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Substitute children for dogs in your rant and see how many people sympathize with you.
DH and I are surrounded by parents of small children and if the weather's nice outside, we hear kids playing. Screaming, sometimes. Technically, that's noise pollution too.
What kind of ogre would I be if I charged up to a child playing in their own yard and told them to shut up?
Seriously, don't ever move next door to me. I can't stand people like you. Nothing personal. It's just your rotten attitude and what it represents.
Please tell me you did not just compare a child to a dog. PLEASE do not tell me you just did that. Does someone REALLY have to explain this to you? Okay, here goes--children are people, and people are more important than a dog. (I realize some people think of their dogs as their "babies," well lets just say that some people "think" Adolf Hitler was a wonderful person, same doo-doo different mental disorder.) A dog being compelled to be quiet or stay inside, and the compromises that will entail, is NOTHING compared to telling a child they have to stay inside or "ssssh" themselves OUTDOORS and never enjoy any playtime. They offer anti-bark collars and debarking surgery to a dog, and not to a human, for this very obvious reason.
This is a human's world, dogs only live in it, compared to us they are NOTHING and IRRELEVANT. I will "suffer" the noise of a child playing, knowing this means the child is having a happy childhood, 80,329 times before I will suffer ANYTHING on behalf of a stupid freaking DOG. I am NOT going to tell my child they have to walk around on eggshells all summer long in the middle of the day, that's ridiculous, whereas in the unlikely event my dog goes to making noise I will QUICKLY tell him to knock it off or be prepared to wear a collar with a rechargeable battery affixed to it.
And what the heck is a DH anyway, a dead horse? Have keyboards become extinct or something?
big mess of overgrown landscape especially w expensive to cut half dead trees
low light exposure
Actually I have seen houses with a messy yard sell at a discount easily enough to pay landscapers to fix the mess. Or fix it yourself and keep the money.
For me at least, something I can fix, something I can get a good firm fixed price bid from a contractor to fix, is by definition not a deal breaker. Now if the price does not reflect the condition, I'm not buying, but I don't consider that property to be "radioactive", just overpriced.
I'm not a big fan of a place that needs a sump pump to avoid flooding out, either. But, hey, I'm an engineer, I can set up a backup sump pump that runs on batteries, whatever, if the price is right and the property is otherwise desirable.
Oh I'm with you totally, the owners are the true culprits, it's just that the legal ramifications of taking your frustrations out of them tend to be higher. They're high enough even in a dog's case to dissuade me from doing anything. The real point I'm making is this--when you're suffering from such noise exposure, all and I mean ALL you care about is one thing, making it stop, and RIGHT NOW. Other than the prospect of jail, that is truly ALL you care about at such a time and nothing else.
A couple of other things.
Treeless lots. Someone mentioned that. I sort of agree HOWEVER there is this other thing--I want a yard to be pretty much maintenance free. I have better things to do with my time than spending my precious weekend hours working in the yard. I DESPISE such work. Thus, the easier a yard is to work on, the better. Growing up, we had trees that "shedded" a lot and my parents were obsessed about such things and you were CONSTANTLY having to pick up pine cones and rake leaves. Me--as a grownup having my own yard now, I let that stuff just be. Same goes with grass, it can't grow quickly, I shouldn't have to mow more than once every 2 months or so, seriously. Grass that has to be mowed every week, forget it. I want a yard for space but without the "grunt work."
Here in AZ there's a special Sheriffs unit specifically for animal abuse and locking up for a loooong time those that abuse animals.
I fully believe (here) you'd have a better chance of walking away unscathed if you went after the owners...
Please tell me you did not just compare a child to a dog. PLEASE do not tell me you just did that. Does someone REALLY have to explain this to you? Okay, here goes--children are people, and people are more important than a dog. (I realize some people think of their dogs as their "babies," well lets just say that some people "think" Adolf Hitler was a wonderful person, same doo-doo different mental disorder.) A dog being compelled to be quiet or stay inside, and the compromises that will entail, is NOTHING compared to telling a child they have to stay inside or "ssssh" themselves OUTDOORS and never enjoy any playtime. They offer anti-bark collars and debarking surgery to a dog, and not to a human, for this very obvious reason.
This is a human's world, dogs only live in it, compared to us they are NOTHING and IRRELEVANT. I will "suffer" the noise of a child playing, knowing this means the child is having a happy childhood, 80,329 times before I will suffer ANYTHING on behalf of a stupid freaking DOG. I am NOT going to tell my child they have to walk around on eggshells all summer long in the middle of the day, that's ridiculous, whereas in the unlikely event my dog goes to making noise I will QUICKLY tell him to knock it off or be prepared to wear a collar with a rechargeable battery affixed to it.
And what the heck is a DH anyway, a dead horse? Have keyboards become extinct or something?
What an ******* you are. Every kid I look at, and probably yours, I immediately think they have a 50% chance of being a productive citizen vs a druggie/criminal... i.e., a total burden on society. Sorry, no dog is capable of burdening society like a rotten person.
DH and I are surrounded by parents of small children and if the weather's nice outside, we hear kids playing. Screaming, sometimes. Technically, that's noise pollution too.
I like having children around but we once had a kid in the neighborhood who was a true shrieker. I've never heard anyone, young or old, who could make noise like that. My home office was a good 600 feet away but he was so loud I could hear his every scream, even with the windows closed and the AC running. And he screamed a lot. It was amazing.
My top 3 deal breakers when I was house hunting two years ago were:
1: bad back yard (yard had to be at least 1/4 acre with mature trees)
2: wet basement (never again!)
3: evidence of iffy neighbors (cars parked on the street, too many plastic toys in the yard, above ground pool, general dirtiness, and etc.)
Anything interior can be updated, and even the exterior can be remodeled, but you can't change a bad neighborhood or foundation problems or a teeny property.
What an ******* you are. Every kid I look at, and probably yours, I immediately think they have a 50% chance of being a productive citizen vs a druggie/criminal... i.e., a total burden on society. Sorry, no dog is capable of burdening society like a rotten person.
It doesn't matter, a dog is a dog a person is a person.
However I will agree with the person who mentioned the shrieker. Normal playful noise even some screaming shouting etc is ok, but that super high pitched shrieking? Yes, if a child of mine did that I think I'd tell him or her to knock it off.
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