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Old 07-03-2017, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Utah
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Met one, who also shared info about the neighbor on the other side of my new home. Seemed like a good fit. And it was/is.
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Old 07-03-2017, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Turlock, CA
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Nope, and unfortunately, one of them (two houses down) is a crazy old cat lady with about a dozen cats.
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Old 07-03-2017, 04:26 PM
 
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For this house, we hung around the area quite a while before buying the property, but there was only one neighbor here to talk to. We went over to speak to them, and they said "oh, you'll hate us!" and they were correct. The other neighbors hadn't built their houses here at the time, and if we'd known about them as being our future neighbors, we would have passed on this property altogether.

For my previous house, the woman next door happened to be in the yard of the house I was going to buy. She was digging up worms to take to her garden. When I told her I was buying the house, she said she hoped I didn't mind that she was digging up worms and asked if it was okay to do so. She was the best neighbor ever.
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Old 07-03-2017, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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Did you meet your neighbors before buying your current home?

We tried but they all ran inside and hid behind locked doors.
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Old 07-03-2017, 07:52 PM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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Neighbors? There are neighbors? Driveways that lead into the woods with houses that can't be seen and that's about it. So before? No. Years later, maybe three.
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Old 07-03-2017, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Dessert
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nope. met the tenants, who filled us in. They were quite accurate in their assessments of both the house and the neighborhood.
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Old 07-03-2017, 10:11 PM
 
Location: SoCA to NC
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yes although it was pretty random. It was new construction and I started started talking to someone at the design center who turned out to be a next door neighbor! You schedule your appt for whenever you want, so it wasn't like we were assigned at the same time based on where we lived or anything.
This just happened to us! It seems all the appointments to select elevations were back to back. We've met the people on both sides of us , the ones two houses down and two couples on the next street over. Everyone seems friendly enough.
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Old 07-04-2017, 12:14 AM
 
Location: 404
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Suburbia. I know the names of 2 former neighbors. Everyone else is just that person in that house there.
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Old 07-04-2017, 02:50 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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Couldn't this time around b/c the entire neighborhood is brand new, but I always have in past homes & found it to be very helpful.
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Old 07-04-2017, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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No but I wish I had that might very well have changed my mind about buying this house . One has a pool and does not have the decency to put up a privacy fence so we are putting up some panels on our side . One has some major trash behind her house that needs cleaning but no one can see it from the road either ...Yeah sure wish I had met one or two of the neighbors cause I would not have purchased the house most likely .
You did not walk around the house before you bought it? You don't have to meet people if you can see the pool and junk that they own.
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