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Help…Neighbor Driving Us Nuts?

  • Posted on October 25, 2010 at 5:23 am

I rent a duplex with my husband and 2 children. My neighbor is driving us nuts and I don’t know if I have any recourse to get her to stop. We moved in about 2 and a half years ago. The first conversation I had with her she told me in explicit detail about her sex life. I decided that this was not someone I wanted to be associated with too closely and kept our relationship to “hi, how are you?”. When we moved in it was only her and her daughter who lived there and we suspect she is on Section 8. Our landlord has a lot of section 8 housing around town. The first incident was when she decided to go drunk driving. She took out a parked car 5 house away and slammed into a tree. She left the scene of the accident and tried to hide her car in my back yard. But she left her bumper at the scene with her front license plate attached. My family and I awoke to 5 cop cars surrounding our house. About a year ago she met a man who I assume has become a boyfriend. One night I see things flying into my driveway. She is throwing things out of her second floor window and screaming at him outside. This goes on until 2:30 in the morning. He would speed away in his very loud HEMI truck and come back…and leave and come back. The next morning I woke up at 7:30 and yelled down the stairs to the kids and asked if they were ready for breakfast. My neighbor starts banging on the wall we share and told me “to shut the f**k up, I am trying to sleep”. I lost it. I was up until 2:30 listening to her and her boyfriend fight and now she is telling me to shut up. She called the landlord and said I threatened her (which I didn’t) and he called and told me if I can’t get along with her he was going to kick us both out. Her and I share a driveway. We each have 2 spots and there is one visitor spot. If 5 cars are parked it is a tight sqeeze. For the last week she has had her car, her boyfriends HEMI truck and his SUV parked in the driveway. My husband and I have to sqeeze our 2 Sebrings in and out of the driveway everyday. When we moved in we made sure it was ok to have our 10 lb. dog in the duplex. The landlord told us small dogs and cats are ok. NO BIG DOGS. He was real clear about this. Well it seems that the boyfriend has moved in his 150 black lab into the house too. I have to listen to this dog run up and down the stairs. And he takes the dog for walks not on a leash and does not pick up after it after it goes to the bathroom in the yard. My dog is on a leash each and every time she leaves this house and we have doggy bags attached to the leash so we never forget to pick up after her. My children play in the yard every single day and I have to warn them to watch out for dog messes. The lack of sleep from the noise of his truck that he revs on purpose, the dog and their fighting is killing me. My children start their summer activities at 6:30 in the morning and I really can not afford to lose much sleep. Is there a way I can find out if she is in fact on section 8 so I can report the boyfriend moving in, and if she isn’t what are my other options? My landlord seems less than helpful. I love living in this dulpex. It is 3 floors which is the perfect size for my family. It is affortable in this sucky ecomony and it is in the perfect neighborhood right across the street from my younger sons school. I don’t want to move until we save enough for a house, so what can I do??
I have in fact been keep written detail of the goings on over there. I have picture of the cars parked all over the driveway and of him walking the dog without a leash. My husband, who is usually a very laid back guy is starting to lose it too. I think we are going to go to the landlord with all of the pictures and the log we have. I just don’t think he will care much because he is getting his Section 8 money for he apartment.

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