Unfortunately, diplomatic efforts typically expose us to greater conflict – we’re effectively telling a troublemaker how he or she can cause us even more trouble. Good neighbors of the world indulge a great deal of neighbor nuisances before adopting a zero-tolerance policy against them. These are the people best positioned to make you miserable, and your good instincts will tell you quickly where you’ll stand with them. No matter how well suited you and your new community may seem to be, everything rests on the immediate neighbors.If you consider yourself averse to noise, smells and other infractions from a neighbor, rethink clustered homes like apartments and townhouses, and suburban settings where houses are often built too close for comfort.It may seem too late for that, but ongoing preventive measures are useful where we live now, and if you choose to move to a new home they can help you to live where you belong, in as much harmony as possible. Eventually, Borzotta wrote a book, Neighbors From Hell: Managing Today's Brand of Conflict Close to Home, which features a three-pronged approach to help resolve neighbor-related conflicts and restore peace to troubled communities.īelow is an excerpt from his book outlining the three action steps to safely manage a nightmare neighbor situation. Author and former police reporter Bob Borzotta used to report stories between neighbors but after his own run-in with a bad neighbor, he went online to explore the rise in "un-neighborly behavior" and seek resolutions.
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