neighbors

Mine are annoying me. There is only five houses on my street including mine. Two have dogs and no fencing. The dogs roam around free. My street is a dead end. So three of us put out our garbage in the same area. We only get garbage collection every two weeks. We are also limited to 3 garbage bags per household. One of my neighbors rents out their guest house. They are always over the garbage bag limit. 9 times out of 10 the garbage man leaves behind the over limit bags. Sometimes they leave all of my garbage. This happened again today. Make matters worse one of two neighbors doesn't use garbage bins. The roaming dogs get into their garbage. 9 times out of 10 I clean up the garbage because I don't like the mess in front of my house.

But now I'm thinking of writing a nice letter about the garbage limit and containing dogs on garbage day! One thing is for certain, I'll never move into a house at the end of a dead end street. No cul da sacs either.

 

O.k. at least the one neighbor cleaned up the garbage on the street. The only complaint is they put it all into my can. Non of it mine. Should dump the can on their doorstep.

 

We have a designated area for pick up. But all 3 houses (including mine) put it out in the same general area. One of us doesn't use garbage cans. We are allowed unlimited clear recycling bags. The limit is to force us into recycling. I'm just tired of being the only one who cleans up the area after pick up. When its the house on the right of me that lets their dog roam around free. She gets into the garbage. At least today the renters on the left cleaned up the area. They shouldn't have put it in my can though.

You can put in a suite here with permits or a separate guest house. Its supposed to be family only, but they sneak in regular renters.

 

No HOA. Could report them to the city, only family members can use suites or guest houses. But I have a thing against government telling people how they can use their private property. So I won't.

 

I would talk to them but they are not very friendly. Eight years here and I've talked with them 3 times. Once was returning their little dog that got into my field and almost chomped by a Coyote. If I didn't see the little dog and they stalking coyote it would have been killed. They didn't even say thank you. My other neighbors are nice and do chit chat when I see them. The unfriendly ones have had their dogs hit by cars, one was killed by a coyote. They still let their mutts roam free.

 

True. Just venting. I bumped into them this morning. They are going to buy garbage cans for their tenants.

I actually want to move. Not because of this.

 

Yes its a good time to cash out. I'm seriously considering it. With land values up, buying a place with extra land. Well it might let me cash out. Buy a bigger better house on less land for less money. Advantage. No capital gains tax on farm land or primary residence in Canada. My house is both. Can pocket some money. Live in the new house for the next cycle.

 

This week was better. All neighbors using garbage cans now.

Now I'm on a relative rant!

 

Blasted neighbors! I spoke with them a few weeks ago. Now today, they put two extra bags in my bins. If one neighbor is over the 3 bag limit. The garbage people leave all the garbage. Recycling is unlimited bags. But if they leave the garbage they leave the recycling bags. So net my garbage became over the limit and they left all the garbage and recycling. My other neighbor was out and he didn't leave extra garbage. Nasty note time!

 

New tenants. They didn't have room in their bin so they thought it was ok to put it in mine. I have two bins. One only has one bag and the other two. They didn't know mine was at the limit. You can buy stickers for extra bags. $2.50 each. I have a roll just in case, over the summer I can have up to 10 people staying over the weekend. Since garbage collection is early usually by 7am. We all put it out the night before. I do it late like 9:30 pm to 10pm. I'll sometimes put a sticker on a bag if I see the neighbors over the limit or put one on mine. But sometimes they put it out in the morning. At least they apologized. I should have left mine out. Both neighbors own businesses with big commercial bins and they took the garbage there.

Collection is via the city by contract. Only one company in the area. You could order a commercial bin. But I don't want one in my yard!

I actually signed a listing agreement last week. I believe my house due to extra land is worth X. I can downsize land. Go from 40 acres to 5 and under. Probably get a bigger better house on less land and pocket some money.

No cul da sacs or dead end streets. Want a min 1acre separation from neighbors.

 

True you can't get rid of neighbors entirely. But you can limit contact with them. If we didn't share a garbage area, I probably would have never even met my neighbors. I met the guy up the street because he was renting the barns. He rescued race horses with a rescue group. I didn't use the stalls or pens, so continued his rental when I bought the place. He also mows my fields for hay. Means less maintenance for me. Also puts cattle on my property. Reduces my power bill by 25%. The guy two houses down is annoying, he hosts corporate events, weddings and now has lots of film production at his house. But he's a nice guy.

Police response is pretty good. Even though the nearest residential neighborhood is 5 miles away. Besides the city police. The RCMP has a large presence as they are the police for the neighboring towns around us. The RCMP are unique. They are a military unit (act as MPs for the military), federal police (like FBI), provincial police in all provinces except Quebec and Ontario (although they do federal in those provinces), finally municipal policing and act as city police. Net they have no jurisdiction boundaries in Canada. So if we call 911, both the local police and RCMP can show up.

 

I almost forgot about this.

Search is on for man who stole car at gunpoint - Abbotsford News

The above was my next door neighbor. Their guest house tenant called police. Both local and RCMP showed up after the guy rammed the local cops patrol car. I lock the gate into my house, just because we got a lot of "lost" traffic and you don't know who is in these vehicles. Last week I left the gate open. A car showed up at my house 12:30 am, dog went nuts (biggest reason I have big dogs). He said he was looking for a "friend". The other two times I've left it open, have had separate occasions of old ladies looking for the highway. Highway is 5 miles south from me. One lady was so confused. I ended up calling my brother to come over. I drove the ladies car back to her apartment in town and had him follow me to take me home. She was so confused she couldn't remember her building. Had to get her drivers license. Politely told her family maybe sending her for oil changes isn't a good idea.

Another reason I want to live on a less busy non dead end street.