How would you deal with an unruly neighbor?
Six months ago I bought a house in what I thought was a nice, quiet, friendly, safe neighborhood.
Five months ago I started having trouble with my across the street neighbor’s 19 year old son and his friends.
This kid is bad news. I’ve read about him in the paper having been arrested several times, underage DUI, drugs, and abusing his girlfriend. He and his buddies like to sit in the front yard and glare at me or my guests any time we’re out (like the mean mugging stare where they get all quiet and just stare at you, trying to be intimidating)
Around Thanksgiving "someone" tied a condom to one of my landscaping lights. About two weeks after that, someone piled dog shit all over my front steps. That’s the only house around that has a dog.
Now this guy’s friends like to cut through my yard to get to the street behind me. When they come through, its usually at 1:00 AM or some time like that, they are loud, and throw snowballs at my bedroom window when there is snow on the ground. They throw empty beer cans in my yard, cigarette butts, etc.
On Christmas at 11:30 PM, someone was at my back door pounding on the door, and then ran away when I turned the outside light on.
I called the police that time, as I have had enough. The officer said that they need to catch them in the act, and suggested getting a video survelance system.
Before I go and spend 0.00 on something like that, what are some ideas of how to deal with this?
I’ve already thought about telling his mom, but I don’t want to go that route because that may just make things worse as it will make me look like some wussy.
Has anyone else dealt with something like this?
I’ve seriously never interacted with this guy in any way to become a target of his. I’m almost never home, and I used to say hello when I saw him out until 2 months of getting no response caused me to stop trying to be friendly.
What do you all think?