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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:55:24 -0800, "Robbin" wrote:



I'm not confusing anything. You can take me to small claims court without
your own lawyer. If I so choose, I can have a lawyer to represent me. You
seem to think that it would be easy to "prove" that something I did on my
property is the reason and the only reason why your property value declined.
I don't think it would be that easy. I really don't understand how this
discussion has been changed from whether a person should be able to maintain
their front yard in a natural, unorganized state to "I can take anyone here
to court if their piles of crap lower my home value in any way."


I wasn't referring to your front yard, but to my neighbors yard. He is the one
with the crap. Nobody in our very small (35 home) sub-division likes this
maniac who shoots doves in his backyard and eats them.

I do believe that, when a person moves into a subdivision and there are bylaws
in place, the person should follow them in the front yard. The backyard is
another subject. I do not believe we have rights to do whatever we want in our
front yards for both ethical reasons and out of respect to the conformity of how
things look. It's not fair to move into a place where people have been
following a restriction, you signed that restriction when moved in, and now feel
it is fine to grow your garden with a messy esthetics. I have a prairie garden
in the backyard. To some it looks like a bunch of weeds. I could care less.
The front yard complies to uniformity which is what I agreed to when I signed
the deed restrictions. That's all I'm saying. I am a proponent of
naturescapes, I have one and my backyard is WWF certified habitat.

Victoria