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An update on the old bad renter neighbors

May 11, 2011 by Tricia

Do you remember how happy I was the day my old renter neighbors moved out? Yes, I was relieved! That was last March (2010).

Well … I haven’t seen them since they moved out, but I strongly suspected that they were hanging out at a house down the street – a side street that I can see directly from my front door. You see, when these bad renter neighbors lived next door they’d go down to that house several times a day and sometimes in the middle of the night cars and people from that house would park in our shared driveway and visit our neighbors house … or more often go in and out of our neighbors house all night. I strongly suspect that illegal activities were going on in both my neighbors house and the house down the street.

Anyway … The gang of people living in the house down the street apparently just got evicted. There were eviction signs up in the windows a week or two ago and from the looks of things a lot of people moved out. I think the house is going to be renovated by the owner. I’m sure the people living close to that house are relieved as there was so much “car” activity etc going on at all hours and shady people in an otherwise very good neighborhood they’ve got to be happy that that group of people are gone. I also heard that our former bad renter neighbors wife might have gone to a rehabilitation center for drug addicts as well. I always felt sorry for her little girl and baby because she always looked so out of it … hopefully the rumor is true and she is getting some help!

Now .. if only the people that bought the house next door would finally finish there very very slow renovations and move in … it’s been over a year of pounding and thumping next door – but no neighbors … it’s about time they at least moved in.





Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Rehabilitation, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: bad neighbors, bad renters, bought house, cars, hang out, house, move, neighbors, old neighbors, people, rehab, relief, renovate, renters, scary, street, suspect

Did you watch the Royal Wedding?

May 5, 2011 by Tricia

Did you watch the Royal wedding on TV? Or if not on TV did you catch all or part of it online?

I didn’t stay up late or get up early to watch, but since we have a PVR I taped 6 hours of it and ran through some of the pre-wedding stuff, watch the ceremony and then fast-forwarded pretty much to the balcony kiss. Then, being in Canada, I saw endless recaps on TV all Friday evening and throughout the weekend (well up to late Sunday night then some other big news story took over). So I guess I’m more than a little burned out on Royal wedding news.

Is anyone else surprised at how fast Prince Williams hairline seems to be receding though? It seems like a year or so ago he had a much fuller head of hair. Perhaps all of the stress of his new career and then the lead up to the wedding made his hair come out faster? I wonder if he’s tried using any hair loss products all all?

I suppose since Canada is a Commonwealth Country we’ll continue to hear quite a bit about Prince William and Kate at least until their visit to Canada is over and one with this July .. then the news about them will start to die down. I hope. It’s just been constant since last summer .. I’m more than ready to not hear about them daily.

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Television, Toronto Tagged With: ceremony, commonwealth, fast forward, Kate, kiss, Prince William, PVR, royal wedding, Summer, taped, the royals, TV, visit to canada, watch, Wedding

Still having neighbor troubles – why why why

May 5, 2011 by Tricia

I know I said it in my last post, but I’m still thinking of putting my house up for sale and moving. My closest neighbors – on both sides – are driving me nuts with noise. The little kid in the house next door – and her parents for that mater are crazy noisy, it’s like they walk around on their heels day and night, slam things around and their 2 and a half year old seems to cry all the time.

The neighbors on the other side bought the house next door a year ago and they’ve barely been at the house, but just in the last month they’ve started renovating more and more – like almost daily so I’m hearing banging, hammering and drilling noises from one side and thumping, screaming and crying from the house that’s attached to ours.

One recent commenter suggested we sound proof the “party wall” between my neighbors house and ours but we did that about five years ago when we had our Karaoke neighbors. The sound proofing cut their noise down by about 50% – believe me, when they’d pull out their microphones and turn their speakers on that seemed to be pointed at my living room it was like they were in my house .. so yeah, the sound proofing helped, but it doesn’t eliminate all the neighbor sounds because thumps and screams just seem to travel. I hate it.

Oh and yes we’ve talked to our neighbors. They just don’t seem to care. I know most of the noises they are making are just life, but at midnight and three in the morning or 7:30 in the morning I think I have a right not to hear doors slamming, shoes thumping around a house or on stairs for half an hour or a kid wailing for an hour. It’s not fair. I’m sick at home, 24 hours a day … I can’t get away from these noises so there’s no relief for me.

Oddly enough, with all the problems with our neighbors they seems to still think we’re best friends. I saw the neighbors who are renovating this evening and the woman and I got into a talk about her recent weight loss. She told me she started losing weight after reading some african mango reviews of all things. I’d never heard of it before, but if it’s working for her great. Anyway, at least with these neighbors, once they finish their renovations, as long as they don’t have any bad habits or anything we’ll probably get along with them, their house isn’t attached to ours. It’s the other neighbors that are the real problem.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: crying baby, drill, heels, house, move, neighbors, noisy neighbors, renovating, sale, screaming, semi detached, slam doors, soundproof wall, thumps

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