annoying neighbors

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by charliewool

You guys worry about your neighbours?? I WISH it was JUST neighbours!!!
I'm only a street away from the Anglers Tavern, which apparently is THE place to be on a Sat & Sun night (especially if it's warmish) Now this sounds all well and good? I'm the first to love a coldie & good music.
The Music carries so clearly that you'd think the band is in my backyard.. Which is fine cause it's usually pretty good stuff & is off by 10.30pm.
The problem IS the patrons on leaving the Anglers! (and on a good night there's AT LEAST a thousand!!) These drunken morons destroy everything in their path on their way back to their cars. And I mean from kicking over every bin in the street, to ripping out the permit parking signs, to actually walking over the roof, bonnet & boots of residents cars, unlucky enough not to have a garage!
One poor girls Barina was actually turned on it's side by 4 of these hoons & left on it's mirror, WHILE the terrified thing was watching from her bedroom and on the Ph to the cops.
We are talking what was once a quaint little family pub on the river, in a residential area that has grown into a frigging MONSTER! The police seem powerless, The council book illegal parkers (& obviously love the extra in their coffers) But, US, the residents have HAD it!!
End of RANT.. sorry!

Anyhow, heres my solution!
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin...=&fmt=&header=

[HLC]

argh i have pommy neighbours. well HE is pommy. anyway,

i live at the top of a culdesac, and there are always heaps of little kids that play on the road. and they always come FLYING up the street in his big Pajero and slam up the driveway. you can hear it from the back of my house.

AND, he is a drunk, late every night around 11 and later he is always out the back yelling and screaming about something. usually something effing stupid like the vaccumming :

AND, he as 2 mongrel dogs. a boxer and a doberman. AND they bark for no reason. like when kids might be on the road or i am in the backyard. nothing a steak coverered in ddt cant fix i guess. :|

oh and he backed over our street sign the other week. on teh bottom corner of the street, and the sign in on someones property. god knows how he did it :| but he managed too.

we have had heaps of fights with them over the years. once was about a little hedge we were putting on the edge of our property to cover the unsighltly concrete from their raised driveway. he wouldnt let us because "it would scratch their cars" which they dont park on the driveway anyway. somehow, his idiot son managed to pull a burnout on the corner of it. :|

they are so damn frustrating hahahaha.




Apart from those fools, and 2 or 3 other houses out of the 14 in the street. no problems at all. the others aside from those mentioned above are all great...

we got a BA XR6T, a BA II XR6, a new Terri, a Terri Ghia, a AU 3 Xr8, a few falcons and our cars... still, they are all Holden fans bar the guy who owns the AU3 :

[Scott]

I'm lucky. I've had loud V8's in my driveway for the past 6 or 7 years and never had a complaint. I get home and my neighbour might have washed the Fairmont, mowed the lawn, taken some boxes to the tip..... the list goes on. Another neighbour picks up the dog and gives her a bath every month or two, another couple of neighbours see me get home and are in the driveway with a bundy before i'm out of the car : . I've got one who is a :dj: and plays his doof doof crap til all hours but we have a good agreement...... I don't whinge at him and he doesn't whinge at me about tuning triple webers in the garage at 2am. Street is full of cuties too!:

Gotta say, I live in the best street I know! :

[Falcon_Phill]

You live where now?

[XE351B]

i started this thread out of pure anger for the person who narked on me, its actually turned out to be a good read, i don't feel so bad anymore after reading about some of the neighbors i could have had resideing next to my property........ im preety shure who it was now, not gonna say anything though,, i just can't wait to have the car registered,, than ill show her what hooning really means........lol

[coyote]

On Behalf of Lakeside raceway (but not authorised to do so) I think the neighbour who built his house next to a international race track and then has spent his efforts trying to close it down just to get his jollies (or maybe land values up) should get the vote as Australia's most annoying neighbour.
Total Driver ran a training day there today and before they even finished the morning session there had been a complaint, I was there and can tell you you, you will here more noise 5 km from the entertainment centre than 500 metres from the track today.
10 out of 10 to Total Driver for running the event and hopefully getting us greater access to the track.

[Smoked]

Neighbours who move next to noisy enviroments and then attempt to have the closed down are complete sh1theads.

[[Tonko]]

i had another run in with my geriatric neighbour today, it was 12 in the arvo, time to get up.... and so i decided to dump the pipes on the XD, straight out of the extractors the noise came, i was enjoying it so much i thought a few laps of the paddock would be fun, move the horse out of said paddock and take the D and me missus for a spin, after about 10 minutes, i see the old coot with a pitchfork screaming at us, so i rumble up to the fenceline and all he says is... u have visitors.... more god damn coppers!!! so after we talked cars and my future plans for it and about the as.shole neighbour they were on their merry way, and so was i, back to the paddock for another rev session, i told the neighbour that the coppers were nice blokes and i'll only be another hour!!... he was pis$ed!!

[EvilChief]

i would love to move next to a race track ... be there every weekend

tonko: nice work!

me personally never really had too much of a hassle, i was quite annoying at times, but i never had the cops around, most times my neighbours went shopping or something for the time being

[fast66]

Originally Posted by Tonko351

i had another run in with my geriatric neighbour today, it was 12 in the arvo, time to get up.... and so i decided to dump the pipes on the XD, straight out of the extractors the noise came, i was enjoying it so much i thought a few laps of the paddock would be fun, move the horse out of said paddock and take the D and me missus for a spin, after about 10 minutes, i see the old coot with a pitchfork screaming at us, so i rumble up to the fenceline and all he says is... u have visitors.... more god damn coppers!!! so after we talked cars and my future plans for it and about the as.shole neighbour they were on their merry way, and so was i, back to the paddock for another rev session, i told the neighbour that the coppers were nice blokes and i'll only be another hour!!... he was pis$ed!!

You sure sound like a fantastic neighbour. I wish you lived next to me! :thebirds:

[[Tonko]]

Originally Posted by fast66

You sure sound like a fantastic neighbour. I wish you lived next to me! :thebirds:

no worries, the old bloke has 1 foot in the grave so his place will be for sale soon i bet... time for some fresh faces...

[brenx]

Tonko351 : I had a neighbour like that before I moved here. When I bought my 1st house I had a MKII Escort RS2000 with a sports exhaust and a HZ Kingswood (V8) with sports exhaust. Our 1st meeting was to ask who our land lord was rofl I said "your staring at him and smiled".

After a few years the RS and HZ were replaced with a 84 Telstar and 95 S-Coupe both 100% stock. The old bat still compained! Replaced the Telstar with a 97 EL (factory exhaust). She still complained!

I eventually bought the XB. Now it was time for a laugh as this woman has no idea what noise was till I got the XB XB was straight out of the headers for awhile. Maybe 2 days I was like that. I was in the middle of fitting extractors. Once fitted up it only had a 2" twin system relatively quite. Eventually replaced with the 2.5" twin I currently run on the current XB.

She complained no matter what time of the day it was. Some of my fondest memories are

- one day I had a needle and seat issue I was sorting. After I sorted it I was warming it up. She was ringing us up complaining and all sorts. My Mrs went balistic and told her to get a life.

- another time I let my dad (mechanic) have a play. She came out screaming my name and yelling to shut it down. My dad was giving it a rev. To her dismay I wasn't doing anything. It was my 50+yo Dad. She shut up real quick and went inside. My dad asked if she was always like that? Answer = yup.

It got to the point in the last two years we lived there we couldn't drive up the gravel driveway without her coming out to whine. We had to speed up the driveway at a great speed. Quickly scramble out of the car and inside to avoid her.

We eventually bought my current home. What a relief. We don't have noise nazi's here.

[MAFIA]

My neighbors are pretty cool. One side are car fanatics while the other are really nice portugese. There daughter is HOT and loves cars like me. Everytime i'm washing my car she washing her car aswell. Love it when it summer she washes the car and get wet. :Reverend: Still can't understand why it take my so long to wash my car.

[gozza]

thats just plain nosey ness.....i hate do gooder neighbors

i was blaring my sound system in the middle of the day one time.....having a smoke on my deck and i see this fired up hippie jumping fences charging towards me....

basically he tried getting into my house and tried kicking my speakers in.....i told him if he didn't leave i would break his face with my cricket bat and that he was tresspassing

he followed up with a legal document about this and that and for about the month after when i had my stereo on....he would call the cops.....i basically told them to get stuffed because of the hours i was playin it.....

the next issue is my driveway.

apparently our driveway is over the councils walkway borders(why don't builders think of this crap)......i come home to find a bloody parking ticket when my car is in the driveway wtf.....geez i wonder who that was

[Mark351]

We're on 5 acres, but with LOTS of trees. Hardly see our neighbours. The birds make more noise than anything else. Occasionally we get hoons up the street (it's not a regularly used bit of road), on a good night we can hear the sprint cars at Avalon raceaway, and once in a blue moon the neighbours have a party that we can faintly hear.

[gozza]

before i moved to brisbane i lived on an 80 acre property

it was heaven....the only neibors i had in a gunshot were kangaroos and cattle

[SPK-250]

My girlfriend had a silly ИИИИИ for a neighbor before we moved out together. This woman would have been only 30 yo 6"4' tall and not the prettiest thing. She used to wash her car on her front lawn in her bikini which did not do wonders for her looks. Anyways mygf's brother got a datto that he started to do up. Required some body work and such. Most we ever used for sanding was a board and paper. Well somehow this was against the law! She went to the EPA about it, the police, the local council, anything she could do to try and stop it. Everywhere she went the forces that be would just say "are you serious". Not to mention gf's mum was emotionally streesed after recent divorce and worried about getting kicked out of her rental house. After it blew over we were allowed to work on car again, but when we would, the neighbor would go out but leave just her screen door locked with her stereo cranked from the living room! Somehow but i dont know how this was suppose top ИИИИ us off? So our solution to this was to jump her fence and switch her power off at the mains! She ended spending over $1500 bucks getting her switch board checked, checked and then eventually re-wired. But it did not stop there as she thought that tipping gf's rubbish bin over and spreading contents all over gf's driveway would be fantastic. Not until we filled it with dog poop and fish guts!!!! should have seen her face, we could not have been happier with the result as she ended up moving out and last i heard she checked herself into a home that helps.

[Mack 6]

I have a lovely neighbour now who works for a local trucking company and occasionally brings his work home. It's a small street and there is a big tipper and dog trailer parked in front of my house. He must get out and check that the back of his trailer is level with the edge of my driveway.....heaven forbid that he actually block his driveway instead of mine. One night I parked out on the street to let the housemate into the driveway. Woke up the next day and he's decided to park in the same area, on the other side of the road. I sized it up and reckoned the average family sedan would have to crawl through... I swear if I got a scratch I would have killed him.

Then there's the time when he couldn't start the truck and his repair truck came out and spend 40 mins trying to start it... but that's ok. I live out the back of the house... didn't hear a thing, heard the story from the housemate.


I suppose it's payback. I used to live around a suburb called Norwood. All South Aussies will know it's a little posh and "new age". My old HZ wagon with a 308, twin 2" pipes and hotdogs used to be bloody loud. The easiest way for me to leave at 6am for work/uni was down an alleyway with about a foot eother side. Even at idle I swear the walls would be shaking.... never got a complaint... even when I did boot it down there.

[gozza]

regardless of what you do there will be neighbors that give you greif anyway....they'll find somthing to bicker about

[MAFIA]

Originally Posted by MAFIATL

My neighbors are pretty cool. One side are car fanatics which is good while the other are really nice portugese. There daughter is so HOT and loves cars like me. Everytime i'm washing my car she washing her car aswell. Love it when it summer she washes the car and get really wet. :Reverend: Still can't understand why it take my so long to wash my car.

BTW she IS the girl next door. Think i might ask her out!

[FLUB378]

One member mentioned consideration, this does work. The first time I started my drag car up at home to put it on a trailer I spoke to the neighbours 2 houses either side of me, on both sides, even if I didn't know them. Told them that I had to start up car to put on trailer (on public road) and that there would be some noise for a few minutes and if they had a problem come and talk to me about it. This car is loud enough that I have to wear earplugs when driving it. After I loaded the car I went and spoke to the neighbours again asking if the noise was too excessive. All were fine with it as I showed some consideration. Now I start the car up and work on it( eg. setting idle, timing etc.) without telling them and still no complaints. One even came over the other day and wished me luck and safety when he saw me loading up to go to the track. Pretty Cool Neighbours.

[Yummy Mummy]

My neighbours are great, they wave when i wave, and pay me the courtesy not to stop and have endless chats. Good street, everyone would help everyone out, but no one is really beyond a hi and wave as you're driving past.

My old next door neighbours are awesome. Still really good friends with them. They tolerated me doing nudie runs through the house for 5 years when the lights were on and blinds were up, although they do still bag me about being the centre of attention with my bf in every room that was visible through these open blinds.

[brenx]

Originally Posted by FLUB378

One member mentioned consideration, this does work. The first time I started my drag car up at home to put it on a trailer I spoke to the neighbours 2 houses either side of me, on both sides, even if I didn't know them. Told them that I had to start up car to put on trailer (on public road) and that there would be some noise for a few minutes and if they had a problem come and talk to me about it. This car is loud enough that I have to wear earplugs when driving it. After I loaded the car I went and spoke to the neighbours again asking if the noise was too excessive. All were fine with it as I showed some consideration. Now I start the car up and work on it( eg. setting idle, timing etc.) without telling them and still no complaints. One even came over the other day and wished me luck and safety when he saw me loading up to go to the track. Pretty Cool Neighbours.

I do the same. I guess thats why my neighbours here are respectful.

[XE351B]

there is a big eucalyptus tree in my front yard, that my neighbor has been complaining about, last time we had a storm she hit the roof, started going off at me, yelling at me and telling me to tell my dad to clean up her yard, cuz all of our leaves were on her precious lawn........ i told her were to go and also said maybe i should clean up the street as well from everyone else's trees that had blown leaves all over the place from the storm that we just had...........i guess you get very cranky when your in your 50's never married and live by yourself..........