Americans fed up with terrible neighbors have been actively contributing data —including the street, city and a description of the bad behavior— to a new real estate search tool that focuses exclusively on the “neighbor-space.” Posts on awful —and the occasional great— neighbors already number in the hundreds of thousands, making a search of the site in virtually any city turn up productive information for the potential renter or homebuyer. The site, RottenNeighbor.com, features user-contributed post titles as diverse as “Nosey Neighbors, Pine Hills, FL” and “The most unfriendly town EVER, Little Falls, NY.”

The site has taken on a life of its own, with multiple mentions on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, CNN.com, The New York Post and as one of Google Trends’ hottest searches. What started with a few local news briefs quickly became a phenomenon that captured the attention of the national press, and has continued to grow virally through word-of-mouth and blog coverage. The site is owned by Austin-based investment firm @ttenunit.

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