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Reason,
The house across the street was bought by one of our neighbors. I talked to him today and I think you would love this quote.
"I bought the damn thing so it wouldn't go section eight. Got a great deal, you will see it on the market next year priced so we will be happy with whoever buys it."
I actually drove by early Saturday afternoon and talked to the guy. The asking price was $72,500, so if the inside is as in good condition as the outside he got a steal.
I guess my hip hop rave house dream will have to wait for another day. [img]frown.gif[/img]
Apparently it was sold before it ever was on the market. I just happened to see it online and thought I'd take a look.
I've got rentals on either side of me for sale, and it's making me nervous. One needs significant work and they are asking over $120,000 for it. I may inquire about the other one before they put it on the market.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 12, 2004 11:13 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
Another bit of neighborhood news.
The sweetest dog was at my door Saturday afternoon, sopping wet from the afternoon rain. She was accompanied by another dog who later disappeared. They apparently spent the afternoon going door to door "asking" to be let in peoples' homes.
After the second one disappeared, I tethered the remaining to a corkscrew, fed it some water and food and let it reside on my front porch for the day.
Anyone missing a large husky type dog?
I'm feeling so guilty about calling the SPCA, but I just didn't have a place to keep it.
I'm thinking about sending Stephanie a Christmas card this month.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We did for a few years.Quote:
Originally posted by reason:
I'm thinking about sending Stephanie a Christmas card this month.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We did for a few years.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Are you serious? During the off season?Quote:
Originally posted by travelinman:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by reason:
I'm thinking about sending Stephanie a Christmas card this month.
They know we're a bit odd. [img]graemlins/shhh.gif[/img]
I tried to get a reaction from the guy who bought the vacant house when I told him (more than once) that I knew the both of you.
He almost acted afraid to respond.
That's only because his wide-tracker wife doesn't like me on so many levels.
I think I may have made a mistake when I referred to our next door neighbor as a white trash ho, considering the number of men she had in and out of there.
And I won't revisit her taking Trav to court...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh no you don't! No leaving tasty morsels like that laying around without at least a brief summary of the salient details.Quote:
Originally posted by gae:
And I won't revisit her taking Trav to court...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh no you don't! No leaving tasty morsels like that laying around without at least a brief summary of the salient details.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Amen! There's a treasure trove of info withheld here, and we demand the scoop!Quote:
Originally posted by Pi?a:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by gae:
And I won't revisit her taking Trav to court...
Now that we know all the neighbors hate you, let's start with the one that took you to court.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 13, 2004 07:31 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
WHAT DO WE WANT!
DETAILS!
WHEN DO WE WANT THEM!
NOW!
. . . .
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Here's the deal:
We have an American Flag and a Gadsden proudly displayed on the front of our house. I have already posted about my vehicles, when we first moved in I would do katas in the front yard and make loud bang bang noises whenever I was carrying my gun case to my truck when I went to Target World.
Most of my neighbors have "we are the world" flags and signs saying "one world, one people" and they wear blue helmets.
There is one family that won't let their kids ride their bikes on our sidewalk. They make them cross to the other side as they pass our house.
About two years ago, one of the older guys in the neighborhood told me that we will never have to worry about anyone breaking into our house. Most people in two block area around our house are afraid of us.
I like it that way.
But why were you taken to court?
Gadsden? WTF?
and blue helmets? You have UN peacekeepers as neighbors?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Don't rule it out. I had a wiccan commune living next to me.Quote:
Originally posted by Pi?a:
Gadsden? WTF?
and blue helmets? You have UN peacekeepers as neighbors?
I should also mention that trav and Gae were neighbors to civil rights activist, Nathaniel Jones, the 350 pound man who was killed at the hands of police.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 13, 2004 07:26 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Real wiccans or nuevo faddish ones?Quote:
Originally posted by reason:
Don't rule it out. I had a wiccan commune living next to me.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Real wiccans or nuevo faddish ones?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think they are the real thing. The owner of the house was at one time the head of his coven. My tenant was/is part of that whole mix, though she doesn't seem to be into it as much as she once was.Quote:
Originally posted by Pi?a:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by reason:
Don't rule it out. I had a wiccan commune living next to me.
Conversation once held with my tenant:
Tenant: Reason, I'm going away for a few days, so please keep an eye on things
Reason: Ok, will do. Where are you going?
Tenant: I'm going to Salem to sell cloaks.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 12, 2004 04:31 PM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
Are you sure she was Wiccan and not a nuevo faddish Romulan?
Kudos - this thread is hilarious!
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 12, 2004 08:14 PM: Message edited by: LanDroid ]</font>
I believe her wiccan values to be real. While we have separate quarters, we share a house. Over time, one manages to learn things.
She had the wiccan credo on her refrigerator, which by the way, isn't all that wacky. It's theme is bent toward not harming anything and being tied to the earth.
There's a room in the attic...where she keeps the door closed. In the past it looked like a worship area of sorts.
We need to get back on track. This isn't about my neighbors. This is about trav, his neighbors, and his court appearance.
The silence is deafening!
We had a number of problems with our neighbor.
She could never secure her garbage cans. If they were empty or mostly empty a strong wind would blow them into our yard.
She had these almost dead trees that were always dropping branches on our court yard and garage roof.
She has three dogs that would shit in her postage-stamp yard and she never cleaned it up.
We had a number of "discussions" about these things and were not able to resolve them. One Saturday early spring afternoon GAE and I went out front to see if our daffodils were starting to come up. Well there was her garbage can in the middle of our flower bed. GAE got a little perturbed and returned the can (I did make a loud sound when it came in contact with the outside of her house). Immediately our neighbor ran out on her porch and started yelling some not nice things at my wife. Well I looked up at her and told her to fuck off and she then went back inside.
We finished what we were doing and went inside also. About 15 minutes later one of Cincinnati's finest knocked on our door wanting to arrest me for violent behavior. After a short discussion with the officer he decided that I didn't need to go to jail, but set up a mediation session.
I showed up at the session with a diagram of our yards showing the property line and pictures of the fallen branches, location of her garbage cans in our yard and piles of dog shit.
The result was that she had to clean up the shit and secure her cans, I had to pick up the branches that fell in my yard and no one from my household could talk to anyone in her household and visa versa.
All this now moot.
Last year our neighbor got married and I will probably not ever be friends with her husband, but he has built a new deck with a can containment fence, cut down the trees and cleaned up the dog shit. He is now planting grass and building flower beds. Things are looking up.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My Neighbor vs. Your NeighborQuote:
Originally posted by travelinman:
We had a number of problems with our neighbor.
She could never secure her garbage cans. If they were empty or mostly empty a strong wind would blow them into our yard.
She had these almost dead trees that were always dropping branches on our court yard and garage roof.
She has three dogs that would shit in her postage-stamp yard and she never cleaned it up.
We had a number of "discussions" about these things and were not able to resolve them. One Saturday early spring afternoon GAE and I went out front to see if our daffodils were starting to come up. Well there was her garbage can in the middle of our flower bed. GAE got a little perturbed and returned the can (I did make a loud sound when it came in contact with the outside of her house). Immediately our neighbor ran out on her porch and started yelling some not nice things at my wife. Well I looked up at her and told her to fuck off and she then went back inside.
We finished what we were doing and went inside also. About 15 minutes later one of Cincinnati's finest knocked on our door wanting to arrest me for violent behavior. After a short discussion with the officer he decided that I didn't need to go to jail, but set up a mediation session.
I showed up at the session with a diagram of our yards showing the property line and pictures of the fallen branches, location of her garbage cans in our yard and piles of dog shit.
The result was that she had to clean up the shit and secure her cans, I had to pick up the branches that fell in my yard and no one from my household could talk to anyone in her household and visa versa.
All this now moot.
Last year our neighbor got married and I will probably not ever be friends with her husband, but he has built a new deck with a can containment fence, cut down the trees and cleaned up the dog shit. He is now planting grass and building flower beds. Things are looking up.
Your neighbor lets her garbage cans blow into your yard.
My neighbor takes my garbage cans and recycling bins, and since no one lives there now, no one takes the garbage cans back in.
Your neighbor lets dead branches fall into your yard.
My neighbor lets junk trees sprout around the perimeter of his yard. A rock wall is about to collapse because growing trees are forcing the wall outward.
Your neighbor has been subject to your discussions.
My neighbor lives in Chicago and rents out a house he hadn't been able to sell in the past (and now expects to get over $120k for it).
You've had a mediation session with your neighbor.
My mediation session is yet to come. I'm calling the city (again) in just a few moments about that rock wall.
<font color="#000002"><font size="1">[ July 13, 2004 10:27 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font></font>
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ July 13, 2004 10:33 AM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.gadsden.info/i/gadsden-2.gifQuote:
Originally posted by Pi?a:
Gadsden? WTF?
and blue helmets? You have UN peacekeepers as neighbors?
Same as Trav's tatoo.
Usually the neighbors don't wear the blue helmets.