The old saying goes that you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. Well they should add neighbor's to that too....well technically you CAN by choosing not to live next to them, but most of the time we don't know until it's too late.
For the most part I have great neighbors. There is a young couple that lives across from our driveway who waves to us and says hi, yet we've been here for 2 years (and them as well + a few months) and we don't know their names and haven't been formally introduced. That's still on our to do list. Then the neighbors behind me are great. We're divided by a fence that they put up the week we moved in (No band neighbor vibes, just good timing..they wanted it and so do we). They're very generous and friendly, and that goes for their son and daughter who live next to them. But, the neighbor next to me who I'm unfortunately NOT fence guarded from is one of the bad neighbors. I actually think I wrote a thread about him at the beginning of spring. Here are the facts:
He is the neighbor with atleast one unworking car in the driveway, a load of trash and junk in the yard, and just a basically unkempt house. They had lightning hit their garage the year we moved in, set the garage on fire, scorch the house, and he never bothered to get it fixed (insurance?). I'm not a lawn "freak" although my wife would argue about that, but I like to have as nice of a lawn as I can pull off, and he doesn't help matters. His "lawn" is basically all weeds, from clover to dandelions, to a mix, and he waits until they're a foot high, and then scalps them down to about 1/8th of an inch. We had our lawn redone last year and you used to be able to tell exactly where mine started and his began, but all his junk is starting to meld with mine. I really can't wait until I can put up a fence, but anything worth while is very expensive for the length of my property line. At the beginning of the spring, the thread I posted was because he was setting his lawn on fire with a propane torch and stomping out the burned areas so the lawn would start growing again. Hmmm, how about proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing...that would be a start. He also has Cockatoos or some birds that squawk at all hours and that's all you can hear...and I worried that my drums would be too loud! The kicker is his leaking septic tank. I just found out about this. If you look at his yard you'll see an upside down kiddie pool. This apparently is covering his septic tank, and according to the good neighbors, it's leaking, into their back yard. Not terribly, but enough to really make the grass ultra thick. Apparently on a really bad day you can smell sewage. Now, they haven't reported him because they want to be good neighbors, and I haven't witnessed anything regarding it, so I can't say anything either. I'm just hoping it never causes any problems to us.
...and then to my new neighbor. He's across the street and two houses over. It must be a young couple from what I've seen, and he guy has a dirtbike which he revs daily for about 15 minutes, and then tears off up the street for about a minute and a half, only to come back. He does this periodically throughout the day. Combine that with his muscle car that he revs up about twice a week for a half hour. His "wife" I assume, always stands on the front lawn talking on a cell phone loudly so we can all enjoy the conversation. But the biggest thing, is the fact that for the last week, on a daily basis, I'll hear fireworks and small explosions going off, but only once or twice and then I won't hear anything else. Of course they scare the hell out of Reesse, and me too because I'm not expecting them. It's not 4th of July...and even if it was, they're illegal in Massachusetts. They had enough of those on the 4th anyway. I felt like my house was under attack! Call the cops? Not likely. There's a cop a few roads down who shoots them off, so I know that's useless.
Oh and I should mention, the neighbor next to the fireworks neighbor, Reeses does not like. People walk by our house and we have alot of traffic because we're on a main drag. She sits in our picture window and is cool with everyone, except them. She cackles at them like she means business
Sorry about the long post, but what about your annoying neighbors?
For the most part I have great neighbors. There is a young couple that lives across from our driveway who waves to us and says hi, yet we've been here for 2 years (and them as well + a few months) and we don't know their names and haven't been formally introduced. That's still on our to do list. Then the neighbors behind me are great. We're divided by a fence that they put up the week we moved in (No band neighbor vibes, just good timing..they wanted it and so do we). They're very generous and friendly, and that goes for their son and daughter who live next to them. But, the neighbor next to me who I'm unfortunately NOT fence guarded from is one of the bad neighbors. I actually think I wrote a thread about him at the beginning of spring. Here are the facts:
He is the neighbor with atleast one unworking car in the driveway, a load of trash and junk in the yard, and just a basically unkempt house. They had lightning hit their garage the year we moved in, set the garage on fire, scorch the house, and he never bothered to get it fixed (insurance?). I'm not a lawn "freak" although my wife would argue about that, but I like to have as nice of a lawn as I can pull off, and he doesn't help matters. His "lawn" is basically all weeds, from clover to dandelions, to a mix, and he waits until they're a foot high, and then scalps them down to about 1/8th of an inch. We had our lawn redone last year and you used to be able to tell exactly where mine started and his began, but all his junk is starting to meld with mine. I really can't wait until I can put up a fence, but anything worth while is very expensive for the length of my property line. At the beginning of the spring, the thread I posted was because he was setting his lawn on fire with a propane torch and stomping out the burned areas so the lawn would start growing again. Hmmm, how about proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing...that would be a start. He also has Cockatoos or some birds that squawk at all hours and that's all you can hear...and I worried that my drums would be too loud! The kicker is his leaking septic tank. I just found out about this. If you look at his yard you'll see an upside down kiddie pool. This apparently is covering his septic tank, and according to the good neighbors, it's leaking, into their back yard. Not terribly, but enough to really make the grass ultra thick. Apparently on a really bad day you can smell sewage. Now, they haven't reported him because they want to be good neighbors, and I haven't witnessed anything regarding it, so I can't say anything either. I'm just hoping it never causes any problems to us.
...and then to my new neighbor. He's across the street and two houses over. It must be a young couple from what I've seen, and he guy has a dirtbike which he revs daily for about 15 minutes, and then tears off up the street for about a minute and a half, only to come back. He does this periodically throughout the day. Combine that with his muscle car that he revs up about twice a week for a half hour. His "wife" I assume, always stands on the front lawn talking on a cell phone loudly so we can all enjoy the conversation. But the biggest thing, is the fact that for the last week, on a daily basis, I'll hear fireworks and small explosions going off, but only once or twice and then I won't hear anything else. Of course they scare the hell out of Reesse, and me too because I'm not expecting them. It's not 4th of July...and even if it was, they're illegal in Massachusetts. They had enough of those on the 4th anyway. I felt like my house was under attack! Call the cops? Not likely. There's a cop a few roads down who shoots them off, so I know that's useless.
Oh and I should mention, the neighbor next to the fireworks neighbor, Reeses does not like. People walk by our house and we have alot of traffic because we're on a main drag. She sits in our picture window and is cool with everyone, except them. She cackles at them like she means business
Sorry about the long post, but what about your annoying neighbors?
