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"Address" what?? A property owner not doing anything wrong? The OP doesn't like it because it "appears" like the trash belongs to his house. That isn't something actionable.
I am not saying the seller can 100% solve the issue, but they could have try.
There are many ways the seller can try to address this issue. What I meant is they could politely asked the neighbor to clean up the mess. They can offer to help get rid of the trash.
I've read that three times and I am still not sure what the situation is. The best I can figure is that the trash cans are on the driveway belonging to the neighbor. That OP's house also has a driveway, but it is on the other side of his (newly in the process of being purchased) house.
OP, my best advice for you is to not get territorial over property that does not belong to you. You don't get to control anything around you except for what actually belongs to you.
That's not your driveway, you don't get to control it.
You are going to give yourself a lot of stress unless you realize that you can't control everything for as far as you can see.
And, by the way, your own driveway where you put your own trash cans, be sure to put them as close to your own house as you possibly can.
Of course it is. Storing your trash bins against your neighbor's house instead of your own is rude.
Of course it is rude. I encounter rude behavior all the time, but I don't "address" it with other people. I focus on ensuring my behavior isn't rude. I am not the "polite" police.
Trash cans are a pet peeve of mine. In our neighborhood, there are a lot of 3-car garages. The problem is that the owners park all of their cars in the driveway and have the garages filled with junk or those huge plastic toys. AND THEY PUT THEIR G*****N GARBAGE CANS IN THE DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE ! Nothing says Bubba more than the cans in front instead of inside the garage or around the corner. I'm talking about $600K and up houses.
OK, after reading the OP's post yet again, here is what I THINK the situation is. I think that the driveway between the two houses is JOINTLY owned by both property owners. Half of the driveway belongs to one owner and half belongs to the other owner. The problem is that the neighbor sits his trash containers on the half of the driveway that belongs to the property that the OP is buying. This makes it appear that the trash belongs to the house that the OP is buying instead of the neighbor's house.
If this is the situation and each neighbor owns one half of the driveway, then the OP would be within his rights to ask/demand the neighbor move his trash containers to the neighbor's side of the driveway.
I think instead of jointly, they probably just each own the driveway on one side or the other... i.e. each person's driveway is to the [right] of their home. But the guy on the [left] is the issue... on the side where our OP's driveway *isn't*.
I think instead of jointly, they probably just each own the driveway on one side or the other... i.e. each person's driveway is to the [right] of their home. But the guy on the [left] is the issue... on the side where our OP's driveway *isn't*.
That's a very real possibility, and now that I think of it, I believe it's more likely that you are correct about the ownership situation than me. If that's the case, then the OP is just SOL. If that driveway belongs to the neighbor, then the OP has zero say about what the neighbor does with his own property. The OP's only option in that situation is to simply hope to persuade the neighbor to store the trash containers in a different location. Bribery is legal in this situation.
IN ADDITION, we now have those hydraulic p/u trucks and the bins need to be in a very precise location, and an exact distance off the roadway for the hydraulic arm to work correctly. Just sayin, might be a reason. But I would never buy any place without chit chatting with neighbors.........within two miles. !!!
IN ADDITION, we now have those hydraulic p/u trucks and the bins need to be in a very precise location, and an exact distance off the roadway for the hydraulic arm to work correctly. Just sayin, might be a reason. But I would never buy any place without chit chatting with neighbors.........within two miles. !!!
You wouldn't move without talking to every neighbor within 2 miles?
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