Some people move into neighborhoods looking for peace, while others move in looking for attention.

When a noise-averse homeowner’s once-silent block was disrupted by a rule-breaking neighbor with kids and zero self-awareness, patience ran out fast.

The solution ended up being hidden in plain sight.

Keep reading for the full story!

I reported my annoying neighbor until he moved

I just want peace and quiet, and to be left alone.

I’m in my late 20s and live alone (and I reallyyyyy hate kids). My neighborhood is a group of separate houses without yards that are spaced close to each other.

For a while, the neighborhood was the quiet haven he always dreamed of.

I’ve lived here for five years by myself, and it’s perfect—everything I’ve ever wanted: no yards to take care of, and no kids around making noise.

The houses share a large T-shaped cement driveway, and none of us have ever interacted with each other. We come and go, stay quiet, and mind our own business.

There’s a small park down the street with grass for those who want it, literally a 30-second walk away.

But soon came trouble in paradise.

About a year ago, a guy with a lot of little kids moved into my neighborhood. As always, I just drove past him like anyone else, closed my garage, never spoke to him—no problem.

Over time, he started making himself at home.

He would park his large truck in the “motorcourt” (which has a sign saying it’s illegal because it’s a fire lane). It would block his neighbor’s garage across from him.

That wasn’t the only annoying thing he did.

He would set up lawn chairs in front of his neighbor’s garage and have the little kids out there running and screaming right in front of people’s houses and garages. We would have to listen to it and then try not to run over the children as we backed our cars out.

He would rev his motorcycle at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and wake up the neighborhood. When his kids were blocking the driveway, they’d take their sweet time moving.

The homeowner showed their disapproval in subtle ways at first.

Because of this, I did one simple thing. When I came home every day and drove past or around them, I wouldn’t wave back when he waved at me.

Ohhhhh, how that hurt his pride.

He should’ve left it at that, but no. He had to press the issue.

But when the neighbor pushed him, he started pushing back.

So he started waving more, then shouting at me as I drove past, and then telling his kids to stop, stand, and wave at me as I drove by and ignored them all.

Eventually, he didn’t like how I drove around his kids who were in the way (even though I always drive at a safe, slow speed there), so he tried to confront me.

He shouted at my car, then came to my garage as I was already getting out and had the garage closing. It closed right in his face without me ever looking at him.

Things only escalated from there.

He didn’t like that, so he immediately walked to my front door, saw that I had a doorbell camera, and turned around and walked away.

A couple days later, coming home, he was crossing the driveway as I arrived. Because he had told the kids to stop and wave at me, the jerk stopped in the middle and blocked my car while trying to get the kid to move.

So I honked for three seconds right in his face until he moved.

That was our last interaction, and I decided he’d annoyed me enough.

That’s when the homeowner decided to use some leverage to get this neighbor to shape up.

I live in an HOA.

I don’t actually care about any of the rules, but I decided to use all of them to report him endlessly for every violation I knew of, using my dashcam for screenshots with evidence.

His parking in the motorcourt stopped after they gave him a ticket. He had to throw out the child’s playhouse he had set up next to his garage.

So he began reporting this neighbor, and finally, it worked.

I kept reporting him for having an open garage door (which I don’t actually care about) to force him to stop hanging out in the motorcourt and, oh, I don’t know, use his brain and take the kids down the street to the park.

It only took four months of reporting him repeatedly.

He moved out. 😌

Looks like the driveway was finally quiet again.

What did Reddit think?

Some neighborly relationships are never meant to go beyond simple pleasantries.

Sometimes being a good neighbor is just minding your business and stepping in when you’re needed.

Sometimes staying in your lane is the safest option.

This story reminded this commenter of an annoying neighbor of their own.

By the end of it, the rules hadn’t changed — just the people breaking them.

Silence never sounded so earned.

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