Neighbors

My last house was a really neat looking stucco tudor style home. No cracks, fresh paint, new driveway, new cut glass windows, manacured yard, neat as a pin. The renter across the street would park his rusted yellow K car in front of my house....drove me nuts.

Holy hell. My neighbor back in MS wouldn't park his damn cars in his garage so that his stupid kids could *** around in there. Nooo. He parks both his SUVs on the street...right next to the subdivision entrance, making it a one lane street. I'm surprised that there weren't more car crashes.

kuzi16:

stephen_hannibal:

YES, the dude that lives across from me always parks his benz, or his vette in front of my house so he can have his two driveways free to work on his other POS cars.
Not only that the freaking guy that lives next door to him parks his F'n Yacht on the street. The street is only wide enough for two cars but with his damn boat it narrows the street down to a single lane, and it's on a curve.

Sorry selfish people piss me off.

buy a $200 beater, drive it down the road only to hit one of the above monstrosities.... make sure you have no insurance when you do it.

The problem is they can seen my house... they know where I live. *sigh*

I'm thinking sprinklers that are just slightly misaligned might be a good solution here. Mostly for the folks that have nicer things parked in front of their houses.

jsnake:

I thought I was becoming a grumpy old man but yes this makes me angry. Especially when the neighbors have friends over and they pull too far off the curb and into my grass. Seems they like to throw their cigarette butts all over too. This only happens occasionally but it does annoy me.

that sucks, you could just knife the tires. My best friend had the same problem until he did that. Sure there was more damage to the grass however he got the good end of it. He put a note on the car saying he slashed the tire and put a bill for his landscaping on the car as well. He took down the license plate. Later that evening he got a knock on the door, he saw it was some punk, he grabbed his shotgun and put it behind his back. When he opened the door this kid was all p-oed however he quieted down when he saw the shotgun. My friend went off on him over the continued damage off his grass and to make a long story short, the kid ended up paying him 100 dollars as they worked out a deal where the kid would pay for the grass/landscaping damage while my friend would pay for his tire to get replaced, which was good since it got him 100 dollar profit and about 35 dollars to fix the grass. He hasn't had an issue for over a year.

A couple of years ago when I left for work at 4:00 AM, I noticed every morning for almost week a car parked in front of my yard. The car had someone sleeping in it. I tapped on the window one morning to talk to this person and the alcohol smell eminating from the car almost made me pass out.
I asked the person to sleep off whatever they had and leave and not come back. 3 weeks and nothing, then one morning the car was back, I had had enough, I called 911 and told them about the person and gave the license number.
The police arrived in about 10 minutes and actually arrested the person on outstanding warrants for 2 DUI charges (go figure).

I had the neighbor's son's car towed 2 times since he parked it on the corner of street semi-blocking the cul-de-sac exit and it sat unmoved for 2 months the first time and 3 weeks the second time. I had already spoken to his parents 2 times and they said it was his old car so he was letting it sit until he could sell it.

if its parked in front of your house on the street (its not on private property): Take the valve stem cover off, put a small wad of paper in the stem and screw it back on. A slight hissing sound should be heard. Then do the same thing to the opposite tire. When he goes to drive off he will have a flat tire... back up, same thing. It doesn't hurt anything (its not vandalism), but he will get the point and stop parking the car in the wrong damn spot. After that warning Id weld a plate over his exhaust pipe in the middle of the night.

I live in a neighborhood where instead of driveways, we have an "alley" in the back with garages. Neighboor to the right parks two on the street. Neighbor to the left parks 2 on the street, and 2 houses to the left parks 3 on the street. I drive a diesel truck long bed, sucker is so long it won't fit in my garage(that's what she said) and it's always hard to get a spot in front of my house.

However, we all tend to try and make room for eachother but it can be a pain sometimes.