31-year-old woman shares 8-part saga about entitled old neighbor who thinks she owns the entire building: 'I repeated that this was my home and she couldn’t walk in whenever she wanted'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 16, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Good news: even your craziest neighbor isn't as unhinged as this person's neighbor. 

Living in a society requires some sacrifices. Maybe your neighbor always mows the lawn at 7 AM on a Saturday, but he'll do your weed whacking while he's at it. Live and let live. Or perhaps another neighbor is an older woman who's really lonely, and she always tries to chat with you for an hour at a time, but she brings you baked goods, so you don't mind letting her ramble sometimes. Some people have a lot of kids in their neighborhood who might accidentally trample their plants, but the parents are apologetic, and kids will be kids, so life goes on. 

There are plenty of ways that a bad neighbor can get on your nerves, though, and this person might not have any redeeming qualities. Some people just have a ton of time on their hands, and they spend it people-watching in the neighborhood. Suddenly, you try to have a cookout, and your neighbor says she's going to report you for having a fire. Or you take some time to unload your groceries from the car, and she wanders over to question why the door to your car is open. Basically, this type of busybody neighbor needs to reason to question your behavior, and when called out, this person will refuse to admit they're wrong. 

This woman is just trying to live in her apartment with her BF and cats, and her insane neighbor will not leave her alone! She's documented this woman's antics in an 8-part saga that commenters loved, which you can check out down below. I especially loved her bizarre shift from hating pets to trying to "rescue" (read: steal) said cats. She's just totally unhinged! 

Next, read about the pizza delivery driver who demanded an extra tip, then told the customer their food was gone: "I ordered a pizza, not drama." 

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    So let me begin this with I'm on mobile so sorry for the formatting. Anyway, I (31f) live in a block of 6 units (apartments for non Australians). A month ago the unit above mine went up for sale and sold fairly quickly and the new owner moved in less than a week ago. This morning I got up and went to take rubbish out and found a note stuck to my door. I honestly thought it was a "I'm new to the building" kind of note
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    ya know? Oh I could not of been more wrong! "Dear tennant, I recently bought your building and wished to introduce myself. My name blah blah (not going to put her actual name) and I think you will find me a fair landlord. However I do have rules.
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  • Here are those rules, as written: 

    "1. Everyone is to be in their units by 9pm. If your going to be out past this I suggest you find accommodation elsewhere. 

    2. No pets allowed. If you have any they must be relocated before I do an inspection or I will call the ranger to remove them. This is the only warning. 

    3. I will conduct an inspection once a month and you will be present to answer any questions or face eviction. 

    4. Failure to pay rent on time will result in your eviction."

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    If we all follow these rules I'm sure we will get along, Sincerely blah blah." What. The. F did I just read? Fun fact about my building, we all own our own units, nobody actually owns the WHOLE building! I won't lie i got to the number 2 and had a slight panic attack because I have cats and there's no way I was giving them away before I remembered we
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    bought our unit just before Christmas (we rented it from a friend prior and when she told me she was thinking about selling it we brought it, didn't even have to move!) So in some ways it still feels like renting but we actually own our unit. Now I'm not great at confronting someone, I tend to shake a lot but at that moment I was quite angry so I went upstairs and knocked on her door. You know that gut feeling you have? It was
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    spot on. That door opened and there stood a karen, her hair blonder than my own, her nails long and bright coloured. She didn't look happy to see me there. I introduced myself and explained that I lived downstairs and that I wanted to talk to her about her note. She started to talk over top of me, explaining that her letter was basic rules and even a child could understand it and if I didn't like her rules I could hand in a letter to vacate.
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    Wow. I would ask if people are really this up themselves but I work in retail and could answer my own question. I told her that I actually own my unit, she hadn't bought it or the rest of the building but only her own unit and that she couldn't enforce anything in her note. She didn't like that at all. She started yelling at me saying that yes she had indeed bought the whole
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    building and that failure to comply with her rules would mean I would be evicted. I was just starting to think maybe I was wrong when another neighbour opened his door. He came out and asked what the issues was about and could she stop screaming as he worked nights and was trying to sleep. I told him I was trying to explain that she hadn't bought the building and she started yelling again. My neighbour told her to stop and then said the best thing I had
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    heard that day. "Are you stupid?" Her jaw dropped as he explained to her how wrong she was and that he was in fact part of the strata committee (kind of like a HOA that oversees the building) and that she had no right to make rules for everyone. She gave us dirty looks before slamming the door. I thanked him and he said in the entire time he lived there he hadn't seen someone so entitled!
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    Post #2 So I guess this is an update to my last post, I had a lot of people ask me to post if she did anything else. This is also currently happening and my SO is witnessing it and texting me as I'm at work. So if you missed my last post I had a new neighbour move into my building and she left notes on everyone's doors saying she had
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    brought the building and gave us insane rules to follow (she does not own the building but only a unit or apartment, jury is still out if she is insane or stupid). She has been quiet for the last few days and I thought maybe that's it? Apparently I was wrong. So each unit in our building is allocated ONE parking space. Just one. I park in mine and my SO parks his car on the street on the other side of the building. Our parking lot had one visitor space
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    (its a very small parking lot 6 spots for residents and 1 visitor). The visitor spot is nearly always empty and my neighbours have said my SO could park his car there if he wanted as we are the only unit with 2 cars but he doesn't mind parking where he is. This morning my SO woke up to yelling. Our kitchen window overlooks the parking lot and he snuck a peak out the window and saw entitled neighbour standing next to our nice neighbour's car
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    and they were arguing loudly. She kept yellinug that she had a second car and needed to park in his spot and he had to move his car or else she would have it towed. He kept repeating that it was his parking spot and she could either park it in the visitor spot or on the street and if she towed his car he would report it stolen. SO said she kept yelling she can park where she wants and he needed to move it or else so my
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    SO decided to park his car in my empty spot in case she tried to park there while I'm at work. Last message he sent me she has stormed upstairs in a huff and slammed her door. UPDATE: I got home from work and she has parked her second car in the visitor spot but she's parked it so badly it's blocking the driveway in. Right now I'm parked on the street but too tired to deal with her.
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    UPDATE 2: sorry I didn't update sooner! So like I said before her car was basically blocking the driveway and I had to park on the street. Anyway when I got up for work the next day it was still there but when I came home it had gone. I asked my SO as he was at home and apparently a tow truck came and took it away.
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    I'm still not sure which neighbour called the tow truck but I have a suspicion its the one she was arguing with. SO said she has been quiet all day only the odd footsteps.
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    Well I'm back. As many of you predicted, her entitlement grew. In case anyone missed the update on my last post, her car was towed but I dont know which neighbour did it (idk how to link posts sorry!) This made her more angry but seeing as I was at work she hasn't blamed me or my SO. Its been raining all week and as I dont have a dryer I haven't been able to do any big items like. sheets or towels, only clothes as I
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    can hang them up inside. On Saturday it was FINALLY sunny and I raced home from work, dragged my SO out of bed so I could wash all the blankets and dry them in case it rained again. I managed to get through five, yes FIVE loads of sheets, blankets and towels and I hung them all out of the line outside. We all share it, there are technically 2 different lines for us to use and we have never had an issue before.
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    I hung out my last load and went inside to chill. I went back out about an hour later to get the first load off and found evry single item i had hung out on the ground. Nothing had replaced it, all.of it had been torn down and my pegs and peg basket gone. Most of what I'd hung out was still wet and now covered in dirt. I got my SO and he helped me bring everything inside before I went upstairs and knocked on her door. When she answered I asked
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    if she had taken my washing off the line and she smugly informed me that she had not given my PERMISSION to use HER line and that next time I should be polite and ask and she might let me. Look I'm going to level with you guys. I work in retail and deal with nightmare customers, i know how to be calm around these kind of people and I tried to be polite about this whole thing with the letter and the car but my bed is my safe space and I wanted it
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    clean and she f just to be petty. ed with that I calmly told her that everyone can use the line, its part of the building and nobody has to ask her permission. She tried to talk over me but i just held my hand up and told her I was part of the strata committee, I know all the
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    rules and who owns what and she needs to pull her head out of her a grow up and stop her behaviour because its not doing her any favours. I told her to have a nice day before she slammed her door.
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    I was really hoping my neighbour would settle down but here we are though this story has a satisfying ending I think? This just happened last night and I'm still a bit tired so im sorry for any spelling mistakes. Our neighbour had been quiet for a while and my SO and I thought maybe she had finally realised she couldn't control the whole building. One of her cars was parked in her spot and the other
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    was parked on the street behind my SO's car, nobody's washing had been ripped off the line, no new notes were stuck to doors. Until yesterday. As we are the bottom unit (apartment) we have a side door that opens out onto the shared yard. I think the only time I use that door is to air the place out or as a short cut to hang washing out. Sorry, anyway yesterday we were going about our day when we saw entitled neighbour and a few other people
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    setting up tables and chairs in the yard. No big deal its shared space. A few minutes later there's a knock on the side door and its her. SO opened the door (its a glass sliding door so she could see us we couldn't pretend we weren't there) and did the usual greetings. She told us she was having a party and we needed to move our wooden planters off our patio because she needed the space for her barbecue.
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    Um no. Firstly the patio is OUR space not shared space and secondly they sit right next to the glass door so I dont want some random looking into my living room all night why they are cooking. SO reminded her she DOESNT OWN THE BUILDING and we wouldn't be moving sh when one of her friends asked was she doing, they had already set up the barbecue in the yard. She huffed and walked off without saying
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    anything us and we thought that was it. It was not. A few hours go by and we ended closing the curtains for privacy (whoever designed this building didnt really keep privacy in mind for a detail but anyway ). We can hear talking, laughing and cooking, the usual sounds of a backyard party when there's another knock on the door. I was cooking dinner so my SO answered it again. This time it was one of her friends saying she
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    had to use the bathroom and entitled neighbour told her to just knock on our door instead of walking upstairs. SO politely told her sorry but she couldn't use ours and she apologised for knocking and intruding. Not even 2 minutes later there's banging on the door and by now my SO is ped. He opened the door and entitled neighbour started to lay into him about how dare he expect HER guests to go all the way upstairs and that he needed to apologise to her and keep the
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    door open for her guests. Now my SO is usually a calm guy, very easy to talk to and rational but in that moment he lost his sh. He told her to f off and stop bothering us, to get her head out of her a and she can't lay claim to everything she sees. Our bathroom wasn't hers to use, her guests could use her bathroom and if she knocked on our door again he would call the police for harassment. At this point one of her friends came
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    over and told entitled neighbour she needed to leave us alone and stop bugging us before apologising and telling us to have a good night. We expected the party to be loud and go on all night but it actually wrapped up pretty early (about 1am I think?) This morning when I got up everything had been cleaned up from the yard but our planters had been knocked over. Jokes on her because we hadn't planted
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    C anything in them yet and most of the soil in there was used cat litter (I use potting mix as cat litter because its cheaper) so now she can smell my cats old turds
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    Well I'm back. I thought maybe my neighbour had settled down and I was done with her behaviour (I do hear her fighting with the upstairs neighbour now and then but that's about it). This happened this afternoon and I'm still trying to figure out how her brain works. So in my previous posts I explained how my new neighbour thinks she owns the building our apartment is in (news flash she doesn't) and implemented some
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    crazy a rules (none of which were legal), it took a few arguments but I thought she finally understood she didn't own everything. Boy was I wrong! So as I am on the ground floor I have a glass sliding door that opens out into the shared yard (not happy about this but we mainly treat it like a window anyway). Being that it was a nice cool day i had the door open but the screen door shut and locked so I could air the house out after
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    having rained and the house smelling musty. Whenever that door is open my cats will sit at it and watch all the birds outside. I was pretty tired and my SO suggested we both lay down and have a nap while I wait for the washing machine to finish thought sure why not its quiet today and we went and laid down. We were woken up about an hour later to a rattling noise in the lounge room and I thought maybe
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    one of the cats had tried to climb the screen door again so I got up to scold them and found my entitled neighbour trying to open my screen door. Like really pulling on it to the point the whole door was shaking. I asked her what was she doing and she told me she had seen my cats through the door while on her way to hang clothes out and wanted to pet them but the door was stuck. I told her it wasn't stuck it was locked because this is a private residence and she
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    can't just walk in here whenever she pleased. She kept trying to open the door while yelling that i can't keep my cats from people if they want to pet them and its her right to show them "real love". I repeated that this was my home and she couldn't walk in whenever she wanted. This really her off and she seem to started to yell at me that I was a little b and I was abusing my animals and how dare I speak to her like that. At this point I was
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    pretty sick of being yelled at in my own home so I just mustered up the sweetest smile I could before politely telling her to f off. If looks could kill my cats would be eating my body right now. She tried to open the door again when my SO came out and said he would call the police if she didn't stop. She finally let go of the door, glared at us and stormed off. Needless to say we
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    are ordering another camera for that door now and yes my cats are micro chipped! ETA: thought I might add this as its been in a few comments, my phone was charging in my bedroom and I didn't take it out with me when I got up, where I live the police aren't very helpful unless its actually happening but I didn't want to turn my back on crazy. My SO only got out of bed
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    when he heard shouting because he thought I was talking to the cats
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    The "cat tax" was paid: here they are

    3 cats: close up of white and orange cat's face in top left square, below that in bottom right is white cat with black spots laying down, on right half is a closeup of sleeping calico cat
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    So if you're new to the story here's a brief recap (or you can check my history) My entitled neighbour brought the unit above us and thought she bought the whole building (she hadnt) and tried to implement some insane rules. She also tried to park in other people's assigned parking and threatened to have our cars towed Told me I was abusing my cats because I wouldn't let her pet them Screamed at me because I wouldn't let her friends use my bathroom.
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    Anyway its been quiet for a few weeks, I normally hear her arguing with another neighbour all the time but lately nothing. Last week I brought a new car (yay!) And its slightly bigger than my old car so im not confident enough to park it in my spot so I've been parking on the street. The other day I got home from work and I saw a young man standing on her balcony. He was quite friendly, called out hello to me and introduced himself as her
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    nephew and explained why he was there. SHE BROKE HER FOOT! Apparently at the last family. dinner she tripped over a dog and broke her foot and is now staying with family because she can't get up and down the stairs! He said he was house sitting because she said she didn't trust her neighbours but he admitted we are all really nice and quiet and maybe she is just crazy. It took all
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    my strength to not sing and dance right there!
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    Well.... she's back. Was hoping she just wouldn't come back after she broke her foot but last week we heard a door slam from upstairs, we looked outside and yep her car is there (no idea if her nephew who was house sitting is there or not still). Anyway, a few days ago I tested positive for the much whispered pathogen and have been doing the right thing and staying inside and d_ng quietly (Im fully vaccinated so it's not that bad though I could live without the headaches). My
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    partner was away all day Saturday because he was picking up his new car and he got home late Saturday afternoon, parking his new car on the back lawn so he could give it a quick hose down from the drive. I was inside watching through the sliding door when I heard her balcony door open and she started yelling at him to get off her lawn. He told her to shove it, its not her lawn and he is done when he is done and can she please stop yelling
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    because I have co id and it doesn't help the migraines. Well that was a mistake. I heard her storming down the stairs and she starts banging on our door screaming that I'm diseased and I need to isolate somewhere else before she gets sick and if I don't leave she was going to call the police. I told her (through the main door) that she has been told REPEATEDLY she can't kick us out of our own place
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    that we own! I am staying inside and that she could call the police if she wanted but she would more than likely be fined herself for wasting their time. According to my SO who was coming in after moving his car, she looked down right murderous but once she saw him she took off up the stairs. Haven't heard anything from her since or anything from the police so we think it was an empty threat.
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    I was so tempted to open the door because like they say.... sharing is caring ETA: just wanted to add because I've had a few comments on it, we can't get her evicted from her own home as she owns it just like we own ours. Also lawyers in Australia are very expensive just to talk to, like when we brought our unit thr lawyers handling the sale charged us for everything, they stuffed up the paperwork by misspelling my name and then
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    charged us more to reissue the papers with the correct name. As far as I know my upstairs neighbour spoke to his lawyer about her but they can't do much anyway
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    I'm back! Did you miss me? I won't lie I was hoping I would never have to post again and she would become a normal neighbour. I was wrong! So she was so quiet for so long and her car was barely there I was starting to think maybe she had moved out but I got a nice reminder last week that she is still around.
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    To start this story I must give a brief background, there are 8 units total in this building, I am on the ground floor and the very nice old lady across the hallway and I have an unspoken rule that if one of us is home and the other isn't we sign for and accept packages so they just aren't left in the hallway. I had been expecting a package and I had a feeling it was going to show up while I was at work but I wasn't worried because of my nice old neighbour, she would drop it off
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    when I got home, no drama right? Wrong. My nice old neighbour had actually gone away for a few days so with nobody around my package was left next to my front door. But it wasn't there when I got home. Oh yes. Yes dear reader. She had it.
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    About ten minutes after I got home I heard the familiar stomping on the stairs and the banging on my door. Long story short, my package had been delivered and she wanted to do the nice thing and hold onto it until I came home but apparently it had "accidentally" ripped and she saw what was inside. I won't lie, it was s toys (I like to treat myself sue me). The moment I opened the door she threw my package at me, yelling how I was
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    a disgusting pervert and I should move out before it spreads. I told her that opening someone else's mail is a crime, it's not a crime to buy those kind of things but thanks for taking care of my package!
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    Commenters were flabbergasted at the audacity of this woman

    [deleted] I struggle to see how people are this bats t insane? What upbringing could result in this level of crazy? Jesus.
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    TN192 If someone tried to enforce a 9pm curfew on me, there would be more than some choice words. I actually wonder if there is some mental illness here. Trying to break into someone's apartment to pet their cats? Really? There is no one who has made it to adulthood (and is sane) who thinks that is appropriate
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    I just know there will be a Part 9 to the saga!

    kisskit_buiscuit I like how each entry starts with some variation of "I thought she had settled down... BUT"
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