What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Neighbors who have rowdy parties and provide alcohol for underage teens where some pass out and go to the hospital, and then the cops come and the whole street gets shut down.

[Anonymous]

Hello from my suburban cul de sac!

Shut your garage doors!

How about cleaning out your garage so it can be used for car storage and not hoarding?

I hate how you walk your dogs all over everyone’s lawns - and I’m not talking about the area adjacent to the sidewalk - I mean the center of our lawns and down private driveways! Stop it!

Hide your trash bins! These aren’t decorative items that provide curb appeal so maybe don’t store by your front door. So ugly.

Stop parking front end in at the circle. I think this impedes emergency vehicles.

Do you need a basketball hoop curbside on the main road that’s on an incline? How is this going to work?

Also what doesn’t work: an electric fence. You fail at dog own and pet care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

MAGA traitors.
MAGA stupidity
Republicans that vote red no matter what ie they are stupid and UnAmerican and not fiscally responsible.
Religious symbols (excluding christmas lights they are fine as along as the people are not any of the above idiots)

Anyone else happy to know you. Don't care about your lawn.

Live in over a $10 million dollar house, have multiple homes, neighbors with brains that is all I ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

While I genuinely (really!) sympathize with your plight PP, in all fairness the street is a public street and the neighbors have every right to park where they want.
I am specifically referring to them parking across the street on the only side where vehicles can park due to the narrow street - not parking close to your driveway.

Since taxpayers fund city streets I believe everyone has a legal right to park on it as long as they are not blocking driveways or leaving abandoned vehicles parked longer than three days.

I believe it is a first-come basis.

Of course they can park on the street, we simply ask them to not park right in front of the driveway so we can have a turning radius. There is plenty of space for them to do this, especially if they parked their cars like normal parallel parkers and not 4-5 ft apart. What we are asking is not unreasonable.

There are some laws in many municipalities about how many feet one can park to a driveway to avoid this very problem. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find one where we live in NOVA. Regardless it’s a pretty petty thing to do.

[Anonymous]

People who hang "be kind" et all yard flags in their yard. I assume they are not kind behind closed doors.

[Anonymous]

Neighbors who are nosy, judgmental and think they are superior. Like those on this thread. I have great neighbors even though we operate differently at times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Trump flags ever.

Or those insufferable “hate has no home here” or “in this house we:”. Anyone with one of those in their yard is not only a closet-racist but also can’t read the room.

Those are a sure sign that a douchebag lives there.

[Anonymous]

Fat neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

Curious as to what your yard looks like.

Is it hard to understand that a lawn that has very obviously been doused in poisons is very different from a lawn that looks perfectly fine but may have a stray weed or two here or there?

There is at least one person here who seems to think that the any lawn that doesn’t have poisons applied regularly must be a yard of mud and weeds. They apparently cannot conceive that it is possible to have a nice enough yard without poisoning weeds and bees.

This. We have dogs and kids and we aren't environmental AZZholes. Our yard guys aerate, overseed, etc. but no chemicals. We get the stray dandelion in the spring but the overseeding keeps them from spreading. I go out with the kids and dig some up too, before they start to seed. Our yard looks very nice and grassy but it's not golfing green crazy weird perfect. Does it take $$ and a knowledgeable yard crew? Yes? But better than chemicals and poisons? A hundred times yes.
May all their toxins land back on them threefold.

[Anonymous]

When we were house hunting a neighbor was way too enthusiastic to welcome us to the neighborhood before we even bought the house. We thought she was just a little too perky but it turns out she was happy that we were white and straight, as we bought it from a gay couple and the street was very diverse. We had neighbors over once we moved in and that’s when we heard her make disparaging comments about the black kids in the school, and didn’t stick around long after learning we are Jewish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

I'd buy two or three beaters and park them there when they use their cars. I'd park one of them by my driveway such that they couldn't park behind it or in front of it without blocking my driveway. That way you've bought your own space because only you can block your driveway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

I'd buy two or three beaters and park them there when they use their cars. I'd park one of them by my driveway such that they couldn't park behind it or in front of it without blocking my driveway. That way you've bought your own space because only you can block your driveway.

So that won't really work because it would risk block his driveway (our driveways don't end in front of each other). On the rare occasion in the 15 years we have lived here that he doesn't have a car parked in there, either one of us or another neighbor will race to park in a way that would prevent him from parking in front of our driveway, but eventually we have to move the car because we have to go somewhere. My other neighbor timed it once and it took him 3 minutes to race out to move his car back. He is nuts.

It literally means way more to him than to us. It is just so annoying, rude and petty but we have been living here for 15 years now so we just do our best. He's yelled at other neighbors for other random things, he's just a miserable person. At the end of the day I dont really worry about it.

[Anonymous]

I had one who dropped her kid or kids off with my full-time nanny without asking me. I found out by accident later. Clearly, both my neighbor and nanny did not act in a way
I would have preferred.

I never confronted either but avoided the neighbor for a while and, fortunately, that nanny quit and we got one who was much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Democratic flags year round AND bumper stickers plastered across their vehicles.
Black Lives matter and coexist bumper stickers.

I’m here to tell you ALL lives matter and coexisting is human nature…

OMG, a rAcIsT!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Democratic flags year round AND bumper stickers plastered across their vehicles.
Black Lives matter and coexist bumper stickers.

I’m here to tell you ALL lives matter and coexisting is human nature…

OMG, a rAcIsT!!!!!!

Can you explain to us exactly why you are trying to make a joke here?

It IS racist to claim “all lives matter.”