Tuesday, July 30, 2013

What's the opposite of nosy?



If nosy means, inquisitive, curious, interfering, prying, meddlesome, snooping than today was a quiet day for me. That explains me all the way!
I am what I am…

Although, is it nosy when someone who lives in a foreign land, Germany, requests that you inform them about their empty lot, along side, next door to your property when it needs attention?

Yesterday, we sent PICS stating that it had become an eyesore and was a hazard due to the overgrowth blocking the street drain.
And amazingly, the lawn service came today and mowed most all of the lot, except the part closest to the canal and did not trim and still clogged the street with now the grass that was mowed and shredded debris and garbage strewed to our property as well as their un-mulched dead grass and branches were tossed against our fence; so more pictures were sent and now we are waiting on what will be done.


Sure we want the neighborhood to look nice and here it is an effort, because not many seem to care. We do have Snowbirds, but they all have lawn services taking care of their properties when they are not here. The problem seems to occur with our transient rental properties that at one time were all owned and lived in by the owners, but now they are bought up by people who got them cheap due to Foreclosures and took them over as rentals. And so the grass when it gets too tall is not taken care of as quickly as most of us that have been here for a long time would care for.

Hubby worked with code enforcement when he was a deputy working in community policing early on is his law enforcement career, they loved him and they worked well with the area to keep it up nicely, he was even on the board for Keeping Charlotte Beautiful committee and so being retired and watching the deteriorating and seemingly non-caring is difficult and so yesterday on the way to the rehab/gym we took down street addresses where the problem was beyond acceptance by anyone and met the necessary criteria of  sixteen inches long on more than half of the property, we found five just to the main road.

The sad part is it is more than likely responsible for home values going down when people don’t seem to care. A lovely pool home across the street from us is for sale and in order for them to get their asking price, as neighbors, it is our responsibility to help by maintaining our properties to get some nice people in who will feel as we do, neatness counts and home pride should too, whether a renter or owner!
We rented only for a short time a home, about six months while building our house in NJ and we treated that property as our own with maintenance no different than our townhouse that we sold before our new home was completed and so we rented in the school district number one would be going to, since our younger son was only two and half years old at that time and number one was in first grade.

And I think that is why we don’t get it, why when you are living in a home why you would not take care of it?
Do you?
At least the landlord should if you can’t.
We also were landlords and certain things were built into the rental agreement that the lessee knew their responsibility and we stated ours and of course both signed that document.

I suppose things have changed with folks not having the time and we sure have plenty of that, but even when we worked and were busing children around from here and there and everywhere; we never hired people, we fit all our home care into our schedules. It was good exercise and fun when done with love and care.

I remain clueless with when people live in anything why they can’t take care of it…like the dirty house, cleaning it is the very least one can do!
Mostly that costs nothing, but time.

Any-who…
A sign-off now from grumpy gal again…
I do suppose that if the home values go down the taxes will too?
NAH!
That’s not gonna happen and hasn’t, odd about that, hmm?
In the nearly fifteen years in this particular home they have only gone progressively up, but none as bad as the east coast where we had in Ormond Beach or New Jersey, believe it or not the taxes on our homes were the same in those two places, more than twice what we pay here but, nineteen and twenty-seven years ago for those! Heaven knows what those are today?

On those realizations notes of perhaps we are okay, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!









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