Ahhh, country living. . .

Sorry, I do sympathize with you, I've done my share of apartment/duplex/townhouse/house-in-town living and no matter where you live it seems there is always going to be one or two people in the neighborhood that you don't get along with. One thing I will say though, if they let their kids age 2 and 3 outside without parental supervision and naked to boot, it sounds like someone should be calling CPS. Those kids are in danger of being kidnapped, hit by a car, getting lost or worse. I hate people who have kids and then don't take responsibility for them. . .grrr. . .

 

Wow, you just gave me a great idea for these PWT assclowns that live at the end of our street. I still don't know how they were able to buy that house. Lotto might have had something to do with it - who knows.

But hey, I have the ULTIMATE luxury of having a rent house next to me. Every 2-3 months I will get another set of BRAND NEW next door neighbors!! Aren't I the lucky one!!?!!?

The first set of next door neighbors introduced themselves to me in broken English. Everyday, I had the luxury of hearing the latest and greatest Tejano songs blaring at max volume while they let their F150 that looked like it had been dipped in chrome run for hours unattended in their driveway. Yes, even the tires looked like they had been dipped in chrome. Oh, I got some crazy ideas at times, but didn't exactly feel like building a criminal record. Unfortunately one day I came home to find two huge ruts in the front yard, where I was later told that a police paddy wagon had pulled up earlier that day and hauled out at least 10 adult aged males out of their 1,900 square foot house.

The second set of neighbors introduced themselves to me and they actually seemed nice. Everyday I didn't see them, but could hear them a lot at night. Slowly but surely, I was introduced to a fine set of musical choices, including but not limited to underground rap, Two Live Crew, Nelly, Fiddy Cent, and many many others. I was so excited that I called the cops several times. One day I got a nice knock on my door from a man from GMAC credit - he was looking for my neighbor's Suburban because apparently they must not have been great owners. One night I woke up to very bright lights in my backyard. SWAT and Narcotics came and took them away - can you BELIEVE that they were making meth?

The last people were here only one month. They moved in, credit hounds kept knocking on my door to ask me to call them when I saw them (yeah right). On New Year's Eve, they made a midnight jailbreak and split.

Thank goodness I saw the owner of the place after these last people moved out. I told him the stories and he "just couldn't believe it!!" A-hole. Wish I knew where he lived so that I could blare Tejano music into HIS living room.

The thing I can't understand is that this neighborhood is really good, with a VERY strict homeowner's association. ALL of those past residents would get tickets WEEKLY for Lord only knows what. Yet they still keep coming.

Ahhh..well, the "rent to own" sign is back up in the front window. Can't wait to see who we get next!!!

 

LT,
We met them at my son's karate school. I never really talked to anyone that much there, but the wife is a talker. So one night a week later we go to their house for dinner. Since the it's all been downhill. The neighbors mom is a real estate agent in my town. So she found them this nice cozy house 2 doors down from me! By the way, I live in a cul-de-sac, do there's plenty of room the their kids to play without coming to my yard.

Rose,
We have called CPS on them. Problem is, they are local to the area, and we're immigrant military. Her mom (real estate agent) knows everyone in town. Her dad is best friends with the chief of police. So nothing ever really happens. Hell, her husband got angry and slapped their 6 month old, and all CPS said was he couldn't be around the children alone for 6 months. WTF?

 

A few streets from where I live (we live in a donut shaped subdivision), there is a house that is owned by a fraternity. It's from Trinity University, they have weekend parties like you see in the movies. To me it's no big deal, they live far enough away not to hear any noise. What bothers me is the idiots stand in the middle of the street and won't move out of the way until I come to a stop then give a dirty look and move at the slowest pace possible.

Well one evening my friends and I were heading over to my buddy's house and passed by thier house as it is the only way to get to my house and my buddy's house, the morons were just standing in the street being dumb - again. So my buddy drops his convertible GT in 1st gear and proceeds to smoke the tires for about 75 ft. To see them running or jumping out of the way funny as hell. Once we get to my buddy's house we find the biggest brick of blackcats there is and head back over to the frat house. We sit at the end of the street and watch them gather again in the street and front yard. As we get closer I lit the blackcats and start yelling some profanities at them. Watching them dive to ground and scatter like bugs was the funniest thing I have ever witnessed. So we come back about 10 mins later and no more party , everyone had left.

 

Are all of you that have bad neighbors live with a HOA. Heck it doesn't matter the HOA can't do much unless you don't pay them and then they are there for the blood. I am SOOOOOO lucky, we have neighbors on each side of us who are great. Clean yards, one has kids and rot, kids are good, well one hass ADD and needs meds but who am I to judge. The rot is the best dog I have ever seen. Our other nighbors just went on a vacation with us so they are cool, plus he is becoming a Sherrif's deputy so thats cool. We live in a cul-de-sac, and except one house everything is peachy.

The one house moved in about the same time we did. She was a little nutty but hey who isn't, he seemed like a nice enough guy. Well, we soon found out he was a drunk, passed out nightly in the garage with the doors open watching nascar (i love nascar but you get the idea there). Soon, he was fired for ******** a girl at his works parking lot, on TAPE..ouch, then came the divorce, then came just him being at the house which consisted of no yard work, more drinking, and a general downward spiral, 3 DUI's with 3 months, lost the house now its empty which is worse. Kind of felt bad for the guy, once you own a house you understand that loosing one has got to be hard, but can happen to anyone. His was the direct result of his choices so you can't feel too bad. I will probably mow the lawn this summer just to keep our neighborhood up.

 

That sucks.. Get your dog locked up tight.. then report there dog.. and report them as like bad parents lol.. there kids are gonna get kidnapped rapped and killed if they aren't careful!

 

HOA =

For a year, three good friends and I rented a big 4 bd/2 1/2 bath 2 story house. The neighbors were all cool except one on the side. At the time we were all around 21-22 so we had parties and get togethers and what not. A few times the guy across the street would come over and hang out with us (he was twice our age - he even dressed up for our halloween party!), he told us about the neighbor that didn't like us - They were the Presidents of the HOA!!! He told us how the other neighbors defended us and had no problems with us. After the HOA prez saw him talking with us is when it started getting ugly, they would call code compliance and the cops on us.

The best was when they called the cops and told them we had naked underage girls running around the backyard and we were spraying them with water guns. When the cops showed up we showed them the video and they said that the girls looked over 18, so they did nothing and left.

 

Sorry to hear about the neighbors, but I can relate. There is a house that is referred to by the rest of my neighbors as the rabbit patch. They have a total of 12 kids living there. Apparently the mother had a fling and another kid leaving the father with all 12 kids and the mother split. The kids range from all ages and are completely unsupervised. The older (highschool age) ones are constantly racing up in down the streets squeeling there tires and generally harassing anyone that walks outside including my wife. When I moved in they were out in the front yard beating up a car with a sledge hammer, and stopped long enough to yell this is my neighborhood and we can do what we want (cleaned up the profanity). Needles to say I have had my share of run-ins with the kids as the father is never around. Cops know the place and kids by name and never seem to do anything other than give a DC ticket out. The last straw was when I caught them breaking into my jeep. The kids stated that I can't touch them do to there age (under 18) or they will call the cops on me. Tracked down the father at a bar and let him know what was going on and what was said. He just laughed and said there right you can't touch them. I advised him he was not 18 and that he should keep his kids under control or I would take my problems out on him. Two months later I did. No problems since

 

The neighbors I'm referring to don't do that, ,but about a 1/4 mile down the road, on the only way out of the neighborhood, some kids act like that. They stopped when I pulled up one night in my Mustang, 83 GT 5spd, Twisteded Wedge heads, and X303 cam. It sounded bad through Flowmasters, but the best was the interior operated Y-pipe. I pulled up to the kids, opened the headers, and let her rip. Now that was funny...

 

Nevermind.
words cant explain how bad I hate my neighbors even though they are family

 

i have jerks across the alley that are always working on cars in their driveway (i have NO problem with that, I do it) and listening to their radio/cd very loudly at all hours of the night. i asked them one morning (between 7 & 7:30am) to turn it down, ever since then they will randomly jack the volume way up for about a minute or so and then turn it back down. when they pull out of the alley onto the street (on the side of my house, corner lot) they will squeel the tires, sometimes catch part of my grass, and blast the radio everytime now. i've been biting my tongue, but i'm seriously considering digging a square piece of the yard up, and laying some planks of wood with nails in it in the grass so the next time they do it the jerk has to get new tires. anyone else got a good idea that won't get my arrested?

 

Video tape it.....then call the cops...let them handle.....otherwise....anything else that I would suggest may lead to jail time (if you are caught).....

 

I don't want to sound like an ***. But there is a reason I pay over $1200/month for our 2 bedroom apartment. Peace and quiet. We are on the top floor so nothing the neighbors do bothers us.

When i was younger, my dog ran away once and the new >CITY< neighbors called animal control. So I explained what happened and they appologized and life went on. they now plow my parents drive in the winter for free. Of course they live in the country and the neighbors are about 1/8 mile down the road.