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Neighbor down the road has an old outhouse out by the road as yard art. I just tune it out. He also has an old bicycle with the front wheel replaced by a lawn mower reel, which I think is rather cool.
The family I consider to be riff raff built a dirt bike track in their front yard, bought their kid a motorcycle, and invited all of his riff raff teenage friends to roar around on their motorcycles all, day long, starting at 6 am and going until after dark, and frequently shouting out the F word at the top of their lungs.
When neighbors complained, they just replied that it is just kids having fun and it shouldn't bother anyone. This was in a residential neighborhood, not way out in the country on large acreage.
my crazy husband would have taken apart the motorcycle in the middle of the night
Drink booze and smoke weed on my front patio.
Talk to my pink flamingo named Featherstone.
Yell at kids to get off my lawn. My Medicare card says I can do that.
Let's see...our grass is mowed but not perfectly edged. Our trash cans aren't completely hidden, we have a thirty year old fifth wheel and a forty-plus year old popup behind our house. We sometimes park in the street and my husband works on his pickup truck in the driveway. We also have a menagerie of pets. Is that enough to qualify as riff-raff?
Let's see...our grass is mowed but not perfectly edged. Our trash cans aren't completely hidden, we have a thirty year old fifth wheel and a forty-plus year old popup behind our house. We sometimes park in the street and my husband works on his pickup truck in the driveway. We also have a menagerie of pets. Is that enough to qualify as riff-raff?
We live on acreage but still are "riff-raff". Houses across the road in gated community just sold for $1.2 million and $750k. Ours isn t worth that much. Neighbor put up a 600' long chain link fence. We have several large burn piles mouldering as there has been a burn ban for months. We have a gravel driveway. My grandpa's crosscut saw hangs over the garage door. We have some downed alders laying in the pasture which is never mowed. I will venture out in the garden in my flannel pjs. We play loud rock music when we are outside. We have some large compost bins. Our lawns are never watered as we hate to mow them. We have some funky yard art like an old tractor rim, logging pulleys, a big old iron triangle, old watering cans, etc.
I live in a one-person HOA. I am the board of directors. I take all the complaints. I order all the work to be done. Oh yeah, I live on a hobby farm. But, my place is ALWAYS mowed and tidy. My HOA expects it. One annoying thing I do though is to run power equipment before 8 am in summer and on weekends. Tsk, tsk.
From our neighborhood- one of the riches towns in NJ!
Kiddie pool and lawn chairs in front yard
Backhoe in front yard- this was a work in progress house that took about 3 years
House partially built with Tyvek ties around it (for 4-5 years!)
Lawn hasn't been mowed in weeks and paint peeling off house (lawn high enough to hide small animals) There are a few of these over the years
Front yard full of lawn chairs and old cars (we had a couple of houses with old cars in front, my favorite was the one that used 2 old VW buses for extra storage so there was crap you could see piled up to the roof through the windows)
From our neighborhood in FL that is in an HOA
Cars parked on and over sidewalk
Trees and plants growing over sidewalk so you have to duck or walk off the sidewalk to get around
Kids toys all over sidewalk
Trailer parked on front lawn (they got after this one)
Construction trailer with plywood and tools leaning against it in the driveway
Motorcycles being revved up- sounded like someone was doing work on it all Sat afternoon
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