Maybe if you hire her to sell your house or let her know she can bring buyers through, she will agree to undecorate her yard!

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Anonymous wrote:Does she work for a company? If you've already politely spoken to her, I would call her employer and tell them you're going to post negative reviews about her unless she cleans up her yard.

I don't mind neighbors who don't have a green thumb, who have ugly lawn furniture, who store broken cars in their driveway, or who take too long to take down their holiday decor. But 6.5 years of 6 foot skeletons isn't reasonable. Come on now.

She owns the company, which is the only reason I do think it could be mental health. This behavior just makes no sense otherwise. But, our interactions do not signal mental health issues in any other way. Sigh. I believe we will have to live with this, for longer...

Can a bunch of the neighbors get together and approach her as a group (in person) and ask her if she needs help taking down her holiday decorations? I think in person in a group would be best. I can't imagine someone saying no to that.

Anonymous wrote:Does she work for a company? If you've already politely spoken to her, I would call her employer and tell them you're going to post negative reviews about her unless she cleans up her yard.

I don't mind neighbors who don't have a green thumb, who have ugly lawn furniture, who store broken cars in their driveway, or who take too long to take down their holiday decor. But 6.5 years of 6 foot skeletons isn't reasonable. Come on now.

She owns the company, which is the only reason I do think it could be mental health. This behavior just makes no sense otherwise. But, our interactions do not signal mental health issues in any other way. Sigh. I believe we will have to live with this, for longer...

Does she work for a company? If you've already politely spoken to her, I would call her employer and tell them you're going to post negative reviews about her unless she cleans up her yard.

I don't mind neighbors who don't have a green thumb, who have ugly lawn furniture, who store broken cars in their driveway, or who take too long to take down their holiday decor. But 6.5 years of 6 foot skeletons isn't reasonable. Come on now.

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Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business.

You might be able to address the food trash. Unlikely to be able to address out-of-season holiday decorations.

Sorry, we plan to sell our house in the next 12 months. This feels like our business as it will affect how prospective buyers perceive our home's value.

Your neighbors don’t have any duty to maintain your property values. You should’ve bought in an HOA if you weren’t prepared to live near people who keep out Halloween decorations year round.

Just to be clear, it is now 'decaying' halloween decorations, Xmas decorations, and giant Easter decorations, plus weathered fabric draping from a party.

Thanks to those that have offered empathy. Next house we buy will be in an HOA. Can't always anticipate how neighbors will care for the place we call home.

I would not buy a house next to this nonsense. She sounds like an inconsiderate jerk. I’d start an anonymous FB account and NextDoor account and start posting photos of her yard, and her name and profession, with comments.

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Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business.

You might be able to address the food trash. Unlikely to be able to address out-of-season holiday decorations.

Sorry, we plan to sell our house in the next 12 months. This feels like our business as it will affect how prospective buyers perceive our home's value.

Your neighbors don’t have any duty to maintain your property values. You should’ve bought in an HOA if you weren’t prepared to live near people who keep out Halloween decorations year round.

Hah. Until I saw it was in Silver Spring thought it might explain why a slumlord realtor has rented house in our vicinity to people whose front yard looks exactly like what OP describes.

Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business.

You might be able to address the food trash. Unlikely to be able to address out-of-season holiday decorations.

Sorry, we plan to sell our house in the next 12 months. This feels like our business as it will affect how prospective buyers perceive our home's value.

OP here. I've considered mental health and, of course, financial reasons. Neighbors have talked to her directly about this. Her child goes to an expensive private school, and the business seems to be thriving. It does not seem that mental health is the cause. It is just a mystery. Our neighborhood has been gracious, for many years, and saw the humor when the skeletons were the only items on the lawn, but now they are in disrepair, and there are layers of other holiday decorations in addition to the trash. We will contact the city about rodents. Thx.

Mind your own business.

You might be able to address the food trash. Unlikely to be able to address out-of-season holiday decorations.

The skeletons would be kind of hilarious if they were only up in October. No, I would not buy next to this house as you've described it.

If there is food trash attracting rodents, you just need to alert the cityh. You don't need an HOA to address that.

I think the skeletons are kind of fun/funny, but I get that many people would disagree.

She probably has mental health issues, OP, if she cannot keep her home in sanitary conditions.

Hypocritical realtor has allowed the yard of her personal home to become a neighborhood horror show: She's had 5 collapsing 15-foot skeletons up for 6.5 years, rotting Christmas decor everywhere (and, for the past 2.5 years, giant inflatable pink Easter eggs hanging from trees, currently popped or deflating), rodents from food trash on front yard, and neighbors can’t sell homes nearby. No HOA. Do neighbors have any legal options to get this cleaned up?

This is an old picture (again, these skellies have been up for almost 7 years). Current state is MUCH worse, but this link at least shows the skeletons: https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/9215-Worth-Ave-20901/home/10966316