My neighbor has begun to video tape us 24/7 he has his cameras pointing into my bathroom, bedroom, front yard and back yard . I went to the police and they tell me that he can have cameras all on the outside of his home if he likes even though his cameras are obviously capturing my home and invading my privacy and he has no windows where his cameras are. His name is Gregory c Campbell and he lives a 18 Merrill rd in Eddington Maine and he lives off a disability check that you and I pay for through our taxes and he spends his whole day just video taping Me and harassing Me !

I had a neighbor in her eighties who, among other things, accused us of encroaching on her property, my then six-year-old daughter of libeling her, and me of using another neighbor, whom I hadn't yet met, to get a job. One day she approached me in my front yard with a pair of hedge clippers, cursing me and urging me into a physical confrontation. I called the police. They spoke with her, her daughter (via long-distance) and advised me to refer her to a social-services program rather than pressing charges. Her harassment continued for four years. She made a complaint to the Health Dept. about my compost pile, told a sheriff's deputy I had yelled at her while she was out raking leaves (in January!) when I had been indoors that day caring for my sick child, and generally made my life hell. I reported her numerous times to mental-health officials. Nothing improved until she finally was unable to manage her affairs and her daughter put her in a nursing home. I never want to go through that again.

A neighbor of my sister and brother-in-law whom they never spoke to knocked on their door one day to complaining about their unmowed lawn and how it was bringing their property values down. My brother-in-law was too stunned to say anything. You see, at the time, my sister was in the hospital dying of cancer. She had a stroke for the second time while undergoing chemo thearpy and was in the hospital for months in physical therapy in hopes of being able to come home to live what was left of life hear on earth. My brother-in-law spent all of his non-working hours with my sister at the hospital, he didn't have time to mow the lawn and money was tight because of the lose of her income. I paid for a gardner for three months to help.

Years later, my brother-in-law remarried and he and his new wife decided to put up a fence on their property which was on the corner of a busy street. That same neighbor filed a complaint with the city about the height of their fence after it was installed. During the hearing, his new wife was allowed to speak. She gave the neighbors in the hearing room a dressing down. Not a one of them ever came to their house to ever speak to them about their concerns and what could be done to resovle it and had the nerve to complain about an unmowed lawn while his first wife was lying in the hospital dying of cancer. Had they came over and spoke to them in a civil tone about their concerns, they could have been addressed without having to go to court. Apparently, at least some of them were throughly ashamed because at least one of them came over to apologize.

Moral of this story; speak to your neighbors in a civil, non-offensive manner first before filing a complaint. Their may be a simple explanation and, perhaps, you could even do the neighborly thing and offer to help them. Wouldn't that be better than harboring ill feelings and anger?

Hello, Fourteen months ago we bought what we thought was our dream home....we double our sq feet and were thrilled which all ended approx. 10 days after moving in... Our sweet ten year old and his friend whom he was having his first sleep over looked outside and saw the daughter having sex in the front seat of the car in their driveway outside our sons bedroom window. And then they lit a joint and played loud rap music... Then their so called 7 year old granddaughter/daughter was waking us up at 1am by playing with our windchimes and knocking on our windows... Then the bigfat mother would wake us up everynight at 11:30pm by throwing trash into a trash bin again out our bedroom window to wake us up which it worked... Well we decided to write a letter to nip it in the bud ASAP... what a big mistake that was they called the police and said it was their property and they will do what ever they want blah blah blah and we should move NOW>>> Well since then we have contacted the City Attorney for a barking dog complaint and dog running loose and pooping in our yard etc... They have gone door to door talking bad about us now keep in mind. The church lady across the street has been here 23 years the big fat creep next door has been here 19 years and the jerks with the drugs have been there 20 years and all their kids drink etc together.... So yes needless to say our dream house has been a nightmare and we now have a For Sale sign up.... Yes they have won....or so they think....the funniest thing was when we put the Fake Survillance cameras up and they are so freaked out they show them to everyone that walks by and their Fake for god sakes....we figure life is just to short to put up with this we just hope the next people don't live thru what we have but we did do a title search and the longest anyone has lived in this house is from 6mos to 5 years and now we know why......Nightmare in Midland, MI

My neighbor who has twice referred to my wife and I as "the only bad neighbors who have lived in my house over the forty years that they have lived in their house."

Of course, my neighbor tried to build a retaining wall style fence 15 inches on my side of the property line. Then, when I challenged him, he realized he could not build the wall as he had planned so he built a concrete wall that is about as ugly as anything I have ever seen. His pine tree leans over our driveway rendering the driveway useless (who likes sap on a car?). He has a privacy fence in the back that should have been torn down the day it was built. He places his trash right on the boundary of our property when the proper thing to do would be to place it at the end of his driveway. I really wish we would have rented another year.

A "good" neighbor dispute makes the world go round these days. How depressing.

My next door neighborg is extremely noise, she knows when we are home, when we shop and even had the nerve to ask who takes such long showers in my home (our bathroom window is next to her back yard and when the window is open you can hear the shower running). Recently they put an above ground pool and put up a fence way up and above ours, blocking our view, I was thrilled, I though I finally have privacy. That didnt last long after her recent comment of seeing me outside on the deck spraying my tomatoes plants. Errr..., she needs a life

My parents used to own the home I live in. They were forced to sell it to me at a loss because the next door neighbour assaulted them and vandalized their vehicles. Although the assault was on videotape, the police did nothing. They were forced to move. Now the neighbour harrasses us. I have him on videotape tampering with our vehicles and threatening my son. Last Thursday night, he waited for my husband to come home from work and he started harrassing him. One thng lead to another and he threw my husband into the back window of a car, smashing it. I smacked him in the face and when he came for me, my husband punched him, whereby he ran towards his door calling for his wife. When police arrived they said he says all the harrassment was because the mirror of my husband's truck was hanging over the property line onto his property. Police have never laid charges even with the videotaped evidence and have never interviewed other neighbours who has witnessed his acts over and over. I am seriously considering suing the neighbour and the police.

Our neighbor and kids to the south of us walk through our yard everyday without our permission. I called them up to say I was concerned the adult was teaching the kids disrespect by allowing them to walk through our yard, front and back. Am I wrong for confronting them???

how can i stop my neighbours shooting my dogs and kids with a bb gun and let them play in or outside as the neghbour just coplains about noise or lies saying there is a lot of noise as.i have reported to police and landloard but it dont get better it gets worse they say there is nothing they can do.

Our neighbors did an extreme renovation on their house next door to us. Because we were pretty friendly we thought they would do the right thing. WRONG! They put the air conditioner right under our large kitchen window. We don't have central air conditioning because we have a very old house (outdated electric & no place to put the vents) and and now we can't open our windows because the noise is a killer. They also put in a deck that is so high, when they sit down they can see over our six foot fence. No more privacy in our backyard so we got rid of our pool (my daughters were very self conscious). They also put a large window slightly above & opposite our large bay kitchen window so now they can look down and into our kitchen.every time they walk up and down their stairs. I'm not sure what bothers me the most but the air conditioner should not have been put so close to our house because they only have a few feet of property on that side.

I always wanted to live in a neighborhood like Beaver Cleaver: good kids, friendly neighbors, a feeling of community. One day my son and I were home and I heard several fire engines pull up in front of my house. I had no idea what was going on. I called my next door neighbor and left a message on her machine to call me about what was happening. I called my across the street neighbor and did the same thing. More police showed up, more ambulances. I ran outside only to be asked by the police to please stay by my house until this was over. I went back inside to be with my son who, by now, was concerned and anxious. No phone calls. Hours passed. The fire trucks and police cars left. I again called the same neighbors to see if there was anything I could do to help, and to please call me. To this day, no one has called me. I found out, through the "grapevine" that the across the street neighbor had carbon monoxide fumes in her house. I am glad all went well, but don't you think I deserve the decency of one of my neighbors to call me back? My heart still sinks when I think about their lack of decency. It pains me to have moved our child to a street where no one concerns themselves about others. What are we teaching our children?

My neighbor has an obnoxious street light on his property , for what reason I can not fathom. We live in the country and this is clearly light pollution. I can't even have the window that faces that direction open all the way or the light shines in when I try to sleep. And by the way, those of you that have laws concerning lights, noise etc. be thankful. I live in lawless redneck country.

Our next door neighbor has two dogs in the yard 24/7 (both day & night all the time.) This past month they (single Mom and teenage daughter) have been away from home twice for about a week each time and the dogs have been left at home. Someone usually comes once a day for about 5 minutes to check/feed the dogs and that is it for any supervision. One dog is a problem BARKER and the other howls/wails along to the barker. I am at my wits end since this din takes place all day long and I am at home most of the time since I have Multiple Sclerosis and do not work outside my home. My husband has called and left a message on their answering machine and we got a note back the next morning saying how sorry she was but she needs the two dogs to "watch" her house. In other words - nothing is going to change. So the onus is on me to keep documented track of the barking and any message left because of it and then I need to get 3 of our neighbors to sign this documentation and maybe the District Attorney in town will deem something to be done. Why should all of this be my problem when actually it should be the dog owners for leaving them to bark without any attempt to stop it?

Neighbors dogs came into my yard & bit my dog! Thay said they would pay for the vet bill,but haven't yet. We didn't involve the police since they said they would pay us. It has been 5 months & no money yet.
Yesterday they broght home a speed boat. What should I do? Sue

The guy behind me was checking out the property lines, for three days his surveyors ran around in my yard. Finally I asked what was going on. The guys told me he told them to make it look like my property was on his land so he could make me tear my house down. I finally had to put a fence up between the properties, because he keptcoming in my yard yelling at me to get off his land.

During an ice storm the neighbor's tree, or should I say an over grown, past it's prime, fifteen foot shrub arborvitae, fell over into our yard. There it sat for six weeks. Not a word from the unfriendly neighbor. Finally, my husband went and cleared the mess out of our yard. Our neighbor called the police and is now suing us for trespassing and killing her hideous, dead tree. All we did was clean up her mess.

After owning this property for 10 1/2 years our neighbor has decided that one third of our inground pool (the pool was installed 5 years before we bought the house) is on his property. We have a property survey that shows the pool is over 15' inside the property line. He has no survey and doesn't want to pay to have one done. He intends to put up a fence. Our town building department says they cannot keep him from putting up the fence and that we will have to take him to court to get it taken down and prove the the land is ours. The same town building official told me that the level of tolerance for a property survey is, at most, a matter of inches. So being off 15 feet and more is not a possibility.

I'm going to have a very difficult time being civil to this person anytime in the near future.

What to do.....inground pool that does not get any sun until 1:30-2:00 in the afternoon, due to the very old, beautiful, very, very large, unpruned tree in our next door neighbor's yard, directly over our pool.

We thought she might have it pruned so that it would not be directly over the pool, no such luck.

Also, her 3 plum trees sap covers our bedroom windows, also our roof! We have trimmed them ourselves, too old to get to the tops of the trees, all the trimming just encourages growth! Should we ask neighbor to contract tree trimmers?

She has constantly complained to us about one of our cats getting out and in her yard, killing her birds.
We too have bird feeders (6) and the cat looks for rodents! Of course we do not let our cat out...he sneaks out, just like a cat!

Another complaint of hers is our flooding her yard! Therefore I guess I am not suppose to water our plants on her side of the yard, although she has her bed low and with railroad ties holding the dirt in, perhaps that is why the water settles there.

My husband told her the last time she called complaining to us that she was harrassing him, the third time in one evening!! That ended the calls. She should look in the mirror!

Unbelievable situation, since we have lived in our home for over 45 years! Raised 5 children and never had a problem until this woman moved next door!

Felt good to get this off my mind. Thank you!!

Our next doors neighbors to the left have teens or young adults that are constantly smoking weed and since our house is attached to theirs, it's constantly drifting in to our home, disturbing our peace. Then recently, the neighbor to the right our house hit our rental car with his jeep and not only did he not confess to the accident, he had his bumper painted over and acts like nothing ever happened

We actually witnessed our neighbors (whom we have never spoken to once) drive over the belgian block divider that separates our properties into our yard to use our driveway as an exit because they were too lazy to move their other cars blocking access to theirs.