A lot of the time, when a troublemaker gets exposed for being up to no good about one thing, there’s usually plenty of other skeletons in their closet. That said, a woman in Maryland has been running an unlicensed food business, which is more than enough to her in legal trouble. But that’s not all; she illegally uses her next-door neighbor’s address to avoid any customer traffic at her door. Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, and every other delivery service lists the neighbor’s address as her business’s address as well. When the neighbor attempted to expose, she doubled down in a less-than-friendly tone.
The neighbor allegedly shared the business’s name with someone online, who went directly to Yelp and left a negative one-star review, revealing the Karen shopkeeper’s illegal scheme. Unsurprisingly, she called the review “HARASSMENT,” claiming that the reviewer was defaming her. The illegal business owner then doubled down on her case, clarifying that the address is simply outdated from “four years ago.” Whether or not this is true doesn’t matter: her neighbor lives there now, which means that the address needs to change.
The neighbor has already tried reasoning with the businesswoman next-door to no avail. Posting their story to r/UnethicalLifeProTips, they remarked how “it’s a complete invasion of my privacy, and she admitted she put my address because she didn’t want the traffic coming to her door.” OP posted the situation to r/legaladvice and r/AmIOverreacting as well, trying their best to gain support against their shopkeeper neighbor from hell.
“I would have already called the police. This is wrong and she knows it,” remarks a commenter. “If it’s an unlicensed home kitchen serving hot food (not a cottage food operation), you can report them to the health inspector,” suggests another user. One person recommended going as far as to sabotage the business by handing out paper bags of trash to customers who come to the neighbor’s door. “A few bad reviews is all it takes,” chuckles a Redditor.
OP claims that this has been going on for a year, which is a wild amount of time to not have the authorities involved until now. As one user suggests, the health inspector and police are great recommendations, but calling the Maryland Secretary of State’s office could be even better, since that’s who would be concerned about the address and business license issues.
