Maybe it is time to move...

[msaeger]

Thanks for all the input. Obviously I was kidding about moving, but it is frustrating. Supposedly they are about 10 months past due on their mortgage so hopefully we will get some new neighbors soon. I hate to see people down on their luck but there is no excuse to be as careless as they are. I just don't know how some people can walk by garbage and debris in their yard everyday and not pick it up or have a lawn that is over 2 feet tall and not cut it. They have plenty of time since she doesn't work at all and he goes through jobs like underwear and has been home more in the last year than at work. The strange thing is they used to have a lawn service and kept their house very presentable. There are all kinds of rumors of drug abuse and mental illness, but who knows. I will just keep fighting the good fight and hopefully the budget for a privacy fence will come sooner than later!

You have a long time before you get new neighbors if they get foreclosed on. It will be a year with the house empty before it even goes for sale.

 

[RobertBrown]

Actually the wife is the one I think has the biggest issues. The husband has actually confided in me about her drug issues and some of the things she has done. Either way I always keep my head on a swivel and keep everything locked and plenty loaded. The house has an alarm and I try not to let my dogs get to used to any strangers so they will let me know when there is someone around who isn't supposed to be. They aren't mean, but are very good at letting me know what's going on = if they are barking somone is out there. They both are around 90 pounds so they are a little intimidating. Plus they know I'm a little crazy so I don't think the want to be on this side of the fence without an invitation, but I know what you mean about desperate people. I live in SC where we shoot now and ask questions later.

Sounds like that situation is going to change....so hopefully, it will be for the better.

 

[xp14629]

If they do get foreclosed on, about two hundred bucks will help that house sell and keep yours looking good. On a weekend so the bank isn't around to stop you, round up the yard. Then roughly a week later, rent a walk behind sliver overseeder and seed theirs and yours. Then keep it watered. It will cost you in the beginning, but may help to get some better people in there also.

 

[Mr. Shamrock]

Holy crap it is as if they read this thread. They are out there as I type this cutting the lawn. If I knew they were members here I would have posted this a lot sooner LOL!!!! I guess their once a year lawn cutting was due again. I feel like they are doing me a favor by cutting their grass - should I take them out some cookies and sweet tea?

 

[reynoldston]

I only wish that was my neighbor problem. My neighbor has dogs and cats that use my lawn as there personal toilet. Then every Sunday night they they burn there weekly garbage which stinks up the whole neighbor hood. I went to the town, but nothing can be done so I just live with it.

 

[jmurray01]

I have tried for the last 6 years to get my lawn looking as good as it can and it seems I am fighting a losing battle. I have a serious weed issue and even after pulling and applying weed treatments I still have them. I look at my neighbors yard and they just don't care. Right now they have weeds over 2 feet tall and I can pretty much watch the little dandelions flying over into my yard. I have called the county (as has just about every other neighbor) and they come out, the grass will get cut once, the yard half way picked up, and then it is back to laying on their @ss all day. The owner even told me she was doing it on purpose b/c the neighbor on the other side is trying to sell and she doesn't like them so she was going to do all she could to make sure noone bought the house - these are the type of creatures I am dealing with. It's frustrating when you put your hard earned money and time to make your house look nice and you have to see this everyday. We live in a very nice neighborhood but I, unfortunately, live next to the beverly hillbillies!!!!!! What can be done besides moving?????

There must be some sort of legal action you can take ?

 

[Carscw]

The man next door to me USED to mow his yard at 5am we had a not so nice talk now he waits untill I leave for work

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[possum]

Almost everyone here that has a decent yard mows at five in the morning or late at night. During the day in summer it is very hot and very humid. Others do so as they cannot find any other time to do it or rains keep them from doing it on their days off. I have good neighbors for the most part, but if they give me anyy trouble for noise of lawnwork or generator noise at my father in laws house I just remind them of all their transgressions. In my neighborhood most folks start out with a bang on lawnwork in April and last into Memorial Day. From there they go downhill until about July first when the heatwave comes on, then all the way down into about Thanksgiving when they manage to mow the grown over lawns, weedeat the really grown over rough areas, and pile up a few leaves if the leafblower will start on Aprils gas. Come snow moving time there are always some bikes sticking out of the piles of snow and lots more smaller stuff after the first melt. Trash is my complaint. Those folks who drive around throwing out flyer newspapers on every lawn are the worst as no one picks them up, they just mow over them and it all blows. After a good wind like yesterday larger trash is in every yard. Yesterday I picked up about 60 gallons of paper stuff from the Dairy Queen in three yards, one item was a empty case box of Quaker State motor oil. At least the neighbor kids from beside my fatherinlaw have at last grown up to the point they no longer come home and camp in their folks back yard all summer. I got really tired of picking up used condoms they tossed into his yard.

 

[msaeger]

The trash that drives me nuts are the shopper newspapers. They throw one one every door step even if there are old ones still there because the house is empty. I also see them soaked laying in the gutters.

 

[Mower manic]

I got really tired of picking up used condoms they tossed into his yard.

Kansas huh?
Fascinating! How exactly do you pick up a used condom?