Imagine moving into a neighborhood where everyone seems really friendly, but you’re the only young, single guy in the neighborhood. What would you do if your neighbors started asking you to help them out with repairs, almost treating you like the neighborhood handyman? Would you help them out or refuse?

In this story, one man finds himself in this situation, and he made the mistake of helping his neighbors out. That only caused the floodgates to open, and he got many more requests for help. He seems to have a problem saying “no,” because this went on for way too long before he finally stood up for himself.

And now, he feels bad about cursing at a neighbor who was asking for help.

Did he mess up, or were his words well deserved?

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA for cursing out a neighbor and refusing to be the neighborhood handyman?

I quite recently, a few months ago to be exact, moved in to a house in the suburbs of a large town.

Pretty much from the second I started moving in a load of people started introducing themselves.

He feels a little out of place.

I just figured this was great as it seemed neighborly as hell.

Turns out that my neighborhood is pretty much 50% well off single moms, 40% elderly people and the remaining 10% are families.

Being a solo guy in my late 20’s I do feel a bit out if place, but the house is amazing, price was great and the location is close to my work so it is all good.

Then the neighbors started asking for favors.

When I was finally moved in properly it only took a few days before a neighbor came over to ask me if I knew anything about toilets, apparantly it wasn’t flushing and she had no idea how to fix it and with covid didn’t want to call someone to fix it.

I went over, fixed it and that was that.

The very next day an elderly neighbor a few houses over came over to me while I was taking the trash out asking me if I could saw some beanches of off a tree of hers.

I had the time so I figured why not?

The requests kept coming.

From that point on it seems a deluge was unleashed where I was asked to do stuff from small chores like moving some garden rocks for an elderly couple to stuff like building someone a shed and another one a treehouse.

If you have to ask I declined to do that.

What set this post off is what happened last week.

Here’s some context about his job and sleep schedule.

I work as a chef so I generally work late afternoons, evenings and sometimes into the night. This means my sleeping schedule is a bit messy.

Before you ask, yes I still got my job, most of it is just delivery orders and pickups now though.

In this particular case I couldn’t sleep when I got home at around 2 AM. I watched some TV and ended up falling asleep on the couch right next to my front window.

This is awfully rude!

I was woken up by this lady ramming on my window and my dog barking as a result.

When I got to the door she immediatly started tearing me a new one for not opening the door, being lazy for stillsleeping at 11 and then demanded I came with her to fix her sink.

I straight up told her to back right off and slamned the door.

From that moment on I have gotten a bunch of dirty looks from people and some even approached me to chastise me about how I acted.

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He’s not the neighborhood handyman. The neighbors need to leave him alone.

Let’s see if Reddit agrees.

This person has some advice for next time.

One person suggests charging the neighbors.

This is a good point!

Nobody thinks he did anything wrong.

He lives there. He doesn’t work there. They are not entitled to his time or his help. In fact, I’m glad he finally stood up for himself.

It sounds like this was all very one-sided. It might be different if all the neighbors helped each other, but he didn’t mention any of the neighbors offering to help him with anything.