📝 AITA for wanting to complain about my neighbour ?

By Brilliant_Peach_2640 • Score: 2 • April 4, 2025 9:21 PM


So I (20F) and my partner (23M) moved into my first home which I bought myself back in May 2024. Since the beginning we have had issues with one of the neighbours. Admittedly it was our fault at first as we were renovating and had the bathroom remodelled. By accident, my stepdad drilled a bit too far and went into her wall. It is near the ceiling and there is a tiny hole on her side. We offered straight away to fix it but she said she didn’t want anyone in her house at the time. My stepdad gave her his number and said he could fix it when he got back from France. (For context, they live in France for part of the year). The woman was fine with that and told them that she was going to be starting working again soon so she would have to find the time to have him fix it. She then started sending messages along the lines of that she will leave a key for him to go into her house and fix it. Please bear in mind that she has a dog. My stepdad refused this due to some nightmare stories he’s heard about people being accused of things when given a key. He told her that he’s happy to fix it when she is home. He didn’t hear from her for a while and assumed that she had forgotten or just fixed it herself. Then in December she messaged again saying she had a day off work and wanted it fixed. The day she was asking for wasn’t possible for my stepdad so he had to decline and ask for another day. He didn’t hear back from her again for a while. And now in March/ April she is messaging again saying that she will be taking this further as it hasn’t been fixed. This happened back in May. My parents now live in France and have only just told me that she has been sending these messages that aren’t so nice about it all. She has never spoken to me about this or even put a note through the door. I work from home so there is no chance I would miss a knock on the door as I have a dog that barks at the door. My partner has tried speaking to her on numerous occasions about different things but she completely ignores the knocks on her door. We have had multiple other incidents such as her taking our bin into her yard (meaning we had to use hers as we weren’t going to go into her garden to take it back as that’s wrong) and then we had some friends over and in the morning they were sat in the garden talking and she started screaming at them and calling them thieves because her bin was in our yard (there was no need for it and she also never speaks to myself or my partner but will scream at our friends). Another incident just happened today and she had put a big metal table on top of the wall between our gardens. We have a young dog and it was very windy today and it could of toppled over and hurt our dog or even her dog. So my partner went round and had to knock 3 times (waited a few mins between each one) before she answered. She only answered because I told my partner that I will contact the council about it as i was angry about the fact that she could be so disrespectful to put the table there when it could hurt someone. She was listening through her window the whole time. She then claimed she can’t move the table and we will have to wait until Sunday. My partner, being the amazing man he is, offered to move it for her back into her yard after we had got back from going food shopping. There are multiple other things that are too long to list but AITA? (Side note: I also need to contact the council about other things not to do with her and to speak to them about the shared wall that’s falling down and also her extension that is flaking wood off into our yard that we don’t want our dog getting a hold of. It’s impossible to speak to her about these issues so my only other idea is to ask the council?)

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