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Waluy

Waluy

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So my neighbor decided to call the city inspector and tell them I was parking on the grass. My driveway is one car width of concrete and one car width of gravel, the gravel got weeds in it that I have not had a free day to pull out yet because she let her dandelions (she has no grass that I can see just dandelions) grow for over a month (I have had to mow twice in that time frame) and they spread into my gravel. Last night she got out her mower and mowed only the front yard so she didn't get cited (city ordinance here says no more than 12 inches high and her's were at least 16"-18" over most the yard) and then called the inspector.

Some people need to stop worrying about others so much.

Ok my rant is over now.
 
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I think Willie Nelson has a song..

"Mind your own business".. Myabe you should send her a copy.
 
Have you tried Weed-B-Gone? On maybe a total grass killer in the gravel?
Some people have nothing better to do. Look at the bright side, she is watching your house and that alone is going to keep anyone from breaking in. In fact, you could put up a sign to that fact, just for giggles

I agree with you ......but then she would have nothing to do.
 
Hmmmm....I think my neighbors do that every now and then....
Had one stop by one day and tell me I couldn't blow my lawn clippings into the street. I told him they weren't my clippings that they came from the cities right-of-way, which the city requires me to mow but it is still their grass, I can't put anything there without their permisssion.

Had another one tell me my daughter's car was parked on my lawn....I looked out and said "Yep, I can see that it is, thank you for letting me know".

One complained that I had a bird bath that was "too high" I said "Yes it is." She said "What do you intend to do about it?" I said "Nothing". She said "Well I'm going to report this to the board." I said "OK." She went to the president of the board's house and found a table and chairs in his front lawn that were even higher than my bird bath.

They also reported me for "changing light fixtures without approval of the architechural committee" The committee called and I will not repeat here exactly what I told them, suffice to say they got the message and went home.

They got mad when I built a deck on the rear of my house without approval too --- but I did have a building permit so they were helpless. Actually I had approval from the developer that was already on file with the city, but they didn't know that.

So just smile, do your thing and enjoy life.

Now cutting down my tree -- that would probably call for massive retaliation...but here in the USA if a tree's limbs are growing over my property line, I can prune my side of the tree with or without my neighbor's permission. I can't cut the tree down though.
 
I went home for lunch yesterday and my neighbor had cut my front yard for me.
I went over to complain because he hadn't done the back too! :biggrin:

BTW, that's a true story albeit he knew I was kidding him about not cutting the back.
It's nice to live somewhere folks still look out for one another instead of against one another.
 
stonepecker said:
Have you tried Weed-B-Gone? On maybe a total grass killer in the gravel?
Some people have nothing better to do. Look at the bright side, she is watching your house and that alone is going to keep anyone from breaking in. In fact, you could put up a sign to that fact, just for giggles

I agree with you ......but then she would have nothing to do.
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I just moved into this house about 2 months ago and when I did all the grass was dead and you could obviously tell it was a parking spot I just haven't had time to take care of it with all the other things I have been doing like pruning trees that have been neglected for a while and making sure my yard gets mowed when it gets even a little to tall. I think what annoyed me the most was when I pulled one patch of weed/grass it was about a half inch of dirt and grass and then three to four inches of gravel. But city inspector said it would be better just to redo the gravel. So I have five tons of gravel being delivered today which will do the entire side all the way to her property line and all the way to my fence so I can park ANYWHERE on that side I want. We'll see how she likes that :) but it will all be to code so nothing she can do.
 
GaryMGg said:
I went home for lunch yesterday and my neighbor had cut my front yard for me.
I went over to complain because he hadn't done the back too! :biggrin:

BTW, that's a true story albeit he knew I was kidding him about not cutting the back.
It's nice to live somewhere folks still look out for one another instead of against one another.
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Yeah that would be nice, the sad part is I was even going to go over last night when I was mowing my yard and ask her if she wanted me just to do her yard as well until I got the call from the inspector. Fortunately she is the only "problem" neighbor I have met everyone else seems really nice (I went around with my snow blower the week after I moved in and introduced myself and asked if they needed help with their driveways.)
 
Consider how unhappy that neighbor must be inside to be like that. That may show this entire thing in a different light. I would just turn the other cheek and let it go maybe someday you will be able to do something really nice for her and change her mind. And in the meantime you will be happy and not dwell on the little stuff. You will have a nice place to park your vehicle. I will guarantee she will still be unhappy inside but you won't be.
 
Yeah I planned on redoing the drive anyway because my wife runs a home daycare and I want to make a path back to the back door where the kids come in I just didn't plan on doing it for another month or so.
 
I would check it out and make sure that you can go all the way to the fence. My Father-in-Law had a building permit for a 40X80 building on his farm. He was told that he had to stay off the property line by 15feet. He made a slight change in the length and it ended up being 40' X 100' building. Because the building was bigger.... He was suppost to be farther off the property line. They almost made him tear the building down.
The guy puts a building on a 160 acre farm. He has the building 5 feet to close to the property line. To me, this is just another example of being regulated to death.

Good luck.
 
stonepecker said:
I would check it out and make sure that you can go all the way to the fence. My Father-in-Law had a building permit for a 40X80 building on his farm. He was told that he had to stay off the property line by 15feet. He made a slight change in the length and it ended up being 40' X 100' building. Because the building was bigger.... He was suppost to be farther off the property line. They almost made him tear the building down.
The guy puts a building on a 160 acre farm. He has the building 5 feet to close to the property line. To me, this is just another example of being regulated to death.

Good luck.
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Needing a building permit for a farm is beyond me....
 
I think I'm the problem neighbor. You know the one that knocks on your door at 11:15 pm because I'm in my house with the windows closed and still have to put my noise canceling headphones on to not hear your party, or the one who calls the police at 2 am because the stereo in your car woke me up and all you are doing is sitting in it texting, or the one who yells at you because your friends are speeding down the street at midnight with their super loud exhausts. I must be terrible to live by.
 
spray the gravel with a pre-emergent. Believe it or not, the weeds will grow in the gravel without ANY dirt if it rains. I have gravel front and rear with weed cloth under it, and still get weeds growing in the gravel if I don't put down a pre emergent. They pull right out, since there is nothing for the roots to get a purchase on, but they will grow.

I spray a pre emergent once a year and have no weeds, since it keeps seeds from germinating.
 
Waluy said:
stonepecker said:
Have you tried Weed-B-Gone? On maybe a total grass killer in the gravel?
Some people have nothing better to do. Look at the bright side, she is watching your house and that alone is going to keep anyone from breaking in. In fact, you could put up a sign to that fact, just for giggles

I agree with you ......but then she would have nothing to do.
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I just moved into this house about 2 months ago and when I did all the grass was dead and you could obviously tell it was a parking spot I just haven't had time to take care of it with all the other things I have been doing like pruning trees that have been neglected for a while and making sure my yard gets mowed when it gets even a little to tall. I think what annoyed me the most was when I pulled one patch of weed/grass it was about a half inch of dirt and grass and then three to four inches of gravel. But city inspector said it would be better just to redo the gravel. So I have five tons of gravel being delivered today which will do the entire side all the way to her property line and all the way to my fence so I can park ANYWHERE on that side I want. We'll see how she likes that :) but it will all be to code so nothing she can do.
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Here in Tennessee the best way to grow a lawn is to pour gravel and call it a driveway... :biggrin:

My driveway is about 30 yards long and rises about 8-10 feet from the street level... it's about every 2-3 months maintenance chore to spray the entire driveway with round up. I also have another gravel driveway off the neighbors drive that runs up to my shop and where my son parks his semi when he come home... also gets roundup sprayed about same time as the front drive. 'Course I live in the country and closest neighbor is about 1000 yards across the street and the side neighbor is about 1500 yards up behind me on a hill...
 
I have a neighbor that always called the police on me when I worked late night on the race cars. Most of the time it was Friday night and we would work on it until 4 or 5 am. Never had the radio loud and always closed the overhead door. After a few times, the cops told me that there was a noise ordinance from 10p.m. until 7a.m. So the next day at 7:15am I fired up the car, which has straight headers and very loud. The cops showed up about 45 minutes later and told her I was within the law. She never called the cops on me again:biggrin:
 
TellicoTurning said:
Waluy said:
stonepecker said:
Have you tried Weed-B-Gone? On maybe a total grass killer in the gravel?
Some people have nothing better to do. Look at the bright side, she is watching your house and that alone is going to keep anyone from breaking in. In fact, you could put up a sign to that fact, just for giggles

I agree with you ......but then she would have nothing to do.
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I just moved into this house about 2 months ago and when I did all the grass was dead and you could obviously tell it was a parking spot I just haven't had time to take care of it with all the other things I have been doing like pruning trees that have been neglected for a while and making sure my yard gets mowed when it gets even a little to tall. I think what annoyed me the most was when I pulled one patch of weed/grass it was about a half inch of dirt and grass and then three to four inches of gravel. But city inspector said it would be better just to redo the gravel. So I have five tons of gravel being delivered today which will do the entire side all the way to her property line and all the way to my fence so I can park ANYWHERE on that side I want. We'll see how she likes that :) but it will all be to code so nothing she can do.
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Here in Tennessee the best way to grow a lawn is to pour gravel and call it a driveway... :biggrin:

My driveway is about 30 yards long and rises about 8-10 feet from the street level... it's about every 2-3 months maintenance chore to spray the entire driveway with round up. I also have another gravel driveway off the neighbors drive that runs up to my shop and where my son parks his semi when he come home... also gets roundup sprayed about same time as the front drive. 'Course I live in the country and closest neighbor is about 1000 yards across the street and the side neighbor is about 1500 yards up behind me on a hill...
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Did I read that correctly that you have a 1000 or 1500 yard drive from your neighbors drive? Or do you mean the neighbor has a 1500 yard drive that goes past your place that you connect to for your son's truck?
 
OLDMAN5050 said:
All this is why I love living in the country. Wouldn't go back to city life
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The worst place to live is where things are changing from rural to urban --- the city folks move to the country and then try to institute all the things they moved to get away from.

I recall a case where folks from "town" (actually flatlanders from New Jersey) bought the property next to a pig farm....they immediately started complaining about the smell and tried to get the county to pass an ordinance against pig farms. They were given a gentle reminder that the pig farm was there before they were and if they didn't like the smell they shouldn't have bought the property next door. (they were actually a half mile away.)
 
Waluy said:
So my neighbor decided to call the city inspector and tell them I was parking on the grass. My driveway is one car width of concrete and one car width of gravel, the gravel got weeds in it that I have not had a free day to pull out yet because she let her dandelions (she has no grass that I can see just dandelions) grow for over a month (I have had to mow twice in that time frame) and they spread into my gravel. Last night she got out her mower and mowed only the front yard so she didn't get cited (city ordinance here says no more than 12 inches high and her's were at least 16"-18" over most the yard) and then called the inspector.

Some people need to stop worrying about others so much.

Ok my rant is over now.
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tHE HOUSE NEXT DOOR SOLD &the landlordtold me to trim my bushes. I told him hr could trim them to the fence. He told me they are my bushes, you do it. So I told the renters I was going to do it.the pleaded with me not to do it. the next time he saw me he asked again. I told them the renters wouldn't let me.He never bothered me again. I found out out my neighbers
are hie son and daughter-in-law.
 
I sure am glad a live in Texas and that I live out of town on 15 acres. My driveway is 1,500' long from the road and I can go outside and look in any direction and I can not see any neighbor. My nearest neighbor is 400 yards though the woods. I can park anywhere I want, build anything I want wherever I want, and make as much noise as I want any time of day. I would not be able to put up with some lackey inspector, or anyone else for that matter, telling me how to enjoy my private property rights.

The only issue I had was a few years ago when me a some friends were shooting skeet in my back yard. A sheriff deputy showed up and wanted to know what was going on. I politely told him it really was none of his business. He agreed and said that some of the neighbors way down the street called in reporting someone was shooting high caliber guns. I told him we were shooting shot guns but were about to start shooting the high caliber stuff shortly so he might want to go tell the folks down the street to be prepared to get their drawers in a wad.

The officer ended up staying a while and shooting some skeet with us!

God I love not living under some random iron thumb of a municipal government or HOA!
 
Could you imagine if we all lived in the country and had acres of land around us with no neighbors??? We are going to need a bigger country!!!!:smile: It's The neighbors that are always wrong. How is that???? For every story of the bad neighbor I am sure there is a story of a good neighbor and when having that neighbor sure came in handy.

How come no one RANTS about that??? People!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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There is plenty of room in this country to not be packed so close together. Did you know that if you divided up Texas into 1/2 acre lots you could give every citizen in the USA one of those plots. There are approximately 172 million acres in Texas according to a google search. Texas is huge! I have to visit that state before I die that is for sure.

jttheclockman said:
Could you imagine if we all lived in the country and had acres of land around us with no neighbors??? We are going to need a bigger country!!!!:smile: It's The neighbors that are always wrong. How is that???? For every story of the bad neighbor I am sure there is a story of a good neighbor and when having that neighbor sure came in handy.

How come no one RANTS about that??? People!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mikespenturningz said:
There is plenty of room in this country to not be packed so close together. Did you know that if you divided up Texas into 1/2 acre lots you could give every citizen in the USA one of those plots. There are approximately 172 million acres in Texas according to a google search. Texas is huge! I have to visit that state before I die that is for sure.

jttheclockman said:
Could you imagine if we all lived in the country and had acres of land around us with no neighbors??? We are going to need a bigger country!!!!:smile: It's The neighbors that are always wrong. How is that???? For every story of the bad neighbor I am sure there is a story of a good neighbor and when having that neighbor sure came in handy.

How come no one RANTS about that??? People!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Get real Mike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Do you have better facts John. There are roughly 350 Million Americans and the state of Texas could hold all of them. The point is that we don't have any problems with too many people in this country we just don't spread out enough. Simple math really.

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There are 3537441 square miles in the united states.
There are 640 per square mile so that would mean that there are 2,263,962,240 acres that make up the good old USA.
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Does that look like we don't have enough land in the USA for 350,000.000 people?


jttheclockman said:
mikespenturningz said:
There is plenty of room in this country to not be packed so close together. Did you know that if you divided up Texas into 1/2 acre lots you could give every citizen in the USA one of those plots. There are approximately 172 million acres in Texas according to a google search. Texas is huge! I have to visit that state before I die that is for sure.

jttheclockman said:
Could you imagine if we all lived in the country and had acres of land around us with no neighbors??? We are going to need a bigger country!!!!:smile: It's The neighbors that are always wrong. How is that???? For every story of the bad neighbor I am sure there is a story of a good neighbor and when having that neighbor sure came in handy.

How come no one RANTS about that??? People!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Get real Mike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The USA has a population density of 33.82 folks per square kilometer in 2010. A square kilometer is roughly 247 acres which calculates to over 7 acres per person. And if we feel too crowded we can always move to Canada where our Northern neighbor has a population density that is one tenth of ours.
 
Smitty37 said:
TellicoTurning said:
Waluy said:
stonepecker said:
Have you tried Weed-B-Gone? On maybe a total grass killer in the gravel?
Some people have nothing better to do. Look at the bright side, she is watching your house and that alone is going to keep anyone from breaking in. In fact, you could put up a sign to that fact, just for giggles

I agree with you ......but then she would have nothing to do.
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I just moved into this house about 2 months ago and when I did all the grass was dead and you could obviously tell it was a parking spot I just haven't had time to take care of it with all the other things I have been doing like pruning trees that have been neglected for a while and making sure my yard gets mowed when it gets even a little to tall. I think what annoyed me the most was when I pulled one patch of weed/grass it was about a half inch of dirt and grass and then three to four inches of gravel. But city inspector said it would be better just to redo the gravel. So I have five tons of gravel being delivered today which will do the entire side all the way to her property line and all the way to my fence so I can park ANYWHERE on that side I want. We'll see how she likes that :) but it will all be to code so nothing she can do.
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Here in Tennessee the best way to grow a lawn is to pour gravel and call it a driveway... :biggrin:

My driveway is about 30 yards long and rises about 8-10 feet from the street level... it's about every 2-3 months maintenance chore to spray the entire driveway with round up. I also have another gravel driveway off the neighbors drive that runs up to my shop and where my son parks his semi when he come home... also gets roundup sprayed about same time as the front drive. 'Course I live in the country and closest neighbor is about 1000 yards across the street and the side neighbor is about 1500 yards up behind me on a hill...
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Did I read that correctly that you have a 1000 or 1500 yard drive from your neighbors drive? Or do you mean the neighbor has a 1500 yard drive that goes past your place that you connect to for your son's truck?
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Yeah, that was badly written... the neighbor's drive way is about 1500 feet (not yards) up the hill alongside my property... he lives on top of a hill that looks down onto my property... fortunately there is a line of trees between him and me so I have privacy... my drive way is about 1/3 way up his that cuts off into my yard and runs up in front of my shop. The son parks there when he's home in his truck. The other neighbor is across the road and directly in front of my side neighbor's place... the other neighbor's house is about 1000 feet (not yards) from my place.... we have to crane a little to see his property... he has a large magnolia with branches all the way to the ground that shields our view of his house from most of our view. Nice and private here.
 
Smitty37 said:
OLDMAN5050 said:
All this is why I love living in the country. Wouldn't go back to city life
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The worst place to live is where things are changing from rural to urban --- the city folks move to the country and then try to institute all the things they moved to get away from.

I recall a case where folks from "town" (actually flatlanders from New Jersey) bought the property next to a pig farm....they immediately started complaining about the smell and tried to get the county to pass an ordinance against pig farms. They were given a gentle reminder that the pig farm was there before they were and if they didn't like the smell they shouldn't have bought the property next door. (they were actually a half mile away.)
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Peoples are funny..... we had a similar situation in Houston when I lived there... Houston International Airport was built in an area that was more or less out in the country and away from the general population... I don't remember when, late '60's or early '70's since I was still in Calif when it was built... but people started moving into the area around the airport as developers built subdivisions around... then all the residents started complaining about the noise level from airplanes taking off and landing and flying over their houses.
 
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TellicoTurning said:
Smitty37 said:
OLDMAN5050 said:
All this is why I love living in the country. Wouldn't go back to city life
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The worst place to live is where things are changing from rural to urban --- the city folks move to the country and then try to institute all the things they moved to get away from.

I recall a case where folks from "town" (actually flatlanders from New Jersey) bought the property next to a pig farm....they immediately started complaining about the smell and tried to get the county to pass an ordinance against pig farms. They were given a gentle reminder that the pig farm was there before they were and if they didn't like the smell they shouldn't have bought the property next door. (they were actually a half mile away.)
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Peoples are funny..... we had a similar situation in Houston when I lived there... Houston International Airport was built in an area that was more or less out in the country and away from the general population... I don't remember when, late '60's or early '70's since I was still in Calif when it was built... but people started moving into the area around the airport as developers built subdivisions around... then all the residents started complaining about the noise level from airplanes taking off and landing and flying over their houses.
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Yea - what they need is a taste of C-5's flying directly over their house so low you can just about count the rivets .... we have that, and C-5s are one noisey "bird". But Dover AFB was there when our development was built and the landing path was over farm fields.... now it seems to depend on something because for 6 years it was directly over my house now it is about 200 yards south of my house most of the time but occasionaly it is over my place.
 
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