I had known I was moving next door to trailer trash. The neighbors on the right I am pretty sure sell drugs as they play rap music day and night loud enough to make my windows vibrate and they have about 20 cars coming and going all day and night. The neighbors across the street argue at 3:00am in their yard every weekend and let there kids (age 5 and under) run around outside in the road during these arguments at 3am. The second day I moved in this same neighbor came over to ask if I would give her a ride to the convenience store at the end of our street because her baby didn't have any food and her car was broken. I of course said no ( I mean it was like a 2 minute walk for crying out loud) Then her crazy parents that were living with them came over stinking of alcohol to ask if I would give them a ride 40 miles away because their daughter was mistreating them (mind you the guy was missing half his skull, yes his head was LITERALLY half way sunken in supposedly from a beat down he got some months ago) and when I said no he asked to borrow my cell phone 5 times within like 30 minutes because no one would answer his calls (wonder why?) Then begged me for money for gas. Now about a month after all of that I find out that my neighbors on the left are even bigger moochers. They've asked my husband for a jump on their car 3 times, begged first for 20 bucks, then came over and begged to use the washer and dryer, then came back to bum a ciggarette and borrow 2 dollars all the while telling us crazy stories about her husband hitting her with the car and not remembering he did it and only living off of 700 bucks a month blah blah blah. Finally since my husband works nights I put a sign on my door. It reads simply, DO NOT DISTURB. I stupidly figured it would be enough. The very same day someone knocks on my door twice. I ignore it and try to keep my kids quiet. (not an easy task considering they are only 3 and 5) Last night they came a knocking again. I again did not answer. Then today just as my husband leaves for work, I mean literally just pulling out the driveway they come knocking AGAIN. I don't know what else to do to get these people to leave me alone. I'm not yellow cab, I'm not the kwik e mart, I'm not good will but these people seem to think I am. I'm afraid to even take my dog out to pee or let my children play outside because these people might approach me to mooch some more. I will NEVER be ok with living in a trailer park EVER again. The probability of running into neighbors like these is too high. I mean for christ's sake TAKE A HINT MOOCHERS, GO AWAY!

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by Anonymous on Feb 21, 2008 at 8:28 PM

It sounds like you're doing as good a job as humanly possible. Don't give in because it'll be like feeding a cat. They'll just keep coming back for more.
Tell them that you need absolute peace and quiet because you're studying (or something) and that it's your policy not to loan/drive/lend etc. and that you don't have any extra money.
And start looking for another place to live, preferably one that will let you spend a night (weekends are best when the neighbors are home) to get an idea what the neighborhood is like.
Stand firm honey =)

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by Anonymous on Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM

Unfortunately, most trailer parks suck. It's cheap to live there, and this is the sort of clientele you get.

My in-laws live in an area intended for older, retired people, and if it was just that type of person who stayed there, everything would be fine. But, some of the older people have their younger, freeloading kids/grandkids etc. move in with them.

The once nice, quiet neighborhood is slowly going to shit because no good, druggie, SSI abusing, freeloading creeps move in with Grandma. They don't work, they don't even watch their kids. All they do is sit around, eat, drink, smoke, screw, and do drugs.

We've begged my in-laws to just move, but they won't get much for their house if they sell. Who wants to live next to that?

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by Anonymous on Feb 24, 2008 at 6:32 PM

log a complaint with the cops.... that is the only way for relief until the next lease renewal..

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by Anonymous on Feb 26, 2008 at 5:59 AM

Thank you all for the support. All of you are 100% correct. I finally said something to the landlord and before I even told him what was wrong he asked if I was being harrassed for money. Apparently they've been harrassing him too. He's supposed to talk to them to tell them to stay away from my trailer but it probably won't do much good. The same neighbor on the left came over AGAIN yesterday to bum a ciggarette. My husband was about to give her one until I realized what was going on, jumped up and ran to the door. I told her I'm sorry we don't have any and she just kinda stared at me like she couldn't understand what I was saying. I stood my ground, smiled and closed the door. She moved on to the next trailer. Our lease isn't up until Jan. so hopefully they'll get evicted before then. They already owe the landlord money (of course) After reading some of these stories on here I feel a lot better. It could be WAY worse lol. And after reading some of these stories I'm not gonna be afraid to go outside anymore. If they approach me again I just plan on making up some scary strange stories (like they do) and some outrageous excuse as to why I can't do whatever they're asking. Might as well have some fun with these losers while I can right? lol I can pick my nose and scratch myself with the rest of em! lol By the time I'm done there will be rumors about me that spread so far NO ONE will want to knock on my door! lol and perhaps when they stop coming over to beg for stuff I'll just go knock on their door and ask for money from them lol Wouldn't that be a hoot! Thanks again for the support and hopefully my problems with crazy neighbors will be over soon :) Oh and one question, who thinks it would be a good idea to snitch on the drug dealers? Should I just keep to myself on that one?

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by Anonymous on Feb 27, 2008 at 2:01 AM

Move, THEN snitch on the dealers. That way they can't take revenge on you.
You can tell the idiot neighbors that you have a terrible disease, then make up some kind of name like pernicious scabosa. When they ask what it is, just let your eyes tear up a little, then give a little twitch and make an inappropriate laugh. Tell them that the doctors are trying to figure out exactly how contagious it is before they send you to the "scabosa colony" or some other B.S. Tell them the medicine that you take for it gives you greasy anal discharge and give your buns a little scratch. Say that you can get it from sitting on a car seat =)
Or anything else you think you can pull off. See if they still ask to sit in your car or borrow anything else from you. Just have a good time with it!
Good luck!

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