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04/20/11, 10:07 AM
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How many of you live relativity close to "trashy people"?
Someone purchased 60 acres about a 1/4 mile from my drive, puts him about1/2 mile from me and then sold it in 5 to 10 lots. The first person to move in brought in about 800 portable toilets. I was upset about that, but there is a nice place across the road from them, and he is even more upset. If that wasn't bad enough, someone bought 5 acres by the rural water tower and lives in an awful small trailer, hauls everything in the world in and just throws it out anywhere on the property. I am talking trash, trash. Looks like he cleans out places and just dumps it. He has a Llama or two and some animals in cages of some kind. No water and he did not have electricity for the longest. No trees for shade and finally got a meter set on a pole. You can be poor and still be clean. I can't tell you how awful this is to drive by. No rules or regulations that can get anything done. Property values have gone down on taxes on this sort of thing. I know I must not be the only one.
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04/20/11, 10:16 AM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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I have a rather untidy person that lives upstairs.... but he is going to be 18 and will be moving out soon! 
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04/20/11, 10:29 AM
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If they ain't on my land, it's none of my business.
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04/20/11, 10:36 AM
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Sometimes the wisest thing to do is to close your eyes. Worry about your own property, let others worry about their property. It's really not anyone's business how long it takes for a new property owner to get water or electricity. In fact, it's probably not the best idea to even strain your neck to check on those types of things.
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04/20/11, 10:41 AM
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We had neighbors like that, trash thrown out all over and it was ugly. But, it was their property. They had no right to tell me what to do on my place and I had no right to tell them what to do on theirs. The only way to have control over nearby properties is to either buy them yourself or live in a subdivision, hoa or other area that has rules and regulations that suit your ideals of how your neighbors should live.
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04/20/11, 10:45 AM
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Seriously?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zong
If they ain't on my land, it's none of my business.
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This.
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04/20/11, 10:52 AM
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I live with one and I live alone.  :
But I'm working on it.
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04/20/11, 11:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zong
If they ain't on my land, it's none of my business.
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I usually agree with this 110%....however the OP says
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Originally Posted by braggscowboy
Property values have gone down.....
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If the value of YOUR property is adversly affected by how your neighbors take care of THEIR property, then it IS your business. Ever try to sell your house or get a home equity loan when your neighbor's house looks like a landfill? Yeah, good luck with that......
I have no advice to offer, just wanted to point out that the way your neighbors take care of their property can, in some cases, affect your bottom line.
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04/20/11, 11:27 AM
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I am the trshy neighbor, according to my wife. But she likes the check in my pocket from the trash.
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04/20/11, 11:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluemoonluck
I usually agree with this 110%....however the OP says
If the value of YOUR property is adversly affected by how your neighbors take care of THEIR property, then it IS your business. Ever try to sell your house or get a home equity loan when your neighbor's house looks like a landfill? Yeah, good luck with that.......
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Braggscowboy, I'm with you. There is no earthly reason for people not to tidy up around their houses. Unfortunately we are in the same position. When we bought out here, there were 2 brick homes down the road. It seems that as the property got divided and subdivided, we've been over run with mobile homes on every available 1/2 ac. and people who don't take care of them or their outside yard. We've put a lot of effort and money into our property and when we plan to sell in the next 8 years, I seriously doubt we will get much of it back. Next location will have restrictions.
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04/20/11, 11:41 AM
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This county collects all the trash from the midwest. They all are collectors and display their collection in their front yard.
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04/20/11, 11:42 AM
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hmm, no good suggestions just wondered if you live by the AR line.. I think that I have driven by the place with the toilets!
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04/20/11, 11:45 AM
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Yep. Sad fact is that the majority of them are Dh's relatives. Not just them though, I have been cleaning up trash on this 6 acres since we bought the place in October. No one for over 40 years has made a dump run apparently judging from the ages of the "artifacts" I have run across. Seriously, people, we have a 12 foot trailor and I fill it and the back of the pickup and have taken over 30 LOADS to the dump yet am not halfway done. I don't think the property value here is much affected by it though since no one in their right mind wants to move out here unless they were raised here like Dh.
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04/20/11, 11:52 AM
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In Remembrance
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Down the road about 1/2 mile. Inside of place is about as bad as the yard.
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04/20/11, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Geometry or Chaos?
Who the heck are you folks? Just because you have some warped idea of what is right and what isn't sure doesn't give you a moral right to even complain about how someone else chooses to live.
I believe in Chaos.
A forest is prettier than a park and a million times better than a city.
UNLESS there is no sign of your habitation of your property from any location OFF of it your a hypocrite.
Sorry but your Mc Mansion desecrates the mountain side just as much as his 1952 school bus storage shed.
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04/20/11, 12:00 PM
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That's what you think.....let me know how that works out for ya....
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04/20/11, 12:00 PM
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We live in an end unit townhouse. Our next door neighbor is a hoarder. She had been raided by the hoarding squad before we moved in and wasn't allowed to live in her house for the first couple of years we lived here. She cleaned it up enough to move back in about 3 years ago. She is a nice lady but you can tell she is still hoarding. Our kitchen deck overlooks her living room and she has stuff stacked in front of the windows. We have never seen her put trash out for trash day in the three years she has been back in her house. Since she moved back we have had bugs which we never had before. My husband had to go knock on her door one time and he said the smell through the closed door about knocked him over. I guess the only good thing is that this time she doesn't have cats which she did before.
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04/20/11, 12:26 PM
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In my house in the city, we now have two houses that are in foreclosure. Both houses are starting to look like carp and I am the one putting time in to keep the one right next door mowed and keeping the weekly shopper off the driveway. The house is dead empty and I know at some point, some kids or squatters are going to move into the place.
Most of the other neighbors are good. But I might become the trashy neighbor at the country property as I am working with the local developers and city to put their deadfall and tree cutting project cuttings on my property. I want to start a nice pile and start to be the Compost King of Iowa.
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04/20/11, 12:27 PM
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Location: Northern California
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My neighbor has several people living in trailers on his land to protect their mj crop and with them has come all kinds of garbage that I look at from my front porch. Originally I was rather upset but have decided that it's not worth stressing about. It's their property and whatever junk they choose to store on it is their business. I wouldn't want somebody else telling me what to do with mine.
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04/20/11, 12:28 PM
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Location: middle GA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kimmom2five
We live in an end unit townhouse. Our next door neighbor is a hoarder. She had been raided by the hoarding squad before we moved in and wasn't allowed to live in her house for the first couple of years we lived here. She cleaned it up enough to move back in about 3 years ago. She is a nice lady but you can tell she is still hoarding. Our kitchen deck overlooks her living room and she has stuff stacked in front of the windows. We have never seen her put trash out for trash day in the three years she has been back in her house. Since she moved back we have had bugs which we never had before. My husband had to go knock on her door one time and he said the smell through the closed door about knocked him over. I guess the only good thing is that this time she doesn't have cats which she did before.
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This would be my concern. Yes, it's their property, but what about when it affects my property? In cases of hoarders, you run the risk of bug and rodent infestations.
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