Woman spends $10k to appease her demanding new neighbors, is fed up after years of loud music, stolen parking spots, and local authority involvement: ‘I was sick of it’

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    AITA for calling the council rather than trying to talk to my neighbour about using my driveway?
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    ~ I've (40F) lived here - 12 years with my 3 kids. We are quiet introverts who keep to ourselves.
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    10 years ago neighbour moved in with 5 kids. They insisted we cut down a large tree and pay half to replace a fence so they could get
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    a pool. We did this. It cost us about 10K in all our savings at a - time where we had a new baby. We did it to be good neighbours.
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    After this they started to play loud music regularly (Spotify with ads! So cheap!). It's so loud I hear it inside. When at its worst I can hear it in the opposite side of
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    the house with windows and doors shut. I've attempted to have conversations and asked her to turn it down, she just stared at me blankly and didn't
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    do it. They also have loud aircon unit makes our yard feel like an airport runway (cool if you are into that, I guess). I've not made complaints to the council to try and keep the peace.
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    Our back yard has pretty much gone unused since they moved in because it's so unpleasant to be out there.
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    One day I refused to drop everything to throw a ball back over the fence after her kids pounded on my door for 15 minutes straight while I was busy.
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    The response - put the stereo on the fence line and blast music that could be heard streets away for hours. I called the police as it was now 8pm on a Tues night and some other neighbours had young babies. The police attended and it stopped.
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    Confused, I decided an adult must not have been home; clearly it was teen boy problem solving! I went to have a chat and clear the air.
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    Nope. It was her. She doubled down to the point she told me the police said I would be fined for wasting police time if so called them again.
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    Kids now have cars so they park on their verge, often accessed by driving across my driveway and some lawn. It was but I couldn't be bothered me off dealing with her.
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    Figuring it was fair game, I parked there a couple of times in the morning to let contractors in while I got ready for work. One weekend I parked there ~1hr to mow my lawn. I heard someone
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    mowing at their place so went to move the car. She was waiting for me, immediately raging and ranting about not having permission to park there, park on your own verge.... I tried to discuss. She continued to rant.
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    I moved my car. She continues to use my driveway, making a point of parking there despite no-one else being home and it being the least convenient spot for her. I tried to make a point by putting my bin on my verge. Then two cars started parking there, driving around the bin, while I was standing in my yard.
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    Last night I was sick of it and I reported it to the council to deal with.
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    • -a-frap 21h ago NTA - what you really need to do is get proof. When the music is blaring, pull out your phone and make a video. Take pictures of the parking situation. A complaint with the council will only go so far. If you have proof, that seems to get action from the council a lot faster.
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    Own_Lack_4526 • 22h ago NTA. I don't know that playing the for tat game with parking got you anywhere - with people like that, it just pushes them to escalate their game. I think I would have reported it to the council sooner. But NTA for doing that now. Just be ready for some kind of retaliation.
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    newoneform • 18h ago When you make concessions to the degree that you have, it becomes expected of you. NTA obviously but you should really work on standing up for yourself.
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    Straight_Bother_7786 17h ago NTA. But you are an for paying to cut down a tree so a neighbor could piut up a fence. The fence has to be on their property and if the tree is on your property you don;t ahve to do a thing. I'd get a property line survey done to find out exactly where the line is. And if their fence is on your property? Force them to remove it.
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    SnooBunnies7461 18h ago NTA but your neighbor certainly is plus she's raising the next generation of

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