Neighbor Relations

[MossRoad]

Good Fences make good neighbors?

If I had a fence, my neighbor wouldn't mow my lawn for me like he does now. :laughing:

 

[4570Man]

Varies by area. Around here in the country, with riding mower, it is not unusual to take a few passes on the other guys side.

This piece of property is in the country. We both have 10 acres and 60" mowers. He mows 90% of his that is when he actually decides to mow it, and I mow about 4 acres. He doesn't have any livestock and he recently bailed his yard. The weed bails are still laying there rotting. The part that I don't get is he has about 2 acres in front of his house that he mows like every 3 days then the the rest every few weeks. I would rather spend equal time on the mower and mow every 8-12 days.

 

[Zerk]

The part that I don't get is he has about 2 acres in front of his house that he mows like every 3 days then the the rest every few weeks. I would rather spend equal time on the mower and mow every 8-12 days.

I sorta do it his way. I do the traffic areas by the house more often. Time is limited. Though I am not much of a yard ****, which is why I bought int he country, so I don't have to cut my grass when I am busy.

Was 3-4 weeks tonight. Mice were building a nest in my mower. I got the main visibile area, and will get the rest when I have time. I usually don't go 3-4 weeks was dry, but I also don't always do it weekly either. I was worried someone might break in, that it looks foreclosed.

 

[MossRoad]

I do the front yard 1-2 a week, depending on rain. I do the back yard once a week or less often, depending on rain. As long as it looks nice from the street, that's my main concern. There is a 10-15' wide strip of grass between my neighbor's driveway and our driveway. He mows that strip whenever he mows his yard, about once per week, including my half of the strip. I like it VS me doing my half of the strip at one height and him doing the other half at his height. This way there's no stripe down the strip. In winter, I plow his driveway. Good neighbors work both ways. :thumbsup:

 

[ultrarunner]

I've been blessed with good and great neighbors...

Only with rental property did I have problems... seems renters know they are short timers and most act accordingly...

 

[MossRoad]

My grandparents on my dad's side were landlords. They started with one two-story house, lived upstairs and rented out the 1st floor. Grandpa was a barber and had his shop in the garage behind the house. When they paid that house off, they bought a 2nd, and then a 3rd. Then a cottage on an island in a lake just north of here. Then a trailer in a senior's park in FL. He retired in his 70's, fished all summer at the cottage and fished all winter in FL. They had vary good success with renters in the 40's-60's with several long-term older ladies that never missed rent for decades. Then in the late 60's early 70's those old ladies started passing away and the next generation of renters started damaging the apartments, skipping rent, stealing electricity from the upstairs, using the apartments for base of burglary operations, etc.... It was a nightmare for my grandma to get rid of the houses. Took about 15 years to get rid of them as they kept defaulting on land contracts and she kept getting them back.

I think the mentality now is "If I can't have anything nice, you shouldn't be able to either." Sad, but that's the way it is in a lot of places now. :thumbdown:

 

[4570Man]

I have a friend who had a rent house that had some real losers in it. He couldn't get them to move out. He waited until it was about 0F degrees outside, and took the front door off the house. He told them he needed to take it with him for repairs. It worked. They moved out in a couple days.

 

[FTG-05]

Chris, another thing to think about: See if you can hire someone locally to mow the grass or hay or whatever once a week or so when you or your wife can't be there. That way you can have someone watch over the place and give you a heads up if the neighbor does anything that he shouldn't be doing.

Good luck1