Kubota King
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REDDOGTWO said:
NOT ALWAYS....& the word townhouse represents multi level. Some townhouses have the garage under neath & some just have living space on the bottom level.
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Problem Neighbors in a private neighborhood . . .
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NOT ALWAYS....& the word townhouse represents multi level. Some townhouses have the garage under neath & some just have living space on the bottom level.
REDDOGTWO
Unemployed Veg. Peddler
I would not live in either a townhouse, townhome, row house, apartment or condo.
Also try to stay away from anything organized at all if possible. Up in ND you have the township, city, county and all of the assocaited BS that goes with it. The land the township is in, is a partial township because of the river, therefore all of the township duties are represented by the county. To close to the big city, city zoning, more BS.
In Fl, our home is in a area where we are out in the county, so to speak as this place is getting so crowded it is hard to tell any more, the subdivision is self governing, another layer. But they do put the costs on the real estate taxes, so you have to pay the fees.
The first time after we bought the house we brought the motor home, no parking on the street, so we parked on the lawn. After a few days a letter was dropped off at the door stating that motorhomes were not allowed, if it was not moved within two weeks, they would take legal action. Got the message, however did not put the motor home on land because I of pushing it, rather due to the fact I did not know better.
Maybe Bob will solve his problem with a letter. They just might get the message.
Also try to stay away from anything organized at all if possible. Up in ND you have the township, city, county and all of the assocaited BS that goes with it. The land the township is in, is a partial township because of the river, therefore all of the township duties are represented by the county. To close to the big city, city zoning, more BS.
In Fl, our home is in a area where we are out in the county, so to speak as this place is getting so crowded it is hard to tell any more, the subdivision is self governing, another layer. But they do put the costs on the real estate taxes, so you have to pay the fees.
The first time after we bought the house we brought the motor home, no parking on the street, so we parked on the lawn. After a few days a letter was dropped off at the door stating that motorhomes were not allowed, if it was not moved within two weeks, they would take legal action. Got the message, however did not put the motor home on land because I of pushing it, rather due to the fact I did not know better.
Maybe Bob will solve his problem with a letter. They just might get the message.
Himself
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Neighbors.
You can't live with them, you can't kill 'em. There has to be a cure.
Try the easy stuff first Bob.
Warmly grasp the hand that opens the door and convey your particular concerns.
Wait one week.
If no results, simply invite them to the neighborhood party.
While they are inebriated cuff and bag 'em.
Ever see Fried Green Tomatoes?
Cook 'em up good and feed 'em to their dogs.
Call the dog officer to take the dogs. No one to go claim them. Everything solved.
Who want's to be my neighbor?
Put the phone down, I'm only joking.
You can only try to be friendly and convincing at the same time.
I myself would much rather recieve face to face complaints as opposed to a letter or a visit from an official.
People usually strive to please their friends and could give a chit about the hypothetical moron next door who hassels them all the time. (upon reviewing my post I need to add that I'm not calling anyone in particular a moron, ok.)
The christian thing to do is to befriend them, make them feel welcome and be convincing. Court will just be detrimental. If they get a hard time to the point where they sell the property remember you cannot control who they may sell to. Better the devil you know.
I preceed my neighbors by 20 years in this neighborhood. It was inexpensive, nice and quiet and dark at night when I turned off the ouside lights. Times change. Now the valuations are in the 5-8 hundred range and it's never dark ouside.
My neighbor to the west is a useless junk collector, he is a noisy arrogant bastard, he parks a big noisy diesel company truck in his yard overnight, and he is alway burning green brush when the wind is blowing my way. I think his permanently disabled wife is making it all up. My neighbor to the north likes to hang deer from the tree common to our driveways, in bow season, in shotgun season, and in black powder season. He butchers them in his boat house and puts the remnants out for the trash. We have every animal in the neighbor hood over here on trash day, it aint pretty. He is a drunk, way worse than me, who doesn't want to work, is waiting for his inheritance, sizeable I might add, and he is living in a house his father owns and for free. To the east and south I have the lake as a neighbor and it alone helps my sanity. I don't complain to either one of them because I won't let them know they bother me and the response would likely be the proverbial finger since my attempts at being helpful,neighborly and constructively suggestive have repeatedly failed.
All in all I feel much better now Bob, thanks, but listen, one really doesn't have to look very far to find some one worse off. So cheer up mate. It's not all that bad really.
If I had the bucks I would hire an attorney to buy both adjoining properties, life isn't that simple. Try to work with what you have, nothing is forever. Look at the good points, they don't keep hogs.
All the best,
Martin
You can't live with them, you can't kill 'em. There has to be a cure.
Try the easy stuff first Bob.
Warmly grasp the hand that opens the door and convey your particular concerns.
Wait one week.
If no results, simply invite them to the neighborhood party.
While they are inebriated cuff and bag 'em.
Ever see Fried Green Tomatoes?
Cook 'em up good and feed 'em to their dogs.
Call the dog officer to take the dogs. No one to go claim them. Everything solved.
Who want's to be my neighbor?
Put the phone down, I'm only joking.
You can only try to be friendly and convincing at the same time.
I myself would much rather recieve face to face complaints as opposed to a letter or a visit from an official.
People usually strive to please their friends and could give a chit about the hypothetical moron next door who hassels them all the time. (upon reviewing my post I need to add that I'm not calling anyone in particular a moron, ok.)
The christian thing to do is to befriend them, make them feel welcome and be convincing. Court will just be detrimental. If they get a hard time to the point where they sell the property remember you cannot control who they may sell to. Better the devil you know.
I preceed my neighbors by 20 years in this neighborhood. It was inexpensive, nice and quiet and dark at night when I turned off the ouside lights. Times change. Now the valuations are in the 5-8 hundred range and it's never dark ouside.
My neighbor to the west is a useless junk collector, he is a noisy arrogant bastard, he parks a big noisy diesel company truck in his yard overnight, and he is alway burning green brush when the wind is blowing my way. I think his permanently disabled wife is making it all up. My neighbor to the north likes to hang deer from the tree common to our driveways, in bow season, in shotgun season, and in black powder season. He butchers them in his boat house and puts the remnants out for the trash. We have every animal in the neighbor hood over here on trash day, it aint pretty. He is a drunk, way worse than me, who doesn't want to work, is waiting for his inheritance, sizeable I might add, and he is living in a house his father owns and for free. To the east and south I have the lake as a neighbor and it alone helps my sanity. I don't complain to either one of them because I won't let them know they bother me and the response would likely be the proverbial finger since my attempts at being helpful,neighborly and constructively suggestive have repeatedly failed.
All in all I feel much better now Bob, thanks, but listen, one really doesn't have to look very far to find some one worse off. So cheer up mate. It's not all that bad really.
If I had the bucks I would hire an attorney to buy both adjoining properties, life isn't that simple. Try to work with what you have, nothing is forever. Look at the good points, they don't keep hogs.
All the best,
Martin
BoneheadNW
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Martin, once you have them bound, rub squirrel food on their privates and let your flock/herd/pod or squirrels go at them!Himself said:
Bone
Well I just got off the phone with the daughter of the property owner. She assured me that 2 of the 3 issues will be very quickly resolved. She, and her parents, did not read the detail of the property covenants and did not take the friendly hints about the truck and just figured that it was not a big deal. We had a very friendly conversation by the time it was over. It did start a bit rough, but it ended well. She now understands that the truck is a huge problem in the neighborhood and that it is not allowed. I told her it is not something that has to be removed by tomorrow, or even by this weekend, but it would be good for everyone if it was resolved by the end of the month.
I think we will be avoiding the need for a court ordered rememdy. At least that is now my hope.
I think we will be avoiding the need for a court ordered rememdy. At least that is now my hope.
BoneheadNW
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Bob, what is the second issue that was resolved? I hope she agreed to keep the dogs from roaming the neighborhood.
Bone
Bone
The 3 issues were lack of dues payment, roaming dogs, parking of a large commerical truck.
They seemed concerned but ignorant of the rules. They claim they didn't get the notification of dues due, which would be odd since everyone else did. But giving them the benefit of the doubt, I simply requested and she said they would gladly comply, with payment. She said they chained the dogs up on Sunday (but I got another complaint yesterday!). But she said she will work on it.
My take is that they figured that the rules didn't matter. My take is that the threat of legal injunctive relief was enough to get them to understand that the rules are to be followed. My side of the conversation was very firm but friendly and to some degree helpful. She changed her tone when she realized I was restating the boards position every time she brought up the same issue and when I followed it up with the chronological series of events that will result if they don't comply.
They seemed concerned but ignorant of the rules. They claim they didn't get the notification of dues due, which would be odd since everyone else did. But giving them the benefit of the doubt, I simply requested and she said they would gladly comply, with payment. She said they chained the dogs up on Sunday (but I got another complaint yesterday!). But she said she will work on it.
My take is that they figured that the rules didn't matter. My take is that the threat of legal injunctive relief was enough to get them to understand that the rules are to be followed. My side of the conversation was very firm but friendly and to some degree helpful. She changed her tone when she realized I was restating the boards position every time she brought up the same issue and when I followed it up with the chronological series of events that will result if they don't comply.
Dargo
Like a bad penny...
I'm getting old and can't remember if I posted this before, but I was the president of our neighborhood association where I last lived. I was in charge of putting out a quarterly newsletter telling of events in our neighborhoods and for having quarterly meetings about the care and upkeep of our road as well as collecting dues. Several families would not pay and constantly violated the "laws" written into the association covenant they signed when they purchased there. Some claimed hardship, some claimed that they no longer wanted to participate (yet they still lived there), and others simply wouldn't respond.
I moved.
I moved.
OK here is the follow up to the story. The dogs are no longer roaming the neighborhood. I have only seen them outside one time in the past 2 weeks and the dogs were on their property. The truck is no longer parked in the neighborhood. At least not on a regular basis. I think it was parked there 1 night in the past 2 or 3 weeks. Their dues are now paid up.
They apologized and promised to abide by the rules!
Life is good again.
They apologized and promised to abide by the rules!
Life is good again.
BigAl
Gone But Not Forgotten
B_Skurka said:
Bogus Bob ,
I just hope you are not planning on driving that ugly Snow Trac around the neighborhood and belching black smoke everywhere.
Here is a picture that was taken two days ago as you were "tooling" around the neighborhood and in the corn field . I was the guy disguised as a scarecrow! haha... tricky huh!!!
OH!!! And it was not funny when you tried to run the scarecrow down !!
That Snow Trac is a real "Eye Sore" and stinky too !. Now that your neighbors have cleaned up their act , I hope you can learn from this and only "pretend to drive" yours inside the garage with the door closed .
Just sit behind the wheel and make those "put put" sounds .If you also want the stinky smell , just
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Big Al
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Allen,
One of my spies sent me this picture of you with your Kristi driving around your town. Obviously even the bum and hobos get out of your way when you come down the road. But I understand some only lady with a cane gave you a good thrashing the other day for not yielding the right of way.
One of my spies sent me this picture of you with your Kristi driving around your town. Obviously even the bum and hobos get out of your way when you come down the road. But I understand some only lady with a cane gave you a good thrashing the other day for not yielding the right of way.
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jwstewar
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B_Skurka said:He is saying that you need to buy a larger computer monitor because the thing you seem to believe is a TV screen is actually a gas tank mounted on top of an engine.
But what you can't see in the picture is that there is a 7" flat panel LCD mounted to the side of the gas tank.
