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[quote=Anonymous]We have a shared driveway (with one other house.) The driveway is long - 300 ft and is on an incline.   This is our first winter in our home.  We have two small children.  The other home sharing the driveway has 3 adult (youngest is senior in HS is only one currently living there) children and 2 parents and now also have an additional adult male living there (who parks in our extra spot on our property) (we park in our garage.) When it snows, we seem to be the only ones out there shoveling and not sure how to best approach without it turning ugly.   We were told by the sellers that when there is significant snow there is someone in neighborhood that can be paid to plow. When we asked them about this, the neighbors said they will not contribute to this. The covenants are clear - 50% shared responsibility.  The neighbors have told us to only do 50% of shoveling of driveway but we do not have a car that goes on two wheels like that. They work at home and seem to have very flexible schedules (father does not work) and at home most of day.  We commute 5 days/week, have daycare & school schedules and are away from house most of day.  We have come home to a snowy driveway at 7pm and gotten stuck in the driveway due to no one shoveling all day. (we then shoveling until 10pm after getting the kids fed and ready for bed.)  Another time, after shoveling 3/4 of the driveway, the dad drives out the driveway on his way to pickup the teenage daughter at her boyfriend's house and just waves.  Are we suckers?  Any advice out there?  We have had pretty bad neighbors before and really do not want to be on bad terms here.  Should I text them "hey, your turn to shovel" or ask them to come over to talk about the driveway? Was is best approach?[/quote]

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