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 Posted:   May 18, 2021 - 8:59 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

Poetic justice. Yesterday a large tree limb broke off my tree and fell on my a-hole neighbors house.
Not big enough to damage the roof but big enough to require a chainsaw to remove from the roof.


Wow! I hope you/your insurance are not liable for any damage. Hope it all turns out ok for you.

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2021 - 9:15 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Poetic justice. Yesterday a large tree limb broke off my tree and fell on my a-hole neighbors house.
Not big enough to damage the roof but big enough to require a chainsaw to remove from the roof.


Wow! I hope you/your insurance are not liable for any damage. Hope it all turns out ok for you.


Not liable at all as long as the tree is healthy and it is. Your neighbors are responsible for any part of your tree that overhangs onto their property including trimming maintenance or removing downed branches. Their insurance would have to cover it.

Of course they could still be a-holes and try to sue me. They tried pulling some sh*t three years ago when they just moved in. Another tree branch (from another tree) fell into the yard behind me. That was much bigger and would've caused great damage if it fell on the house. Thankfully it fell in the backyard.

Anyway, while the branch did not fall into my a-hole neighbors yard (the event three years ago) it took down one section of their back fence. They tried to get me to take care of their fence. I said, "No, not my problem, it's "an act of God". The only way I could be liable is if I know a tree is dying and unsafe and did not take action to have it taken down. Neither was the case three years ago or yesterday.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2021 - 10:40 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

How would you like to share a party wall with people who play their music too loud, employ their subwoofer for noisy films day and night, have drunken political discussions, scream at the telly during sporting events, have noisy sex with the windows open and whose cat uses all the neighbours’ gardens as a toilet?

Bet you wouldn’t...

Turns out the people next door didn’t like it, either.

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 6:15 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

That's good to hear, Solium! I think the laws vary somewhat from state to state.

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 7:40 AM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

This is why I am on the fence about moving. I don't live in the greatest town and the house is too small. Yet my neighbors are a dream. The entire street came out when we had a house fire last year and continually text me as my home is being rebuilt. They ask about us and look forward to seeing us again.

I can always upgrade to a nicer house, but good neighbors are never a guarantee. Obviously. Sorry, everyone, I hate hearing stories about crummy neighbors.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 7:42 AM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

Wasn't Jim Cleveland FSM's original "crazy neighbor" poster?...........Where is Jim Cleveland lately?

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 7:53 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

That's good to hear, Solium! I think the laws vary somewhat from state to state.

I'll add I'm not surprised branches are breaking off. We are in a dry spell right now. In the spring the tree sprout new leaves making the branches very heavy, combine that with no rain and the branches become very brittle and crack under their own weight. This happened with my precious neighbor too because they didn't maintain the tree on their side. Before I had my side of the tree trimmed, it was normal for huge branches to snap off and hit my roof.

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 8:04 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

My previous neighbor was a neighbor from hell too. She was a retired lady. We had wild ducks come into our neighborhood and she proceeded to give them water and food. Naturally they stuck around, nested in all our yards around the block. Made more ducks every few months. These ducks would crap on our cars, on our driveways, sidewalks, destroy gardens, bird baths and decorative ponds. They would fly dangerously down the street just feet off the ground becoming flying canon balls in the direction of cars. I'm convinced one cracked my car windshield.

I asked my neighbor over and over again not to give the ducks food or water. She promised to stop. But the ducks never went away. I discovered early one morning she was feeding them at 5am when no on was watching her. I confronted her and she blamed it on her daughter.

I called the sheriffs office and they said there is nothing that can be done about it. Wild ducks have free range in my area. It's not against the law to give them water or food. It is against the law to do anything to the ducks. You can't harass them, poison them, hunt them, nothing. You could pay to have someone professionally trap the ducks and relocate them but that would cost hundreds of dollars and you couldn't possibly trap every duck around the block. They would return to the constant source of food and water anyway.

That went on for years.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 9:09 AM   
 By:   eriknelson   (Member)

My neighborhood is generally sedate with good neighbors. It is an older neighborhood mainly composed of one-story mid-century modern homes built in the 50s. Most of them are well maintained. However, the not-so-well maintained ones are being torn down and replaced by two-story McMansions. Unfortunately there are no deed restrictions to prevent this.

Anyway, there was a couple who enjoyed sunbathing in the nude by their pool in the backyard. One of the McMansions was built next door to them and the new neighbors got an eyeful from the second floor. The new neighbors complained, and the pool couple told them to mind their own business and piss off. The conflict escalated to the homeowners association (of which I am a board member) and eventually the police. At the end of the day the pool couple won their case and the new neighbors were told that, if they didn't like the view from their second floor window, they could close their curtains. I was elated.

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2021 - 12:07 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

How would you like to share a party wall with people who play their music too loud, employ their subwoofer for noisy films day and night, have drunken political discussions, scream at the telly during sporting events, have noisy sex with the windows open and whose cat uses all the neighbours’ gardens as a toilet?

Bet you wouldn’t...

Turns out the people next door didn’t like it, either.


Thats funny. U aint lost it

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 6:31 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

My neighborhood is generally sedate with good neighbors. It is an older neighborhood mainly composed of one-story mid-century modern homes built in the 50s. Most of them are well maintained. However, the not-so-well maintained ones are being torn down and replaced by two-story McMansions. Unfortunately there are no deed restrictions to prevent this.

Anyway, there was a couple who enjoyed sunbathing in the nude by their pool in the backyard. One of the McMansions was built next door to them and the new neighbors got an eyeful from the second floor. The new neighbors complained, and the pool couple told them to mind their own business and piss off. The conflict escalated to the homeowners association (of which I am a board member) and eventually the police. At the end of the day the pool couple won their case and the new neighbors were told that, if they didn't like the view from their second floor window, they could close their curtains. I was elated.


Guess the couple were all that much to look at or they wouldn't have complained. big grin

If you have a privacy fence you have an expectation of privacy and can be naked in your own yard.
You however can't walk around naked with the windows open if viewable from the street or open the front door naked. It's all kinda weird.

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 7:16 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

If you have a privacy fence you have an expectation of privacy and can be naked in your own yard.
You however can't walk around naked with the windows open if viewable from the street or open the front door naked. It's all kinda weird.


You can in this country. If that's "your thing".

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 7:41 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

One look at me, naked, in my back yard and all the neighbours close their blinds! Even the pervs, which is somewhat disheartening. frown

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 7:53 AM   
 By:   Jehannum   (Member)

If you have a privacy fence you have an expectation of privacy and can be naked in your own yard.
You however can't walk around naked with the windows open if viewable from the street or open the front door naked. It's all kinda weird.


You can in this country. If that's "your thing".


Tell us more.

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 9:11 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

If you have a privacy fence you have an expectation of privacy and can be naked in your own yard.
You however can't walk around naked with the windows open if viewable from the street or open the front door naked. It's all kinda weird.


You can in this country. If that's "your thing".


There's nothing I would love more than to open the front door naked when its solicitors trying to sell me something.

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 11:27 AM   
 By:   purplemonkeydishwasher   (Member)

There's nothing I would love more than to open the front door naked when its solicitors trying to sell me something.

Some 20+ years back, I had given my 30-days' notice to move out of my third floor apartment. The caretaker of the building lived in the basement, and would give me absolutely no notice when showing the apartment to prospective new tenants. "I don't need you to let me know the day before, but could you please at least give me a phone call just before you head upstairs to show the place???" Nope.

So late one Saturday morning, I am just stepping out of the shower - *KNOCK*KNOCK*KNOCK*. I throw a towel around my waist and open the door.

"Hi, I've got a couple of people here who'd like to take a look at your unit."

These were the days when SNL's "Wayne and Garth" sketches were popular, and "unit" had worked its way into common slang.

"Anything else you'd like to see?"

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2021 - 11:44 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

Yeah, they busted Matthew McConaughey for naked bongo playing INSIDE his house in Austin many years ago.
But, it looks like a pretty good chance he will be our next governor, so it is - alright alright alright

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2021 - 11:24 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Mowed my lawn and pruned my bushes today. In the front yard there's a row of bushes that separate my property from my neighbors from hell property. I found two Bud Light bottles in the bushes. Their trash can is literately three feet from the bushes!

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2021 - 12:42 PM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

Dang, Solium, I feel for ya!

My good neighbor and I have been loosely monitoring our mutual bad "neighbor". They start a fire every evening at dusk. They were using an old 55-gal drum, but now they've started burning stuff in a large bare spot in their side yard. In our area we're at near drought and there's a burning ban in force, yet they do this every night, and quite large fires that stink of plastics and other nasty components.
Y'all must think I'm making this up, and I'm truly not trying to one-up Solium. There's a young guy over there now and he plays his car stereo all day and late into the night. It's not as loud as the methlady's and at least it's usually classic rock, but it is a nuisance.
The county recently forced them to have five old, non-running cars hauled away under threat of fines, so I think someone may have reported them. That leaves me with hope that someone will report their fires and noise as well at some point.
I seem to live dead center of very wealthy folks and "trailer trash" as some folks call them.

Please keep us updated, Solium!

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2021 - 1:01 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

@ jackfu - No worries, we're here to share our frustrations with our neighbors from hell and let off some steam.

 
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