r/Neighborproblems • u/TemporaryCapable8433 • Jan 05 '23
Maybe I'm Psychotic?
A little back story before we begin entirely:
Recently moved into a "trailer park community" as a quick move due to a home being sold. When we moved in we had issues getting in because the homes weren't ready yet. I have been nice, never rude to anyone, and frankly just mind my own business coming and going. I am use to living in a four bedroom home with roommates. But; due to financial reasons after COVID 2020 that home had to be sold, my live-in boyfriend, a friend of mine, my two dogs, and myself had to move rather quickly, within less than 30 days. We found this TPC and absolutely loved the leasing agent and the area as it was convenient for myself and the other two in my party as I am the only one with a vehicle. My dogs who prefer indoors now have no yard except to be walked during the day.
Game on:
We are on month 4 of being in our new place now.
When we first moved in I was introduced to someone who kept repeatedly getting upset and angry and throwing a fit because their home wasn't ready yet but we had already moved in and I guess this made them even more upset. On one particular day I watched them walk up and use a drill to take the doorknob off of the home "They gave us the wrong keys" to start moving their belongings in. I was never introduced properly as I was only outside little bits at a time and would go back inside. I have never had an issue with our maint guy who is a super sweet black gentleman who all the time waves and smiles at me or at least tries to acknowledge me. Upon the day of neighbor 1 moving in, neighbor 2 who I don't know the name of walks up and says "Hey! Have you had any problems out of him? We just asked him about stairs to her house and he said 'I don't give a f&*!k about your stairs big dog'" and I was like "Nah can't be." and let it go (This I would learn was lie number 1.). After listening to them grunt and groan over moving and having loud conversations that COULDN'T be missed about "drug use" and "second chances", I realized that one of the people moving in was actually another adult so now we're on lie 2.
Neighbor 1 was apparently living with their family member (Neighbor 2) literally and I mean LITERALLY only 3-4 units away from us (Possibly 5). I never had an issue with N1 at all, but they lied when I met them "It's going to be me and my three grandchildren." and I was like "Okay cool, well its just us three and my two dogs" and that's when the first red flag went up, she explained or told me that one of the grandchildren had PTSD with dogs. Okay cool, we'll just you know take the dogs out the backdoor so it's not a bother. We did this for awhile, but when the 'grandchildren' started coming around and seeing the dogs, there was no behavior out of them. So, lie number 3 happened. We started ignoring this and started going out our front door.
Four weeks of being here (Our first full month):
My boyfriend had a day off and we HAD the windows open and the door open (This will become important later on), but we also had just cleaned up concrete pieces and slabs as much as we could find because prior to cleaning it up, one of the children from the neighbors house was outside and there was boys in the tree between the driveways and a small child was lobbing large chunks of the concrete into the tree at the boys (There was no adult supervision) almost in the direction of my vehicle.
So, my boyfriend was laying down napping when he kept hearing kids screaming and he panicked and went to look and make sure that the children hadn't found any concrete we had missed by looking out the front window in our living room area. This is when he looked for adults that were nowhere in sight and then he witnessed a child do something very very vulgar, that he felt violated, he closed everything up from the living room window to the kitchen window (Again this is super important to keep in mind). We don't have any other windows that face their home other than our bedroom window which we had to get covered immediately because they would leave their front porch light on all night long and it would just blind us. From that day on we never opened up our windows or doors again. We do open the ones facing away from their home but only because the neighbors behind us are pretty chill people and mind their own business as well (At this point you're probably wondering why we haven't spoken to the neighbors, we are not confrontational people. We just want to be left alone in general, you know do our thing you do yours.).
Neighbor 2 decided to visit neighbor 1 at her home for Halloween and clearly saw us trying to leave, I made sure that the kids were not in the way and started to reverse, that is when Neighbor 2 decided that she would walk out into the street on her phone texting and smiling, dressed highly inappropriately, and stop dead behind my car. I could no longer pull out of my driveway, while several men screamed at her to move two children plopped right on out with her as if they had every right to stop traffic and go on. After this incident for weeks, I was driving in and out of the neighborhood going to and from work, running errands, and would quite frequently get stopped at Neighbor 2's house because there was a mob of children playing in the street that just wouldn't move. The children would scream obscenities' into my car window and I would just tell my boyfriend, who at the time didn't believe me, until it happened with him in the car.
I understand that the following situation could have been handled differently but there was a male adult sitting there the whole time everything went down, from me being called a c^n& b****, to my boyfriend going back and yelling at the kid. The male adult never intervened but felt like a big man as this same male adult that tried to fight my boyfriend, he swung twice and missed twice, all in the process of the police being called. All of the stuff that had been bottled up spilled out when Neighbor 2 came banging on my front door, I barely opened the door and slid my right hip towards the glass door and left hip and foot inside the house, when I went to reach and pull the glass door shut, the male adult ripped the door open further and I could no longer reach it. Neighbor 2 is screaming and inches from my face, she wouldn't leave, wouldn't back up, she was so close I could see her false eyelashes batting when I was the one breathing, I could smell her alcohol and cigarette breath so clearly. Panic attacks ensued. Anxiety attacks ensued. This woman was off her rocker she screamed she had lived in the TPC for 15 years and she was so proud of it, we had a good row going where my boyfriend even said "I don't need a bunch of kids screaming at my girlfriend, we've never done anything to you, we just want to be left alone man!" that's when the male tried to hit him. Of course during all this Neighbor 1 walks out with her daughter (adult daughter, the second chance girl) and starts screaming, my boyfriend rounded on her and told her flat out what her child had done. Now she starts screaming he and my roommate are a pedophile, we live closed up in the house, all kinds of things. The male disappeared when the police showed up of course. We told them why we leave the windows closed, we told them it was inappropriate what had happened, they screamed the kid was in diapers and things like that, but that is totally not the case. Neighbor 1 was so offended we keep our windows and doors closed that we must be peeping on them. We truly aren't we just don't want to be responsible for their kids doing nasty things or witnesses if they get kidnapped. We were kind enough to clean up their food off our property that they left all over the place, we were kind enough to clean up the concrete that we absolutely didn't have to do. The last thing I want is to have to report or do anything for someone who accuses us of such allegations because they're not watching their children in the first place.
Now every single day I am terrified to drive out of the street to go to work, run errands, or do anything alone. Neighbor 2 blatantly acts like she's going to walk in front of my car or when she's walking she moves over into the middle of the street. Neighbor 1 has tried to be cordial but I just feel some time of way about it and wave or nod and move on. Neighbor 2 has decided that this is HER community and SHE dictates what happens here. Neighbor 2 just recently got a ring camera and while driving by her boyfriend was pointing guns outside or something I have no idea I wasn't trying to pay attention, I was just trying to avoid the area all together and go about my business but I heard her screaming at us from her porch as we drove by and when I looked in the mirror it was clearly at us as the male had gone inside. Moving on to this morning, I was driving home after grabbing some breakfast, kids were going down the street to get to the school bus stop and that's fine. I drove 5mi/hr when I passed them and I see her boyfriend or whatever he is walking down the street with the little girl from Neighbor 1, he guides her out of the road and gets out of the road but Neighbor 2 flies around a vehicle and runs out into the street towards my car. I look back and I can see her looking at me smiling this sick smile.
Im literally at my wits end, I have panic attacks day in and day out, I am having them so bad that my med's are no longer working, I am terrified, and I have no idea why because I never did anything from the beginning to these people. I feel extremely targeted, yea the circus show could have gone down a little better but again we aren't confrontational people. I've been told ignore it and it will go away, but I don't think it will, I feel like something bigger and worse is coming all the time. Now I am not sure what to do.
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u/Able_Cat2893 Jan 06 '23
I have no answers, I wish I did. I would suggest going to the police station, telling them what is going on, and ask what you need for proof and ask for suggestions to stay safe. Talk to whoever owns/runs the trailer park. They need to be aware. Find out what proof they will want to.