Problem Rental House

Just a quick update, it turns out my wife might have been right that this guy deserved to get shot. The dude who was shot has been charged with burglary and something like battery or assault, so the new neighbors might not be so bad. They still haven’t gotten any trash in my yeard, so I like them better than the last neighbors.

I have been called a sweet summer child more than once for saying that I have always gotten my damage deposit back. Folks, nail holes in the walls and furniture marks in the carpet are normal wear and tear. Holes kicked into the walls and paint dumped on the carpet, that kind of thing, is not.

How was their car not completely damaged to shit? Even empty of dirt & plants, those things are heavy.

The last neighborhood I lived in before moving to the boonies was a, neat as a pin smallish community.
It was safe and tight. No HOA. Just neighbors watching out for each other.

Then one old Granny lady died. Her heirs rented her cute little red brick house to a guy, his wife and about 3yo baby.
And the biggest ugliest dog I ever saw. The dog was sweet, tho’. I fed him all the time. He ran loose and he was visibly hungry. Always in people’s garbage cans.

The first dealings I had with them I heard whimpering in the patch of woods behind our house. I went out, after a while and found the little boy in a diaper sitting in brush. Clawing at ant bites allover his legs and hands. He was a real mess. I took him home. Finally got Mom outta the bed to see about her kid.
For some reason I was now the enemy.

I lived 4 houses down across the street. But we were subjected to their old car revving at bedtime in front of the house. Trash thrown from their car on our yard. A car was keyed in our driveway. Many, many other little things.
Before the days of ring doorbells and security cameras. Nothing the police could/would do.
They talked to the people which only incensed them more.

I was threatened more than once.
I felt we were in some danger. I kept the kids close and watched. We were building our house now so I knew there’s was an end to it.

It was amazing to watch the cute little red brick house turn into an eyesore and the garbage pit of the neighborhood.
After we were gone the guy burned the house down and went to jail for arson. He dumbly thought he’d get some kinda insurance money from the owners insurance on the place.

The kid I rescued from the ants is now an adult in prison for manslaughter.

Gah, poor baby. What a creepy family.

Yes, the car that crashed into our pot was pretty banged up around the left front fender. But it was a dinged-up beater to begin with. We haven’t seen it around since the day after the crash.

Back when I was growing up in the 1970s, I grew up with a family who had 5 kids, and they were totally bad news. In the early 1980s, we found out that they had moved into a house in a fairly upscale neighborhood, and I knew a woman who lived on that street and told her that I heard that there were some strange goings-on in her neighborhood, and asked if this was true. She replied that there was a house a block or so away from here where this family had moved in, and nobody knew anything about them except that all they did, all day long, was start cars.

None of the kids graduated from high school, and at least one of them is now in prison for murder. We had all wondered how they could afford to live, albeit briefly, in a place like that, and we found out later that the dad owned a strip club and adult bookstore (and keep in mind that these were not exactly mainstream enterprises at that time).

When the murderer was arrested (DV, what else?) my brother said that they were classmates in elementary school, and he wasn’t surprised about this at all. In 5th or 6th grade, they were assigned to wrestle each other in gym class, and my brother quickly flipped and pinned him even though the other boy significantly outweighed him. The other boy was, like, “I’m gonna beat you up after school!” and my brother replied, “Good luck with that, I just beat you at wrestling.”

They had a surname that is not “common” but there were quite a few of them in our city, and people who didn’t have that name would always have to say, “And no, I’m not related to ‘them’.”

In Pennsylvania a bar that gets frequent calls to the police, complaints from neighbors, etc will be investigated by the state Liquor Control Board. If found to be a “nuisance bar” the LCB revokes their license.

Seems like there should be something similar for rental properties.

Solid idea, but honest question: what exists as ‘revocable’ in a rental agreement between private parties? IANAL, nor do I personally rent, but in my state (NM), I don’t think I’m even subject to permitting my business for a private home. Would the city be legally able to break/end the contract?

Tripler
This gets pretty messy, pretty quick.

People can definitely be evicted if the landlord gets too many complaints, whether it’s noise, police calls, unwelcome (to the neighbors) visitors, etc.

For example, victims of domestic violence talk about how unfair that is, and it is, but really, who wants to live in close proximity to that?

The Neighborhood app has all the juicy gossip. According to my neighbor, the retired Navy guy who has nothing to do but keep an eye on the neighbors, a man knocked on the door, the lady of the house answered the door buck naked, and shot the dude right in the leg. Navy Man has cameras set up around his house, so maybe he got some of it on video.

I’m coming back into this thread to note that once in a great while, crappy neighbors actually move away.

Today we noticed moving vans in front of the grease-pit, and they were being loaded up with all the junk and car parts and assorted crap. The numerous junker cars have disappeared from our streets. The property owner was standing guard at his rental house, keeping an eye on the grease-pit tenants as they cleared everything out.

That was a few hours ago. The grease-pit now stands empty, with only oil stains, a few sheets of greasy plywood, and some scattered gravel and kitty litter on the driveway to show that the neighbors from hell once lived there.

Phew. Vanished almost as fast as the Bumpuses.

Good news!

Great!!

I’ve had similar problems

Among other things a neighbors house diagonally from me has had the following

  • A man who apparently converted the garage into a living room, which meant that suddenly all the junk in the garage was now put on his driveway and all three of his cars were now parked in front of other people’s houses including mine. He tried to get away with the garage junk by buying one of those huge green awnings and having it cover all his driveway junk, in effect trying to make it into a “garage” area?

  • A house where at all hours a car would stop in front of the house engine idling, somebody would run from front door to the car window, have a brief exchange and money transferred then the car would immediately go from 0-60 like a bat out of hell.

  • A legitimate Megan’s Law pedophile who would sit in a lawn chair all day in front of his house and watch all the elementary school children walk to and from school because we lived right next to an Elementary school.

Aren’t folks like that not permitted to live within a certain distance of a school?

Yep on the good news about the crap neighbors moving away. I’m shocked. Usually there’s nothing more permanent than the worst neighbors on the block.

That’s what I heard but looking at the Megas Law website there’s literally at least 10 pedophiles living in the same neighborhood as the elementary school.

This is California too btw