Mark you driveway and road

[riptides]

Go make a personal visit to your local fire department or EMS station. Better yet, invite them to your home for a picnic or donation. These people are members of your community and may just provide a life saving service for you.

It is the time of year to give, so think of your local police, fire and ems personnel.

-Mike Z.

 

[scott_vt]

Many towns have a long line painted out into the road to show where the fire hydrants are, and the people that own the property that the hydrant is located on, are supposed to shovel out the hydrant after a snow storm. Many don't, and the fire department has to make the rounds and clear the hydrants of snow.
Dusty

Hey Dusty,
How very true !!! Im a volunteer in Ct for the past 25 years and when we get a bad storm we have to shovel them all out. If two people in the whole community shovel out their hydrants thats alot !

Up in Vt, there are no fire hydrants, other than a few dry hydrants

 

[California]

On a lighter note, I did not realize that you could hide your place from the tax collector. That would really be nice.

I'm on the tax rolls but I got a rude surprise when a broker put MY address in his MLS listing for the vacant land next door.

I challenged him. He said tough luck, he was the first to go to the Planning Commission and request that house #. The building permit people are apparently unaware of this old (1920?) farmhouse.

I replied to the broker I would tell every sales prospect who pulled into my driveway that he was unethical and an idiot. I had to repeat this in three phone calls before he backed down and went back and got the number that was logical for his location.

I described this when it happened, for anyone interested. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/35819-realtor-listed-my-land-without.html

I should have wrapped up that thread - the property sold to someone who enjoys simplicity and solitude as much as I, so the shared easement didn't get widened and the home under construction is near the diagonal opposite corner from me, as good an outcome as I could have hoped for.

RobertN, I have my house # posted out at the road on a shared post, and also where my entry leaves the easement. It must be good if that broker claimed it for himself.

 

[LBrown59]

And it isn't good enough to just properly identify your house. I have my mailbox marked with large 5 inch numbers and I have 8 inch numbers on the front of my house. But many times I find my package delivered to the house next door because they don't have any numbers posted and the delivery man just assumes that it is my house. ALL your neighbors homes MUST be marked too!

Mail should not be delivered to addresses that aren't properly marked.

 

[AndyM]

We have a post office box, but I still have my address in reflective numbers on a sign hanging from a vinyl post at the end of my driveway. I don't want any doubt which house is ours in case of emergency!
We live on the county line, and not only does the road have a different name on the other side, but the addresses don't match up... four digits on one side and three digits on the other.

 

[wushaw]

What?? Am I the only redneck here with their address number plate mounted to a tree...one of them green signs with the reflective numbers.

 

[Paddy]

I have a funny but sad story at the same time. At 21 I bought my first pc of dirt, 10 ac. We had big plans for the cabin but built a small garage/shack to get on the property and stop paying rent. A year or two later during a very cold Feb night, we had a wood stove fire. We had no ele or phone so we quickly drove to the neighboors to call the VFD that is a few miles away. When I told him where the fire was he said, "****, we'll find it, I can see it from here!"

We are on on a hill side facing town. The good part was it got us going on the "real" house.

 

[Dusty]

What?? Am I the only redneck here with their address number plate mounted to a tree...one of them green signs with the reflective numbers.

If you are a true redneck, then you have numbers cut out from a old license plate nailed to the tree. Depending on the state and how old the plate was that you cut the numbers out of, depends on if it is reflective.
Dusty

 

[Dusty]

Mail should not be delivered to addresses that aren't properly marked.

He said packages and delivery man. I believe that those two terms when coupled together indicate something other than mail and mailman.

 

[LBrown59]

Mail should not be delivered to addresses that aren't properly marked.