"Ann" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" expounded:

Would it bother you if your neighbor across the street parked an old car
on
his lawn, left it there to rust for 5 years, and for whatever reason,
there
was absolutely no way you could block the view using plants, fence, etc?

When I bought my house the next door neighbors basically had a
junkyard in their backyard. Dead washers, dryers, three rusting tin
sheds, a couple junk trucks, all kinds of tires, etc. Oh well. I
loved my house. They've moved on, new people live there now, they've
cleaned it up, life goes on. It's amazing what you can live with when
it really doesn't affect your basic life functions, like eating,
drinking, etc. Of course I'd rather not look at junk, but I'm not
paying their taxes or their mortgage. It's basically none of my
business.

How would you have felt if you needed to sell your house while the neighbors
had a virtual junkyard? I don't mean WANT to sell, but NEED to sell. What
if, due to the trashy neighbors, you found that there were few people
interested in looking let alone making an offer? The offers you do get are
low-balls. That is a situation where it does become your business because
the junk reduces your property value or makes your house impossible to sell.