'Never come back through my back garden again': Entitled neighbors repeatedly use resident's garden and bathroom without asking while their home is under construction

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 19, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Neighbors are usually there to help each other out in times of need… well, to a certain extent. Sure, if you need to borrow a broom or some sugar temporarily, that's usually acceptable. However, just dropping by unannounced and without warning on a consistent basis in order to make intrusive demands is not something most folks are going to welcome.

Here, we have new residents who saw that their adjacent neighbors were going through renovations. Well, apparently that meant that the Redditor and his partner would have to deal with them all the time since they started to drop by to use their garden, restroom, etc. They even had the audacity to ask if they could gain a portion of their garden to "even things out" and if the Redditor could throw a party on their behalf since they are currently unable to entertain.

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when the Redditor and his partner shut down the neighbors for good. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a guy who got back at his annoying neighbor by reporting him for a slew of HOA violations.

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    "They just waltzed right in like they owned the place"
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    Entitled neighbours, from walking in to my house to eyeing up my garden
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    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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    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.
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    James and Rose bought an ex- council house that had been badly damaged by the last
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    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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    James and Rose decided I'd be helping them out and had the audacity to come over with a contract they'd drafted,
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    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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    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.
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    Not too long after, I find them stood in my back garden. My girlfriend had been hanging.
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    up laundry, and they'd apparently heard her and decided to let themselves through my front yard, around
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    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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    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.
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    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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    But they weren't done and couldn't leave yet. They had the gall to propose, straight after being told to GTÃO, 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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    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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    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
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    to ask who he was and how the h□ he got there, when in saunters, you guessed it, James and Rose. Turns out James and Rose had torn
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    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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    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
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    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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    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 volunteering to be my new Bob.
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    Last I heard, they tried to bully our 70-year-old neighbor into giving up part of his garden.
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    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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    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.
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    I never thought I'd meet people this entitled, but here we are. Needless to say, James
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    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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    now, just in case it's them. Anyone else dealt with neighbors from h□ like this?
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    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 s I
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    have to pick up every day is wild. I've taken to picking it up and dumping the bags on their driveway.
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    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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    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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