Who has bad neighbors?

[Boyd]

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I found out what my new neighbors were told about me indirectly

Nice young 20 something couple. Renting to own their uncles house who've I've lived next to for 10 years or so. The neighbor told his neice and nephew I'm a nice enough guy, but it took him awhile to realize that I'm just matter of fact and blunt

Didn't realize that, so the next day I took over some new tarps since the youngins next door are heating with wood, and had a couple pieces of old rusted out corrigated metal roofing to cover their stack. Spent half the day talking to them after that. Pretty nice folks. But me making a first impression? Not very well

 

[b.hromada]

I must say, its been quiet on the home front now for about 8 or 9 months, whew................. Don't want to say it to loud! Sure don't need animal control over again about my girls!

 

[gudrin]

We have good neighbors, as yesterday proved once again. My husband was stuck in a drift about a quarter of a mile from the house. He called me to see if I could reach another neighbor that lives a section away, but then canceled the order because our next door neighbor came up behind him in his pickup. He got pulled out, then the neighbor went around the section to pull him through the other way. That's not the full story, but it is the gist of it. We had a day of not knowing what was going on with the roads yesterday and didn't get a plow by till about 11:00 a.m. this morning. After all the stuff that happened yesterday, the neighbors got a "care package," as my husband called it, of stuff from our freezer. Steaks, roasts, soup bones, home made summer sausage, some banana bread, and I think he said some apple bread too. They deserve it.

These are the same neighbors that plow us out all the time and don't expect compensation, have dug my car out of the driveway and got it open for me when I locked myself out of it while it was running and my daughter was in her car seat (all in the same day!). They have really turned that house next door into a house and not just a building. It sat empty for many years, then the guy's brother lived there for a little while. When brother moved in they had to take a scoop shovel and a wheel barrow to clean out the dead animals from the basement. That tells you something. Now it has all new windows, new furnace, new roof, everything. It looks nice. We can't even claim that it's the same house as ours, just not lived in anymore. Now they're working on the barn to turn part of it into a kennel for their dogs and then the other half will be for horses, I guess. They turned part of the field behind our house into pasture land too, and they've put up fence for that as well.

We just enjoy them. When they had puppies go randomly missing, I kept an eye out for them in case they came back. I'm home most days, so it was easy for me to do that. Sure enough, the next day I saw their farm dog playing with something, picking it up and moving it all around, and so I went to investigate. Here the puppies came back! So I put them in the barn and closed them up as best as I could and left a note on their door. I got a very tearful thank you and some cookies for that. We just work together to make our little corner of the world better as we go along. And they're always up for a beer on the odd summer night!

 

[MagsC]

The close neighbors I have now arent bad. I have a young 20s something couple to one side and an older lady lives behind us. The other "neighbors" are a welding shop and his various properties (including a big lot on one side of us). Then a little further down the street, the city office, post office, bank and liquor store. kitty corner is the fire station and century tel place. Of course after hours most of those are closed up.
When I first moved here we had a older guy and his wife that lived to one side of us. He was the WORST gossip and better yet, he made things up as he went along. Then he would take it over to the bar and spread the rumors.

I am still living with some of those idiotic rumors to this day, though the people that got to know me better know it was a load of crap.
He also hated my dogs because he couldnt come prowling around the property for one reason or another without setting them off.
If they barked TWICE in a row (I dont let them carry on and bring them in if they are being obnoxious) he called the police.
Finally, he got chewed out by the local officer who had been around at all hours and NEVER heard my dogs making a lot of noise.
He hated me more after that and was paranoid, thought i was out to get him.

He accused my oldest daughter of stealing a ladder he had on a truck across town. Neat trick that would be since she was 15 at the time and didnt drive!! But she was supposed to have grabbed this heavy ladder and trucked down to the other end of town with it. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. I will never say my kids are complete angels but they arent liars and thieves.
Then he came out of the bar late one night when it was closing and the cop picked him up for being intoxicated. I never got that one because he could practically CRAWL home from there....anyway, he said I was watching and reported him. As IF. I had better things to do than sit by my window and watch for an old drunk to come out of the bar. Sleep, for one.

He also was into killing the stray cats in the neighborhood. Once he slit ones throat and threw it onto our back cement slab. It was one my youngest daughter had been feeding. Luckily I was able to dispose of it before she saw.
Ended up he and his wife got divorced, foreclosed upon and he moved out of state. Awwww. I was SO sad.

The other bad neighbors we had were a woman and her five kids. It was like a revolving door around there of abuse, alchohol, cigarettes and drugs. I only bring up the cigarettes because 10 year olds were smoking them and she bought them for the kids. Brainy, that one. But they too moved and now there is a garage there. That makes a lot better neighbor....

 

[horsejody]

Most of the people in our area are nice, and we get along. We all take care of eachother's animals during vacations or illness. DH and a couple of others take the tractors and clear the road and the driveways of tractorless neighbors when it snows. We all generally have goodwill. However, there are a couple of families that don't fit. Their roaming dogs are the biggest issue. They're citiots that have moved to our rural area and can't comprehend that the rest of us don't love their dogs like they do. I'm rather blunt and I don't take guff from people. My good neighbors like and appreciate me. The bad ones see me as the crazy lady that they should leave alone. It pays to make bad neighbors think that you're just crazy enough to do whatever it takes.

 

[FrizzlesRule]

I hate to say it, but I have the 'NEIGHBORS FROM HELL.' Worst neighbors I ever had, druggies, users, don't want to work, rude kids, noisy, put me down because I love my chickens and they are just horrible lazy people.

I don't trust any of them either, my chickies are alway locked in for protection.

 

[journey11]

My bad neighbors just moved! And took all their evil, snaggle-toothed, chicken-eatin' dogs with them!

We always tried just talking to them, tried to keep our cool. Everyone kept their cool at least, there were no crazy, violent incidents. We made it clear--if dogs get after the chickens, dogs get caught and hauled off (only problem was they had lots of dogs). They seemed to be ok with that. Just brought in new dogs instead.

But they are gone now, and a nice older couple who actually wants to farm is moving in. Woo-hoo!

 

[Randy]

Don't even get me started. There use to be a run down rent house that bordered our eighty acres. For some reason every group that moved in there thought they had free range to our land even though it was posted and fenced.

In the other direction there is a guy that will randomly fire off a full automatic rifle. Just does it in short burst late at night or very early morning. I doubt he has the permits needed to own such a gun but heck he has a machine gun so I ain't saying anything.

 

[Julie08]

The first time I met my neighbour he told us that if my husband shot a deer he would shoot out all the windows in our house.

 

[prov31gal]

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wow.