For some people, living by family is convenient. But for others, it’s a nightmare.

Today, we meet a couple who inherited a home on the same street as several of the wife’s relatives.

At first, one family member simply started showing up whenever they were outside or didn’t answer a message fast enough.

Then, food and other belongings began disappearing, and the couple started suspecting that she was coming onto the property at night.

Now, the relative has moved right next door, and the couple feels like they’re constantly being watched.

Read on to see what they plan to do next.

Crazy in law neighbors

So my wife and I inherited a house from my wife’s grandma, and it happens to be on the same street as quite a few of her relatives.

One relative in particular (G) is one of those people who lie over everything. If G says “good morning,” you gotta look outside to make sure she didn’t just lie.

G started off at the end of the street from us at her own place. When her lights got cut off, she moved two doors down from us with an elderly relative. That’s when things started being weird.

His wife does her best to stay on good terms with G.

Every time my wife and I are outside, G takes it as an invitation to come over with her kids. G will message my wife a question, and if my wife doesn’t respond, G is knocking at the door 2 minutes later.

My wife will invite her over to keep the peace, and I’ve caught G looking through our fridge and pushing to eat our food. Her kids will sneak into the rooms and look through our things.

About 2 months ago, we noticed our back porch freezer had missing meat, veggies, and crab. My wife only mentioned to G that the crab was missing, and two days later, my roommate says he saw the motion light come on at 4 a.m. When I checked the freezer, the crab was back, in a completely different bag.

Then, more things went missing.

Another instance is when we had a dog toy go missing. G came over with her son at one point, and he had the toy. When I asked him where he got it, he was “on a night walk with daddy.” So they’re walking through our yard at night.

The last month, however, got way worse. My roommate was sitting on the back porch late one night, and he saw G walk onto the porch. He said it looked like she was going to open the door before he said, “What are you doing?”

She then went on some tirade about how the elderly relative she’s living with is hitting her and has dementia. Mind you, this is a 90-pound Pentecostal woman.

Now, G is living right next door to them.

G had us on the back porch while she said this crazy story at 11 o’clock at night and tried coming into our house. That elderly relative was taken to a hospital where they confirmed that she didn’t have dementia, and they believed G was abusing her.

Then, G moved right next door to us with another pair of elderly relatives. They now watch us through the windows, and more things have gone missing.

I’m saving up for cameras now, but it’s driving me insane. I feel like I’m constantly being monitored, and I worry for G’s children, as the elderly male relative they moved in with has been known to ***** children. It’s made us increasingly paranoid.

Things have gone missing from this morning, and I’m scared she’s sneaking into the house. I’m ready to move out of this place.

Yikes! That woman sounds like the kind of family you don’t want.

Let’s see if the readers over at Reddit have any advice.

This person has experience with someone like that.

What a great option that is.

This reader would tell her a lie to throw her off.

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Excellent advice.

That’s enough to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Family or not, there’s a big difference between stopping by and helping yourself to someone else’s property.

If things are really disappearing and people are coming around at night, cameras need to move pretty high on the priority list.

And if that confirms what they already suspect, then it may be time to stop trying to keep the peace and start setting some real boundaries.