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After 30 years of apartment living, I finally bought a house about a year ago. It's hilarious to me that there are more boundary issues with home owners than I ever had with people I shared walls with. I painted the house and when I was scraping I got all these nervous "uh, so what colors are you using" inquiries (white with blue trim was a huge relief).

One house across the street is empty (really, really empty!), but the older lady who owns the property lives in the area. If she ever drives down our street and sees a car parked in front of the house, she stops and knocks on doors until she finds the owner and asks them to move. Until I moved in, people did! When she came to my door, I gave her a printout of the local parking ordinance and told her not to bother me again. (Our houses were built around 1900 - no driveways.)