On Apr 1, 11:15*am, "Cheri" wrote:
"mike" wrote in message

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On Apr 1, 8:55 am, "Cheri" wrote:





"mike" wrote in message

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On Mar 31, 7:43 pm, "Cheri" wrote:

"Phisherman" wrote in message

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:26:48 -0700 (PDT), mike
wrote:

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 may want your neighbor's house to sell at a higher price. You can
make your lawn and house neat and tidy. I dont really think you have
any control at all who buys the house. My solution for crappy
neighbors is to look the other way.

If they're really bad, sell your house and move. You have no control
over
any of it anyway, you might have the best neighbors in the world, but
you're
always just one "heart attack" away from not having them anymore, and
then
the new ones come, like it or not.

Cheri

What's going on here with some of the responses? Why would I sell and
move away when MY ONE CRAPPY NEIGHBOR IN AN OTHERWISE GREAT
NEIGHBORHOOD IS MOVING OUT?
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It's a great neighborhood until unforseen things happen, and your good
neighbors move out, and others move in. The point of the responses is that
YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER YOUR NEIGHBORS. Did you ever think that the
"CRAPPY
NEIGHBOR" is selling to get away from you?

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Cheri, I know you haven't been paying attention, so I'll repeat this
for you: *My "crappy" neighbor has a criminal record as long as the
phone book, and it shows.

I, on the other hand, never make a peep, obey the laws, and keep my
place pristine.

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I have been paying attention, especially since I am NOW in a neighborhood
that went from pristine, to a disaster as people died off or moved away and
others moved in. I have a drummer that cares nothing for what time he plays,
I have one right next to me now who never heard of yard work, one that has
cars parked on his lawn, and one that now has an ugly brown couch in his
front yard that has been rained on for the past several days and usually
beer cans in the front yard on Sunday. So...I AM MOVING AWAY after almost 20
years. My house looks very nice, and so does my yard, and one other house,
but that's it. I hope your neighborhood stays nice, but you really can't
control it. Good luck to you.

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Have you worked with your city/town/township officiala? A lot of what
you describe are against various local laws where I live in
Naperville, a chicago suburb that has made nationwide lists of best
places to live.

"mike" wrote in message
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On Mar 31, 7:43 pm, "Cheri" wrote:
"Phisherman" wrote in message

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:26:48 -0700 (PDT), mike
wrote:

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 may want your neighbor's house to sell at a higher price. You can
make your lawn and house neat and tidy. I dont really think you have
any control at all who buys the house. My solution for crappy
neighbors is to look the other way.

If they're really bad, sell your house and move. You have no control over
any of it anyway, you might have the best neighbors in the world, but
you're
always just one "heart attack" away from not having them anymore, and then
the new ones come, like it or not.

Cheri

What's going on here with some of the responses? Why would I sell and
move away when MY ONE CRAPPY NEIGHBOR IN AN OTHERWISE GREAT
NEIGHBORHOOD IS MOVING OUT?


Speaking of posters who ask a question then get all ****y at the
responses...I'm beginning to think that maybe the problems went both ways...

mike wrote:
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.

Of course attracting the right kind of neighbors is the ideal solution.
Failing that, the new neighbors can be trained.

As they're moving in, visit them with a plate of cookies and welcome them to
the neighborhood. Emphasize the positives, low crime, helpful folks, etc.

Then mention that their predecessors were not, um, decent folks. Provide
them with the following list of misfortunes that befell the Fester family.

* Their dog died. Mysteriously. Both of them.
* Their cat climbed a tree and refused to come down. The cat's skeleton was
still in the tree as late as last week.
* Their children were beaten on the way to school Almost every day.
* Their grass turned brown. Then caught fire.
* The paint on their car wrinkled up. And fell off.
* At least once a month a fire truck came to their house at 3:00 a.m.
* They had poor luck choosing tires for their car. The tires were flat most
mornings.
* All their mail was forwarded to Malaysia.
* The Secret Service interviewed their neighbors, several times, regarding
threatening letters to the President.
* Then there was the "burning cross" event
* At least one search warrant was executed by the DEA based on an anonymous
"tip."

Almost everyone on the block attributed these misfortunes to "bad karma,"
"as you reap, so will you sow," and so on. Some say it was merely
"statistical clustering." And you further understand that the previous
owners moved to a trailer house. Which burned to the ground. The official
arson investigation attributed the cause of the conflagration to
"Retribution at the hand of God," and closed the file.

Don't forget to close by saying "We're glad to have you as a neighbor."
Don't neglect to smile.

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:43:09 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote Re Kinda OT- Getting Good Neighbors:


Don't forget to close by saying "We're glad to have you as a neighbor."
Don't neglect to smile.

Very good idea.
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