WOMAN INHERITS FEUD WITH PARENTS NEIGHBOURS

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Woman's Late Parents Leave Her the Family Home. She Didn't Expect to Also Inherit Their Longstanding Feud with the Neighbors

By Tereza Shkurtaj  Published on December 7, 2025 07:00AM EST

 

In many neighborhoods, long histories and familiar faces can create a sense of stability — but sometimes those same longstanding relationships become the source of friction.

 

This was something one 33-year-old woman did not foresee after inheriting her childhood home from her deceased parents.

 

“I’m now raising my 2 children where I grew up. That is something special on its own,” she wrote in a post. “I know almost all our neighbors. I grew up with a majority of them.”

 

However, one couple, whom she called R and J – now in their 70s and 80s – has become a constant source of stress. She noted that the couple's house faces the side of her home, with a street dividing the two.

 

"If our neighborhood had an HOA, they would be the presidents of it," she wrote. "They were a thorn in my parent’s side and have now become a thorn in ours."

 

She explained that R and J used to actually be friends with her parents, since the two women went to school together. However, a "feud" began when the poster was a child after her father started working with J's ex-husband.

 

“Over the past 4.5 years we have had the cops/city called on us over 15 times for the most petty crap imaginable,” the user explained.

 

"Grass too long because all it has done is rain and can’t dry it out to cut? Call the city! Too many weeds in our yard? Call the city! Have a fire pit going in our backyard? Call the cops!" she wrote. "I think you get the picture."

 

The irony, she added, was that “the one time they actually witnessed something worth calling the cops on, THEY DIDNT!”

 

When her family’s car was broken into the day before her father’s funeral, the neighbors said nothing until after the family discovered it themselves.

 

And when the Reddit user and her 39-year-old husband renovated the home, which included a much-needed replacement of a 100-foot privacy fence, things escalated.

 

One of her neighbors, R, confronted contractors and even lectured the homeowners about not doing all the work themselves, insisting that "all it takes is a couple hours a day and in a year’s time, it will be all done.”

 

With two toddlers and a 10-hour workday for her husband, the advice was more insulting than helpful. As a result, they planned to extend their privacy fence to block the neighbor’s view and even installed a camera pointed solely at the fence line.

 

The Reddit user made sure to note that “the police already know we are doing this and we’re actually the ones who advised us to do so!” After years of nuisance calls, even law enforcement is tired of the conflict, she wrote.