Neighbors from hell come in all shapes and sizes. Mostly the kind that make a lot of noise or harbor anyone making a lot of noise. Or the kind that manage to irk you by smoking in the shared hallway or banging on your door at 3AM because they mistook it for their own apartment in a drunken stupor.
But there is a higher degree of hellishness that a neighbor can bring forth. And that is without actually even having to directly affect any other neighbor. Not even be seen, to be honest. But still manage to cause a problem.
A woman has recently shared her struggles online about a very—and I do mean very—messy apartment next door where the inhabitants, seemingly, haven’t ever actually cleaned up. She’s worried it’ll be next to impossible to get her apartment sold at this rate.
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Neighbors from hell can vary in their degree of hellishness, but none seem worse than the ones who seem to be doing absolutely nothing
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So, a netizen by the nickname of ChickyNuggies went to Mumsnet, an English online forum for mothers, seeking the internet’s wisdom on a problem she has.
OP lives in a small-ish building with 4 flats in total—two on the first floor and two on the second one, with each floor having their own separate entrance. All seems to be fine and dandy with the neighbors upstairs, but, sadly, the neighbors next door to her are quite messy.
And OP means that in the literal sense. Actually, she means it in quite the extreme sense.
A woman shared her struggles with an extreme case of doing nothing on the part of her neighbors, which translated into a mess of an apartment
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She claims that in the 8 years she has been living there, she has never heard them vacuuming there. The whole thing stinks like a literal trash can, while, on the outside, she can see actual mold, thick spiderwebs, and heaps upon heaps of dead moths in a sea of dust.
OP also pointed out that she saw a similar mess in their kitchen. Based on her description, one could assume that the thick layer of tar-like substance is in its final form before developing sentience, and the piles of garbage bags explain the roughly 2 take-out deliveries the apartment gets every day. Presumably the deliveries are because the kitchen is permanently out of order.
OP explained how hopeless she feels about ever selling her apartment when the neighbors next door have about 8 years worth of dust and garbage tucked away
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The woman also recalled how the neighbor's garage was filled with garbage bags, describing it as a "rat haven"
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Now, you’d think that it’s their apartment, they’re not really actually bothering anyone, so who cares? Well, sure, but OP explains that they got a letter from the local governing institution regarding a complaint about trash slowly but surely decomposing in one of the garages out back. OP never goes there, but since there was a complaint, she checked it out and, sure enough, what she saw was best described as a “rat haven”. And it all belongs to her next door neighbors. She thought it was worth mentioning that the neighbors were two brothers in their mid 30s.
This isn’t the first time a complaint has been filed, as there was another one about the brothers’ car abandoned on the street. It was left unused for so long that it got covered with a thick layer of green mold and was eventually towed.
To make matters even worse, given all of this, OP is considering selling the apartment and moving to a nicer place. The only problem is, though, who would buy a place with neighbors like that?
Commenters suggested several things, while OP took the opportunity to respond with more context to the situation
Just think about it: you can see through the windows what’s going on in the neighboring apartment, complaints are coming in, the garage out back is an infestation waiting to happen, and the neighbor is doing absolutely nothing about this.
“We are going to be stuck here forever because of them, aren't we?” concludes OP.
Commenters had a lot to say, ask, and suggest on the matter, though. OP spent some time responding to the comments and providing more details. From there, we learn that there’s gossip flying about the street that the brothers have a sad story and the result of it is that they now live in said one-bedroom apartment.
Others speculated that the neighbors have some mental issues that led to the extreme untidiness in their apartment. Plus, OP added that she can’t recall anyone visiting them ever, save for the delivery people.
Yet others thought it’s best to approach appropriate institutions—the environmental health institutions, adult social services, landlords or building managers, or anyone who has more power and is actually a professional who could help remedy the situation.
OP thanked everyone for the suggestions, pointing out that this is all in Scotland, and that there is no building manager involved—everyone’s a home owner and sorts out their own matters themselves. Or doesn’t, in this case.
The post gained quite a bit of attention—enough, in fact, to stand out on the internet, and to draw in several news outlets online. You can check it all out in context on Mumsnet here, but not before sharing your thoughts and other forms of opinions or messy messy stories in the comment section below!
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