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So let's say you disclose the leaf blower noise from that business. Buyer decides to buy based on knowing that noise is limited to morning hours. Then their neighbor uses a leaf blower - could they complain and say you didn't disclose that neighbors also use leaf blowers, leading them to believe that the business was the only one with noise?
When I buy a property I study google maps and use my head to figure out what is going on nearby. So should those people. In many cases, houses can hear...rather loudly...airports MILES away or even roads (busy interstates, highways) very loud....roads that are not visible.
Would you warn homeowners buying on the main street in your development that people may drive by there to get to other streets? Of course not!
Buyer beware. Modern life is noisy in many places.
Sounds like a project in introductory class called Busybody 101.
THIS^^^ - It is just NOT your place to be the Neighborhood Town Crier. Adults are buying the homes - not infants. Ot is up to the to conduct necessary investigations and due diligence as they see fit.
I'm surprised that most serious prospective buyers don't knock on neighbor's doors (especially their next door neighbors) and ask them about the neighborhood. I know neighbors can change, but if you don't get a good first impression about your future neighbor from a 10 minute conversation, then why purchase the house, since that neighbor might be living there for decades.
Never mentioned hanging out in the driveway. I would be on a public sidewalk or on my property near the exit gate, both areas where freedom of speech applies. As previously mentioned, the leaf blowers are present about a half an hour every morning, 365 days a year and only certain homes that back to the business are affected. Real estate agents cannot regulate free speech, especially when it is easy to obtain hours of video evidence supporting my claim.
By doing this, you will lower the value of your own home and give the neighborhood a bad name. What would it accomplish?
I'm surprised that most serious prospective buyers don't knock on neighbor's doors (especially their next door neighbors) and ask them about the neighborhood. I know neighbors can change, but if you don't get a good first impression about your future neighbor from a 10 minute conversation, then why purchase the house, since that neighbor might be living there for decades.
Because they might knock on the door of someone like YOU, when all the other people in the neighborhood are most likely lovely people. However, just that one person (YOU) might be enough to turn off a prospective buyer. And the fact that you are on the HOA board makes the situation even worse, btw.
Wow. I find this thread surprising. I HATE my neighbors leaf blower noise. It is a high pitched whine. I think the OP and others truly find this upsetting. You must lay there in the morning waiting for it to begin.
That said, I'm not sure what you can do because you are likely to get the same reaction you are getting here. If a prospective buyer did come and ask, I would certainly mention it and let them do what they liked with the information.
I was in the yard when a couple came to look at the house for sale next door and they came over and asked me about the property. I told them about our shared drainage issues and showed them how previous owners had attempted to ameliorate them.
The noise might not bother everyone. Who knows. I guess I wouldn't make a point to mention it unless asked but I don't think the OP is a busybody
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