I HATE my Neighbors!!!

[Doodle]

So what do you do with neighbors like mine? Fair warning---this is a rant.

They constantly are outside on their pront porch and they are LOUD talkers. It's not unusual to hear them until all hours of the night/morning. They also enjoy starting their pos car and listening to rap on their car stereo from their porch, which means I get to listen to it as well, lucky me.
They have friends from the neighborhood coming and going all day and into the night doing who knows what, oh and they love their loud rap music too! Double lucky me.
Oh and I forgot about the friend that starts honking their horn to announce they are driving up when they are 4 or 5 houses down, only to get out of their car and knock on the door anyway. Triple lucky me.
I'm pretty sure they are on welfare and the house next to me looks like crap all the time.
The latest is bags of thier garbage showing up next to my garbage can on trash day. God forbid they pay for thier garbage service or haul it somewhere.
Yesterday I had 2 random bags of garbage placed in front of my garage. I put on some rubber gloves and cut open the bags and luckily didn't have to get deep in the garbage before I found junk mail addressed to the neighbors in the garbage. So I piched the allready cut bags over into their yard. Unfortunately it didn't make too much of a mess and the horn blower came over and cleaned it up. Seriously...who does this...randomly dumping garbage on my property got me pretty livid yesterday.

I've sent numerous emails to the hoa but they don't seem too interested in doing much besides sending letters.
I wish I had known who we would be living next to when we bought this house (in a decent neighborhood no less.)

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[tcon67]

Gee... I hate your neighbors too!!

[ExactlyMyPoint]

Really. I am not too fond of them either.

[Mike1956]

My neighbors probably hate me, out back on my range blasting away nearly every day.

[tcon67]

My neighbors probably hate me, out back on my range blasting away nearly every day.

Come to think of it, Im probably not real loved for that same reason.

[msgt/ret]

Maybe you should install a lawn ornament.

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[Doodle]

My neighbors probably hate me, out back on my range blasting away nearly every day.

Yes but this sorta implies more than 20 ft seperation!

[WHEC724]

'Been there.

Neighbors suck. It's also something that most of us go through at some point in life. Although, I suspect that many more are encountering this situation these days with the banks renting out foreclosed homes to anyone who can make the first month's rent. I develop and manage neighborhoods, and I'm seeing a distinct change in the landscape where all subdivisions, in all price ranges are going downhill. I don't mean to turn this thread political, but I don't see how American citizens can think that there would not be any damage or fallout for the incredibly poor decisions that they've made in choosing the leadership for our country. We're lying in the bed we've made.

[Hiram25]

Or a new mail box!

[Hopyard]

So what do you do with neighbors like mine? Fair warning---this is a rant.

They constantly are outside on their pront porch and they are LOUD talkers. It's not unusual to hear them until all hours of the night/morning. They also enjoy starting their pos car and listening to rap on their car stereo from their porch, which means I get to listen to it as well, lucky me.
They have friends from the neighborhood coming and going all day and into the night doing who knows what, oh and they love their loud rap music too! Double lucky me.
Oh and I forgot about the friend that starts honking their horn to announce they are driving up when they are 4 or 5 houses down, only to get out of their car and knock on the door anyway. Triple lucky me.
I'm pretty sure they are on welfare and the house next to me looks like crap all the time.
The latest is bags of thier garbage showing up next to my garbage can on trash day. God forbid they pay for thier garbage service or haul it somewhere.
Yesterday I had 2 random bags of garbage placed in front of my garage. I put on some rubber gloves and cut open the bags and luckily didn't have to get deep in the garbage before I found junk mail addressed to the neighbors in the garbage. So I piched the allready cut bags over into their yard. Unfortunately it didn't make too much of a mess and the horn blower came over and cleaned it up. Seriously...who does this...randomly dumping garbage on my property got me pretty livid yesterday.

I've sent numerous emails to the hoa but they don't seem too interested in doing much besides sending letters.
I wish I had known who we would be living next to when we bought this house (in a decent neighborhood no less.)

Forget the HOA. Lots of what you describe is probably covered by city code. Go talk to a code enforcement officer.

[ccman]

Hire Joe Horn.

[ArkhmAsylm]

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Sorry for your bad luck, man. I have to add my distaste for your scumbag neighbor to the growing list here.

Document & videotape, & study your city's codes & laws. Report anything that doesn't jibe.

[tubadude]

I've called the cops on my neighbors once. I think it scared them because they've been mostly quiet since. I guess that's what you get for being the quiet one that doesn't consume liters upon liters of alcohol at a big party school...


The noise ordinances go from 9 pm to 7 am, so I'm prepared to return fire with some early morning practicing of Ride of the Valkyries on my tuba if anything gets out of hand.

[Doodle]

Forget the HOA. Lots of what you describe is probably covered by city code. Go talk to a code enforcement officer.

Sheriffs department told me that there is no noise ordnance for harris county. Is that what you mean? BTW the SUV with the rediculous booming stereo just drove up to the neighbors and I lost my cool and yelled at them/him. So he sat out there booming it longer to spite me I think. Guys I'm seriously loosing my cool here. I feel bullied in my own home and now my wife is worried about backlash. I am willing to listen to suggestions. I know where the SUV lives BTW. HOA is informed but still isn't going to do anything about it.

[tcon67]

'Been there.

Neighbors suck. It's also something that most of us go through at some point in life. Although, I suspect that many more are encountering this situation these days with the banks renting out foreclosed homes to anyone who can make the first month's rent. I develop and manage neighborhoods, and I'm seeing a distinct change in the landscape where all subdivisions, in all price ranges are going downhill. I don't mean to turn this thread political, but I don't see how American citizens can think that there would not be any damage or fallout for the incredibly poor decisions that they've made in choosing the leadership for our country. We're lying in the bed we've made.

True. and now the government is talking about renting foreclosed homes out. Thats going to turn every neighborhood into housing projects.