I mean, I know there are worse things to complain about, but you know the neighbourhood is going downhill when a nearby house is converted into a rental. And the new tenants bring their trash to strew in the back yard when they move in. Seriously. These people have been here since about Thanksgiving. They brought trash and dumped it in the back yard. They decorated for Christmas with some huge inflatable Santa Mickey that worked for about three days and then sat there deflated for three weeks. They also have big dogs (note plural noun) and smoke on the back porch constantly. I'm starting to think "drug house." Here's hoping that in the spring we don't discover that they enjoy "music" as well.
Gah. Bad Neighbors are the WORST. My sympathies.
ReplyDeleteCould be worse... I guess... I don't hear any music and I haven't been assaulted yet. Thankfully also they are not next door neighbours.
DeleteThey might be really great people but my first impression is reallllly not the best?
Bad neighbors. Bad neighbors.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry.
Thank you.
DeleteI wonder what the inside of the house looks like. Time for a privacy fence or a hedge or something!
ReplyDeleteI keep feeling like they're staring at ME when I'm waiting for my son's bus when THEY are the ones putting on a show... sigh.
DeleteOh... the FRONT of my house is facing this way, so me getting a privacy hedge won't work. :/
DeleteLooks like an infestation of circle hippies....and not the good kind.
ReplyDeletelol not hippies... sorry...
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ReplyDeleteThat is a fair amount of clutter. Looks like it's largely kid stuff--sleds, a toddler's slide, a wheel barrow, outside furniture. And they have dogs? Geez. You'd hate my yard. :) Have you met them yet?
ReplyDeleteWelllll you didn't just move in over Thanksgiving, and I'm given to imagine that your yard is larger than the postage-stamp sized city lots here. Which is why more than one LARGE dog IMO is inappropriate in this case.
DeleteWe don't have any immediate neighbors, thank goodness. I'd rather not be the one other people complain about :). We live in a rural area and I like it that way.
DeleteBut our yard is often cluttered which is why I'm hesitant to assume I know what's going on in other people's lives. During the spring and summer it's with gardening equipment. And because we do most of our own repair work: house, car, and otherwise, it's not uncommon for there to be tools laying around and cars with their hoods up sitting in front of my house. And it isn't pretty (hate it) but it's what you do when you don't have a garage. But it used to be bicycles and other sundry outdoor toys so while we aren't dirty, our yard is certainly lived in.
No one in this house smokes, but if they did, they'd be doing so outside.
I absolutely get being upset over real trash no one bothers to pick up and loud music and traffic at all hours. And there's nothing quite like waking up during the night to hearing screaming and see your neighbors or their kids being hauled away by the cops over a domestic dispute (been there, done that). But clutter? Meh.
I take it they aren't cleaning up behind their dogs and the smell is wafting over the fence to your house? That is gross and you'd be well within your rights to ask them to clean it up (it's a health hazard). The same goes for excessive barking.
Best of luck with the situation.
They have a two-car garage. And you're right... like I said, this is hardly the worst thing that can happen.
ReplyDeleteSigh. Why couldn't all the old folks stay in my neighbourhood? :/