What are your red flags for neighbors?

[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]

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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]

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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.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

Dp. It's not that she owns the street. It's the conscious act of the red flag neighbor parking her leaky old car so her side remains clean and not the neighbors side. It's pretty dang and consciously rude of her to do so. I have a neighbor whose the same and they bring old clunkers and park them next to a neighbors trash cans and don't move their rickety old car. They park old cArs all over the street except on their side of the street. I think they have a bunch of unrelated people living there.

[Anonymous]

Loud music, loud people. An occasional party is okay but not even several times a year. I also don't want to hear your personal conversations, especially your arguments.

Dogs barking too much.

Noise bothers me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loud music, loud people. An occasional party is okay but not even several times a year. I also don't want to hear your personal conversations, especially your arguments.

Dogs barking too much.

Noise bothers me.

You are definitely not an apartment person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fat neighbors.

Awww! Somebody didn't get invited to the cookout.

[Anonymous]

Loud parties/late nights on a regular basis, especially if it's midweek.

Barking dogs, unleashed dogs, people who don't know how to control and train their stupid dogs.

People who let their kids run amok/unsupervised through neighbors yards/property.

Parking on the lawn, or having loud pipes that you insist on letting everyone know about early in the morning/late at night.

Nosy parkers who don't mind their own business. I don't care about your business so long as you don't make it my business, and don't try to make my business yours. Good fences make good neighbors and all that.