‘I regret moving in’: Unemployed neighbors with 9 kids ruin first-time homeowner’s dream, turning his yard into a dumping ground, blasting music until sunrise, and letting their kids turn his property into a daily demolition site

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jun 17, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Some new homeowners receive welcome pies and neighborly waves, others get a ringside seat to suburban chaos, courtesy of the rental family next door. In this particular case, the unlucky buyer discovered their fresh start was actually a front-row viewing of the local demolition derby, featuring two parents with zero employment and nine unsupervised children on a permanent sugar high. 

The father's day job appears to be blocking driveways with his party-circuit car collection while perfecting the art of outdoor drinking. The mother is rarely sighted, presumably fleeing the scene or hiding from her own offspring. Meanwhile, the weekly house party turns the street into a parking lot and sleep into a fantasy, as music rattles windows into the pre-dawn hours. If garbage pickup day ever comes, the neighbors will be ready, since most trash conveniently lands in someone else's yard anyway.

Children, left to their own creative devices, have transformed the stone wall and flower beds into a boulder obstacle course, extracted paving stones for sport, and adopted a neighbor's driveway as the ideal basketball court. Peaceful homeownership, this is not. What began as optimism now looks like a crash course in property regret, canine anxiety, and the fine art of searching "how to break a lease on a house you actually own."

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  • I regret moving in

    "It's gotten to the point where I just want to move out"
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  • I recently purchased my very first home in a neighborhood across the street from where I grew up, originally I was very excited until |
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  • found out about the people renting directly next to me. The renters are a middle age couple about 9 kids, neither have a job.
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  • The father usually spends all day drinking and the mother is never home. It's gotten to the point where I just want to move out.
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  • The parents usually throw a party once a week, block me in my driveway, throw their trash in my yard and stay up late blasting
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  • music, usually until 3-4 am. But the kids are the worst. of it. I have a stone wall going up my driveway. I come home every day
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  • to stone slabs pulled out and thrown in the driveway, the kids (without asking) pull their basketball hoop infront of my
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  • basketball hoop infront of my garage and shot hoops all day. Now I'd be okay with that if it weren't for the fact they take
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  • stones from my flower bedding and throw them all over the driveway, and leave their candy and trash in my yard. I woke up
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  • this morning to leave and they again were using driveway as a basketball court, with my car
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  • parked, bouncing the ball off of my car. They consistently slam on my doors trying to scare my dogs
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  • which has caused my youngest puppy to have some sort of anxiety issue. I'm at my Witt's end, any advice?
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  • 8amteetime Here's another example of how not to buy a house. If you find one you like, come back at night. Drive around the neighborhood. Talk to the neighbors on either side if you can.
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  • The realtor is going to push you into making an offer right away. That's not a bad thing, but researching the neighborhood is always an important part of buying a house.
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  • Best of luck with those neighbors. Get friendly with the local police and document everything with video footage.
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  • somethingquirky01 You'll have to play a bit of a long game. First, if you have some money, engage a lawyer to write a letter outlining your requests according to the local rules of HOA and council. Get it delivered by
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  • registered mail so you have a paper trail. If you can't afford one, get Al to write a letter and send it registered post. You need that signature for proof of delivery.
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  • Then install 24/7 cameras and set it up so you have weeks of data.
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  • Keep records of their behaviour in a note book/spreadsheet. The time of their parties, the children doing damage, the trash being thrown in. Can you buy a decibel reader? If so, film yourself holding up the reader so the proof is there.
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  • Once you have around 4 or more weeks of evidence and they've received the written warning, you have everything you need to sue them and have the HOA and other local authorities to step in.
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  • Also, I can guarantee all the other neighbours are sick of them too. See if they're willing to get involved. It sounds awful. Good luck.
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