neighbors

Be nice to your neighbors, you never want to end up in a feud. From Hatfield and McCoy's to Karen and Kyle and every other lovely person you could meet, it's best to make cookies, not war.

‘A human child obviously has priority over a dog for a name.’: A neighbor’s belief that his child's name trumps a dog's name leads to a conflict that proves the dog's owner to be more reasonable and respectful than the neighbor

Laurent Shinar

Frustrated man threatens to report inconsiderate neighbors to authorities, after refusing to secure their trash, causing returning bear visits that spill rotting garbage all over his front yard: 'They said I should move to another city if I don’t like it'

Emma Saven

Woman reports next door neighbor for putting a padlock on the emergency fire exit so he can have a private patio: 'The fire door is not a vibes corner'

Ely Bulnes

Neighbor tries to evict homeowner from their own driveway by putting up a ‘tow away zone’ sign, homeowner parks there anyway, tow driver refuses to get involved: ‘I knew it was going to escalate’

Bar Mor Hazut

'Landlords maliciously complianced themselves': Upstairs roommates decide to buy the building and become terrible landlords, try to call tenant’s bluff but end up in trouble with the law

Isabella Penn

Residents walk all over neighbors' lawns after they block access to the sidewalk by leaving their garbage cans for pickup: ‘I feel an ounce of satisfaction by doing this’

Bar Mor Hazut

Landowning couple returns home from cruise vacation to find their neighbor has trespassed and dug a creek through their property: 'Our fence is broken, but he says he will fix it and pay for it…'

Brad Dickson

Caretaker leaves elderly mother on neighbor's porch for hours while they run errands: 'I am a kind neighbor but this is too much'

JR Atkinson

‘I can't handle the guilt if anything happens’: Family next door repeatedly leaves their elderly parent on a neighbor's porch without asking, sparking the neighbor's worry that if she ever gets hurt, they'll be liable

Lana DeGaetano

"I asked her to stop. She wouldn’t.": Entitled neighbor parks in resident's spot in front of his garage, demands he pay her $300 after she gets towed: 'She got towed again a few days later for parking in front of someone else’s garage'

Brad Dickson

'I had my revenge': Noisy family keeps him up all night, so sleep-deprived dad tricks loud hotel guests into chasing fake free breakfast

Isabella Penn

'Guess whose sink was fixed within 48 hours?': Tenant stops doing favors for his landlord after his maintenance requests get ignored for months, ends up getting his apartment fixed lickety-split

Jesse Kessenheimer

Next-door neighbor's 3 kids repeatedly play in and trash homeowner's front lawn, the mother of the children refuses to accommodate: ‘One of them knocked over a planter and just left it’

Lana DeGaetano

Neighbor throws garbage and weeds onto homeowner's lawn, claiming she has an open building permit that entitles her to a certain amount of greenery, so fellow neighbors call the city on her: ‘Karma is catching up’

Lana DeGaetano

Neighbor demands homeowner pay to dig a $10k drywell to stop stormwater coming onto her property from his, and submits various other policy violation complaints. He applies for a permit to play loud music while she has people over to ruin her event

Brad Dickson

Neighbor drills holes in a shared fence to “spy” on next-door homeowner, then pretends they know nothing about it when homeowner confronts them: 'This is beyond nosy'

Bar Mor Hazut