UTUSN Mon Jan-14-08 03:04 PM
Response to Original message
47. Summary: I accepted the consensus back in post #13 & am surprised the thread survives.
Edited on Mon Jan-14-08 03:11 PM by UTUSN
Questions continued to pop up, whose answers were already stated.
Yes, they blocked my front entrance but it was at night when I wouldn't be using it and my vehicle is in the back via the alley, into the garage.
While I myself brought up the "overreacting" part and accepted the vast consensus that I *was* (or actually, would be if I went any further than I did), the context is that this situation is new to THESE NEIGHBORS, but not to me, who have hassled with a slew of renters before these (buyers)---including some who had HUGH parties EVERY Saturday night, outside with loud music, and guests who urinated out in the street, also in front of my house.
No, I will not discard the pic of the Frito bag, and it's not so ridiculous as it seems. Later on, if serious problems evolve, I will have documentation of EVERY escalation.
Yes, it is a public street, and I fully realize that parking is totally permissible. When I first researched the possibilities years ago a cop said this parking can continue up to 48 hours and then the vehicle needs to drive around the block and can re-park for another 48 hours. AND that I can't DEMAND, but can ASK that they not park there. Yeah-right, like the likelihood of a polite response is high---NOT!1
Talking to the neighbors is not an option---by THEIR choice. The first thing they did was to put up a wooden privacy fence at their alley, although not between our two properties, where there is a chain-link fence. They seldom are outside. They do not clean or cut the grass in the alley outside of their wooden fence. Their yard in the back is littered with cardboard boxes of their various purchases. They pay a yardman, who doesn't come very often. They don't pick up the free- Bargain newspapers on their own front yard.
Believe me, two pieces of litter is nothing to me. I even sweep the edge of my curb, and cut the grass and pick up the more extensive trash in the alley, not only my section, but the two lots east of mine.
The whole issue for me was respect. The people who parked went out of their way to show contempt by dumping their two pieces of litter, one of them on top of an asparagus-fern plant.
Also, since beginning the research on the extent of our rights, I found out that I am required to tend the strip of ground outside my fence, am required by the post office to keep my mail box out there for the mail truck to drive by, and I paid for the walkway including the part outside of my fence-------but I have NO say-so as to what people do out there.
To those who replied politely to this discussion, thank you. To the rest, well, I never fail to be surprised and taken aback by rudeness and ugliness.
