Got a letter from the City

[moparnation74]

I also was just pointing out that some people said there house value will go down with junk yard property's around them, yes the value would go down but his yard did not look like a junk yard in the pic.
I just think his neighbor was going a bit overboard complaining.

If it wasn't the neighbor who called the city would have possibly caught it themselves. Most localities have codes and compliance officers driving around routinely.

The point is get to know your neighbor's.....ask them if they mind the car in the driveway.....most things can be relieved with simple communication.

 

[PlagueOfBadgers]

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[PlagueOfBadgers]

If it wasn't the neighbor who called the city would have possibly caught it themselves. Most localities have codes and compliance officers driving around routinely.

The point is get to know your neighbor's.....ask them if they mind the car in the driveway.....most things can be relieved with simple communication.

Yes I agree with you. I lived in San Diego for 6 years and we had 3 race cars at our house, one had to sit in the driveway, only 2 car garage. Worked on them sometimes late into the night and never had any issues with our neighbors or the city. Talked to neighbors and I guess the city just never bothered us.

 

[moparnation74]

Yes I agree with you. I lived in San Diego for 6 years and we had 3 race cars at our house, one had to sit in the driveway, only 2 car garage. Worked on them sometimes late into the night and never had any issues with our neighbors or the city. Talked to neighbors and I guess the city just never bothered us.

Exactly! It is not an issue till someone makes it an issue! Two sides and we only know one.................

 

[Darthomas]

So then you don't care if your neighbors yard looks like this so your property value can tank, as well as looking at that $h!t day in and day out for months on end?
It works both ways my friend!

But I Like vivid displays of trash and debris.

Classic Sesame Street - Oscar sings "I Love Trash…:

 

[rrTor-Red]

 

[kiwigtx]

Get one of those camouflaged tarps that way nobody will even know it's there.

Or a "Harry Potter cloak of invisibility" - no-one will see it then....just try to remember where you put it, so you don't walk into it yourself.

 

[kiwigtx]

I was going to start up about the pricks who moved away from next door a few months ago....but my sanity deserves a break. I now have awesome new neighbours - Chinese Immigrants...they keep to themselves, are clearing up all the **** the previous a$$holes left behind, and improving the value of their property, as well as dragging ours up again. The newbies are even keen to rebuild the fence between us AND are already happy to share the cost. Stuff that I wanted to do before but couldn't be arsed doing, is now seemingly more enticing and appealing without a bunch of hillbilly redneck fu&&tards living next door with their pox-ridden animal menagerie.

 

[polywideblock]

don't hold back there bud

 

[kiwigtx]

don't hold back there bud

It's all about self-control.

 

[mopar 3 B]

I also was just pointing out that some people said there house value will go down with junk yard property's around them, yes the value would go down but his yard did not look like a junk yard in the pic.
I just think his neighbor was going a bit overboard complaining.

Lower propety valuation produces lower tax. Does not matter if it is an eye sore or not the city wants its tax monies. They do actually employ people to drive around for this purpose only.

 

[mopar 3 B]

I was going to start up about the pricks who moved away from next door a few months ago....but my sanity deserves a break. I now have awesome new neighbours - Chinese Immigrants...they keep to themselves, are clearing up all the **** the previous a$$holes left behind, and improving the value of their property, as well as dragging ours up again. The newbies are even keen to rebuild the fence between us AND are already happy to share the cost. Stuff that I wanted to do before but couldn't be arsed doing, is now seemingly more enticing and appealing without a bunch of hillbilly redneck fu&&tards living next door with their pox-ridden animal menagerie.

Getting the feeling you think your property's value is more important than a neibors consitutional right of persute of happiness and that you must take great pleasure in paying high taxes.

 

[69a100]

Getting the feeling you think your property's value is more important than a neighbors consitutional right of persute of happiness and that you must take great pleasure in paying high taxes.

Oooooooooooooh, now there's a statement worth arguing about, good point! BTW, fixed it for ya!

 

[coloradodave]

Oooooooooooooh, now there's a statement worth arguing about, good point! BTW, fixed it for ya!

There YOU go; fixed it for you. PURSUIT...no need to thank me, brother.

 

[69a100]

There YOU go; fixed it for you. PURSUIT...no need to thank me, brother.

I thought so! Thanks

 

[Darthomas]

I am reminded of an advertisement for a home 15 years ago, which greatly amused my wife and I.
It was in a community of lower-scale income.....let's say.

and it went ....da- da- da, etc, "large fenced yard, all appliances stay."
Knowing the community, there could be quite a few...

 

[Midnight_Rider]

This thread reminds me of an old Tom T. Hall song my dad used to listen to:

Subdivision Blues

Out on the edge of town I bought a two room brick
Moved in as soon as I got the plumbin' all fixed
Making them payments worked my fingers to the bone
Anything I had to do to get myself a home

There was water in the basement it looked like a swimming pool
The man said son that water'll help to keep your cottage cool
The Welcome Wagon brought me out some sleepin' pills and booze
I got the mean old subdivision blues

Somebody came and knocked my fence down just the other day
Tore up my yard and hauled my lawnmower away
Shot out my windows with a BB gun
A boxer down the street came by and beat up my son

So I went out and bought myself a big old German dog
The man behind me saw me and he started raisin' hogs
A nineteen year old girl next door is sunnin' in the nude
I got those mean old subdivision blues

Well I bought my house because it was located near a school
Now a bus comes by and takes my kids to Istanbul
The guy next door just bought his son a brand new saxophone
The man behind me sued him cause his hogs were leavin' home

My buddy left his wife now he's livin' in a tent
A hippie sued me cause I did not have a room to rent
They built a trailer park before I had a chance to move
I got them mean old subdivision blues

[ harmonica ]

Well I moved out in the country just as far as I could go
I couldn't even get the Grand Ole Opry on the radio
I guess you know what happened just as soon as I moved in
The man across the valley started clearin' off his land

The law came out and said that I would have to move my barn
They said the man next door was gonna subdivide his farm
They auctioned off my farm to build the state another school
I got the mean old subdivision blues

Well other night I dreamed I died and I went right straight to hell
I don't know what I did but you know you can never tell
They handed me a key and handed me a little map
They said you got a place to live and we'll show you where it's at

They took me to a two room brick just on the edge of town
With thirty thousand other little houses falling down
A million years to pay it off with payments overdue
It's hell to have the subdivision blues
got those mean old subdivision blues

 

[GetX'd]

Sorry but I agree with the neighbor/city or whomever wants the cR moved. You let neighborhoods go and that's just what they do. I live in nazi regulated California. There are many things I hate about the regulations and the things I can't do. Rarely di I bitch because it's clean and organized everywhere around my place. I can't even wash my own car because the overrun drains to the ocean. I'm all for keep it clean and keep your stuff private. If I want to move out to the country where it's more free wheeling I'll do so. I've seen plenty of both. I prefer clean and organized.

 

[Cranky]

If it wasn't the neighbor who called the city would have possibly caught it themselves. Most localities have codes and compliance officers driving around routinely.
The point is get to know your neighbor's.....ask them if they mind the car in the driveway.....most things can be relieved with simple communication.

That didn't work in my case. The DH next door decided I was running a business and put out a blind petition against businesses in the neighborhood and then filled in the name he was going to complain about AFTER he got all the signatures he needed....and of course that was my name. One neighbor came and apologized saying he had no idea what it was all about but signed it anyways without thinking. The city hammered me until I finally threatened the assistant city attorney with a harassment lawsuit against the city and the ahole neighbor. He tried to tell me that the city could construe what I was doing as a business because I was working on cars.

I invited him several times to come to my home and see what was going on here and he finally showed up. The next time he just showed up unannounced and that's when I jumped on his sorry ***. Dude, the cars are mine and I can show you the titles to all of them but he didn't care. By then, ahole the neighbor had called the cops on me for various stuff like suspicious vehicles and noise. If my shop lights were on 1 minute after 9pm and he so much as heard a car door shut, he'd call the cops. Thing is, this city has no time limits on noise. If there's noise that's bothering you, you can call at 2pm and they will show up to check it out. Anyways, my neighbor called the call to the tune of 40+ times in 9 years. Yup, I put up with this ahole for far too long. I mentioned all of this to the *** city attorney and also mentioned that I had been talking to a lawyer about the situation and how sick of all the crap my neighbor and the city was trying to do to me. Can't stop doing something that isn't happening. It wasn't long after that the ahole next door quit calling the cops and the city left me alone. I think the police dept told him to back off since 99% of the time, his complaints were unfounded.

Lower propety valuation produces lower tax. Does not matter if it is an eye sore or not the city wants its tax monies. They do actually employ people to drive around for this purpose only.

The county assesses property values and doesn't really care about what's next door or across the street or even down the road a bit. All they care about is getting their money but if you think the assessment is too high, you can take pictures and go protest it. If the county agent thinks you have a valid complaint, they will cut it back a bit. It's never very much but it might save you 100 bucks over the year. It's almost not worth it to go across town and use up an entire day waiting for your number to be called so you can go talk to some county agent with glazed donut crumbs on their face....

 

[moparnation74]

That didn't work in my case. The DH next door decided I was running a business and put out a blind petition against businesses in the neighborhood and then filled in the name he was going to complain about AFTER he got all the signatures he needed....and of course that was my name. One neighbor came and apologized saying he had no idea what it was all about but signed it anyways without thinking. The city hammered me until I finally threatened the assistant city attorney with a harassment lawsuit against the city and the ahole neighbor. He tried to tell me that the city could construe what I was doing as a business because I was working on cars.

I invited him several times to come to my home and see what was going on here and he finally showed up. The next time he just showed up unannounced and that's when I jumped on his sorry ***. Dude, the cars are mine and I can show you the titles to all of them but he didn't care. By then, ahole the neighbor had called the cops on me for various stuff like suspicious vehicles and noise. If my shop lights were on 1 minute after 9pm and he so much as heard a car door shut, he'd call the cops. Thing is, this city has no time limits on noise. If there's noise that's bothering you, you can call at 2pm and they will show up to check it out. Anyways, my neighbor called the call to the tune of 40+ times in 9 years. Yup, I put up with this ahole for far too long. I mentioned all of this to the *** city attorney and also mentioned that I had been talking to a lawyer about the situation and how sick of all the crap my neighbor and the city was trying to do to me. Can't stop doing something that isn't happening. It wasn't long after that the ahole next door quit calling the cops and the city left me alone. I think the police dept told him to back off since 99% of the time, his complaints were unfounded.


The county assesses property values and doesn't really care about what's next door or across the street or even down the road a bit. All they care about is getting their money but if you think the assessment is too high, you can take pictures and go protest it. If the county agent thinks you have a valid complaint, they will cut it back a bit. It's never very much but it might save you 100 bucks over the year. It's almost not worth it to go across town and use up an entire day waiting for your number to be called so you can go talk to some county agent with glazed donut crumbs on their face....

Your situation is much different than the OP's and that neighbor you have is one that can never be pleased......He just does not and will not like you.....that is his loss even though he will never admit that.........