The saga with the bad renter neighbors continues! I have a feeling that we’re stuck with them for a few more months, although I’m hoping that they’ll mess up and not pay their rent again this month and end up getting kicked out.
Yeah, I wish!
On Thursday night we had the pleasure of watching them break into their cable box. I guess their cable and or their internet must be cut off. Hey … they were stealing our internet bandwidth in November and that hinted that they’d been cut off. So now they’ve attached a cable wire to the cable box and ran it along the side of the house and directly into the dining room window, like wise, they added another wire and ran that through a basement window.
I’d guess that the house is freezing, but they’ve had most of their windows open to some degree since they moved in in mid September (bet they aren’t going to pay the heating bill either!) so the introduction of cable wires through the windows won’t make them any colder.
I’m just hoping they’ll get caught! I want to tell the cable company myself, but my husband doesn’t want me to. He just wants us to stay away from these terrible people as we don’t know what they’ll do if we tick them off. Yes, they are THAT scary.
They’ve pretty much already ruined our Christmas as we don’t want to leave the house empty as we’re fairly sure they’ll break in, so I might stay home while Chris goes to his parents for Christmas dinner. Nice eh?
The strange thing is that I think they don’t think we notice these odd things they do … like prying open a cable box at night in the freezing cold under the glow of our security light no less. The guy is always lying to us about things … like he says he’s working (nice job since he’s home all the time or at the drug dealer down the street!). Oh and he told us that they were out looking at new homes, that they’re thinking of buying one of those manufactured home yet their young daughter told us they were too poor to even eat salad?
Anyway … as you can see, these people get to me and the home owners are no help. When we called them last week over the parking problem they didn’t want to hear anything we had to say. So we’re just waiting to see how much damage the renters do to the house and how much debt they leave the home owners when they run out on them. Karma sucks – at least it will for them!
I wonder if your neighbors read your blog — maybe they will get the hint 😉
Wow that is a great neighbor! I love the fact that he just pried upon the cable box in the middle of the night.. but right under a street light.. surprised he didn’t just do it in the middle of the day..
good luck with him
Definitely be cautious with these people and don’t leave the house empty too often. My sister had some misfit renters in her neighborhood and it was bad. They were breeding pitbulls and had been breaking in to neighbors houses. They were eventually evicted but the landlord said they completely damaged the house and stole the appliances.
It’s a fact of life that good neighbours will move on, while you can’t seem to get rid of the bad ones.
that sounds so very sad. how can this child grow up to be a happy and functional member of society. sometimes i wish we could do what is right rather than the broad strokes of legality. My home was broken into recently and at the hardware store buying stuff to fix and lock the window i met a guy with a similar story but the renters stole his guitar collection. He found his guitars in a pawn shop and the kid went to prison. good luck. work on karma and cook them an awesome Christmas dinner and drop it off Christmas morning. it is easy to love people you love. try it with someone worthy of your hate.
Holy crap! I am so lucky I have never had neighbours like that. The girl who lives in the suite beside me is a little loud and fights with her bf a lot but that is actually kind of entertaining lol! I’d be torn about informing the cable company about them, people are crazy these days, they might shoot you or something. Srsly, you just never know. I hope they get evicted soon! OMG.
We’ve had similar problems with renter neighbours and it can be a real problem.
We’ve tried talking to them but it seems to have little impact. The only positive for us is that they don’t tend to stay living there for long (they rent), so hopefully things will get better when the next lot move in.
Ummm if this is my neighbour who wrote this, if you stopped complaining constantly about the bloody windows being dirty I’d care…
LOL well, Ben … from you address it looks like you’re in Australia and I’m in Canada so no, I’m not your complaining neighbor. My renter neighbors are people we just got out of jail, callous enough to have robbed their own parents and sister and do drugs constantly …
Oh my goodness! What kind of a neighbourhood are you living in? This is just nuts!
But being a real estate salesperson I can understand what you’re going through. I see people like these all the time. There have been a lot of times where owners wanted to sell the house but the tenants would not allow us to view it so costing owner monthly expenses as the tenants were not paying the rent either.
While there have been others who’ve left the place a total mess when they left so the owner couldn’t sell it until thousands of dollars worth of work had been done to bring the place up to selling standard! Best of luck! 🙂
Actually I live in a really good neighborhood. The homes have gone up in price since we moved here and now average about $400,000 to $450,000 – plus just down the street (literally 10 houses down on a side street) there are a few houses that went from bungalows to two and three story homes that have sold for close to a million dollars. So yeah … it’s a good neighborhood house wise and people wise.
In my particular area, most of the residents were older – they’d lived in their homes for 40 years or so – when we first moved in in 2001, but of course many of them have now either died or moved on to live with their children or gone to retirement homes so new people are moving in. Still … the neighbors are for the most part quite good and since our homes are so close we all look out for each other and we’re fairly friendly with each other. Read some of my older posts about neighbors having parties and sending over food to us etc or dropping in to give us Christmas gifts.
What happened to the house next store is that the older lady who lived there since we moved in had a stroke (almost two years ago) and ended up moving in with her youngest son. She doesn’t want her home sold so the son is renting the house out.
The first renters were awful – they destroyed the carpets and painted the inside of the house (latex over oil) so all the walls were peeling paint. They also damaged chandeliers that the home owner had made herself (she used to work in a glass company). So after fixing all the damage from the first renter, the stupid son rented the house out to a “friend” of the first renters and believe me … they’re even worse! I’m starting to think that they might be making and or selling drugs! These people have to go – NOW!
The rent they are charging for the whole house is also very low. I’m sure if the rent were 1,500 or higher we’d get some neighbors that were a little better.
Holy crap! I am so lucky I have never had neighbours like that.