What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Tacky inflatable holiday decorations on the front lawn. Excessive outdoor holiday decorations in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Agreed. And then, said neighbor, becomes chair of the Covenant Committee to "look out for his family and house" and approve personal requests that are explicitly forbidden within the Covenants.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Native plant people.


So cringe.

[Anonymous]

Tons of cars and people going in and out. Children playing in the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Native plant people.


So cringe.

why?

[Anonymous]

The guy on our street who had a trump flag has replaced it with a Philadelphia Eagles flag.

I'm wondering if the immediate neighbors who have had their house on the market for months now asked him to swap it out.

[Anonymous]

Idk what you all are talking about. The ones with nice lawns are fun, conscientious neighbors. One neighbor has a lawn that's 20% weeds, 80% dirt. His feral kids and dogs run on it nonstop and nothing can grow. Kids run the streets and always have friends over too running everywhere. I love kids outside, but it's extreme and they're very destructive. They pull all our flowers out, climb on our trees and break them, run into our cars with bikes. If I see a lawn like theirs, it's a red flag

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Native plant people.


So cringe.

why?

Because they’re as bad as Vegans if you ever have the misfortune to start talking to one about yard stuff. They want to share the Gospel of Native Plants like they’re out witnessing to the heathen masses. Ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy on our street who had a trump flag has replaced it with a Philadelphia Eagles flag.

I'm wondering if the immediate neighbors who have had their house on the market for months now asked him to swap it out.

Eagles?

Jeeeez, I’d rather see a Trump flag. I’d assume anyone with an Eagles flag would probably break into my car at night, or burglarize my house when I’m not home. Because Eagles.

[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?

Stop acting obtuse. Park in YOUR driveway or in front of YOUR house. Especially if you are leaking oil.

[Anonymous]

Homes with lots of cars.
Anything Trump related.
Huge dead trees that are leaning towards their neighbors.
Lack of simple maintenance house and/or yard.
Huge fences or fence lines.

[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.

We have zoysia which requires no chemicals and looks manicured.

I'm digging up some of the grass to plant wildflowers for pollinators.

[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.

They can't read the room? Does this mean they can't understand most people are racist and so should not bother with the flags?

[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.

Could you be a bit unhinged for this viewpoint? Do many people spend any time worrying about this???