Since she began renting the house in October, Ms. Holt-Colden said, her neighbors have called the police on her at least five times, including when her children had a snowball fight and when her son parked his car on the grass in her backyard.

“I did not know I was getting the neighbors from hell,” Ms. Holt-Colden said.

Her neighbors see things differently.

Linda Krakora, who is white, said she had lived in the house with her husband, Randy, and their family for more than 30 years. She said that Ms. Holt-Colden and her family were the bad neighbors, and that their relationship had become so tense that she now communicates with her through the police.

“The police were not called on the young boy — the police were called on the garbage I have next door,” Ms. Krakora said. “We called the police to ask the woman to have the kids stop mowing on our property because we can’t talk to her.”

When her husband called the police about the grass, it had nothing to do with race, Ms. Krakora said. “I don’t have an issue with color or I would have moved years ago,” she said.

A spokesman for the police in Maple Heights confirmed that officers responded to Ms. Holt-Colden’s home but said that no action was taken.

Reggie’s mother, Brandy Fields, said she hoped the police were not called because her son is black. Her son comes from a family of entrepreneurs, she said, and is known to be outgoing.