"Bourne Identity" wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:47:59 GMT, "Vox Humana"
opined:
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.
People are always okay and tolerant till it effects them, or their hot
button
issue is raised. I live in a 31 home development. Homes in here go from
250 to
450. Out of respect for one another, we maintain the front of our homes.
Mine,
of course, is the most wild, but its got order in the chaos. However,
when I
learned one of our neighbors down the cul-de-sac was selling their home, I
went
out and trimmed out all the dead flowers from the Gaura lindheimerii,
pulled out
all the dead larkspur stalks, etc. I put down mulch to neaten things up.
Rather civil.
I assure you that if a huge mess was happening in our little neighborhood
it
would **** me off. My one neighbor has two trailers in his driveway,
which is a
four car driveway. One has a barrel BBQ pit thing, the other is for
hauling
stuff. His truck sticks out onto the sidewalk. People reported it and
those
things are now gone and we can walk down the street again. Yay.
So, rest assured, people "say" it doesn't bother them, or it's none of
their
business, but when it effects them they squeal as loud as everyone else.
I agree. If you notice that Ann, who claims that nothing is any of her
business, started by lamenting the mess in her neighbor's yard. There is a
difference between "it's none of my business" and having an opinion about
something.
I think you also hit on the essence of this problem. Maintaining the
exterior of your home at approximately the same level as your neighbors is a
simple courtesy. I don't expect people to recreate Longwood Gardens, but it
doesn't cost anything to pick up your trash and to pull a few weeds. I
think that people who park across the sidewalk, for example, are at best
selfish, and at worst just giving everyone the finger.
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