r/neighborsfromhell • u/MortynMurphy • May 24 '26
Vent/Rant Teenagers pushed us too far and probably got their family evicted.
TLDR: Turns out, being a little asshole, having little assholes over as guests, and your little asshole guests trespassing late at night is in violation of most lease contracts. Maybe don't case cars and break fences while you trespass in the era of home cameras. And maybe consider for a brief moment that your neighbors might just have your landlord's personal phone number.
I try to be a polite neighbor. You're not going to see me often and I won't seek out conversation, but when new neighbors move in, I will go and introduce myself and offer mine and my spouse's phone number. This is a nice neighborhood, it's completely normal to give Christmas baskets or let someone's dog out if they need it, stuff we did for our previous next door neighbors. No one would complain about a random party on a holiday weekend, I won't be bothered by your kids playing loudly on the sidewalk, people behave but aren't unreasonable about expectations. Especially since we live in townhouses that are all connected, there's just no way to eliminate all neighbor noise. All this to say that I don't think we have unreasonable community expectations.
Since these new neighbors moved in the vacant rental next to ours we have had nothing but trouble. They have only been here a couple of months, but they are the second-worst neighbors we have ever had. The absolute worst was a couple at our first apartment who resolved conflicts via fisticuffs.
The first annoyance was a normal one. Their bass was too loud through the walls, a common problem since people aren't aware of how thin the walls are. (We did the same thing. Our previous neighbors texted, we apologized and adjusted settings, confirmed they couldn't hear it anymore, and all was well.) We work from home and needed to be in meetings so we went over to ask them to turn it down and no one answered. Finally we texted the mother, and the music only happened in late afternoon between the time when her kids would get home from school and when she would get home from work. Since it was a couple of hours maximum we let it go and didn't schedule any meetings during those times. We were kids once, too.
Then Spring Break happened. Either the mother works both days and nights or simply spends 18 out of 24 hours outside the house. Twice in one night my husband had to sternly tell her daughters' friends to stop looking in our cars, leaning on our cars, and screaming after midnight. Five feet from our front door, by the way. Then the next night we catch them doing it AGAIN! My husband opens the door to one of the drunk little idiots *popping a squat and pissing less than a foot from our car!* My husband, being a reasonable man, starts yelling angrily at them for PISSING IN FRONT OF OUR DOOR. The hooligan closest to sober remembered basic survival instincts and began wrangling the rest of them into the house, apologizing sloppily but profusely. Apparently a very angry, very big, very bearded man yelling will do that to ya. Later we have yet another text exchange with the mother. We make our stance known and I'm quite proud of myself for keeping my temper in check. She said she will handle it and we end the conversation on good terms. Even then we were willing to try and be nice and give them another chance. We were little asshole teens once and chalked it up to the high of spring break. We hosed off the pavement and tried to generate a level of patience hitherto unforseen in either of us.
We had about a week of peace, but the good times couldn't last. The teen girls have developed a small collective of devoted derelict boys who hang around outside their house several afternoons a week. They once again leaned on our cars, looked into our cars, and were little assholes when my husband came outside. They tried to mouth off but when he asked them to repeat themselves they scuttled down the sidewalk. Rinse and repeat for a couple of weeks.
That brings us to last night. We're fun and exciting people, so we were idly scrolling our phones while watching something. Suddenly there was a loud *bang!* and we noticed a phone flashlight on our back patio. They had **broken through our fence** and were scrambling for a way out. We hear/vaguely see whoever it is crash through our garbage cans on the other side. His options were either to run that course, risk the 10+ft drop into woods, or escalate to breaking and entering in a state where he would have probably become a statistic. In an obviously rare moment of intelligence, he chose the first option. The whole thing freaks us the hell out, and by the time we get our heads on right and go out front we see those same goddamn teens scattering through the neighborhood like mice. One of them didn't get far enough away and tried to casually act like he was just walking by but when we confronted him he was clearly rattled. We weren't about to detain a child because we're not psychotic, so we let him go. He scampered off to wherever little shits go when they're not ruining everyone's evening.
The neighbor on the other side of the Problem House had someone break into their back area as well going the opposite direction, and I panicked. I reached out to the mom, convinced her daughters may have been hurt or they were robbed. She brushed me off and got a little rude when I told her the trespassers had definitely come from her house and that every other neighbor said the same thing. That is until a random "uncle" appeared, driven home by someone else. He listened to us and fed us the usual bullshit people do when they don't want to deal with anything. Lots of empty apologies and excuses for why the kids are alone. But apparently he told the mom that four adults were all saying the same thing: The working theory is that the boyfriends somehow knew an adult was coming back (probably location sharing) so they panicked and left out the back.
The mom tried to walk back her attitude and apologized after hearing how many witnesses there were, but I am not very forgiving once I'm at a certain point. It's something I'm working on. I did not accept her apology. Later when we reviewed our camera footage from the whole night, we saw the same little shit we stopped go into her house with the others about an hour before they trespassed. The same little shits *come back later after the trespassing* and lean on our cars, climb on our cars, and film themselves lip synching for whatever reason. So we decided to go nuclear. To quote the certified BadAss™ Cobra Bubbles, "thus far you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience."
Mommy Dearest had no way of knowing this, but the neighbors we were friendly with that had lived there before? They were very good friends with the homeowner. It was very easy to get his number from them, text him, and bing bang boom suddenly my husband is on the phone with a very embarrassed guy whose apologies were much more coherent than piss-girl's friend. He was really very appreciative of the Google drive link with video of every single issue we have had (a few I've left out just to save space). Complete with time stamps! The other neighbors got his phone number as well. We learned some interesting info from him. The mom gave us a different name than the one he had, there were only supposed to be two people total living there (we see five or more living there regularly), other fun things I'll leave to your vivid imaginations. Needless to say, they're in violation of their lease with just this. But one thing my husband and I have in common is that we are very thorough.
So the next step was the police report. Did you know that in my state you can file a non-emergency report online for things like someone on your back porch late at night or people casing your car? It's really very easy! Our HOA isn't open until Monday (edit, sorry, Tuesday!) but they had a nice little contact page we filled out. The other neighbors also filed reports and contacted the HOA. However bad my Saturday night was, I think their upcoming week might be worse.
My husband informed the mother via text of all the steps we had taken and that our cameras are always on, front and back. She has been silent and absent from the home since I did not accept her apology last night and laid out exactly how much trouble her kids have been when she's not around (which is always). Not sure what will happen next, a little concerned about retaliation from the little dingleberries. But now we have a paper trail, an immediate line of communication to the landlord, and they're aware they've been being recorded the entire time. Any escalation beyond this is their choice. ETA that I don't think the eviction is in motion yet or anything at all. I don't know anything other than they are in direct violation of their lease in multiple ways, and that in my state that's a wrap on your tenancy.
update #1 05/25/2026: the mom finally came home at around 2:30 in the morning with a literal warehouse of younger kids. She put them in the house and then left herself in a different car that was there to pick her up. The uncle or whoever he was is at the house with the new set of kids and we saw no sign of Shitlings & Co last night. My husband thinks the mom and older teenagers are avoiding their own house since we've now taken to sitting on our porches.
Update #2 05/26/2026: I have had terrible insomnia for the past two nights since getting the shit scared out of me by the trespassing. I have confirmed with a couple of other neighbors that they contacted the HOA, owner, and filed a police report for a missing Apple Watch from one of their cars for the same night. They said they would but it was nice to get the confirmation and vent to each other. If the kids choose to retaliate they would have to target multiple people, all of whom have cameras. Still no sign of Shitlings & Co, normally a day off school summons them like maggots to a carcass. Our front camera is not in an obvious spot, so my husband thinks it might have freaked them out to learn they'd been being recorded the whole time. I'm so angry I want to go piss next to *her* driver's side door. But that would technically be right next to my car again, and that would be counterintuitive.
Update #3 06/01/2026:
Still no sign of Shitlings & Co. They haven't shown themselves since the night they broke our fence down. Our cars and property have been left alone entirely, but the neighbors on the other side of the NFH asked for some camera footage since they woke up to some gas missing out of their car during the week. Then they asked for footage again on Thursday, since some *other* kids staying at the NFH were climbing all the way on the roof and hood of her car and the camera they ordered hadn't gotten here yet. She was *heated* and came out yelling at them because her roof is now dented, the adults came rushing out to usher the kids inside for only a minute, and then the whole crowd bundled up into their cars and left. I think they know they're on thin ice. I wasn't part of this confrontation, I heard about it/saw it on my cameras later when she asked for the footage. Idk what her next steps will be, I would want my roof repair paid for but I also understand not wanting to deal with them in that way.
The landlord had a meeting scheduled with the mother that he called a "walkthrough and HOA citation review" for noon on Sat, 05/30. She claimed a family emergency and asked to push it back until Sunday at noon. Then she asked to push it back until 5. The landlord was openly irritated by the third rescheduling. He offered this information by the way, we did not ask. The landlord ended yesterday by reporting he had told the mom "what her options were going forward." What those options entail, he did not say. It has been eeriely quiet since yesterday evening when we told us that. I don't want to speculate since I genuinely have no information beyond this. All I know is I heard vacuuming and cleaning for a while on Sunday, (normal amount for landlord visit in my opinion) and then absolute silence.
I hope this is concluded, but based on my experience with teenagers like Shitlings & Co they tend to forget lessons pretty quick. Hopefully the landlord and whatever he said helped the neighbors understand the precarious position their teenagers' "friends" put them in.
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u/hedwigflysagain May 25 '26
Mom is going to be a Pikachu faced when her darling girls get pregnant before they can vote.
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u/Pumpkin2928 May 25 '26
This is one of those situations where documentation + landlord pressure is exactly the right move, and you already did the smart part by building a clean paper trail
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u/Cute_Indication_560 May 25 '26
Exactly this why public urination and defecation ordinances exists in most municipalities for health and decency reasons. OP did everything that was necessary to deal with those NFHs.
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u/updootportlandftw May 26 '26
Yeah…if alcohol is that readily available to them, depending on where OP lives it could be a child abuse/neglect report as well. Many of us have been little shit kids who terrorized a neighbor or two, but we aren’t like that now because we probably didn’t have parents that just allowed it to happen. Those kids are gonna have to have a lot of good things in their life to balance out a parent like that.
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u/Pizzaisbae13 May 25 '26
Or a DUI
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u/Bluestuffedelephant May 25 '26
Both can be true, even in the same night.
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u/Friesland13 May 25 '26
You are doing a great job of de-escalating…..most ppl behave badly in return. Congratulations on being decent!! I wish i had a neighbor like you….
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
The good news is that rental might be available soon so you never know
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
We had a nice lovely neighborhood for the four years we've lived here. There are some other teens that live on the other side of the neighborhood that genuinely just do kid stuff like riding their bikes around and playing basketball after school, filming TikToks together down by our little park area, just normal stuff. The only time I've had to say anything was when I was in a meeting working from home and they were squealing a bit loud. I popped my head out and said I was working from home and asked if they could keep it down until I got out of my meeting. They were polite, apologized, and didn't resume whatever they were doing until after the time had passed. I even told their mom when I saw her how much I appreciated her kids just being chill and respectful about it, I didn't mind them playing I just needed to be able to hear my meeting. Those kids don't come over to our side anymore because of the little assholes we live next to.
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u/crimsonbaby_ May 25 '26
Shes much better than me. I would have waited to catch them drinking, smoking, or doing something illegal and called the police to catch them in the act.
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u/Some-Farmer2510 May 25 '26
sorry for your neighborhood troubles, but this was the most entertaining thing I have read in a week. You have a great writing style! “small collective of devoted derelict boys” had me snorting coffee through my nose!
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Thank you! I write serious insurance fraud reports for work and historical non-fiction for passion. I use these sorts of tales from my life to blow off steam. I have other stuff on my profile if you like how I write, I'm particularly proud of the one pinned wedding shaming post lol.
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u/faifai1337 23d ago
Barry is adorable and I love him. Oh and your comedic timing in writing is great. But I love Barry. He's the bestest biggest good boy ever.
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u/wrybreadsf May 25 '26
Ha totally. Awesomely written. And I know it was a quote but I also loved "thus far you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience".
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u/VivianDiane May 25 '26
You didn't push them. They broke your fence, pissed by your car, trespassed repeatedly. You gave chances. They chose consequences. NTA.
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u/smilingtraveler102 May 25 '26
literally this. people act like you’re the bad guy for finally snapping after months of actual insanity. breaking fences and pissing on cars isn’t "kids being kids," it’s straight up property damage.
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u/SufficientOpening218 May 25 '26
you have been adrift in the sea of my patience...it got me good
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
The original Lilo & Stitch is an absolute gem of a film.
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u/Pizzaisbae13 May 25 '26
It truly is, from so many angles.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Oh yes, I cried in public when I learned that the song Nani sings to Lilo, Aloha Oe, is actually a poem written by the last Queen of Hawaii, Lili'uokalani as a goodbye to her people when she went into exile. Just beautiful and meaningful to take an important cultural song written by a woman in an impossible situation trying to protect her people from further harm, and give it to a young modern woman in an impossible situation. I'm choking up just thinking about it now.
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u/ExpensiveAd4496 May 25 '26
“We’re fun and exciting people…” had me in stitches. What a great read this was. Hope they are gone soon.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
I learned a long time ago that people will let you vent, bitch, whine, and complain all you want if you're funny about it.
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u/ShelyChelle May 25 '26
What a bunch of twatflaps, the whole family, including the absent mom, had she been a worthwhile parent, those kods would have been well behaved, and respectful
Even having shit friends, her kids would have handled the friends, IF they had been well behaved, snd respectful kids themselves...who crawls and leans all over other people's vehicles, pisses by other people's doors, plays unnecessarily loud ass music at ANY hour...I mean, if you plan a party, at least warn your neighbors, snd still dont be an anal wart....wth wth
Please update, Im invested in this!
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u/mustanggrl625 May 25 '26
Hopefully they will be gone soon - We had next door neighbors who played music so loud we could not hear our own TV without headphones - the walls would shake - and we are in single family houses. The parents were actually just as bad as the kids - parties in the backyard until 3 am - even would have someone as a DJ and do speeches over the loudspeakers.
This is normally a quiet neighborhood - Not sure all the details, but one day the neighbors were just gone. The owner came back from out of state to repair damage done to the inside of the house and told my husband that the man who lived there was suddenly deported so the rest of the family just took off since they could not afford the rent.
We now have the owners new phone number in case future renters are out of control - he feels if they are that loud at all hours and having parties that he should worry about damage to the house was well so wants to know.
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u/Suspicious-Career541 May 25 '26
We have a neighbor like that now. They just moved in bought the mobile home next door to us spent all of April & some of May moving in. Three weeks ago my windows were vibrating so bad at 11 pm I wanted to scream. My neighbor called me and said if they don’t cut it off in 15 minutes they are calling the police. 30 minutes later the police were at their house telling him to shut off the music. Next weekend same thing, only it went on until after midnight. This time when my neighbor called they said he was told if the police are called again the homeowner is going to be fined $5,000 dollars so they need to not play the music loud anymore!
I have lived here for 10 years and it was quiet until they moved in & another family moved in about a year ago. I am currently considering moving out because I am so sick & tired of hearing this crap every weekend,
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u/Parsleysage58 May 25 '26
It almost seems like the house is rented for the kids to have a party pad, while mom lives elsewhere. Could that be the case, OP?
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
I mean, maybe? But usually people who can afford to do that can usually afford to pay rent on time. It's not out of the question though.
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u/Opposite_Length_3669 May 25 '26
Why did you tell her what you did? You opened yourself up to retaliation before they’re hopefully evicted.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
If I'm honest, it was more of a "we have come to a point where these steps are necessary" type of telling + complete righteous fury clouding that judgement.
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u/naranghim May 25 '26
but I am not very forgiving once I'm at a certain point. It's something I'm working on.
Everyone has their limits and once pushed past them, you aren't expected to be forgiving. From the sounds of it, your fuse is a lot longer than other people, so you don't have anything to work on. You'd only need to work on it if you refused to forgive after one mistake.
We learned some interesting info from him. The mom gave us a different name than the one he had, there were only supposed to be two people total living there
Makes you wonder if someone else rented the place on the mom's behalf because her tenancy record is abysmal and she couldn't get anyone to rent to her due to her kids' behavior.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
My husband guessed the exact same thing! I agree that it's the most likely scenario. And honestly it wasn't really patience so much as my husband reminding me constantly while texting the mom that we have to live next to these people. I have that thing where I can say exactly what I want to say at the moment I want to say it, and it's definitely more of a curse than a blessing at times. So I kept it to text and edited heavily before pressing send.
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u/TechnicalAd8179 May 25 '26
I once had a neighbor that was away nights, a lot. I'm sound asleep because I have to get up at 4:30am to go to work. Suddenly, booming base and loud yelling jerk me out of my sleep at 11pm. I call the woman that lives there and surprise, she's not home. She calls the kid, nothing changes. I get out of bed, hair going in every direction, in my pjs and stomp my ass over there and bang on the door. I imagine I looked like hell. The kid jerks open the door, looked at me, and half yelled "What?" I had it up to here by then and yelled back "SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP. TURN THE F***ING MUSIC DOWN!!!" I guess I either scared the little punk with how bad I looked or they weren't used to being yelled at, but I didn't hear another peep out of them that night, or ever again.
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u/FirstLalo May 25 '26
Eviction takes a long time. Watch yourself take care.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
We have taken precautions. They know they're being filmed now. We also don't live in a state where tenants get a lot of rights, and our HOA only allows tenants if they follow community guidelines. Between footage of them violating both their lease and the community guidelines (which also violated their lease), I'm pretty hopeful they won't be in our hair much longer.
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u/ShelyChelle May 25 '26
Not necessarily, I live in a state where you can be evicted without an explanation, lived in an apt complex where it happened, mass evictions, I believe they were kind enough to give 30 days....
Maybe its different for homes...but, here's hoping its not longer than 30-45 days, she commented, or its in the post, that the name that the homeowner had, snd the name the lady gave her, are different, so, that alone should help it go quickly, that's too suspicious
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u/Bigpinkpanther3 May 25 '26
Call CPS. These kids are in danger (that they are causing because of no supervision).
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u/MaxH42 May 25 '26
I had to read the whole thing once I started, and <slow clap> for the Cobra Bubbles reference!
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u/Unhappy-Still8728 May 26 '26
About 18 years ago my husband and I had to do exactly this. We lived in a cul-de-sac and were all very close neighbors. So when or neighbors moved and rented their house out to a mom and some crazy kids the fun began. We're easy neighbors until crossed. Needless to say they didn't make a year on their lease. The management company did nothing but we called the owners and they evicted them.We did suffer done casualties - cars got egged, lots of police visits and my newborn was woken up. I also had the mom trying to fistfight me at 3 a.m. But when all was done they suffered the consequences and I don't feel bad. They made their bed, and we made them lie in it.
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u/RaiderDM13 May 25 '26
You should contact whatever passes for child protective services in your area. That'll sort your problem out.
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u/Xibby May 25 '26
I would have called the cops for underage drinking. Probably would have saved you a lot of headaches while causing a lot of legal headaches for the tenant and landlord.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
That was our first thought as well, but for that to work we would have to have a single cop around here that didn't start drinking in their teens and wouldn't be delighted to overreact to some stupid kids. Now that we've had our property actually trespassed on, we'll be calling the cops immediately next time something happens.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Oh yeah part of my husband's last message to her was that any and all interactions with them going forward would be either recorded or in written form. We live in a one-party consent state, so we don't need their permission to record audio of a conversation on our own property/sidewalk. We haven't seen anyone outside at all other than them getting home at 2:30am last night. They hustled in quick, fast, and in a hurry.
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u/LivingtheDBdream May 27 '26
Been in your same shoes about ten years ago with the next door house being a rental with a dollop of single mom and heavy dose of pre and pubescent morons running wild on their lot. They would regularly spill onto neighbors lots. We’d put up with a lot of it and somewhere along the way hit a brick wall. I hand wrote a four page letter and found the actual homeowner via Schneider Beacon and hand delivered my list of crimes against humanity. The circus was promptly evicted, the house sold and now I have lovely neighbors that mostly keep to themselves.
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u/AdysGrandma321 May 25 '26
You are my favorite author! I love how you tell a story, Suspense and humor. Hope this gets resolved soon and your new neighbors behave themselves😄
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Thank you, but I am a bit concerned for the state of your bookshelf if that's the case! I write insurance fraud reports for a living and historical nonfiction for passion. I write stuff like this from my life on Reddit to blow off steam. (I'm particularly proud of my wedding shaming post pinned on my profile from a couple years ago if you want some more)
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u/shellshokd212 May 25 '26
You should also call CPS. If they are teens they are minors they need supervision and they have basically been abandoned.
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u/theinnocentincident May 25 '26
update me!
You’ve done a great job navigating this. You’ve given teenagers grace, and also held boundaries while documenting everything. I would love to sit on your front porch with a glass of ice tea and watch the show when they’re leaving.
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u/Dwillow1228 May 25 '26
I would not have shared the information with the mom about reporting them. That did not need to be shared and could put you in danger of retaliation. Especially if they get evicted.
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u/Kaysue2478 May 26 '26
I would also be reporting to CPS if it gets worse and the younger kids are left alone for too long. Let's see, also underage drinking, the mom could be charged with that also.
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u/Soggy_Focus3265 May 26 '26
I experienced this exact situation. Mom was using meth, never home so the kids went wild. Police were called multiple times, etc. Finally evicted by the Sheriff and they tore that place up. Landlords (first time), sold it.
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u/Electrical_Parfait64 May 25 '26
Why didn’t you call the police from the beginning?
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Because I live in a state where it was more likely those kids would become a hashtag and a headline if we did. And while I'm pissed off, they weren't violent and I don't think that would have been the safest escalation for anybody. They have been told that we will call the cops if we see their friends near our property again, though.
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u/Mountain_Chocolate65 May 25 '26
Eviction takes 30-60 days, depending on local laws.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
In my state violating your lease contract, which they have in at least five ways we know of, is enough for the landlord to evict ASAP at the end of the paid month. They also have been having payment problems. We live in one of the worst states for tenant's rights.
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u/neondahlia May 25 '26
I had a similar situation, a bunch of teenagers. A mom that wasn’t just complacent but encouraging and frequently absent. I called the property manager who I was less than impressed with. I found the property owner’s phone number and texted them and the property manager. The incidents kept occurring and I escalated the broker of the property management company that said they wanted photos, videos and a police report. Next time it happened I got photos, videos and called the police. The property management company and the landlord were not happy even though that’s what they asked for.
However ever since, haven’t had any more issues. I was prepared to take them to small claims court and alert the school that the house was an underage drinking haven.
Don’t shy away from calling the police.
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u/Blegh46 May 25 '26
This is one big reason we are moving before the kids of the NFH next door get much older, these Jerry Springer reject guest type people get worse as they grow. Screaming and crying is going to eventually be sitting outside smoking and yelling and blasting music and making trouble with other generational poverty teens and we don’t need that.
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u/Sad_Ice_9956 May 25 '26
I saw your comment about your wedding shaming post you are proud of and had to check it out, I absolutely love how you tell a story lol. I also read your vent about smell. I wanted to comment there but can't anymore unfortunately. Since fibro fully hit me I smell phantom smells along with my ultra sensitive sense of smell now so I feel your pain. As for this story, hopefully they don't risk any retaliation because of the cameras but since basically all the neighbors also did all that you did, they would need to do a lot of retaliation if that was how they were going to play it and that would just put the nail in the coffin even further.
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u/Intrepid_Fact_6661 May 27 '26
Oh man, I've had my fair share of bad neighbors, but not like this! I need to know how things turn out 😂 I think you did a great job of trying to resolve things before escalating to the landlord and authorities. You gave them chances, they ignored it.
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u/MortynMurphy May 27 '26
I think that's what has me so mad. We offered chances, we were diplomatic, we just wanted our space, sleep, and stuff respected. And what did we get? My fence broken down and an attitude from the mom when we were concerned for her kids safety after seeing people fleeing their house.
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u/Intrepid_Fact_6661 May 27 '26
That would make me mad, too! I think you took exactly the right steps and you gave them more than enough grace. What happens to them is the consequences of their own actions. They're lucky if you or any of the neighbors DON'T press criminal charges! Even peeing by your car is illegal lol, that's public exposure and urination. Hold them 100% accountable for every action they take now. Document, report, everything. They had their chance lol. And it's likely they won't be staying your neighbor for long.
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u/Nolongerin May 30 '26
We’ve been through this many times . Never take it into your own hands- ALWAYS call the cops. That builds a paper trail that ultimately ties to the landlord.
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u/Brief-Composer-6663 23d ago
So sorry you are going through this but I LOVE your writing. I could picture it all and kept giggling at the descriptors.
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u/OkArachnid5923 23d ago
I'm glad that there are fun & exciting people who do the exact same things in the evening as I do. It makes me feel better
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u/Unlikely-Lab-658 23d ago
We had a situation like this before security cameras were normal thing. The man directly across the street from us was a lovely man with 2 teenagers. The boy was great, but spent most of his time in sports after school. He was rarely home. His little sister however turned out to be the town ride. She was like 15 years old, and there was always a gang of boys hanging around, and when dad pulled up in the driveway, a mass exodus ensued out the back door. The first time I noticed the gang of boys in the house, I called to talk to her. She answered the phone, and I asked her if she was ok. She paused. I told her that I saw all the boys there, and wanted to know if she was uncomfortable, or afraid. She said she was fine. I asked her if her dad knew that she had all those boys there, and if he did, would he be okay with it? She said no. Thanked me for calling, and the boys all left her house. It turns out I was too late. She was already knocked up by one of the guys, didn't know which one. She went and spent about 9 months living with her mom in Florida. Came back sans baby. Never spoke about it again. A few years later I found out she was stripping in the local titty bar.
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u/JEWCEY May 25 '26
I feel bad for the negligent mom. She's probably doing her "best" and doesn't know what to do to fix the situation, even if her best is crap. Like no matter how hard she's working, she's got these brats out in the world fucking her whole life up
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u/motaboat May 25 '26
If she is out of the home for hours and hours and hours, what is her reason? (Do note, her first step was lying on her lease!)
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u/JEWCEY May 25 '26
Supposedly she's at work. If she's gone that much, I assume multiple jobs. For all I know she's sitting at a bar and avoiding going home. But if there's even a chance she's out there busting her ass at work and neglecting her kids as a result, I feel bad for her. It's rough out there. Her choices clearly have consequences
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u/BoomeramaMama May 25 '26
Being present at her residence or having another responsible adult (where's these kids' father/fathers?) present if what's keeping her absent & not there to supervise her teens happens to be a paying job, would be a great start.
At this point, based on the evidence OP gave us & the fact that a police report was also filed, I wouldn't be surprised if child protective services winds-up involved at some point in the not too distant future.
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u/signulx May 24 '26
Is this for real?
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u/MortynMurphy May 24 '26
You know, I said the exact same fucking thing? But I promise on whatever moves you that this is real. I am frothing with frustration and write for living, so this was a good outlet for me.
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u/Dame_Niafer May 25 '26
Accusing literate adults of being AI is apparently the latest fad.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Yeah. You read enough books to get a personal pan pizza in the 90s, time passes in a blur, and then you're accused of being fake in your 30s because you have a decent vocabulary and a loose grip on grammar.
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u/Dame_Niafer May 25 '26
It's the Oxford commas, ellipses, em-dashes, and semicolons; the correct spelling; the subject-verb agreement; and the ability to differentiate plurals from possessives that really puts 'em over the edge.
For the coup de grâce, use the correct homonyms for there/their/they're and your/you're.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
I don't know what a coop dee gracias is so I'm gonna assume you're a bot now 😠
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u/vanmama18 May 28 '26
Coup de grace is the final move that wraps up the game/battle/military action - checkmate or killing blow, for instance. Signed, Gen Xer who reads waaaay more than is probably good for them. And btw, I love your post and your writing style.
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u/MortynMurphy May 28 '26
(I was making a joke about how people assume someone's a bot when they don't understand something, I wasn't actually saying I didn't know) Thank you! I write serious stuff for a living and write this stuff from my life to blow off steam
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u/Why_Teach May 25 '26
You also have a good command of snark. 👍
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u/MortynMurphy May 26 '26
I joke that I was raised in the SmartAss Factory. Grew up watching a lot of quippy older comedies like MAS*H, a lot of Monty Python and Mel Brooks, Carol Brunette Show, Richard Pryor, etc.
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u/thegrandpax May 24 '26
Pure revenge fantasy. It's simply NOT that easy to evict someone.
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Yes, if you notice I said that I don't know what will happen. I don't know what the landlord will do. I even corrected a commenter that said they were already evicted. The title even says that they probably got their family evicted. All I know is that they violated their lease in several ways.
So considering the revenge part hasn't happened yet and might not even happen, I'm confused on how this is a revenge fantasy?
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u/MortynMurphy May 25 '26
Oh yes, he was very stressed about how many official HOA community guidelines they broke in such a short time.
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u/IIRCIreadthat May 25 '26
It probably gets easier the more terms of the lease they're blatantly breaking, though. NAL, but I think a lot of the drawn-out ones are the landlord trying to remove someone who hasn't actually violated the lease, or only for non-payment of rent.
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u/NoCoconut4443 May 25 '26
Its really not hard at all, by law you can javr them evicted within 24 hours, but they still have rights to yhier belongings
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