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Post by midjd on Jul 26, 2017 10:39:27 GMT -5
Not mine, but my poor sister's...
She has been fighting a slowly-escalating war with her neighbor since he moved in about 2 years ago. They share the main part of a Y-shaped driveway and apparently the neighbor prefers to do a 3-point turn straight over into S/BIL's part of the driveway (over a 2' strip of grass) rather than back out of his own part. BIL planted some trees there and they didn't faze him... then he put some decorative boulders down and the neighbor moved them. The neighbor likes to leave his hose on all day to "water the lawn" (flooding S/BIL's lawn), burns plastic trash, has raucous parties in the middle of the week, and pretty much fulfills every bad neighbor stereotype you could think of.
Earlier this week, BIL discovered several dead squirrels inside their yard where the neighbor had been shooting them off the fence with an air rifle. BIL called the sheriff, but nothing came of it. This is all in a suburban neighborhood with 1/3-acre yards. My sister is ready to move, I think.
How many of you have bad neighbor stories? Have any of you ever been the bad neighbor? (I have, we had quite a menagerie of unleashed animals when I was younger.)
It's definitely made me realize how easy it is to take good neighbors for granted--and there seems to be so little you can do to control the situation, no matter how much land you have or how expensive your house is.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 26, 2017 10:46:36 GMT -5
We've been pretty lucky with our direct neighbors but my parents have had some doozies with the slum lord next door.
A few years ago a family of drug dealers/drunks moved in next door. People would come and go at all hours of the day. Cops showed up at least four times. The one lady would wander around in her slip asking people for dies to the gas station. My dad told me to never take her anywhere.
Then there was another one that would bang on our door looking for my parents to give him money. My dad ahd to threaten him to get him to go away.
They were so bad that when I house sat for my parents while they were on vacation my dad called DH (then boyfriend of only three months at the time) to come stay with me. Our long germ neighbors let me know they were also watching the house and to call them at any time if I felt unsafe and they would come get me.
Those people finally moved out and Slum lord lost the house over unpaid property taxes. It sat empty, people broke into it and it fell apart until someone finally bought it.
Those people were normal for awhile and then the husband lost his job. He became an alcoholic and tried to kill himself. His wife finally left him and since then several people have moved in/out of the house with him and he has yelling matches with his few cards short of a full deck much younger girlfriend in the driveway. He's also tried to set the house on fire a couple of times.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 10:58:12 GMT -5
This is why I live in the country. Town was hell. I had a college rental to the one side of me that would have parties at all hours which would end up with them having people on our roof! (They had a two story house with second story porch that was almost level with my house roof). On the other side I had a woman that HATED my dogs and apparently the feeling was mutual. One time one of them nipped her in the leg and she pushed to have him euthanized. This was a 15 pound dog that loved everybody else, but she was always yelling at him and throwing stuff at him. After that she put up a fortress sized fence. We're talking 8 feet of solid wood...with the bad side towards us...which is supposed to be not allowed, but I just didn't want to deal with her at all anymore at that point.
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Post by raeoflyte on Jul 26, 2017 10:59:07 GMT -5
The cops told me they were certain it was my neighbors who had stolen my car, but it was never confirmed and I got it back 3 days later with very little damage (the console was cracked and had to be replaced for a new ignition). So really not too bad imo.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 26, 2017 11:09:00 GMT -5
The house next door was a rental for the longest. I don't know where they got these people! One set smoked weed all the time. I couldn't open my windows for fear of getting the girls high. None of them worked so they would have loud parties late at night in the middle of the week.
The next set was disgusting. They didn't clean there house and it smelled horrible. They would leave the windows open, I imagine in an attempt to air out their disgusting house and you could smell it over at mine. They were also infested with cockroaches that tried to migrate to my house. I was constantly killing bugs! They had a big dog as well that found a hole in their fence and one day was in my yard barking at one of the girls. I informed them that if their dog hurt anyone in my house, it may come up missing. They would also blare music so loud I couldn't hear myself think. It was horrible!
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Post by alabamagal on Jul 26, 2017 11:11:16 GMT -5
My parents had a "grouchy old neighbor" in Miami for 40 years or so. The were friendly with him, but he would go to another mutual friend and complain about my parents, so we heard all the stories. He used an edger to draw a small dirt line to separate the yards, and any time a blade of his grass was cut when our grass was cut (especially when my brother was mowing) would result in a complaint. He also would complain about my mom stirring her coffee cup in the morning being loud. I guess my Mom was pretty exhuberant in her stirring, and our kitchen was on the side near his bedroom and must have been when windows were open. We lived on a lake, and the house across the lake (about 1/4 mile away) had lights that would annoy him, so he actually bought a large commercial spotlight to shine at the people across the lake when they had their light on. I'm not sure if the people across the like cared, or if they did maybe the liked the extra light!
When we moved into our current house, the neighbors at the entrance to our cul de sac had ~50 blow up Christmas decorations (deflated) in their yard. It was fine when we made an offer on the house on Jan 1, but when we moved in mid Feb they were still there. I think they lasted until March 1 the first year. The last 2 years they have only made it to mid Feb. We are just amused by it, call it the dead Santas. We only see them blown up 1 or 2 times a year.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 26, 2017 11:15:06 GMT -5
ooh, let's see....
In the townhouse rental, we had neighbors who had WAY too many people in a 2 bed 2 bath unit (2 parents, a grandparent, and 3 kids). They thought it was okay to be noisy and run amok in the townhouse until 1-2am every single night. And these were elementary/middle school kids. I imagine every morning was rough. They also had temporary plates all the time... from Florida. Someone must have been faking new ones for them each month. IDK what is wrong with people.
Then X, DS, and I moved into the house that is now just X's. Ah, no wall neighbors, so nice and quiet! Well, except for BOTH catty-corner neighbors. One was a house with a mom, dad, and 2-3 20-something boys... who enjoy driving their ATV up and down our street at around 9-9:30pm on weeknights. That made bedtime extra fun. And the other catty-corner neighbor was a house with a mom and dad (who are almost never home) and I don't know how many boys ranging from middle school to college aged (I think there were 3-4 boys)... who like to have loud house parties and coming home at 2am blasting music out of their cars.
Now I am in an apartment. I think my downstairs neighbors are the worst of all. They have had loud parties until about 2-3am. There is a kid there sometimes who I swear they just let do whatever she wants - all I hear is jumping, stomping, and banging. They also can't cook for shit because all their food is either burnt or really smelly.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 26, 2017 11:16:28 GMT -5
My parents had a "grouchy old neighbor" in Miami for 40 years or so. The were friendly with him, but he would go to another mutual friend and complain about my parents, so we heard all the stories. He used an edger to draw a small dirt line to separate the yards, and any time a blade of his grass was cut when our grass was cut (especially when my brother was mowing) would result in a complaint. He also would complain about my mom stirring her coffee cup in the morning being loud. I guess my Mom was pretty exhuberant in her stirring, and our kitchen was on the side near his bedroom and must have been when windows were open. We lived on a lake, and the house across the lake (about 1/4 mile away) had lights that would annoy him, so he actually bought a large commercial spotlight to shine at the people across the lake when they had their light on. I'm not sure if the people across the like cared, or if they did maybe the liked the extra light! When we moved into our current house, the neighbors at the entrance to our cul de sac had ~50 blow up Christmas decorations (deflated) in their yard. It was fine when we made an offer on the house on Jan 1, but when we moved in mid Feb they were still there. I think they lasted until March 1 the first year. The last 2 years they have only made it to mid Feb. We are just amused by it, call it the dead Santas. We only see them blown up 1 or 2 times a year. LMAO!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 11:19:03 GMT -5
Every time I think about getting a cheaper place in town, I look out my windows, not seeing a house in three directions as far as I can see and wonder if it's worth it (to the East I have a 90 year old couple, but they're still about 1000+ feet away and my garage faces them).
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 26, 2017 11:26:29 GMT -5
Every time I think about getting a cheaper place in town, I look out my windows, not seeing a house in three directions as far as I can see and wonder if it's worth it (to the East I have a 90 year old couple, but they're still about 1000+ feet away and my garage faces them). I believe in general most people are cool and courteous. I just think NJ just has a higher concentration of assholes.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 26, 2017 11:34:38 GMT -5
Every time I think about getting a cheaper place in town, I look out my windows, not seeing a house in three directions as far as I can see and wonder if it's worth it (to the East I have a 90 year old couple, but they're still about 1000+ feet away and my garage faces them). I believe in general most people are cool and courteous. I just think NJ just has a higher concentration of assholes. I dunno. KC has a bunch too.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 26, 2017 11:43:28 GMT -5
I don't have any bad neighbor stories... my neighbors do the typical minor stuff (usually seasonal - like mow the lawn at 6:00am occasionally during the summer OR sometimes their dog barks to "come in" for an unusually long time. )
But, I am fascinated by people who go out of their way to "get back at" their neighbors.... like the guy who disregarded the new trees and moved the rocks - or who literally made a "dirt line" between the lawns - or the guy who installed a big light to 'get back at his neighbors'. I wonder where people find the time/energy to do that kind of stuff? Do they not have something they'd rather do? It seems like another "chore" to me and therefore something I'd rather not waste time/energy on.
FWIW: my nephew lives next to a house with endlessly barking dogs. This is a city block (with lots that are 30 to 35 feet wide. The neighbors 2 doors away (a corner lot) leave their dogs out all hours of the day and night. He (and other neighbors) have lodged complaints with the city (we have a "nuisance" department to help deal with these issues). The problem is that the house's back door does NOT open out into the yard - it opens on to the sidewalk and parkway - so they have to leash their dogs and walk them to the gate and let them into the yard (rain or shine). They purchased the house about 2 years ago (and I find it kinda weird that they chose this house which is NOT dog friendly when there were plenty of other houses in the same price range that would have been better suited.) Also, they aren't taking very good care of their landscaping/lawn. They still have up XMas decorations.
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Post by souldoubt on Jul 26, 2017 11:56:14 GMT -5
We live in a town house and the way the units are structured they're staggered so we don't share a full wall with the neighbors on either side which is nice but we do share parts of walls. On one side we have a unit that is a rental and we're in the process of getting new neighbors and on the other side we have an owner who has been there 35+ years. Never heard a peep out of the neighbor who has been there 35+ years but on the other side the neighbor before the one who is moving out was an inconsiderate asshole. When they were moving in I came home from work, it was raining and my garage was blocked by their moving truck so I asked the guy (I assume the tenants husband or brother) if he could move it so I could park my car in my garage and you would have thought I asked him for a vital organ because it was apparently putting him out big time. The lady living there did so with her teenage daughter and before they moved the landlord had some work done which involved either taking carpet off the stairs, adding new carpet or just going with wood. Anyways we went through 2 other sets of tenants before this lady moved in and we never heard anyone go up or down the stairs yet whenever her and her daughter did they stomped. Both of them were petite so it wasn't likely they were bigger which could maybe lead to some more noise they just flat out stomped/ran every time they went up or down the stairs and you could hear it in our living room.
This lady also regularly parked overnight in front of her garage because she used the garage for her office and didn't think she needed to follow the rules and park on the street or in one of the designated spots. The HOA tells you not to park overnight in front of your garage and on more than one occasion when my wife or I were pulling out of our garage we almost had head on collisions with people coming the other way as we swung out around her car. As far as using the garage for her office she either worked from home or didn't work at all and just kept odd hours. She regularly did laundry at 11pm at night which by itself is fine but like them stomping whenever they used the stairs they slammed doors any time they shut them, particularly the one to the garage and the one to the laundry room. Their laundry room shares part of a wall with our unit and upstairs is our bedroom so every time she slammed that door you could hear it at 11pm which always woke me up. Since she used the garage for her office she was going in and out all night so in the dead of night you'd heard that slam shut. They also installed some kind of TV system during the holidays that you could hear because they absolutely blasted it and the base shook the walls. Different issues than the OP's sister but I wanted to move and that experience is one big reason I want a SFH with no shared walls. Our neighbor moving out was great - never heard them and I hope they didn't hear us. Fingers crossed we get someone like 3 of the 4 previous tenants and not the neighbor from hell.
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Post by midjd on Jul 26, 2017 12:07:18 GMT -5
Every time I think about getting a cheaper place in town, I look out my windows, not seeing a house in three directions as far as I can see and wonder if it's worth it (to the East I have a 90 year old couple, but they're still about 1000+ feet away and my garage faces them). We live in a pretty rural area, but I live in fear of our neighbors moving... we can only see one house, but it's right between us and the road (our property is shaped like a sideways P) and having inconsiderate people there would really suck. Our neighbors are great, they basically keep to themselves 99% of the time except to give us eggs from their chickens or to fill us in on local gossip. They also did not get along with the prior owners (mega-hoarders who burned the house down), so starting out with low expectations on their end was a real help ILs live in the country and their main problems seem to be trespassing-related--people trying to grow marijuana in their cedar groves (which I guess makes it harder for helicopters to spot) and people hunting without permission. The hunting really sends FIL through the roof because he sells hunting rights and you have to promise exclusivity. It does kind of make me laugh to hear about their problems with "neighbors" whose houses are probably 5 miles away on the other side of the ridge, though...
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Post by daisy on Jul 26, 2017 12:10:29 GMT -5
We will never have neighbors - 30+ acres between us and a family that has held the land for multiple generations (they own 100+ acres, their kids across the street and down own 100+ acres..this family will never sell in our lifetime and most likely if we sell our 15, they will buy it), there is a lake directly across the street from us and we own the strip of land between the road and lake, behind us is county property. We have AMAZING neighbors Our small town is populated by a handful of families who hand the land down through generations, so even if it's just a house, the house is occupied by children/grandchildren. There are apartments and some of the houses are rented, but the town is small enough (700 people and about 250+ of that is in the county NH) that there's really no trouble, and if there is, you know exactly who it is. If we move from here, it will be even more remote than this so I don't anticipate ever having neighbors. Until we're in a NH ourselves, and by then hopefully I'm too far gone to care. When I was married to my ex - we lived in town and had plenty of neighbors who were not the best. The old guy next door liked to mow when he woke up, which was usually 6am or so. Great when you have sleeping little kids. The other neighbors didn't smoke in their house, they did it on their deck...yeah, that smelled great in OUR house. We lived on the only street that went from the High School and Middle School to the rest of town and it was a dragstrip in the am and after school let out. Ex was not at all interested in moving, so yeah. No thanks.
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Post by daisy on Jul 26, 2017 12:13:06 GMT -5
We've been pretty lucky with our direct neighbors but my parents have had some doozies with the slum lord next door. A few years ago a family of drug dealers/drunks moved in next door. People would come and go at all hours of the day. Cops showed up at least four times. The one lady would wander around in her slip asking people for dies to the gas station. My dad told me to never take her anywhere. Then there was another one that would bang on our door looking for my parents to give him money. My dad ahd to threaten him to get him to go away. They were so bad that when I house sat for my parents while they were on vacation my dad called DH (then boyfriend of only three months at the time) to come stay with me. Our long germ neighbors let me know they were also watching the house and to call them at any time if I felt unsafe and they would come get me. Those people finally moved out and Slum lord lost the house over unpaid property taxes. It sat empty, people broke into it and it fell apart until someone finally bought it. Those people were normal for awhile and then the husband lost his job. He became an alcoholic and tried to kill himself. His wife finally left him and since then several people have moved in/out of the house with him and he has yelling matches with his few cards short of a full deck much younger girlfriend in the driveway. He's also tried to set the house on fire a couple of times. YIKES! Your poor parents.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 26, 2017 12:22:58 GMT -5
We had some bad ones, won't go into the stories.
So when we saw this house with NO neighbors and never will have. It's just perfect for us.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 26, 2017 12:59:18 GMT -5
There are 4 houses on this road, and everyone here gets along well. TD and I are the second youngest, one houseis owned by an elderly man, and the house across from him is an older woman whose husband just died. Third house has a couple with their autistic 20 yo son living there. No conflicts....now.
Woman who lives next door husband LOVED to complain about anything or everything. TD had the audacity to power wash
our deck one evening after he got home from work, and it caused WWIII. His wife was mortified. TD finally laid into him and told him that we didn't complain when they had their hardwood floors laid, and the guy worked well after midnight and we could hear his nail gun. He backed off a bit after that. I think he had a conflict with everyone.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 26, 2017 13:12:21 GMT -5
We probably are that neighbor. Our kids run through all of the backyards in the neighborhood, but one lady has a fence. So if they are playing ball the damn always goes over the fence. The kids used to go through her gate to get it, but she got mad, so now the kids go over the fence to get. She doesn't like that either. She threatens to call the cops on the kids and had called the cops a couple of times for kids and/or noise related issues. and now we have a puppy that is always barking outside. Also our backyard looks like a with all of the kids toys out there.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 26, 2017 13:47:41 GMT -5
Yeah, we kind of look like the white trash neighbors right now. At least a lot of that will be changing this week as my cousin and her family are coming over Sunday so that's my motive to mow, pull weeds and clean up in general.
The asshole neighbor from hell we had in Beverly though. I'm sorry but who the fuck asks the cops to try to tell someone they cannot use a cane to walk around in their own home?!?! Thankfully they told him no. We know it wasn't the quietest thing ever, hardwood floors that we were NOT ruining with carpeting plus can't have it because of the walking. This guy was, and still is, a colossal piece of shit but the good news for my friend still living there is he moved. He was in foreclosure and then sold in a short sale. The best part is after the sale, he and his worthless wife apparently thought they could go wandering back into the unit but our friend told the new owner to change his locks ASAP. Good thing he did.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 26, 2017 13:57:30 GMT -5
Our neighbors are all good/mostly keep to themselves. (Knocking on wood--hoping things stay that way.) We're probably the bad ones because our kids might go into the neighbor's yard. They fenced the back, and the kids lost their frisbee over the fence a few times. I never talk to any of the neighbors, so the probably think I'm a B~. I'm just bad at small talk. My kitty-corner neighbor used to have a daycare and watched our kids for a couple weeks, until she got bent out of shape over nothing and hasn't spoken to us since. We're fine with that. (She lost her license about a year later.) The other kitty-corner neighbor was kind of weird, but harmless, and moved away anyway.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 26, 2017 13:59:35 GMT -5
We probably are that neighbor. Our kids run through all of the backyards in the neighborhood, but one lady has a fence. So if they are playing ball the damn always goes over the fence. The kids used to go through her gate to get it, but she got mad, so now the kids go over the fence to get. She doesn't like that either. She threatens to call the cops on the kids and had called the cops a couple of times for kids and/or noise related issues. and now we have a puppy that is always barking outside. Also our backyard looks like a with all of the kids toys out there. I'd say you're definitely that neighbor. I can't with people who let their kids run amok. I've had to chase the neighbor's grandkids out of my yard. I've caught then throwing things over the fence at the dogs and trying to climb over and pet them. Um. I have Dobermans. If one of these dogs decides to bite (I don't think they would), they can do some real damage. I've also seen small children narrowly miss getting hit by a car because they're running around with no supervision. One of those kids is going to get kidnapped or hit by a car one day because they don't watch them. And we're talking little kids. I've seen 2-3 year olds without a parent in sight.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 26, 2017 14:06:43 GMT -5
We probably are that neighbor. Our kids run through all of the backyards in the neighborhood, but one lady has a fence. So if they are playing ball the damn always goes over the fence. The kids used to go through her gate to get it, but she got mad, so now the kids go over the fence to get. She doesn't like that either. She threatens to call the cops on the kids and had called the cops a couple of times for kids and/or noise related issues. and now we have a puppy that is always barking outside. Also our backyard looks like a with all of the kids toys out there. If your kids are running around with the other neighbor kids in your respective backyards, there's no issue. If you're letting your children run around in other peoples backyards who don't have kids your kids are playing with, yes, you have a problem.
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Post by imawino on Jul 26, 2017 14:24:26 GMT -5
Man, I'm feeling pretty good about my neighbors right now! Our only complaint about a couple of our neighbors is they are boring, bourgeois and a little stepford-y!
I think the worst issues we have had were that the one neighbor wasn't super thrilled that we cut back part of a rose bush of theirs in order to widen our driveway (obviously, it was just the part that suck into our yard where we were adding driveway - and we let them know first).
A few houses away there is an old guy who listens to loud, blaring hate speech (aka right wing talk radio ) in his driveway all day. If I lived next door to him I'd be aggrieved!
I feel like my neighbors on one side could be a smidgen better with their direction-giving as twice last week I had people ring my doorbell at 6:45am looking for their house. I debated suggesting that they say things like "we are the white house on the corner" as a helpful hint to visitors, but decided against it.
I'm a little afraid that my dog may bark during the day, and that I may be a bad neighbor! I've been leaving him in the yard and he is a big scary-looking dude. The neighbor on one side says he never hears him so hopefully he's not barking much. I need to speak with the neighbor on the other side - they have only lived there a few months and they have little kids that I would hate for the dog to wake. But they seem to constantly have a sign posted on their front door saying don't knock because the babies are asleep, so I haven't gone over.
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Post by imawino on Jul 26, 2017 14:28:21 GMT -5
We probably are that neighbor. Our kids run through all of the backyards in the neighborhood, but one lady has a fence. So if they are playing ball the damn always goes over the fence. The kids used to go through her gate to get it, but she got mad, so now the kids go over the fence to get. She doesn't like that either. She threatens to call the cops on the kids and had called the cops a couple of times for kids and/or noise related issues. and now we have a puppy that is always barking outside. Also our backyard looks like a with all of the kids toys out there. If your kids are running around with the other neighbor kids in your respective backyards, there's no issue. If you're letting your children run around in other peoples backyards who don't have kids your kids are playing with, yes, you have a problem. Yeah, if somebody's kid climbed my fence to get in the yard I would be pissed off! Partially because it's just rude and annoying - but mostly because I have a dog. A very big dog. I'm sure if it knocked some kid on its ass, I'd be getting an earful from an angry parent despite the fact I did not invite their kid into the yard. And if they opened my gate and the dog got out, I would be livid.
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Post by imawino on Jul 26, 2017 14:35:02 GMT -5
Oh, I just remembered that years back one of our neighbors made a comment about the wood in our backyard! We have a wood stove, and we have firewood back there. It was split and neatly stacked. Tthey said "it's a pile of wood....and we have to look at it", in an incredulous tone. LOL. Maybe we are bad neighbors? I don't really think that qualifies for it, but others may believe differently, it seems!
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Post by dee27 on Jul 26, 2017 14:37:39 GMT -5
We had nice neighbors except for one family who thought local zoning laws did not apply to them. They had unleashed dogs that ran amok and pooped on other people's property, loud parties with blaring music and fireworks in a densely forested area, storing business construction vehicles on residential property, burning w/o a permit in drought season. The worst was the husband employed illegal immigrants who lived in his basement.
In another incident down the street, the house on the corner belonged to a widowed lady who died and her family rented the house to drug dealers. Although the cops knew about the drugs, it took two years before they went to trial. Overall, except for the first jerk, the neighborhood was fairly quiet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 14:38:37 GMT -5
I let my chickens run amok. I would get pissed when neighbors cattle would get out and run through my yard (always right after a rain when the ground was mushy), but nobody calls me complaining about the chickens.
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resolution
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Post by resolution on Jul 26, 2017 14:40:44 GMT -5
Every time I think about getting a cheaper place in town, I look out my windows, not seeing a house in three directions as far as I can see and wonder if it's worth it (to the East I have a 90 year old couple, but they're still about 1000+ feet away and my garage faces them). DH would like to move to a house where we own our own view. I am not sure if I would be comfortable living far enough away from the grocery store and restaurants to own a truly large plot of ground, but that is part of why we intermittently look at houses. I would like to compromise on something with around 5 acres and some trees or something to block the view, but still close to town. Right now we have neighbors across the street and a neighbor beside us. The neighbors across the street are retired and they work on their yard every single day. The grass is always mowed in a perfect checkerboard, there are beautiful flower beds, and everything is perfectly maintained. It is an immense amount of pressure for us and our scraggly grass...
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MJ2.0
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 26, 2017 14:45:12 GMT -5
Oh, I just remembered that years back one of our neighbors made a comment about the wood in our backyard! We have a wood stove, and we have firewood back there. It was split and neatly stacked. Tthey said "it's a pile of wood....and we have to look at it", in an incredulous tone. LOL. Maybe we are bad neighbors? I don't really think that qualifies for it, but others may believe differently, it seems! I want to have the type of life where I have the time and mental energy to get annoyed by a pile of wood in someone else's backyard.
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