What to do about Neighbors...

bikert said:
I have had a similar problem. We have a neighbor with five kids, all totally unsupervised.

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After that, I'd just print out the pictures of the kids sneaking up to the door (sort of like a wanted poster) and emailed them to the local email list asking for them to be identified. Funny thing that stopped as well after that :lol:
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That's something else to consider - Does the HOA have a Facebook page or other website where you can post photos of the trash and security camera pictures?
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
. If things keep going like they are going, I am just going to share the footage w/ the HOA.

I mentioned the issue to a couple neighbors and I am not the only one picking up after them it seems.
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That was my first thought. Engage the HOA before the police.
 
And if they deny everything, remind them you have "DNA" that can be tested.
 
I've had that problem. I picked up the crap in the yard, put it in a bag, and kindly placed it on the offending neighbor's doorstep.

It stopped.
 
Had a similar problem with a guy's dog constantly barking, and after I asked him to control his dog, he threw empty beer bottles in my yard. Went over and asked him to cease, and again beer bottles. One night the friggin' dog is barking nonstop for hours. Around 9-10:00 pm, I called the police. Saw the first cop pull up and the dog was still howling away! Yes! Another cop pulls up, guess they must have talked to the a-hole for 10-15 minutes. Haven't had any problems since.
 
And remember the biggest real estate secret of them all: Never move someplace you can't afford to move out of.:lol:
 
I put the used condom under the windshield wiper of a vehicle parked in the street belonging to one of their overnight visitors last night.
The car is gone so someone who visits that house got to deal with that.

I moved the trash from my yard to theirs and I notice some new sonic cups in their yard this morning that weren't there last night.

I want to hook my sprinklers to a motion detector so anytime someone ventures into my lawn, they are discouraged from loitering.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I want to hook my sprinklers to a motion detector so anytime someone ventures into my lawn, they are discouraged from loitering.
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That's easy enough. Replace the timer circuit with a motion sensor.
 
Another option? Relocating into the country? Main problem here is that it's a leaf factory each fall. Once raked, however, the guy with the truck towing a monster leaf vacuum/mulcher sucked up the resultant 5.5 cubic yards in 30 minutes flat and drove away is a welcome visitor. Neighbors? They wave to me on their way up/down the private road..
But I like the idea of you calling Child Protective Services whose investigation might also identify the hooligans who visit from other neighborhoods.
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Lawreston said:
Another option? Relocating into the country? Main problem here is that it's a leaf factory each fall. Once raked, however, the guy with the truck towing a monster leaf vacuum/mulcher sucked up the resultant 5.5 cubic yards in 30 minutes flat and drove away is a welcome visitor. Neighbors? They wave to me on their way up/down the private road..
But I like the idea of you calling Child Protective Services whose investigation might also identify the hooligans who visit from other neighborhoods.
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I just let the leaves be. They get chopped up with the mower in the spring, and become fertilizer.
 
This is a no-win situation. I've been there. You might be able introduce yourself to one of your city PD's community outreach officers. If they practice community policing, there'll be an officer that may already be familiar with the "cool mom" and her brats. If not, you can discreetly bring them to someone's attention.

I would not do anything to escalate the situation. If I didn't think I could confront them directly without making matters worse, then I just wouldn't. Its not worth it.
 
Phoenix said:
And remember the biggest real estate secret of them all: Never move someplace you can't afford to move out of.:lol:
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Yeah, we might have avoided the whole "sub-prime" mortgage fiasco if more people followed this advice.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
They have parties every weekend. They love to knock on my door and run because I am so close and on the corner.

I suspect she is the "cool mom" where the young kids come to party because she lets them have alcohol.
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Might be worth calling the TABC if there are numerous parties with underage drinking. Texas law allows everyone involved in a party that knowingly serve or allow alcohol to be served to minors to be ticketed and fined up to 4,000$ per ticket. They will loose their drivers license for 180 days also, and there can be jail time added on. Doesn't matter if it is an adult or minor.

Mama and a couple of kids get ticketed for 4 grand a piece and it will probably stop in a hurry, and most likely CPS will be involved too at that point.
 
Disaster girl says she had a similar situation once...
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
I do suspect she is "the cool mom" that let's the teenagers come over and drink.
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Unlike when I was a kid and EVERY parent let the teenagers come over and drink.

Of course, the parents joined the party (many times it'd be multiple sets of parents) and kept tabs on the kids.

Boy, times have changed.

Not necessarily for the better in many (most) cases.
 
jesse said:
I'd just pick it up, sigh a few times, and let it go. Engaging in a battle with those that have no standards is not something that typically goes well.

The problem will eliminate itself with time.
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We've had this situation in our neighborhood many times.
Funny that after a year or so, they all tend to be evicted.

Just have to be patient or bite the bullet and relocate yourself and hope for better surroundings and permanency
 
Unfortunately this is the age of the new normal the socialized democrats want so badly.

You are not responsible for your actions, always blame someone else..... :confused::confused::confused:
 
Jesse is right. Let it go and time will sort this out. When you're dealing with people like this things can get way out of hand way too fast. And a nice family like yours doesn't need a group of people with nothing to lose having a grudge against your family.

We live in what used to be a wonderful neighborhood. You have to scratch your head when a few people manage to move in and change the flavor. We live in a $250K-$400K neighborhood and have had a couple of things like that over the years. My brother just finished his $600K house in a much nicer and newer place at an upscale country club where some houses top $1M - and they're already having the same problems.
 
Had a neighbor like that. Got foreclosed eventually. They trashed the house and it sold at auction for 40% under comps. Now everyone who is selling has to explain that house on the sales reports.

Look at your HOA covenants. Put up cameras. File police reports for littering. Check county noise ordinances. Call the cops for parties.
 
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Zeldman said:
Unfortunately this is the age of the new normal the socialized democrats want so badly.

You are not responsible for your actions, always blame someone else..... :confused::confused::confused:
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Ironically that it happens in a state that is overwhelmingly republican, likely making it safe to assume the perpertrators are right-wing, nut job Baptists or Methodists.


(See what I did there?? Just tossed out labels that can bring partisan bickering into something that has no political origin.) :mad2:
 
Gerhardt said:
Jesse is right. Let it go and time will sort this out. When you're dealing with people like this things can get way out of hand way too fast. And a nice family like yours doesn't need a group of people with nothing to lose having a grudge against your family.

We live in what used to be a wonderful neighborhood. You have to scratch your head when a few people manage to move in and change the flavor. We live in a $250K-$400K neighborhood and have had a couple of things like that over the years. My brother just finished his $600K house in a much nicer and newer place at an upscale country club where some houses top $1M - and they're already having the same problems.
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And, the people living in the >$1m houses look at your brother as "those people" who are ruining their neighborhood.
 
JoseCuervo said:
Ironically that it happens in a state that is overwhelmingly republican, likely making it safe to assume the perpertrators are right-wing, nut job Baptists or Methodists.


(See what I did there?? Just tossed out labels that can bring partisan bickering into something that has no political origin.) :mad2:
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No....Baptists or Methodists would not approve of the out of wedlock condom use. :no: :rofl:
 
You mean to tell me people who drop 400K for a roof deal with this? LOL Hell, when I owned my 110K 2/1 on the wrong side of the tracks according to my snob co-workers, I never had this problem.
#winning...and not like Charlie sheen either! :D
 
timwinters said:
Get video of the condom in use, post it on youtube, and then paint the link to it on their garage door.

Do I have to figure everything out here?

:goofy:
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He'll get arrested for distribution of "child" porn...
 
You are in a HOA? There has to be an old timer HOA rules nazzi on the board or in the neighborhood, every HOA seems to have at least one. I hate HOA's but use them to your advantage to sort it out if they are trashing the neighborhood.
 
RussR said:
Security cameras are fantastic, and are both coming down in price and getting easier to install (some types are wireless - completely wireless, using batteries).

Get one or two. Point them appropriately. Highly recommended. I am actually currently in the process of installing them around our house. Almost done. We definitely have one installed with a good view of the house with teenagers across the street. Actually, two cover that area.
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Be careful....
 
timwinters said:
Get video of the condom in use, post it on youtube, and then paint the link to it on their garage door.

Do I have to figure everything out here?

:goofy:
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You haven't figured it through. If one or both (or all three? :D) of the users are minors, he might get charged with child porn.:yikes:
 
Must confess, I had a neighbor that used to stop at my front yard and let their German Shepherd take a dump... until I took a big pile down and placed it approximately where their first step out the front door would be. They got the message, I never saw them in front of my house again.
 
paflyer said:
Be careful....
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Care to expand on that?

The one camera covers the side of our house, looking forward along the side, from the back. You can see a little over the fence and over the fence can be seen the front of the neighbor's house.

The other covers our front yard, pointing across the driveway and therefore down the street, and again has a view of part of the front of the neighbor's house.

All the views are the same views that a person walking on the sidewalk would be able to see, it's not like we're pointing it over their fence into their bedroom windows or anything.
 
People are so scared of everything these days.

If you're flying/owning a plane and on a message board you're probably one of the smarter folks in America (scary thought), I'm sure you can figure out a safe way to put some mental midgets into compliance.
 
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You are in Texas, right?

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if that wasn't a Magnum condom I wouldn't worry too much about it
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
...and we upgraded to a very quite place in the middle of nowhere.
I have 3 neighbors that are total loud jackazzes and 1 where it has gone too far.
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SixPapaCharlie said:
If things keep going like they are going, I am just going to share the footage w/ the HOA.
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If you can see another house from yours, you're not in the middle of nowhere.
If you live on a paved street, you're not in the middle of nowhere.
If you have a freaking HOA, you're not in the middle of nowhere.

From your picture I'd say you were in the middle of suburbia. If you were in the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't have these problems.

And it's quiet, not quite. :D
 
I don't think it's so much a middle of nowhere issue as the demographics of the neighborhood. Bryan needs to move someplace where his neighbors are mostly older with grown children who don't live there any more. :D
 
tyndall said:
:confused:
If you can see another house from yours, you're not in the middle of nowhere.
If you live on a paved street, you're not in the middle of nowhere.
If you have a freaking HOA, you're not in the middle of nowhere.

From your picture I'd say you were in the middle of suburbia. If you were in the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't have these problems.

And it's quiet, not quite. :D
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Relative to dallas...
Corinth Texas is the middle of nowhere by comparison
 
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