At least its in the driveway this time...

[Jims5543]

My in law just sent these pictures. His neighbors across the street provide a great amount of entertainment. Usually the cars are at all kinds of weird angles in the driveway and sometimes they are 1/2 in the street and left there all night until they leave for work the next day.

This one made me spit my soda through my nose. It looks like the van just made room for itself in the drive. What paint? That will buff out.

Other note worthy events have included pulling the living room carpet out into the drive. (on to theoil stains) and washing it with a garden hose. Then left for a wekk to dry and re-installed.

[Aurel]

It is weird to see a half decent house inhabited by rednecks with trashy cars. Usually, it is the other way around...I guess houses are cheap in Florida.

Aurel

[wcc]

His yard doesn't look like it has the underground sprinkler system. Or at least he isn't using it. That is a funny pic though!!!

[legion]

I challenge anyone to do a better parking job with that much meth and beer in their system...

[motion]

What's that mesh/grid pattern in the rear of the house?

[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by motion
What's that mesh/grid pattern in the rear of the house?

Looks like power lines to me, that or they live in Jurassic Park.

[efhughes3]

Yikes, any homeowner's nightmare: to have neighbors like that.

[craigster59]

Originally posted by wcc
His yard doesn't look like it has the underground sprinkler system. Or at least he isn't using it. That is a funny pic though!!!

I think that's the parking space for the guy's who work nights.

[Don Plumley]

I think might have been posted here before - but if you like that parking job, you must read this: Redneck Neighbor

A few highlights:

Well, it should have been a sign of things to come but my neighbors move into their brand new house. Inventory: 1 artificial Christmas tree, clothes, stereo system, TV, no furniture). The Christmas tree is nicely decorated (remember, it's October). We can tell what the tree looks like because the windows have no miniblinds so at night, you can see right into the house as you drive up. They have also decided to wrap some strands of Christmas lights around their front porch railing. I guess there's no electric outlet nearby because they never turn these lights on.


Mom moves in!

Nothing wrong here. Mom seems like a very nice lady. Unfortunately, my wife wakes me up to bad news again. "Something weird is happening at JD8’s house. His dog is chasing some chickens around the back yard." Unfortunate indeed. Just as I peek out the bathroom window, I see JD8’s mom come out and throw some chicken feed in the middle of the yard. About nine chickens gather around, frantically pecking at the food but Cujo crashes in and spoils the moment. My morning is spoiled as well.

Remember the old "covenant rules" of our neighborhood? Well, there's a sentence in there about livestock (fancy word for chickens and goats). We don’t live in the country – we live in the city. After a quick phone call to our city's "Special enforcement" folks, they promise to come out and give JD8 a warning. The chickens are gone within a couple days. Can you say chicken feast?

Shortly after this, JD8 decides that maybe the city folks don't like chickens. Marcy thinks she hears Canadian geese behind our house. It's geese alright. JD8 has enclosed the wooden deck behind his house with some more chain-link fence and is now raising geese right on the deck! The geese disappear weeks after without the intervention of the fine folks at Special Enforcement. Maybe they flew away.

Mom decides she can't be without her feathery friends and moves back home shortly after.


Since there are a few of these, I'll just bunch them together. The first in this array of home beautification efforts has to do with the old mailbox (the one made with 2x4's). JD8 decides to use the old stolen bricks and build a brick mailbox. It's really nice. However, he uses his old white plastic mailbox and leaves the flag attached to it instead of attaching a flag to the bricks (it makes the mailbox flag inoperable – it stays up). Of course, worried about mail fraud or perhaps the anthrax scare, JD8 protects his mail with a Jesus Christ statue on top of the mailbox. Check out the handy work.






This has got to be the ultimate urban nightmare!

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by Aurel
It is weird to see a half decent house inhabited by rednecks with trashy cars. Usually, it is the other way around...I guess houses are cheap in Florida.

Aurel

Actually they are from a 3rd world nation Carribean Island that needs not be mentioned. This isn't a race issue because most people I know from this particular Island are very meticulas about their yard.

Motion - I do not see a mesh pattern in the yard. There are a lot of pine trees in the back and possibly a set of power lines running across the back.

Wayne - you hit the nail on the head. These people cannot afford this house. Their electricity has been off for months at a time sometimes. They paid over 300K for this house at the heightof the R.E. boom. Now it "might" be worth about 250K. These folks are really stuggling to get by.

We were standing out in front of my Bro-in-laws house one day and the wife could not get that black car to move. It was in reverse and the back end kept rising up but it would not budge. We snickered for a minute then walked over and told her to release the parking brake.

Its never a dull moment over there. My bro in law isn't really upset about them. He finds it more entertaining than anything. Eventually they will move. He is not the type to get all wadded up over property value. He takes nice care of his house and what others do is their business.

[ErVikingo]

One of my neighbors (living in the smallest house in our development (with a 2 car garage) had at the same time:

3-996 Turbos
1-Maybach 57
1-Silver Ghost
1-Cayenne Turbo S
1-Bentley GT
1-Ford GT
1-Gallardo
an assortment of MB's

All (really, all) cars with chromed oversized wheels... I drove in one day and could not drive down the street since it was blocked by flatbeds taking them away...

You do the math......

[RickM]

It could be worse. At least they're not parking their cars on the lawn, putting their indoor furniture on the front porch or hanging clothes out to dry.

[Rick Lee]

I think someone once said everyone calls themselves a libertarian until they get a neighbor like this.

[Jim Richards]

ROFL!

[tabs]

Back in the mid 90s in my hood in CA...a Black family bought a house one cul de sac over from mine,...a 3000 sq ft custom...at the time they paid 300K for the house....they put 250K down on the house... they got the money from a $3M injury settlement case. Anyway the first thing they do is put a hugh pair of speakers and strobe lights in the backyard and start playing Rap till late at night...my next door neighbors called the cops on that one. Next thing you know one of the neighbors spotted a BMW in their Dining Room...they had reported it stolen....the Police were called and it was taken away along with the owner of the house as well as a whole bunch of guns...the only time I ever saw anyone from that family is when I saw the wife walking down the street on her way to the gorcery store. Within 3 months or so they were gone...they couldn't make the payment on the 50K mortgage on the house...and the housee was trashed inside..They had blown all the money from the injury case...

[austin552]

We have the Flower Lady three blocks away(Thank God). Every Spring she put plastic flowers all over her yard. They last until Fall. What really gets me is how the grass gets cut. Someone must pull all of them up, cut the grass and replace them every week. I will post a pic later. Oh the fun I could have with my jeep in 4high...

[Jims5543]

I have winners like the guy at the top in my neighborhood too. It used to bother me now I do not care. Everyone screams property value property value but in reality it really does not matter unless your selling tomarrow.

I have no plan on selling for at least another 16 years (when my 2 y/o graduates HS) so by then I will have been in the house 24 years. It was paid off last year. I could sell for less than I paid for it and still make out just fine. Once I came to this realization I ceased to care what my neighbors do anymore.

I keep my yard and house nice and neat. Everything is tidy, if my neighbors Don't have the pride to do that, thats their problem.

[1973911s]

I was in Pensacola today for a meeting, I wish I had a camera, some of those front yards.

Michael

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Rick Lee
I think someone once said everyone calls themselves a libertarian until they get a neighbor like this.

Add me to that list.

When we bought our home, the neighbor behind us was an old fellah and his 2 sons, who liked to work on cars. Had to ask them to keep it down a couple times but no big deal.

A few months later, the old guy dies. Everything changed within a matter of days... working on cars all hours of the night, with air tools & floodlamps in the backyard till 1 or 2 AM. Doing donuts in tha backyard all the time. Parts cars on their sides. We looked out at this from our kitchen and bedroom. We were devasted... we had stretched financially to buy a nice house in a nice area, now we were embarassed to have people over.

I'm almost emabarrassed to post this pic, but this is what we were looking at from our bedroom. This was about a month before it got REALLY crappy:



We tried talking to them a couple times, but they were pretty aggressive. Went to the town, but they were useless. The bylaw enforcement officer was a wuss, and ordered a cleanup but never enforced it.

As soon as the ground thawed, I put up a 7' high, 140' long fence. About a week later, the bylaw enforcement officer called... said he'd been driving by and noticed that the fence seemed way too high. Said he'd like to come by and measure it. The next day, I asked him to let me know when he'd be coming down, because a friend of mine works at the newspaper and thought it would be a GREAT story. He never showed.

For the noise, we went over and told the neighbors that if the noise continued, we'd just call the cops. Then we did... each and every time. Luckily, the cops were on side because they were getting complaints from other neighbors too... they were glad to have someone willing to press charges.

Pretty much calmed down now, we don't see them and we rarely hear them.

[Jims5543]

Fences make for good neighbors.

I have a 6' wood fence around my entire backyard. This makes me like my neighbors and gives me the opportunity to skinny dip with the wife when the kids are not around.