him without actively struggling not to wish him ill.
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    Font - What are your local laws like? Was it not possible to go after them for destruction of property or theft when they took down your fence? 271 ↓ 4271 Reply Share
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    Font - calladus 17 hr. ago I grew up in a big city. We kept our doors locked. My wife grew up in a small town where they left their doors unlocked so their friends could come in.
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    Font - When we got our house in a fairly large city, my wife used to complain that I'd lock the front door, and the gate to the back yard. Until one day, she watched a man walk
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    Font - right up to our house, try the door, then look in through the windows. Those complaints stopped. ↑ 109 Reply
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