*sigh* The neighbour across the hall is moving

After years of the agency renting the apartment across the hall out to riff-raff and drug dealers and partiers, they finally got a nice quiet tenant in last year or the year before.

Now he's moving out!

I just can't wait to see who they rented that place out to!

Oh no!

We finally succeeded in getting the trash below us evicted, they have to be out tomorrow!

Our new neighbors moved in yesterday and we just met them. Thankfully they so far have turned out to seem like decent non loud normal people. They went for a walk last night up the road and their daughter saw the dogs out going potty and all I heard was this little squeal and 'ohhhhhh doggies' needless to say Franklin and Max were all about wanting to go say hi to the little girl but Ill wait for that till I actually get to know the mom and see how she feels about dogs.

Ugh, there is nothing worse than horrid neighbours. Here's hoping someone decent moves in.

I am so thankful that we live in a duplex, and the other half of the duplex is lived in/owned by my aunt and uncle who are SO awesome... I couldn't ask for anything better. The neighbours across the street and beside us have annoying children, but other than that, it's a fairly quiet, nice neighbourhood.

Ugh I totally agree about bad neighbors. I live in a four apartment complex with my husband in my apartment, drunk creepy guy upstairs, guy that used to work with my husband who's creepy living downstairs with pretty nice guy - though he smokes pot sometimes which makes me want to vomit - who accidentally burned down his apartment and had us all living out of hotels for two weeks because he left his coffee pot on. Thankfully we were home when the fire happened so we could call the fire department and save the kids (our cats).

Man I would just like to have the money to rent a house and then we just have to worry about us.

Here's to hoping they're pretty normal and pretty quiet!

Originally Posted by LadyHitchhiker

Man I would just like to have the money to rent a house and then we just have to worry about us.

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That was actually my plan this year: to rent a house. I have been wanting to move since 2004, but one thing after another derails my plans! Health, money, health....

I had zero intention of renewing my lease this year and in fact had been looking in the ads for a small house to rent. I'd seen a few, but the timing was wrong. It will be hard to sublet my apartment because it's expensive and they haven't done so much as paint it in the 15 years that I've lived here, and the hardwood floors need to be redone because after that amount of time of wear and tear, well, the vanish does wear off in the high traffic areas. So I wanted to wait until my lease came up....which is now.

However, once again I'm forced to renew for another year because I go into the hospital next week for surgery and will not be able to do any lifting, pushing, pulling, bending etc for 6 weeks. And I would need to be out of this place by the end of September. In addition to that, once again money enters the picture. I'll be on unpaid leave from work for most of the time I'm off recovering.

So I guess I'll be once again looking at moving next year.

The condo across the hall from me has quite a history of bad tenants... When I moved in 8 years ago there was a woman living there. I saw her now and then and she seemed nice enough, then one day the batteries were dying in the smoke detector in the hallway, so it kept beeping. It was evening, past business hours, so I made a mental note to call maintenance the next day to let them know. Then the beeping stopped. I found the smoke detector on the floor, having been ripped off the ceiling. I don't have proof that my neighbor did it, but I don't know who else would have. Talk about anger issues...

Then a guy moved in who I thought was very nice - things like my door was squeaking and he offered to WD40 it for me. Then he had a roommate move in, quite normal. A few months later his roommate (who I then realized was his boyfriend) was down on the lawn in front of the building, in his boxers, ranting on his cell phone about having gotten kicked out. The other dude was throwing his stuff out the window (I live on the third floor). Someone called the police, and they had to keep the one guy out of the building while his boyfriend was allowed to remove his belongings.

Then another guy moved in a while later, he was always VERY nice to me, always offered to help me bring groceries up to my place, when I was having car trouble he offered to help, very sweet guy. Then I didn't see him for a while, until one evening he knocked on my door looking like he'd been in a fist fight. Apparently he'd had an "altercation" with condo security early one morning (around 2 or 3) and had been arrested and taken to jail for thirty days. His story was that he didn't do anything wrong, and that the police had basically broken down his door while he was sleeping, came in and beat him up in the process of arresting him for the altercation outside. Now, I know there are bad apples in the police department, but I have to say the whole thing sounded pretty fishy to me. He came to my door to ask me if I'd happened to hear anything the night he got arrested (I didn't). Then he moved out, and not too long after I got a call from a public defender saying that he had listed me as a witness for his case. I told her what I'd told him - I didn't hear anything that night. She seemed kind of baffled as to why he thought I would be a good witness for him, and I wasn't contacted again about the case.

Anyway, sorry for the novel... but I feel your pain in regard to bad neighbors!!!

Ugh bad neighbors stink!

I live on a quiet street with 5 other houses. 1 of the houses was "brought in" (single wide trailer) last year sometime. And it's a drug house. So now the street is less quiet with all the druggie traffic going by, theft of my property has occurred (and luckily recovered!), etc.

Boo at bad neighbors!

I've got stories about bad neighbors! But, I won't bore you...

All I know is that come September, if I have shitty neighbors, all I'll have to do is jump in the driver's seat, turn the key and I'm gone! Got me a 68 VW Camper Bus!

Ugh, I HATE having annoying neighbors.

The last apartment my boyfriend and I were at, we were right next to this annoying lady who would slam her door every time she would leave or come back... and I mean SLAM. She would take her dog out to go to the bathroom and just let it pee and poop right next to peoples' cars instead of taking it over to the grass. She also claimed to be disabled to get her own "handicapped" parking spot right up front, because she got home after everyone else and was too lazy to walk from further away. She called the cops one night when someone else parked in "her" spot and we heard her whining that "it was so hard on her to walk the extra distance", which was like ten feet away, but we'd always see her out walking her dog all the way around the complex multiple times a day. Yeah, real hard on you, I'm sure.

So glad to be out of there. We couldn't stand that stupid lady.

Bad neighbors can make your life hell. The last apartment I lived in was next door to a crack house. It was terrible. It wasn't safe to go anywhere after 3 pm!! Then my neighbor across the hall from me was murdered by another tenant!!! Yes, it was time to go. Now I live in a wonderful neighborhood. There's only 4 apartments in the whole building. Sometimes the girl across the hall plays her stereo alittle loud, but compared to where I came from I'll take loud music any day

I am glad they seem nice, as you all know I just escaped bad neighbours and its fab. I saw the woman who I swapped with the other day and although she has p'd me off about not having Harvey nuetured like agreed, I still have to be polite to her and she has already recived several complaints from the idiots next door, which are no longer our idiots next door . Well I say revenge is sweet on them both, him for making our lives hell = him getting her as a new neighbour as she is extremely noisy and foul mouthed and her for lying to me so much about Harvey!! What goes around comes around x

you wind up with nice neighbors!

Our horrors were supposedly fired from their contract job and everyone started packing up... then apparently they couldn't find anyone to replace them to finish the work, so they're all settled back in again.

The good news is the job's on track, and they should be leaving in October.