Melbourne radio producer Rose, 26, has been left shocked after she received a series of notes from her very, very angry neighbours.
Their main concerns? The “stench” of her barbecue. The volume of her music. And her “loud bogan friends”.
Woah…
Rose returned home to the apartment she shares with her 28-year-old boyfriend Steve on Tuesday evening to find a note plastered to her front door.
“We your neighbours would like to complain about the awful and long-lasting stench from your barbecue, which happens many times a week,” the message was in black and red bolded text. “If it continues, we shall look into complaining to the body corporate and see if it’s even legal to have one on your balcony, let alone use it that often.”
The note was unsigned.
Rose has no idea what the note was referring to. “We haven’t had a barbecue in two weeks,” she told News.com.au.
She also denies playing the television loudly into the night. She said she’s often in bed by 9pm as she wakes to do a 4am shift at local radio station 3AW. If Steve watches television, he consciously keeps the volume low so as not to wake her.
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The following morning, 3AW hosts Ross and John discussed the note on air and agreed it was simply “un-Australian”.
Perhaps the note-leavers heard the on-air discussion, because things escalated rapidly from there.
Rose returned home to find another note taped to her door, as well as a folded letter that had been slid under the door frame.
“A complaint has been made about the pollution and stench of your barbecue, and the residential noise level of your TV,” the sticky-taped sign read. “Learn to be more considerate of your neighbours or move out.”
There was more. Much more.
"You make more noise than we ever do - you can hear your TV throughout the building whenever it's on and you always play loud music on weekends, as well as creating a racket with your loud bogan friends on your balcony," the note-under-the-door-said.
"I know most of our neighbours and they will agree you are lying as you are petty, bitchy freaks."
In an extreme act of passive aggression, the note was signed with a smiley face. Yes, really.
Rose and Steve have lived in their apartment for eight months, and have never had trouble before now.
One thing's for certain, they're now dealing with the neighbours from hell.
Have you ever had a nasty note from a neighbour?
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I must admit that I have. We had a family directly across the street from us who owned two dogs. They barked incessantly when there was nobody home but we put up with it because it was only during the day. Then the family went on holidays for two weeks and the dogs barked day and night for two weeks. They stood in front of a wire gate at the side of the house, directly opposite our bedroom window. The neighbour was the type of guy who became very unpleasant if crossed, so again, we let it go.
But then - they went away for the six weeks at Christmas. Someone came and fed the dogs each day around 5pm, but that was the only respite we got. Other neighbours were calling out to tell the dogs to shut up at all hours of the night and they did ..... for five minutes. It was the longest six weeks of my life.
I knew we couldn't stand another holiday time like this, so I went down to our local vet and got a council pamphlet on the dos and don'ts of the law regarding dogs. I highlighted all the particularly relevant sections and crept across the street in the dead of night to put it in their letterbox. It worked! When they went away from then on, the dogs went somewhere as well. I don't know where and I don't care. They were very careful with money though, so you can bet your socks it wasn't a boarding kennel.
Aw how awful for the poor dogs to be left alone for basically 24 hours a day for 6 weeks!
That was also getting to me. We had two dogs ourselves at the time and have always prided ourselves on being responsible dog owners. We felt so sorry for them most of the time because even when their owners were home, the dogs weren't allowed inside and nobody seemed to care about them. But when you have to start work at 7am and spend eight hours on your feet as a nurse, your sympathy does tend to wane somewhat.
Oh and that is completely understandable! I would have gotten sick of it too! I just feel sorry for the poor things, they must suffer from separation anxiety.
I'd have to hear the level of noise before I could say whether the original note was out of line.