willshak wrote:
mike wrote the following:
A really crappy neighbor is putting their house up for sale. )

I have few ideas on how to attract good buyers, but I'd like to open
the topic for any ideas short of buying the place myself and becoming
a landlord or reselling it.



You have no control on what neighbors you want, or what you can do to
attract 'good' neighbors, unless you own the house in question, as you
have suggested.
The best suggestion I can offer is for you to move to a house where the
existing neighbors meet your expectations.
I have no vacant houses in my neighborhood for you to consider, but I am
the perfect neighbor. I don't bother anyone, and my only child living at
home is my daughter who is 29 years old and working for a mortgage
company. She is hardly home and spends a lot of nights in NJ where her
job is. I will gladly lend anything I have, get up in the middle of the
night to aid a neighbor, plow their driveways for free when they are not
home, drive them anywhere when no other transportation is available, and
invite them to all BBQs or festivities I am having.
I do draw the line at lending money tho. That can kill the good neighbor
relationship. :-)


Send me your addy', I'm moving.

Well, I'll soon be departing the condo-from-hell and almost anywhere I
lived in the past would be a vast improvement. I won't borrow anything
but would appreciate help moving stuff I can't move alone...fair cook,
make very decent apple pie ) My kids own their own homes, so they
won't be moving in with me. Step-son will replace me; in his fifth year
at college with no end in sight (30 y/o).