Neighbour being a pain and stirring

gettingready

I live in a block of flats, 6 flats in my part of the block, secure door entry system, nice little place.

2 out of the 6 flats are still council, 4 are now private.

I have a single woman in her 60s living above me and now and again she is just simply looking for/stirring problems for me.

I am avoiding her like a plague and always making sure she is not walking up/down when I take cats or dog out. Frankly I do not remember last time I saw her to be honest, must have been ages ago.

Today she has pushed a letter through my letter box asking me "to be responsible for my animals" as her son comes to visit with his dog between 4 and 10 pm.

Assuming she meant for me to pick my cats from communal garden, I went upstairs to say thanks for letting me know.

How wrong I was.

She went into one of her speeches (different "issues" but always long and impossible to cut in while she talks) telling me that when she broke her shoulder (ages ago) she KNOWS I was having Zara off the lead on the stairs on PURPOSE so Zara would bump into her while she had her shoulder/hand in bandages and walks with a stick.

Now, she walks with a stick due to accident she had ages ago with her son's previous dogs (!!) so nothing to do with me.

How she broke her shoulder I have no idea, do not even remember when that was never mind purposely letting my dog out onto the staircase to bump into her (!!!).


So I just told her I am not going to stand there and listen to her accusing me of some nonsense and walked out of her flat with her shouting after me. She was drunk. Again. She is drunk most of the time anyway and this is just one of the reasons I avoid ANY contact with her whatsoever.

She does not look/act like your usual drunk. She looks after herself, thinks a lot of herself and keeps on saying how she was a legal secretary etc etc. She clearly thinks she is better than anyone else but she is a common drunk just good at hiding it.

Some time ago she was banging on my door and asking me if I have some little insects on my wall as she had hundreds of them oh her bedroom wall. Knowing where she was heading with it - told her my dog/cats do NOT have fleas and her insinuation that hundreds of fleas from my animals jumped a floor up and settled on her wall is insane. And that perhaps she should check her b/f cats for fleas as him visiting/her going there she could have easily brought them home herself.

From other neighbours I know that ages ago (before I moved here) her sister ripped all her carpets out when she was in a hospital as her flat was so infested with fleas.

Above just examples of what pain in the... she is. Worse and more ridiculous accusations/ideas as I totally avoid her. She was trying to be "friendly" when I moved in but her constant banging on my door, several times a day with any excuse were driving me insane and her drunk breath was driving me up the wall so I simply cut all contact.

Still - now and again she will come up with some nonsense or another.

Cats walking up and down the stairs "leave hair behind and she carried this dirt on her shoes into her flat" etc etc. Cats are NEVER alone on the staircase, I walk then down and let them into the garden (which she NEVER uses anyway but sees from her window) and then bring her back up again myself. And I sweep /mop the whole staircase every week (caretaker does it on Mondays, I do it on Friday after work)

Why do I worry? I am in a council flat - I have a permission for a dog and ONE cat (I have 6 cats at the moment) - I do not want to get any grief from the council about the dog or cats.

My pets do not cause any nuisance, I make sure they do not but she - she is just looking to cause problems when she is in one of her "moods".

How do I handle this?

No hiding the situation today upset me a LOT.

This woman is the very reason that 2 previous sets of tenants moved out of what is now my flat, the last one swapped with me as this woman was making HER life hell by playing the loudest music till insane hours and generally being a nuisance.

Any suggestions?

gettingready

Oh dear - that must be my longest post ever but really REALLY upset...

Treevo

I don't think there's anything you can do. If she reports you to the council then you're going to have to deal with the consequences of your disregarding their rules.

Does she own or is she a tenant too?

notanewuser

6 cats?! In 1 flat?!

gettingready

Disregarding what rules exactly?


I said I have permission for the dog and for one cat. I have 4 my own cats (yes that is more than one) and the 2 extra came with my daughter when she moved back home recently.


My cats or my dog are not a nuisance to anyone ever - all my neighbours like Zara and she always gets cuddles when she is out.

What I am saying is that this woman is making up stories about various non existing issues.

This is what I have a problem with.

Yes, she is a council tenant and so am I - only 2 of us are here in the 6 flats.

Person_one

You herd 6 cats up and down a communal flight of stairs several times a day? You don't have your dog on a lead in the communal indoor areas? The rule is two animals but you have 7?

Sorry GR, I know you love your animals, but I bet if your neighbour were to write something from her perspective it might sound very reasonable...

notanewuser

gettingready wrote: »

Disregarding what rules exactly?


I said I have permission for the dog and for one cat. I have 4 my own cats (yes that is more than one) and the 2 extra came with my daughter when she moved back home recently.


My cats or my dog are not a nuisance to anyone ever - all my neighbours like Zara and she always gets cuddles when she is out.

What I am saying is that this woman is making up stories about various non existing issues.

This is what I have a problem with.

Yes, she is a council tenant and so am I - only 2 of us are here in the 6 flats.

Disregarding the rule that you only have 1 cat - 6 times over!!!

Pretty sure you could be evicted for that. Is it worth it?

Treevo

gettingready wrote: »

Disregarding what rules exactly?


I said I have permission for the dog and for one cat. I have 4 my own cats (yes that is more than one) and the 2 extra came with my daughter when she moved back home recently.


My cats or my dog are not a nuisance to anyone ever - all my neighbours like Zara and she always gets cuddles when she is out.

What I am saying is that this woman is making up stories about various non existing issues.

This is what I have a problem with.

Yes, she is a council tenant and so am I - only 2 of us are here in the 6 flats.

You have permission from your landlord to have one cat and one dog - them's the rules. You think that rule doesn't apply to you because you think having six cats is OK.

If she complains and the council discover that you don't care about the rules then they will enforce them - meaning bye bye kitties! Do they also know you were subletting?

She's not been the greatest neighbour but neither have you and because if your actions, she holds all the cards.

I say this as the current slave to one cat - but we lived above a women with three before this house and they stank. The smell travels. I can't imagine what it would be like with six cats and a massive dog too!

Maybe have a bit if compassion rather than just dismissing her as nothing more than a common drunk? Because one phone call and you're screwed.

gettingready

The council has a very long list of complaints from several people about this particular woman's behaviour and as I mentioned, few tenants from my current flat moved away because of her and again the council has a record of this.

I realise I have too many cats according to the permissions I currently have.

I have a problem with her making up stories that are not true at all from her delusional and drunken perspective.

Treevo

gettingready wrote: »

The council has a very long list of complaints from several people about this particular woman's behaviour and as I mentioned, few tenants from my current flat moved away because of her and again the council has a record of this.

I realise I have too many cats according to the permissions I currently have.

I have a problem with her making up stories that are not true at all from her delusional and drunken perspective.

Two wrongs don't make a right. You're breaking the rules so you're no better than she is.

Did you have permission to sublet too?

Person_one

gettingready wrote: »

The council has a very long list of complaints from several people about this particular woman's behaviour and as I mentioned, few tenants from my current flat moved away because of her and again the council has a record of this.

I realise I have too many cats according to the permissions I currently have.

I have a problem with her making up stories that are not true at all from her delusional and drunken perspective.

No, I think you have a problem because you have a neighbour who might not be willing to overlook your rule breaking.

If I were you, I'd grovel to the council and ask them to up the number of cats you have permission for before she reports you, be very clear that there won't be any more. Always better to confess than be caught.