A menacing note left to a young couple moving into their first home together has sparked outrage online.
The letter was not the neighbourly welcome message that most would hope for on moving in day.
Instead, the couple were threatened with ‘eviction’ after the anonymous author said the couple had ‘already interrupted ALL of [their] neighbours’ lives’ – despite having been in their apartment for just eight hours.
Posted on Reddit, the young couple explained that they had moved into their first home together this week and had returned home from dinner to find the note pinned to their door.
They had been moving in boxes from around 2-4pm and moved their mattress at around 6.30pm before heading out to dinner to celebrate the ‘special day’ which was the start of an ‘exciting new chapter’ of their lives.
But despite only moving boxes in for a couple of hours and having met other ‘super nice’ residents in the building who ‘wished us good luck with the move’, the couple had a ‘damper’ put on the special day by the nasty note.
The letter – signed simply ‘ENOUGH!’ – states:
‘It’s day one for you and you’ve already interrupted ALL of your neighbours’ lives.
The menacing letter was shared by the couple online and sparked outrage from empathetic users
‘Your disrespectful slamming doors, yelling, stomping etc will not be tolerated!
‘This is a STRATA; with strata rules! Noise will not be tolerated,’ the note read.
It even continued with a threat of eviction to the new couple: ‘Should you continue, there will be noise violation warnings from our strata then fines will start which can lead to eviction!’
It concluded: ‘We’ve paid very good money to purchase these homes to get away from ignorant, disrespectful RENTERS! Read over your booklet of rules!
‘ENOUGH!’
The couple were left ‘upset’ and said it ‘really put a damper on what was otherwise a very special day for me and my girlfriend’.
They were left puzzled and hurt, having been reassured by their building management that they hadn’t broken any rules and were even apologised to by their landlord for the ‘borderline harassment’.
One woman was a key suspect to the couple as the likely author of the note, as they recalled: ‘We did notice a woman, probably in her late 60s, on her balcony staring right into our [apartment].
The couple had just gone out to dinner on their ‘special day’ moving into their first home together when they returned to find the note pinned to their door
‘We closed the blinds and she quickly went inside. When we left we noticed her staring at us from the window.’
They concluded: ‘If I had to guess who wrote that letter my money would be on her, but I have no idea what she is basing these claims on. We don’t even walk past her unit when we take the elevator.’
The post received 38k upvotes and more than 8,000 comments in less than 24 hours as people piled in with suggestions and shared their similar experiences.
People responded with outrage, with many telling the couple what they would do in a similar situation.
One user commented: ‘Next time you spot her staring at you, smile and wave enthusiastically. “Hi, neighbor!” 🙂 🙂 🙂
‘Never acknowledge [to her] that you got a note. Introduce yourself and gush about how welcoming everyone has been. Then completely stonewall her for the rest of your tenancy.’
Another user empathised: ‘God forbid you make SOUND while MOVING. Sorry you appear to have a nightmare neighbor already…’
Others advised the couple to get CCTV in preparation for more potential torment, with one person commenting: ‘Get a doorbell camera. People are less ballsy to put notes if they know they’re on camera.’
One person reacted: ‘lol I would just go tape it back on her door!’ and another said: ‘I would frame it and hang it on my door. I’m not even kidding.’
Another user shared a similar experience: ‘One time we had just moved into a rental about a week earlier and left for about three hours to attend a family birthday dinner.
‘We came home to a really nasty note, because apparently our dog had been barking at the window overlooking the front/driveway.
‘I hadn’t thought about the fact our dog was stressed from moving and in a new place and probably should have crated her.
‘But this note was so nasty, they were saying we shouldn’t own a dog and that if they ever see her out, we’ll be sorry.’
More stories emerged, including one user’s ‘miserable’ neighbour: ‘I used to live above a woman who would pound incessantly on my floor almost every time I walked around, regardless of what time it was or how quiet I was being.
‘She once yelled at me to “shut the fuck up” because I was putting a bookshelf together… at 3pm on a weekend.
‘Some people are just committed to being miserable. You can’t take it personally.’
