25 Ways Your Neighbor is a "Neighbor From Hell"

Being a good neighbor often involves respect, consideration, and communication.

But when you live beside, or near, a “Neighbor from Hell” you may need to take matters into your own hands to regain your quiet and undisturbed neighborhood.

25 Ways Your Neighbor is a "Neighbor From Hell"
- and what to do about it -

Here is a preliminary list of behaviors that might earn a neighbor the title of “Neighbor from Hell”. If you have suggestions for more things a NFH does that should be added to this list, please email me.

Blasting loud music at all hours of the day and night.
Parking their car in front of your driveway.
Leaving their trash cans out for days after trash pickup.
Letting their pets roam freely in your yard.
Not maintaining their yard, leading to overgrown grass and weeds.
Borrowing items and not returning them.
Hosting loud parties late into the night.
Gossiping about other neighbors.
Not picking up after their pets.
Constantly complaining about minor issues.
Ignoring property lines and encroaching on your space.
Leaving bright outdoor lights on all night.
Not controlling their children, allowing them to be disruptive.
Constantly doing noisy home improvements.
Feeding wildlife, leading to an increase in pests.
Ignoring community rules and regulations.
Being rude or unfriendly.
Spying on other neighbors.
Starting disputes over minor issues.
Not taking care of their home, leading to decreased property values.
Leaving old, broken down cars in their driveway.
Burning trash or leaves, causing smoke and odor.
Not respecting privacy, such as looking over fences or through windows.
Constantly asking for favors but never returning them.
Being a source of constant drama in the neighborhood.

Emailed Additions to the Above List

Parking on the street, in front of your house, when they don’t need to because the street in front of their house is open or there is room in their driveway.
Loud banging late at night, leaving stuff in communal sidewalk, not putting rubbish out for months, takes up all space on pavement with their recycling boxes.
Smoking cigarettes or weed in a shared communal area (where it is banned by building management) meaning I go to work stinking of it.
Having seggsy time extremely (EXTREMELY) loud with all windows open (daughter thought it was a donkey in pain one evening).
Our nfh comes in early hours banging for hours on end within few minutes of us going to bed. Turning up when we go shopping watches us when go in and out watches us when doing gardening and was abuse every few months to we got community order on her.
Making false insurance claims, leaving notes on cars/posting thru doors, putting in noise makers-wind homes+cat scarers, over feeding birds to the point mice and rats turn up to feed, keeping your cat in and accusing you of not caring for it correctly, false animal welfare reports, hanging out in alleyways to intimidate, calling people and putting cones around your car on the day your mot runs out(showing that they’re watching your car online)attempting to harm pets.
One NFH engages in prostitution, domestic violence & animal abuse. The other NFH is a drug dealer. If that doesn’t ‘break the peace’ I don’t know what will.
Allowing their tween to harass someone’s dog, then complaining about the dog barking.
Telling party guests/ visitors to park on your lawn not theirs.
Making up stories about you to get attention from other neighbors.
Parking bulldozers on your property.
Using your lawn to drive skidoos.
Teenager throwing his beer bottles in your yard so his parents don’t see them.
Repeatedly “Accidentally” flipping the breaker and shutting off the power in your whole apartment.
Make up nasty lies because you won’t “give a sista a cigarette” I don’t smoke.
Getting drunk and screaming at you. Slandering you to other neighbours.
Putting washing machine on loud spin 10 times day when there not even doing any washing, all to annoy us it never stops.

Remember, being a good neighbor often involves respect, consideration, and communication. It’s always best to try and resolve any issues amicably and directly with your neighbor if possible.

But when that doesn’t work, here’s a few ideas to get even:

Put up your own security cameras to record the neighbor from hell and what they’re doing that is visible from your property.
Hang wind chimes to drown out their noise or to annoy them with the wind chimes as close to their bedroom windows as you can hang them.
Start a neighborhood association and discuss with your neighbors how to handle the NFH.
Put up “No Trespass” signs, video them ignoring the signs and call the police.
Work with local city authorities, and the police, to end the bad behaviors.