How important is it for you that your neighbor maintains their home?

RedBedroom wrote:...This suburb has a lot of regulations for things, and we keep a very nice place, but get called in all the time when my guy brings home a work trailer or something like the Bobcat.

alan smithee wrote:Living in an apartment, this doesn't really affect me but it is very important to me that my neighbors are careful with fire! Last week there was a fire in the complex (practically the other side from me) and 8 families were left homeless. Thankfully it was nothing more than that. Years ago when my daughter was a toddler and my wife worked evenings, I was home alone with her. Sometime in the evening I went to answer a knock on our door but there was no one there but something caught my eye to the right. It was flames leaping out of the upstairs apartment two doors down from us. The knock was from one of our neighbors to warn the rest of us. Grabbed my daughter and waited in the parking lot while the FD put it out. There was just the smell of smoke in our place when it was over. Not even bad enough to set our smoke detector off but it still makes you stop and think how much we depend on the actions of others. Like driving. We take it on total faith that the person coming towards us is going to stay in their lane. Sorry to go off topic.

MandyPerfumeGirl wrote:I have to say I really don't care either way. I keep my home and lawn maintained and nice-looking and my neighbors have a right to keep their house and lawn as they please. I don't know why any neighbor would care, it's not like they themselves have to maintain it.

thepossiblepolice wrote:I don't really care if their lawn is nice or not, but I do think it is better if they keep their home's maintained.

I live in a city though, not a suburb, so there aren't strict rules about it here.

Our old neighbors abandoned their home a year and a half ago. Finally some new people bought it and are still fixing it up, but when they moved, they dumped out everything that was in their fridge in the back yard. Concerned about rats, my husband went over and cleaned it all up. It wasn't good enough though...Around the same time, some neighbors across the alley and a few houses down started a business doing something where they gathered other peoples construction waste, and instead of throwing it away at the dump they threw it all in the back yard.

It was knocking down their fence the pile of debris was so high. I called the city on them, and they ended up cleaning it all up (the city) and after that, rats came out looking for a new home.

They've never come into our house, but they went into our car and garage, and in the crawl space under the house Now we are battling them STILL. Now we are trying to get all the neighbors to put out traps and poison, because if only one of us does it, then the problem wont go away.

So, I guess, for me, the worst has already happened as far as our home value being brought down by the neighbors. The ones with all the trash ended up selling for 25,000 a house that they bought just the previous summer for almost 200,000. The house right next door that was abandoned was sold for like 140,000, even though they owed 285,000 on it.

Now I'd just like people to make the neighborhood less hospitable to rats because I have no hope of selling our home any time soon.

thepossiblepolice wrote:I don't really care if their lawn is nice or not, but I do think it is better if they keep their home's maintained.

I live in a city though, not a suburb, so there aren't strict rules about it here.

Our old neighbors abandoned their home a year and a half ago. Finally some new people bought it and are still fixing it up, but when they moved, they dumped out everything that was in their fridge in the back yard. Concerned about rats, my husband went over and cleaned it all up. It wasn't good enough though...Around the same time, some neighbors across the alley and a few houses down started a business doing something where they gathered other peoples construction waste, and instead of throwing it away at the dump they threw it all in the back yard.

It was knocking down their fence the pile of debris was so high. I called the city on them, and they ended up cleaning it all up (the city) and after that, rats came out looking for a new home.

They've never come into our house, but they went into our car and garage, and in the crawl space under the house Now we are battling them STILL. Now we are trying to get all the neighbors to put out traps and poison, because if only one of us does it, then the problem wont go away.

So, I guess, for me, the worst has already happened as far as our home value being brought down by the neighbors. The ones with all the trash ended up selling for 25,000 a house that they bought just the previous summer for almost 200,000. The house right next door that was abandoned was sold for like 140,000, even though they owed 285,000 on it.

Now I'd just like people to make the neighborhood less hospitable to rats because I have no hope of selling our home any time soon.