I think my neighbor is a Rover sitter, is there anything I can do?

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Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, it depends on zoning. It may not be legal. We had a woman proving private personal training in her basement studio. She was shut down and fined. Residential means residential. That being said, you sound like a busy body neighbor.

It's impacting her day-to-day life. That's not being a busy body.

She doesn’t own the street parking and she’ll just have to cope with the “trauma” of seeing dogs.

+1 you can’t live in DC and complain about street parking or hearing your neighbors. OP should move to the burbs. Then she’ll end up next to someone like me - with 3 kids who are outside yelling and screaming all weekend, and yes. Our dog barks.

I’d take barking dogs over an army of landscapers with leaf blowers any day.

I know people think this is a huge gotcha to post, but it really isn't. The landscaping/leaf blowers (which really aren't that loud) are at least accomplishing something, by improving the neighborhood/area. A bunch of idiot dogs standing outside barking at the air, on the other hand....

And to fend off the reply, nope you didn't "find the leaf blower neighbor". We don't have landscapers or do a lot of yard work.

I don't think you have leaf blowers in your neighborhood. Or if you do, you aren't home when the assault begins. They are LOUD and continue for a LONG TIME.

+1

Good times.

I'll trade you my neighbor with four season weekly leaf blower service, to a house with dogs, any time.

PITA.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this any different than if you owned 4 dogs by herself? People are allowed to have pets. Noise and traffic are what you get when you live in the city.

Agreed - you have to have 7 pets in DC before you need a hobby license.

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I hope you step on a lego today OP

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If you want to be a pest and have fun. Do this.

I had a neighbor operating illegal business out of home which brought in parking issues, noise and clients. Kinda annoying like clients would smoke on front of my house.

I sent a letter on his behalf to the 20 closest neighbors informing them he is operating a business out of his home and asking that neighbors please move their cars off street to accommodate his client cars. Limit their use of gardening tools during business hours, refrain from family gatherings that could eat onto his clients street parking. Also he is aware sometimes his clients may drop cigarette butts and wrappers so it would be nice if the neighbors would clean up after them.

I put his business name and address on card. I sat back it was over in one week. Apparently, everyone called the zoning board on him.

Funny part I stated the truth. He would have people parking in front of my house in fact one guy broke my taillights squeezing into spot and took off and I had to pay and I had to clean up his clients garbage. When a business operates in a residential area with clients and traffic is a burden to whole block

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I get it op. Dogs barking at all times of day is awful. And dog people always think their dogs are friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to be a pest and have fun. Do this.

I had a neighbor operating illegal business out of home which brought in parking issues, noise and clients. Kinda annoying like clients would smoke on front of my house.

I sent a letter on his behalf to the 20 closest neighbors informing them he is operating a business out of his home and asking that neighbors please move their cars off street to accommodate his client cars. Limit their use of gardening tools during business hours, refrain from family gatherings that could eat onto his clients street parking. Also he is aware sometimes his clients may drop cigarette butts and wrappers so it would be nice if the neighbors would clean up after them.

I put his business name and address on card. I sat back it was over in one week. Apparently, everyone called the zoning board on him.

Funny part I stated the truth. He would have people parking in front of my house in fact one guy broke my taillights squeezing into spot and took off and I had to pay and I had to clean up his clients garbage. When a business operates in a residential area with clients and traffic is a burden to whole block

There's no way you actually did this but on the off chance this is true I hope you know you're the garbage person in this scenario, not your neighbor.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s nice, but she constantly has a stream of random dogs at her house, plus two of her own. Most of the time, she has two visitors, so four dogs total. We are in dc and have tiny yards. The dogs are outside multiple times per day, often barking at anyone who walks past. The dogs are all kinds of breeds, including pit bulls.

Is this legal to run a business like this in your home?

Whats wrong with having pitbulls?

Pits are lovely. Some pit owners suck.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s nice, but she constantly has a stream of random dogs at her house, plus two of her own. Most of the time, she has two visitors, so four dogs total. We are in dc and have tiny yards. The dogs are outside multiple times per day, often barking at anyone who walks past. The dogs are all kinds of breeds, including pit bulls.

Is this legal to run a business like this in your home?

Whats wrong with having pitbulls?

They are dangerous and require special home insurance

The breed itself is often no more dangerous than any other athletic, large dog when properly trained. Despite being considered an ideal family dog decades ago, pitbulls now have a very bad reputation that attracts bad and irresponsible owners who like the idea of having a “dangerous” dog. Just look at the tragic situation with the 7-year-old killed by a pitbull with clear issues…and was allowed to wander around outside, unsupervised by its owner.

While some individual dogs (of any breed) may have aggressive traits that can’t be trained out, humans are almost always to blame for a dog’s poor/dangerous behavior.

Yeah. No. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1104199.page

And I thought citing to Wikipedia was the lowest form of argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business you absolute horror of a human being. Your neighbor is trying to earn a living. Unless you plan to support her financially in perpetuity, butt out!

So you wouldn't mind a hair salon, nail salon, bakery, personal gym in a home next door to you?

If I’m living in a city and it was zoned for it, no. You should check your surrounding before moving somewhere.

PP here. Duh. Most neighborhoods with SFH don't allow those types of businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to be a pest and have fun. Do this.

I had a neighbor operating illegal business out of home which brought in parking issues, noise and clients. Kinda annoying like clients would smoke on front of my house.

I sent a letter on his behalf to the 20 closest neighbors informing them he is operating a business out of his home and asking that neighbors please move their cars off street to accommodate his client cars. Limit their use of gardening tools during business hours, refrain from family gatherings that could eat onto his clients street parking. Also he is aware sometimes his clients may drop cigarette butts and wrappers so it would be nice if the neighbors would clean up after them.

I put his business name and address on card. I sat back it was over in one week. Apparently, everyone called the zoning board on him.

Funny part I stated the truth. He would have people parking in front of my house in fact one guy broke my taillights squeezing into spot and took off and I had to pay and I had to clean up his clients garbage. When a business operates in a residential area with clients and traffic is a burden to whole block

There's no way you actually did this but on the off chance this is true I hope you know you're the garbage person in this scenario, not your neighbor.

Yep and a few years later we had two scum of the earth people with illegal business and I reported one vis letter using the other business as person who filed complaint. Then they started reporting each other. Was so funny.