Alllrighty then. I've lived in my home for a little over 2 years, a real fixer upper, but we've managed to add a 2nd batroom, a new master bedroom and a computer room, all into the basement that was half finished. The yard is pretty big, and lucky, to our right is a vacant lot.. OUR vacant lot. Behind us is Boyd, hes a great guy, he helped us cut down a few trees and we helped him put his new metal roof on, and in front of us (across the deadend street) is Pete, a wonderful old man who smokes a brisket to die for, too bad hes moving..

Now then.. to our LEFT we have a small white house.. when we moved in it was empty and we thought about buying it, cause it would make a great place for father in law.. well it got rented out to THE WORST people on earth. It started with the woman.. she came over for the first month asking for things.. now a cup of sugar or a flashlight, use the phone, sure.. but she knew we where doing construction so she was asking for 2x4s and sheet rock.. not to fix up the house, to board up the windows her husband broke, to cover up the holes in her walls from her oldest son.
THEN we where rebuilding our kitchen sunroom.. now this part of the house had been there for 15 years, but the land lord of the place next door says its on HIS property and we have to rip it down. Needless to say its part of the structure, and ripping it down is not an option, besides, its been 15 years, its grandfathered in.. so he gets pissed and says half of our property is his, and he has the deed and servay to prove it, but he won't show us, we just HAVE to move our stuff NOW or hes going to call in the cops and have it delt with... we ended up paying almost a thousand bucks to get both bits of land reservayed to prove him wrong.. he owns maybe an inch of our side yard.. where as he said he owned all 70 feet of it.
Alright so this is dealt with, now we have the trees.. our side yard and our property end at a big mess of bushes and trees, all on his land, one is HUGE and dead and ready to fall over, and while we are dealing with the property lines, we tell him that if that tree where to fall, its leaning right over our sunroom, and would take it down.. he needs to do something about it. Nothing happens... he won't even return our calls, so WE called the tree fellers and had them take a look, got an estament and called him saying we would pay for it.. this is the last straw. He blows up and says if we ever go near the tree to cut it down he'll have his tenets shoot us. Oh and they can, by the way.
See a few months later, the younger boy comes into our yard with a baseball bat, and starts swinging at our dog. Well i'm a very strict mother, I take the bat, put it in my back yard, and take the boy back to his mother with a request they stay off my land.. sence then we have lost a water hose, had our screen door ripped off, had the decorations on our front porch, wind chimes and such ripped off and yanked apart, all while we are gone from the house. So I put the dog on a long lead so he could scare the people off, its worked before.. We come home to find him hiding in his doghouse with a broken foot.
And it gets worse.. a few months ago there was a long string of about 40 home break ins in my town over the corse of a month... one day 7 cop cars and a BIG U-haul truck pull into the dead end road and it took them 6 hours to take all of the stolen items out of my neighbors basment.. they had 40+ guns and every type of drug. The oldest son and the husband where arrested, the woman claimed she didn't know anything about it, and they let her stay with the youngest son. They had been part of a group of 5 people doing the robberies, and the things they took from this house, and entire U_Haul full, was only about half of it all. The man and his son go to jail, and the woman gets a new boyfriend.
Now this is a 2 bedroom house, the new boyfriend moves in with his sister, his brother in law and 4 more kids... I have no idea HOW they did this. They're still running drugs, had been through the whole thing, people pull out front like a freaking Mikky Ds, and the new kids terrorize my 5 year old daughter, so shes not allowed to play in the driveway on her bike, she has to stay in the back yard at all times.
Everyone cheer, this one has a happy ending. They moved out about 2 weeks ago, all of them.. it took a few days, Pete, the old man across the street literally stood outside in the deadend road and danced with me when we realized they weren't coming back. NO ONE wanted them there.. and on top of that, the house was condemned yesterday. No one will be moving in for a long time.. Maybe we can buy up the property and doze it down, my husband keeps saying he would love putting a little house there for his father.