I am writing this here because I do not think it will do any good to talk to my neighbors.
A list of things we let slide with these neighbors:
Watering their lawn on a daily basis when we had a severe drought and government restrictions. We could have called the city but did not.
Their regular partying on nights when we, including our children had to get a good night sleep in order to get up at 6 am the next morning -- partying that included shouting and terribly loud music blaring from their hot tub, often until after 1 am. We could have called the cops but did not.
Their daughter taking a screwdriver to our teak table, writing on our sidewalk in chalk that our child, who has a disability, is a retard, petty theft from our house ( from one of their kids) and more that I don't have time to mention. ALL of this receiving no reprimand whatsoever.
Their CONSTANT shedding of overgrown landscaping into our yard, that costs us money to throw out -- because we pay for garbage removal.
The million times they asked us to watch their kids on weekends so they could work or go out on their boat.
The time when they went away for the weekend and left their young kids home ALONE -- we could have called the cops but didn't. Instead we watched their children.
And their drunken fighting that was bad enough at times for their children to come over here and sleep until their parents sobered up.
So what do we do? Build one wood fence between the property and they call code enforcement and turn us in. We built to code but without a permit, (like EVERYONE in our town does), hoping to have the money saved to go to make the fence nice.
ARRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH! The thing is this: we were going to save up a little more money and make their side of the fence visually appealing, with double pickets on their side, staining and landscaping, but not anymore. The money we would have been using for that is now going to a large fine and retro-active permitting. Oh well.
A list of things we let slide with these neighbors:
Watering their lawn on a daily basis when we had a severe drought and government restrictions. We could have called the city but did not.
Their regular partying on nights when we, including our children had to get a good night sleep in order to get up at 6 am the next morning -- partying that included shouting and terribly loud music blaring from their hot tub, often until after 1 am. We could have called the cops but did not.
Their daughter taking a screwdriver to our teak table, writing on our sidewalk in chalk that our child, who has a disability, is a retard, petty theft from our house ( from one of their kids) and more that I don't have time to mention. ALL of this receiving no reprimand whatsoever.
Their CONSTANT shedding of overgrown landscaping into our yard, that costs us money to throw out -- because we pay for garbage removal.
The million times they asked us to watch their kids on weekends so they could work or go out on their boat.
The time when they went away for the weekend and left their young kids home ALONE -- we could have called the cops but didn't. Instead we watched their children.
And their drunken fighting that was bad enough at times for their children to come over here and sleep until their parents sobered up.
So what do we do? Build one wood fence between the property and they call code enforcement and turn us in. We built to code but without a permit, (like EVERYONE in our town does), hoping to have the money saved to go to make the fence nice.
ARRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH! The thing is this: we were going to save up a little more money and make their side of the fence visually appealing, with double pickets on their side, staining and landscaping, but not anymore. The money we would have been using for that is now going to a large fine and retro-active permitting. Oh well.
