Oh man, I hope it's okay to post a rant here. I just feel completely awful. Ever since I moved to Buffalo there have been problems with the neighbors in my duplex. I have NO clue why the first set of neighbors didn't like us. Move in day she was all smiles and really nice. Then what appeared to be out of the blue whenever we'd wave and say hi she'd either ignore us or glare at us (us, being me and my fiance). I can't think of a single thing I'd said or done. I never found out either because she moved a few weeks ago... only to have her best friend move in.
Again, I thought this new neighbor was really nice, she came over and introduced herself and I thought all was just fine. Then one day right in front of my mom she comes out and starts going on about how the lawn needs to be mowed and how she's SUCH good friends with the landlord and how she works full-time and has a bad back. Still, I didn't really think anything of it, I was like okay, we'll mow the grass no biggie. However, my mom really thought the lady was being a major "B" and said that it sounded more like she was threatening me to mow or she'd go to her friend the landlord. Still, I gave the neighbor the benefit of the doubt.
A couple weeks later she approaches my fiance and says that the grass STILL hasn't been mowed and that we should move our garbage from the garage at the back of the house to the front because we have a rat problem (which was confirmed as I was scared out of my mind one evening when one scurried from the garbage into the bushes). So, we made sure to keep any garbage in our place that wouldn't fit into the large trashcan. Well the next trash week she left a HUGE (and I'm not exaggerating) pile of garbage piled up against the garage. So it sat there for like two weeks.
The landlord came over to help repair our water/gas heater ... only to find out that the pilot light had been turned off and somehow the heat to our dryer had been turned off as well. At this point of course I was really starting to get irked. I mean, there are smaller things that happen to which I just try to ignore such as her kids being left home all day long apparently by themselves, her dog constantly barks, when the dog is taken outside to be relieved they don't clean up after it. She even had a pile of shoes in the hall which at first was just a couple and that was fine but I tripped over them coming up the basement stairs so the next day I finally broke down and asked her to please take them out of the hall (There is a shared hallway in the back and front entrance of the duplex - and the back is mainly used due to the garage being in the back). I wasn't mean even though I was perturbed, I asked nicely and she seemed okay with it.
So, that about brings us to today. I went to a job interview so I was gone for a couple of hours and when I come back her daughter is sweeping all the crap from their side of the garage onto our side. At first I was fine with it...until I ran over something that cracked. I got out and looked under the car and sure enough there was some kind of shattered light... I'm not sure if it was a flash light or what. So I'm mad, I've just had enough so I walked angrily into the house and in an attempt to calm down I run up to talk to my fiance (waking him up), again pretty angry. He says he'll go talk to the neighbor but I say no, I will do it. I followed him out back and he was already talking to the neighbor and apparently she'd heard my angry explanation to him and came out to see what I'd been talking about. The shattered light was swept out from under my car, and I was pointing it out to Brian. The one unfortunate thing is that he misunderstood me, I didn't say her daughter swept it under the car but that's what he told the neighbor. I TRIED to explain to her that he misunderstood but the whole time she proceeded to yell at me. Saying she didn't appreciate me lying about her children. That she's 34 and going through a divorce and has two jobs and we're just college students that stay home and get to do what we want. She was also on the cell phone at the time and said something like "Dan you should probably come over" and hung up. Dan is our landlord, however, I told her that good I hope he DOES come over... which seemed to startle her (which I'll get back to later). She went on about how she isn't going to put up with our BS and I was like "Whoa! WHAT are you talking about?" Because not once did she EVER say anything to us OTHER than about the garbage and grass... and that's exactly what she brought up. That's it. Brian had long since mowed the grass and recently due to the stormy weather it grew back a little and she was angry.
Before I continue I also have to note the time when Brian went to mow the grass. That was when we found out that the backyard was filled with dog crap. He knocked on the neighbors door and her kids (home alone) answered and he said that once the dog droppings (and that's the word he used) had been cleaned up he'd mow the rest of the yard. So, Brian wound up calling the landlord to let him know since she'd been making such a big deal (and bringing it up whenever the landlord was over). So, she got her kids to do it.
The relevance of mentioning that is that today in her argument she said that her kids told her that Brian told them to clean up the dog's -Dragon Diamond-. She said "Don't ever cuss at my children again!" Meanwhile she's saying how F'in tired of the BS she is. Yeah, right in front of her kids. Not only that but Brian even her her call one of her kids a CS (which I'm not about to type out but I'm sure you get it).
And she kept bringing up how hard her life is she's 34 blah blah blah. I rolled my eyes and was like "Well I'm 24! So what!" I really felt like she was blaming us for her life being so hard or whatever. She also said the other night when I knocked to ask her to remove the shoes from the hall that she was really sick - like I purposefully tried to bother her while she was ill. How was I suppose to know?
I really think that for whatever reason the last neighbor didn't like us she said something to this one. This neighbor is apparently trying to have things her way and it really seems like she's trying to pressure us into moving so she can have the rest of the house. That's what the last neigbor did. She let her kids and her cats roam our side before we moved in, and in the basement.
I'm just about at my wits end! And to TOP that all off, when Brian talked to the landlord after the time she said she was good friends with him and this time when she was saying how "Dan" should come over the landlord laughed. One, the day he came over and mentioned the lawn mowing business was the first time he'd ever met her. And two, he wasn't on her cell phone while we were arguing either. So yeah, I really don't know why she hates us. I really never thought we were bad neighbors. I mean, if we're doing stuff that really bothers her why not just SAY something to us? The two times she did we did as she asked for pete's sake! I really feel like SHE'S the one that needs to grow up and lay in the bed she's made for herself. I almost wish I'd said that to her... but I'm not very good with confrontation... I'm rather surprised that I held up my side and didn't back down. Not that I'm proud of that by any means.
I'm just glad that she seems to have left for the day. I also feel a bit better knowing that the landlord isn't angry with us for calling him about it. I mean it seems so petty, but we really don't want her to lie to him and not have him hear our side as well.
Anyways, I think I feel a bit better getting that off my chest. Even if you feel I'm wrong for what I said that's kewl, I'm not gonna get angry at anyone for postin' what they think. I hope that I wasn't in the wrong here though. I also hope none of you have these kind of problems. I have no clue what to do... not really anything I can do I guess.
Well, the landlord was already going to come over to talk to her this afternoon, so hopefully things can be resolved in a less hot tempered way. I hope.
Anyhow, take care all
