Entitled neighbor demands free access to a couple’s private backyard pool, complaining about “selfishness” ruining “community tradition” when the owners refuse: ‘It's our private property we don't have to always have people over’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
May 30, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Pool season—the magical time when the neighborhood's sense of entitlement blooms right alongside the dandelions. For most, a backyard pool is a reprieve from the heat and a testament to chlorine-choked privacy. For others, it's apparently a public works project, generously funded by your mortgage but open to every kid within a five-house radius and their suspiciously unsupervised snack habits.

Following last year's trespassapalooza starring one neighbor's entire extended family and a supporting cast of boundary issues, discretion is now the name of the game. No more chatty pool-opening countdowns; only trusted friends and a strict RSVP list know when the pool's truly in session. 

Security cameras now monitor the "splash zone," not to catch raccoons, but for that doubtful look when certain locals appear with floaties already strapped.

Here enters the neighborhood ambassador of entitlement, who, upon hearing the new rules, decides to declare you "selfish" for not upholding the tradition set by the previous homeowners-slash-unwilling lifeguards. Evidently, property lines and private ownership are no match for nostalgia-induced outrage, especially as he waves around a "community right to swim" that exists only in his sunbaked imagination.

Yes, the fences are up, the cameras are rolling, and the only cannonballs this summer will be performed by invitation only. Some traditions are meant to end—preferably at the edge of your own pool.

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    "So when are you opening your pool this year?"

    "You and your wife are so selfish! The prior residents in that house used to let the pool be open to any other house"
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    Ever since one entitled neighbor had her family trespass on my property last year my husband and I keep pretty quiet about when we will have our pool open and only tell those we trust. I
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    made a post telling the story about the entitled neighbor. So you don't have to ask yes my property has security cameras
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    pointed around the yard especially on the pool. Yesterday my husband was at the store buying supplies so we can start
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    preparing our pool. One of our neighbors saw him and asked, "so when are you opening the pool this year?"
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    My husband says, "Don't have a set date but we'll see, after what happened last year we just might have it be family only. If we plan
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    anything for a gathering we'll keep people posted." Entitled neighbors brother who was shopping nearby suddenly acted
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    entitled towards my husband saying, "You and your wife are so selfish! The prior residents in that
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    house used to let the pool be open to any other house to come over as long as they watched their kids!"
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    My husband told him, "Look we've had an uptick of wild animals crossing over our property the last couple of years
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    that's why we had a fence put up around the pool and it's our private property we don't have to always have people over
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    especially if we're not home" then husband left. I'm not sure why the brother is now acting entitled it's what got his sisters in trouble last year.
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    machinehead3413 Oh, the previous owners did that? You should call them and see if their new place has a pool. Now kindly f off.
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    Infamous_Mind_7426 I live in the desert and have had pools for over 40 years. I have never had this problem! You must have been too nice. Throw these people out before there's an
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    accident and you are sued. Make a police report when they trespass and use your pool without permission.
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    Ambitious-Floor-4557 Just the liability of neighbors sneaking into the yard to use the pool...
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