Anonymous wrote: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.

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

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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...

Anonymous wrote: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

If there is food trash attracting rodents, you just need to alert the city

Anonymous wrote:People are leaving those giant skeletons up in other cities. I wonder if they are a pain to break down and put back up.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Of course it's mental illness. Successful people can have ADHD/autism and be hoarders and generally unable to keep a home. The mentally ill aren't automatically disabled people in group homes, OP. My very financially successful husband has a hoarding problem and would totally let the house and yard go to seed if I wasn't there.

The irony is that she is successful in real estate and staging. When she goes to sell this home, we can guess that her yard will be well-kept and staged. In the meantime, neighbors selling around her will suffer.

Sounds very much like ADHD and hoarding: she's great at short-term tasks (putting a home up for sale and making it look nice), but bad at long-term upkeep. I think she can't even "see" what's wrong with her home compared to the neighbors', OP. Not unless you very specifically point out the differences, and then she'd feel momentarily bad about it, but wouldn't have the bandwidth to actually do much, unless there was a deadline to work towards and a financial incentive. There's a reason she's good at her job, it's what her brain naturally tends towards.

The google maps street view is... interesting. Wow. In *June* 2022 the skeletons are all there, and they are still there in Oct 2023. Nothing more recent since 2023, but obviously they went up before June 2022 and sounds like they have been going strong since then (in addition to everything else). Yikes. Bizarre.

To add, in June 2022 the skeletons are adorned with flowers (flower crowns, floral necklaces). I guess to match the floral wreath on the front door? So weird.

I hear you about the trash, but I think this is fantastic.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Of course it's mental illness. Successful people can have ADHD/autism and be hoarders and generally unable to keep a home. The mentally ill aren't automatically disabled people in group homes, OP. My very financially successful husband has a hoarding problem and would totally let the house and yard go to seed if I wasn't there.

The irony is that she is successful in real estate and staging. When she goes to sell this home, we can guess that her yard will be well-kept and staged. In the meantime, neighbors selling around her will suffer.

Sounds very much like ADHD and hoarding: she's great at short-term tasks (putting a home up for sale and making it look nice), but bad at long-term upkeep. I think she can't even "see" what's wrong with her home compared to the neighbors', OP. Not unless you very specifically point out the differences, and then she'd feel momentarily bad about it, but wouldn't have the bandwidth to actually do much, unless there was a deadline to work towards and a financial incentive. There's a reason she's good at her job, it's what her brain naturally tends towards.

The google maps street view is... interesting. Wow. In *June* 2022 the skeletons are all there, and they are still there in Oct 2023. Nothing more recent since 2023, but obviously they went up before June 2022 and sounds like they have been going strong since then (in addition to everything else). Yikes. Bizarre.

To add, in June 2022 the skeletons are adorned with flowers (flower crowns, floral necklaces). I guess to match the floral wreath on the front door? So weird.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Of course it's mental illness. Successful people can have ADHD/autism and be hoarders and generally unable to keep a home. The mentally ill aren't automatically disabled people in group homes, OP. My very financially successful husband has a hoarding problem and would totally let the house and yard go to seed if I wasn't there.

The irony is that she is successful in real estate and staging. When she goes to sell this home, we can guess that her yard will be well-kept and staged. In the meantime, neighbors selling around her will suffer.

Sounds very much like ADHD and hoarding: she's great at short-term tasks (putting a home up for sale and making it look nice), but bad at long-term upkeep. I think she can't even "see" what's wrong with her home compared to the neighbors', OP. Not unless you very specifically point out the differences, and then she'd feel momentarily bad about it, but wouldn't have the bandwidth to actually do much, unless there was a deadline to work towards and a financial incentive. There's a reason she's good at her job, it's what her brain naturally tends towards.

The google maps street view is... interesting. Wow. In *June* 2022 the skeletons are all there, and they are still there in Oct 2023. Nothing more recent since 2023, but obviously they went up before June 2022 and sounds like they have been going strong since then (in addition to everything else). Yikes. Bizarre.