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Should I be concerned? Neighbor issues.

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Vigo:
@Chad - Well, to clarify, we did get our homestead tax rate reinstated after a couple months. It was a lot of time and effort, and I had to take off of work quite a bit, undergo multiple inspections of our home, have conference calls, fill out forms, the whole 9 yards. I guess I am not that into pursuing a litigation route since that issue was eventually resolved, but I am just bitter as hell about it. You are right though, the city was the most unreasonable in this case, I am sure these bogus claims come in all the time, they should know better.


--- Quote from: t3design on October 19, 2011, 12:11:50 pm ---Most people don't realize that there were 384,000 house fires last year (2010). 27,500 of those were intentionally set.

Just saying.

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Is that an idea, or something I should watch out for?  :lol At this rate, I am a bit worried about my house. Before we moved into our house, our neighbor was digging without permit in their front yard. They ruptured a gas main and the whole block had to be evacuated while the city repaired the line.  :timebomb:


--- Quote from: spoot on October 19, 2011, 12:33:37 pm ---Vigo,

After reading your above posts.......I'm shocked you aren't in jail for shooting those wankers yet.   :dizzy:

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The trick is to enjoy the small victories of their idiocy. Last year they had a bunch of scrap metal in their yard that they needed to get rid of. They spend over $500 renting a dumpster and getting a permit to have the dumpster on the street. After they finished filling the dumpster, it was no more than 10 minutes that a scrapper drove by, saw the metal, and took it all so he could recycle it for profit. When the dumpster company came to pick it back up, the amount of stuff in the dumpster could have easily fit in the neighbor's trash can.

Mikezilla:
Haha thats pretty funny.

Seriously though man, burn the house down, then move away from where you are. Youre in Minnesota right?! GET OUT OF THERE!!!  ;D

Vigo:
Haha, well if my house burns down at 3am right after I conveniently was out taking a walk with the family...and my arcade machine, I'll be sure to get ---my bottom--- somewhere closer to the equator.

NiN^_^NiN:

--- Quote from: Vigo on October 19, 2011, 10:38:12 am ---New update on the neighbor painting situation. This morning I found a note on my car from the neighbors saying that the painters will be back and they will be painting by hand and they want me to move my car for the day. The letter was polite as well, but given my history with my neighbor, I am having a hard time agreeing to even this. On the other hand, if I let them use my driveway, we will just be done with this whole situation. My wife is sick of watching our property like a hawk. We got better things than fight with our neighbors even more.

Here is the short list of why I don't feel up to clearing my driveway.


* When we first moved in to our house, the neighbors asked to use our driveway for yard work. We agreed, and they chopped down our fence on us. The only reason we didn't call the cops is we were new and didn't want want to burn bridges.
* Nobody has enough courtesy to tell me about these things more than the day of.
* The painter was a real ---tallywhacker--- to my wife. If I was there, I would have been tempted to take a swing at the guy. I'll leave it at that.
* In the last year, the neighbor has also had roofers in and a carpenter redoing their porch. On both occasions they made home of our driveway as well.
* Our roses got pretty badly damaged on Monday.
* Our city has a property lookup that is public to view. We searched our property yesterday, and found the neighbors posted this bogus complaint on our house:
"The house is in shambles and they don't take care of it. Their exterior paint is peeling, their retaining wall is crumbling and the front of the house isn't even usable and the roof is falling apart. When is someone going to do something about this house?"

The last time the neighbor's made a complaint against our property, they said that we were housing illegal immigrants in our attic. Out of reaction to the complaint, the city took away our Homestead property tax exemption, which meant our property tax went up by like $2000 among other issues.

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Honestly don't do it.

I can see them spilling and dripping paint all over your drive way and what happens when they clean the brushes? they will use your tap as it's closest to their can and who know where their splashes and flipping of the brushes will go.

I would make sure that they can't have a car in your driveway they can use the place that's getting painted or park in the gutter.

Just cause they were nice in the letter doesn't mean the actual workers will care about your property and if something does happen then what? the company won't fix it and your neighbours sure as hell won't it's safer if you just don't get involved and tell the people who are trying to use your driveway to go away politely

Vigo:
I got a feeling you are exactly right on how it would all pan out if I let them use our driveway.

Funny thing is the painters never showed up today.  :dunno

My neighbors did however leave a treat on my mailbox....



Yes, that's a moldy bagel.  ::)

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