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?
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!