Dealing with neighbors can be a mixed bag—some become lifelong friends, while others leave you shaking your head in disbelief. From stolen packages and parking wars to outrageous demands and bizarre behavior, these neighbor horror stories highlight just how challenging living next to the wrong person can be. Whether you’re looking for a good laugh or a reason to appreciate your living situation, these photos and the tales that go with them will leave you amazed at the lengths some people go to make life difficult. So without further ado, Let’s dive into 19 stories of nightmare neighbors that truly prove people can be awful.
1. “Package was delivered to neighbor’s house. When confronted, they lied and slammed the door in my face.”
“I already contacted Amazon for a replacement, but when I realized it was my neighbor’s front porch, I decided to ask politely if they had it. The dude grabbed my phone from my hand to look at the picture, defensively said he’d never seen it, and slammed the door in my face. It’s not even about the package anymore- it’s literally cat litter – it’s about the principle. Some people are not decent.” – u/anotherairbagrecall
2. “Our new neighbor just moved in and placed this huge container outside her apartment blocking half our bedroom window.”
“This just happened today, so we haven’t yet addressed it with them/the apartment complex, but it’s mildly infuriating to have to deal with this and/or potential confrontation with the new neighbor.” – u/alleniverson2376
3. “Neighbor constantly parks in front of my house, blocked driveway this time.”
“They have a 2-car garage and large driveway, but they keep the garage empty to sit in their lawn chairs and park 3 of their cars in front of our neighbor’s houses (never their own house). This time, they parked in front of our driveway. I asked them to move it so my gf could leave for work at 5 am tomorrow, and they said, “Sure, we’ll move it in 10 minutes.” It’s been over an hour, and it’s still there.
They have 2 hours until I go to bed and call the non-emergency number to ticket/tow it so we can go to work tomorrow.” – u/competitive-Wasabi-3
4. “Neighbors dog uses the patio to go to the bathroom. Now it is raining, so the downstairs neighbor is getting a special mix with their rain.”
5. “Neighbor doesn’t care her dog is in my yard.”
“This dog is in my yard almost every day. He lunged and barked at me when I was trying to let my own dog out. I finally get her to message me back on Facebook and this was her response.” – u/HorriblyRomantic
6. “‘Troubled’ neighbor kids and ‘just a pellet gun,’ says the police.”
7. “Neighbor is going to be late for work today.”
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8. “One of my neighbors started putting a cone down to save ‘their’ spot. There are no assigned spots in the complex.”
9. “My neighbor is taking my spot, and nothing is being done about it.”
“Here’s the story. I have two spots in my apartment. One spot is my favorite. She’s been parking like this for months, taking up my favorite spot. Yes, I have another I could park in. But I want my spot. We’ve called the landlord, always sending pictures. She has another spot, but her neighbor is taking it. Instead of talking to her neighbor, she takes mine! I tried to confront them once. Didn’t work. Didn’t get an answer. So now, I send pictures. I pay a lot for that parking spot. Nothing is being done.” – u/Alikhaslessi
10. “Neighbor has us sign off so he could install a hot tub. We didn’t know it would be the size of a shipping container that would overlook our yard.”
11. “We’ve told our neighbors multiple times not to park in our driveway. Now they’ve completely blocked it.”
12. “Neighbors are still throwing food in my yard.”
13. “Neighbor threw out their 12+ year collection of lottery tickets this week, and they’re all over the street.”
14. “Neighbor parks their car to purposely block the sidewalk, despite having plenty of room in their driveway.”
15. “Neighbor keeps pushing his falling fence onto my driveway.”
“A big storm came through a few weeks ago and broke the fence. The next morning I went to talk to the neighbor and offered to go halves on a new fence and he declined and said he’d fix it. He did not fix it. His solution is to keep pushing the fence into my driveway and we keep pushing it back to his backyard. So his next big move was to put a post up to try and stop us from pushing it back to his side. The fence is his fence on his property line. We didn’t have to offer to fix it before, and I am definitely not going to fix it now.” – u/iseeyou12
16. “Neighbor doesn’t want anyone parking parallel to him on the opposite side of the street.”
“I live in a quiet residential neighborhood. Our streets are narrow, but there is plenty of space for people to park on both sides of the street. This showed up on my daughter’s friend’s car this morning. The neighbor has made it to his personal mission to put notes on anyone’s car that parks across the street from him. The dude is in his early 50s. He’s never said anything to me directly.” – u/Striking_Nudibranch
17. “Kids are having fun with friends, so a neighbor reported to the HOA that they must be running a daycare.”
18. “Received in the mail from a concerned neighbor.”
19. “So for the 15th time now, our neighbor called the fire department when I started my smoker, claiming I was burning trash.”
