You aren’t going to believe this one.

In this story from Reddit, a family realizes that their summer vacations have turned into an open invitation for their neighbor’s to commandeer their pool.

Yeah… that’s some nerve, right?

Let’s see how they respond.

Our neighbors have been having pool parties at our pool while we are not home for years.

A few years ago my husband and I purchased a house with a pool.

Now we are acquainted with most of our neighbors but definitely not close friends with any of them.

They all seem nice but well just don’t have much in common other where we live.

Next door to the right is a family of six, twin daughters attending the local university, high school age son and a young elementary school age daughter maybe first or second grade and the parents.

They are one of the few people in the neighborhood with a pool, and that will come into play.

Now normally we open the pool in early May and leave it keep it open until the end of October.

But this year our weather was off and we had a very cool and very wet month of May and then June went straight to 100+ temperatures.

I am currently on a medication that makes it difficult for me to tolerate being in the sun and heat for an extended time.

Plus we have been helping two extended family members who are having health issues.

So because of this we haven’t had our pool opened yet this year.

They own the pool, they can’t use the pool, so the pool isn’t open. Makes sense.

Normally we go to the family lake house for a week during each of the three major holidays, but we didn’t go for Memorial Day because there was flooding around the lake this year.

Because a family member was just discharged from the hospital yesterday and July 4th being a Thursday this year we decided to stay home this week and be available to help this family member.

Now several times in June the little girl next door has seen either my husband or myself outside and she has asked when we are opening the pool.

We first told her maybe later, but the last time (yesterday) she asked and I said we are probably just not going to open it this year, and she started crying.

Why would a neighbor that had never been invited to use the pool be upset that the pool wasn’t available?

Now we have never had any of the neighbors over to use our pool so I didn’t understand why she was crying over us not opening our pool.

And now we find out why.

Well I spoke with the neighbor on the left later, and apparently our neighbors on the right have been having a small family party at our pool every 4th of July when we are gone.

They have always cleaned up really well afterwards and because we have scheduled pool maintenance and weekly yard service.

Occasionally things are moved around in our yard and we never thought much about it.

The gall! They took one invitation and turned it into an open one.

The neighbor on the left thought we had given the other neighbors permission to use our pool.

We did give them permission to retrieve any balls or toys that ended up in our yard, but never permission to use our pool especially when we are not at home.

We have a special latch on the gate and my husband did show the neighbor how to open the gate to retrieve his kids toys.

So now my husband, who loves gadgets, is going to have several more cameras installed around the exterior of our house, covering the gate and pool area.

And have the gate latch made where we can grant remote access for the pool service and yardmen.

Luckily we have a friend who does cameras and home automation systems.

Security cameras sounds like the least they could be doing.

I’m annoyed our neighbors have been using our pool without permission, but my husband is happy I am letting him get more gadgets around the house.

Now do we confront the neighbors and let them know we know they have been using our pool, or just wait and see if they say anything about our new security cameras?

Let’s see what the commenters of Reddit think should happen next.

Top comment says mark the area and monitor the heck out of it.

Another commenter adds that things could have been a lot worse.

Surprise them with a police call the next time they try and pull that, says another.

The legal ramifications could be massive, chimes in a lawyer. So they should protect themselves.

Another commenter has a good idea on how to handle things based on previous experience.

The absolute gall of some people!

Who would think this is an ok thing to do?

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.