Immature Neighbors

rose · June 2006

Anonymous wrote: How does one go about reporting a fire code violation? There's what seems like a small fleet of strollers parked in the entryway to my building.

I'm sure you can figure it out.

I'm sure you also realize that it's incredibly difficult to get up and down one or more flights of stairs with one or more babies and/or toddlers and a stroller.

But please -- no stroller wars! Let me tell you about my horrible neighbors. I have a backyard, separated from my neighbors' backyard by a lovely chain-link fence. The fence is really old and not in the best shape. There are holes in it that are large enough for a small dog to wriggle through. Well, what do you know, my neighbors have three small dogs that they cannot be bothered to walk. So they cut a doggie door in their back door and the dogs go in and out as they please. Of course, dogs being dogs, they soon covered my neighbors' backyard with dog crap. My neighbors do nothing with their yard -- Why would they, it's full of dog crap? So the weeds at this point are about three feet high.

I guess the little dogs are scared to venture into the weeds. So now they just crap on the little cement patio right outside my neighbors' backdoor. This gets cleaned up about once a week, and between cleanings, the crap starts to stink and to attract hundreds of flies, which spill over into my backyard. AND -- the little dogs wriggle through the holes in the fence and crap in my yard! So my neighbors have basically made my yard as unusable as their own -- I do go out and clean up the crap from my own yard, but I can't deal with all the flies.

A few strollers in the hall doesn't sound so bad now, does it?

drano · June 2006

Yup, that sucks all right.

Can't you kind of block the holes from your side with some plywood though? At the very least I'd throw the dog squeeze back into their dump of a yard...

anonymous · June 2006

Subject: Bad Dogs! errr...I mean Owners!

Not only are these incredibly rude neighbors, they've subjected you to unsanitary conditions in your own backyard. Dog crap attracts vermin of all sorts, which bring disease with them. If the fence belongs to you, then it's definitely time to repair it, but either way, you can call The City (311) and they'll send an inspector over to give your neighbor a summons (it's anonymous- your neighbors will never know it was you). It will require them to clean up within a certain amount of time or face HUGE fines including the cost to have the city come and clean it for them. I'm sorry, that may not be the most neighborly thing to do, but honestly- it's time to cut the crap, as it were. If you go to them and present your case, do you really imagine they'd handle it forthwith? If you don't own the property where you're living, I think this is the only way to force them to handle it.

anonymous · June 2006

Anonymous wrote: How does one go about reporting a fire code violation? There's what seems like a small fleet of strollers parked in the entryway to my building.

I left the slope for two reasons, 1. because I wanted a house but 2. we sold the coop because we couldn't figure out how to carry the kids and the stroller up four flights of stairs. our neighbors were adamant about no strollers being left in the downstairs hall under the stairs. Well you know, rules are rules. It just seemed kind of mean spirited when most buildings with children allow one folded stroller per household and it is so hard to carry a kid, diaper bag, groceries AND stroller up and down and up and down the stairs. Or leave the kid alone and go down four flights of stairs and get the stroller that is tucked under the stairs that might be offensive to a neighbor.

Rose that story is the WORST. Can't you board up that hole at least? I have a neighbor who lets his old dog out who wanders over and craps in my yard every night. Every day I clean up his crap. I asked him to stop but he ignored my two polite requests. I finally asked him if I should let my kids come over and crap in his yard--does he want to pick up their shit the way I pick up his dogs? Needless to say, we aren't on the best of terms!

rose · June 2006

I want to live in peace with these people. I'm just not up for a long-running feud with the neighbors-- I've been in that situation in the past and it is more stress than I want. I would talk to them about it before I call in the authorities, but I am waiting to see how things play out. It's not clear whether the fence is my property or theirs, and they have said they will be putting up a new fence, so I would rather it be their expenditure than mine. They haven't been in the house long, and they have talked about fixing up their backyard.

Basically, I am giving them some time to deal with things. I think they are overwhelmed -- the house is being renovated while they live in it, and the wife is very pregnant. What I am really counting on is that once she has her baby, she will want to be able to use the backyard for something other than a dog bathroom.

linusvanpelt · June 2006

Rose wrote: What I am really counting on is that once she has her baby, she will want to be able to use the backyard for something other than a dog bathroom.

And that's when they start training Fido to crap exclusively in your yard.

armchair_warrior · June 2006

Rose wrote: [quote=Anonymous]How does one go about reporting a fire code violation? There's what seems like a small fleet of strollers parked in the entryway to my building.

I'm sure you can figure it out.

I'm sure you also realize that it's incredibly difficult to get up and down one or more flights of stairs with one or more babies and/or toddlers and a stroller.

But please -- no stroller wars! Let me tell you about my horrible neighbors. I have a backyard, separated from my neighbors' backyard by a lovely chain-link fence. The fence is really old and not in the best shape. There are holes in it that are large enough for a small dog to wriggle through. Well, what do you know, my neighbors have three small dogs that they cannot be bothered to walk. So they cut a doggie door in their back door and the dogs go in and out as they please. Of course, dogs being dogs, they soon covered my neighbors' backyard with dog crap. My neighbors do nothing with their yard -- Why would they, it's full of dog crap? So the weeds at this point are about three feet high.

I guess the little dogs are scared to venture into the weeds. So now they just crap on the little cement patio right outside my neighbors' backdoor. This gets cleaned up about once a week, and between cleanings, the crap starts to stink and to attract hundreds of flies, which spill over into my backyard. AND -- the little dogs wriggle through the holes in the fence and crap in my yard! So my neighbors have basically made my yard as unusable as their own -- I do go out and clean up the crap from my own yard, but I can't deal with all the flies.

A few strollers in the hall doesn't sound so bad now, does it?rose get bear traps

. that would teach any dog or person whomever venturing into your yard again. or get some tiger pee thing or what ever they sell online.

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