This one is a splendid example. Yoga teacher Kristyna Robinson endured seven years of misery from her upstairs neighbour Sandra Eveno, until the landlord, the local council, obtained a repossession order on Ms Eveno's flat and she was forced to leave.
Ms Eveno had shouted and screamed unremittingly, had tried to take over their shared garden, had accused Ms Robinson of drug dealing and gang violence, and had made false allegations to her other neighbours and her employer.
Ms Eveno was ordered to pay £15,000 towards the council's legal bills.
Hopefully this will end Ms Robinson's seven-year ordeal - unless Ms Eveno continues to pester her former neighbour despite having moved out.
Clearly Ms Eveno's irrational behaviour suggests serious mental health issues, but I can't see her seeking therapy. More likely she'll persecute her new neighbours just as badly and get evicted again.
We had a similar neighbour dispute when we moved into a London flat in 1993. The young lads downstairs held late-night parties every few days. We asked them to have fewer parties but they took no notice and in the end the local council imposed a huge fine for noise nuisance and they moved out.
We had another neighbour dispute in a previous flat. One of the downstairs occupants had a persistent hacking cough, and when we tentatively told him it was disturbing us, his response was to let our car tyres down.
Which is why we're now glad we live in a detached house with no neighbour nuisance whatever.
Nick, well from time to time we hear of such neighbour disputes, some may be of serious issues and some really ridiculous. Your coughing neighbour had for sure health problems. Difficult to battle against a cough and I would have had a problem to say that his coughing was disturbing. I think when people live in a flat they need to.arrange with neighbours and try to live together in a good way.Speaking to each other will normally help.
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Hannahü? Hü is German for disgusted?
DeleteI get the impression German apartment-dwellers are better behaved than those in the UK. Is that so, I wonder? The coughing was really loud and really disturbing. We put up with it as long as we could but it got to be a serious bugbear.
Nick, Hannah of course I realised my typing error after publishing sorry
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Germans are not better at all . There are big trouble makers too, but in our street things are ok. I only knew about one terrible story concerning a tree branch hanging in the neighbour's garden , it all ended in hospital. Hü means nothing in German.
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Hannah: You'd think a disagreement about a tree branch would be easy enough to resolve, but people can be incredibly stubborn over the pettiest things.
DeleteI thought hü was the equivalent of Ugh (disgusted) in English?
I dread the day I have to sell my house and move into an apartment.
ReplyDeleteColette: Me too. Apartments always come with some kind of neighbour problem.
DeleteBeing in an apartment or shared housing can be difficult due to the noise issue. But having such horrible neighbors makes it ten times worse. Even in detached houses, neighbors can be annoying. We had a neighbor who constantly threw his cigarette butts in our yard at our previous home. And our current neighbor is just plain mean. We hear him yelling at his disabled son all the time. It’s terrible.
ReplyDeleteBijoux: Yelling at his disabled son? That's monstrous. Here in Belfast a few years ago we had neighbours who threw late night parties, but thankfully two of them moved out and the remaining one is quiet as a mouse.
DeleteI guess I was lucky when I lived in apartments. I really never had a problem with anyone. Where I live now I have neighbors I don't like but I don't have contact with them. They don't like me, either!
ReplyDeleteSandra: Well, at least you can keep away from the neighbours you don't like. They aren't living in close proximity.
DeleteHaving lived in the apartment that I'm in for the past 26 years, I've seen a lot of people come and go. Some have been great and some have been awful.
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