Keeping a friendly rapport with your landlord is essential if you want to make the most out of your stay. And yet, how would you feel if your landlord threatened to call the authorities if you didn't leave the dryer and washing machine behind? The story below is an account of a bewildered tenant. The original poster (OP) had just moved out of her apartment. After living in the same apartment for a considerable amount of time, OP had decided that it was finally time for a change of scenery. So,…

The house-buying process is stressful and difficult to navigate at any point—especially when it's your first, and you have no idea what you're doing or what to expect. The process will see results that can have drastic and possibly cataclysmic effects on your finances as well as on the rest of your life and its quality. It's exhausting. The process and paperwork involved are almost like a second job, with months upon months of weekends taken up by an endless stream of open homes. With possible…

People come in different varieties, and each one is distinct. Some people are compassionate, and some are greedy, but the worst people are without a doubt those who have an entitlement complex. The story below is an account of a bewildered man. For many years, the original poster (OP) had been renting a home for ten to fourteen days in August in Ontario, Canada, along a river. The lease includes private decking with a hot tub, a furnished gazebo, and exclusive usage of a cottage. These quick tr…

Maintaining a positive façade is essential for a pleasant, synergistic, and healthy connection with your neighbors. The story below is an account of a frustrated neighbor. The original poster (OP) shares a strange experience he had with his neighbor on Reddit. To set the scene, OP resides in a condominium with four units. Two sizable garage doors are available. There is space for two cars in each bay. The apartment seems perfect at first because of its well-defined boundaries and regulations, w…

You're not supposed to take things that aren't yours—this is something that is ingrained in us from a very young age (or at least it's supposed to have been.) We were all taught that taking Little Jonny's red ball out at recess without his permission wasn't ok. Although we might still hold a grudge against Jonny for being a tattle tale (we were going to give it back), it doesn't change the fact that some valuable lessons were learned. These lessons and new-found boundaries should have stayed wi…

In this world, there are two types of people. The former is a rule-abiding individual who tries to stay out of trouble, while the latter is a troublemaker who is constantly seeking out the next adventure. The story below is an account of a frustrated neighbor. The original poster (OP) has lived in the same neighborhood for a considerable amount of time. Everything was going great at first, but when the mail worker knocked on the door, things quickly spiraled out of hand. Before OP knew it, he w…

When you're facing up against power and authority, it's easy to feel helpless and like you don't have any options, feeling like the only thing you can do is try to mitigate the fallout they're causing by trying to keep peace with them. The thing is, they're counting on you thinking and feeling that way; a lot of times, petty authority and controlling behavior rely completely and wholly upon silence. It's difficult to do, but if you ask around enough, you're likely to find there are others with…

Sometimes, the only way to teach someone a lesson is by blocking them into the parking spot they stole from you and refusing to let them leave. This isn't an ideal scenario, but neither was having your officially designated parking space taken from you. This Redditor came home from work only to find a car in his one parking spot. That car turned out to belong to his neighbor's friend, who was visiting for the evening. This gave the Redditor plenty of opportunity to keep the friend from leaving…

Everyone dreams of the day their annoying neighbor moves out, but not that many people get the opportunity to make that moving process a living nightmare. This resident of a two-condo home had a ton of friction with the downstairs neighbors, who tended to shirk their collective responsibilities. This naturally led to a ton of resentment from the resident upstairs, who recently learned they were planning to sell their condominium. The resident knew his neighbors would likely make life more diffi…

When your neighbor complains to your mother about how you need to mow your grass, you might have a situation on your hands.

Never mess with an engineer! Having an engineer for a neighbor can be very useful in the right circumstances, but if you manage to frustrate them, things can backfire in unexpected ways. Here, we have a retired father who confessed to his kid about all the acts of petty revenge he has enacted on his difficult, noisy neighbors next door after they started hosting loud pool parties on weeknights regularly. Some of this pettiness ranges from launching debris over the property line to planting tree…

Sometimes the only way to beat an HOA is to become a board member

This person is really living the dream: they have a lakefront cottage and their own seaplane! That sounds like a cozy life: they inherited their place from a family member, and they're not even required to join their local homeowner's association . Just because you aren't part of this HOA, doesn't mean they won't still try to bug you! The HOA members are certain that they could make this dude move the seaplane. It seems to be a fairly common issue for HOAs to try everything to get more money fr…

“That'll do, donkey. That'll do.” Those immortal words spoken by Shrek captured the memorable bond between those two fictional characters, a bond that this homeowner shared with his own emotional support animal, also a loving and loyal donkey.

It's no secret that HOAs can be nothing more than an invasive nuisance 90% of the time. This Redditor's story serves as yet another example of how a neighborhood HOA made an already stressful process worse. The Original Poster (OP) was in the process of going through a move and had not yet received his proof of registration sticker for his car. For the record, he had already gotten his car officially registered online and was simply waiting for the sticker to be shipped in the mail. Yet somehow…

The best part about finally owning your own home is that you can do whatever you want with it—within legal limitations and logical reasoning. Of course, you'll quickly come to realize that this isn't necessarily the case, as you'll also be contending with nosy HOA members poking around looking for a single blade of grass out of line. You'll also be subject to the opinions of your neighbors, who will be more than happy to share them with you as though their judgement is law. This homeowner bough…