Oh... don't get me started about my neighbors.

So like "Dude" moves in the townhouse next door to me and starts buying some awesome stereo equipment - subwoofers and big speakers. One day an 18 wheeler delivered 2 boxes of speakers about 5 feet tall. I would hear Dude's lousy taste in music, his TV, and of course his Wii playing. It put me in the awkward position of having to say something and feel like the bad guy but he did turn it down. I just don't know what he was thinking - moving into a townhome that shared a wall with someone and thinking he could rock the house?

Lucky enough to have fabulous neighbors!!!

Great neighbors on one side. On the other? Let's see: drug dealing. fights, trash, 7 pitbulls, animal abuse, noise at all hours, cars with stolen tags, possibly stolen cars...

They appear to be finally, really and truly, moving out and "selling" their house.

I'll take an empty house over that stuff any day.

If good fences make good neighbors then a ten foot wall with razor wire and klieg lights... er no, I don't think that is what Frost had in mind.

Acculturation seems to be the missing piece in all this and sadly I don't know that we'll ever return to the more civil lives of times past.

I really am becoming a curmudgeon as I age.

One is a scary bipolar, another (students) puts their trash out open (rats!) and the rest are wonderful and we've become joint gardeners of the median strips. Does it count if 2 blocks away we have the guy with the samurai sword?? Somehow, perhaps I feel safer now.

Good news is my neighbors are all quiet, keep up their yards and are no trouble. However, many are downright reclusive. I've got people across the street from me that I still haven't met after a year!

The best neighbors in Park Hgts & the Pimlico area and other areas of Balto. City are RATS.RAT INFESTATION is everywhere, Lexington Market, Inner Habor,Govens & even the Target Store on Reisterstown Rd & the Beltway.The City of Balto. does not want to address this RAT INFESTATION. Question is WHY?

Neighbors? I currently live in the middle of no where southern Pennsylvania. I see more deer and wildlife than neighbors. You can hear them outside during weekends though. It sounds like a war zone normally. However, I move to a townhouse community in Glen Burnie next week. I guess I'll have to get used to this neighbor thing. Do you think they'd be happy if I started burning trash in the backyard and set up a target for shooting practice? =P

In all honesty, I'm not really sure what to expect when I move. Is it normal to have housewarming parties or block parties? Are you supposed to knock on your neighbor's doors and say hello?

I'm never sure whether we have neighbors; if we do they're extremely quiet. We're the only house on our block in Federal Hill without a parking pad (landlord's offices and storage on the ground floor have been extended out to the alley). Everybody else comes and goes through their back doors - I'll see the neighborhood association newsletters hanging on their doors for days at a time. It doesn't leave much opportunity for saying hello on the way in or out...

Here is a dilemma for you. I have been attached to a wonderful neighbor for 13 years. She is very nice. However, her and her husband have been renovating their house for five years. First a closet, then a kitchen, then the basement, and finally a bathroom. Sometimes they will stop for a month or two, but sure enough it starts back up and continues for months on end. They have never gotten a permit for any of the work, or perhaps they would know that they could only work until 7 pm at night, sometimes they hammer up until 10 pm. I have never said anything to them because it behooves me that they could honestly bang on their house for five years and not once think about the fact that they are attached on both sides. Plus we have a good relationship so I never wanted to rock the boat. But here we are, entering my sixth Ravens season and they have their saw in the back yard ready to cut some wood this weekend. What do you do? What do you say?

My mom's neighbors are the craziest folk you'd never want to meet. They've robbed her home, left dog feces on her front door knob, shot at the cameras outside her home, shot at the guy installing for the second time the cameras outside her home, they use her outside water spicot and have caused her paveway to rot, they park their cars in her drive, they've threatened her life and have falsely accused her of things she hasn't done.
While in court, they lied while under oath and made her look as if she were some old, crazed woman in need of psychiatric care. If it were me, I know i would have committed suicide a while ago. I don't know how she puts up with it. They've even repeatedly slit her tires and had their children dump trash into her back porch and then, call the sanitation department on her.
She's called the police. She's hired a lawyer, but still these insane neighbors seem to be winning.
Where's the justice?

That's awful, no name. Does anyone have suggestions?

There's more. Mom just got back home from vacation and she did have BG&E fix her electricity, because the neighbor had cut the wires twice. In her sixties, mom had to go without air conditioning and now without heat. She's afraid that if she has BG&E fix it again, nasty neighbor will cut it again. We got her on tape doing it the first time, but while at court, nasty neighbor said she was watering her potted plants and judge said he didn't see anything that looking like nasty neighbor was doing anything wrong. Now, no heat and her walls are deteriorating, crumbling and her clothes in her clothes closet have to be thrown out.
Mom does have another apartment, thank goodness, where she is now living, but it is much smaller.
I would welcome any advice anyone can share.
It tears me up inside to see my mom going through this.
She cries all day long and nasty neighbor just gets nastier and nastier.