Living with nightmarish neighbors: 25 stories from social networks that will amaze anyone

Neighbors are different, but some are just incredibly bad. On social networks, people tell their stories about unbearable flatmates. From endless parties and noisy arguments to smells coming through the walls — these stories prove that bad neighbors can turn life into a real nightmare.

"My flatmate hid food and ate someone else's, left dirty cotton swabs everywhere, refused to wash dishes. One day I saw him spitting on the floor at all. I hit him for that."

"And my roommate once stole money that I was hiding in my room and drank a bottle of expensive scotch given to me by a deceased friend"

"My best friend invited his girlfriend to live with us. She kept coming into my room and telling me about their quarrels, trying to find out something from me about a friend. And when they were fighting, she also came in and tried to involve me. It was a horror"

"Once I lived with two flatmates. We had a shared kitchen and a cleaning schedule—but they never followed it, and just piled everything up until it was my turn. My numerous requests did not help.

I complained a lot about the fact that I was the only one cleaning, and eventually stopped cleaning altogether. As a result, after 3 weeks, there were rotten products all over the kitchen and even an invasion of cockroaches. I had to call a cleaning company, and I managed to get them to pay. A week later they were kicked out of the apartment. I won! But the experience was terrible," one guy wrote.

"A neighbor once called me and "for fun" said that my father had died. In fact, he was fine."

"And my neighbor constantly left her hair in the sink after combing, which is why the drain was always clogged"

"And one landlord did not inform us that a person already lives in one of the rooms in the apartment. The neighbor is a surprise. This guy was very strange, and besides, he smoked in the room. An eerie experience"

"I rented a room in an apartment where five of us lived. One of the neighbors claimed that he once served in the National Guard. That is why he firmly believed that he should not follow the general rules or clean up after himself. He denied any wrongdoing.

He also smoked pot all the time, ate instant noodles and watched TV shows on his phone. He didn't have a job, which is why he often argued with his parents on the phone. As a result, he moved out because his parents stopped paying him for an apartment. This guy was 41 years old."

"One of my neighbors, as it turned out, left his webcam on when he left. That is, he was literally following me"

"I remember we had a record heat outside — about +37 degrees. My neighbor turned on the warm air on the air conditioner for the whole day, and when I arrived, there was a sauna in the apartment"

"My roommate often came home drunk at 2 a.m., turned on the lights everywhere, left the door open, and went to bed in the living room."

"I remember my neighbor leaving food in the refrigerator for so long that it turned into some form of life. When I threw it away, he also swore at me"

"Even in the midst of covid, my neighbor called a bunch of people to our apartment, without warning and without any protective measures"

"My roommate in the college dorm was so sloppy that because of her, an invasion of bed bugs began throughout the building"

"And my neighbor allowed her rabbit to leave her "piles" all over the apartment, including her bed. Then she "for some reason" complained of a rash all over her body"

"And my neighbor once made wine in our bathroom, which is why there was always a stink in the apartment"

"Before I let two more tenants into my apartment for the first time, we agreed on all the rules. But they didn't stop making a mess in the kitchen and other common areas. I was already silent about the condition of their rooms."

"I remember a case when my roommate was so drunk that he smashed everything in the kitchen in his underpants, and then peed himself. But I noticed it only when I slipped in a puddle"

"And my neighbor worked as a cook, but had no idea about cleanliness. After cooking, he left bags of food for a few days, which is why we got flies"

"Due to the fact that my neighbor constantly ate something and did not clean up after herself, we got ants. I also had to constantly clean alone so that the landlord would not be fined during inspections."

"The neighbor left his dirty plates for a few days. He didn't even remove the leftovers from them, and mold was already appearing on them. When I told him about it, he always pretended that he didn't understand how it happened."

"My neighbor wouldn't let me leave the room while she was meeting married men in the apartment. Still angry that she could allow it"

"When another tenant moved into the next room, a girl immediately moved in with him. Probably, to live together in a tiny room with a single bed is creepy"

"I washed the whole apartment once before the landlord came to check. My neighbor refused to help"

"Every time my former neighbor ironed things, he left the iron on the table turned on. I noticed it 4 times in two weeks!"