Neighbor post - reality check please

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out if I just suck this up, but it's starting to get on my nerves. Two houses - our house, three car driveway. Next door to our left - two car driveway. Houses are very close together, with not much grass in between these two driveways. Garbage day, I put our garbage cans out where our third car driveway is since we only have two cars, but we could put it in front of our house, it's just easier in the driveway. Neighbor puts their garbage cans out on that tiny area between our homes, not enough room for them to be side by side at all if they were just in front of "their" side. I don't care at all about their cans being in front of "our" yard, but what happens, 99.9% of the time, is the automated truck comes and dumps at least one can in front of our driveway. So I come outside to three or four large garbage cans in my driveway.

We don't know these people (have just the wave hello style of neighbor interaction, nothing hostile at all), it's a revolving door rental, pretty much new family every year to year and a half, and as far as I can tell/hear, they don't speak much English. Every family who lives there speaks Portuguese, as the owners live in Brazil and only rent to Brazilians (I mention that only because any conversation might lose nuance and I don't want to come off as a prick when I really just want to stop having to pick up their garbage cans and move them over so we can get out/get in our driveway). What's the best course of action:

1. Suck it up and wait for them to inevitably move out?
2. Say, "not sure if you're aware but the trucks dump your cans in our driveway every single week, can you move them to the other side of your driveway?" Is there any way to say this without sounding like an a-hole?
3. Do nothing and wait for them to notice that their cans are in our driveway? Every week? So that they finally see for themselves?
4. Move on with life and never think about this again?

I have no reason to think they're mean, rude, anything, they just keep to themselves. We did help them during a hurricane last year (we live in Florida) but that was it for interaction.

[Anonymous]

Maybe I'm imagining the situation incorrectly but when I brought in my own cans I'd just move their 1 or 2 the few feet to where they had originally put it. In general, this isn't something that would bother me at all.

[Anonymous]

They may be putting it where they think it's easiest for the trash collectors to grab it given how fast they go. Just move it back to their side when its empty.

[Anonymous]

I would choose #4.

[Anonymous]

How is this even worthy of a post? Do you let everything bother you? Take 15 seconds and move them back on their side. Done.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't care. I would move mine back and leave theirs for them to move. Unless you need that space cleared for something?

[Anonymous]

Um roll them a few feet out of your driveway?

[Anonymous]

Can you just leave their bins where they are left or are they blocking your drive after pick up? I feel like theyd get the point if they have to keep pulling them over to move them closer to their home.

[Anonymous]

You can tell them nicely to keep their cans on their side.

Or, you move the cans to their side.

Either way, it's not aggressive unless you make it so. Odds are, you will only have to do this once, because the old renters will tell the new renters where to put the cans.

[Anonymous]

This seems like a price people pay for living within 5 feet of another driveway, and would suck it up. If you need more space, move to Gainesville.

[Anonymous]

Umm it would take like 10 seconds to just move the bins over to where they originally were to be picked up, right? This seems like such a silly thing to get bothered about.

[Anonymous]

Are they putting their trash can out on your property or not? If they are, then you can say something. If not, your beef is with the trash collectors and not the neighbors. Tell them not to return the empty trash can to your property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I'm imagining the situation incorrectly but when I brought in my own cans I'd just move their 1 or 2 the few feet to where they had originally put it. In general, this isn't something that would bother me at all.

+1

[Anonymous]

You’ll build additional muscle tone and get a little additional cardio picking up the cans and moving them once a week. And your Grinch heart will grow ever so slightly each time you do this neighborly good deed. It’s a win-win, OP. Be the good guy your dog thinks you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’ll build additional muscle tone and get a little additional cardio picking up the cans and moving them once a week. And your Grinch heart will grow ever so slightly each time you do this neighborly good deed. It’s a win-win, OP. Be the good guy your dog thinks you are.

I'm pretty sure its just a couple of feet so OP doesn't even have to exert anything