35+ Petty Neighbor Notes That Belong In The Passive-Aggressive Hall Of Fame

There’s nothing quite like a passive-aggressive note to remind you that humans are just feral cats with mortgages. Some people talk things out face-to-face. Others… prefer to leave an all-caps message taped to your door about how your recycling “SMELLS LIKE A CRIME SCENE” (actual quote).

These little paper grenades are equal parts petty, dramatic, and unintentionally hilarious. They’re the written equivalent of muttering under your breath but making sure everyone hears it.

Here are some of the funniest, pettiest neighbor notes the internet has ever produced. Honestly, they’re so over-the-top they could be framed and hung in the HOA clubhouse.

1. You’re Welcome

2. This Neighbor Note

3. Kids Are Having Fun With Friends So A Neighbor Reported To HOA That They Must Be Running A Childcare

4. There Is A Dumpster That Is Illegally Taking Up A Parking Spot On My Street With A Note Saying Not To Use It. I’d Been Leaving Other Notes Making Fun Of Their Note. Today, Someone Else Joined In

5. Unfortunately For You, So Am I

6. What Is Wrong With People? Open Your Own Mail

7. Passive Aggressive Neighbors At Their Finest

8. My Neighbor Has Been Giving Me Repeated Note To Cut Down My Trees, These Are My Trees

9. Note That Got Left On My Neighbors Car After He Parked Crooked And Hit The Car Next To Him

10. The Neighbors Need To Stop

11. Joy-Hating Neighbor Writes Psychotic Threatening Note

12. Stealing Plants

13. This Was Posted On My Neighbor’s Door This Morning

14. Here’s A Good One… Last Month My Lovely Downstairs Neighbor Taped This To My Door

My son was apparently laughing too loud playing at the park outside with his friends… Let’s hope her lease ends soon because this is the third letter she’s put on my door about his “laughing” I’ll see if I can find them. She’s 65 with 15 cats and we can smell her cigarette smoke through our vents nightly and have never said a mean word to her. Might just post my own letter about her cigarette smoke .. and I’m not even that type of person … but COME ON. This is ridiculous.

15. My Family Is Displaced From A Hurricane And A Neighbor Left A Letter

16. Received In The Mail From A Concerned Neighbor

I haven’t been able to care for my yard as much as I would like over the past few months because we had our second child back in February and I’ve been single-handedly caring for the newborn and our 5 year old while my wife has been in the hospital recovering from postpartum complications.

At no point has my yard been out of compliance with city or HOA ordinances, and at no point has anyone bothered to approach me directly about the matter. Instead, we just received this anonymous passive-aggressive letter in the mail. They even postmarked it and sent it through the mail, rather than walking a few doors down and speaking to me like a human being.

17. One Of My Apartment Neighbors Left This Anonymous Note On My Door Accusing Me Of Noise Complaints After Midnight On Christmas

18. Letter And Response From Two Of My Neighbours I Happen To Share A Wall With

19. Neighbors Of My Dorm Room Put This Sign Up Yesterday

20. So Sorry About Stealing Your Golf Clubs. Here’s My Old Set… A Neighbor Of Mine Woke Up To Find This Note On Her Van The Day After It Was Broken Into

21. Someone In My City Got This Put On Their Door

22. Angry Note After Removing Clothing From Laundry

23. gasp Imagine Having The Audacity To Walk Barefoot In Your Own Apartment

24. I Found This Lovely Gem On My Door When I Left For Work

25. Crazy Neighbor Gets Mad At Friend For Dropping A Single Strand Of Hair And Tapes Up The Hair As Evidence

My friend moved into a new apartment recently. He shares the laundry room with 3 other units. He is unit #1.

While doing laundry the other day, one of my friend’s hair fell off from his head. Obviously, he didn’t know cause he didn’t check the entire room for hairfall — I mean, who the hell checks if any of their hairs fell off their head wherever they go?

Now apparently, the landlord got mad at the sight of a single hair strand and put up a new sign in the laundry room (the bottom sign is new & the upper sign had been there for a while) taping his hair as evidence that he didn’t thoroughly clean the facility.

My friend doesn’t have any severe hair fall issue. The hair normally fell off his head normally just like hair falls off most people’s heads occasionally. Also for the record, my friend cleans the washing machine & dryer surfaces after he uses them. Just seems like he missed this one hair strand.

Who is the jerk here? Idk this seems super crazy to ask someone to keep track of every hair strand that falls of one’s head and pick them up.

At first I thought the hair must have just landed on the tap by mistake when the landlord put it up the sign. But other units have informed me that this landlord taped up someone else’s hair 6 months ago to a sign asking the unit to clean it up.

IMO, this is next level crazy and it’s unreasonable to expect that level of cleanliness.

26. Note From The Downstairs Neighbors

27. Someone Anonymously Sent This To My Neighbor

28. Somebody Left This Note On My Car… In My Assigned Space

29. Early Morning Shifts Bugs Neighbors

I live in a semi retirement community with my Dad, this letter was left on the window of my work van. I have to be at work most days at 4:45 am. Kind of creepy they left this on my work van knowing there’s two vans that look identical next to each other.

30. Woke Up To This Note This Morning

Sheltered what I assumed was a stray cat for two days, called my apartment complex asking if anyone lost their pet, and on day 2, the owner shows up and I returned her cat.

31. Went To A Friendsgiving

They let their neighbor know ahead of time that they would be having people over, it was 4:45pm on a Saturday and about 6 people were there at that point. He abruptly knocked on the door once, taped this note to the door and ran off.

32. Received This Well-Worded Letter In My Mailbox This Morning (Wrong Neighbour – I Don’t Even Have A Dog)

33. Neighbors Don’t Like My Parents’ Shed

They’ve done their research, spoken to homeowners directly, and aren’t breaking any rules or covenants by having a shed where they do, but the neighborhood hates it. It doesn’t look bad, but have been told it’s an ‘eyesore’. No return address or signature from these cowards.

34. Not Sure How To Feel About This Or Go About Handling It

I’ve lived in my building (in Iowa) for two years now above a tattoo shop. I see the guys who work there around town frequently and they have never expressed an issue or been anything but pleasant to me. This showed up last night and has been bothering me ever since. Would they have any legal standing to even make someone pay for damages that result from an artist getting startled? I certainly would like to maintain a cordial relationship with them, since this is my home for another two months, but the whole thing has me feeling uneasy.

I learned last night that one of the artists does in fact have a domestic violence charge against him, during which he showed up unannounced and drunk at his girlfriends home and assaulted her, and the street door to my building can be opened by anyone. The hallway door locks, but can be opened with any key. Just feeling uneasy about the whole thing and wondering if anyone has any insight.

35. This Was Taped To My Door, I Do Not Have Children And My Neighbor Is Now Piling Random People’s Garbage On The Lids Of My Trash Cans

I don’t know my neighbors and tried to talk to the ones that do have children, but they’ve been unresponsive. Went outside again to move my bins for trash day and there were random garbage bags piled on top of them. Going to leave a note back because my neighborhood is not notoriously friendly lol.

36. Got Pulled Into Our Neighbors Note War

Saw this note this morning and thought it was funny that we were the assumed note-leavers in the building. There’s been a constant note war going on for a year now where notes have been put up asking people to stop smoking in their apartments. Of course these don’t deter the smokers and the complex doesn’t have a no smoking policy. We are the only dog owners and know this is how apartment living is like with the smoking. This is our response to being dragged into this fight.

37. This Poorly Written Letter From My Passive Aggressive Neighbor Telling Me To Remove My ‘Legally-Owned’ Plants From My Property

38. Because I Work All Day And Can Control Where The Wind Blows. Was Mailed To Me (Probably By My Neighbor’s Wife), Envelope Postmarked The Next Town Over