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The original arrangement was genuinely reasonable. A neighbor with a noise problem gets occasional access to a quieter place to sleep on specific weekends. Light chores in exchange. Simple. Contained. The kind of low-stakes neighborly goodwill that makes apartment living bearable. What actually happened was a full hostile takeover the moment the front door closed
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Entitled neighbour sends negative housekeeping reviews while free loading my place
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Long story short, my neighbour offered to feed my cat. my cat is sick and in the animal hospital, it is not clear when/if shell be coming home (very sad). My neighbour has had issues with a guy in a block keeping her awake with noise, leading to health issues for her. She said its very serious, noise is constant etc. I offered as she would be hopefully/eventually entering to feed my cat, (with payment for doing it fyi) to trial her coming into the property and doing some light chores in return for a quieter place to crash at night if the neighbour got to loud. I said she could enjoy on THE NIGHTS SHE HAD TO STAY. She did the opposite. Shes just taken over my home the moment I leave.
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We booked in two seperate occasions for her to use the place if the noise was bad on weekends i was away. The first one, she called daily, text multiple times a day. Moaned about noise of my neighbours, moaned about the condition of my fence, did random botch DIY jobs with my tools/materials and then claimed i'd need to re-do them when i got home. We got mice, for the first time. She brought a friend over. Claimed she never cooked or used the utilities, but did her laundry and still had a fridge full of food and things everywhere the moment i got home. She hoovered, but didnt empty a single bin, wash cups she used on the final day, put away items she moved to make herself comfortable or be out of my place in time for my arrival home after a 5 hour drive back. So the hoovering didnt really level up to the house work required to return my home to normal in her depature.
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We had one more weekend, to keep the peace I went ahead, as last thing i need is a neighbour warfare - fully intending to sack her after, (despite the fact right now she was not even doing anything for me, and just freeloading in my home). This weekend, before I've even left the city, I finish my college class to 3 missed calls and a string of angry texts I'd left without making key arrangements. She quickly calmed down when realising she'd loss the offer for the weekend, but full on took the p*** the moment I went away. Shes ignored my directions to keep the garden door closed to prevent mice, leaving it open to enjoy the breeze in the property. Despite her not sleeping there (which is the thing shes meant to use it for if the neighbour is loud) because the mice make her uncomfortable (SO WHY ARE YOU IN MY HOME?) shes happy to let them in, for when I return tonight and have to physically remove them like I did last weekend she let them in. When I asked her why she was in my flat regardess if she wasnt sleeping there and using it as agreed, she claimed I'd always let her have essentially free reign to my property for full use when I'm not there.
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Last night, while I'm at the family event I've spent £200 to travel/stay in the area for, I've got my stupid entitled neighbour complaining the bin smells too much, complaining the neighbours had another party, complaining that the wildlife in the garden are too brazen. And not 1/2 texts, this is CONSTANT, 5/6/7 message streams, like I'm a hotel service not addressing the needs of an angry customer. I mute her messages after telling her to leave, and come back to my hotel after the family party to more messages and her leaving the key in the communal hallway, accessed by other residents, making a point I'm unclear about my key directions, just like use of my garden. This is a 50/60 old woman, who is hated by everyone else in the block, who has essentially abused my home as an extension of her own and is now throwing a tantrum over it.
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The worst part? She admitted prior to sending ranty messages, disturbing my trip away while free loading my home that her dates don't line up to even feed my cat.
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The DIY jobs done with someone else's tools and materials, then declared insufficient, is a particular kind of audacity that deserves its own category. Not only did she make herself at home, she also critiqued the home, renovated parts of it without asking, and then left the renovation assessment as a parting gift. The hoovering while leaving every bin full and every dish dirty is also a masterclass in performing helpfulness without delivering any of it
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The mice situation is where the whole thing transcends normal neighbor conflict and enters genuinely surreal territory. She left the garden door open, mice came in, she then refused to sleep there because of the mice she let in, but continued using the property anyway during the day. The logic here requires a level of commitment to personal comfort over all else that is almost admirable in its consistency.
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The text messages sent during a family event, across streams of five, six, seven messages at a time, complaining about wildlife being too brazen in a garden she was not supposed to be sitting in, are the behavior of someone who has completely lost the thread of what was offered and what was not.
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She was given access to a quiet place to sleep on bad nights. She treated it as a full-service hotel, left a key in a communal hallway as some kind of statement, and then revealed her cat feeding dates did not even line up. The cat, who is the entire reason any of this started, was never part of the arrangement at all by the end.
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