It’s been a beary tough stretch for this California homeowner.

Sleep deprivation, strange smells, severe damage, and things that go bump in the night. It’s all part of what it’s like to have a 550-pound bear living underneath your house.

“It’s a lot more stressful than I thought,” Ken Johnson told The Post Thursday, 11 days after the burly bruin made itself at home in a crawl space beneath his Altadena abode.

And the beast, nicknamed “Unbearable” by Johnson’s friends, hasn’t left since.

Johnson stressed that he loves wildlife and it’s been “tough to hear” the bear apparently struggling to make his way out.

But the reality is the homeowner’s days have been turned upside down. While he’s working on the computer at his kitchen table, he can hear the bear pawing around under the house.

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