Annoying Neighbors...
 

People behind us put up a new privacy fence and faced the unfinished side to all the neighbors.

They had a fence company install it. You would think the fence company would be aware that it is a code violation to face the unfinished side to neighbors.

If they had installed correctly there would not not be a 5" gap that I now have to fill between the new fence and our adjoining fence so our dog can't get out.

In my neighborhood, if you put up a fence, it has to be what is called "a good neighbor fence". Both sides of the fence are identical.

I was expecting something more annoying than looking at the backside of a fence.

They have one side of yard the fence was put up correctly. hopefully they complain to the installer since it is going to look bad from their back porch with 1 side finish is out and 3 sides the finish is inside. Looks like total ass.

Like a profanity-laced dispute over rhubarb, perhaps?

Brand new 6ft privacy fence where there was a 3ft picket fence. Since it is a new visual it adds to the annoyance.

What sane person grows rhubarb?

It's in the ****ing alley, it's not your ****ing rhubarb.

It is rhubarb! Get that shit out of here!

If it indeed is a code violation, why don't you report it?

And rhubarb is public domain in these parts (at least I view it that way. But my asparagus isn't)

Privacy fence Chiefs mural!

You should cap all of his posts with rubber dicks.

It depends on whether it's on private property or not.

The infamous "crazy rhubarb lady" incident I was mocking actually happened in Grinnell, just 15 minutes east of me.

Burn the fence down

Am I not allowed to bitch here as well as report it?

If I didn't have a dog that would be an option.

No.

Just kidding. Asking if you're considering reporting it.

Not going to lie....
I hope your neighbor is a member here who doesn't realize you're a member here.....and then after you Karen him to the HOA, he posts a thread about his neighbor and then you figure it out and have a word-knife fight to get us through the offseason.

I'm more glad every day that I don't live in town.

Couple that with a few holes labeled "Glory Hole" for added effect.

When we lived in California, we had a lady and her kids buy the house next to us. When we moved in to our house years prior to that, it was blatantly obvious that the fence surrounding our backyard needed to be replaced. Because we one house on each side, that meant that we would have to work with three different people to get it done….I.e make sure they were happy with everything.

We ended up getting the longest section to the rear replaced no problem. We were saving up money to work on the other two when the new neighbor came in. She came over one day and said that she was looking to replace the fence that we shared and she wanted to know if we wanted to pay half. I told her that we would think about it and get back to her about it.

Bitch showed up two days later with the fence guy and told us how much our half would be. I smiled, nodded and told her to have fun paying for the entire thing.

No HOA. Fence probably would have been installed correctly if there was an HOA.


I hope he is a member here. The fatass walks around his deck, which I can still see as my house sits a bit higher than his, without a shirt on all the time. Like watching a massive walrus.

As soon as my 9th grader graduates we are moving somewhere remote.

If I was your neighbor and you came over complaining about a ****ing fence I'd chin check you

You would fail.

Somebody needs to change your username to Tough Titties.

My girlfriend gets irritated by little things the neighbors do. I tell her if it bothers her so much, just don't look at what they're doing. It's their life to live the way they want, and we do our life the way we want.

Perhaps if you wouldn't have been that neighbor constantly staring at them they wouldn't have gone with the 6ft fence.

Grinnell is such a shit town

Interesting angle. I would go the GTFO route.

It might as well be a foreign country at this point. ROFL

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I always read Billay's posts as "Scotty" so the tough guy schtick entertains me.

Whenever I have built good neighbor fences and one side of the board is a bit rougher than the other, the nice side faces whoever is paying for the fence and labor. If both are sharing the costs, I alternate the 8' bays splitting good side vs rough side equally. Most fences have a seasoned look within a year anyway and all is forgotten.

I've always pictured billay as Freddy Mercury with red hair posting from inside his glory hole waiting to spar at his next karate class being held in the mall.

LMAO

I always pictured him as the Dr. Pepper dude

I bet you could hire Stevie Ray to paint a mural of a 3-foot picket fence on the new fence.

And then in the mural he could also paint the neighbors' attractive college-age daughter sunbathing naked.

None of them have attractive college-age daughters. :(

Then he failed since it would have needed to be a 12ft fence.

You got a free fence. I asked a neighbor once to split the cost of a fence and he told be to pound sand so he got the ugly side.

My neighbor just dug a trench in my backyard along our fence. Said that water was leaking under/through the cement cinderblocks that my fence is built on top of and into his garage. Asked me if he could dig it up, and seal it on my side. He dug it, sealed it, lined it with plastic and re-buried. Great guy.

Only half a free fence. This property line between this neighbor and the one next to them intersects ours at almost exactly the middle.

So now a shitty looking privacy fence, has uneven gaps between many slats, along half and then a 40+ year old chain link the rest of the way.

We're gonna need pictures of said fence.

Great neighbor!

Wait what? I do not follow this. Is there a hole in the fencing?

Just build your own taller, better fence as close to theirs as possible. You end up with a quality fence, and you make them think that if they had just waited a little longer, they could've had a free fence.

You should move.

You could train a grapevine on your side, so birds would poop on his. By that time he may sell to Cowboy fans. Who open a You Pull It 4X4 business

There is a gap between where this new fence and an adjoining fence meet. If they had installed to code, where the finished side faces me, the gap would have been much smaller.

Even better would be to plant a mulberry tree up against it. Purple bird shit all over it and his yard.

And free mulberries!

I picture him as Uncle Rico posting from his van at a McDonalds parking lot pirating their customer internet.

Mulberries are one of the easiest things to grow. Hell, around here new ones pop up every spring when the birds start snacking. They even grow in the gutters.

Yep, we have one along another property line. I spend half the summer clearing out saplings growing all over the yard.

Sounds like you have a case in court if it’s against code. Personally, I’d fix the gap myself and be happy with it.

Pretty easy to report them for a code violation. If it was done correctly, I assume you prefer it over the see through picket?

I am trying to decide if I want to report him or just do some landscaping that will hide the stupid thing.

You cut them down to the ground and the spawn new growth, they are the devil. You have to buy Tordon poison to have a chance...

I would report him, as the finished side should face your property.

Yep.

The only tree that's as bad or worse is maple.

I take it that the person who posted this lives behind you?

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=342559

In Grinnel's defense, most of the state smells like that.

Hardly. Newton smells like meth and kratom.

We have some other one I have to clear out all the time that are worse than maple. Not sure what they are though.

Worse thing about the maple is cleaning all the helicopters out of gutters every few days when they are dropping. Neighbors silver maple is massive. Hopefully when it falls it falls on their house and not mine.

Best thing about CP is that the humor level is that of a 3 year old.

You should say Hidey-ho neighbor over the fence.

At least those annoying maple helicopter seeds don't leave purple stain from all the bird shit...LMAO

Maybe couples therapy?

You'd have to post a pic of the leaves, not sure off the top of my head what you are talking about.

Only things around here I've found that are worse than mulberries or maples are honeysuckle and other vines. Even Tordon doesn't kill them. I've injected it with a syringe and they die out and then come right back.

What's wrong with Maples? We have two large maple trees and they mind their own business and give us shade. We have nothing negative to say about them and like them a lot.

Years ago I lived at a house that had a tree that we called a gumball tree. I have no idea what the real name was, but it shed seed pods that were about 1.5 inches in diameter with sharp points all over them. You couldn't mow and you couldn't rake with those things all over the yard. Anyone know the tree I'm talking about? It was a big tree, so if you planted one you could ruin half of the neighbor's yard at the cost of also ruining half of your own yard.

Great. You're making them junkies maque

When they come back this year I will try to get a picture.
I spent all fall tearing out a bunch of honeysuckle. It was there before we moved in. Neighbor said he planted it because he likes the smell and had no idea it was an appendage of the devil.

Looking forward to clearing it out again when it comes back this summer.

the house i just moved from had two along the street. Most annoying tree ever. Our really old neighbor who moved in when the houses were brand new and being built said that these trees were going extinct so the contractor was paid to plant them in the neighborhood. They would wash down the street and clog up the drain at the bottom of the hill so the street would flood during heavy rains.

Apparently the tree that I mentioned is a Sweet Gum tree.

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There's nothing more enjoyable than walking barefoot through a field of these:

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My upstairs neighbor says I shut my back door to hard and it startles her cats. I shut it very quietly and she's still upset. I'm guessing she takes meds and has a few cats.

Nothing like owning a million dollar condo and having upstairs neighbors.

I'm guessing it was a buckeye/horsechest nut tree. Neighbor had one when I lived on the east coast.

(Aesculus)

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Maples just spread the seeds like mad and they go everywhere. Silve Maples also get huge and then start breaking off large branches.

https://i.etsystatic.com/5365285/r/i...49509_klt9.jpg We have tons of them in around here. Have to be careful walking on the sidewalks after dark when they are everywhere.

I have one of those trees. They're the worst. They're actually all over some neighborhoods in KC. I hate those damn gumballs.

Slam your door shut next time. Hopefully her cats scratch the hell out of her.

For one, they propagate like weeds. They will literally spring up everywhere, including in the middle of gravel. Second, they're prone to internal rot, making them a hazard anytime there's a strong gust of wind.

You're probably talking about a sweet gum tree. They have seed pods that look kind of like see urchins.

The best trees around here are ginkgo trees. The fruits fall off and rot. The smell is reminiscent of dog shit.