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My husband is in the army, so your house is mine now!

[TLDR- At bottom]

So where I live there's a small army base, and around it is a housing estate where the families live. Part of this estate was sold to a couple of housing associations, and I live in one of those.

The army families move around a lot, so people in those houses generally move every 2 years or so, some a little more frequently, others less so.

There's a row of 4 terrace houses directly across from me, and 1 of them was empty, ready for new tenants.

Here's were we begin:

I took my daughter to nursery, and then went shopping for some new clothes. This was at 9am. I get back about 11:30am, and see a large moving truck in the street. To avoid them, I go to the other side of my property (I suffer from Chronic Anxiety and tend to avoid most people). I go in the front door, and take the new clothes upstairs to sort.

Whilst I'm there, I hear noise from my back garden and door.

Looking out the window, I see a man with a large toolbox trying to open my backdoor, a woman behind him looking furious, and the guys from the moving company standing around with boxes looking bored.

I run down the stairs and open the door, meaning the guy, who I guessed was a locksmith, practically fell through the door into my kitchen.

He was surprised of course, and after looking around he was confused, because clearly, someone already lived here.

The woman then sighs dramatically and thanks me for finally turning up because they've been there since 8am trying to get in. She just wants to get her stuff in so she and her kids can sleep, she waves the moving guys forward, and then goes to get her kids out of her car.

I'm busy trying to stop the moving guys from coming in with boxes, and her two kids, about 3 and 6 come charging into my garden.

I've got a slide, swing, small trampoline and wendy house there for my daughter to play with.

I yell at them all to get out of my garden and stay away from my house. One of the movers looks in the window to my living room, sees all of my furniture in there, and waves his team back to the truck. His team leader pulls out some paperwork and begins going over it.

The woman starts yelling at me. Telling me I was a liar and a thief among other things. I've lived in this house for 4 years, and tell her such, but she's having none of it, she gets right up in my face, screaming at me, and I'm having trouble not bursting into tears and running away, or decking her.

The locksmith tries to calm her down and she starts having a go at him next.

I call up the local police station office. There's one in the housing estate, but it generally only caters to the army people and such. I figured calling them to deal with her was the best solution.

They arrive after a few minutes and take the woman aside.

Her kids are still playing on my daughters things, so I tell them to get off and go to their mother because those toys don't belong to them.

They go reluctantly and when their mother notices she begins yelling again. Apparently those toys aren't mine, they were put there by the army for her kids because her husband is such a wonderful soldier. That this is her house and I'm just some squatter trying to steal it from her.

This is when the movers come over and tell her this is the wrong address.

She's moving into number 4, and this is number 14.

She goes very silent, grabs her kids and leaves the garden.

I call out to ask her if she's going to pay for the damage done to my garden, (grass torn up by her kids and the movers), my door, (from what looks like footprints trying to kick it in and the scratches from the locksmith), my bushes by the gate, (movers and her yanking at them whilst waiting for the locksmith).

She tells me no, because she's done nothing wrong. Which is when I inform her that I have cameras installed that would have seen the whole thing. I ask the officers if they would like to view the footage, and one of them watches the whole incident take place once I bring out my laptop (which both cameras are linked to) and he says he doesn't have anything to collect the footage just now, but he'll come back later to get it.

He also tells me that he will have to report the woman's behaviour to the base, as a family's bad behaviour can have repercussions for their soldiers too.

It's now 5pm, the officer was here collecting copies of the footage in case it was needed, and might be shown to certain army officials as an example of her behaviour.

Husband turned up about an hour ago, and there was a huge argument across the street, everyone could hear it, but not exactly what was being said.

Either way, this family hasn't exactly had a good start to their time here. I can only hope they move away soon so I won't have to deal with that woman again.

[TLDR- New army family supposed to move in across the street, get the wrong address and tries to move into my house]

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