Woman Says Her Neighbor Started Using Her Address for a Business — and the Deliveries Wouldn’t Stop

At first it probably just seemed annoying. A random knock at the door. A confused delivery driver. Maybe somebody typed the wrong number into an app. But according to one woman on Reddit, it kept happening over and over until it became impossible to ignore. And once she figured out why, the whole thing got a lot weirder.

In the post, she said her neighbor had been using her home address for a food business for almost a year without her knowing. That meant strangers kept showing up at her door looking for pickups, ringing her buzzer, knocking on her windows, and generally turning her home into somebody else’s business location. She said she finally confronted the neighbor and asked her to remove the address from her website, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and anything else connected to the business. But after 48 hours, according to the post, nothing had changed.

That alone would have been enough to send most people over the edge. But the detail that really made readers stop was the way she described the neighbor acting about it. In replies, the woman said the neighbor would actually cackle every time another driver came to her door and even yell at the drivers during the chaos. That is the kind of detail that takes a story from “terrible neighbor” to “what is actually wrong with this person?” real fast.

By the time she posted, she sounded done. She said she had already put a sign on the neighbor’s door giving her 24 hours to remove the address from everything business-related or she would call the police. She also said she had avoided calling right away because she hoped the woman would fix it on her own, but after nearly a year of dealing with the fallout, she was fed up. And honestly, that part is easy to understand. A wrong address once is a mistake. A wrong address for a year starts sounding like something else.

The business itself seemed to make the situation even sketchier. In replies, the woman clarified that the neighbor was selling food, not just getting deliveries. Commenters immediately started pointing out that using somebody else’s address could be a way to dodge permits, inspections, or questions about running a food business from an apartment. One person told her to contact the city or county business licensing office. Another said to call the health department, especially if food was being prepared out of a home kitchen and sent out under a fake address.

There was also a side plot that somehow made it even messier. The woman said she had shared the business name privately with one Reddit user, who then left a review. According to her, the neighbor responded by threatening to call the police on that person for harassment over a single review. Meanwhile, the original poster was sitting there dealing with people physically showing up at her home because of the fake address. She sounded furious, and honestly it is hard to blame her.

The comments were full of people telling her she was underreacting, not overreacting. Some said they would have called the police long ago. Others pushed a more practical route and suggested contacting property management, since most apartment leases do not allow tenants to run a business out of the unit, especially not one that brings traffic and potential liability to another resident’s door. A lot of readers also pointed out that even if police treated it as more of a civil issue, there were still plenty of other places to report it that could make life very uncomfortable for the neighbor.

What really makes this one stick is how long it allegedly went on. This was not one bad afternoon with a lost Uber Eats driver. This was a woman saying strangers had been showing up for almost a year because her neighbor attached a business to the wrong home and then got mad when asked to stop. By the end of the post, it sounded like she had reached that point where being patient just started to feel ridiculous. If your neighbor kept sending random customers and delivery drivers to your front door for months, how long would you wait before calling the police?