Since we moved in (about 11 months), we’ve had our next door neighbor (zero lot) constantly harass us. He yells for hours on end between our properties with all kinds of racial slurs about how our types aren’t allowed in this country (I’m Jewish and my fiance is Vietnamese – He is African-American), threatening violence in very descriptive ways (stab you both in the heart with my knife and strangle your f*in dog), and even spray-painted a Swastika on the community sidewalk. These are nearly daily experiences and we have had the police out several times.

Police have been out at least a dozen times for this (not just myself calling), domestic disturbances, etc, and NOTHING is ever done. The police don’t care unless someone gets injured – and say there isn’t much we can do. In front of the police he even said that if we have him arrested he was going to shoot us in the heads when he gets out – yet the police aren’t taking it serious and won’t allow me to press charges when I asked they do for assault and trespassing. Even with Police as witness, they say I need it on video.

The H.O.A. and Builder says their hands are tied, and refuse to do anything and we feel stuck.

I really hope this great community can give sound, legal advice as to what we can do about this problematic and nuisance neighbor.

I really wish we could move, but we just purchased. If we move, it would cost us over K plus tax losses – and that would completely bankrupt us – with no place to live. We did interview him before we bought and he was super nice – but see that he just wanted to not have a vacant prop next to him – which would hurt his prop value.

The man seems mentally unstable and his threats are becoming more and more violent. At first it was the typical F*you, but now he is being very descriptive about how he wants to harm us. What I listed above is the most tame things I can mention without being censored – he has even said he was going to make my "chin$ B!t$$ suck his ****, while strangling her" and making me watch before he kills us both. He is absolutely dangerous and if he does have some mental disorder, makes him even more dangerous. – but of course, I don’t have this on video, so it’s our word (with witnesses) against his.

And when we do gang up, he says we’re just calling the police because he’s black and then the police back-off and leave. Then he continues with the violent threats.
Unfortunately, we can’t get a restraining order since it is zero-lot and the police said that they can’t enforce it even if we convinced a judge + he can repeal it too because of the zero-lot issue.

Also, we can’t move, because we would be homeless and bankrupt because of losses, taxes, commissions, etc.

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True, America has given the world more in terms of scientific advancements, military protection, etc., but what about day-to-day life? They don’t have job lock because their insurance isn’t tied to employment, they have freedom of speech, assembly and religion…and, yes, you can own a firearm in Australia —-look it up instead of listening to propaganda! They have a high per-capita income also and a reasonable tax rate, no one goes bankrupt over medical problems….so why do so many Americans say that their country is the greatest on Earth when Australia appears to be a pretty great place as well? Some could argue that it’s actually greater.
So, Australia is not the centre of the English-speaking world and they don’t have the bread basket that America has, what good are those two things if you’re not doing well in America? So what if Australia isn’t the centre and doesn’t have a fertile interior….we’re talking about day-to-day life of an Aussie versus a Yank, and from what I am reading, it sounds like the average Aussie has it better these days. Flame away with ignorant comments about the "poverty, fascism, illiteracy, violence and socialism" of this foreign land and how much they suffer and all want to immigrate to America. Australia’s great.

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