When you live in a neighborhood, you have to follow all of the city codes and laws to ensure none of your neighbors report you for violations.

What would you do if your neighbor tried to report you for a noise violation even though you weren’t breaking any rules?

That is what happened to the homeowner in this story, so he read up on all the city codes and reported her for many of them, causing her huge problems.

Read the city codes!

I am in my mid 30’s.

What a nice house.

Own a 120 y/o Victorian home that happens to be on the cities historic registry.

I believe my 60 y/o neighbor (who happens to be a licensed clinical social worker) is jealous of the status of my home and thinks she owns the block.

A half acre is a lot for most people.

This happens to take place on a town block where most properties are quarter acre at best. My neighbor(The one in question) and I happen to have homes with half acre or bigger backyards. Football field long, next to each other.

After living here for two years I happened to have friends over and had pretty loud music set up in the backyard on a July evening(5-6pm). DJ, turntables, and single 15″ PA speaker.

It is reasonable that she is upset at the noise.

I notice her come home through the fence and start trolling her backyard while talking on the phone.

A few minutes pass and I was visited by law enforcement that pretty much stated you are good to play at the current volume until 10pm when the noise ordnance kicks in.

Perfect! I go back to enjoying my family and friends and cooking meat.

Now this is just rude.

20 or so minutes later she comes out and parks her lawnmower right next to the fence and fires it up, zip ties it to the on position and goes back inside.

This went on for about an hour, embarrassing me in front of my guests. Pretty much ruining the evening.

He is complying with the laws.

We slowly lower the volume nearing the 10pm noise curfew. The mower shuts off around 9p.

I kept playing music as the sun went down and started a fire in my pit. Then promptly shut the music off right at 10pm.

This is when we notice her again trolling the backyard, this time recording us with her cellphone. Very embarrassing for me, to my guests.

Now he is getting a little petty.

I confront her with a text talking about how much pollution her mower made VS her hybrid vehicle, as a passive aggressive knock to her. I start exiting guests and wishing them a good night while walking them out of the yard(10:30ish pm).

This is when we notice her in her yard with these fake little coughs like the fire is now bothering her.

At this point I realize I cannot use my backyard for entertaining at all with this lady around.

He didn’t violate any city codes!

Her response texts told me to read the city codes regarding noise.

I know the code and followed it perfectly. However I did not much read the other codes. One of which is regarding trash and appliances etc in backyards.

I guess she should read the city codes as well.

Good time to say her backyard literally looks like a junkyard. Appliances, trash, 20 foot dead tree pile, hoarder style paths through the cruft.

We have pretty mature trees separating us, however it’s still pretty visible. My guests that night even brought it up.

I figure this is a good time to report HER to the city regarding the cruft. This opened a two year can of worms of her as slow as she could, every night an hour or two, cleaning the cruft under the view of the city code officer.

LOL, this is pretty funny.

Fast forward through the summer to Christmas 2017. With her backyard still pretty messy. I placed a hoarders season 1 DVD on her porch with a bow. A wonderful passive aggressive event in my malicious mind.

Then near this event, a few nights later. She let her dog out past dark and seems to keep it outside ALL night despite the below freezing temperatures and feet of snow.

Poor dog.

At this point she is putting her dog in harm to get back at me it seems like. My bedroom is at the rear of my house and obviously I can hear it through the window.

I then go outside despite the freezing temperatures as well and follow her above lead and take a 30 minute video of her dog barking and whaling at the cold!!

Good job reporting this cruelty.

I send this video to animal control. No way lady, don’t put your dog in harms way as a tool to get back at me.. The dogs then seem to disappear, I haven’t seen a dog over there since, to this day! Thank you animal control.

Fast forward to spring 2018.

Security cameras can be very helpful in situations like this.

Around this time I placed a camera in my front window for general security as she is building a fence between our houses. Boxing her self in. Attempting to block my view of trash rather than finish cleanup!

She then gets a surveyor to come out post construction and I notice her new fence is 1 foot into my property, all the way back. I am keeping this one in my back pocket.

Hopefully she stays away.

This is when she pretty much disappears herself! She no longer parks in her driveway. One day, weeks later I notice her car in the driveway of the home behind hers.

On the next numbered street. She is parking there and walking through his backyard, into hers to get into her house.

Pretty strange behavior over a camera I have placed.

Her place has since gone dark! No lights, ever! Even as I write this, now. Very strange. I notice her every once in a while drive by.

It is sad that he can’t have friends over anymore.

I haven’t had guests over into the yard since and probably never will..

I am a terrible neighbor, but she definitely has some mental issues that she seems to be working through based on these events.

Honestly, it seems like both of these people are escalating the issue. The neighbor is over the top, but this guy isn’t making things better.

Let’s see what the people in the comments think about the situation.

Yeah, this is good advice.

She does seem a little crazy.

LOL, don’t give him ideas.

Yes, this is a very good idea.

Don’t quote city ordinances that you don’t follow yourself.

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