"htmark98" wrote in message
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Hi a neighbour at the bottom of my garden (not my street next one over)
has a greenhouse and it's all full of dead stuff and really needs
sorting out. Now i wanna go over and ask them do they use it and want
to get rid of it. Now would you find this cheeky if someone done this
to you, i dont know them nor never even seen them (lived here 2 years).

Advice please!!

I myself wouldn't bother with a note under the door but straight ot the
front door and talk to the person. Something like "Hi, I'm xyz and I live in
the street round the corner. I am looking around for a glass house and
noticed that you have one that looks pretty much like what I am after. This
may sound a little cheeky, but I was wondering whether you may consider
selling it or if not, if you tell me where you got it from?". If they want
to get back to you on that give them your name and ph number.

From time to time when I have been out walking my dogs I have seen things of
interest. I most often simply knock on the door and ask if the occupier can
tell me where they got such and such from or, if it looks like stuff they
are throwing out, if they are giving it away. I have had some good success
with that approach.

rob