Would you rent a house where the neighbors hung laundry outside?

[Anonymous]

Not just outside, but the FRONT lawn?

I visited a beautiful house that is up for rent. The house itself is what we are looking for but it is definitely a little overpriced for the neighborhood (and it also happens to be the nicest house in the neighborhood as well). I noticed that the next door neighbors hung their laundry to dry outside on the front lawn, on a rainy day mind you, and that really rubbed me the wrong way. It wouldn't bother me in the backyard but the front yard just seems so trashy.

DH thinks I'm going overboard on this but I don't want to rent the house and this is one of the reasons. Would this bother you or am I really out on a limb here?

[Anonymous]

It would not bother me. I would appreciate that they are saving money and helping the environment. But that's just me!

[Anonymous]

Also, I'll mention that the neighbors had a backyard and could have hung the clothes there instead of in the front.

[Anonymous]

As long as the neighbors' house is clean and well maintained I wouldn't care where they dry their laundry.

[Anonymous]

Rent? Yes.
Buy? No.

[Anonymous]

This would not bother me in the slightest. But I'm from another country where EVERYONE hangs their laundry out, and most people don't own a dryer.

Hanging laundry out is "trashy"? Why? (I really don't get this.)

[Anonymous]

Yes. Hanging out laundry is much better for the environment.

[Anonymous]

Plus your clothes smell better

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't bother me. It's their house, and it's not like they have toilets laying all over the front lawn.

As for the rainy day issue - they probably left it out and went out for the day not realizing it was supposed to rain or it started to rain and they forgot about it (or just didn't bother to go get wet laundry off the line).

[Anonymous]

oh please!!!! it's a rental!

OP do them a favor an go live somewhere else with your superficial judgmental attitude.

[Anonymous]

At my family home (where my mother still lives, different country) we don't have a dryer, so we always hang the clothes outside (in the backyard, that's where the clothing line is).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my family home (where my mother still lives, different country) we don't have a dryer, so we always hang the clothes outside (in the backyard, that's where the clothing line is).

DIFFERENT COUNTRY-exactly.

They do that here too, but mainly in trailor parks where they don't have proper laundry facilities either.

[Anonymous]

So there's a precedent here, too--great! Maybe more people will start doing it.

[Anonymous]

11:32 here. Different country is Canada, and in a "normal", middle class area. It is offensive to make such judgements.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in a HOA, thank God, and I have a clothes line on the side of the house. I love it and my neighbors do the same. OP, you need to grow up. Have you ever smelled sun dried sheets?