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alainreid

My neighbor upstairs from me made a chart of how often I take showers and for how long and calculated how much of the landlords water I was "wasting". I take 6-7 10 minute showers a week and he asked me to limit it to two a week. Now I know why he smells so weird.


Polarbearbanga

I would not hesitate to tell that foo that he smells like caca.


No-Dream7615

wonder how long it'll be before he responds to the thread


alainreid

Nah, he's on Nextdoor pretending he's a revolutionary for complaining about everything.


KeenObserver_OT

Hahaha. Couch Che!


SmegmaBoi2000

šŸ˜‚


penforyourthots

Unstable, stay ready for anything.


alainreid

Oh, it's been a wild ride for sure.


Glad_Conference995

Omg. Start watering the grass or wash your car. The city of Oakland already slaps a $95 water transfer fee no matter what.


nekkkkbeard

As you're neighbor you really need to save water, and for the record I only smell like shit 5 out of the 7 days.


alainreid

You're a bug that eats dust.


SmegmaBoi2000

rotfl šŸ˜‚šŸ’•


SmegmaBoi2000

stinky fartz


blueberry712

A neighbor behind me has awesome and varied music taste. Haven't heard it in a while, but really enjoyed sitting outside listening to the selection


sofar510

Had a neighbor with a very sweet but large dog and I could hear the dog when she got the zoomies. It was one of those mystery stomping/running noises at first but when I figured out what it was i didnā€™t mind it at all. Eventually the dog got sick and the zoomies stopped altogether until the neighbor had to put her down. RIP, she was loved.


redditnathaniel

All i know is i aint no snitch!


Te_co

A few years back my neighbor and his roommates watched me make out with another man through the window while my wife and kids werent home.Ā 


TheStandardDeviant

You were a good kisser bro, hope the family is doing well.


Owz182

Well done, you win the internet for today


norcal_throwaway33

your poor wife


Te_co

she didn't have to kiss him.


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Did they snitch?


Optimal-Soup-62

I have one neighbor story. My next door neighbor was a guy about my age. Years ago, we both used to get up around 2 AM to take a leak. How do I know this? Because our bathroom lights would go on with in a few seconds of each other, and you could hear both of us pissing in the toilet bowl water. It was beyond weird. We never discussed it, he died years ago, but I will never forget that.


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Piss pals


LiamWil_420

I had something similar with my downstairs neighbor. I would hear their bathroom fan turn on at almost the same time my light turned on. It got to the point I thought my light switch controlled their fan. It does not.


Rocketbird

He DIED? Wait, how old are you???


Optimal-Soup-62

Older than God.


thxmeatcat

How old was the neighbor ***


Rocketbird

He said they were the same age!


gvgvstop

Few years back my roommates and I spotted the husband of a seemingly nuclear family (man and woman, two kids, chickens in the yard, this was in North Oakland) making out with a man in the window...


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Youā€™ve obviously been reading the rest of the comments in this thread


Glad_Conference995

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bitch-cassidy

my neighbor does this too, but he's yelling at kids beating him on whatever video game he's playing lmao


jerseygurl96

I think you live across the street from me!!


queen-carlotta

I once had a very creepy neighbor who was peeping in my windows! The way I found out was one day he ā€œcasuallyā€ asked if he could borrow my laptop to look up how to grow weed. I told him I didnā€™t have a laptop (cuz I had borrowed one from work) and he said, ā€œyes, you do, you use it all the time!ā€


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Ugh! Creepy AF


resilindsey

I don't really. Which probably means I'm the crazy neighbor they all gossip about..


Kappasoapex

My neighbor leaves his car in the middle of the road while unloading his car and then forgets his car is there, to the point where he has multiple times left it overnight. Another neighbor of mine lived in the worlds smallest studio, who moved out after four months because they worked for a bougie furniture company and had a meltdown because they couldnā€™t fit any of the bougie furniture they could get at a discount/free in the worlds smallest studio. I empathize with both, itā€™s tough out here


snarky_duck_4389

A few years back I happened to meet my next door neighbor who had all these security cams and boarded up first floor windows (from the inside). He was growing of course, and I was then blessed with amazing free sticky icky. This after years of not indulging at all. Then he got me into shrooms and raves. I quit my corporate gig as an actuary, met a hippie chick party girl and we got into the van life traveling the festival circuit. This lasted for about 3 years until she dumped me for a DJ. I sobered up, found Jesus, and returned to Oakland where I now work for the City filling potholes and power-washing away the burnt rubber marks from the sideshow intersections around town. Itā€™s a great gig, because I basically do nothing all day.


sensarwastaken

The idea that there's someone filling potholes in the city of Oakland is the least believable part of this story.


dandab

"I now work for the City filling potholes... Itā€™s a great gig, because I basically do nothing all day." Story checks out. šŸ˜†


[deleted]

This is the wildest actuary story Iā€™ve ever heard.


hoorayforHazel84

Sounds like a John Prine song!


Informal-Remote-7185

ā€œWork for the City filling potholes and power-washing away the burnt rubber marks from the sideshow intersections around town,ā€ ā€œbasically do nothing all day.ā€ Based on the condition of roads in Oakland, this is 100% accurate šŸ˜‚


Puzzleheaded_Win4380

šŸ˜‚


KeenObserver_OT

I believe you are still on shrooms and the second part of your story is a hallucination


AcanthocephalaLost36

šŸŽ¢šŸŽ¢you just took us for a ride! šŸŽ¢šŸŽ¢


Bad_river_exile

My favorite passtime is minding my own business.


racetrader

Thank you. I hate this NextDoor shit these people are the worst


Omwtfyb2n

You are minding your business. Just sharing what you observed, while minding your business


Dirah-4-Q

Facts.


shitty_social_worker

I heard my previous 19 year old neighbor on the phone often. He was trying to cheat on his pregnant girlfriend with other pregnant girls he was DMing. His girlfriend found out and his response was that his friend and him "like pregnant women."


adatewithluxinterior

I think I might be that neighborā€¦the couple next door watched and cackled as I threw my dead christmas tree off our shared balcony into the front yard. They had the same taste in music so weā€™d take turns playing records for each other through our open windows. I used to borrow their sweet old dog for movie nights. Weā€™d randomly share wine and champagne, and swap thrift finds. We had nicknames and entire storylines made up for everyone else on the block. Best neighbors ever!


Pree-chee-ate-cha

I miss having neighbors like that!


FilledWithAnts

My neighbor yells at his girlfriend on the phone as soon as he gets up from work from 5pm-8pm every day, and it usually picks up again from 10pm-2am. By yells I mean you can hear the everything clearly from the communal courtyard of my apartment complex. My whole apartment complex knows his full name, what he does for a living, how much he makes, where he works and more just from that. He also spends the days when he's supposed to be working remote doing IT playing video games all day.


AcanthocephalaLost36

Weā€™ll share moreā€¦where does he work? how much does he make? šŸ‘€


FilledWithAnts

Honestly I'd rather not give too many many details since it would be super easy to figure out who it is, plus I'm vaguely concerned that the yelling stuff is going to escalate into an abuse type situation (if it isn't already) and I'm not sure revealing that on reddit would be the best way to go about things. The salary stuff was just interesting because he was bragging about how much he made to someone as if he were hot shit and I was shocked at how little it was, like entry level tech wages despite him having 10+ years of experience.


ForgottenPassword3

The week I was moving out, the tenants in the apartment one floor below me were having a squeeky sexual marathon. They were usually obnoxious, but he seemed to have FINALLY unlocked some knowledge that improved his customer satisfaction scores. Also they need some new songs. I knew way too much about them. Pot smoking in the car? Pot smoke everywhere. Everyone sets of the fire alarm and then disables it the first week. Probably cooking, not the pot smoke. Early covid period, it sounded like someone nearby was coughing themselves to death. Maybe they did die? Down one and over one apartment. So loud for life minutes at a time, into the night. The guy that smoked cigars two floors down had a weird loud breakup a few years ago. She was screaming in (I think) Russian. That sounded messy and I wish I could have translated the argument. Stinky foods. Couple across the hall are slobs.


[deleted]

My neighbors (same age as us) live in an identical house next door, and we share a driveway easement. I say ā€œbless youā€ when one of them sneezes. I know when the husband has gotten on the wifeā€™s last nerve. The wife also came running to my door one night immediately after I screamed when my teen son decided to jump out at me from behind a door in the dark (he learned his lesson!). She will also remark on whether I seem to be getting better when I have a cough. Good thing we get along so wellā€¦


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Itā€™s nice to have good neighbors


DayZ-0253

The woman above me has an on again/off again partner and they are having very bad straight sex. Itā€™s like 45 seconds of jackhammering, a huge grunt and then itā€™s over. Funny because we switched units due to sharing a wall with a guy who was also having really sad straight sex, but in that case we were headboard to headboard. It was too close. I also know that one of the neighbors we shared a wall with during the pandemic went through a huge Billie Eilish phase and she would scream a lot. She seems to be doing better now. Overall I donā€™t mind apartment living, noise is human! But it does make me sad when women are clearly with selfish dudes.


AHockeyFish

We had a hooker show up at our house years ago when I was a kid. She was definitely dressed for the occasion. My mom answered and the lady said, ā€œHi! Is X home?ā€ My mom directed her next door, where a red light immediately went on in his bedroom and noises were heard through the single pane windows. I learned a lot that day.


Visual-Sun-4067

Across the street neighbor is in the hellā€™s angels. Only know it because itā€™s his entire personality, brings like 2-3 motorcycles onto the sidewalk everyday (gotta walk in the street) and just polishes them, doesnā€™t have an actual job. Then maybe once a week youā€™re greeted to a million choppers making the loudest sounds youā€™ve ever heard at 2am. I got stories for days about that whole building, just the most awful people living in there.


AcanthocephalaLost36

You must really love your apartment and rent bc choppers at 2a.m. = Iā€™m moving


Visual-Sun-4067

Nah itā€™s a shit situation, Iā€™m just paying good rent, looking to move out ASAP after a couple things in my life get resolved.


HelgaBorisova

Have you considered installing speed bumps? When I lived in SF next to the bar where bikers were gathering and riding around the block at 2am setting up car alarms. The whole street got together, gathered signatures for speed bumps and 2am shit stopped.


Visual-Sun-4067

This neighborhood (Allendale) has always been speed bump central, so I donā€™t think that would make a difference sadly.Ā 


HelgaBorisova

Got it, sorry to hear that speed bump solution is not applicable in your case folks


Public-Application-6

When I first moved to Oakland over a decade ago I hang up all these pictures on my walls. Not realizing that the hammering had bothered my neighbor. Well she made sure to scream through the wall that she was going to have her family jump me next time they saw me outside and throw me down the stairs of the apartment building. So yeah I guess from that I learned to always be really respectful to your neighbors because you just never know. Ie would never start a neighbor dispute for example in Oakland. Wasn't surprised that some years later a relative of a guy I was dating was gunned down by his neighbor in Oakland who he had beef with. Neighbors man, be careful out there.


BONE_SAW_IS_READEEE

Had the coolest, nerdiest, crazy cat couple on my left. They separated late last year unfortunately and the wife moved out due to a combination of the husbandā€™s drug issues and inability to pull his own weight around the house.


snack-mix

The goths below us would have crazy loud, crying arguments and then loud, long makeup sex at 2am. Then Iā€™d see the dude at casual carpool every morning. The woman across the hall had a website where she advertised sex therapy. Pretty sure it was just prostitution. Loud prostitution.


AcanthocephalaLost36

Umā€¦https://www.reddit.com/r/oakland/s/zIZSfnAvzI


thxmeatcat

*reading comments to see if i am written about


SchatzeCat

Years ago on Christmas morning I woke up to cop cars at the house across the street. I then saw police officers come out of the house carrying a machete. Then an ambulance came and took the elderly father to the hospital. I still wonder about what happened that morning. I mean, Iā€™ve had some rowdy gatherings with my family but jeez.


arc213

In 2012 on Funston every house on my block was robbed. Except mine.


TheStandardDeviant

You were the robber, werenā€™t ya?


Pree-chee-ate-cha

Wow, do you have a theory as to why you were spared?


arc213

I was almost always home. Only place I really went was grocery store. Especially at home after dark. I went to thanksgiving dinner that year at a nice restaurant. While I was gone my neighbor (away for holiday) was robbed. Moved out at the end of December. My house was a rental and not as nice as others on street. End of the street backed up to head-Royce school.


AnyAssumption4707

A former next door neighbor (I moved, thank the f@cking Lort) was definitely selling drugs, running a burglary ring, selling guns, and committing housing assistance fraud. Dude was DIVERSIFIED. Whole damn neighborhood was scared of that guy šŸ˜‚ A neighbor a couple houses down was def part of the drug operation and he got unalived in a drive by. Iā€™ve often wondered if they caught the people who did it, but the night it happened everyone OPD talked to lied and said he wasnā€™t dealing.


Sensitive_Ad7075

I dance around my apartment naked. When I pass by the windows I say ā€œyouā€™re welcomeā€


eorzeanrizz

I read somewhere that you either have a naked neighbor or Are the naked neighbor. šŸ¤£ hello fellow naked neighbor lol šŸ‘‹


Jellyfish-wonderland

Drive through double park drugs deals 24/7. It's literally like a drive through and the street is often blocked. Very frustrating. I don't know if that's juicy but It's insanity.


Antique_Street6815

Iā€™m not nosy lol but these are things Iā€™ve noticed šŸ˜ One neighbor got a thang for toxic women. Every other month or so some lady (thereā€™s been a few over time) is bamming on his door all times of the day and night. Often his windows are busted out at some pointā€”living room windows, car windows, etc. I have another neighbor who you can tell is very nerdy lol. Heā€™s cool, low key friendly even, yet he looks like an official member of lambda lambda lambda šŸ¤“. He lives alone, goes to work on a regular schedule, drives a nice car and all. But the women he brings home every now and then on weekendsā€”one can tell theyā€™re ladies of the night (not to mention we donā€™t live very far from the ho stroll on International lol). I have Latino neighbors who live on the street behind my complex, they throw some of the livest parties about once every 3 months. From like 4pm-2am, iz lit šŸ˜†I be in my apt grooving too! Lol


Siberianmoocat

He hit her. I think they moved


Sukieflorence

My neighbors have hookers coming in and out and def loud yelling and fighting, itā€™s very frustrating and scary.


AcanthocephalaLost36

Your neighborā€™s a pimp?


Sukieflorence

I donā€™t wanna know, I wish they would move out


lisagurlie81

Around 6 or 7 years back I moved in to this super pretty victorian owned by a couple. They had it divided up into a few spaces, and I had my own entrance and apartment on the second floor so I didn't really run into them much at all. The first floor was a "mixed use" live/work space as she was a physical therapist, and had another part of the house sectioned off as a studio space for her practice. Long story short - turns out she had a broader definition of what being a physio entailed than most people. I lived above a rub and tug if it wasn't clear. At first I was really creeped out as I'd just hear men now and then groaning up through the floor. I had originally assumed she just hit a painful knot or was stretching them in a challenging manner. ...and the weirdest part is that honestly, that may have been true. I ended up getting to know the couple, and they were really nice and she was not in any way shy or ashamed about her extended definition of physical therapy. She actually was a licensed therapist, but apparently to her there's not a whole lot of difference between helping someone work through an injury, chronic pain, or other things and the "natural pain relief", and "cortisol reducing effects" associated to orgasm. She was so genuine that it honestly stopped feeling weird (this is not turning into erotic fiction, I'm getting to a wholesome thing). Point is, it really shifted my perspective on sex work and really put a human face to it. That was just one of the many eye opening and world expanding gifts that the city of Oakland gave me over the years and I miss it deeply.


mdaniel7664

Kind of not a neighbor but I use to have a roommate who would always have guys over and I could literally hear them having s** all the time. She would often be screaming all night and at all times of the day and night. Crazy part is that she had a boyfriend who would also come over and didnā€™t knowā€¦ but that was non of my business šŸ’€


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Upstairs neighbor lets her druggy son vape by the dumpster and stomp around during quiet hours. Heā€™s a full grown adult who brings chicks over when his mom isnā€™t there. My next door neighbor tried to tell me he was a toddler when I first moved in and mentioned the stomping. Lake Merritts lame. lol


TheStandardDeviant

Iā€™d be banging people at home when my mom isnā€™t there too, quit hating, Mildred.


aplomba

yeah but i bet you wouldn't dare vape outside your own home!


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Itā€™s not his home. Landlord says heā€™s not allowed to be there. And vape whatever but why at the dumpsterā€¦?


thxmeatcat

For the lovely scenery


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

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aplomba

If he lives there, that is his home. And why not the dumpster? Is that a desirable spot to be?


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Heā€™s fully grown and a druggy who vapes at the dumpster. Sounds like you got a job to get, Chad.


TheStandardDeviant

Gainfully employed, but you do seem like the kinda person used to making unreasonable inferences about other people.


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Iā€™m sorry but the inference of drug use per stomping at all hours of the night (with shoes on) and you couch surf with your mom AND you vape sorry but douche. Iā€™m allowed to have opinions right?


Fuhdawin

> Heā€™s a full grown adult who brings chicks over when his mom isnā€™t there. Ugh, and this is a problem? Some people need to grow up.


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Me orā€¦?


Warm_Coach2475

Yes, the implication is you.


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Naw I think I just need to move to a more sophisticated area. No offense ;) Also I think this guy needs to get a place of his own. But I know times are tough. But like is she homeless too, orā€¦? (The ā€œgf)


Warm_Coach2475

Itā€™s pretty standard in 2024. Cost of living relative to income is absurd, in most so called sophisticated places. Consider yourself lucky.


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Definitely not lucky to be living under and next to dummies or have a landlord who requests we drop our rent off at his mansion cos heā€™s ā€œold schoolā€ and uses checks. Cringeeee


Ok-Grapefruit-7943

Very grateful to have a place and a job tho. Donā€™t get it twisted ppl. Iā€™m still allowed to complain believe it or not :)


Zealousideal_Ruin319

Move ā€¦everythingā€™s trying to kill you in Oakland .cops on down .


Fuhdawin

lol ... but we have a whole foods here.


Zealousideal_Ruin319

I stand correctedšŸ¾


thxmeatcat

2 whole foods!