Neighbor sends her kids over to homeowner's pool without asking first, homeowner puts her foot down

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  • The homeowner's daughter has a pool party with her friends in the backyard.
  • People with pools beware

    I have a noisy, entitled, opinionated boomer neighbor. She thinks she's a one person HOA.
  • After 15 years of, I finally called law enforcement to get her to back off due to messing with our trash, lawn people, and mail.
  • I've had to be overly re as she doesn't seem to be aware of social norms.
  • There is a laundry list of examples, but this is how it started:
  • Grandpa's daughter, husband and grandchildren lived with them when we moved in. Two in the afternoon on Sunday like clockwork the kids would ring the door bell. Standing there in swim suits and towels, I'd regularly tell them "not today". It was disturbing our household rest -
  • for the record I had an elderly person with PTSD and a teenager. Neither needed sleep disturbance.
  • Two of the neighbor's kids running into the pool.
  • After a month of this nonsense, the kids got aggressive and popped off that "Grandma/Mom said they could!" I marched them home - demanded the women to come outside (joined by grandpa who opened the door). I rather enjoyed the fact mom was sleeping. With a raised voice, I
  • explained the kids weren't invited over, I wasn't a babysitter and since they claimed to be "good Christians" I asked why they couldn't observe our "day if rest".
  • Crickets. No answers or apologies just stunned looks. The parents and kids finally moved out, but it didn't stop on visits.
  • One time I found out my adult child had friends over when I was gone. No biggie as her friends were always welcome. TWO years after one backyard bbq, grandma complained she sent the kids over. (Personally, she's noisy enough to send the kids over as cars were in our drive.)
  • One of the neighbor's kids is diving into the pool without permission.
  • The kids supposedly left because my adult child and her friends (way over minimum drinking age) had beer. (My daughter said later they wanted "swim lessons" and got upset when she wouldn't get out of her lawn chair as she was eating.)
  • When I asked grandma 1) why the kids were sent over without an invite except to increase my liability and 2) why she thought it was important two years after the fact, she looked mortified.
  • This isn't like she could claim any of the previous owners had the grandkids as guests. This is something she saved for us.
  • Smithers66 Used to have this with a next door neighbor Straw that broke the camel's back was Mothers Day. We're outside on the deck enjoying the day when a gaggle of youngster invade our yard and start playing.
  • I asked them what they were doing One kid said "It's mother's day so our mom sent us over here so she could have some quiet time"
  • I told them to go home and tell their mother "It's mother's day at my house too"
  • Suckerforcats Why didn't your daughter turn them away? Don't ever allow them again. No means no and you have to be consistent in refusing them.

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