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[Eff-1]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

A friend of mine had that neighbour parking problem driving over their driveway ... he put a big ass rock on the corner .. . Maybe you can hide some spikes under that patch for him to drive over the next time ... that'll teach him.

This has crossed my mind....

https://www.amazon.ca/Puncture-Trian..._df_B0DJNZ3Z13

Ok so he replied back. Shockingly, he was pleasant about it.

"Hope you had a great New Years. Sure no problem sir, I'll make sure not to back into your driveway. On a side note, when you park across from our driveway, would you mind to park back a car length so my wife can get in and out of our driveway, the road is really narrow and she has a really difficult time getting in and out sometimes. Thanks for understanding, I appreciate it"

I said "sure no problem". (The catch is it means he needs to stop parking in that exact spot he's talking about!) I guess we shall see what happens now.

I told the guy across the street about it, and he was SHOCKED that I received a pleasant reply like that. Because the last time those two guys texted back and forth, it didn't end in a pleasant manner lol.

He has it way worse that me. Some of the things he has to deal with:

- Large contruction projects that start without permits and then seemingly never end due to stop work orders.

- Dog always pooping on his lawn

- A fence that was built without prior consultation, and then encroached over his property line

- Garbage cans left unsecured, attracting regular bears who make a huge mess on his property, that the neighbour doesn't bother cleaning up even though it was his garbage

Pretty much everyone on the street has a story about this guy.

[supafamous]

While we're talking about neighbour I'd like your guys take on a situation we had with our neighbour a few weeks back that led to blow-up between them and my wife:

My tenant did a FB sale with someone who came by the house. The buyer came by car, was parked on the street and when they were leaving they had some garbage. There was a garbage can (the city issued ones) on the street next to his car so he threw the garbage into it - this garbage can was my neighbours.

My neighbour saw this garbage when they went to collect their garbage can, watched their security footage and saw it was the buyer and told us about it. We apologised though we didn't know this person and subsequently the neighbour asked us to get the garbage and put it into our garbage. We agreed to do it but thought it was just weird and that this kinda stuff happens all the time (our garbage/green bin collection is all at the front of our houses so people walk by, pick through shit and sometimes throw stuff in) so what's the big deal?

That incident triggered a bunch of shit later that day between them and my wife and we're not on speaking terms now but was this neighbour right to tell us about it and ask us to fix it or is it just kinda weird?

[Badhobz]

Don’t be so sew hey. Cares. It’s just garbage.

Honestly this is how these petty little beefs spiral out of control. Just throw it into a city park garbage like a good ole chinaman.

[whitev70r]

Property Assessment up 2% ...
While the avg went down 6% ... how?

Damn ... that means I have to pay more property tax proportionally.

[supafamous]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

Don’t be so sew hey. Cares. It’s just garbage.

Honestly this is how these petty little beefs spiral out of control. Just throw it into a city park garbage like a good ole chinaman.

Me or the neighbour? She said she spent 30 mins going through her security footage to find out who did it (it a small bag of garbage).

[Badhobz]

Originally Posted by supafamous

Me or the neighbour? She said she spent 30 mins going through her security footage to find out who did it (it a small bag of garbage).

Both. She’s an obvious bitch, but take the high road. You gotta live next to these assholes. Not worth the aggravation. Nobody’s really wrong here. I forced my ex Neighbor to dig the shit out of my trash when he randomly decided to throw trash into my can for lawls. Fuck you you old Iranian prick. Eat my dick.

Anyways it didn’t end well. Big beef for the 18 years I’ve lived there. He called the cops on me a few times for the most stupid shit. Learn from me. Not worth it.

[Traum]

I'm surprised your neighbour is so petty. The buyer had even correctly put their garbage into the garbage bin.

The delinquents and degenerates in my neighbourhood have a tendency to just chuck their garbage into whatever bin I have set out when garbage / green bin collection takes place. They mostly seem to be passerbys, and they'd just chuck their garbage -- Timmy's coffe cup, for example -- into whatever bin they feel like. Sometimes it ends up in the garbage bin. Sometimes they annoyingly chuck stuff into the green bin when the stuff they toss in is clearly garbage and non compostables. It's annoying and aggrevating bcos I often end up having to fish the garbage back out and put it into the proper bin. Sometimes when it is too gross, I don't bother.

[SSM_DC5]

Originally Posted by JDMDreams

I'm sure hobz can do it cuz he's the only one that goes to the gym

Well I'M sure that Mike would like a word with you about the gym.

[Eff-1]

Your neighbour is being unreasonable. Spending time going through footage, and then asking you to remove the garbage is signs that he's not someone who you can rationally argue with. You have a right to be frusrtrated but not much you can do if someone is a nutjob. Just chalk it up to living next to crazy people.

[Eff-1]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

Property Assessment up 2% ...
While the avg went down 6% ... how?

Damn ... that means I have to pay more property tax proportionally.

North Van. Market sales are always generally higher than assessed, pushing property assessments higher than the avg if there happens to be a sale in the neighbourhood, or if your property is a recent purchase.

Happened to me last year. My assessed value compared to 2023 increased way higher than avg because I bought at 2024 market rates, while my neighbours have all lived here for like 10 years or more.

[68style]

Originally Posted by GLOW

my only question is that isn't there secured access between floors?

Yes, for the elevators... but the stairwells were not fobbed and had a common key. Had to let the cops upstairs sometimes via that method when they came in.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

Both. She’s an obvious bitch, but take the high road. You gotta live next to these assholes. Not worth the aggravation. Nobody’s really wrong here. I forced my ex Neighbor to dig the shit out of my trash when he randomly decided to throw trash into my can for lawls. Fuck you you old Iranian prick. Eat my dick.

Anyways it didn’t end well. Big beef for the 18 years I’ve lived there. He called the cops on me a few times for the most stupid shit. Learn from me. Not worth it.

100 percent. Definitely not worth it.

Neighbour arguments remind me of this crazy double homicide and one suicide in 2021 in the U.S.

Pennsylvania state. Neighbour had enough of two neighbours putting snow on his driveway.

The nut job used his assault rifle to kill his two neighbours over SNOW.

Then he killed himself.

https://youtu.be/SopqbKMMkwQ?si=BeTZzm1FcgXa-3RH

https://youtu.be/1Fw4Vcbs03c?si=lX7IVLuwneIo0vuw


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[supafamous]

Originally Posted by Eff-1

Your neighbour is being unreasonable. Spending time going through footage, and then asking you to remove the garbage is signs that he's not someone who you can rationally argue with. You have a right to be frusrtrated but not much you can do if someone is a nutjob. Just chalk it up to living next to crazy people.

Thanks, they're generally ok people though I've told my wife before that I don't think they're particular "good" people. The husband once said that he was envious that my daughter goes to a school that has less people that come from apartments (their daughter's school is closer to Metrotown) because people in apartments are immigrants or poorer (they are immigrants too!!!!) - that's the kind of class/snobbiness that I can't stand. They also have a thing of putting their garbage/green bin right up against their neighbour's car (which is usually street parked between their two lots) - it's stupid pettiness.

I do take some pleasure from seeing their lawn get torn up by raccoons due to chafer beetles as they didn't do what I did with my lawn (planting clover).

[mikemhg]

It blows my mind how some people feel so comfortable starting drama with their neighbors over petty shit.

Like Hobz said, you live right beside them, or in some cases in the same damn building.

You don't know the kind of person you're playing with, and you see them daily, is it worth the headache dealing with all that friction with someone on the constant?

When I was a wee younger and crazier lad, I had a neighbor's "buddy" decide it was funny yelling "nigger" as they drank on his patio at 3AM (apparently his buddy had saw me entering the building weeks prior). I was half asleep at the time as I had just came back from Hawaii only a few hours earlier.

The next day I woke up, went on my balcony and threw an empty 26 bottle on his patio, SMASH into pieces, went downstairs and started kicking on his door HARD with a hammer in hand. I could hear his GF freaking out behind the door, and he wouldn't open up.

He moved out a week later

Don't fuck with your neighbors.

[bobbinka]

got it. if you have shitty neighbors, call mike.

[GLOW]

if said neighbours are old asian, yes - their innate racism will instill fear in to themselves

i'm picturing the above story playing out and how a conversation with police would go:
yes officer i was saw some wood trim in the area have a few nails loose, i was just coming up to see if i can assist in carpentry repair

[mikemhg]

Dude was a white guy.

The building manager liked me and knew this guy was a shithead so he took my side right away (the noise I made caused quite a ruckus).

Pretty sure the guy was a "gangster", cops were never called

[GLOW]

reading your story and right below you sig'ing MG
"In Mike we Trust" is pretty fitting

[Badhobz]

what happened to the old geezer? i havent seen him post in a while. somebody to a wellness check on him.

[GLOW]

post eye candy (not integra girl) to draw him out!

[RabidRat]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

It blows my mind how some people feel so comfortable starting drama with their neighbors over petty shit.

Like Hobz said, you live right beside them, or in some cases in the same damn building.

You don't know the kind of person you're playing with, and you see them daily, is it worth the headache dealing with all that friction with someone on the constant?

When I was a wee younger and crazier lad, I had a neighbor's "buddy" decide it was funny yelling "nigger" as they drank on his patio at 3AM (apparently his buddy had saw me entering the building weeks prior). I was half asleep at the time as I had just came back from Hawaii only a few hours earlier.

The next day I woke up, went on my balcony and threw an empty 26 bottle on his patio, SMASH into pieces, went downstairs and started kicking on his door HARD with a hammer in hand. I could hear his GF freaking out behind the door, and he wouldn't open up.

He moved out a week later

Don't fuck with your neighbors.

...I say again, Mike for public office. Justice for all!

holding a fucking hammer that's amazing

[bcrdukes]

Wasn't there some kind of hammer attack meme floating around on the internet? Was this because of mikemhg? lol

[Badhobz]

hammering while black is dangerous (in the states)

[RabidRat]

Originally Posted by supafamous

While we're talking about neighbour I'd like your guys take on a situation we had with our neighbour a few weeks back that led to blow-up between them and my wife:

My tenant did a FB sale with someone who came by the house. The buyer came by car, was parked on the street and when they were leaving they had some garbage. There was a garbage can (the city issued ones) on the street next to his car so he threw the garbage into it - this garbage can was my neighbours.

My neighbour saw this garbage when they went to collect their garbage can, watched their security footage and saw it was the buyer and told us about it. We apologised though we didn't know this person and subsequently the neighbour asked us to get the garbage and put it into our garbage. We agreed to do it but thought it was just weird and that this kinda stuff happens all the time (our garbage/green bin collection is all at the front of our houses so people walk by, pick through shit and sometimes throw stuff in) so what's the big deal?

That incident triggered a bunch of shit later that day between them and my wife and we're not on speaking terms now but was this neighbour right to tell us about it and ask us to fix it or is it just kinda weird?

I think this could be why it's helpful to invest in the relationship and force a friendship with the neighbors.

I can understand both sides of this: seems like a lot of principled clashing. Imagine if you were neighbors with an actual friend though. You'd be way more willing to see things from each other's perspective, give them more room for fkery, be more willing to let stuff slide, etc.

I've been working real hard over the last 1.5 years we've lived here, to go super out of my way to make personal connections with the people around us, ritually drop off chocolate and a card at Christmastime, keep up a rapport over Whatsapp / email, etc.

I continually remind them that that I'd love a chance to address any annoyances that I'm inadvertently fking them with, etc.

If I have to live long term around these people, I'd like to make them feel like they're on my side and looking out for me, way more than I'd want to be looking for ways to fk me lol.

[unit]

ive found a bit of random trash in our bins on collection day from passerbyers but nothing egregious. if it were my neighbours tenants thing or whatever, i wouldnt care at all so long as it doesn't take much space.. i'd never ever ask my neighbour to pick it out and put it in his bin...

i have a great relationship with my neighbour. i had a pet sitter come for 2 weeks when i was gone and i asked him to just come by a few times during that time to make sure everything was in order and he came every single day...

in the summer i always give him plenty of garlic and zucchini from my garden, and when i ask him for big favours like looking after the house when i'm away i make sure to bring him some booze and gifts from wherever i went. i fixed our fence posts didn't ask him for a thing, etc... i feel really fortunate to have a family like theirs next to me. he smokes too so he's always up on his patio keeping watch over the area.