UPDATE: Mid-30s woman accuses neighbor of shoveling snow onto her property: 'I'm going to draw a line in the snow, and if anything goes over that line, we're gonna have a problem'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 11, 2025 5:00 PM EST

You can't please everyone, even when you do the right thing, as this person discovered while trying to have a calm, civilized conversation with her next-door neighbor.

It's hard to be a logical person in a world of illogical thinkers. You'll have issues with someone and think you have an easy solution, only to find that they don't want solutions — they want to argue with you. That's the intense kind of issue this woman has with her neighbor. This neighbor loves to just hang out by the window and watch everything that goes on. As the local busybody, she reportedly never leaves her house and starts arguments easily. For example, she and the person who shared this story got into a disagreement over snow, of all things. The snow plows came by, and some of this person's snow got pushed onto the crazy neighbor's property. This woman was irate! She literally said that she'd draw a line in the snow, and if any of it got onto her side, they'd have a "problem." Yikes! 

Now, for most people, this wouldn't be a big deal. If you are a logical person, you could understand how snow could be plowed from one place to another, without your neighbor being at fault. But this woman loves to argue, and she seems totally insatiable. From there, things just got worse and worse, which you can read about below. Luckily, if the story starts to make you anxious for this person, she did find a way to stop the crazy neighbor from being in her business. And, as she shared, she can now enjoy her own yard without running into this wacko all the time. Now, that neighbor is someone else's problem! 

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    Woman in black jacket stands with arm out to touch falling snow, in front of her is woman with long red hair in jacket with blank expression
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    I'm a woman in my early 30's, living alone. My next door neighbor is also a woman in her early 30's, living alone. We live in a typical suburban neighborhood. Long story short, I noticed pretty early on that she's OBSESSED with her property lines, as I
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    witnessed her yell at another neighbor about it roughly a month or so after she moved in. At that time, I thought to myself, "Okay, this woman is nuts, but she's not gonna become my problem, because I never go anywhere near the property line." Hell, I don't
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    even spend time outside in my own backyard, because I still have to build myself a patio. So I figured I'll just be friendly with her, and she'll see how chill and easy going I am, and we'll be cool with each other. Well, I was wrong.
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    Come December (after our first big snow storm), my plow truck driver plowed my driveway. She flipped out, telling me that some of the snow that was moved during the plow job had rolled over onto her property.
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    Then she actually said, "I'm going to draw a line in the snow, and if anything goes over that line, we're gonna have a problem." After that I tried to explain to her (in a stern, but polite manner) that the snow was not on her land, and that I was on a work call (we both
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    work from home). She reacted to that by marching over onto my property and screaming at me on my own front porch. She screamed bloody murder in my face, in a manner I had never seen before. She demanded that I "take a walk" with her to examine
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    the snow so that she could prove some of it was on her land. I was feeling pretty threatened at this point, so I said, "I'm not walking anywhere with you." Then she screamed, "then we're going to have a f***ing problem! Do you understand me?" I said
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    nothing, because I was in a state of complete shock. I just stared at her, in amazement. And then she leaned in and screamed this blood curdling scream: "DOOO YOOUUU F***ING UNDERSTAND MEEEE??!!" So I slammed the door in her face and
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    decided to avoid her at all costs from then on. In the days that followed, she proceeded to shovel her driveway, and the sidewalk in front of her house (even on days when there was no snow left to shovel) screaming at me and my house the
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    entire time she's shoveling (she can see me through my window, as the desk I work from faces the window). Come spring, (I go for walks with my friends in the neighborhood when the weather is nice), she ran at us with a weed
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    whacker as we passed in front of her house, screaming, "you start your walks when you think I'm inside?! You can't avoid me!" I filed a police report after this incident.
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    On her more calm days (when she's not doing one of those screaming episodes), she'll go outside whenever I go outside and pretend to work on a bush that's on our property line. I hired a landscaper to cut my grass, because I don't feel comfortable in my
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    own yard. She went outside on my landscaper's first day on the job, and talked to him about me. Basically, I can't do anything at my house without her reacting to it or somehow finding a way to insert herself into the situation.
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    She makes everything her business. On her best days, she's just behaving in a nosey, annoying manner, but on her worst days, she's screaming at me and making me feel threatened (as if I'm about to be physically attacked). Oh, and she also never leaves her
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    house to go anywhere, EVER. She has her groceries (and anything else she needs) delivered to her house. She literally never gets into her car to drive anywhere. She is ALWAYS home. Waiting, watching.
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    And before you say it, no, I'm not selling my house. I was here first, and I put so much money into renovating it to make it into my dream house. I refuse to be run out of my own neighborhood. Oh, and, I'm getting a privacy fence put up next month.
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    I don't really like the look of fences, but I don't think I'll be comfortable going into my own yard until I get one. Has anyone ever dealt with someone like this? Why is she doing all this? Is she potentially dangerous?
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    EDIT: I feel dumb that I didn't mention this earlier, but yes! I did have a few cameras installed around my house right after I moved in (before she moved in), given that I'm a single woman living alone. The front camera has actually caught all
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    the incidents that happened in the front yard (including the December screaming incident and weed whacker incident), and I have been saving and documenting everything in case I need to show it to police later on. I
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    recently bought a new camera that will specifically focus on the property line in the backyard (where the fence will go), and I'm getting sound installed as well (unfortunately, everything that's been captured on my cameras
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    so far doesn't have sound, which I'm kicking myself over).
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    Here's the update!

    UPDATE: I ended up getting the tallest privacy fence the city would let me have. I got one running along the entire side of the property line. It's true what they say, fences fix everything. It's been a year and I haven't had to deal with this
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    Tall fences make for good neighbors! I'm happy for this person for finally finding peace and being able to enjoy her own home. 

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    woman since the fence went up. Although now she's starting a similar war with the neighbor on the other side of her.
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    Woman in black jacket, gloves, and hat smiles while snow falls around her
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