When we lived back in the good ol' city we had a house in a neighborhood that was going over to rentals. The houses were small by today's standards, a few decades old and with people wanting a McMansion or at least a McMcMansion, our neighborhood was not popular with the two income professionals. The two income professionals were buying up the houses and turning them into rentals.
The irony was that the city is very snobbish. Nothing bad ever happens there....
The were various issues with the rentals over the years but one of our biggest was the guy next door who drank heavily, had parties, played loud music, had fights in the yard, and set off fireworks at 2:00am.
He owned a bar and would often come home with a friend and both of them would be drunk. Quite often they would argue in the front yard over some odd thing or the other. Sometimes they sounded like they were married.
The city PD non emergency phone number was on the fridge and speed dial.
One night the wifey called the PD about the noise. I think I was working late that night. The dip s...t in dispatch told the wifey to go over and talk with the neighbor about the loud music.
Ah. No. He had been visited often by the PD about his antics and we did not need to go tell him again. The only way I would have gone over there was with a pistol. Tain't NO WAY I was going over there with a pistol. If the s...t hit the fan I would be in deep doo doo even if it was a justifiable shooting.
I should have called the PD the next day and had a talk with the dispatch supervisor but I did not.
Eventually the neighbor got a girl friend with a preexisting family and he settled down. :laughing:
There are times to talk face to face. Then there are times to get the law involved. Getting the rental owner involved can also work but that is another story.
Getting the rental owner involved, as Brin found out, can work wonders.
Later,
Dan
