JFT Ben
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So my wife is super pissed at me, and I'm supposed to go over and make amends with the neighbors. Which I will, since what I did totally passive-aggressive and could have been handled better by me. Here's what happened.
Neighbor who lives next door is the overall neighborhood developer, has lived there super long. They are a nice-enough 60-ish couple, but they clearly have a sense of entitlement as to what they can perhaps do that wouldn't fly if you were a normal property owner there. Stuff like driving a bobcat around the neighborhood, parking a commercial vehicle-trailer or dump trucks multiple days on residential streets. With his large vehicles parked in the street, it's a safety concern as you can barely fit a vehicle by if other normal cars are on the other side, and you can't see very well around them with all the kids in the neighborhood that are darting in and out of everywhere on bike or scooters. The parking spot is basically right in front of my house (he can't park in front of his house since the neighbors across the street would have a harder time backing up. It's constant commercial stuff there. Like nearly every day.
Now it finally came to a head last night, when I just sort of snapped. In retrospect, I should have just knocked on their door and dealt with it, but I'm not sure it would have solved the bigger problem. For the last two and a half days I've had a super-large orange snow-plow parked in front of my house - basically a Giant dump truck with a plow blade on front. They said they brought it home to get it ready for sale. Usually they move it in a day. Maybe I was having a bad day or whatever, but I just had it, called the cops siting the ordinance in which they were violating (which there were several) and let them deal with it.
Apparently, neighbors found out I was the caller and now they are upset, my wife is pissed at me, and I have to apologize for how I handled it (which was admittedly poor). Fine, I'm ok with that, and we have to be neighbors with these people for awhile. But at the same time, the bigger issue of them parking commercial stuff on the street as a nuicance to not just me but to other neighbors will remain unless I stick to my guns somewhat. But I'm the badguy.
Any advice?
Neighbor who lives next door is the overall neighborhood developer, has lived there super long. They are a nice-enough 60-ish couple, but they clearly have a sense of entitlement as to what they can perhaps do that wouldn't fly if you were a normal property owner there. Stuff like driving a bobcat around the neighborhood, parking a commercial vehicle-trailer or dump trucks multiple days on residential streets. With his large vehicles parked in the street, it's a safety concern as you can barely fit a vehicle by if other normal cars are on the other side, and you can't see very well around them with all the kids in the neighborhood that are darting in and out of everywhere on bike or scooters. The parking spot is basically right in front of my house (he can't park in front of his house since the neighbors across the street would have a harder time backing up. It's constant commercial stuff there. Like nearly every day.
Now it finally came to a head last night, when I just sort of snapped. In retrospect, I should have just knocked on their door and dealt with it, but I'm not sure it would have solved the bigger problem. For the last two and a half days I've had a super-large orange snow-plow parked in front of my house - basically a Giant dump truck with a plow blade on front. They said they brought it home to get it ready for sale. Usually they move it in a day. Maybe I was having a bad day or whatever, but I just had it, called the cops siting the ordinance in which they were violating (which there were several) and let them deal with it.
Apparently, neighbors found out I was the caller and now they are upset, my wife is pissed at me, and I have to apologize for how I handled it (which was admittedly poor). Fine, I'm ok with that, and we have to be neighbors with these people for awhile. But at the same time, the bigger issue of them parking commercial stuff on the street as a nuicance to not just me but to other neighbors will remain unless I stick to my guns somewhat. But I'm the badguy.
Any advice?
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That sucks.
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