What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

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.

This. It’s 6 cars in front at all times.
I’ll forgive it if you have 3 teen /young adult drivers. And only for 1-2 years before you gradually go empty nest.

[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.

This. It’s 6 cars in front at all times.
I’ll forgive it if you have 3 teen /young adult drivers. And only for 1-2 years before you gradually go empty nest.

Why? What does it say about them if they own cars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This. It’s 6 cars in front at all times.
I’ll forgive it if you have 3 teen /young adult drivers. And only for 1-2 years before you gradually go empty nest.

Why? What does it say about them if they own cars?

In my own neighborhood, this house is on the *only* narrow, curvy section of the streets.
It’s annoying. It seems like a rental where about 3-4 guys moved in a YA friends. And with friends over constantly. Trucks, half of them.

They cause a bottleneck. Maybe they should have thought of this before renting. A place with a little better street parking.

[Anonymous]

Too many cars for the driveway / garage.
Usually means it's a rental house or there is a whole extended family living there that will clog up the street, narrowing it to one lane.

Loud music every weekend.
An occasion party is fine, but every single week?

[Anonymous]

People who think it’s perfectly fine for their dog to run all over your yard. It’s not. Either build a fence or get an Invisible Fence.

[Anonymous]

My personal red flag is a neighbor who asks me (even nicely) to please make sure my guests park anywhere on the PUBLIC street except in front of their house!!? 🤨

Yes I said PUBLIC street.
Now I can totally understand if one of my visitors blocked one of my neighbor’s driveway…that would be understandable….but if my guests opt to park on the curb in front of my neighbor’s home then that is perfectly legal as long as they do not remain parked in the same spot longer than 72 hours.

You wouldn’t believe how many of my neighbors get downright irate when they see another vehicle park in the street in front of their house!

Guess I just have very crazy neighbors around here!

[Anonymous]

lol my neighbor is obsessed with his lawn. He has no kids at home, he’s retired and it’s what he enjoys.
He gives us tomatoes and other veggies that he grows and he gives treats to my dog through the fence. ( he doesn’t have a dog)
He’s a great neighbor.
Our grass is a disaster because of the dog and we just don’t have the time or energy to care.
Hopefully he likes us as neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Excessively barking dogs.

Parking extra cars in front of our house regularly with no logical reason to do so (these are the residents, not guests, and the spaces in front of their homes are empty & available). Is is their right but is still annoying.

[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.

Oh Jesus, you people need to give it a rest. You don't own the street, people can park anywhere they want.

What part of “their car is leaking oil so they park it front of other people’s houses so they make a mess there instead of in front of their own house” did you miss?

You need some reading comprehension, dumbass.

[Anonymous]

When they knowingly buy into the neighborhood with an HOA yet disregard the covenants, whether it’s parking, mowing, overgrown landscaping, trash, whatever. If you don’t want to live within an HOA don’t buy into a neighborhood that has one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My personal red flag is a neighbor who asks me (even nicely) to please make sure my guests park anywhere on the PUBLIC street except in front of their house!!? 🤨

Yes I said PUBLIC street.
Now I can totally understand if one of my visitors blocked one of my neighbor’s driveway…that would be understandable….but if my guests opt to park on the curb in front of my neighbor’s home then that is perfectly legal as long as they do not remain parked in the same spot longer than 72 hours.

You wouldn’t believe how many of my neighbors get downright irate when they see another vehicle park in the street in front of their house!

Guess I just have very crazy neighbors around here!

I agree with you although I can see the other side in some cases. We don't have a driveway so we park in front of our house. I don't have any issue with occasional parties where guests park in front of the house. On the other hand, if you have a neighbor who routinely parks directly in front of your house, despite being legal, that's just plain rude.

[Anonymous]

Invisible fences for dogs. I hate when I am walking on the sidewalk and a dog comes running up, snarling and growling, and then stops just short of the sidewalk (because of the invisible fence.) It's terrifying.

[Anonymous]

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.

+1

I’ve had the misfortune of having two yard-proud neighbors in my lifetime.

The worst person on our whole street has a perfect lawn. He's the biggest ahole you have ever met.
He's never out there tending it; he just pays people and presumably watches from his many cameras.
He recently installed irrigation and he must be overwatering because there is tons of water running down the street on the hottest days. I think it runs under the street too and causes buckles/potholes downstream from his house but there's no way to check. I mean puddles of water in our street on a 100 day in August? Must be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they knowingly buy into the neighborhood with an HOA yet disregard the covenants, whether it’s parking, mowing, overgrown landscaping, trash, whatever. If you don’t want to live within an HOA don’t buy into a neighborhood that has one.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Trump flags ever.