A letter to the neighbors
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I've had neighbors like that. Once, the neighbors had a visitor who drove a trailer onto my lawn (technically it was on the right-of-way, but whatevs). This after a solid week of rain.
When they drove off, they left 1' gashes on the lawn. I called the neighbors to ask when they were going to repair the damage. They said "That's just the way it goes sometimes." So I got some fill and some grass seed and filled it in while they drank beers on their patio and watched me. Classy folk.
When they drove off, they left 1' gashes on the lawn. I called the neighbors to ask when they were going to repair the damage. They said "That's just the way it goes sometimes." So I got some fill and some grass seed and filled it in while they drank beers on their patio and watched me. Classy folk.
This pretty much is the way it goes now. Neighbors don't talk much anymore. I'm lucky, living in Illinois, my neighbor went to ISU. His kids are the same age as ours. We are outside a lot, but hardly anyone else is. That series of emails was funny as hell, but I wonder if the problem could have been easier solved by just knocking on the door and asking, "Any way you would consider a lower watt bulb or a different angle on the light?
I make it a point to let my neighbors know what kind of crazy **** I'm going to do and that any damage incurred by them will be fixed by me to their satisfaction. It's amazing how well we get a long, but other friends I have, this seems to not be the case.
I make it a point to let my neighbors know what kind of crazy **** I'm going to do and that any damage incurred by them will be fixed by me to their satisfaction. It's amazing how well we get a long, but other friends I have, this seems to not be the case.
This is from the same guy that did the payment with spider drawing and other hilarious stories: "I cant help it if some of the light goes across the road. Put something up in your window."
Sadly people these days will hide from confrontation when they have an issue with neighbors. Before calling the cops or filing a complaint with the city, etc. just talk to them and come to a reasonable agreement and then use other methods if they refuse to cooperate. Chances are a lot of these people don't realize what they are doing is causing someone frustration. I have one neighbor who buys wrecked cars for projects sometimes and fixes them up to resell and he says he can't even keep one in the drive for a day before he can get it into the garage without someone calling the city to complain. Says he has no idea who it is but wishes they would not be such a coward and just say something to him because he never intends to leave them in the drive for long, he usually just needs to make space in the garage first.
Most of my immediate neighbors I talk to whenever I see them out and I would think they would say something to me. I have had the cops come out one time when I had a party going on because someone filed a noise complaint but funny thing was we had the radio on one of the cars parked in the drive while we played bags and lawn games and was not up loud that you could probably barely hear it across the street. Cop even said they thought we had it at an acceptable level but we should probably turn it down more or off out of courtesy so they aren't called back out again. Never knew which neighbor it was that called it in but kind of irked me they didn't have the nerve to come out and politely ask us to turn it down if it was bothering them.
Most of my immediate neighbors I talk to whenever I see them out and I would think they would say something to me. I have had the cops come out one time when I had a party going on because someone filed a noise complaint but funny thing was we had the radio on one of the cars parked in the drive while we played bags and lawn games and was not up loud that you could probably barely hear it across the street. Cop even said they thought we had it at an acceptable level but we should probably turn it down more or off out of courtesy so they aren't called back out again. Never knew which neighbor it was that called it in but kind of irked me they didn't have the nerve to come out and politely ask us to turn it down if it was bothering them.
Naughtius is pretty clever. I am sure he has found a way to get back at them or has already done so.
Fair points, but sometimes the police become the first resort. I have a neighbor who hosted a party comprised of his colleagues and some people in the neighborhood. When I got there, I noticed the only red he was serving was a ghastly Merlot (I believe it was Chateau Ste. Michelle or something comparably distasteful) that was completely mis-paired with the meat he was serving. This was shortly after the hit movie "Sideways" was released and so anti-Merlot sentiment among the sophisticated class was at an all-time high. So I went home and brought over a case of Chimney Rock Cab that paired masterfully with the meat and sat back and let the guests heap compliment after compliment on the host for the pairing.
The next day I went over to ask him for the $400 or $500 the case cost me because I basically saved his party. He refused to pay it and so I threatened to sue him, but after consulting with my attorney and incurring another several hundred dollars in legal expenses for a variety of demand letters, I decided to drop it. He and I are no longer on speaking terms and I now call the police on him any time he has a party that is not in strict compliance with the noise ordinance. I also installed a security camera and caught his sprinkler spraying about a foot into my lawn so I called the police but decided not to have him arrested for trespassing after he promised in front of the police to make sure it never happened again. Some people, like my neighbor, just make really bad neighbors and bad neighbors require police action to be kept in line.
If this is true, why not let us in on it? I, too felt that there was something left unsaid in his story.
If I had a neighbor come on to my property, take something apart like a lamp and provide me a letter admitting to it; the cops would be called. That he repeatedly did it and sent self satisfying emails is icing on the cake. What if he left live wires exposed? The guy took liberties he was not entitled to, and he's being a **** about it, too. Not a difficult call at all.
I can sympathize. There's a group of girls in our apartment building, all in their late-20's, that I swear are trying to recreate their college dorm in our building. They started out in one apartment, but one got married and moved downstairs. Then one of her husbands friends moved into a different apartment. And then another girl they were friends with moved in, so now they are about a third of the building. They've started to get the hint, but for awhile they were really aggressive about trying to get us to hang out every time we saw them in the hall.
The married couple is actually nice enough and pretty normal, so we had invited them over to watch a movie one night. This was mostly because I stupidly felt guilty about constantly shooting down their invites. We didn't realize that inviting them meant that invitation was apparently open to the whole building. Won't feel bad about shooting them down next time.
I'm waiting for the statute of limitations to expire. Duh.
Actually, I considered escalating the jackassery, like spraying ISU into their lawn with Roundup. (Did I mention they were stereotypical Tavern Hawks?)
But I was about to list my house, so figured it wasn't an ideal time for a border war. But I tell EVERYONE in my small town about them, and have been told the story has come back to them a couple times. They still give me dirty looks every time I run into them, and that's all the revenge I need. (If I'm feeling especially saucy, I give them a big fake smile and wave, and they typically turn away quickly.)
Oh, and their family of 6 still lives in the same small 2 BR bungalow, while my new house is twice the size of my old house and 30 years newer. So, yeah, I won.
The guy who bought my house was a cop, so I'm guessing they've toed the line since then, too.
