Nasty letter from anonymous neighbor

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06/30/2011 06:59:05 PM · #51

Originally posted by Simms:

Cheers for posting the pics.. Personally I cant see what they are fussing about - I was expecting a LOT worse.

You see why I am so ticked. Nasty letter, and a cowardly approach to solving what they feel is a problem. No doubt they had not noticed me on crutches for two months.

atupdate

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06/30/2011 07:36:33 PM · #52

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Originally posted by Simms:
Cheers for posting the pics.. Personally I cant see what they are fussing about - I was expecting a LOT worse.

You see why I am so ticked. Nasty letter, and a cowardly approach to solving what they feel is a problem. No doubt they had not noticed me on crutches for two months.

But they also have seen you out riding your bike.

Tim

RayEthier

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06/30/2011 11:40:39 PM · #53

Yeah........and instead of wasting your time posting about your neighbours, why aren't you out there cutting your grass. :O)

Ray

Nadine_Vb

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07/19/2011 11:14:18 AM · #54

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

For those that are curious what begets a nasty letter:

This is bad???? oh my God!
Show them this

and they will hush soon.

P.S. this is our garden, a year ago, shortly before we received the keys of our house.
And no neighbor ever complained.
P.P.S: the garden no longer looks like this - except for a small part where I will start growing vegetables before winter.

Advise: take your time to clean up your garden - listen to your knee. He should decide when you have to stop working in it.
Do you have some good neighbors understanding your problem and with a bit of spare time? Ask them for some help and treat them with a bbq after the work. Don't invite the complainers ;)

Message edited by author 2011-07-19 17:13:24.

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07/19/2011 11:28:23 AM · #55

Well, I'm tidying it up about 30 minutes of work at a time and a yard cart of trimmings each week. Not gonna kill myself over this, but it was going to get done by me anyway. Apparently the city was satisfied once I cut the tall weeds, since I never heard back from them. Still don't know who the nasty message sender was, though.

bergiekat

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07/19/2011 07:25:56 PM · #56

I like Wendy's idea.

Your yard is nothing compared to the people next/behind us! I'll post photos later. You can barely tell the house has windows and is made of brick! It's a nightmare. We have to keep the weeds at bay that creep under and over the dang fence into our yard........ bitches...... lol!

Hope the knee is feeling better.

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07/19/2011 07:30:52 PM · #57

Originally posted by bergiekat:

Hope the knee is feeling better.

Walking down stairs is still a little tricky, but 98% back to normal now. I've been riding my bike for a while now and did 20 miles Sunday Morning. Can't hammer up a hill standing on the pedals yet, though. It's not that strong yet, same thing as is making the stairs tricky.

Message edited by author 2011-07-19 19:31:30.

jomari

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07/19/2011 07:46:10 PM · #58

Steve your front yard looks fine, nothing wrong with it at all. I would say that I don't even get what the letter writer's problem with it is, but obviously the problem is something internal to him/her. You just can't figure what makes some people tick, let alone fix things. Put your own recovery first and try not to let this get you down.

P.S. If you were to drop copies of that letter in neighbours' boxes, they might all think, individually, that you suspect they wrote it, and that might not be helpful.

NathanWert

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07/19/2011 09:53:38 PM · #59

Buy some sidewalk chalk and write your own nasty letter in that "yard" of yours.

spiritualspatula

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07/19/2011 11:08:07 PM · #60

Wow... that's pretty ridiculous that they're so bent because of that.
The letter, though, is pretty common fare around here. I live in a city centered around a university, and there's a neighborhood group that even goes so far as to suggest ways to get your college student neighbors evicted through the use of such passive aggressive BS; And yet, they wonder why students get to be dickhead neighbors...

Also reminds me of when my family's house got flooded when I was a kid. Our house got hit worse than anybody else on the street, because it was lowest. We lost probably 80% of everything, so in the course of trying to get our limited belongings out, finding and paying for new housing while making ends meet and starting the new year of school, we didn't exactly have time or energy to keep up the landscaping at the unliveable house. Did we get a dickish letter? You betcha.

bergiekat

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07/20/2011 01:44:31 AM · #61

Apparently the letter writer thinks very highly of their own yard and has nothing better to do with their time than to stir up trouble. I say get a permit and have a really loud freakin' yard party! :P

bvy

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08/07/2011 05:59:17 PM · #62

The stuff I miss by not visiting the Rant forum! I got a nastygram about the state of our yard just Friday evening. I was told the place looked vacant. To this, I replied, "Get out of the yard and go make dinner!" Saturday I was pushing the lawn mower around...

I hate to say it, but this strikes me as a suburban DFW thing. I've lived in a lot of places, and I lived in Frisco when it was still mostly country roads -- way back in 1998. (I hear they're building out past McKinney into Grayson County now.) Lots of pressure to keep up appearances. I watered my lawn there. I've never watered my lawn in Pittsburgh, and most summers (this one no exception) we do have a dry spell whereby the grass goes dormant. So it goes. It's a nice break.

Anyway, I hope you and your yard are back to 100%, Steve.