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Sometimes people lose their ability to maintain their properties for different reason such as financial or physical but more often than not it is probably because they don't care.
What are your experiences with people who keep their vehicles and yards looking like dumps with dog messes, old furniture, unused cars that and the like?
Is it a problem in your area and why do you think it happens? Does your town or city have fair ordinances to minimize it and are they effective?
What does it say about the people to you that leave their yards unkempt?
It's not a problem in my neighborhood. My neighbors are mostly older, genteel, civilized people who have lived in the same home for 50+ years. If they can't do the work to keep their yards up, due to age, they hire someone. Even when they die, their kids make sure the yard is mowed and looks nice until the estate is settled and the house can be put on the market.
And what does it say to me if a person's yard is not kept up? It says nothing good.
Some of this besides basic laziness has to do with people renting out their houses. I could go through my neighborhood and without a doubt, those rented are the ones with the worst looking unkept yards by far.
Sometimes people lose their ability to maintain their properties for different reason such as financial or physical but more often than not it is probably because they don't care.
What are your experiences with people who keep their vehicles and yards looking like dumps with dog messes, old furniture, unused cars that and the like?
Is it a problem in your area and why do you think it happens? Does your town or city have fair ordinances to minimize it and are they effective?
What does it say about the people to you that leave their yards unkempt?
Well... I tend to wonder more about people who want to tell other people what to do, try to hold them up to public shame because they don't meet THEIR need for HOA neatness around the entire country.
Since you didn't ask, I find them offensive, nasty, overbearing, and more interested in the resale value of their own property (so they can flip it) than the community as a whole.
If you think someone has a problem keeping up with yard work because of... oh, I don't know... being laid off when their job is made redundant, taking care of an ill mate, trying to work two jobs because the wages they can earn are too low, then you might just offer to help, recognize that some people have greater priorities than Bermuda grass evenness, or be suffering from an education system that fails them in allowing them to be able to afford a landscape service.
If you haven't yet got a clue, do a bit of research on gentrification and how it forces people out of what little they have, so that "nice looks" can take the place of families.
BTW, I am impressed that you somehow have a G*d view and can determine from behind your computer what reality is. Please share with us how you can do that.
Some of this besides basic laziness has to do with people renting out their houses. I could go through my neighborhood and without a doubt, those rented are the ones with the worst looking unkept yards by far.
When I worked in property management I saw this a lot. The renters simply didn't care.
I have a house that I rent to a relative and I am always after her to pickup but she and her husband are lazy. She always has an excuse that the neighbors trash blew into their yard or the hobo comes by and goes through her trash looking for cans to redeem and he makes a mess.
I just can't walk by trash in my yard without picking it up.
Messy yards either mean the owner/ renter doesn't care or they might be too sick, elderly or too poor to hire someone to pick up.
Then again I got whacked with a higher tax bill because I choose to line my driveway with small boulders and put in bushes. It approved the looks thus increased the value and the town noticed.
The same goes for cleaning up the Winters mess of twigs and fallen tree limbs. It costs money to bring those items to the dump for disposal and it costs money for a permit to burn them in your yard.
Why they charge money for people to clean up their properties is beyond me.
I can see why some people don't bother but the first thought when I see a messy yard is they are lazy.
Sometimes people lose their ability to maintain their properties for different reason such as financial or physical but more often than not it is probably because they don't care.
What are your experiences with people who keep their vehicles and yards looking like dumps with dog messes, old furniture, unused cars that and the like?
Is it a problem in your area and why do you think it happens? Does your town or city have fair ordinances to minimize it and are they effective?
What does it say about the people to you that leave their yards unkempt?
I think nothing of the way others keep their home and yard. I do not live there, it does not affect me, why would I care and it is none of my business.
What does people who leave their yards junky say to you?
Answer: Happy to be in an HOA.
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