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

In many neighborhoods, long histories and familiar faces can make a place feel safe and steady — but sometimes those same old relationships turn into long-term tension.

That’s what happened to one 33-year-old woman after she inherited her childhood home following her parents’ deaths.

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

One couple, whom she referred to as R and J — now in their 70s and 80s — has become a major source of stress. Their house faces the side of hers, with only a street between them.

“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.”

R and J weren’t always at odds with her family. She explained that the two women once went to school together and were friends, but a “feud” started when she was a child, after her father began 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,” she shared.

“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.”

Ironically, she added, “the one time they actually witnessed something worth calling the cops on, THEY DIDNT!”

The day before her father’s funeral, her family’s car was broken into — and the neighbors stayed silent until after the family discovered the break-in themselves.

Things escalated further when she and her 39-year-old husband renovated the home, including replacing a badly needed 100-foot privacy fence.

R confronted the contractors and even lectured the couple about not doing 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 at home and her husband working 10-hour days, the comment felt more like a criticism than encouragement. In response, they decided to extend their privacy fence to block the neighbors’ line of sight and installed a camera aimed solely at the fence line.

She noted that “the police already know we are doing this and we’re actually the ones who advised us to do so!” After years of what she described as nuisance calls, even local law enforcement, she wrote, seems tired of the ongoing conflict.