Neighbors...

Before my boyfriend and I moved into the condo, we decided to update the kitchen's yellow existing tile to something more modern. One night around 7pm, while knocking out the counter tile, we heard a loud noise at our front door. It the next door neighbor demanding us to stop the noise because she had to work at 4 am the next morning. "Please see to it” she demanded. There was no denying her authoritative and condescending tone. I resented her on the spot.

Three months later, we bought a kitty named Macho. He is an indoor kitty but every so often he will sneak out if we have the garage door open. One day he snuck out while we had the garage door opened. A shriek came out from the neighbor's garage. Apparently, Macho had wandered over to the neighbor's garage. "Get your cat out of my garage!!!" she barked.

Last night, our sitter drove up to the house at 9 pm. She temporarily parked right between our garage and the neighbor's garage. She was planning to move her car when we left. Seven minutes later, we walk outside to see a note taped several times on my baby sitter's windshield. It took us 15 minutes to scrape some of the tape off. I was furious!!

When we got home that evening, we taped a note to her garage basically telling her not to TAPE notes to our sitter's windshield again. It was immature, sure. But how do you deal with witchiness? Her boyfriend came around the next morning advising us that they were now going to make sure we "become better condominium owners" by escalating the issue to the Association.

How does one deal with such a shrew?